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 to continue on

break through the web on

Enter stealth mode!

back to the ceiling I move cautiously down

isn't long before I

shaft plunging straight down

the tunnel the floor drops away instantly and before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that I cannot see the bottom of, despite

down does this

keeps continuing forward so once again I am

I assume that deeper means more dangerous then I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with my antennae,

Nothing.

but at the same time 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

Gah! My head hurts!

end probably. No

down the tunnel, warily

twenty minutes I encounter another

turns 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.

what this

More monsters!

if this passage links back to the first cavern I was in? Have I just done a wide loop

have to be

I retreat back into the smaller tunnel and start 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 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

a cosy, dark nest and manage to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my small opening on the

Also:

has reached

a vastly improved little monster than I was when I started. My senses are

in combat, I know that, but

me be proud of

secured. Time

my eyes, since I have no eyelids. It's a

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

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