My hazy eyes fluttered open. Everything was upside down, the trees, the grass, everything. It also seemed I was no longer in the clearing but between some trees with a creek flowing by. It was night time.
I felt something constricting me of movement, and when I struggled, it just got tighter.
I recalled sleeping under that upturned tree. I attempted to look at what I was stuck in. I saw long, white threads stretching across my body, and they connected between the two trees I was on.
'Oh no...'
{There is a much stronger beast close by.}
'Humans didn't dominate the animals because of strength, right? They dominated because of smartness, I'm sure I can kill a spider.'
{Mana is constantly being applied to these threads, so you won't be able to get out.}
I cursed internally but felt something poke me. With great effort, I strained to see a giant spider, much bigger than you could imagine, walk on me. It was like a tarantula, expect more deadly and bigger mandibles and a lot of eyes.
'[Examine]!
[Examine is now level 3(MAX)]
[Status:
[Name: None.
[Species: Black Widowed Spider
[Gender: Male
[Age: 180 days
[Rank: D
[Emotion: Blood Thirsty
[Health: 200/200
[Level: 10(300/700)
[Class: None.
[Strength: 20
[Intelligence: 8
[Wisdom: 9
[Agility: 5
[Dexterity: 6
[Skills: [Black thread creation(low) lvl. 5][Bite lvl. 8][Aura release lvl. 2][Glare lvl.3][Spider Armor lvl.7][Blood suck lvl.10][Lunge lvl.3][Intimidate lvl.5][Poison lvl.10][Mana manipulate lvl.7]
[Blessings: [Spider queen][Demon king][Wordly being #####]
[Titles: [Of world][Survivor][Scavenger][Vampire][Demon]
'Oh no..'
I decided to check my status and see what skills could be useful as the spider started weaving more webs around me.
'Status!'
[Status:
[Name: None.
[Species: Common Rabbit
[Gender: Female
[Age: 1 day
[Rank: F-
[Emotion: Scared
[Health: 20/20
[Level: 0(0/20)
[Class: None.
[Strength: 5
[Intelligence: 6
[Wisdom: 6
[Agility: 10
[Dexterity: 10
[Skills: [Syndria's voice MAX level] [Calm MAX level] [Hop lvl.1] [Dash lvl.1] [Accute hearing lvl.1] [Nibble lvl.2][Kick lvl.1][Examine MAX level][Stealth lvl.1][Pain resistance(low) lvl.1]
[Blessings: [System master][Rabbit god]
[Titles: [Stupid][New][Delicious]
I skipped everything and went straight to skills, wasting no time looking for a good skill. [Nibble] could work, then I could jump to the floor and [Hop] away combining it with [Dash]. I wonder what (low) means. Does that mean there is a level cap and then the skill evolves? I'm not sure.
I felt another prick, jolting me out of my thinking. I decided to start then, cause the spider looked like it was about to bite me any second now.
Using [Nibble], I started chewing on the threads. They didn't taste like anything and my nibble didn't work anyway.
{Due to the mana being applied, [Nibble] will not suffice.}
[Nibble is now level 3.]
Finally the spider opened its mandibles, clicking as it inches down towards my face. I was upside down, struggling.
Big mandibles struck down, worse that getting stabbed. The mandibles struck on my furry neck, probably injecting poison.
[Due to Pain resistance(low) you will lose 1 hp per second]
[Due to poison, you have unlocked Poison resistance(low]
[Due to Poison resistance(low) you will lose 2 hp per second]
[-3]
[-3]
[-3]
'So I have about ten seconds to live? Wow.'
Using [Nibble] I bit as hard as I could on the spider. The spider didn't have [Spider Armor] activated so it was easy to crush its skin. With a screech it pulled back, and I noticed a momentarily lack of mana in the threads.
Using this chance, I burst out of the web and landed on my butt. Combining [Dash] with [Hop] I leaped towards the spider and used [Kick] with my hind legs and fell on the ground on my butt again.
As the spider fell, something savage took over me and I used [Dash] to close the distance and finished it all with [Nibble] to the neck.
[You killed Black Widow Spider]
[50 exp gained]
[level up!]
[level up!]
[Nibble is now Bite]
[You have gained the skill Acrobatics]
[Kick is now level two]
[Dash is now level two]
[Hop is now level two]
'How.. did I do that?' The pain had faded away, and I felt refreshed and healthy, probably the cause of levelling.
{Simple. The Black Widow Spider was weakened due to applying mana to its threads. Since you bit it, it reacted with a reflex, and you took the opportunity to use your skills to kill it in its confusion. I would recommend eating the corpse}
'I'm not ready to eat it yet. Maybe I'll drag it back.' I thought. Though I saw what the voice was saying. I killed it because it was weak due to making its threads stronger. Weird.
'Aye, Syndria, could you direct me back to the clearing?'
A map appeared, showing me as a cursor and there was a glowing circle on the mark some ways away from me.
Like most game maps, the place I haven't explored were blacked out.
{The circle is your home. You registered this as a checkpoint mentally, so it was saved in my database.}
'Time to head back then. '
••••••
Authors Note: I will post her stats here at the end of every chapter.
[Status:
[Name: None.
[Species: Common Rabbit
[Gender: Female
[Age: 1 day
[Rank: F-
[Emotion: Normal
[Health: 40/40
[Level: 2(0/40)
[Class: None.
[Strength: 10
[Intelligence: 11
[Wisdom: 11
[Agility: 20
[Dexterity: 20
[Skills: [Syndria's voice MAX level] [Calm MAX level] [Hop lvl.2] [Dash lvl.2] [Accute hearing lvl.1] [Bite lvl.1][Kick lvl.3][Examine MAX level][Stealth lvl.1][Pain resistance(low) lvl.1][Acrobatics lvl.1][Poison resistance(low) lvl.1]
[Blessings: [System master][Rabbit god]
[Titles: [Stupid][New][Delicious]