Spending mana to build walls in front of the oncoming rush of water wasn't working. Building doors not attached to puzzles didn't do anything either; the water pressure had blasted the door out of its holdings, leaving behind a useless arch and a door that was now floating up toward the entrance. Granted, Avery did need a door there eventually, but hopefully it would be one that wasn't freestanding like her previous one. That thing had done exactly nothing to keep anything out of the dungeon. Clearly she was going to need to invest in a proper entrance. Something regal and imposing. A monument to how entry into this particular cave system was a death sentence, where said death would result in a ten thousand gold charge for resurrection, if the insurance would even cover such blatant stupidity.

Locationally, that might be a bit of an issue though. So close to the capitol, that might indicate a pushover newbie dungeon. Particularly considering the fact that so far she only had a couple incredibly easy puzzles, and slimes as her only monsters.

“Ow, that hurt.”

And this guy apparently. While she had been busy actually doing work and making magical discoveries, he had apparently taken a nap and grown a new lower half. Monsters and their regeneration abilities. If people had that kind of ability, the dangerous magical research she was doing wouldn’t be needed. Instead of taking over powerful bodies for safety in the event of catastrophic failure during other, more dangerous magical research, they could simply not die when they were supposed to and stand back up to continue unraveling the secrets of the universe.

“Did you have a nice nap while slimes run rampant through the place, and everything started flooding?”

“Yes, thank you for asking.”

“That was sarcasm you dingleberry!”

“Oh. In that case then noooo, of course not.”

“Good! Because the whole place is flooding, there are so many slimes and other monsters here that I have less than ten minutes of magic remaining, and sixty mana is not going to fix this!”

“Huh. So you’re losing a point of mana every ten seconds, and the slimes are causing that?”

“Among other things, including you.”

“Well, sorry about that one.”

“Just get the spear up on the top floor before I demolish it to regain the mana I spent on the thing.”

Avery starts ignoring the creature again, confident that she won’t have to deal with it for a few minutes. As a completely necessary expense, she spends five mana to surround the spear in a ‘Puzzle Chest’. That’d show him to have a negative forty two mana regeneration rate. Couldn’t even demolish…

Scrolling back over to where the lower portion of the creature had dropped, Avery activates Demolish on the no longer living torso.

You have gained five mana for demolishing ‘Meat’ New Menu option unlocked: Lure