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 trapped but upper bodies still mobile.
