Escape [Third Update]

"However, I refuse." Ye Ting's voice was cold and hard. "By the customs of the battlefield, since you have become my prisoner, everything you have should belong to me—your life, your body, your spirit. They should all be my possessions now, subject to my command. Isn't that right?"

"...That is true," Hippolyta reluctantly acknowledged, but immediately argued, "But you did not capture me through a direct battle. The only reason you captured me was because of your despicable methods."

"Despicable?" Ye Ting snorted. "Please, I'm not some reckless warrior like you. I'm a mage. Mages and warriors are different; mages have their own ways of fighting. You can't expect me to give up my strengths after learning magic and go wrestle you hand-to-hand, can you?"

As he spoke, Ye Ting's tone turned suspicious. "Could it be that your claim that I didn't capture you in direct combat is just an excuse because you can't deal with a mage's fighting methods? Don't tell me you're such a sore loser?"

"I'm not making excuses!" Hippolyta reacted strongly. "As a warrior, I would never deny my own defeat. It's just... it's just..."

Her voice grew lower and lower.

"It's just what?"

Ye Ting pressed.

"I just can't accept losing to someone like you!" Hippolyta said in despair. "I was clearly about to win, yet you caught me in a single exchange! You..."

At that point, she could not continue.

So she was just a little girl who cared about saving face.

Ye Ting chuckled inwardly and continued asking.

"Then you admit that you are my prisoner, right?"

"That's right."

Having acknowledged her defeat, Hippolyta could barely raise her head before Ye Ting, and her voice was especially low.

Ye Ting did not care and continued.

"My companions were surrounded by your people, so