Give Them a Spider Queen

With productivity in surplus, the Silk-Spinning Acromantulas developed thoughts of their own. Unfortunately, they seemed to have greatly overestimated themselves.

The complex thinking abilities developed through cooperation akin to a collective consciousness did not truly belong to them. Their "complex" thinking was only relatively complex.

As Acromantulas that had been born less than half an hour ago, they were still far too immature and far too prone to taking things for granted.

After they began acting on their own, they could no longer make the Venomous Acromantulas obey them—this mental connection had never been an order from superior to subordinate in the first place, but a means of linking their thoughts together.

The Silk-Spinning Acromantulas were indeed better at thinking, so they made decisions and built nests together, while the Venomous Acromantulas were responsible for fighting outside and gathering supplies.

Now, though, that advantage was no longer so significant between a single Silk-Spinning Acromantula and a single Venomous Acromantula.

And the Silk-Spinning Acromantulas had ambitions, but the Venomous Acromantulas might well have wanted independence too—if I am strong enough to survive in this environment on my own, why should I follow the arrangements of other spiders?

The Silk-Spinning Acromantulas truly were better at thinking, but there was no need for such complex thought right now.

Thus, in the forty-second minute after the Acromantulas had been created, the fledgling spider society completely collapsed. After a civil war, the Acromantulas suffered grievous casualties, leaving only three that intended to go their separate ways.

Then Manus collected them and Blackened them into Dead Matter alongside the previous corpses.

Spider society had been utterly wiped out. By this point, the first afternoon class had not even begun, though the students had already started arriving in the classroom one after another.

"Interesting..."

Most of Manus's