Chrysalis

Chapter 14

[You have consumed a new source of Biomass: Puer Aranea, you are awarded one Biomass]

[Basic profile of the Puer Aranea unlocked]

[You have gained one Biomass]

[Puer Aranea: Child Spider. A newly born spider monster, relies on its web to secure prey.]

I feel great shame.

Clearly the rage I directed at this spider, the contempt I felt for it growing fat on biomass behind its cozy web was very misplaced.

This is a level one baby spider monster. It's possible it never managed to consume any biomass at all.

How pitiful.

Your existence is so pitiful!

We won't talk about your end…

I'm sorry young spider!

After my first two blasts of acid the spider was already heavily wounded, without any way to recover the damage caused by my acid, its pitifully small health pool had shrunk to almost nothing.

When I entered the nest to continue the battle it was already on the edge of death, my last shot was enough to defeat it. Being only level one, I'm sure the experience I've gained isn't much, but by consuming it (the taste was as you could imagine), I have gained two more biomass.

Once again, eyes +3 is within my reach!

With my vision finally in a non-life threateningly sucky state I'll be able to concentrate on other aspects of my body.

Maybe then I'll be able to actually fight something.

Wishful thinking! I suck!

I have to find out how I can grow into at least an adult ant. Perhaps I need to achieve more levels? Before that can happen I need to locate a place I can hunt.

the unfortunate arachnid I have at least secured a path forward, so I've little choice but to

break through the web on the other side of the nest and squeeze myself

Enter stealth mode!

back to the ceiling I move cautiously down

isn't long before

plunging straight

tunnel the floor drops away instantly and before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that I

does

so once

should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with my antennae, seeking

Nothing.

have to pursue the trail deeper into these tunnels if I could avoid

Gah! My head hurts!

the end probably. No need

opening I proceed further down the

I encounter

before. This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty

know what

More monsters!

if this passage links back to the first cavern I was in? Have I

to be

of soft dirt I can use to dig.

of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I just don't feel safe unless I

but I excavate a cosy, dark nest and manage to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern,

Also:

has reached Level

think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I was when I started. My senses are sharper, my acid

weak in combat, I know

be

secured. Time

actually shut my eyes, since I have no eyelids. It's a little weird, to say the least. Since I raised insects in the past I know that ants don't actually sleep, but basically stay still

state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a

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