"Ohhhh. I'm so sick. I'd eat anything to make it move. What's wrong with me?! Did I get so drunk in my sleep that it's even responding in reality? No, that's crazy! Ohhhh...
"Status...," To say that he was hungry was to say nothing. The hunger was such that it was impossible to think about anything else. You could chew on your own paw. But that was not a solution, of course, it was necessary to try to hunt. Although our hero had big doubts about it. Unless you count hunting for girls at the institute, he had never done anything similar in his life.
Name: ?
Species: Wolf Spider.
Growth Stage: Young
Level: 0
Strength: 0.2
Dexterity: 1.5
Stamina: 0.3
Intelligence: 0.3 (+12**)
Fortitude: 0.3 (+18**)
Wisdom: 0.1 (+15**)
Life Essence Points (LEP): 0,3
Life Essence Points per day: 0.5.
** Your immortal soul has retained the experience and knowledge of your past life. Characteristics are added to your new body.
Divine Skills
"Code Absorption", "Code Storage", "Code Deciphering", "Structural and Genetic Body Transformation", "Creator".
Skills
"Predatory Jump", "Insurance", "Wide Angle of Vision", "Enhanced Regeneration", "Tight Paws", "Chitinous Shell: Young", "Accelerated Growth and Maturation".
"..... So that's it.... This is kind of sudden. Where did all the energy go...? А! It went to growth. That's what's happening to me," our spider tried to move, and felt that he was quite cramped, "I got pushed into a hole yesterday. I'd better get out before I run out of fuel."
After fidgeting a bit, and using all his strength, he managed to scramble out. "Damn I'm just like Ace Ventura and his pumpkin... Really, I'm climbing out of the hole. Oop! It's still the same, although it seems to be darker, but that didn't bother the spider. "Oh, I smell something greasy. I should go and check it out, I don't have much time!".
A little farther downwind there was a noble poop with half a dozen fat, gluttonous, shiny green flies crawling all over it. "Oh, God, I'm going to salivate. I'm going to be sick to my stomach. Control, you wimp! Control and restraint! Remember who stayed home for a week and only ate four meals? Blizzard games are dangerous. You could starve yourself to death. "Learn zen and control your... Oh, fuck! They're so fat!" he fought his hunger and found the closest vegetation to the pile. It didn't even occur to him that he was drooling over the flies crawling on the poop. Now he was like a spider, though not without the influence of his old self.
Without much hiding, the spider crawled to the top, separated a web from his abdomen, attached himself to a branch, and waited for a convenient moment. Strange as it may seem, his eyesight became perfect, he determined at the first time what length the web should be. It must be innate in spiders.
Almost all the flies flew away while he was climbing on a branch of a bush. But with bait like a fresh pile of shit, he didn't have to worry about those brainless creatures. Freezing on a somewhat dry branch, the spider tried to pretend to be a plant, hunching down from the bottom, at the same time grouping itself for a jump. After about thirty minutes of languid waiting, there were nearly a dozen of these flies. "Now I have to try my best. If I screw up, I'll have to sit hungry for another hour while the new creatures swoop in and settle down."
Pausing and timing it just right, he shot his body toward the cluster of flies. "Holy shit!!!" the thought was instantaneous. All because the throw was like the flight of a bullet.
There was no way he expected that a spider could move so fast. The flies didn't react until they landed, only when they were no more than a spider's leg length away, they saw the approaching danger and began to fly away. However, the closer the hungry predator came to its victims, the slower everything happened, and the easier it was to coordinate its movements. The spider landed on two flies at once, because for him everything was like in a matrix, in slow motion. I pressed one of them with my belly, and the second one I managed to catch and push under my chelicerae (i.e. jaws).
The fly under his belly tried to get out, but by tucking the remaining legs under himself, he blocked all escape routes. The one that went straight into his mouth was already being devoured at an accelerated pace. "God, this is delicious! I never thought dung fly was the nectar of the gods. Although, maybe it's just that I'm too hungry? I don't care anymore. If I were human, I'd never eat such things," he finished off the first fly quickly, in about forty seconds, with only the wings left. The second one followed. "There's no use jumping up and down! A midnight snack has no right to escape! Otherwise I'll be very sad and lonely at night. And this way, at least I'll eat." The second fly also disappeared inside the spider's carcass. Quite satisfied, he climbed back up. As long as there was such a feeder, he could not worry about changing the hunting ground.
He climbed up on a twig, as before, upside down. Our spider rumbled contentedly, and revealed information about his favorite. "Status!".
Name: ?
Species: Wolf Spider (Divine Spark).
Growth Stage: Young
Level: 1 (+ 1% to stats)
Strength: 0.202
Dexterity: 1.515
Stamina: 0.303
Intelligence: 0.303 (+12**)
Fortitude: 0.303 (+18**)
Wisdom: 0.101 (+15**)
Life Essence Points (LEP): 1,3
Life Essence Points per day: 0.5.
** Your immortal soul has retained the experience and knowledge of your past life. Characteristics are added to your new body.
Divine Skills
"Code Absorption", "Code Storage", "Code Deciphering", "Structural and Genetic Body Transformation", "Creator".
Skills
"Predatory Jump", "Insurance", "Wide Angle of Vision", "Enhanced Regeneration", "Tight Paws", "Chitinous Shell: Young", "Accelerated Growth and Maturation".
"Okay well now I don't have to worry about dying anytime soon. We can continue hunting in peace," he was about to calm down when he realized he was a total retard, "Help!"
"So ... uh-huh, uh-huh. There, found it! To view the available transformations, you use the "Transformation Tree" command. Well, then, "Transformation Tree!", - I was ashamed of myself for being so sloppy. I forgot the most important thing!
The Tree of Transformations
Simple Eyes -> Faceted Eyes (increases frame rate to 90, which improves dynamic vision; improves range of vision).
Cost: 4 OSJ. Time: 12 hours.
""Transformations that degrade the configuration used are hidden by default. Use the regression list command to review the hidden options.""
"Wow... I'm the one who has to have energy reserves for the duration of the conversion. We'll hold off on evolution, then. Hmm..., we're definitely not interested in regression. "Close the tree of transformation!"
For the rest of the night, he continued to further hunt those fat flies. It turned out that such a high chance of capturing these insects was provided by his willpower score, which was raised by his strong soul. Thanks to this, time slowed down and his perception accelerated at the most crucial moment. By dawn, he had accumulated 6 points of life essence and went to find a safe place to transform. Still, he'd have to go 12 hours without sight. By the way, the spider's level had risen to 3.