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 I've little

to break through the web on the other side

Enter stealth mode!

back to the ceiling I move cautiously down the tunnel

before

shaft plunging straight down

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 that twist through

far down does

I'm in keeps continuing forward so once again I am left with

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

Nothing.

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 higher in the tunnels isn't safe either (due to the threat of painful death by human), going deeper may

Gah! My head hurts!

all options in the end probably. No need

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

twenty minutes I encounter

cavern I was in before. This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at the opening to

what

More monsters!

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 in? Have I just done a wide loop

to

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

construct a nest once more, opening a hole in the tunnel wall and removing the chunks of dirt and rock

block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my

Also:

reached Level

a vastly improved little

weak in combat, I know that, but

be proud of

Time for

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

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

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