Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, Ross 154.
As a message arrived from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, an extraordinarily intense flash erupted near the obscure black dwarf.
The light came from the small probes deployed by the Cleaners' probe.
The moment the light appeared, irregular, pitch-black fissures resembling spiderwebs emerged within the "cubic containment net" formed by the small probes.
Viewed from the side, it looked as though a high-speed object had smashed a flawless mirror.
Unlike cracks in a mirror, however, the fissures within the containment net were three-dimensional.
They appeared near each small probe and spread toward the center of the black dwarf at tremendous speed.
Like black holes, the fissures devoured the faint starlight in the cosmic background.
Without encountering any resistance, the pitch-black fissures effortlessly sliced the black dwarf into countless three-dimensional fragments in an instant.
The light emitted by the probes grew ever more intense!
An indescribable tremor emanated from the black dwarf's location.
It was a shudder originating in three-dimensional space itself!
The next moment, the light from the small probes slowly faded, and the pitch-black fissures and tremors gradually disappeared.
But the once-whole black dwarf had become a loose cloud of interstellar dust composed of carbon atoms.
Just as Sweeper 9527 had said, Ross 154 had been utterly pulverized on a physical level.
At first, inertia kept the cloud of interstellar dust in the shape of Ross 154-a sphere.
As the small probes scanned it without restraint, its shape quickly grew irregular.
Barring any unforeseen events, this loose cloud of interstellar dust would eventually form an unusual nebula.
Unlike naturally formed nebulae, which consisted primarily of hydrogen and helium, its main constituent was carbon atoms from the black dwarf.
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