Lin Mu took the lead, activating the Longgui Bulwark Armor. Molten cracks appeared along the rock-like plates that formed on his skin, glowing with flowing magma patterns. His footsteps sank slightly into the super-heated ground, but he moved unhindered.
He checked every promising crack or crevice Little Shrubby pointed out.
Some openings were filled entirely with lava and led nowhere.
Others contained pockets of empty space but collapsed immediately or were too narrow for anyone to enter.
And some were simply the result of strange lava flows.
But Lin Mu continued to check them one by one. He walked into lava as if it were warm water. His armor hissed and glowed brighter, but it remained firm. Occasionally he would disappear entirely beneath the molten surface before resurfacing moments later and shaking off fiery droplets like they were harmless raindrops.
"Every time I see him do that," Meng Bai muttered, "I question the world."
