The reason it felt as though the words were growing out of the parchment was mainly because... Angel had not closed the Eye of Nalda.
The Eye of Nalda could observe information about materials.
For known materials, the displayed information would be relatively detailed. Unknown materials, meanwhile, were divided into "relatively unknown" and "absolutely unknown."
Information on "relatively unknown" materials would not label the material's name. It would only reveal introductions related to some of the material's properties and, through the server's calculations, speculate on its origin and nature.
Information on "absolutely unknown" materials simply displayed "???".
Through the Eye of Nalda's observation, all the material information floating above the parchment was "???", and all of it concerned the parchment. Not a single entry concerned the material of the ink marks.
It was as though the ink marks did not exist at all.
That was what left Angel so astonished.
However, Angel also understood that no matter how surprised he was, he could not get an answer right now. He could only suppress his doubts for the time being.
Setting aside his misgivings about the materials, Angel began reading the specific contents of the "Prologue."
The prologue was not long, containing only four sentences.
Yet every sentence seemed encrypted. Angel could understand every word on it, yet he had no idea what it was trying to convey—
After Angel finished reading, he was still utterly bewildered.
Only after quite a while did he come back to himself and try to make sense of those four sentences in his own way.
The first sentence seemed to be introducing itself? After all, the author of the "Starry Sky Book" was called the Son of the Stars.
But why did it say that the Son of the Stars was not a person, but