When Angel called out to her, Laplace still did not know what to do. But as she continuously extended her perception into the black-and-white nodes, information on how to control them began to filter back.
Laplace's eyes lit up. She immediately followed the feedback and began manipulating the forelimbs and hind limbs.
At first, Laplace could only make the four limbs rise and fall. She could not move at all. It was not that controlling them was difficult; rather, the operation was affected by the mysterious influence, which greatly increased the difficulty.
However, Laplace had been in contact with Sweet Dream for years and possessed a certain immunity to mysterious interference. After roughly five minutes, she took her first step.
Yet because she overdid the controls, both forelimbs moved forward at once while the hind limbs were not properly controlled. In the end, it only shifted forward by a tiny step before losing its balance and falling onto the reflection.
But this was already quite good. If it had been left to someone who had never come into contact with mysterious objects, simply learning this first step would likely have taken far longer.
Although the first step had gone terribly wrong, she had stepped forward in the end. Over the following period, with her extraordinary control and mental fortitude, Laplace successfully progressed from "a baby learning to walk" to the stage of "staggering along."
Every step took more than ten seconds. Covering a mere two meters took a minute and a half. The progress could be called exceedingly slow, but considering that this was the Empty Mirror Sea, all complaints immediately melted away.
In the Empty Mirror Sea, "remaining still and maintaining oneself" was already difficult. To be able to "move" while maintaining oneself, and for that movement not to