Besides the rope art and eye-searing poses, the entire scene contained some remarkably elaborate details.
For instance, all the ropes were pink—not dull, but glittering, as though studded with glowing pink diamond chips.
For another, these glittering ropes not only connected the two of them, but also linked to a balance beam converted from a chandelier on the ceiling.
This balance beam had a roller mechanism that responded to shifts in the center of gravity below. Such responses included swaying up and down, as well as rotating.
So long as either Blaze or Gelos made even the slightest movement, the balance beam would begin operating.
When Angel and the others entered, the balance beam was already moving in circles. The two bound figures hanging from either end of it rotated along with it.
Now high, now low; now forward, now back; now near, now far.
Such a design allowed one to "appreciate" them from the front, the back, and even below—all in perfect clarity.
From this alone, one could see the painstaking care of the designer.
Besides that, this balance-beam device had one especially explosive detail. It was also the particular design Dox had been incessantly muttering about into Angel's ear.
The inside of the balance beam had been hollowed out and connected to somewhere above. It was packed with slender pink blind snakes.
As the balance beam rose and fell, these pink blind snakes would drop from its openings onto the two "lucky ones."
Blind snakes differed from ordinary snakes. They were thin and long; without careful observation, one could not even tell where their heads were. Rather than snakes, they looked more like elongated earthworms.
Blind snakes were not uncommon on the Prosperous Continent. They had a nickname: Ear-Boring Snakes.
Ear-boring meant drilling into holes.
Their eyesight had