Chapter 8: Hunted
Hiro looked up to his level-up bonus. Unlike humans, monsters got new perks every time they leveled up.
[You have leveled up to level 3]
[Choose an upgrade:
Poison Injection
Oxygen Injection
Nutrient Storage]
Hiro was thankful Nutrient Storage came back as a level-up upgrade. Now that he had become a tentacle, there might come a time when he needed to fight openly. He pondered whether he should take Poison Injection.
However, Nutrient Storage came first. Even with Nutrient Efficiency, the amount of nutrients he took from Cecile, Nana, and Rebecca had increased. When he was a worm, he needed 40 nutrients from Cecile every day. However, now he needed 30 nutrients from each of them, totaling 90. With Nutrient Storage, he wished to take nutrients from random trees when they were adventuring and store them for himself. When he took Nutrient Storage, there were numbers beside the storage, similar to Cell Storage.
About his Cell Storage: it turned out the storage was shared among his clones. He figured it out when he was binding Nana and Rebecca. The Cell Storage went down faster than when he was binding Cecile alone.
[level up achieved!
STR: 14 -> 17