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.

least secured a path forward, so

web on

Enter stealth mode!

the ceiling I move cautiously down

isn't long before I

shaft plunging straight

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

down does

so once again I am left with a

my exploration of this shaft for later. I

Nothing.

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 be

Gah! My head hurts!

all options in the end probably. No need to keep thinking about

shaft opening I proceed further down the

I encounter

metres wide

what

More monsters!

wonder if this passage links back to the first cavern I was

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 about a hundred metres but I find a section of wall I can work

removing the chunks of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I just don't feel safe unless I can put even a very flimsy layer

cosy, dark nest and manage to block off

Also:

reached Level

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

still pathetically weak in combat,

be

secured. Time for a

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

attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise and my mind slowly drifts away

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