Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 871

Chapter 871: Chapter 871 - Taming the Fifth Year - Cold Diplomacy - 5

Ice formed around bodies with speed that was almost instantaneous. Crystals growing from the ground upward and from the air downward simultaneously until tamers were completely enclosed in solid frost prisms.

Not killing freeze. Selphira had carefully calibrated technique to incapacitate without causing direct death. Body temperatures dropped but not to fatal levels.

At least for most silver tamers...

But a trap that none of the affected could break on their own without considerable external help.

Ice was thick. Reinforced by ongoing energy that prevented normal melting.

A Silver 3 tamer with fire affinity could probably escape. Silver tamers without fire or heat capabilities wouldn’t escape at all without assistance.

Hundreds of Silver-rank tamers were trapped in ice during the attack’s first second.

Arturo counted maybe 400-600 individuals completely immobilized. Another 200-400 partially caught, legs frozen or arms encased but upper bodies still mobile.

600-1000 combatants removed from action in a single technique. Maybe 15-20% of the enemy’s total Silver-rank force neutralized before battle truly began.

Devastating...

Some attempted invoking their own beasts to provide defense or counterattack. But when the cold penetrated too deeply, they couldn’t think clearly.

Others tried retreating but discovered the ground beneath their feet was already frozen. Lost opportunity making them engulfed by implacably advancing ice.

It was a first attack truly worthy of inspiring fear... demonstration of what a tamer of Selphira’s rank and experience could accomplish even when containing her power out of concerns about collateral damage.

This was her restrained. Her being careful not to kill unnecessarily.

Her showing mercy.

The thought of what she could do without restraint made several of the enemy tamers visibly pale.

It was a declaration communicating negotiations had completely ended and now they operated under her judgment.

But not everyone in front was caught so easily.

Those with advantageous elemental aptitudes managed saving themselves through intelligent applications of their own capabilities.

Tamers with fire affinity generated sufficient heat around themselves to melt the ice as it formed, creating small bubbles of temperate air preventing complete crystallization. Maybe 80-100 individuals using this method successfully.

The cost was high, maintaining that heat output required burning through mana reserves at maybe 3× normal combat rate. But better expensive survival than cheap death.

Others with earth control that reacted quickly buried themselves beneath the surface, excavating downward faster than the ice could trap them. Maybe 50-60 using this approach.

And those of higher rank, specifically the 3 Gold leaders who’d been at front during failed diplomatic attempts, managed to evade through a combination of enhanced speed and higher elemental defenses their beasts provided.

The leader manifested an earth barrier that absorbed the initial impact. The woman surrounded herself in a fire aura that melted approaching ice before contact. The younger man simply dodged, enhanced reflexes letting him jump out.

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