Sometimes Elisabel really wants more mana in her life. She can do research and experiment design, but her ability to do practical experimentation is MP-gated, and so is her ability to use magic for any practical purpose, and so is her ability to make useful magic items and recharge them. Whenever she levels up she spends a while adjusting her work balance and then she's hungry for more again, and maybe there will be a point at which that levels (har har) off but it's not this one.

Which is why she's meeting some strangers to head into a dungeon with them. It's really just that, she'll take her share of the profits but the University of Sydney does pay her acceptably.