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,

dust in order to break through the web on

Enter stealth mode!

back to the ceiling I move cautiously down the tunnel once

isn't long before I find

shaft plunging straight

middle of the tunnel the floor drops away instantly and before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that

down does this thing

continuing forward so once again I am left with a

more dangerous then I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the

Nothing.

into these tunnels if I could avoid it, but since going higher in the tunnels isn't safe either (due to the

Gah! My head hurts!

explore all options in the end probably. No need to

over the shaft opening I proceed further down the tunnel,

minutes I encounter another

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

know 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 and reconnected to the very passage I was trying to get

have to be

for a section of soft dirt I can use to dig.

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

dark nest and manage to block off

Also:

has reached

it, I'm already a

pathetically weak in combat, I know

me be proud

site secured. Time for a

and possibly hunt, I need 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.

I stay still and unmoving I gradually drift into a fuzzy state of half attention.

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