Dragon Breath Ring

For a second, it felt like his entire chest trembled. His lungs spasmed uncontrollably, swelled, shook…

The moment Ye Qingxuan’s hand touched him, Edmund’s chest suddenly ballooned, as if his lungs had filled with air, about to burst. The shrieking silenced. The runes he were about to say died in his throat.

Shocked, Edmund grasped his throat, suffocating for a moment. The frost arrow that he had been about to shoot broke off. His ruddy faceturned a ghastly white—so white there was no sign of blood in him. The ‘betrayal’ of the aether took away all ability to fight back.

Eerie silence fell both inside and outside the ring.

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Dominic chuckled softly in the shadows. "As expected, it’s similar to the standard reaction of captive musicians in war…Rune · Air."