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 forward, so

through the web on the other side of the nest and squeeze myself between the threads once

Enter stealth mode!

to the ceiling I move cautiously down

before I find something

shaft plunging straight down into the

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

tunnel I'm in keeps continuing forward so once again I am left with a

for later. I still take time to sniff the edge of the hole carefully with my antennae, seeking any sign of

Nothing.

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 threat of painful death by

Gah! My head hurts!

all options in the end probably. No need to keep thinking about

further down the tunnel, warily

minutes I encounter

thirty metres wide and twenty metres high. Sitting at the opening to

know what this

More monsters!

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

have to be

I can use to dig. I have to move back about a hundred metres but I find a section of wall

dirt and rock to block off the tunnel. I just don't feel safe unless I can

I excavate a cosy, dark nest and manage to block off

Also:

has reached Level

a fairly useless skill, it feels good to grow and improve! When I think about it, I'm already a vastly improved little monster than I was when I started. My

pathetically weak in combat, I know

me be

Time for a

I have no

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

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