At the gate
The journey through the wilderness was uneventful. They walked, sleep,, and ate. It was Alaric's plan for them to take it slow so he could think of their next step.
What they did though, was study their Flows and began learning how to adjust their mana to their formal formations in case they had to fight. While at the same time, practicing the formations of their new ranks.
Belialthorn asked everyone to kill monsters to test the system's power and it was as he assumed. Killing monsters didn't let them level up but what it did was a source of mana that they could take inside their core.
Valor complained all the while that there was too little mana in the air and that Killing monsters just to take huge amounts of mana inside wasn't his thing.
But he was always content when the said monsters were cooked for food which opened the door for teasing from Rota.