I woke up to my stomach growling, I really needed to find a food source. That thought process was immediately over thrown as the feeling of thin strings of webbing over lapped my body. In front of my vision was a notification from the system
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[Secret Boss Found!]
Secret Bosses are the powerful hidden adversaries or allies hidden within stages of the tutorial. They are always the same level as you are when you discover their layers. Completing theIr hidden objectives provide Achievement Points and secret rewards.
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[Bonus Quest]
This Quest has two options for completion.
Path One:
-[Exterminator]
Kill the Spider Matriarch [0/1]
Kill the Spiderlings [0/100]
Rewards: Title and 10 Achievement Points.
Path Two:
-[The Enemy of My Enemy]
Ally the Spider Matriarch against the Ant Menace. [0/1]
Rewards: Companion and 15 Achievement Points.
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Scanning through the system window I found something that I was quite glad for as the discovery of Secret Bosses was great. While I had leveled up after killing 10,000 ants it was horribly inefficient. Although the achievement points where greater for allying them, but again they were spiders and not to be racist towards spiders but I think we all understand my inhibition against them.
"HE SMELLS LIKE THE MOTHER" a ethereal voice spoke its voice while transcendent in quality was eerie. Looking up I saw a huge spider easily a hundred feet long and 40 feet tall, it's eyes red.
[Spider Matriarch Lvl:11]
Well that spider was massive, however as I looked around I noticed in the crevices of the large cavern that their where smaller spiders, smaller being light as they each were size of a large dog and each of them were level 4 or 5.
"The Mother?" A voice called out.
"The Mother?" Another voice answered, until a chorus of voices sung out asking about the mother.
"SILENCE!" A large booming voice spoke, and even in the cavern I noticed zero echo.
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[Divinity Synergy Detected]
Both of your Conceptual Plains have connected to the [Spider Matriarch] allowing you to commune telepathically with the [Spider Colony].
[The Depths]→[Arachnid]
[Protection]→[Motherhood]
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Well that explained it, I guess locking eyes with one set of the spiders eyes. My mind seized the connection and all of a sudden I was the Spider.
I saw through her eyes as her children were slaughtered by the ants for food as she was helpless to leave unable to escape her cavern once a haven and now a cage locking her inside.
I knew that see also saw through some of my experiences trying to protect my own people and most importantly my domain.
Then our minds separated for a moment though still linked together.
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"Daemon, do you truly rule a rule a paradise outside of the tutorial?" Her mind spoke into mine. It took a moment to understand how to speak back.
"Ah, yes kinda it's a World Wonder and the better I do in the tutorial the more powerful it becomes" I spoke back transmitting my memory of the system Message.
The Colonies mind thrummed in jealousy, and want, they saw my territory as the perfect place to live.
"Did you truly slay ten thousand of the Ants?" The Spider Matriarch asked me inquisitively.
"Ah, yes it's part of my quest to do so" I responded mentally. Their was a sense of joy from the colony as they saw memories of yesterday's slaughter.
"Then, Daemon I propose an alliance I gift to you the temporary service of my Army and the locations of the other Secret Bosses of this level, and you in compensation wipe out the Ants and take the youngest of my clutter as your companion" she said whilst one of her front legs reached down and scooped up a spider roughly the size of my hand.
[Spiderling Matriarch Lvl. 1]
Now, I might find most spiders to creepy but this spider was kinda cute. The use of the spiders as an army was sorta of helpful, but the true treasure was the Secret Boss locations which would save me time.
"Ya, know what sure I will take you up on the offer, although is the little one going to be as large as you?" I asked the Spider Matriarch.
"Hopefully, this one grows much more powerful under your protection although I heard we can eventually gain the ability to shrink our size" she explained placing the small spiderling on my shoulder and then slowly lowered me to the bottom of the cave floor.
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[Bonus Quest Completed]
You have gained a Companion [Spiderling Matriarch]. Companions are none sapient monsters that gain intelligence and power from the bond in exchange for always listening to their companions. As You are a Divine being you and your companion can draw upon the Conceptual Plain of [Arcanid].
+15 Achievement Points.
+ Command of [Spider Colony]
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"The Young one requires a name, and she will guide you to the lairs of the Secret Bosses" the Spider Matriarch said.
Looking down at my little spider buddy I gave it scratches under its head and I knew the name of the small spider. Anastasia, it was a strong name and also beautiful to say.
"Hey, my little pal do you like the name Anastasia?" I asked the small spider.
"Anastasia, Yes! I'm Anastasia everybody!" She yelled her voice even telepathically sounded like a small child. Her excitement brought amusement to her brothers and sisters. I found out I could also pull up her own character Sheet.
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[Anastasia]
Level: 1
Race: [Spiderling Matriarch]
Traits: [Web Production], [Telepathy], [Unnatural Climbing], and [Arachnid Hierarchy]
Health: [50/50]
Titles: [Divine Companion]
Achievements: [N/A]
Skills: [Toxicokinesis]
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"You have Toxicokinesis, what does that do?" I asked Anastasia.
"Oh, yeah I can essentially detect and control poisons and venoms of the same rank as me" she said crawling up to my head.
"Oh, thats badass, little Anastasia, hey can you do something for me?" I asked her.
"Yeah, I know I'm a pretty cool little spider, and what do you need Boss!" She said excitedly.
"Alright well when we go and kill the big bad Ants I need you to lead your siblings, while I focus on destroying the Ants" I explained, as I figured the small spider Matriarch would know how to best control the spiders.
"Yeppie, you hear that I can Boss you guys around!" She said causing her siblings to laugh a bit.
"Okay, Spider army let's move out and be wary of letting the Ants team up! Now let's MOVE OUT" I yelled through the link. Behind me a large group of a hundred spiders each one the size of a large dog followed behind me.
While we walked towards the Ants side of the caves Anastasia filled me in on the Secret Bosses of the First level.
"Alright so we have the Cave Bear, he lives on the other side of the caves he mainly keeps to himself and he hunts the [Cave Rabbits] who are led by a group of two Rabbits they mainly eat plants and will periodically try to gang up on the Cave Bear" She explained in her child like voice.
"Okay, and so I assume that the Cave Bear is the strongest because he doesn't have any allies?" I asked her.
"Oh, yeah definitely the only hope someone has of defeating him is by swarming him but no one can afford the casualties" she said.
"How about the others or is it all of the [Secret Bosses] on this floor?" I asked her.
"Oh, no their are 6 in total including the Spiders, the other Three are the Moles, the rats, and finally the Mushroom" She responded.
"Wait, what do mean the Mushroom?" I asked wondering how a mushroom was a final boss, did it just make you really high or something?
"Oh, yeah the Mushroom has the power to take over any dead bodies and animate them" she said. So great there were Mushroom Zombies and I'm not talking about overdosed hippies.
"Okay thats terrifying, anyways what's up with the others?" I asked the small spider.
"Okay, well the Moles move around a lot half these tunnels are from them, and the rats are the primary food source of the Ants as they are the most plentiful and their Leader is a giant mutant rat [The Festering Patriarch] that essentially makes him and his brood heavily diseased to the point where the Ants are the only ones that eat them besides us of course"
"Well that Mushroom and the Giant Pandemic Rat sound like the most dangerous to me personally"
"Oh, but Boss aren't you like super strong" She said, and then I remembered I had like 5 stats to allocate. Deciding to be lazy I invested all my points into my physical stats, upping each one by 1.25.
As we neared, the Ants we came across a squad of ants. Before I could attack their was stream of webs and each was dragged off and killed. Shrugging, I continued walking my small army of spiders.
As we entered the Ant metropolis I saw all around us, on the walls and surrounding the Cavern was a massive army of ants.
"You know what to do, Anastasia!" I told the Spider telepathically. Before I burst into movement and Anastasia crawled into my jacket hugging myside as she issued orders to her siblings.
I met full force into a line of [Lesser Myrmidon] making a shield wall. Yet I blasted through them like tissue paper, the spiders behind me quickly changed the terrain to their advantage creating webbed fortifications and floors. With each swing of my new club, I reaped ants like no ones business. Each one died easily and efficiently. I watched as my count of dead ants grew and grew. 100,000 ants was a lot, but so was the level difference and stat difference.
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[Divinity Gained]
+.01 from The fear of your enemies.
+.1 from the [Divine Connection] with [Daemonic Club]
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That was nice, eventually though I had to back up, as my new allies needed a break.
We fortified the cave we entered through, and soon enough we sat back and each of the Spiders looked on with awe. Eventually though I felt a tingle from my Divine half, and then I saw Mr. Brown in a forest begging for help as he had a nasty wound on his side.
'Kien I don't know if this will work but please tell me you can help me' he begged.
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[Divinity Gained]
+1 Divinity.
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[Prayer Detected]
To grant this Prayer it would cost you 5 Divinity to grant this Prayer.
Initial Cost: 100
-75% Cost due to this being your Follower
-80% for this being your First Prayer
Final Cost: 5
Accept: [Y/N]
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Immediately I pressed yes, and a miracle happened, and through the link I saw him heal.
'thank you Kien'
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[Divinity Gained]
+1 Divinity
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I was lucky that the price was reduced so much otherwise I would have been unable to help him. Though I hoped that he wouldn't need it again as it was on a deficit on Divine power.
Returning my attention to the kill count I saw we had nearly doubled my kill count form yesterday.
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[18, 657/100,000]
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My next order of business was to eat, and lucky there was enough moss to to hold a fire, and I knew from Anastasia that neither the Ant or the moss was toxic. From their I took out a knife and a flint rock struck a spark, I had to keep the Fire small, but luckily the cave had a high enough ceilings in order for my small fire not to be dangerous. On my Small campfire I cooked an ant piece.
"You're weird why not eat them as is?" Little Anastasia asked while digging in to an ant. She had leveled up twice due to leading her siblings, which brought her to level 3 and she apparently gained 1 stat point a level but also gained an additional point from her title of [Divine Companion]. That night I slept in a nice silk blanket