Limitless Path

When they eventually emerged from the gate, Beth first checked to make sure they didn't have any outstanding messages. She found a quick greeting from Kris, a note from Andrea, and a few other small things. She responded to each of them rather quickly, letting the people know that they were out of touch while training for a handful of days but they were available again for a while if they needed anything. She didn't find any message waiting from Mortaine, which wasn't a huge surprise, and she wanted to take care of a few things before getting in touch with him. The book was an issue, but there wasn't anything she could do about it right now, and she doubted there was anything Mortaine could do about it in the short run anyway.

Beth left the book in her necklace as they emerged from the gate to rest and relax. They had hit max level anyway, so there was no point in them doing any more fighting outside of special circumstances. Those special circumstances would include hunting for their required items for their next rebirths, as they wanted to get through their next rebirths quickly and start the leveling process again. It wouldn't be for a while before they were comfortable staying at or near max level for long periods of time. That would likely start happening more when they got to Gold Emblem in the CRA and had additional duties they would be taking on for months or even a couple years at a time where they had little time for themselves and didn't have the luxury of going back to level one. Beth checked their stats just to see where they were at before checking the list of resources required.