I saw a floating square with text appear, but I imdiately forced it to disappear as I was not in the safest place to read through all that text. I decided to make my way over to the nearby nook and webbed the entrance off. I should be safe in here to go over my evolution options and then look into the new options that should appear for my Evolution Points.
Alright Elysa, how exactly do these evolutions work?
Once the level cap has been reached, you can choose to evolve into a stronger species. During the evolution process, your body is put into a sleep-like state in order to dull the pain that occurs from your changing body. After an evolution, new options beco available for acquisition with Evolution points.
Unconscious, huh? I guess it was a good idea to seal myself off.
And what are my current evolution options?
Small Brown Jumping Spider
Evolution that strengthens legs in order to jump on prey from afar. Eyesight is improved for better coordination.
Webs are less effective.
Small Green Cave Spider
Evolution that specializes in camouflage in forest areas. In addition, poison resistance and venom are improved.
Small Brown Cave Spider
Evolution that focuses on defense, allowing for better exoskeleton strength and regeneration.
I chuckled, as much as a spider could.
My inner knight leaned towards the brown cave spider for increased defense. However, my eyesight had bothered
since the beginning. I had already picked the jumping spider in my mind. The jumping part would be extrely useful to evade stronger enemies, too.
I think?
I confird the option in my mind and felt a wave of drowsiness wash over . Pain started building in my head as I fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
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I felt groggy as I ca to, with a headache to boot.
I saw my vision had cleared up, and I could see things clearly now, but this massive headache took everything away from the joy that I would have otherwise felt.
What a disaster…
Elysa, what are we looking at here?
Na: Kealyna
Race: Small Brown Jumping Spider
Level: 1/10
Experience: 0/20
Evolution Points: 12
Skills:
Very Weak Venom
Weak Jaws and Teeth
Extrely Weak Spider Thread
Very Weak Poison Resistance
Very Weak Exoskeleton Hardening
Good Spider Vision
Weak Leg Strengthening
I was glad Elysa, or rather, this blessing, understood what I ant.
What are my possible options regarding Evolution points?
Currently Available Enhancents
Enhancent
Cost in EP
Excellent Spider Vision
5
Weak Venom
3
Very Weak Magic Resistance
5
Jaws and Teeth
5
Weak Exoskeleton Hardening
3
Leg and Pedipalp Strengthening
5
I felt my headache slowly dissipate and my focus return, as I went over the text before .
All of these skills seed to be upgrades to already acquired skills. My spider thread had actually weakened as far as I could tell, but that was a sacrifice I’d gladly make. I could see everything around
very, very clearly.
I couldn’t look at myself in a mirror, but I did get a much better idea of what I looked like. My legs erged from under my head and behind it. My last two sets of legs seed to erge from behind my head. Further to my back was my abdon. My pedipalps seed to have shortened compared to earlier, and now stuck out of my body at the sides of my fangs.
I would guess I had to hold prey with those as I injected venom.
All of
was covered in brown hair.
I was amazed at how many details I could now take in, despite the darkness in this cave. Even with the slightest light coming in from the entrance of the cave, I could still make out my own, new body.
I then looked at my Enhancent options again.
Almost imdiately, I picked the Excellent Spider Vision option. Partly because I was curious how much it would improve, and partly because I wanted to be as prepared as I could when I headed out in the forest. If I could see predators coming from further away, I would have more ti to get to safety.
With my remaining seven points I picked a stronger venom and better exoskeleton, just in case I would take a hit.
I was used to taking hits as a knight.
I didn’t want my habits to accidentally kill …
I took a ntal note to strengthen my legs as soon as I’d acquired five points. They had been a useful weapon for when my venom reserves had run dry.
I felt pain blossom behind my many, many eyes and felt my fangs burn up slightly before the pain dissipated. I then felt my strength get drawn from my core into my carapace as I’d felt before.
The grogginess from before had also disappeared. After going through the processes of enhancents and the evolution, I felt… great?
This sight felt so much better. Before, I felt like I was constantly trying to adjust focus, only to utterly fail as my eyes were simply that bad, but now…
I could see the smallest details on the rocks in front of .
I also noticed that the world around
had beco… smaller. Though, that was probably
just getting bigger.
Not by a lot, but enough for it to be noticeable.
I would have to find sothing out in the forest that I could use as a good asurent of exactly how large I was.
Confidence filled
as I thought about going out into the forest.
I was going to get stronger. I was going to pull this off.
Most of all, I was going to spit in the faces of the gods that had put
here. I would show them.
But first…
I walked up to the webs that covered my hole and removed them.
I was going to practice jumping. It would be an important aspect of this evolution that I’d picked.
As I walked, I already felt a good increase of strength in my legs. It had been one of the bonuses that ca with this evolution. I had used them to hack away at certain creatures, after all.
I exited the hole and walked over to where I had killed my last two enemies, the spider, and snail. When I was a decent distance away from their corpses, I locked my sight on their location, reared up… and jumped.
I missed, barely, by what I imagined was less than an inch. A quite impressive feat if I did say so myself.
I walked back to where I had jumped from and practiced jumping again a few tis. It did not take
long to figure out exactly how much force to exert upon my hind legs in order to jump to where I wanted to be. It was as if this body knew by itself and my elven mind was just a liability. I had to clear my mind and simply trust my body.
Once I mastered that part, the rest was easy.
Jumping on prey was an interesting style of fighting. I wondered if I’d be able to take out that large spider from before?
I should be able to accurately identify its size now. If I could get on its abdon, it would probably be defenseless.
That’s what I thought at least. I would be out of range of its fangs, but I didn’t know if spiders could do weird things with their legs, like kicking sothing that was on their behind.
I tried lifting my own rear legs above my abdon but found that I could not bend them that far. I knew I was most likely a different species of spider, but I was confident that I could make it work if I could jump on it without being caught beforehand.
Besides, I imagined larger prey would give more experience.
I started my crawl along the cave walls and jumped to the other side of the cave entrance when I saw the light, just to see how far I could get.
I easily made it beyond the rays of light entering the cave and looked back at where I jumped from.
I estimated that jump was about fifty tis my own size.
Quite impressive…
I found that I could skitter much faster as well, probably due to the added strength in my legs. Not only had my strength increased, it seed my control over them had drastically improved as well.
I mused so more over my improvents as I walked until I found myself back in the corner of the cave where I had hatched. I observed the area and noticed that several small spiders crawled about. They had likely just hatched.
I also noticed that a creature, about three tis my current size, sat at the back behind the furthest away eggs.
That had to be the spider from before.
I was going to take it out.
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