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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7: Bring it around town!

*several hours later*

Ethan had just finished repairing his web after collecting the last harvest. He needed just a couple of critters to munch on to complete the quest 18/20 creatures eaten.

Ethan had amassed a fair bit of mutogene from the kills he got, 540 to be exact. Which isn't too bad as it only took a few hours, but with 30 mutogene on average from each kill it added up rather quickly.

Ethan then pulled up a strand of webbing that was spread out so it touched each part of his web and climbed up the tree into the rather quickly especially with the little buff that he got from upgrading his legs and the fact that he is getting used to the jarring feeling of having multiple legs.

Once he reached his temporary home he opened the mutation menu again. " I want to round myself out, especially this early so that way it won't be too late later after I have invested a lot of points into one aspect of my body and it would take forever to remedy that."

He saw that for each upgrade for legs, webbing, and mandibles. It would cost 30 Mutogene per upgrade for this level. Ethan went ahead and put one more level into those mutations raising them to level 3 each. " I have 450 left, I should raise them all up to at least 5, that way I would cement myself at level 5 and maybe I can venture out further and pull in bigger catches." When Ethan looked at the cost of each upgrade at this level it showed the cost was 60 mutogene. "Oh, they double in cost each time I purchase one."

Ethan brought each mutation to level 4, which left him only 210 mutogene. I will go ahead and put another point into my venom which will bring it to level 5. " Each upgrade adds to the previous bonus damage. Essentially it's 5 percent more each level for bonuses for damage or utility. So at level 5 you would have a 25 percent increase to that skill." The system informed him.

"Oh, I had figured it was something like that. Thank you for letting me know. By the way, I never asked your name." Ethan said to the system in his head. " The name that was chosen for me was Gladys."

" I thought that your voice sounded familiar, never got that cake..." Ethan pondered this information.

" one more thing I want to mention is that when a mutation reaches level 5 you can enhance it with a secondary ability that is attached to it. " Gladys said

"Oho, really? That is interesting." Ethan said as a secondary menu popped up for his venom. It listed a bunch of different abilities that he could add to his venom. A few were pretty basic, like simply making the venom take effect faster, or having more on hand. Very useful abilities to be sure, but Ethan put a pin in those as he moved down the never ending list.

"What? There is even one to turn my venom into a form of napalm that can be shot... that is insane."

Ethan kept looking until he found one that was interesting and could have bigger implications later down the road, Mind Control Venom. " Once a full amount of venom has been injected into the target it will become your unwilling slave for 2 hours, after that the target will fall into a deep sleep for an additional 2 hours... the effects and how much venom it takes to do this improves for each level of the venom."

Ethan bought it almost immediately, then activated the mutations as searing white hot pain covered Ethans body as he legs, mandibles, web gland, and venom were undergoing mutations.

When he finally snapped out of it he groggily looked around his temporary home and realized it was a lot smaller than before, namely due to how large his legs were. Before, he was just over 3 meters long, but with the mutations in his body. He was now 4.5 meters long, and 4 meters wide making for an impressive form... for a baby. Still got lots of work to do my dear Ethan.

With the mutations done, Ethan had only 90 mutogene left, he would have to get at least 120 to move one more mutation to level 5.

Ethan's stats looked like this now.

Ethan

Species: Cheiracanthium inclusum (infant)

Gender: Female

Power level 5

Strength: 55

Agility: 40

Intelligence: 65

Luck: 25

Vitality: 50

Mutations:

Skills:Mandibles +4

Legs +4

Webbing +4

(mind control) Venom+5

"Okay, it looks like I need a few more kills and I would love to try out my new venom. I am pretty sure I am all farmed out here for food. I will have to move more towards the center where some of the bigger critters are." Ethan thought.

With that, Ethan took off out of the hole he was in and then looked at a tree in the distance and fired webbing and surprisingly it attached to the tree in the distance with that Ethan grabbed on the webbing with his legs, and swung onto the tree into the distance. "Lets see what your neighborhood spider can find for lunch!" Ethan said as his stomach grumbled and stirred him on-wards to find sustenance.