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.

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

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

Enter stealth mode!

to the ceiling I move cautiously down

long before I find something

shaft plunging straight down into the

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

does

in keeps continuing forward so once again I am left

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.

a little disappointed 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

Gah! My head hurts!

options in the end probably. No need

proceed further down the

twenty minutes I encounter

before. This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at the opening to my small tunnel

know what this

More monsters!

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

have to

and start searching for a section of soft dirt I can use

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 protection

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

Also:

has reached

if it is a fairly 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 I started. My

pathetically weak in combat,

me be proud

Time for

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

state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise

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