Hidden behind a stone wall, in a remote cave deep within a northern mountain range sat an egg. For months the egg sat still as the light it gave off grew dimmer. Then one day, with a burst of light and a small pop the egg was gone and in its place was a small puddle of dark red slime.

Congratulations, you have been born a Lvl 1 Changeling!

You’ve been assigned the greater title [The Last of Your Kind]!

[The Last of Your Kind]

You're the only one left of your species. All those that came before are gone, being the final product of your species evolution grants a bonus. Experience gain doubled. Maximum biomass gained per level up doubled.

Opening his “eyes” to the world for the first time, Von glances around. With no physical eyes, he is limited to a general sense of where things are, similar to echolocation. He’s surrounded on all sides by solid rock with a crack less than an inch wide leading out of the small compartment. Luckily his new body is extremely flexible, and with some squirming, he’s able to crawl through the crack before splashing into a much bigger cavern. His limited senses can only “see” the wall behind him and a few feet in front of him, everything beyond that is a black void.

Now that he is out of the wall he realizes just how hungry he is, starving in fact. Frantically he begins searching the walls around him for any source of food. Coming up empty he quickly rushes around the cavern desperately searching for something, anything to eat. Driven almost mad with hunger he finally spots it. There in the corner is a shape just under half his size, gently swaying on thin legs. Rushing forward and engulfing the small insect before it even realizes it’s under attack he feels his hunger diminish.

You have killed a level 6 Cave Spider! +22 EXP

100% Biomass gained for killing a critter class creature!

50% skill levels gained for killing a critter class creature!

Webweaving skill leveled up from level 0 to level 4!

Congratulations! You have absorbed your first creature! Base form no longer available.

Too focused on the large number of messages resounding through his head, he is taken by surprise as his slimy body compresses into the form of a spider, to be exact, the same spider he had just killed. Opening his now physical eyes he takes in the dark cave around him. In the distance he can make out larger scurrying forms among the rocks as well as minuscule insects traveling on the walls and ground. Deciding the safest course of action is to climb up the walls and avoid the larger predators on the cave floor, he scrambles towards the nearest corner on unsteady legs. Reaching the wall and clambering upwards he hides among a grouping of rocks near the ceiling. From his new vantage point, Von realizes the smartest course of action is to just act like a normal cave spider and begins spinning a web.

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Webweaving now level 7!

With that notification, Von finishes connecting his web to the outcropping of rock. Skittering up to the ceiling he looks down on the completed web an can’t help but feel proud. As he watches a fly buzzes towards the web and gets caught near the edge. Rushing back down towards the entangled spider he approaches carefully before sinking his fangs into the struggling fly.

You have killed a level 2 Common Fly! +8 EXP

100% Biomass gained for killing a critter class creature!

50% skill levels gained for killing a critter class creature!

Aerial Maneuvering skill leveled up from level 0 to level 1!

Congratulations! You have gained the Common Fly mutation!

As the fly dissolves into black specs that slowly fade away Von feels a strange sensation, almost as if he is somehow more than just his physical body. Focusing on that strange feeling causes it to surround him, his vision becomes tinted as if looking through tinted glass, but when he looks into the tinted glass Von feels comfortable for the first time in his short life. Within that expanse of darkness lies two glowing figures, as small as specks of dust when compared to the seemingly infinite void but somehow impossibly large at the same time. Pushing his perspective closer he realizes the figures are tiny, impossibly accurate duplications of a fly and a spider. Applying a small amount of pressure towards the spider does nothing but as Von does the same to the fly his body begins to change.