"Was it an enemy attack?" Aston's eyes widened in horror.
He looked around and saw that everything within a hundred-meter radius was covered by a barrier.
Worse still, a terrifying aura emanated from it, making his hair stand on end.
It wasn't just Aston who was shocked—Galian and the rest of the soldiers felt the same way.
The battle halted, all eyes fixed on the barrier with full alertness.
"What's going on? Who activated this barrier?" one of the Black Wings soldiers asked in surprise.
"Could it be our mage?" Another replied, his tone doubtful.
At once, they turned toward the high-level mages and sages in the back row—but all they saw were faces as shocked as their own.
That alone proved the barrier was not their doing.
"Aston Valmire, is this your doing?" Galian asked coldly, his sharp gaze fixed on him.
For some reason, his gut told him Aston had something to do with it.
But Aston didn't answer. At first, he thought this was Galian's doing.
