So, what to do about the flytraps. I obviously can’t leave them there. It will be a massacre if I do! All those poor insects, dying day after day. I can’t stand that! That would be so wrong it’s not even funny. I’ll think of something, even if I need to sacrifice my entire day to do it!
I flew on to a branch hanging out over the field, and thought for a solid hour to come up with a plan of attack. It really is hard to come up with an acceptable idea when you’re as small as a fly and don’t have hands. I had to throw out ninety percent of them for a lack of hands, and then another nine percent for them being suicidal. But! I did it! I came up with a plan! I could use the scorpion spiders! Considering that they had strong enough acid to turn a boar into a puddle in practically an instant, why couldn’t they do the same to a venus flytrap? I can’t believe that took me so long to think of. But, in my defense, it’s because I don’t want to think of scorpion spiders.
The thought still gives me shivers. So, I called my spiders to converge, and got one. After thirty minutes. This web was too big… I swear. It should not take more than thirty minutes to traverse a web! That is definitely unnatural. So are scorpion spiders though… AHEM! Whatever! Spider! I have a very important job for you. You know what you did to those boars? I need you to stab something and inject that acid into them, but it’s not a boar. It’s those plants over there!
…What do you mean you can’t? I just need you to take out your stinger, and melt a plant! It’s not that hard! You don’t have a stinger…? What!?!?!? WHY NOT!?!?! Did it fall off or something!?!?! Oh, I see. I get it. Yes, that would be a problem. These stupid spiders.
So, not all of the spiders are female. Yes, that makes sense. I can get behind that. You probably need male and females in order to mate. Unless you’re something weird like a shark. They cheat though. Small things should be allowed to reproduce asexually. Whatever, I’m getting off track. Where was I? Oh yeah! I need the female spiders. Which are apparently busy giving birth. And dying… Wait a second. How many spiders are left!?!?!?! Uh, uh oh. No. NO NO NO!
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I quickly started searching through my connections to my spiders. Most of them were weak, and getting weaker. I quickly chose one that was dying and teleported to it. And the scene there was horrifying. Not that being stuck in a web after I teleported helped, but. There were almost two hundred spiders resting on the webs, half of them were slowly dying, and the other half were dead. They were ripped open, with puncture marks in their abdomens. And those wounds were overflowing with eggs. There were thousands of them, tens of thousands. It was a gruesome sight. My poor cultists… They slaughtered each other. After mating too! What kind of life is that!?!?! Mating once and then being killed to… I’m guessing feed the young. I am so glad I did not become a spider. That would have sucked.
Wait, the spiders, how are they doing!?!? I felt my connections to my spiders, and… Why were there more..? I felt my connections, and the weakest of them had been snuffed out, killed by whatever process happened during their mating cycle. But there were new, faint connections. And there were a lot of them. Thousands of them… THE EGGS!
The eggs… hahaha. HAHAHAHA. MWAHAHAHAHAHA! The cultists' babies were automatically initiated. Oh thank you oh Great Mosquito God, perhaps you don’t want to give my soul away quite yet. I knew you loved me!
Head Cultist of The Mosquito God level up. All stats +2.
Skill Born into It obtained.
Oooo! I got a new skill! System! What’s Born into It do?
Born into It:
Makes children born of members of the cult much less likely to attempt a revolt. All boosts granted by skills from Head Cultist of The Mosquito God are 12562% (Number of cult members) more effective on members who were born into the cult and have never left.
That… is absolutely useless! I DON’T HAVE ANY SKILLS THAT BOOST MY MEMBERS! Wait! Yes I do! I just never used it! I have Lead Prayers! Yeah! I bet Mosquito God would like that! Okay, I got this. Even if it’s currently not useful to help in defense, it is still useful nonetheless. I bet Mosquito God is gonna help us once he’s been born. So I can’t wait to try this out!