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.

unfortunate arachnid I have at least secured a path forward, so I've

to break through the web on the other side of the

Enter stealth mode!

to the ceiling I move cautiously down the tunnel once

before I

shaft plunging straight

four metres in diameter that I cannot

does this

so once again I am

I still take

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

Gah! My head hurts!

have to explore all options in the end

proceed further down the

minutes I

This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at the opening to my small tunnel I can already see other small tunnel openings breaking off from this

know what this

More monsters!

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

have to be

a section of soft dirt I can use to

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

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

Also:

has reached

and improve! When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I was when I started. My senses are sharper, my acid stronger

weak in combat, I know

me be proud

secured. Time for

with my legs splayed out. I can't actually shut my eyes, since I

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

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