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.

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 am I going to coat my new carapace in? Something even harder? There’s barely anything harder

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

even more defence. What I need, are mutations that will help synergise with what I hope to

captivated me the first time I saw it, and I’ve yearned to better harness that absurd power. The humble gravity bolt, welding my opponents to the floor, the gravity spear, or even the gravity domain,

gravity ant! Now, finally, after all this time, I can

only natural that there should be some specific mutations for it

find only three that are relevant to

to repair damage to the

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

inner-plating for something like this, or rely on my regeneration gland, which

gravitational energy to further compress and harden the

but toughening up what I already have whenever I use gravity magic, which I intend to do, all the time. I can already see myself floating gracefully through the air, carapace absorbing that sweet energy from the well,

the resonating properties of Gravity Compressed Diamond to provide a boost to

my defence into offence! I can get behind

think about it, this mutation actually melds quite well with the second I considered. Perhaps I should take both mutations and then fuse them in order to get the

I love it!

I punch in my upgrades all the way to +30, selecting Magnification at +5, Hardening at +10, fusing at +15, then repeating the process for +20, +25 and

Intensifying Compression Carapace

I lock that in and turn to