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.

secured a path forward, so I've little

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

Enter stealth mode!

back to the ceiling I move cautiously down the tunnel

long before I find

plunging straight

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

far down does this

so once

exploration of this shaft for later. I still

Nothing.

a little relieved. I'd rather not have to pursue the 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 be the smarter

Gah! My head hurts!

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

opening I proceed further down the tunnel, warily scanning as I do

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. Sitting at the

what

More monsters!

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

to be

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

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 unless I can put even a very flimsy layer

to block off the tunnel towards the

Also:

has reached Level

useless 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

be

site secured. Time

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.

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

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