"You're right. Things have been too quiet near the border." However interested they might be in the new continent, it was unlikely Esdham would risk lowering its guard now. Nor would Jade ask them to. The safety of Aqures Ixen depended almost entirely on the Republic, after all.

This meant that as soldiers, their time to investigate Mysidia would be limited. And then there was Palitutu's lab. Two months later, they still weren't even halfway through everything she had left behind.

"...I may not be able to keep up my military service much longer."

Jade had been mulling over the idea for a while. He was already busy splitting his time between the lab and the army. Adding the Continent of Ruin into the mix just wasn't realistic -- not without giving up one of the other two.