You give him your blessing and your consent, and he leaves grinning.
984 AD, End of the Year
The Advisor comes to your chambers carrying the Scrolls of Kingdom Status.
Happiness: 4
Population: 5
Economy: 5
Army: 3
"The Army ranks are replenishing slowly, my lord, and our economy is going steady thanks to the profits we earned this year."
You can't think of anything to do besides declaring emergency to bolster the Army, then again - you just called it off.
985 AD, Spring
2
No sight of a Wizard.
6
However, services of one might not be needed anymore. Those who were destined to perish from the crystals, perished, and the crystals were stored in a big pit in plains north of Tech and covered with salts and rock and dirt by the Spymaster's agents, safe from the sickness thanks to the magic of the cloaks. The area has been declared cursed and never to be settled upon.
Tails
Your people are infuriated, however; you squandered valuable time and even more valuable lives and did nothing, in their eyes. Anger and discontent grows across the Duchy.
985 AD, Mid-Spring
In the west, a new kingdom rises; several cities banded together under the rule of young nobleman calling himself Eldric, who freed his people from oppression of Agek Tribe of the nomads. This 'Kingdom of Eldric' lies vaguely south-east of the Kiwis, just north of the mountains separating them from the Damdamian Republic.
The same day, two messengers arrive at the gates of your palace; one is from King Eón of Dahnia, and the other is from King Salus of Lametania.
A) Ah, a messenger from my dear son Salus! Let him in!
B) Seniority's more important, time to meet our liege's envoy.