I looked up towards the hole in the ceiling, wondering how I'm going to make it back up there. I originally thought I could just teleport back up to the cavern above, but I can only teleport 10 meters.
Perhaps I could make it by consecutively teleporting? I want to give it a try but I'm scared of falling. If I fail, I won't fall into the water like last time because there's a bridge directly underneath now.
Come to think of it, I don't even know how much MP it costs to teleport. I check my status and see that I only have 195 MP left. I used void claw once, which cost 5 MP and I teleported twice, which means each teleport costs me 50 MP.
So even if I tested if I could teleport consecutively, I would only have 95 MP left, which isn't enough to get me to the hole. teleporting just twice, will only get me to the bottom of the hole. I want to be able to teleport at least three times to make sure I can safely get into the cavern above.
So I can either give it a try and risk falling 20 meters onto a stone bridge, or I can practice first on the ground and then try to go to sleep to get my MP back.
I'm obviously going to choose to practice first. The only problem being, I've not long slept and I doubt I'll be able to fall asleep any time soon. Really there must be some kind of MP recovery skill or something, only recovering MP when I sleep is kind of a pain...
Well I suppose i'm just going to have to try and keep myself occupied until I fell like I can to sleep, but first let's see if I can consecutively teleport.
I start at one of the boulders and activate my space magic, teleporting once, then twice and then a third time. Well I can do it, but there seems to be a 2 second gap between each teleport. I need these 2 seconds to activate my magic again. Considering I've not long learnt space magic, it's not too bad but i'm unsure how far I will fall back down in these 2 seconds.
If I fall far enough, I might even need to teleport 4 times instead of 3. I guess it doesn't really make a difference, as long as I can get out of here. But 2 seconds is quite a lot in battle, meaning I won't really be able to use it to dodge attacks. I can only hope the time it takes to use goes down as the level rises.
Now I know it's actually possible to get out of here, I can relax a bit. I just need to waste time until I can go to sleep and get my MP back. There's much I can really do here. I end up deciding to try and upgrade some of my skills, so I open my status to have a look at which ones I can upgrade.
I only have 45 MP left, so my options are really limited. the only skills I can try to upgrade are dash, shadow magic, sneak and pounce. I immediately rule out sneak. It uses too much MP when I move about and I don't want to stand still being bored for ages. Besides I don't even know if it works without an enemy around, so it could just be a waste of time.
I could try levelling up my shadow magic but even if I only control my own shadow, I will only have enough MP for a few minutes so there's not really much point.
In the end I decide to try levelling up dash, I can use it 4 times for 10 minutes each time. I have to wait 10 minutes after each use so it should take up 80 minutes of my time, but I can also practice using pounce after as it doesn't cost any MP to use. They're both physical exercise as well, so i'm hoping they tire me out.
Finally figuring out what i'm going to do, I activate dash and start running around the cavern. AS soon as it ends I stop and wait for its cooldown to end, before activating it again and starting again. Luckily on the forth time it levels up.
[ding!]
[dash has levelled up to level 3]
"Phew!"
That was hard work! Even with the 10 minute breaks in-between, my legs still ache and I'm out of breath. I sit down and rest for a bit, before getting back up to start practicing my pounce skill. I find a small rock and place it on the floor in front of me. This is going to be the target that I pounce onto.
I start pouncing, taking a break whenever my legs start to feel tired. I keep going for what feels like a couple of hours before finally stopping.
My skill didn't level up a single level! It either takes a really long time to level up because it's an easy skill to use or I have to use it on an enemy. Im guessing it the latter option because I have used this skill over 100 times and still nothing!
I am starting to feel a little tired now, so I lay down and try to get some sleep...
I wake up a while later and the first thing I do is check my MP.
Seeing that it's full, I jump up in excitement. I can finally get out of here! I'm so hungry at the moment I wouldn't care even if I had to eat a spider or one of the centipedes!
I run over to the bridge and position myself directly underneath the hole. I need to concentrate the best I can to do this. I can only teleport 6 times before my MP runs out, so I can't really afford any mistakes.
I teleport the first time, appearing 10 meters up in the air, I fall about a meter before I manage to teleport again. Appearing just underneath the hole, I teleport again. This time I appear at the top of the hole. I can see the cavern above me but i'm not quite there yet. I teleport one last time, appearing in the cavern that I fell from days prior.
Finally! I made it out, I took me most of my MP but I finally made it out.
Now I just need to find something to eat, I just hope I find another tunnel rat before I find a spider. Either way I'm going to eat whatever the first monster is I kill.