woah... level 10? holy carp on a crackerjack! How the heck did you get that far? You mean you got past the Ice cave at level 10?!?... dude... thats impressive.
You should try for a low level run. I could never get past the Earth Cave before level 15 at least! You don't even get level 5 magic by then. You wouldn't have had Fire 3! How could you manage that?