It Started with Slime - Part 1

Chapter 13 - Too many, just too many!

Moving cautiously, just because it could handle the number of attacks it had taken up to this point didn't mean that it would be able to handle this many, there were A LOT of Ants here. Resh needed to make sure it could handle them. Within the first few seconds of it moving to and starting to Absorb and Digest the Soldier and Worker Ants it was already close to maxing out its Level! As soon as it moved in, the Soldier Ants started attacking Resh in earnest and so it was Absorbing more of those than the Worker Ants.

You have Absorbed 213 Worker Ants and 773 Soldier Ants! You have gained 79 Exp!

You Assimilated 2 Soldier Ant and gained the Courage of the Soldier and Endurance of the Soldier!

From Courage of the Soldier, you gain +5 Resistance!

From Endurance of the Soldier, you gain +3 Endurance!

YOU HAVE REACHED Aerial Slime Level 5! CONGRATULATIONS! +1 Acuity, +1 Accuracy, +1 Perception

YOU HAVE REACHED Aerial Slime Level 6! CONGRATULATIONS! +1 Intellect, +1 Reaction, +1 Speed

YOU HAVE REACHED Aerial Slime Level 7! CONGRATULATIONS! +1 Acuity, +1 Accuracy, +1 Perception

You have Digested 213 Worker Ants and 771 Soldier Ants! You have gained 79.23g of Weight. Your Weight is now 309.34g and your Volume has increased to 140.61 cm3.

You have just received -0.8 Luck! Better Luck Next Time!

Argh! Everything is always so wrong!

Just as things were going great everything started to turn against Resh, the number of Soldier Ants that were moving in were overwhelming it completely. Photosynthesis was not able to keep up and it was losing almost 10HP per second, almost 100 bites on parts of its body each second! Things were looking dire and on top of that, it lost a point of luck! This was getting bad, time to back out and quick. It would recover health and then come back to finish things off. Extending its wings to make a quick getaway.....and they didn't work. It couldn't get its bulk off the ground...

You are unable to perform this action. You are too heavy for Strong Insectoid Wings!

Again it had not been paying attention to its Weight. It was just a little over and now it had lost its fastest way to retreat! Luckily its movement with Legs was much faster than the ants and so it kept moving that way but it got a lot more bites and stings for its trouble.

Now sitting at 21HP it wasn't completely down to the wire but it was cutting it pretty close. It needed to be smarter about this. Pay more attention to its Weight and other stats. It was becoming more and more important, it could not hunt Insects non-stop. Eventually, it would need to go for stronger creatures so that it could have more powerful options for Evolution. Insects and Slimes were not going to work forever....would they?

Ignoring its mid-week crisis, Resh continued getting its health back up for round two with the Ant Colony, this time it would get them. It still had about eight hours of daylight and it needed to gets its health back up to full.

For losing and healing so much HP +1 Vitality!

Yes! Got another stat point!

While it celebrated, it continued to use Photosynthesis to heal itself, since it had stopped moving it was also able to use Meditate to boost health as well. Since Resh was over the threshold for flying it thought that it should use this time to Absorb and Digest some more so that it could "bulk up" in a very literal sense. Then it would have no restrictions on its weapon usage.