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.

arachnid I have at least secured a path

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

Enter stealth mode!

back to the ceiling I move cautiously down the tunnel

long before I find something

plunging straight down into

four metres in diameter that I cannot see the bottom of, despite the winding light threads

down does this

in keeps continuing forward so once again I am

assume that deeper means more dangerous then I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge

Nothing.

avoid it, but since

Gah! My head hurts!

the end probably.

further down the tunnel, warily scanning as I

minutes I encounter

was in before. This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at the opening to my small tunnel I can already see other small tunnel openings

know what this

More monsters!

to the first cavern I was in? Have I just done a wide loop and reconnected to the very passage I was trying to get away

have to be

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

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

block off

Also:

reached Level

I'm already a vastly improved little monster than

pathetically weak in combat, I know that,

be

Time

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

still 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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