This was going too far!
Seeing Dream Lyra behave like this, the people of the Paper Civilization knew the situation was extraordinary, but they were still beside themselves with rage.
How many years had it been? Ever since they had left their mother planet, they had swept all before them. Even when they had encountered Human Civilization back then, they had only been startled for a moment. Yet now they had run into a warship that looked down on them so blatantly. How unreasonable.
"This cannot be tolerated!" the leader of the Paper Civilization said furiously.
Then an order left his mouth.
Then the Paper Warship he was on once again emitted a soft white light. As the light flickered, the entire Two-Dimensional Space seemed to be tugged by some kind of force. In an instant, light and shadow began to shift along the boundary lines of that vast Two-Dimensional Space.
After several flickers, it finally reached some kind of critical point.
And so, one dimension of the entire macroscopic two-dimensional plane rapidly contracted. It was as if the "width" of a rectangle had suddenly vanished, and that boundless two-dimensional plane instantly became a line without width.
Because the length and width of the originally reduced Two-Dimensional Space were finite, after it was merged into a one-dimensional thread, its width was gone, but it still retained length.
From the perspective of the Great Universe, that patch of Void first dropped from normal Three-Dimensional Space into two dimensions in an instant. Then, with a flash of silver light, it became a one-dimensional thread without width.
After the one-dimensional thread appeared, the normal Three-Dimensional Space near it was instantly pulled together from the direction that had once been the two-dimensional width. But that was not the end. Once the space on both