"It must be weird to see a whole basket of chicken eggs randomly appear in the center of the rune formation carved out for a literal day." Gil's comment was exactly what many were thinking.
The process of activating the rune from formation after it had been carved over a very large area had required thirty four mages. The mages needed to use about a quarter of their mana to be able to help the rune formation activate.
This was a few more than expected, but proved that it could be reduced since the elemental space rune formation had been thought to require much more mana than what it did take. Furthermore, the process had been surprisingly faster.
The rune formation had easily taken the mana. Possibly because the carvers had gone over their work well over a hundred times. This was followed by Ezra's strict evaluation and then cleaning. Especially after Walker had used the all around appraisal skill to check the formation.