"How long will it take?" Leon asked. "To merge the World Fragment with the world."
Xyra tilted her head slightly, the silver drift of her hair moving with the motion.
"Four days," Xyra said. "A week at most."
Leon absorbed that. He'd expected longer—the scale of what she'd described, a world upgrading from incomplete to rank two or potentially rank three, had the quality of something that should take considerably more time than that. Four days to a week felt almost unreasonably fast.
"Can you start now?" he asked. Then, immediately after: "Will the people inside be in any danger while it's happening?"
Xyra considered the second question with the seriousness it deserved.
"There will be changes they can feel," she said. "The world shifting around them, the mana density increasing, the laws filling in. It won't be subtle. But dangerous—" She shook her head. "Not from the process itself. The people inside are not fragile. Especially your Pyrans."
