Entering the semi-enclosed area through the narrow entrance, with an important building at its far end and a vast, flat expanse of open ground between the entrance and the building, made the Outlander extremely wary. He felt that even a dragon bursting out from beneath the ice layer the next moment would be entirely possible:
"Emilia, ask Ellie whether the castle itself has any defensive measures against intruders."
Shade said this, and after Emilia asked, the Unicorn simply shook her head.
"Ellie says she doesn't know. She only appeared here after waking up; this isn't where she originally lived. She can enter and leave on her own without any problem, and when that Demon came in, it seemed to encounter no great obstacles either."
"Come to think of it, have you noticed that the wind is getting stronger and the temperature is dropping?"
Miss Reinhart suddenly said from the side. The gale blowing straight at them, mixed with snowflakes, was indeed growing fiercer, but this area didn't seem to have any openings for wind to enter. Shade was about to say something when he raised his hand and unexpectedly discovered that, at some point, he had already manifested the power of the "First Fire Embers":
"What's going on?"
Then the surrounding cold made him shudder violently. The sudden chill was almost more than even he could endure. The raging blizzard swallowed everyone in the next second amid a shrill howling of wind, and the loss of visibility caused Shade to lose sight of everyone at once.
When he broke through the snowstorm and approached Emilia, who was nearest to him, he was shocked to find that Emilia had already been frozen inside the ice:
"What?"
Reaching out to feel around him, he found that Unicorn Ellie, Miss Reinhart, Miss Larson,