Luckily, Ichigo had a pair of older glasses on him. He squinted a bit, since the prescription in them was several years old and not really strong enough, but it was better than nothing. The catton cleric was nearly blind without them.
After getting dried off, Elise used one of her new abilities to summon Hissabelle to them, and the party made their way further into the cave system. Mercenades took the lead now that they were in a mob infested area; it wasn’t a dungeon, exactly, but had the feel of one since they were in an enclosed space. The main difference was that the cave’s enemies were less powerful than dungeon mobs, and respawned with relative frequency - whereas dungeon mobs were more of a one and done.
Elise considered Lake Heron, and its surroundings, to be a little under leve
