By the time everyone was ready to go, everyone was wide awake and even had a chance to get some breakfast in their stomachs before setting out. They all piled into Ysasilma car and got ready for a trip to the mall. However to their surprise she ended up taking them to the movie theater. 

Michael wondered, "I thought you and dad said we're supposed to be going shopping?"

Ysasilma replied with a gleeful smile at this was going to be a happy surprise, "Well this is a Player Shop. Here we pay with coins given by completing quests. Luckily for me I decided to go to the hunting grounds not that far outside of town and start practicing by hunting wild animals and to my surprise they not only give experience but also drop currency that can be used here. So I hunted until I got roughly 5,000 gold. I figure it should be enough to get some stuff for each of us. Outside of the money that Augustus might have already gotten from that quest he completed. So follow me."

They all got out of the car and followed her to the building right next to the movie theater. The second that they walk in a notification pops up saying that they have reached a player shop. The screen then changes and shows them all of what they can purchase within this specific shop.

"Look at what you like and pick what you might want, but keep in mind that I only have 5,000 gold. I'm willing to buy what I can but I still got to get gear for myself too," Ysasilma told them.

Augustus told them, "Ysasilma get what you're going to first, and then whatever you have left you can use as a budget for them. If they go over budget they'll be fine cuz I'll purchase whatever it is with my own coins after I get some stuff for myself." 

They all gave a nod and began looking over what was available in the shop. Augustus ignored all the weapons because they seemed pretty weak for the most part. Plus they could not compare to the one he had already got that was snugly fit around his finger right now.

Instead he focused more on the armors and accessories in the shop as well as any potential items that they could use such as healing potions and the like. Eventually he decided to by a basic +1 O-Yoroi armor, a belt that gives him +150 to HP, and 12 basic healing potions all for roughly 3000 gold. 

Ysasilma bought herself spiked brass knuckles with a very weak frost enchantment, a +1 gambeson battle dress, and a necklace that boosted all water and cold damage that she dealt by 5 extra dice of damage. She ended up spending 2,500 gold and with the remaining money she kept her promise to buy whatever the others requested from her out of the shop. 

She ended up paying for what Penelope asked for a while Augustus bought whatever his son wanted. Penelope got a warstaff that boosted all healing spells and skills that she used on herself or others by granting an additional +100 extra HP back, +1 leather armor, and a tiara that boosts healing she uses on herself or others as well by +200. By the end Ysasilma only had 250 gold left.

Michael chose a +1 full plate mail armor, a claymore with a weak fire enchantment, a pair of leather boots that triples his base movements speeds, and a ruby bead necklace that boosts all Zynomancy that deals fire damage by an extra five dice of damage. 

By the end Augustus still had roughly 4,000 gold left in his inventory. He then divided the 12 potions amongst them equally making sure that everyone had 3. They then tried on the new armor that they had purchased, and were surprised to see that all of the armor adjusted to fit them perfectly. After putting all of the things that they had bought into their inventories they all left the shop feeling satisfied.

With that done, Ysasilma offers for them the test out their new gear, "So who all wants to give this new gear we got a test? I know a place that we can go right now to test it out."

Augustus requested, "Enlighten us please?" 

Ysasilma informed them, "There is a dungeon here in town. It appeared around midnight. It's actually not that far away from where we are now. Master had already checked it out and he says that it is a Normal Rank Grade D Dungeon. I promised him I'd ask you guys if you wanted to possibly see about clearing it together as a way to test our group synergy before we go. Although I originally thought it'd be just the three of us having a fourth person is definitely a help. Especially since Penelope is a healer of some kind."

"Shit yeah I'm down for something like that," immediately spoke Michael as he was excited to test out his capabilities in real combat. 

Penelope said, "I'm okay with going so long as everyone else is."

Augustus wanting to actually test his skills and capabilities on something that wasn't a training dummy controlled by his teacher thought that this was a good opportunity. He agreed, "I also think this is a good idea so that makes us unanimous. Lead the way Ysa."

Ysasilma then began to have them walk five blocks up the road to an abandoned building that now had a portal right in front of it with an archway framed around the portal. She gestured to it and said, "Here we are. This is the spot. Who's ready to give it there all?"

Seeing as they all began equipping their gear for the dungeon, Ysasilma did the same. Everyone was both excited and nervous. This was going to be their first time tackling a dungeon, and even though it was technically the weakest of the weak they didn't really know how to deal with it.

Soon though they were ready and they entered the dungeon together. As they crossed through, they saw the portal led them to a seaside cave entrance. A screen popped up and called it, the Lair of the Sea Bobbos.

Everyone entered the cave and started walking through the pathway. Eventually it led them to an open area where they saw about 32 deformed goblin-like creatures with crab claws for hands and 3 eyes. Looking at them long enough they saw screens appear calling the creatures Sea Bobbos. They were all level 1 and didn't have a single stat above 10. 

As easy as this seemed, Augustus motioned for caution as they were still massively outnumbered. He looked to them and said, "I'm going to strike first to throw them off and get them focused on me. While they're all trying to come at me you all start attacking from behind. That way they'll start to feel like they're the ones being pincered in. Got it?" 

They all gave a nod. With that Augustus used Electric Slide to massively boost his speed and rush in to the large group of enemies. Upon getting in the middle of them, he immediately pounced on one of them. Slamming it to the ground using all the speed and momentum he had to crush it.

This definitely worked in getting the attention of all of the enemies around who saw him and immediately rushed to attack. As they did he called forth his sword out of its ring form and into the katana form. The red gold Etherium blade manifested in his hand with a pure gold guard and a gem encrusted hilt. With a single swing he watched as it burned through three enemies with ease. 

Seen that the plan was now in motion, the others rushed forward from where they had been hiding and watching to start attacking. Thanks to his boots Michael was actually the quickest of them to join the fight.

As he did he activated Lion's Heart and Lion's Crown. His blood turned to magma and you could see a faint orange hot glue from underneath his armor where his heart blazed right underneath his chest. All of his hair ignited into flame and his eyes became motes of fire and magma. This boosted the damage of his new sword and he carved through the enemies with ease cauterizing their wounds as he cut them in half. 

Penelope despite being primarily a healer still had some offensive capabilities as she formed a ball of light in her hand. She then fired out a beam of light from that sphere in her hand. That beam cleanly pierced through the skull of at least two enemies in its path. 

Ysasilma easily dodged the beams of light and began closing distance with many of the enemies in front of her. Using her ice powers she formed a katana out of ice and then took up the Wicked Water Stance that she had trained in for so long now. Water began to erupt from all around her body like she was a walking tidal wave of raging sea water. It covered her ice blade and as she swung it the force of the water and the freezing coldness of the ice blade itself broke through the weak enemies bodies and froze them solid as it went.

In only the first 10 seconds they had already killed roughly 15 of the enemies. Then many of the surviving Bobbos started to attack back with several of them charging into melee with their crab claws. But the majority of them using the melee warriors to protect them as they fired from their mouths boiling hot balls of water. 

Michael seeing this instantly reacted by taking his claymore and slamming it into the ground and activating Lionknight's Shield. His sword became covered in an aura of blue flames that expanded the width of his claymore by nearly 6ft from end to end. The blue flames acted as a proper tower shield that defended him from all of the attacks.

Thankfully he had positioned himself in a way that not only did he protect himself but he also protected Penelope from getting attacked as well. Ysasilma however charged right through all of the attacks of the enemy, as the water despite its heat did nothing to her thanks to her capabilities. 

As she cut down three more enemies that stood in front of her, Augustus fired a basic fireball spell at them from behind her that flew past her and struck the enemies in the back line. It exploded and killed all the two of the enemies in the back. Penelope fired two beams of holy light at the remaining two enemies in the back that still stood, while Michael charged fourth with his sword to cleave the warriors that still stood in half. 

As the last enemy fell dead, a screen appeared saying they all earned 3,200 XP and 3,200 silver. With that group taken care of they took a moment to catch their breaths. 

Michael took a seat on a couple of the corpses and said, "That was interesting. I like that new defensive skill I got. It definitely came in handy." 

Ysasilma told Penelope, "You did good out there, but watch where you aim cuz you almost hit me twice. If you want we can do a little bit of target practice after the dungeon."

Penelope agreed, "Yeah. For a moment I was worried I actually hit you. Luckily I missed. I think a little bit of practice getting my aim down with some of my new skills and spells will be very beneficial."

Ysasilma told her in response, "I know a good place to practice downtown. You definitely can easily kill these weak trash mobs with a single hit. With a little bit of aiming practice I think that you will be much better at handling the backline while still doing support."

Penelope gave a nod and a smile hearing she had some skill despite this being her first real fight. Augustus then helped up Michael and told them, "Let's get moving. We need to clear this place." 

They all gave a nod and began to move. Navigating the cave was actually pretty simple as there were no diverging paths or hidden rooms despite them checking thoroughly. Eventually they found themselves in another open space like before however this time the enemies were a lot more numerous and there were some of much higher level. There were roughly 50 level 1 Sea Bobbos and 20 level 2 Sea Bobbos. There was a single level 3 Sea Bobbos.

Upon entering into this area they didn't really have the chance to launch a sneak attack, as the moment they entered all of the enemies saw them and began to rush at them. Seeing the enemies charging them like that Michael immediately pushed pass everyone and activated his Lionknight's Shield. With that he blocks almost the entirety of the passageway leading into the room causing the enemies to be on the other side of the flaming blade aura.