Chapter 30
I took another look at the map over Floor 4 and saw the bitter truth.
Before I continue on any further, let me review the topography of Floor 4: It is a tunnel-network type floor, meaning it's made solely of tunnels and big rooms. An example of the latter is the room that housed the roaches before.
This is further divided into two types of layers, one lower level and one upper level of tunnels. The roach room was on the lower level and the pipeline I busted during my first visit was on the upper level. Then we have all the tunnels that go up and down between those two.
Another piece of information is that the entrance to this floor lies in the upper levels while the entrance to the next floor is on the under levels.
Due to the leakage problem that I made on my previous visit, the water keeps on running downstream from the upper to the lower level. This does make it easier to locate the entrance, as all the water flows towards the entrance now.
Still no problems, you say? Even if the lower level's water levels are high enough to slow me, the glass cannon, down? And there are monsters out there that have no problem with walking in, or ON, the damn water? That's a problem in my book.
The worst part is, if the entrance is on this floor, then it's more likely to be on the lower level rather than here on the upper one. Damn...
Should I try to dam the water somehow? Am I stupid? How can someone that's only got webs and threads at their disposal dam such a big current of water?
Any other idea would be to learn a skill that would help me while I'm in the water. But I have only 2.2 Skill Points now, thanks to several skills reaching Lv.10 while I was hunting. I also reached racial Lv.9 in the hunt as well... not enough. Even with 2.2 Skill Points, I don't have enough Points to buy a skill to help me to conquer water...
If I were some other species, then maybe there would be some skills, but a demon spider that lives in the darkness? No way!
There are the Glavras spiders that populate this floor, sure, but they're like a different species than me. Besides, they probably don't have any good memories of me. I flushed some of their guys into oblivion before after all...