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.

…

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.

faster and better thinker through mutation. Almost feels like

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 have four, there are hundreds of thousands in the Colony by now, probably. I'll put my trust in them. Besides, mutating my brains does provide a background improvement to

from +15 to +30 is going to take… three hundred and forty five biomass… you can't be serious. Geez this is getting expensive. Damn you Gandalf! Does your greed know

+30, and 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

the Condensing Gravity Main Brain +15 to Crushing Gravity Well

hole factory to me.

The stomach is probably a

nervous system at the same time,

a warm sense of pride as I see my progress. The goal of +30 across the board is almost within reach and I look forward to the day when my body is once again pristine and maxed out,

six hundred and twenty five Biomass, leaving me with very little savings.

BRAZZINATH!

Dammit! Why!? WHY?!

tiers I go. I can only imagine what it must