Seth sat cross-legged on his rinky-dink little nutshell and had nothing to do. He had been on edge and observing the water for the first hour of his journey. The encounter with the field boss left him nervous. But nothing happened. Nothing attacked, nothing appeared. No wormholes opened and threw enemies at the battle-ready adventurer. He slowly started to relax again.
Now Seth just sat on his raft and kept staring at the map and using auto-map from time to time to get a better image of his surroundings. His boredom was only interrupted by the occasional need to paddle his raft back on course or into a new alley to avoid the big channels of water.
Seth used the time to think about his skills. Map had gotten "auto map" on lv.2 and he kept pondering about whether it would become more game like if he leveled it more. It would really help in this situation if the map could show enemies! Or maybe a real-time image! Then he could at least see of something big was closing in on him.
But was it worth it? Lv. 3 cost 2 Skill Points! He only had 4 SP left and he definitely wanted to hold 2 back in case unlocked soon. Was