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°•○● Table of Gods! - Chapter "13" -/ T
"Spider Farm - Third Part" °•○●
Oh my sweet babies.."
Eren was happier these days. With his soon-to-be-solved financial problems and dreams of the first rip off the Temple.
Two days ago, he had deceived Maevis and started to sleep comfortably. Yesterday he had brought back the wooden box with the mother-spider and the eggs inside, and carried everything he had already took to the corridor.
It was humiliating to do this for someone who considers himself as lazy and smart. And that Ligori Stone was heavy as hell. He was so obsessed with whether spiders can mate that he completely forgot that he couldn't use the first floor until the offsprings were born.
And although he was extremely tired, he cursed himself. Rebuilding the 1st floor and killing new spiders was easy. After resetting the floor twice, he took a break for a while as he could eat for four days with the money he earned.
Nowadays, he could finish the first floor in verage of 5 hours. 4.5 hours if he push himself to hurry. Killing spiders was now something he could do even with his eyes closed. But the size of the floor was so large that no matter how much he rushed, he couldn't lover the time.
4.5 hours remained his maximum reset time, unless his own weak body could run faster or have hours of endless energy.
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"Grow up fast please!"
Eren glanced at the box next to the Bar Table while looking at the com he was playing with. His whisper was heard by Maevis but lady didn't make a comment.
Maevis had been acting strangely in these days. Her eyes, staring at Eren, were dimmer and darker.
With the thought that the alien woman might do something strange again, Eren focused on the tool in his arm. He could now start planning something about his own body. He already knew that Humans or Humanoids were at the evolution level of 2.5. But he knew that to be accepted as a basic being in the Universe, you have to be at "level three".
Maevis once told him that even if he reaches the 10th floor, if he isn't level 3 evolutionarily, there will be no chance of returning home. When he remembered this issue, Eren's newly improved morale broke down again.
Eren had now decided to look at his body stats that he had ignored for a long time.
*Name: Eren
*Type: Humanoid
*Genetic Heritage: Human (Homo)
*DNA Details: Locked
*Energy Type: Biological -
*Racial Details: -
*Current Physical Details;
-Strength: 2.6
It represents physical strength. It shows the quality and strength of the bone and external scattered muscles.
-Perception: 2.7
It shows how sensitive the sense organs are. (Depends on Agility and Intelligence levels)
-Endurance: 2.6
It indicates the quality of blood, internal muscles and organ tissues inside the body. It is a direct indicator of the amount of energy. (Depends on power level)
-Charisma: 2.6
Demonstrates language & social knowledge and general communication skills.
-Intelligence: 2.6
It indicates the quality of brain cells, and naturally, potential intelligence. (Depends on Agility, Perception and Luck)
-Agility: 2.6
It indicates the quality of the nervous system and its ligaments. It allows the thought to be implemented faster by the body. -Although known as speed, it represents the nervous system, not the speed of the body- (Depends on Strength, Intelligence and Luck levels)
-Luck: 2.9
It is the natural and hereditary inheritance of the body before their genetic development. It shows one's deepest natural and inherited traits. If nothing is inherited, the value appears at the breed's standard level(2,5) (represents ancestral genetic inheritance)
Eren was one of those earthly people whose standard was only 2.5. But his base attributes had improved by 0.10. Its 2.6 specs instead of 2.5 made it faster, stronger and maybe longer lasting. But he also learned that this improvement was not because of his own spider hunting, but because of the food he ate. Maevis said that even the dry bread given by the Temple was special, Universally of very high quality.
Even though Eren was drinking the most lousy and cheap vegetable soup, his body slightly developed.
"I don't understand why my 'luck' is 2.9. I can even tell from here that these measurements are wrong. Fuck the system that tells me I'm lucky. Are you kidding ha!"
As soon as he cursed, he relaxed and bent over the box on the floor and looked inside. He watched as the mother, who had already layed all the eggs, was still working non-stop. The mother-spider was constantly gathering the eggs together and wrapping them with her web.
Sometimes she had seen the mother-spider pick and squash or eat eggs that were different from the others. Since then, he had sighed with relief when he thought of his own mother.
"It's so nice to be born as a human."
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The next week, Eren started to clean the 1st floor over and over again. After 3-4 days of vacation, he wanted to buy daily basic needs and cleaning products. Each time he cleaned the floor, he would build a box from scratch and put two spiders in it and watch them mate. He often confused the sexes of the spiders he had chosen at random. But after a few tries, he now had an idea about the spiders' genders.
"The longer legged ones are female, the rest are male."
Over the next week, Eren created 11 more boxes, allowing a mother to lay her eggs and create larvae in each one.
It was the morning of Eren's 62nd day in the Temple. Eren got up as usual. Before leaving his room, he went under the hot water (it was a habit to go under the water all the time because he always felt dirty). Then he sat down at the Bar for breakfast and talked to Maevis. He waited for his soup to cool as he chatted. He took his phone and entered the playlist of the stupid phone that had no games loaded in it.
"Maybe I wouldn't be as hardworking if I had a few games that can be played offline. It might be better to have it this way."
He had already listened to all of the nearly six hundred songs on this phone from start to finish several times. He opened a pop song that he was almost getting sick of.
Eren picked up a spoon that didn't know how Maevis was washing it everyday. And he felt a stir behind him. In fact, there was neither sound nor vibration. But for some reason, Eren felt strange.
"I didn't actually check for spiders today." Talking to himself, he stood up, took a few steps and looked at the mother-spider's box he had placed last. There was no change.
He looked at the other boxes in turn. His heart raced as he approached the first box. "Don't tell me.."
When he looked inside with the light of his phone, he saw that the giant larva in which the mother had wrapped all her eggs was now completely ruptured.
Eren thought of opening the top cover to look inside the box more easily, but gave up. The idea of small spiders sneaking into the room where he was sleeping was unpleasant.
But Eren waited for several minutes until he saw the spiders coming out from inside the larva. "There are at least a hundred. Maybe more."
He closed the hole he had made to see inside the box and returned to eat. Now he had to decide what to do. He could use the 1st floor corridor for these spiderlings to grow. Or, for now, he'd create a bigger box in this room from which they could never escape, and he would drop all the puppies in it at the same time.
Thousands of baby spiders in one area. Was it a good idea.
Eren didn't know.
The answer to the question of what to feed the babies was being solved with the adult spiders that he could find on the 1st floor.
But just then, an idea came to Eren that he had long dismissed.
"What if they don't need to grow up. After all, each is a "living being" in its own right? And the Zirot I'll get is at the minimum level anyway. 1 Z. What can this fucking Temple give less than 1 Z ha... just because I gave a baby spider?"
"Look at this Maevis! Isn't it amazing?"
Maevis didn't need the light when she opened the hole and looked inside. She clearly noticed the spiderlings and how fast and mobile they are already.
Hearing Eren's idea, she quickly opened the box and telepathically pulled out one of the babyspiders in a way that Eren could never do. The baby, which she held on the top of her white palm, couldn't move. But it still moved it's arms as if it didn't care about Maevis and Eren. Spider's appearance also didn't even remotely resemble his parents.
If this creature were any smaller, Eren would even think it was an ant, not a spider.
The two of them went behind the Bar, and Maevis approached a large black panel, less than 1 metre, and unlocked it without touching it. Eren grimaced when he saw that the panel, which looked like the smooth outer surface of an electronic device, was just a cover for cabinet door .
[This Temple was definitely made by someone who is skilled in sci-fi but ignorant of style and art design!]
Maevis released the little creature alive into the dark void, then forced the panel to shut.
They were both wearing their own Com's and were looking at Eren's wallet. As the seconds passed, Eren started tapping on the table with excitement. That's when he realized. For the first time since coming here, Maevis let him go behind this bar. His eyes darted around shelves behind the bar. There were many items whose function he didn't know, including the stone which he charges his phone. But there was nothing but 20 items in number.
[Maevis lives a lonely and boring life]
Thinking these thoughts to himself in 2-3 seconds, he brought his eyes back to Com on his arm. And at that moment he saw that the numbers had changed.
Accumulation: 211 Z ... .. . Savings: 212 Z
"This is great!"
Eren turned around himself as jumping, feeling that he had an enormous advantage right now. He wanted to make good use of this opportunity. And maybe enjoy his time in the Temple, where there were so many possibilities. If they were working, he wanted to buy spellbooks. Maybe he could fly, and get out of this small room and live in a bigger place...
But then, wondering something else, he went to get the box with the cubs and the mother-spider.
"Are you going to throw them all together?"
Eren had decided that it was the most logical thing to do. "Yes. I can't be bothered to count one by one anyway. That's how we'll find out how many spiderlings there are."
Maevis couldn't stop Eren. She was just an employee here and someone who shouldn't have interfere with Eren's decisions. She couldn't say the slightest thing that would change Eren's mind. But she also wanted to tell Eren something important. So Maevis changed her words a little bit.
"If you throw the box away, will you make new boxes all the time?"
Remembering that he had spent 700 Z on this limited amount of wood at that moment, Eren hesitated. He was staring at the box in his hand, looking at a panel and then the rest of the room.
"Can you take all the spiders out of the box and put them on the panel until I find a solution? I am curious about their numbers."
Maevis nodded. "Not all the offspring have hatched yet. Should I wait a bit or just throw them away?"
Eren understood what Maevis was saying and dropped the box on the ground without making any comments. If Maevis was speaking this way, probably not a few one but much more were still inside the larvae and hadn't awakened yet.
"If the number is already higher than one hundred now... and there are more coming out soon...also this is just one box....I already feel rich....Is this normal?
"Upon the power of the Spider Farm...
....the power is mine!!!"
After saying something silly, Eren laughed his own joke. Then he decided to make a change to dampen his excitement. Eren uzun zamandır giymediği pis kıyafetlerinin olduğu yere gidip burnunu kapatarak giyindi. Eldivenlerini de takıp hançerlerini tutarak Maevis'e seslendi.
"Can we go up to the Second Floor now?"
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