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 choice but

break through the web on the other side of the nest and squeeze myself between the threads

Enter stealth mode!

ceiling I move cautiously

before I find something

shaft plunging straight

hole, four metres in diameter that I cannot

down does this

keeps continuing forward so once again I

this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge

Nothing.

trail deeper into these tunnels if I could avoid

Gah! My head hurts!

end probably. No need

down

twenty minutes I

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 breaking off from this

what this

More monsters!

can already see a few prowling between rock formations and I can hear even more. I wonder if this passage links back to the first cavern I was

to be

tunnel and start searching for a section of soft dirt I can use to dig. I have to move back about

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 of

block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my

Also:

reached

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

pathetically weak in combat, I know

be proud

site secured. Time

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. Since I raised insects in the past I know that ants don't actually sleep, but basically stay still

unmoving I gradually drift into a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli

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