Time to get to Work. Ant work

"Well let's finish the quest to become stronger, and to do that I will go outside. Hmm... I haven't seen the outside before..."

Gamo was looking for light so he could go outside because it was really dark inside the nest. Then he saw the ant queen, sitting, waiting, doing nothing.

"Kinda... lazy. Oh, there's the light."

Gamo was about to go outside but heard somebody say something so he stopped in his tracks and he heard something.

"Hmm? A voice?"

"Get Materials"

"Get Materials"

Gamo looked at the source of sound and it was coming from some other red ants that were in the nest also coming to go outside.

"Weird, I thought we communicated through pheromones... Well, this is another world or I think so after all so I guess it's to be expected. Still, that's gonna take some time to get used to."

Gamo went outside and he saw that he was in the forest, and he was also smaller than grass.

"Wow... I'm really tiny compared to the grass and whatnot."

There is also a giant green blob in the distance, it was moving really slow though. It was as if it was slow motion... There is also a huge rock that was also a little far from the ant's hill.

"Yeah this is another world for sure and not my world, so this means there are goblins right? I must be a strong type of ant or an ant that is human sized or something to beat them because it won't be easy trying to defeat them... Well at least the slime isn't going to the ant nest. It also seems like we are in a forest it seems"

"OH, I almost forgot, I got lost in my thoughts so I should focus"

"I should Finish my quest to become stronger and better, I haven't seen a cockroach near the nest which is rather weird... maybe I'll see some at night."

He exited out to do his quest

"Well then, let's do my quest, still freaked out by seeing ants up close. Hm? I smell something. Pheromones?"

He looked over to his left and saw a fellow red ant next to 5 pebbles in that were in the opposite direction of the Big Rock

"Resources here. Resources here."

Other fellow red ants followed the sound and picked up the pebbles

"Huh ok, so we do communicate through pheromones still, anyways lets ignore that and get to work because I am a worker ant after all."

He walked over to the ant that said "Pebbles here." and picked up 1 of the pebbles

"C-crap, this is heavier than I thought, wow. Gotta bring it back though, so I have to just go through with it."

He picked it up and was struggling to carry it back but after about half a minute he made it back.

"Phew that was heavy, it seems like it's noon right now. Hopefully that's enough time to bring back enough resources. Also how come there are no butterflies or bees I seen yet?"

[You gained 1 exp]

"Oh I gain exp, wait so I gotta bring back 100 and I get an extra 30 if I do finish the quest... THAT'S 130 EXP. But that's so much pebbles and work though... Well I guess I will level up on the first day, so I won't be such a weak and killable worker ant after all. Alright let's ignore that get to work"

So he spent the next 30 minutes bringing back pebbles and sometimes pieces of tree bark, while doing that, he saw a bigger pebble, a little bigger than his body as a whole, but he couldn't handle it as he tried to pick it up.

"It's barely moving an inch, or at least an inch in my perspective, still doesn't change the fact that it's not budging. I could probably get more exp by bringing bigger ones back to the ant hill but... These are just too heavy for me right now"

He saw other ants as they were not struggling with pebbles bigger than them

"THAT'S how it should be for an ant but I guess I'm just unusually weaker than everybody else it seems. and... it's just like middle school..."

Gamo started shaking his head, encouraging himself.

"STOP IT GAMO! You aren't in middle school anymore. Stop pondering and focus."

Gamo kept on encouraging himself a bit more and then focused on the task at hand

This time he picked up a pebble about his size and tried to bring it back, it was also quite far from the nest, so it took him around 10 minutes to bring it back.

"Hmph!"

"O-ok yeah, t-this is definitely heavy, but less heavy than the one bigger than me of course, so it's at least moveable for me."

He picked it up and took it back with a struggle, even taking a break in the middle of it.

"Guh, phew that was heavy."

[You gained 3 exp]

"Hmm, ok so I do get more exp for heavier materials. But they are so heavy though... Fine, I guess I'm going to start picking up heavier materials then. "

[Carrying is now level 2]

"Oh finally, I've been struggling with the pebbles for a certain amount of time now. Now I can just pretty much just pick them up without struggling as much so it doesn't matter whats the size of it"

"Also how much materials have I brought back? Hmm... I'll just check the quest and see how far I got."

"Daily resources quest"

[Opening "Daily Resources For The Hill" quest]

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Daily Resources For The Hill - Common Repeatable Quest

Bring back tiny pebbles or small materials to the anthill to build for the ant queen and the colony.

Bring that amount by the end of today.

57/100 materials

[Reward: +2 to all stats except luck and 30 Exp]

[Failure: -4 strength and -2 def]

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"Sigh halfway... Still a long way to go huh? Well whatever because it's gonna be easier since I will level up faster, especially when I get 3 exp from bringing back bigger materials."

"But soon, soon I won't even struggle with small pebbles and stuff like those."

"Anyways if I picked up 56 pebbles smaller than me and the bigger one gave me 3 exp... I just need 31 exp left so that means 10 more of the pebbles that are my size and 1 pebble smaller than me. Then when I level up, my strength goes up higher and then It'll be way easier."

He went and got more pebbles his size and on his way there he saw a cockroach egg, and compared to the size of him, it. was. huge.

"This... is very big. I can't bring it back because it's wayyy too big, maybe it can be a future food though... Or I could eat it? Ugh just imagining it is weird but, I didn't eat nothing when I became a worker ant, so I should eat something."

CHOMP

[-1 HP]

[1299/1300]

"Ok uh, maybe I can't bite it because there's a shell blocking me but it was worth a sh-"

Suddenly the ground starts shaking and some dirt rises up

"W-what the hell is going on. The ground, i-it's starting to shake more and more."

And something pink comes out and it's...

A earthworm

"T-this is not what I thought of at all! A-ah what the hell, Maybe I could take down the earthworm and eat it because I need to eat to live after all."

The earthworm is moving, wiggling slowly trying to dig back into the dirt

"Something must have brought it out and it's trying to go back in, not my problem though. Come here you earthworm."

The earthworm escapes back into the dirt, leaving small piles of dirt everywhere

"Damn it you-, ugh. Whatever, ants can starve for at least a day or two so food shouldn't be my priority right now."

Gamo went looking for more rocks but it seems like it's starting to get dark

"Ohhh Crap... I need to finish this quest now before the day finishes. I don't want any night insects or any ant eaters to eat me, I also don't wanna lose any stats."

As of right now, Gamo is a little far from the nest, about 2 yards in human measures.

"I think I saw a dead leaf not to far from the ant hill, I think that counts right? And they are light after all, well, at least I think so, I'll try to get those from now on instead of heavy pebbles"

"Sigh, I guess at least its not too far from the nest. Onwards... to the dry leaf."

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Then there was a rumble...

To be Anticipated