Chrysalis

This evolution is going to make the Call worse, I can already tell. Stupid Ancients and their dumb… whatever it is they’re all about. Do whatever you want, just leave me and my family out of it.

But taking this much power into myself is definitely going to make them more interested, rather than less. Although, I’ll be much weaker when away from the Colony. Maybe they won’t like that so much? Bah, who am I kidding, I’ll be a beast once this evolution goes through. The stat gain alone is insane, everything else is just gravy.

Speaking of everything else, it’s time to decide what I’m going to do with the rest of my evolutionary energy! You know what that means, resets baby!

Let me at ‘em!

I’ve got them at a discounted price, which naturally means I’m going straight to the expensive stuff and poking my antennae where they don’t belong. Don’t hold back on me, Gandalf! I want to see your finest materials, straight from the top shelf.

If I’m going to reset my carapace and mandibles, then I want only the best. It’d be a ridiculous waste to reset them again, so whatever I pick will need to be good enough to carry me through the rest of my monstrous life. It has to be incredible! And shiny!

The first thing I do, naturally, is go and take a look at the Golden-Diamond Silk. From what the trio had to say, it’s incredibly valuable, and rare. I need to check it out. I have to poke back and forth a bit before I find a version that will apply to my carapace, but I get there in the end.

[Golden-Diamond Silk Woven Carapace: A clear diamond Chitin threaded with a complex network of Golden-Diamond Silk thread. The lustre of this material is only matched by its tensile strength. Against physical damage, this material is nigh unbreakable.]

Holy moly! An almost unbreakable carapace that is shiny in the extreme?! This is going to be hard to pass up!

And it’s expeeeeeeensive… sweet mackerel of malfeasance, that is pricey. Just how much evolutionary energy are you going to charge for one reset? This is larceny! Even paying half feels like I’d be carving out my own liver. If I even have a liver….

I kind of want to confirm it anyway. This is exactly the kind of upgrade I want. Even if I flick through and look at the other upgrades that Granin and I discussed, fourth stratum stuff like the ‘Living Diamond’ just doesn’t measure up. They’re good and all, but a self regenerating crystal carapace just doesn’t sound as nice as being woven through with the toughest and most valuable material in the entire planet.

Come to think of it, do I really want to be a walking sack of cash money? Being a highly evolved monster is already painting a target on my back, goodness knows what a mythic core sells for, but I’m sure it's a lot. Do I really need to make my body parts even more marketable? That’s worth contemplating….

Still, I better look more thoroughly through the options, just to be sure I don’t miss something that would work for me.

diamond variants that perform some powerful and bizarre functions. The Living Diamond is just the tip of the iceberg in that department. Resonating

and gander at the options

can’t take this level of cost. Why

its ultimate density, this Diamond has been forged in the most crushing environment imaginable. This

yesssssss, but

my precious lustre?! This could be the key I need

is some deep-dungeon stuff. You won’t get a

this incredibly expensive diamond, then it's likely

of cool stuff in here, including some pretty neat looking options that would have tempted me were I not on a quest for synergy. The plating needs to work well with the carapace! If it doesn’t enhance my Gravity Compressed Diamond in

flipping down the list, watching the costs rise as I go, I eventually find

inner plating that will raise its toughness to even greater heights!

course the incredible hardness, the weakness is its lack of flexibility. I can’t directly give the diamond more bend, it’s diamond, it’ll just crack, but what I can do is influence it through

Agitating Crystal Flesh. A material that generates manipulable gravity fields in a small radius around it.

the surface of my carapace that may even allow me to shape it, depending on just how strong the affinity turns out to be.

and the plating reset. My heart aches as such a large portion of my evolutionary energy is immediately lost. No time for regrets! We only move

have a good amount of energy left to spend, this is tier seven after all, but after considering it for a moment, I decide on at least one

The Gravity Mana Gland.

gem! Currently, it’s my only source of the stuff, and if I don’t get the Skill, then I better be in a good

will enable the gland to have a purpose even after I can make gravity mana myself. It’s a delicate balancing act, and if I don’t find an option that works in both a Skill-less and Skilled scenario, I may have to give up on

I really do spend way too much

things like gather the mana more quickly, compress it more readily or make it easier to use. I’m not overly worried about that, I have an absolutely stacked

get the best… but I don’t want to have to pay for the best! Don’t be dissuaded, Anthony, you have to commit. What were you going to spend that

the point where I’m happy with the cost, I find what I’m looking

Stone: This material harnesses rare properties of the singularity to harmonise and accentuate gravitational energy. It will convert a portion of