As the envelope was submerged in the specially prepared "Starry Sky."
The "stars" in the cup began to flicker slowly...
About five seconds later, a black-hole vortex suddenly appeared at the center of the cup. Its powerful gravitational pull began tugging at the scattered starlight in the Night Veil around it.
In merely a few seconds, every speck of starlight in the cup was sucked into the "black hole."
And that "black hole" was precisely the Star Mark on the envelope!
At this moment, the Star Mark had detached from the envelope and hung suspended at the center of the cup.
Countless stars circled around it, faintly arranging themselves into a unique celestial configuration...
When Gleipnir saw this celestial configuration, her eyes visibly lit up, and she examined it more closely. Since Angel and Laplace did not understand celestial configurations, they merely sensed that the arrangement of stars around the Star Mark seemed to contain some profound and mysterious law.
Second by second, the celestial configuration grew ever more complete.
When all the stars drawn over by gravity had arranged themselves according to the pattern of the celestial configuration, the Star Mark flickered once and instantly absorbed every star outside it.
At the same time, the liquid in the cup began to diminish, and a pitch-black hand reached out from within it.
The black hand slowly climbed upward, hauling itself over the rim of the cup.
Then came an arm, a curved back, buttocks, legs... Though the opening of the cup was only the size of a fist, it somehow squeezed out a normally proportioned black figure.
When the extruded black figure formed the shape of a "door frame," it used its arched back as a spring and its hands for leverage, pressing down toward the thin layer of black