He tried thinking of a tactic to kill other monsters , hoping someday he would get a trait from them to help him power up because the stats seemed to be doing jackshit. While exploring in the night he found a room where bullfrog and spiders seemed to both spawn. He examined the spawns that he could spawncamp 3 bullfrogs in addition to 1 spider , they were roughly the same size so he could use the same tactic. He wanted to spawn the other species , but he was strapped for time with the spawn times and he still didn’t dare to kill the rats or the kobolds.

2 weeks continued like this , he gained another strength point , 2 wisdom and 2 vitality. He killed 3 frogs , a single spider and 4 goblins steadily , his level plateaued at 8 en the last week he gained no stats. It seemed he wouldn't gain much more from them , he would keep killing the bullfrogs because they would probably give him a good trait eventually , but he started inspecting the kobold rooms for a way to kill them. He recognized that there would be more weapons left here because they were crude stone daggers , it seems the adventurers picked up the metal weapons but left the stone.

The next day he had found a spot where the first kobold would respawn a bit before the rest. He went with his goblin morph and waited till it spawned , then he tripped it by stabbing him in the popliteal. When it was on the ground he stabbed it in the other popliteal then he took 1 step away , morphed into the mimic again and pulled himself to its head with his tongue and started killing it that way. After 30 seconds of chewing he finally killed the thing.

The 4th week he continued killing the bullfrogs, the single spider and the single kobold. He imagined that the other chosen would be arriving someday and practiced moving as a tiny spider. It took alot to get used to moving with 6 legs , and he sadly knew of no way to spin a web yet , he would have to study the species better for that. But he had a lot of time on his hands and in the nights before the adventures came back he would practice his spider form. But before they went in the room he went back to his coin form. He didn’t know if they would notice him scurrying around after all. He gained 2 more vitality from this ordeal.

The next day after killing the same creatures again he noticed on his status that he had gained another skill from the Bullfrog.

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Torpor(Bullfrog)

Instead of sleeping you enter torpor , while doing this you lower your body temperature and your metabolism and won’t move. But your thoughts stay active. You only need 4 hours of torpor a day.

This would be helpful if I wasn't stuck in this stupid dungeon. I gained another level but I still don’t know if I gain anything from them, seeming I gain no stats from leveling up. This other dude better show up sometime. He transformed into a coin and entered this word torpor state. He kept his eyes closed and waited for the next human party to arrive.

When he heard the first party arrive , his eyes widened he saw a caucasian male between them looking like most blokes he saw in London. They were using the same tactic as the other adventurers , now was his chance. After 5 seconds you could see a tiny spider scurrying along the edges doing his best to climb in their backpack , luckily it seemed they were busy protecting the other chosen and didn’t notice him.

After entering the bag he was squished between stuff like salves etc , he wen’t to a piece of cloth lingering around and nested himself there. Let the waiting game begin. He had decided already that he was going the kill the poor guy , he was a monster now and needed to know more about this world , learning the language would be hard en it seems this person could communicate with them , so if he got his memories he should be fine in this aspect and learn more about this world. What he would do from there he would see.

So he slowly waited , while being carried was uncomfortable in the bag he patiently waited and did his best not to make a sound. He heard a lot of slaying in the background and after what felt like ages the sound finally abated. He heard a lot of talking and they seemed to be moving. After a while he seemed to be put down. He first waited another hour before moving out. While scurrying out of the backpack he saw a person sleeping on the bed. He slowly crawled on top of a night cabinet next to the bed and saw it was the chosen.

After steeling his mind he morphed into a mimic, pulled himself to his face and bit it cleanly off. His mind went haywire because a lot of memories flooded him and suddenly he remembered his own birth. He quickly scanned through the memories and read what the skill did and deleted the earliest 4 years of his life. He quickly ate the rest of the corpse , transformed into the spiders, moved under the night cabinet and transformed into a coin to sort everything that he just got and what had happened.