Queen Astrid shot out huge beams of red light towards the Archmage and the Hippogriffs alike. Instead of shielding himself like before, he dodged the beams and flew towards the queen.
He attempts to strike her with a ball of filled with green energy but the queen dodged it and gave beams of red light as a counterattack.
The Archmage stopped the attack and absorbed it, using his hands. Then he flew very fast, to the front of the queen and gave a clean strike to her chin using his staff, when she was still surprised by the Archmage's action, absorbing her beams.
The strike was powerful enough to knock the queen off balance and she fell to the ground. "What! Impossible, i felt that hit and it knocked me to the ground, though i know I'm using half the goddess power, still i shouldn't feel it, unless..."
Queen Astrid was still in her thought, but the Archmage didn't waste any time, he chant a magical spell and chains, purple in colour, sprung out of the ground and moved towards the queen.
The Queen snapped out of her thought and evaded the chains, but the chains kept following her. She was fast enough to evade all the chains that were following her and went towards the caster.
"If the caster is disturbed or gone, this annoying chains and his armies are done for". Queen Astrid thought.
Unknown to her, as she flew very fast towards the Archmage. She saw him unfazed and smirking. A chain sprung underneath her and held her in her ankle, other chains following her wrapped around her immediately so she couldn't escape.
She tried to activate her goddess blessing to free herself but for some reasons, as the chains tied her, the goddess blessing went away. She tried other spells but none worked.
"What is this, a power strong enough to cancel the goddess blessing and stop me from doing any others?". Queen Astrid thought.
"Only a god, goddess or a very strong demon can undo the goddess blessing, as i only possess half her power unless... he borrowed a god or a demons power or he himself is a god".
"But none of the two senerio make sense, the wizards don't serve any gods or demons, they only have role models that they want to surpass. But I've heard some wizards and witches have contracts with demons, that's the only explanation for what's happening now, he cannot, can never be a god". Queen Astrid speculated.
"Isn't it disappointing, you couldn't give me enough fight. The so called 'Amazons of the west', the 'Queen the Amazons', tied up in chains. Archmage Iode said.
Queen Astrid was quite mad at this, as her veins starts to show on the sides of her head.
"I can't believe you borrowed power from a demon just to create an empire, you are so disgusting". Queen Astrid said.
"Why in the world would i do that?, If you don't know in the past, I've fought and rebuked wizards and witches that borrowed power from demons, in many parts of the world". Archmage Iode replied.
"Everything I've done and shown you is based purely on my own strength, though i didn't show you everything. I'm unlike you that borrowed power from a celestial being, and don't even think of breaking those chains, they were made just to counter celestial powers". The Archmage said with a smirk on his face.