Dungeon dive 1

" You're late, Rey! We've been waiting for over ten minutes. " Natalie was the first person to complain.

" I am sorry! I had an important errand to do. Let's get going then." Rey said, looking towards Kale and Jim, completely avoiding Natalie.

"Hey!! stop ignoring me! Kale, you say something too.."

"Alright...Alright you two!! We are already behind our schedule. Let's leave right away." Kale said coldly to both of them.

"Hmm!" Natalie snorted before walking towards the car and taking her seat.

Looking at her attitude, Kale could only shake his head.

As for the silent Jim, he was enjoying the moment from the start.

Looking at each other, we all took our seats and Kale gave the order to the driver to move to our destination.

' Aah....come to think of it, this is my first time going out. I was always curious about Reeple City. '

Indeed this was Rey's first time sightseeing in Reeple city, even for the Rey of this world.

The city was indeed beautiful as Rey had heard from his friends. There was little to no pollution in the city despite being so developed. There was a very limited number of cars running on the road while the majority of the people walked. This was all because of the effect of Essence.

The pollution dilutes the amount of Essence in that area, and this city being housing world's best Magic Academy could not allow it to deplete its Essence. Many rules and regulations were introduced to protect the nature of this city. Hence, resulted in this beautiful city.

No one in the car talked as we were all doing our things.

I checked my balance and it showed - 10 million res. This was all the money given to me by my father for the entirety of my semester. This seems like a lot at first, but the reality is that even Jim has around the same money for his semester. And it's useless to talk about Kale and Natalie who have more budget for shopping tonight than my balance.

' I have to find a way to make more money, this won't do!! '

As Rey was contemplating his financial situation, the car stopped before a huge luxurious Multi-storey building named Denise Industry.

Denise Industry was a big name in the sphere of dungeon gears and Monster cores dealings. It was run by Kale's grandmother.

As soon as we all entered the building, a staff member came towards Kale, as if he was waiting for our arrival.

"Welcome, Young Master Kale, Lady Ridd, Lord Hilde and Mr. Jim. Please come this way." The attendant greeted all of us with a bow.

He then guided us to a special section, which was specifically arranged for the four of us.

Kale and Rey were the swordsmen of the party. So all they needed was a good sword and light armor with some recovery potions.

For Natalie being a trapster, all she needed were various kinds of trapper artifacts. Since she won't use essence during the fight as much as Kale and Rey use, the recovery potions were kind of useless for her.

Jim was a spell caster, the weapon he used was a wand. Spell Caster's main gear is all the magic artifacts they wear.

After we arrived at the special section, the attendant who guided us here took his leave. And four more attendants came to each of us.

"Hello Lord Hilde, My name is Sara. I'll be making your purchase of whichever gear you want. This is our catalog for Swordsman.

Please select from this catalog and give me your final choice. " Sara handed me the thick catalog and gestured to me to sit on the couch prepared for all four of us.

After 3 hours of selection and rejection, Rey spent around 8 million res for his equipment. Others were also done with their shopping. Of course coming with Kale gave them a hefty 30% discount.

***

"Let's see what we've got.."

Rey was inspecting his new gear inside his room.

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Blue Sky Sword

Rank - D

Innate element - Moonlight

Moon God's blessing.

description: The sword is a double edged sword blessed by Moon God himself. In the night time, the sword will have extra 20% damage. In the full moon night, the sword will have extra 100% damage.

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Black Leather Coat

Rank - E

description: A sturdy black leather armor covering the entire body. It is very light and flexible. It blends in darkness very well. It is water resistant.

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Stallone's Ring

Rank - F

Artifact - Storage ring

description: a storage ring of 100 meter cubic space. Everything will stay as it is inside.

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3 x Stamina Recovery Potion

3 x Essence Recovery Potion

2 x Healing Potion (low grade)

1 x Healing Potion (high grade)

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"A total spend of 8.3 million res. It was worth it."

Rey was really happy with the things he got. The quality speaks for itself plus the 30% discount saved his balance from going to 0.

" Heheheh..... I can't wait for tomorrow."

***

Inside the Academy's library, four students were making their own plans.

They were Elliott and his new friends- Juhie, Somia and Amisha.

" So tomorrow's plan is final. Any objections ?" Amisha asked everyone on the table.

" No."

"~Nope"

"No. None at all."

Amisha smiled at her party and continued her suggestion,

" The dungeon I am thinking of raiding is the E-Rank dungeon 'Stone Age'. Since we all here are Rank-E+, this should not be much of a challenge.

I've already inquired about the boss monster, and it is a Stone Golem of Rank-E+, so this is within our capabilities.

So, this will be our first Dungeon dive as a party."

" Umm... Amisha, how will we enter an E-Rank dungeon without a single D-Rank Mage. Don't you think we will be stopped by the Authorities."

Elliott asked his concern with a slightly confused face.

" Oh! That's not our problem."

Instead of Amisha, it was Somia who answered Elliott's concern.

"What do you mean?"

"My guild owns the Stone Age dungeon. So that rule is not our concern." Somia spoke about breaking rules with a straight face as if saying something normal.

" Alright, let's meet at 10 am near Bessie Lake. "

With that concluded the small meeting of four stars.