The building cracked open, and the elements outside began pouring into the room in an endless stream.
For an elemental incarnation like Neptulon the Tidehunter, elemental power was fundamentally a part of his own body.
And so, stimulated by those elements, the unconscious Neptulon the Tidehunter woke immediately.
The first thing Neptulon the Tidehunter did upon waking was not absorb the elemental power. Instead, his eyes swept the room, taking in everything within it.
He was bound in iron chains, unable to move.
But he made no attempt to move either.
Nothing Neptulon the Tidehunter did could escape Limas's notice. Limas had failed to escape the building, his path blocked by the magical shield. After being thrown back, he spotted Neptulon the Tidehunter lying motionless despite his bright, alert eyes. Fury seized him, and he roared, "Neptulon the Tidehunter, why aren't you doing something?"
Limas's shout had no effect whatsoever. Neptulon the Tidehunter remained motionless, as though he were still asleep. But his lively eyes told Limas that he was not sleeping at all. He was fully awake.
"Neptulon the Tidehunter, don't you want to get free? What are you hesitating for? Why don't you-" Before Limas could finish, his entire body was sealed in ice.
The gap between Limas and Jaina was far too great. She released her soul pressure to weaken him, then froze him with a single Ice Pillar, a restraining spell.
While frozen, he could neither move nor attack, but that did not mean he could be harmed. In his frozen state, Limas was invulnerable. No, not quite invulnerable-the spell had a limit to how much force it could withstand. That limit, however, was extremely, extremely high. Ordinary attacks could not break it, and if the ice could not be broken, he might as well have