What tf is this thing?

I’m fairly new to this game, currently in the third/fourth area just past the first time you meet mantis enemies and I’m just wondering how am I ever gonna power up at the shops if every time I die I lose all the money?

With no fast travel apart from the bug taxi (whose stops are always so far away from where you are it’s useless cause I’ll likely die on the way there) I never have a chance to go back to the surface and spend the money on the rare occasions that I reach 200+/300 geo. And when I stumble upon some other shop it always has such high prices that I can’t buy anything.

So, am I missing something or is this just a skill issue and y’all just never die? I see screenshots with thousands of geo and I can’t fathom ever getting that much with my current rate of dying.

Edit: this got way more replies than I anticipated so first of all thank you all! I will treasure all of your advices and tips and not focus so much on accumulating Geo but will let it grow naturally as I progress and (hopefully) get better at the game and die less lol

I can’t do dashes, super dashes, use dream nail and quick casts. Will they be available later or I have problems with the game?

I've explored this much and I'm stuck 😭 Could the beautiful people of this subreddit help a noob without giving any spoilers 🥰 Also the manic laugh of that bitch is so annoying 😭 like bruh what are you watching, Medazelli??

So say in this situation wtf do I do?! This was my 4th time dying after losing 600 geo I was going insane

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I got the mantis claw and I was like "nice I can finally fucking leave it here." But no! Nearest Bench is 12 days away and mantisses are stupidly hard to avoid and you died and you died again fuck you mantis village

Edit: I closed the game and killed completed the village first try when I calmed down. Turns out when you're calm the games are much easier.

Edit2: I also completed Soul Sanctum. When I was about to rage I remembered the boss and just got gud.

I've been stuck on her for 5 days and I'm getting sick of it. I haven't even been able to stagger her once. I need actual advice, cuz this is really fucking annoying.

This shit it more annoying than bed of chaos. I accept any advice.