Chrysalis

I've managed to amass over two hundred Biomass since my last big spend, not a heap, not when compared to the last haul, but still healthy. With this I'll be able to get three more mutations to +15, bringing me so close to the perfect full mutation form that I want before my next evolution. If I'd been more patient and chewed my way through more Biomass at the early evolutions, I wouldn't have had to stuff my face so much during this one!

Lessons have been learned. I won't be evolving until my mutations are complete!

As Morrelia sat down to keep watch over us, my pets and I settled in to spend our Biomass. Crinis was already close to the perfect +10 all around. She must be nearly ready to evolve as well. Still only tier two, she can get much stronger yet. Tiny is in the same boat as me, tier two and battling to get enough food into him to get his body fully upgraded.

Alright then. I still have to upgrade my eyes, my antennae, my regeneration gland, my Language gland and my carapace plating. So after this round of mutations I'll still have two to go. So close!

Ok, so which should I go with?

Eyes for sure. Up here on the surface I find my eyesight still isn't up to the task of seeing long distances. In the Dungeon, the wide open spaces are not quite this wide and open and I can get around much better, but up here the long distance vision is still a little weak.

[Would you like to upgrade Omni Focused eyes from +10 to +15? This will cost 65 Biomass?]

Let's do it!

[At this level you may choose to combine your mutations, or emphasise one. Which will you select?]

Okay then! So far I have upgraded my eyes to have a long distance section of vision focused toward the front, then I upgraded them to have other, separate areas of focused vision pointing in most directions. The effect is that I have quite decent vision forward, above, behind and to the sides of me, but with fairly chunky gaps of poor, blurry eyesight between. I'm happy with both upgrades so I suppose the way forward is to fuse!

Nice. Let's hold that one and focus on the next. I think carapace plating will be the solid play. If I'm going to keep fighting against monsters as far out of my league stats wise as the commanders, then I want all the defence I can get!

Carapace Plating to +15? This will cost 65

Yassss!

choose to combine your mutations, or emphasise one. Which will

inner carapace, Dispersive and Regenerative, are both very useful. The dispersive plating helps my carapace to spread out the damage of blunt attacks, making it harder to crack, whilst the regenerative aspect allows my plating to regenerate itself very quickly. This increases my survivability by a lot since my carapace is tough to penetrate, and heals damage that

are equally good, we will fuse

One to go.

the fight could be critical, just as it has been in the past. The thing that worries me the most is my legs. The carapace that covers my body is super tough, and getting tougher with every mutation and evolution. I'm

my stick-like ant legs. Monstrous ant I may be, my legs are still skinny and oh so snap-able. To be honest, I didn't think legs this size would be able to hold me up at my current girth, I suppose I have mana to thank for that.

like to upgrade your Rapid Limb Regeneration

may choose to combine your

limbs, which thankfully includes my antennae, and speeds up the process. Both

all locked

Wait!

itch again! Shifting my head slightly I can see Morrelia is leaning against the wall, almost appearing to be dozing but I can tell her senses are attuned to possible threats here in this

fact, one could almost say that my dignity is the dignity of the colony itself! That may

very sensitive to vibrations moving through the dirt. It's the antennae, fantastic wiggly things they are.

Smooth.

eyebrow at my persuasive

I'll take a

climbed her way up

I dove behind Tiny. Not content with this level of coverage I began to dig furiously, my mandibles sending dirt flying into the air, covering Tiny