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

with my own mana skills. I can create shields to protect myself from projectiles, or use my many mind constructs to rip the spells apart

need, are mutations that will help synergise with what

harness that absurd power. The humble gravity bolt, welding

Now, finally, after all this time, I can make

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

find only three that are relevant

Regeneration: Harnesses gravitational energy to

there, sure. I want to use gravity mana in battle,

I’m looking for. I can use my inner-plating for something like this, or rely

to further compress and

carapace, but toughening up what I already have whenever I use gravity magic, which I intend to do,

Compressed Diamond to provide a boost to any Gravity Spell

also quite sweet. Turn my defence into offence! I can get behind it. The more I reinforce this mutation, the stronger

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 best of both worlds? My carapace makes my gravity

I love it!

my decision, 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,

Compression

lock that in and turn to my