A decade passed in a flash.
Kong Xiang exited his seclusion right on the ten-year mark.
"Ten years?" He synchronized with the bit of consciousness he left behind to oversee the situation.
Everything went as intended.
In the past ten years, Thea's village was urbanized and transformed into a mega city, named the Constellation City after him. Thea, now in her twenties, was the first regent and overseer of the administrative and executive functions.
In Beklis, Magnus trained and educated hundreds who went on to train thousands who went on to train hundreds of thousands.
And just like that, the followers of the Order of the Golden Comet, or the "Enlightened" as they called themselves, spread across every corner of the planet. And the allure of the wisdom they brought with them was too infectious for the commonfolk to resist. And easily, many people joined their cause.