"Here, take it."
Roland casually took off the ring from his left middle finger and placed it in Lisa's warm palm.
Lisa caressed the ring, feeling the cold emanating from it, and lowered her head slightly, speaking softly:
"At that time, I wanted to come down and save you, but Miss Saintess forbade it. She said you could extricate yourself and also mentioned my using fire to melt the Ice Barrier would cause thermal expansion..."
"She's right; it's thermal expansion and contraction. The drastic temperature change could cause the ice block to crack, and who knows, I might crack along with it."
A hint of surprise flickered in Roland's eyes. He found it hard to associate the Divine Court's Saintess with knowledge of physics.
This reasoning would make sense coming from Norton, but hearing it from the Saintess was somewhat jarring.
Yet he quickly came to terms with it.
