"Zeke went on and began searching for Glade." This was the excuse which Heron came up with in order for the elites not to get embarrassed as they were still living within Zeke's cave and hideout. They were using up his resources after all and, with Zeke discarding them it was a shame to do so. Yet they couldn't care less as they needed the facilities to get stronger.
Thick skinned as the decision might be, they needed to develop in the shortest span of time possible. Of course they planned to apologize afterward but, for the time being they simply trained without rest.
They didn't see the gamer anymore because, as mentioned, the hideout was actually enormous. It extended to the whole of the Demon Continent of Helios and even beyond it. Thus, Zeke had multiple rooms he could use in order to perform the forging. Something which required solitude and space as [Chaos] wasn't as easy to craft as he thought of it to be.