Chapter 398: Come out, Mountain Dragon!
"Jellal!"
Even after realizing she’d been deceived, Erza’s first instinct was still to worry about his safety.
She took only a few steps forward before suddenly halting in confusion. "What... what is this?"
Dark red markings, like spectral serpents, or perhaps chains, slithered over her body, binding her in place.
"My body... I can’t move!"
Not only that, but the ground beneath her cracked open. A jagged fracture revealed a large magic crystal hidden beneath the floor. The red chains began pulling her downward, her toes were already submerged in the crystal’s surface, as if she were melting into it.
She couldn’t move a muscle. Not even a finger. The spell bound her completely.
"Erza?" Mira stepped closer quickly. "This is a sealing spell... some kind of restraint sigil! When did it activate?!"
Erza’s thoughts raced. Her memory snapped back to Jellal’s subtle movements during their earlier conversation. She had assumed his twitching was due to his injuries, grimaces of pain from Rhodes’ blow, but now she saw the truth.
It wasn’t pain.
It was spellwork.