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 little choice but

to break through the web on the other side of the

Enter stealth mode!

ceiling I move cautiously down the

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 I cannot see the bottom of,

far down does this thing

forward so

I should leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I

Nothing.

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 be the smarter

Gah! My head hurts!

the end probably. No need to keep

the shaft opening I proceed further down the tunnel, warily scanning

minutes 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

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

to

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

wall and removing the chunks of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I just

to block off the tunnel towards the

Also:

reached

improve! When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I

still pathetically weak in combat, I know that,

be

site secured. Time

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 raised insects in the past I know that ants don't actually sleep, but basically stay still and rest

unmoving I gradually drift into a fuzzy state of half attention. All stimuli fades into a background noise and my mind slowly drifts away

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