Planetary formatting generally took around seven days, but because Argus was using the Everything Unification Field transplanted from Azeroth, its output was especially high. Once an excessive amount of creation power was converted into aid for reshaping the world, the formatting process accelerated drastically.
Three hours after formatting began, the first round of creation power's purification of the planet had already ended.
Various world-shaping modules continuously unfolded. The Eredar stationed in planetary orbit could even watch towering mountain ranges take shape before their eyes, and see seas of filthy fel energy purified once more into boundless oceans.
But even though the creation power surging across the world's surface had dispersed, they still could not land.
That was because the primordial elemental storms born from the reshaping were sweeping across the planet, simulating the chaotic environment of a world's birth. Amid the evolution of wind, fire, water, and earth, the first glimmer of life was about to emerge.
Naturally, Argus was a special case. Its primary civilization was currently in planetary orbit "supervising the construction," so the formatting protocol arranged by the Pantheon for the Everything Unification Field did not include a "life-seeding" protocol.
What if they formatted someone's homeland and ended up creating a new race?
Then it would not just be all the Eredar collectively stunned into silence. Diakum would probably grab Ashbringer, jump down from High Heavens, and give Them an earnest lecture on the consequences.
Three days was neither particularly long nor particularly short.
Although the clan leaders and archbishops had all urged the exhausted warriors to return to Azeroth and Draenor for rest first, then be sent back three days later, most of the ancient Eredar chose to remain.
What a joke. They had waited more than twenty thousand years for this day. They certainly did