All illusions from the past dissipated.
Ian took a deep breath, then laughed instead.
"So that's it. Spacetime Condensation Material."
Recalling the images in his mind, he slowly muttered, "It wasn't simply a Bose-Einstein condensate, but a more complex spacetime structure built upon aetheric spacetime—an aether field formed around a Dragon Heart Core as its center, creating a self-circulating, fully enclosed structure within three-dimensional spacetime. A pocket universe."
"Light was like water frozen into ice. It condensed into ice within the Black Domain. If the Heavenly Prison were intact, it could block however much light came its way. But if there were a weak point like the breach in the Heavenly Prison, light would accumulate there. Even the slightest disturbance would shatter the spacetime condensate, causing the stored light to erupt and form a Light Calamity."
It had to be said that the Star Gods' technological level was extraordinarily high. Their manipulation of spacetime had reached an unimaginable level. Three-dimensional spacetime itself could become their construction material. No wonder they could build cosmic-scale structures as inconceivable as the Cradle, with a radius of five light-years—and build them by the hundreds of millions.
The essence of the Star-Prison—the walls formed from Spacetime Condensation Material—and the existence of a "pocket universe" had now been confirmed. The next and most important thing was the "key."
To open the Heavenly Prison, apart from the Star Gods' possible "orthodox key" and the conventional method of "black hole impact," there was another option: cutting it with magnetic monopoles.
A magnetic monopole was an elementary particle possessing only a single magnetic pole. Put simply, black holes and singularities were macroscopic manifestations of a single pole.
This was easy to explain.
Everyone had played with magnets as a child, right?
A magnet and some iron filings—if they were