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.

arachnid I have at least secured a path

broken rocks and dust in order to break through the web on the other side of

Enter stealth mode!

I move cautiously

before

straight down

hole, four metres in diameter that I cannot see the bottom of, despite the winding light threads that twist through the rock

far down does

so once again I am left with a

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

Nothing.

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

Gah! My head hurts!

explore all options in the end probably. No need to keep

opening I proceed further down the tunnel, warily scanning

minutes I

This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at

know what this

More monsters!

links back to the

have to be

soft dirt I can use to dig. I have to move

dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I

dark nest and manage to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving

Also:

reached

is a fairly useless skill, it feels good to grow and improve! When I think about it, I'm already a

combat,

me be proud of

secured. Time

new terrain 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. It's a little weird, to say the least. Since I

of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise and my mind slowly drifts away from my

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