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

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

Enter stealth mode!

I move

isn't long before I find

plunging straight

away instantly and before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that I

down does

keeps continuing forward so once again I am left with

exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with

Nothing.

I could avoid it, but since going higher in the tunnels isn't safe either (due to the

Gah! My head hurts!

end probably. No need to keep thinking

down the tunnel, warily scanning as I

twenty minutes I encounter

large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at the opening to my small tunnel I can already see

know what this

More monsters!

links back to the first cavern I was in?

to be

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

I begin to construct 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

manage to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my small opening on the ceiling to

Also:

reached Level

When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I was when I started. My senses are

weak in combat, I know that,

me be proud of

Time

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

a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise

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