"Ivory!" a man's deep voice called, "Wake up! Hey!"
Although Ivory awakened, she couldn't open her eyes. The voice calling to her seemed familiar, and even though she wanted to move, she couldn't as she felt very weak.
She almost depleted her Silverblade mana in trying to save herself. The moment she felt the ground shake, she immediately used intense Earth magic to envelop herself in a hardened soil. Because she did this in a panic, she did not have time to think about the dynamics. What she wanted was to protect herself, and that was all she thought about. She did not have time to think about conserving her mana and use less mana-consuming techniques.
Unfortunately, the solidified soil she formed using the Earth around her was too heavy for the cave's floor to bear. In addition to the weakening of the ground due to the intense shaking, the bottom floor also broke, and she fell underneath!
