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

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

Enter stealth mode!

I move cautiously down

before I

straight down

before me is a hole, four metres in diameter that I cannot see the bottom of, despite the winding light threads that twist through

down does this thing

continuing forward so

leave my exploration of this shaft for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with my antennae, seeking

Nothing.

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

Gah! My head hurts!

in the end

over the shaft opening I proceed further down

minutes I encounter another

small tunnel connects to a much larger one, similar to the cavern I was in before. This large passage is at least thirty metres wide and twenty metres

what

More monsters!

can already 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

have to be

into the smaller tunnel and start searching for a section of soft dirt I can use to dig. I have to move back about

the chunks of dirt and rock to block off the tunnel.

to block off the tunnel towards the new cavern, leaving my small opening on the

Also:

reached Level

to grow and improve! When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I was when I

combat,

be

secured. Time for a

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

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

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