After the conclusion of the banquet, the EdNet graduates needed to find their places in the clan.
The mech designers among them conveniently joined their colleagues over at the Tarrasque.
The Design Department became a lot more crowded due to their addition. The returnees still needed a lot of time to recover and catch up to all of the current events that they failed to appreciate while they were still isolated from reality.
Not everything proceeded smoothly. The EdNet graduates gained a lot of theoretical knowledge, but their practical skills were inconsistent. They lacked a lot of experience when it came to working with hyper materials and more recently superdimensional materials.
They also spent a lot of time forming their own cliques within the accelerated virtual reality environment. It was as if they spent more than a decade forging deep friendships and mutual understanding with each other.