Timothy finally managed to get a good look at the hand-sized container that he brought up with him, and noticed that there was a ring in it. The container was made out of some sort of light-blue crystal, and the crystal was very clear, so he could see through it no problem.
“So this is what Saranax protected for three-hundred fucking years? I was expecting to find the entrance to a world of dinosaurs or some shit, this ring can't even buy me a house if I tried to sell it.” Tim ranted, he really liked dinosaurs.
Anyway, despite how cleverly he had retrieved this ring out of a literal, hot pool of lava, he still wasn’t the smartest man in the world. For example, he kept talking about dinosaurs, and completely ignored the possibility that this ring bore some kind of power! He didn’t think of this until a whole minute later, after he got himself on some dry grounds.
“Shit, this ring could let me summon dragons or something! It summoned Saranax, and maybe it did that on purpose?” He asked himself, but despite how captivating that train of thought was, he had to forget about the ring for now, as he had to get out of here first.
Although he wasn’t affected himself, Tim's friends were breathing in micro doses of volcanic fumes right now, and that was beyond dangerous, so he couldn’t have them flying above his head for long, getting them out of here was his priority. This might as well be his priority, because he couldn’t crack open the ring’s container even if he stopped, and tried.
Tim’s friends were excited when they finally saw him swimming out of the lava, they were happy, but ultimately, they couldn't fly him out of here! Ortana couldn't get the dragons down here, because she couldn’t run three force fields at a time, at least, not without absolutely destroying thousands of quantities of her accumulated mana! He couldn’t ask that of her, and he couldn’t risk them falling into the lava either, so he had to come up with a plan of his own to get out of here.
“God damn it, this place looks a lot deeper when you're at the bottom. I didn't think I'd have to climb to get out of here.” Again, what he said was very stupid, but the course of adrenaline that had run through his veins earlier on, only provided plans sound enough to keep him alive during the most critical parts of his tasks. Adrenaline didn’t promise staircases.
In other words, he didn’t nearly think everything through, and this was alarming, but he didn’t feel threatened even for a single second. If he could swim in lava, he could just as easily get out of a ditch!
“Okay… climbing out of here isn't an option.” He muttered, as he looked at the walls.
Afterwards, he thought of a little idea that might work out for him. He summoned the Bone Multiplier ability, as he wanted to find a bunch of old animal bones to use.
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Now it was very unlikely to find bones in this severely hot ditch, but he wanted to try anyway. In order to max out the bone-searching capabilities of this power, he stretched his hand out, and allowed strong volumes of this dark, cloudy mist to pour out of his hand! This intensified the ability he was using, because he was directing a great portion of his mana towards his hand.
Timothy had low hopes about this plan working, but he was mistaken, as about twenty seconds later, the mist found something! It found some bones deep below the lava pool.
“Oh, this is gonna be expensive…” He sighed, “But what choice do I have?”
Choices were limited within a lava pool, regardless of the circumstances, so he worked tightly with what he had. Tim cranked the Bone Multiplier ability to the max, which cost him a solid two-hundred mana points per second to maintain, but he was hoping to make progress soon, so he kept going, he kept pouring all that mana towards that bone!
“I just need a couple of bones to fly out of here,” He mumbled.
A moment later, he noticed a small wave in the pool of lava. This wave was very minimal, but it still hinted that there was something going on below it, and that hint was apparently very informative, because a bone of sorts popped out of the lava right after!
“Holy shit! That's not a bone, that's a fucking fossil!” He exclaimed, and he was quite happy, because a fossil would do him good as well.
Tim had pulled a crystalized skull out of the lava, and although the skull wasn't big, it was a skull nonetheless, so he started putting work into it. Using his unique ability, he split the skull into ten pieces, and then had those pieces multiply into hundreds!
Afterwards, he brought all the pieces together, and merged them, in a very physical sense. He turned them into a single, four-foot long bony, surfboard, a fossilized board sure but useful nonetheless, because he could have the board float around with the same, Bone Multiplier ability. It floated with his say-so.
Tim hopped onto the board, and joked. “Pre-necromantic…? This power is straight up demonic in my hands, it has to he demonic if I can eventually become strong enough to turn my enemies into fucking surfboards!”
There was no greater way to show how useful this ability was, he was simply overpowered with the Bone Multiplier to his possession! He felt immortal for a second, but then he remembered that Ortana was the one who was keeping him alive, so he decided to be a bit more humble. Teamwork made the dream work, after all.
Anyway, after he climbed on top of the floating board, he then couldn't resist this great, impulsive urge to go lava surfing, so he did exactly that! He surfed across the lava, and didn't worry about burning his feet, because he was protected.
When the surfboard started melting, however, he stopped surfing, and immediately floated towards the only good exit that the cavern had. He floated towards the rest of his friends, and Ortana followed after him!
The bones had melted into his combat boots at the end, so he had to dissolve the melted bones quickly, and then he had to make a jump for it. He ended up landing on Georgie the dragon, which was less comfortable than he would imagine, because Georgie in this case was like a brick wall, Tim felt his brain shake! He didn't stick the landing, unfortunately, but he did make it out alive, and that was what mattered the most.
[Congratulations, you just spent 3,000 mana points.] The system remarked, sarcastically.