When Leon arrived back in front of Luna, Crystalline, and the others, he told them everything they needed to know.
The crack wasn't closing anytime soon — that was the honest reality, and he gave it to them plainly without softening it. But at the current rate of growth, with the corrupted beast population destroyed and nothing left to feed its expansion, it would take decades minimum before it became a serious threat again.
Possibly a century. He had a plan for dealing with it permanently, but that required resources and capability he was still building toward. For now, the immediate crisis was over.
Luna received this with the composure of someone who had just survived months of desperate defense and could absorb difficult news without breaking. The timeline he'd given her was a gift compared to what she'd been looking at yesterday.
