Jared indeed did have a point, about them relying on each other. Elim knew that until he obtained his own mode of transportation, he would have to travel with these people, there was no doubt about that. As for Elim not having time to babysit them, that wasn't the truth. He just didn't want to. There was no point if they were going to be weak enough to die, but then the thought of training them came up. There was strength in numbers, Elim knew this much. Numbers added to the strength of each person, as was how an army worked, however; if the units in an army were weak, then the army was weak. As much as Elim wanted to worry about his own training, being a part of a weak party probably wasn't the best plan. 

Plus, he recalled something his Sensei once said. 

[i]"A teacher grows stronger when teaching his students. After all, being a teacher lets you reexamine everything you know and improve what needs to be improved to make it good enough to be taught. Plus, the teacher can always learn from a student."[/i]

From the sound of it, being a teacher was a good way to improve ones combat skills. So before Jared could walk away, Elim spoke to him. "Very well..." He turned around to fully face Jared. "I'll train all of you". If it would help improve Elim's own ability, then he was up for it. "Just beware that I won't make it easy on you. And if this training kills you, then you wouldn't have been able to handle the real world anyway. We can start once we take care of our business here."

While Elim may have been exaggerating, his words held truth to them. If they couldn't handle tough training, then they couldn't handle tough opponents. Plain and simple. If they couldn't handle tough opponents then they would be better off sitting back away from the battle lest they die. After saying his agreement to training, not necessarily agreement to not be so distant, he soon decided to address something that had been on his hand for the past several minutes, walking over to the Ice Golem, or 'Snow Man' as it was apparently called, although this creature looked like no man. Maybe the face... but it looked like just a stack of rocks with legs in the bodily area. He guessed it could look like a human to a child's more imaginative eye.

Not aware that it could talk, Elim bent down and planned to pick it up by the head, but only picked up his head as he wasn't aware that it was in three pieces, almost being startled, but being more curious than anything, before looking at the Princess. "Your highness, do you have any idea what sort of Sorcery, wicked or normal, created this weak looking Construct?" Elim was a bit confused, wondering why someone would create such a weak looking construct. It seemed to have no combat value, which was one of the main reasons, other than needing a neat servant, that people made Constructs.