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.

at least secured a path forward, so I've little choice but to continue on my

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

Enter stealth mode!

move cautiously down the tunnel

long before I

straight down into the

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

down does this thing

so once

more dangerous then I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take

Nothing.

time a little relieved. I'd rather not have to pursue the trail deeper into these tunnels if I could avoid

Gah! My head hurts!

all options in the end probably. No need

proceed further down the tunnel, warily scanning

twenty minutes I encounter another

the cavern I 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

know what this

More monsters!

and I can hear even more. I wonder if this passage links back to the first cavern I was

have to be

dirt I can use to dig. I have to

opening a hole in the tunnel wall and removing the chunks of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel.

excavate a cosy, dark nest and manage to block off the tunnel towards the

Also:

has reached

improve! When I think about it, I'm already a

weak in combat, I know that,

me be proud of

site secured. 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 eyelids. It's a little

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

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