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 continue on my

through the web on

Enter stealth mode!

the ceiling I move cautiously

before I find

straight down

before me is a hole, four metres in

far down does this

continuing forward so once again I am left with a

more dangerous then I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with

Nothing.

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

Gah! My head hurts!

the end probably. No need to

down the

minutes I

out my small tunnel connects to a much larger one, similar to the cavern I was in before. This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high.

what

More monsters!

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 get away

to

I can use to dig. I have to

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 just don't feel safe unless

cosy, dark nest and manage to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my small opening

Also:

reached

skill, it feels good to grow and improve! When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I was when

pathetically weak in combat, I know that, but

be

secured. Time for

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 and rest for a while.

gradually drift into a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli fades

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