Chapter 8

A man in his forties walked through his house, his slippers slapping loudly down the hallway. He had some chips and a cola in his hands, ready to sit down on the couch and turn on his new favorite program on TV. Tonight he would watch a new show about a spider monster, a reincarnator. Who might not have a chance to survive at all. Watching new events that he hadn't foreseen, "because it would be boring." He patted himself on the back for the idea. He was a [God of Magic], which included one of the most complex concepts in the universe. He was a god of chaos. And he wasn't a weak god at all, it was just impolite to interfere in someone else's [Transcendent] territory without their permission. He, as befits a god of chaos did unexpected and unforeseen things, at this moment he stole the souls that were in the lesser ones gods and reincarnated them at his own discretion.

The first soul he placed into a [Normal] rank spider monster. This type of monster had little potential, and technically he would send the reincarnated one to death, but if she survived, she would receive his blessing, which could take various forms.

The second soul he placed into the son of the most powerful necromancer in the world, Ramiast, the Chaos God knew a lot about the planet the reincarnators grew up on, even more than they did, thanks to the [Divine] Omniscience Skill. The man he reincarnated was a very kind soul, and the Chaos God wanted to see if the man would maintain his beliefs despite the horrors he would have to witness.

The next soul was an ordinary girl in every way except for her soul power, but that didn't matter to him. He decided to give her the body of a Cursed Nox, they were a race of beastmen bred by an evil god only to mindlessly kill everything and everyone. The race was an [Epic] rank and was cursed by some god to have negative luck. The curse itself could not be lifted as long as the Nox existed as a race. In the world of Ramiast, they led a miserable existence, with more potential than most sentient races, they lived in a place with almost no mana and did not try to evolve at all, instead rejecting themselves as killers by birthright and quietly farming in the wilderness where no one could find them for a long time. But, knowing a small glimpse of the future, the Chaos God knew that this world would not last long now, due to the Archdemon's attempt to conquer it, all the leaders of the evil organizations were also gathering forces to unite against one of the sides...

The fourth soul was so evil that it confused the God of Chaos a little, he thought for a long time what to do with this soul and decided that he would give him the body of a monster, and the ability to turn into a human would be given to him when he grew up a lot, ... if he grew up a lot. The God of Chaos wanted to see if he would remain a wild monster who wanted nothing to do with humanity, or if he would decide to control his impulses and live among people.

The fifth soul was sent to live with a poor, devout priest's family. The God of Chaos just thought it was funny, she could have become anyone, but he honestly did it on purpose. Reading various novels on earth, He really liked one cliche that appeared in many works. He couldn't wait for new events to begin, this love story.

He decided to give the sixth soul a great power, just to see how it would affect this person. Although two [Legendary] skills could not be called great power for a god, for a human it would be very decent.

The last, seventh soul he placed in the son of the richest merchant in the holy kingdom, this man was very greedy in his past life and so from the God of Chaos he will receive the legendary ability of greed, without the demonic aspect. This ability will work through killing other creatures, where for each creature killed he will steal some characteristics for himself. The ability had many drawbacks, but if used correctly, he can easily raise himself to the [Legendary] class. Sitting closer to the sofa and watching the spider fighting for her life, the God of Chaos began to smile, he has not been so passionate about something for a long time.

***

When I remember my birth, I shudder at those terrible memories.

I was born a little spider and for a long time I couldn't get over the horror of everything that had happened. In my past life I wasn't afraid of spiders and I didn't like them at all. Becoming a spider was a huge shock for me, but it was made even more powerful by the sight of spiders eating each other and the sight of my healthy mother, who also decided to have a snack with a couple. I couldn't move from fear until my brother came up to me and started to tear off one of my legs. In the face of danger, the old human instincts of "fight or flight" flared up, and I bit my brother on the head, lashing it with my chelicerae, the spider died instantly. And I ran on all "seven" legs, looking for a place to hide.

Because if I were a spider, leaving the cave would be the stupidest decision of my life. Running further and further along the tunnel, I thought about how there was practically no web here. Having mastered my fear, I decided to stop and think about why there was no web near the spider's nest. It's simple, either they hunted in a different way, or something scared the spiders away. Remembering that I was getting out of the web and I have a good build for a spider, one could assume that these are both options. But the fact that there was no web at all seemed unlikely to me. Remembering that spiders can be scared away by different smells, I tried to breathe somehow? Yes, everything is fine, my lungs are like a spider's. But I did not feel anything at all, except for the rotten air. Surprisingly, this smell did not seem unpleasant to me. Deciding to think some more about what could have scared the mother spider from this direction, I decided to assume that she simply hadn’t had time to get here. Changing my pace to a more calm and careful one, I walked on.

The tunnel was going down at a slight angle, which I didn't like at all. Because if I couldn't feed, I would die, and I also needed more food to regenerate my leg. As I continued walking down the tunnel, I began to smell a completely unfamiliar smell, it was strange. I had never smelled anything like it in my life, but it didn't make me anxious.

Around the next corner I saw an ant, it was strange, although no stranger than me, I had strange proportions, like a spider, my legs seemed to be stronger than a normal spider. This ant looked like a normal black ant, but was the same size as me, which made me very wary. If there was one ant, then it was logical that there were more. The ant looked around until it caught my scent with its antennae and began to emit a different scent. I realized that the scent I was smelling was the ant's pheromones. The ant was quickly approaching me, and I knew that ants can eat almost anything and kill many different insects if there were enough of them. And such a large ant could kill me alone. As it approached, I did what I had to do as a spider. I jumped on it and tried to bite, injecting venom. The ant tried to grab me with its jaws, but it failed, just as I failed to bite through its exoskeleton. On the second try, I managed to drive the chelicerae into its shell and inject the poison. Then, without waiting for the ant to come to its senses, I ran in the opposite direction. I would have been easily eaten by these ants if I had stayed in the cave. Running back, I met my relative, he looked very well-fed, with a completely stuffed belly. Deciding that he would serve as my line of defense against the ants, I did not touch him. And the spider also decided not to bother with a new hunt.

Running further, I noticed my mother from afar, she was 100 times bigger than me and was sitting calmly in her web. She, like some spiders, did not have bright colors, but was completely black. The only thing that was different in color was the tips of her chelicerae, they were blood red.

I realized that as a spider I was at the top of the food chain, even among spiders. My eyesight was excellent, my sense of smell was excellent, I had large chelicerae and strong venom, my exoskeleton also seemed strong, if I could grow to the size of my mother, I could live my life in peace. Quietly walking around her, I went the other way from the tunnel. I really didn't want to go outside, but I didn't see any other way out. Sooner or later, one of my relatives or the ants would eat me.

I ran past numerous well-fed spiders and saw a light. Coming out of the tunnel, I realized that as a spider, I was much larger than I should be. I compared my approximate size with the surrounding grass and it turned out that I was about 6 cm long. Remembering the main spider, her size was about 40 cm long and even more wide. I thought that I had ended up in a prehistoric era when the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere was higher, which allowed spiders to grow to such sizes. But I was convinced otherwise by a chameleon that appeared out of nowhere and ate a butterfly flying past. I immediately ran and hid under the most inconspicuous blade of grass so as not to tremble with fear anymore.

The chameleon was practically invisible. As far as I knew, such a disguise was basically impossible to develop. I checked the place and still couldn’t see the chameleon there. It was really scary. Stopping to think about everything that happened today, I realized that there was no point in thinking “logically” in this world. I was a reincarnator. Logic was now, by definition, irrelevant. Now that I could think about it all, could I assume that magic existed? Or not? Sure, everyone dreamed of becoming a sorceress as a child, but what could be worse than a magical spider? Maybe I could reincarnate as a human? How did I even die? I don’t remember anything at all, oh… what a pity. I need to somehow prove that magic exists in this world, or not. The chameleon was good, of course, but maybe it was just such an advanced species? And I ended up on a planet where everyone got super evolved?

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I spent a lot of time just sitting and thinking, only after sunset I decided that I needed to fill my belly. Having tuned into the "apex predator" mode, I went in search of food. Now it would be very easy to have dinner with the brothers, I was not at all embarrassed to engage in cannibalism, damn I'm a spider now, but I got lost and do not remember at all where this place was.

Making my way through the grass below, I was looking for some small creature, even a beetle. After wandering around, I found a small caterpillar, but fearing that it might be poisonous, I did not eat it. My next dinner was in the form of a worm. An ordinary worm, about 4 cm long, and I was about four times larger. Having attacked the poor worm, mercilessly, I began to devour it and, as expected, it tasted almost disgusting. I was very hungry and I had to overcome myself. After snacking on the worm, I went in search of new prey and, alas, I found a huge praying mantis, it was even bigger than my mother. Somewhere around 60 cm tall, I was lucky that it did not notice me and just sat peacefully. While examining it, I noticed its claws, they looked too scary... Imagining various pictures, I was even more horrified, such a praying mantis could have a cat for a snack and not even get full. Quietly moving away from it, I continued to look for food and found it in the form of a large beetle. It looked like an ordinary bug, but I did not think that this thing would be too dangerous. The back of its body did not look like it had a flamethrower, and there was no thin tube in front to drink blood.

I quietly approached him and gathered my strength to jump on him, and so the battle began. It was harder than I thought, I could not bite through his exoskeleton. So I chose another strategy, namely wrapping him in web. The beetle fought me for a long time, and I wrapped him more and more in web. When he could not escape me anymore, I began to bite him and after two minutes I was able to bite through his exoskeleton and watch the beetle writhe from my poison. After carefully observing what my poison did, I realized that it was something that Dissolves living tissue. It looked very unpleasant, but tasted surprisingly good. After a snack, I decided to go to bed, finding a good place, I dug myself a hole and fell asleep there, being a happy spider.

The next morning, I wasn't awakened by the sounds of my body being eaten alive, which pleased me greatly, and I went hunting again. Thanks to my exoskeleton hardening too quickly after I woke up, I survived, but now I'll have to shed it regularly to start growing to my mother's size. Inspecting my stump, I was relieved to find that my limb had started growing. I also looked for new food while walking through the grass. Half an hour later, I was completely full of worms. So, deciding to stock up on canned food, I went in search of larger prey. Having found ants, I weighed the risks for a long time. They would be a good snack, perhaps even enough for more than one day. But today, I decided that I would catch them another time.

Going the other way, I found a small praying mantis. Considering their non-venomous nature, it was an easy choice, a small bite was enough to drink it dry. So I walked until evening and did not use the web at all. True, I was still very hungry, almost all the time. Therefore, I often had to eat all sorts of living creatures. Today I decided to build my new den, I dug a cave of my size and bombarded the whole thing with web. It was a kind of protection against anyone who would want to feast on a defenseless and cute spider.

The next morning my leg had grown more than half as much and I went hunting again. Having found various worms to snack on, I decided to set up a full-fledged web near my den, I tried to make it so that it would not be visible from above. Having spent half a day on my new protection, which also doubled as a trap, I went hunting again.

Thinking about it all, I decided that now I would have a mission - to save up a lot of food to shed my exoskeleton and grow big, big. Hunting all night, I managed to collect 8 worms, 4 beetles, 6 ants, 1 butterfly and 3 praying mantises in the hole. I started eating and even with great pleasure, having eaten my fill, I instinctively understood how to shed my exoskeleton. It was surprisingly easy, after I started eating again, I ate all my savings and fell into hibernation.

When I woke up, I was twice as big, with new hardened chitin. Now I had to repeat the same process again, many, many times, to come out like my mother. As soon as I got out of the nest, I knew that next time I would definitely have to expand it.

***

Hmm, in these three days of my life, I still haven’t become convinced of the existence of magic, which upset me a lot.

After a week of hunting, nothing interesting happened, and just when I wanted to convince myself that this was just a strange world and throw away all hopes and dreams. Something glowing flew over my head, like a transparent bird from the wind. It really surprised me. Now I was absolutely sure that magic exists. Trying to remember what novels about magic existed, I decided to study Meditation and Mana Vision. Between breaks for hunting and practicing Mana Vision, I realized that it did not bring any progress. Trying to remember what was in different novels, I began to say all sorts of words, but when you are a spider, you can not talk. It was more like screams from your worst nightmare. After trying many other methods, I almost gave up. After the third exoskeleton shed, I increased in size to 24 cm. Now I was a very strong and intelligent predator. Having attacked a large praying mantis, which was 1.5 times bigger than me, I bit it and waited for it to die from the poison. Life was gradually getting better and my plans were to slowly grow and survive, so that I could eventually become the queen of the forest, the largest spider, the apex predator, the divine beast. Breaking away from my thoughts, I noticed something very strange in my field of vision.

Congratulations, you have reached a new level in the Arachnid Sicarida race [Common] Lv. 2, you have been granted access to the system. Develop your race and classes to reach a higher level.

Race: Arachnid Sicarida [Common] Level 1-100.

The Arachnid Sicaridae are a race of spiders that specialize in potent necrotic venom, have strong chelicerae, a tough exoskeleton, and superior perception.

For 1 level you get:

Strength +0.5

Dexterity +0.5

Stamina +0.5

Vitality +0.5

Constitution +1

Toxicity +1

Intelligence +0.5

Perception +0.5

+1 free attribute point

Name: Sarah Brown

Race: Arachnid Sicarida [Normal] Level 2

Class: Blocked

Class: Blocked

Health 15 HP 0.015 HP/hour

Endurance 15 ST 0.15 ST/hour

Statistics:

Strength 1.4

Dexterity 2.7

Endurance 1.5

Viability 1.5

Constitution 2

Toxicity 5.3

Intelligence 40.3

Wisdom 35.9

Mental Control 20.8

Willpower 23.9

Perception 15.5

Charisma 1

Luck 10

+1 free attribute point

Titles: Otherworldly Reincarnator [Legendary+]

Racial Skills:

Necrotic Poison [Common] Lv. 4

Arachnid Sicarid Physique [Common] Lv. 6

Growth [Common] Lv. 2

Low Poison Resistance [Common] Lv. 1

Skills:

Empty

Possible skills:

Stealth [Common],

Fight [Common],

Web Weaving [Common],

Observation [Common], ...

"What???!" - Screams of absolute horror.