"Huan Bao, we'd better be careful. If we fall, we're done for."
When they reached the device called the West Wind Compass, Feng Jin began studying it.
"Hmm... its mechanisms are a little different from the ones in the Dim Light Courtyard."
"How should I put it... they're more complicated."
"Can you handle it?" Yan Huan asked.
"It might take a little while... but I think I can manage."
Yan Huan crouched nearby and waited for Feng Jin to adjust the device.
Below the platform, molten gold flowed slowly.
"How hot do you think that molten gold is?" Yan Huan asked Mimi.
"No idea. Why don't you jump in and find out?" Mimi said.
"Actually, there's something I've always wondered." Yan Huan stood and stared at the pool of gold below.
"There isn't even a railing here. Didn't any of the Sky People ever fall in?"
"Or were they fine even if they did?"
"...Of course they wouldn't be fine!" Mimi thought it over.
"From what I've seen, this place must have been a restricted area. Anyone without the right clearance couldn't get in."
"Just like the Genesis Vortex Heart in Okhema. Only the Chrysos Heirs are allowed inside."
"Think about it. The platforms around the Genesis Vortex Heart don't have railings either, and nobody worries about falling off the cliff into the spirit water."
"That's different..." Yan Huan narrowed his eyes.
The Genesis Vortex Heart was sacred ground to the Chrysos Heirs. And what were the Chrysos Heirs? Practically superhuman.
Aside from Phainon, who had no knees and took a detour around the slightest bump... how could any of them fall?
"Anyway, this design is sloppy." Yan Huan folded his arms and delivered his verdict.
"Adults might be fine, but what if children chase each other around? That's dangerous."