Cynthia awoke with a start. "How long was I asleep?" Inquired Cynthia. "A good portion of the night." replied Sebas "By the little information I've gotten through my connection with you I would say 12 of your hours". Cynthia got a less rash idea this time and tried to send some common earth knowledge to Sebas. "I thank you for your gift my lady." said Sebas "with this we should be able to communicate more efficiently.". "Of course!" replied Cynthia "it was simply a whim based on what you said. No need to take it too seriously."
It was now close to half an earth day until dawn. If Cynthia was right, then the next day would be only 4 hours. "Have the baby spiders become juveniles?" asked Cynthia. "They have. Shall I give them names or will you?" replied Sebas with an important question. "From now on all creatures without names under my control will either be named by their parents or their most direct superior" said Cynthia. "from what I can sense their direct superior should be Hera.". "I will inform Hera right away," said Sebas. "I also sense some new connections that have an offspring relation with you rather than a sibling one. Congratulations Sebas!" said Cynthia abruptly before Sebas had the chance to leave. Sebas turned red and said "Thank you, my lady" in a barely audible chitter.
"System! Bring up what I got from that experiment." demanded Cynthia. Then a blue window bigger than the messages but smaller than the stat windows popped up
Title: Legendary Poison Devourer
Immunity to all poisons and venoms under Legendary Grade.Immunity to most poisons and venoms of Legendary Grade and resistance to the rest.Small amount of resistance to King Grade poisons and venoms.When you pacify the effects of a poison or venom that you haven't ingested before, you gain stats equal to its grade.All poisons and venoms that have been detected and analyzed in your system can be replicated with energy. These poisons and Venoms can be applied to any surface within a range of touch. Venoms and poisons analyzed: Human Face Spider's Paralytic Venom, Lesser Human Face Spider's Neurotoxin Venom, Blood Vipers Hemorrhagic Venom.
"That's insane!" squealed Cynthia losing her composure again "This is on par with Sebas' auxiliary skill!". "Tip: Titles are exceedingly rare and are dictated by a person's feats, achievements, and even fables and legends! They are created and granted by the world itself as a reward for incredible actions and achievements that often resound around the world and rarely happen with few people knowing of them!" said a new blue window "titles offer new paths to growth as the most basic of their facets and usually include powerful bonuses that are extremely hard to come by from skills.".
With that eye opening explanation Cynthia wondered what she did that could be good enough. "Tip: Hidden Pieces are extremely rare and like their name suggests the details of how to achieve them are often obscure and hard to achieve." said another blue window. "What hidden piece did I achieve, that I was able to get this? Did it have to do with absorbing Sebas' venom?". "You achieved two Hidden pieces back to back. The reward from the first hidden piece was upgraded as the reward for the second hidden piece. The reward was then elevated higher because of the incredible achievement of achieving two hidden pieces at the same time. The world and the system collaborated to create a suitable reward for the incredible achievement!". "You can speak to the world itself?" Inquired Cynthia. "Tip: The system was created by the world through the same process as the title you received. All reincarnants Receive a reward for achieving their first fable and arriving here!". "Wait, now I have even more questions! What fable? Are there more people reincarnated here? Are there more people from earth?" Cynthia asked. The system was silent. "Goddamn it… the bastard is ignoring me again…" Cynthia lamented "I guess I'll find out eventually. The system was rather talkative today though…".
With that Cynthia messaged Sebas. "What are our numbers now?". "We currently have 8 baby spiders, 4 Juveniles and then me and Hera as the only adolescents." Replied Sebas. "From now on babies are to grow into juveniles in the safety of the cave and once they attain sentience they will fill roles. What we need right now are hunters and in the future we will need soldiers and even special units for various tasks. You, Hera, and Yue will be the first generation. The three juveniles other than Yue will be the second generation and the new babies will be the third. Every new batch of baby spiders will be a new generation." dictated Cynthia "have all of the juveniles work as hunters for now and have them move in groups of 3. Yue will be exempt since she will be my royal guard from the shadows from now on.". "Yes my lady!" said Sebas.
After that conversation happened, nothing much happened for quite a while. Only after that long night had passed did something interesting happen.
Sebas walked into the area that served as Cynthia's throne room. "My lady, the third generation, have grown up into juveniles and have been given names!" he said. Cynthia thought that as a lord she ought to have lordly audiences and it seems Sebas wanted to comply with her wishes even if it was entirely unnecessary. Sebas didn't seem to care what the orders or wishes of his lady were as long as they didn't endanger her. "That's good!" Said Cynthia uncharacteristically smiling widely. Given her visual age she seems like a little girl excited to go to her favorite place.
"Sebas how many beast pearls do we have?" Asked Cynthia. "Since nobody has touched them we have about 10 from beasts that were hunted by the hunting groups. Since we also had some foolish higher level beasts that decided to attack our territory we also have 5 relatively bigger ones too." said Sebas. "Ask that ancestry of yours if there's a market near here!" said Cynthia excitedly. Before Sebas could do anything the soul spoke up. "There is, In fact, most of the reason the xingxings attacked us was to be closer to the beast market!". Sebas relayed the message. "Be careful though, there are quite a few lords who shop there and fighting isn't forbidden. In fact one of the rules there is that if you don't have the strength to keep your money you don't deserve to have it." said the soul "You may end up with a stronger lord picking a fight with you or even a shopkeeper who wants to force a sale on you for something overpriced or something you don't need. The only rule is that in an exchange between a shop owner and a customer, they can't exchange nothing for something but there are no rules about how to price anything or about demanding a purchase.". Sebas relayed the message again. Cynthia pondered, her childlike face in deep thought being rather cute. "What's the point of a place of business where you can practically get anything for free if you're strong enough?" She finally said. "Pride is the limiting factor." said the soul "most of the beasts around here view taking a weaker opponent seriously as embarrassing so they tend to stack the odds against themselves against weaker opponents.". "In fact there are several arenas scattered about the market for duels." the soul continued "If you want more information I think my connection to this young one here is enough to transmit some of my memories from when I was alive to him of some of the common sense of the market.". Sebas agreed before relaying the message and then simply sent his memory of having heard what the soul said as well as the common sense information. "These pearls are actually worth quite a lot!" said Cynthia, her excited expression returning. "I think we should save up a bit though." said Cynthia, getting serious again "While this is a lot of money for small tribes like the xingxings and human faced spiders, it isn't befitting a lord given the information the soul has given.". The conversation, even though almost over, was abruptly interrupted by the sound of a war horn. Cynthia could sense that dozens of creatures had entered her territory. Unlike during the trial she took to become lord, they were all of the same species. Cynthia sensed something even worse: "They are being led by a lord." said Cynthia gravely "Prepare all of the spiders for battle! Even the babies!".