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.

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

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

Enter stealth mode!

ceiling I move cautiously down the

long before I

shaft plunging straight down into

tunnel the floor drops away instantly and before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that I cannot see

down does this

continuing forward so once again

I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of

Nothing.

the trail deeper into these tunnels if I could avoid it,

Gah! My head hurts!

in the end probably.

proceed further down

I encounter another

in before. This large passage is at least thirty metres

what this

More monsters!

more. I wonder if this passage links back to the first cavern I was in? Have I just done a wide loop and reconnected to the very passage I was trying to

to be

tunnel and start searching for a section of soft dirt I can use to dig. I have to move back about a hundred metres but I

in the tunnel wall and removing the chunks of dirt and rock

and manage to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my small

Also:

reached Level

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

pathetically weak in combat, I know that, but

me be

Time for

and possibly hunt, I need to be sharp, so I decide to get some rest in first. I flop my hard carapace down, with my legs splayed out. I can't 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

drift into a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise and my mind slowly drifts

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