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Original Translation: Blastron
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Some time has passed since my brother’s attack.
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Spider Thread – LV5] has become [Spider Thread – LV6]>
Thanks to how much I’ve been playing… ahem, practicing with my threads, the skill has leveled up a few times. Ahhh, but it’s been really slow-going, though. Thanks to all that, my home is now completely covered in pure white silk.
My home is completely different from how it was when I first made it. Firstly, there are far more webs now than there were before. When I first built it, I only built webs immediately around this T-junction I’m in now, and they were mostly just composed of nets placed high and low. Now, I’ve got webs stretching all the way out along each passage until the next intersection, and I’ve changed up the composition a bunch. I figured that there must be other creatures out there able to slip past my webs as easily as my dear, departed brother did, I might as well put a ton of them in their way so that they’ll be slowed down a bit. Just that alone makes my home a much safer place.
Doing all that wasn’t enough to raise my skill level, so next I freshened up the walls a bit. I’ve covered them in enough Thread to paint them absolutely white. Don’t think this is just ordinary wallpaper, though! They’re attached to the rest of my webs, so if anything gets caught in a web the wallpaper will come free and wrap up my prey. After many, many failed experiments, I have finally perfected these stupendous traps!
Shortly after I started putting up my wallpaper, my skill level went up by one. After I finished covering the walls, it was time for the finishing touch: carefully stringing invisibly fine threads around the entirety of my home. These threads weren’t the slightest bit sticky, but they snap at the slightest touch. They’re so weak that they’ll snap on their own after a while, just from slight changes in the air currents, and will then eventually stick harmlessly to the wallpaper. I wasn’t able to make a thread this fine before, but it looks like I gained even more control after my [Spider Thread] skill leveled up to five.
The main purpose of these threads is to alert me to any incoming enemies. I’ve attached myself to them, so I’ll feel the vibration is anything even brushes against them. These enemy-detecting threads are my solution to the extremely inconvenient problem of not being able to see behind me, and I’ve strung them up everywhere so that I don’t have to worry in the slightest about surprise attacks from the rear. Eventually, I’d like to figure out how to operate these remotely so that I can start feeling out areas outside my home.
Of course, after I finished all of this, I had completely run out of things to do. I turned to spinning a bunch of silk with no particular goal in mind, which thankfully pushed my skill proficiency over the edge to level six. This now lets me produce thread of unbelievably high quality, which I’ve been using my free time to turn into little balls of silk for later use. If I sold these to humans, I could make a ton of money, you know? Haha, well, I have no idea what their textile industry is even like.
Incidentally, spinning all of this silk did, of course, make me hungry, so I ate all of the pitiful little creatures that wandered helplessly into my webs. They were all, unfortunately, poisonous, which made finishing them off a huge pain thanks to their built-in resistance to my venomous fangs. Once they were caught in my web, though, my victory was all but assured. I’m pretty sure, though, that I wouldn’t be able to win against these guys at all if I didn’t have my webs. I have to bite things over and over to have any effect, and an unrestrained foe would have plenty of time to counterattack while I was busy.
Thanks to all of that poison, though, my [Poison Resistance] skill leveled up to five, and my [Poison Fang] leveled up to four. I don’t know if it’s thanks to [Poison Resistance], but I’m starting to get used to the bitter taste of this meat.
Let’s see, so far I’ve caught three {Elroe Randanel}s, one {Elroe Pekatot}, one {Elroe Basilisk}, and one, uh, {Finjegoat}. All of them got caught in my web, and I dispatched them all with my [Poison Fang]. The three Randanels showed up at the same time, which caught me a little off guard, but thanks to my amazing web-weaving skills I caught and killed them all quite easily. The Pekatot looked kind of like a penguin and a pelican had a baby, and that baby had weird monkey-like arms. The Finjegoat looked kind of like a bee, but it was super huge, nearly three meters long! It nearly filled up the entire hallway. Of course, thanks to that, it got tangled up in even more of my webs.
The most dangerous of them all was the Basilisk. It was a huge, lizard-like monster that, true to its name, had a petrification attack. Just like in the fairy tale, it hit me with its petrifying gaze and turned one of my front legs to stone. Luckily, the rate at which the petrification spread was very low, so I was able to kill it off before it became too much of a problem, but that was still the most formidable prey I’ve caught so far. Until I leveled up and shed my skin, I had to live with a petrified leg. Sure, picking up the [Petrification Resistance] skill may have made this a net plus, but this was even more dangerous than the frog was!
Ah, I may have perhaps glossed over it just now, but I did, in fact, level up. I did so three times, in fact! I am now level five. The skills that I know I have are [Poison Fang – LV4], [Spider Thread – LV6], [Appraisal – LV2], [Taboo – LV1], [Heresy Magic – LV1], [Poison Resistance – LV5], [Acid Resistance – LV2], [Decay Resistance – LV1], and [Petrification Resistance – LV1]. Even though I went up three levels, my skills have barely gone up! [Appraisal] hasn’t even budged from level two. It looks like I might have overestimated how many bonus proficiency points I got on level up.
I missed this when I first leveled up, but it looks like I gain skill points whenever I gain a level, although it doesn’t look like I get very many. I got really excited when the “Voice of Heaven” said I got skill points, but I was left seriously disappointed when I tried to actually spend them. I racked my brain, trying every convenient RPG skill I could think of like “Item Box” or “Automatic Regeneration”, but I couldn’t pick up any of them. I couldn’t even find out if they truly existed! Every time I asked, the only response I got back from the “Voice of Heaven” was “Insufficient skill points.”
Looks like plan “buy every skill and become undefeatable” is a no-go: picking up skills might be a little harder than I thought.
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