The queen widens her eyes hearing this
"Everything he did is purely his power and not from demons?, wait, these purple chains, they look like the signature move of the legendary mage Iode".
"This Archmage is just copying him, probably his role model, but his power cannot be underestimated he just blocked the goddess power from me".
"If he is as strong as the legendary mage Iode, he would have stomped us a while ago, unless he's been toying with us all along".
The queen said this as she was looking at the battlefield, she noticed that the mages were on the defensive not offensive, which means the battle would have ended the moment it began.
Commander Anise and the Amazonian armies seeing their queen, restrained by chains, they had to close their eyes and open it again.
"What happening, why's our queen tied up in chains?"
Most of the Valkyries were filled with anger especially commander Anise, who wants to do everything thing in her might to kill the Archmage for doing their queen like this.
"Arrgh, I'll kill you!" Commander Anise shouted as she ran towards the Archmage in an incredible speed.
The other Valkyries followed the commander ignoring the mages on the battlefield. They will do whatever it takes to free the queen.
In commander Anise's hand was a lance which changed to a long sword. She attempt to strike down the Archmage with a single hit using all her might. She hit the Archmage but then he disappears into dust.
"Huh, did i kill him". Commander Anise thought. Commander Anise starts to feel some kind of uneasiness, she felt that the Archmage can never fall like that and she was right.
"That's my afterimage ". Archmage Iode said behind her as if he could her read thought, she turned back to slash the Archmage, but the archmage dodged it and flicked her in the forehead.
The flick was simple but powerful as she rolled to the ground holding her forehead. The other Valkyries ran past the commander and surrounded the Archmage.
At once they all swamped towards the Archmage, firing out all different kinds of attack to the archmage.
"Weak ass pests" the Archmage said as he conjured a wind magic to make a powerful tornado, carrying every single Valkyries up and away.
Some Valkyries were trying to release the queen while the Archmage was taken care of the assault team, but they availed. Archmage Iode saw them and pushed them back using wind magic.
"I'll kill you if it is the last thing I'll do". Commander Anise shouted, but as she wants to move, she noticed that a barrier has been made to restrict her movement, that when the queen looked her and said
"It's useless Anise, he seems to be toying with us all along, look at the battlefield field, do you see any mage go on the offensive?"
That's when commander Anise also realized that all the mages including the high level mages and the legendary ones, have only been putting up barriers to protect themselves and only countering with small attacks.
Commander Anise looked at Queen Astrid and and she saw a face of someone who has given up a fight. She didn't like this and wanted to speak but the archmage interrupted.
"Now that the battle is won, I'll be taking you, Queen Astrid as my captive". Archmage Iode said with a sinister face.