Zach did his best to focus on strengthening his personal soul awareness and mental defenses, but both of those skills were very tedious to improve, and Zach was pretty impatient by nature. He often spent a lot of time trying
to figure out some way to improve his combat magic, even though he was already very good at that and any improvements tended to be very marginal.
As for Zorian, he did a little bit of everything, from pursuing more mind magic lessons from the aranea (though he had picked all low-hanging fruit in that regard and was starting to hit the point of diminishing returns) to working on his golems and magic skill. However, the bulk of his effort centered around mastering dimensionalism and time magic as much as possible, in the hopes that doing so would give him some clue as
