After greeting the newly returned Larkinsons, Ves led them into the rented banquet hall where they all got to enjoy a taste of Yernstall IV's delicacies.
Although the EdNet graduates still had not mentally and physically recovered to their old conditions, their attitudes had perked up. Each of them spent half a mech generation's worth of time in a time-warped virtual reality environment.
Their only mission was to learn as much knowledge from the Red Association's abundant teaching resources as possible. Despite their new and powerful first-class augmentations, their course load was immense. This especially applied to poorly educated third-raters such as General Verle.
Many of them felt as if they were experiencing a second run of their childhoods. They had been deprived of responsibility over the Larkinson Clan and just needed to cram theories and practice their problem solving skills all day.