Time slowly passed as Reign continued dispelling the seals. The first one, just like he had thought, took him the longest. Reign had to struggle for about 15 minutes before finally being able to dispel and finally destroy the seal.
After that, he, of course, continued and started working on the next seal. Each of the seals was different, the first one being the most complicated for which Reign had to use multiple methods in order to dispel it.
Without Aethion, Reign probably wouldn't have been able to dispel the seal, no matter how many times he would have tried. There were simply far too many tricks that had been used for the creation of the first seal, some that even Aethion had been surprised by.
"It's alright, it's only the first seal that was like that, still, I am surprised that he had managed to make such a seal," Aethion commented as he instructed Reign in dispelling more of the seals.