"What... what is this?!" a voice cried out, breaking the stunned silence.
The crowd took hurried steps back, their chests tightening from just being close to this flow of Mana.
As the radiance cleared away, a dazzling ice barrier materialized around where Gladius and Arianna stood, entrapping both the Prismatic Confluence and Luminar Mages.
The barrier shimmered with an otherworldly beauty, its surface etched with intricate frost patterns that seemed to dance and shift, telling stories of winter's wrath in their delicate designs.
The ice barrier was no mere wall of frozen water. To the trained eye, it was a masterpiece of magical engineering. Layers upon layers of Ice Mana had been woven together, each reinforcing the next, creating a structure that was as much a work of art as it was a formidable defense.
