I almost imdiately picked the fertility upgrade. The stamina bonuses were nice, but morphotyping was more important, especially in the short-term. And the more direct progeny I and Ambrosia had, the more morphotyping candidates there were.
I put the last point into endurance, too.
However, my luck with cool genes has run out.
〔For improving endurance, you have a choice of next genes: 'Fat Padding', 'Increased Pain Threshold', and 'Grass Digestion'.〕
〔Fat Padding: allows to accumulate fat padding by overeating, which slightly increases defense and maximum health.〕
〔Increased Pain Threshold: greatly improves pain tolerance.〕
〔Grass Digestion: allows digesting grass and tree leaves for nutrients.〕
Although I'd love to have more health, I didn't want to be fat for its sake! Pain tolerance didn't sound ga-changing, either.
This left only the last gene.
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"Eating grass and leaves? Like caterpillars?" Workharder shook her head. "Sure, there are a lot of leaves around, but they taste worse than the lowest-quality raw pollen!"
Ambrosia gave her a disapproving look.
"We eat what we have. Since when you grew so picky, Workharder?"
"Grass isn't so bad. There are salads out there! Besides, I bet grass will taste good with this gene."
Not to ntion, it was one of the prerequisites for the mysterious but enticing 'Absolute Omnivore' gene.
"I'm not picky, Queen Ambrosia! It's better to eat grass than to starve, sure. But I'm convinced that it's still the worst food out there. I hope we won't all move to grass-eating…"
I gave her an encouraging smile.
"It won't be so terrible, I'm sure."
With the 'Grass Digestion' gene, the attribute points ended. Now I just had to update the Beemarine morphotype with all the accumulated gene points.
I opened the morphotypes panel, already imagining how I threw out sothing less relevant to stack a bazillion points into venom potency.
〔Beemarine〕
〔Gene points〕: 28 / 37
Faster Regeneration X (MAX)
Fast Learner V
Thick Skin V (MAX)
Venom Resistance V (MAX)
Flying Carriers
Throwing Wrists
Danger-Averse Reflexes
〔〕〔〕〔〕
Other genes I had were also written below, available for addition. I waved my finger in the air for a mont.
'I already have 9 points from the "Claws III", "Perfect mory" and the latest five genes, but venom resistance can definitely lose at least a point…'
However, when I reached for the "-" button, I realized it was grayed out.
'Huh? What the hell?'
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