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.

I have at least secured a path forward, so I've

dust in order to break through the web on the other side of the nest and squeeze myself between

Enter stealth mode!

to the ceiling I move cautiously down the

long before

shaft plunging straight down into the

middle of the tunnel the floor drops away instantly and before me is a hole, four metres

far down does

so once again I am left

I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with my antennae, seeking any sign of

Nothing.

deeper into these tunnels if I could avoid it, but since going higher in the tunnels isn't safe either (due to the threat of painful death by human), going deeper may

Gah! My head hurts!

explore all options in the end probably.

opening I proceed further down the tunnel, warily scanning

minutes I

This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty

what this

More monsters!

I wonder if this passage links back to the

have to be

into the smaller tunnel and start searching for a section of soft dirt I can use to dig. I have to move back about a

more, opening a hole in the tunnel wall and removing the chunks of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I

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

Also:

has reached

good to grow and improve! When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little

still pathetically weak in combat, I know that, but

me be proud

Time for a

carapace down, with my legs splayed out. I can't actually shut my eyes, since I have no

and unmoving I gradually drift into a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise and my mind

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