With the Bronze Dragon shield, every mechanism they encountered afterward was dismantled without anyone getting hurt.
"You! You!" The Bronze Dragon was so angry her face nearly turned into that of a frog. "That's too much! Using my face to dismantle mechanisms. I-I'm getting angry!"
Yet Aegwynn, the culprit, remained unmoved. She chuckled. "Didn't you say that no mechanism could affect you? For Deren's sake, just bear with it."
Deren hurriedly comforted Lezi Long. "Ahem, Chromie, don't you have Time Magic? Just make the mechanisms fail. With so many parts inside them, it shouldn't be difficult to age a few key components in advance and render them useless, right?"
Lezi Long froze for a moment, then immediately realized this would let her face get some rest. She promptly told the former Guardian, "All right, Deren said so. Stop using my face to break mechanisms. I can use magic to disable the traps."
"Oh, so that works too. Fine, then all future mechanisms are yours." Aegwynn's face was slightly distorted as she tried to hold back her laughter.
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Seeing that expression, the Bronze Dragon blinked her large eyes and uncertainly asked Onyxia, "Why do I feel like I'm being toyed with? Is she messing with me?"
"Ahem!" The Black Dragon could only cough and advise her, "Don't overthink it. It must be your imagination." Can't beat her, can't beat her. Better pretend I don't know anything.
When Lezi Long turned her attention back to the group of Orc warriors rushing down from the second floor, Aegwynn shouted at her, "Hurry up, another mechanism is coming! Let's see what you can do this time!"
Chromie let out a strange cry, then shouted, "I'm not afraid of you! I'm not afraid