Chrysalis

The delicious sensation of new and powerful spells is one thing, but now that it's done I have to turn to another experience, one that is perhaps less pleasant. Mutation time! Gotta improve that body and push my limits to beyond the… limit. Or something. I've managed to gather around six hundred Biomass, not a bad effort given the fact I've been at a higher tier than almost all my food. The penalty reduction from upgrading my stomach is definitely paying dividends right now. Imagine if I had to go against monsters as strong as I am constantly… no thanks.

It's nice to have a challenge every now and again, but for real, beating up on weaker monsters is by far the more relaxing way of levelling up. It just takes longer. Good thing I'm a very patient and restrained person.

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I barely managed to keep a straight face when I said that and my face is literally part of my skeleton.

Where to turn now? I've actually managed to mutate quite a few of the big ticket items by this stage and now it's time to move onto the more niche things. My brains are still only at fifteen and they definitely need to go to thirty as a priority, considering how excellent my new magic is, any little bit of help casting will make all the difference.

So let's take a look at what we have going on right now. The three sub-brains are all specialising in mind magic, which makes perfect sense as it allows them to better utilise the mind constructs. The multiplicative effect of being able to focus on so many things at once is certainly a powerful feature and precisely the reason I was able to pepper my enemies with so many spells in the defensive battle against the termites. It also helped me rank up my elemental magic at such a prodigious speed since I've been practicing a minimum of three different elemental magics constantly.

The question is, do I go all the way to thirty with the mind magic speciality or do I slide something else in there to nestle alongside. Browsing through the options doesn't really help me, despite the absurd plethora on offer, since my focus has finally started to narrow down, the vast majority of options simply don't apply to me. Light or dark? Nope. Life? I guess now that I've encountered life mana it would make sense for the option to pop up, but nope. There's a ton of upgrades for better cognition that might come in handy. Better memory, faster thinking, more adaptive thought processes.

yourself a faster and better thinker through mutation. Almost

honest and say that even if I reset my brains all the way back to 0 and focused on nothing but pumping up my cognitive abilities, I'd still be less capable of making good decisions than the Colony as a whole. More brains is better, and even if I

hundred and forty five biomass… you can't be serious. Geez this is getting expensive.

if that's the case then it's obviously going to be my main one. I'm pretty comfortable mutating along the same lines that I employed the last time. Improve my handling of gravity mana, and improve my ability to condense mana. The last gravity bomb I threw out is all the evidence that I need to show the effectiveness of this strategy. I was able to pump just about all of the mana in my organ into that beast, though part of that was the spell literally pulling the

main brain goes from the Condensing Gravity Main Brain +15 to Crushing Gravity Well Main

black hole factory

done, and the massive cost involved, I can take two organs from +25 to +30 with what I have remaining. The stomach is probably a good option, finally. I'll

the list is musculature. Normally I'd want to mutate this and my nervous system at the same time,

The goal of +30 across the board is almost within

this is going to cost six hundred and twenty five Biomass,

BRAZZINATH!

Dammit! Why!? WHY?!

the mutation seems to take longer the higher up the tiers I go.