After the marble table and its stack of cards appeared in the center of the square, nothing more happened. The impatient silence of the crowd continued, until a soldier from the Titan Pearl could not stand it any longer and decided to check out the new objects.
Once in front of the marble table, the soldier walked around it keeping a certain distance without finding any trap or anything special. Cautiously, he then poked the table's surface with the tip of his rifle, then slid the muzzle along its surface in search of any anomaly or rough spot, in vain.
Eventually, he took an additional risk and prodded the pile of black cards with his gun. Once again, nothing happened. Unbalanced, the cards toppled onto the table like a crumbling house of cards. They scattered inertly across its surface, one of them even falling to the ground as it slid too far.
