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.

consumed the unfortunate arachnid I have at least secured a path forward, so

rocks and dust in order to break through the web on the other side

Enter stealth mode!

the ceiling I move cautiously down the tunnel once

isn't long before I find

shaft plunging straight down into the

and before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that I cannot see the bottom of, despite the winding

does

continuing forward so once again

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

Nothing.

trail deeper into 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 by human), going deeper may

Gah! My head hurts!

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

over the shaft opening I proceed further down the

I encounter another

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 already see other small tunnel openings

what this

More monsters!

rock formations and I can hear even more. I wonder if this passage links back to the first cavern I was in? Have I just done a wide loop and reconnected to the

have to be

soft dirt I can use to dig. I have to move back about a hundred metres but I find a section of

removing the chunks of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I just don't feel safe unless I can

nest and manage to block off the tunnel towards

Also:

reached

When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved

in combat, I know

me be

site secured. Time for

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,

I stay still and unmoving I gradually drift into a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise and my mind slowly drifts away

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