"Whoosh—!"
The icy frost mist still swept through the area. The ground and trees around them continuously turned into hard ice amid sharp cracking sounds...
Sigmund, Yaya, and the Hellhound Series Automatons had their feet or limbs covered by ice extending from the frozen ground. Chains of Discipline also coiled around their bodies, leaving them unable to move.
Charlotte, Frey, and Raishin were trapped inside Aegis. No matter how they struck Aegis's barrier, they could not damage it in the slightest.
The three Automaton Masters—Charlotte, Frey, and Raishin—had been imprisoned!
Sigmund, Yaya, and the Hellhound Series Automatons had been restrained!
Moreover, Chains of Discipline, flowing with Natsuki's magic power, were wrapped around the Automatons. They could repel outside magic power, severing the connection between the three Automaton Masters and their Automatons!
This battle ended without any suspense!
Looking at Charlotte, Frey, and Raishin desperately striking Aegis's barrier from within its protective dome, and at the Automatons whose feet or limbs were encased in ice and whose bodies were bound by Chains of Discipline, Wu Yan slowly withdrew most of his magic power, leaving only enough to maintain Aegis and Chains of Discipline. "I've spent enough time wasting it with you..." After sweeping his gaze over Charlotte's group, Wu Yan turned around.
"Stay here for now..."
"Yan! Don't go!" Charlotte shouted through a flood of tears as she struck Aegis's barrier.
"I'm begging you! Don't go!"
"You don't need to do this..." Wu Yan did not even turn his head. His utterly flat voice merely spread to every corner of the scene and entered everyone's ears.
"No matter what, we've known each other for less than a month. Am I really worth you fighting this desperately for me...?"
"That's what I should be asking you!" Charlotte could not stop her tears.