He gave Kammy an equally powerful glower, focusing on each point in order. "First, that was based on which of the five categories you start in, after that however, The Cave seems to scale randomly. It is a 'cakewalk' only through the first fifty levels, and then it starts slowly removing the various gloves it is wearing. That fight was it basically deciding to try and do its level best to kill me. The current outsider record is somewhere in the mid three hundreds, I believe, because the one who set that record vanished when they went back in to try and beat it. Because The Cave fucking ate them."<br/><br/>He turned to Jashah, and gave her a blank smile that didn't come anywhere near his cheeks, let alone his eyes. "Correction, attempting to kill myself would have resulted in my blade severing the spine at the lower back, then moving up along it, through the heart, and then out of my side through the lung. You will notice, if you pay attention, that the blade NICKED the diaphragm about two inches to the side of the spine, blew out that lung, and then exited to the side. If that was a suicide attempt, I am giving it a 3 of 10 for sloppiness, bad execution, and piss poor acting skills. The other suicide attempt would have involved another... nine or ten minutes of fighting before that thing gutted me. As for risking myself, that is the fastest way to get better. Verdelet is doing this war the 'safe' way, and she is firmly in second and falling further behind. By taking stupid risks, I can get further ahead. Unless you think I should just sit pretty on what I do have, and let her keep trying to unmake the multi-planar-verse? Of course, your home MPV would still survive, which might be enough for you. But I am not going to risk her somehow surviving this, and moving onto another one."