Chrysalis

These menus are always intimidating due to their sheer size, but I’m prepared to go the distance on this one, I can’t afford to make a mistake and pick the wrong options. There’ll be no reset after this one.

I suppose it’s technically possible to do one, but that would be a criminal waste of evolutionary energy. Basically a punch straight into my own face.

So I have to be careful, no yahoo off the cuff stuff. I’m going to peruse these menus with extreme focus.

Focus….

Focus….

Zzzzzzzzzzz….

Hah!

Wazzat?! Curse these damn lists! Despite having so many brains and such a high Cunning score, how is it possible my attention span and capacity to look at fine details remain so terrible?

But I can’t give up, I won’t!

With renewed determination, I begin to scroll once more. Most of these, I’m not interested in, obviously. Long ago, I decided against using mutations for specific resistances. I want my improvements to be as broadly applicable as possible. Naturally, that means I have to settle for a bit of oomph in many areas rather than a huge shazam in one. It’s the wiser tradeoff.

diamond mutation which coated my exo-skeleton in a fine layer of the precious gem. That worked great, since the outer coating was harder than my carapace and helped protect it from harm. What

for the ultimate defensive combo I suppose, but I’ve already invested heavily in solving that issue with my own mana skills. I can

that will help synergise with what I

to better harness that absurd power. The humble gravity bolt, welding my opponents to

want to be a gravity ant! Now, finally, after all this

it’s only natural that there should be some specific mutations for it attached. I eagerly scroll through thousands of different

find only three that

to repair damage to

There’s synergy there, sure. I want to use gravity mana in battle, which will generate gravitational energy, which

I can use my inner-plating for something like

Hardening: Absorbs gravitational energy to further compress and

extra layer onto my carapace, but toughening up what I already have whenever I use gravity magic, which I intend to do, all the time. I can already see

to provide a boost to any Gravity

also quite sweet. Turn my defence into offence! I can get behind

I should take both mutations and then fuse them in order to get the best of

I love it!

way to +30, selecting Magnification at +5, Hardening at +10, fusing at +15, then repeating the process for +20,

Intensifying Compression Carapace (Gravity

and turn to