The gravitational roar of the [Rank-9 Mid Supermassive Black Hole] rattled the teeth of forty-seven trillion citizens across the Inner Spiral Galaxy.
Down on the surface of the Central Ancestral Star, ancient mountain ranges groaned as the black hole’s event horizon expanded from twenty thousand miles to twenty-five thousand miles wide.
Three uninhabited ornamental moons orbiting the edge of the capital were already stretching into long, noodle-thin ribbons of pulverized rock, accelerating at ten thousand miles per second toward the pitch-black mouth of the singularity. At the current rate of gravitational collapse, the entire Central Star-Cluster had less than fifty seconds before its crust was ripped into cosmic gravel!
Floating fifty yards outside the black hole’s upper rim inside the protective glow of their Heavenly Script Recall Talismans, First Supreme Great Elder Gu Cang, Second High Grand Elder Gu Ming-Yuan. Third Supreme Grand Elder Gu Sha-Xing threw their heads back and cackled with manic, self-satisfied glee!
“It is done! The singularity has crossed the critical mass threshold!”
First Supreme Grand Elder Gu Cang roared over the howling gale, his ten-foot white beard whipping around his skeletal face:
“Gu Changsheng! You boasted on the broadcast just now that you were going to ‘fix a leaky kitchen drain’?! Stop embarrassing yourself in front of the galaxy!
