Jay ran towards the forest nearby with full speed such that casualties would be avoided. And chasing him were the Loki units who were trying to keep up with him.
But their large metal bodies limited the speed they could run at.
Finally an area that was isolated from the others. Jay stood still with no weapons drawn as they could also be used against him. Like he used against the first Loki. Unit.
He was going to do things bare handed.
He could pass mana through them. And the spear was not made to be used in combat against metal. If the head would crash on the metal it would be able to pierce but it's. Durability would drop.
Jay wished that his weapons and equipment didn't have any durability. As how they are rendered useless by the end.
The Loki surrounded within a formation that covers all corners.
Loki : robotic voice.
Mission : Eliminate Jay Garrick.
Loki : robotic voice.
Disabling ethics.
Loki : robotic voice
Transferring and analyzing battle data of Loki unit 1245.
Jay this time took the chance to attack without waiting. He pounced at one of the Loki units like a panther. His original plan was the same to cover ground and fight in close quarters against these metal bending robots.
Jay has a thought that the name Loki would be something more mystical. Thus his expectations were high from the units for them to do. Some fancy tricks maybe the mystical magic. But as Jay reached for the Loki units the Loki unit spat out knives protruding out of its body. Like a porcupine.
But a porcupine who can shoot his quills. His entire body was covered with sharp double edges knives which were spat out of Jay.
This there was a significant combat improvement over the other Loki units. It had developed a counter mechanism for Jay's action.
Jay was faced with a wall of knives shot at high speeds. When compared to a normal person the survival rate of such person would start from 0.0002 percent.
( These calculations are performed by extreme precision by the dedicated researchers at the Immortal Foundation please do not question their methods or the fact that where did they find these test subjects to find the percentage number )
But they still lacked the knowledge that Jay could break through normal metals. As a result Jay broke quite easily to the dominating wall of double edged knives. Curled up into a ball to avoid damage to the eyes and face. Jay like a cannonball shot out of a cannon and colliding out of a wall and breaking it. He broke through the wall of knives with ease.
And that shocked the Loki unit even though he is unable to express emotion but this was a battle plan that he did not understand even a slightest bit neither it didn't even predict it or considered it as a possibility despite there being clear signs from the first fight with the Loki unit.
Jay's fist burned with fire as Jay uncurled from his cannonball position and with his lit his fist with a burning flame. His hand directly lit on fire unlike the other times where he would spray the mana through the skin pores to give the effect of a burning fist.
With Jays skin becoming very resistant to fire since he would be regularly exposed to the hot fumes exposed from the lava. At first it was torturous, then it was painful then it became calming during his training with the Fire King.
Jay's hair had to be shaved off as it could catch on fire. But after many dips even his hair became fire resistant. The composition of the hair somehow changed while still keeping the same consistency and color as his regular hair.
Jay encased his entire fist within hot flame. And melted through the alloy which was once known as Loki.
Inside Loki he loaded a small fireball discharge which exploded and tearing his head to bits. An overkill reaction.
The headless body of the Loki unit fell to the ground rendered immobile.
The other Loki units just watched as his brethren fell. With their cold stares without any hint of emotion they begin the analysis of the second bout and they had a eureka moment.
Loki : robotic voice.
Target broke through highke dense alloy and crushed the Loki 2511 unit.
Loki : robotic voice.
Further analysis required. Close quarter combat in efficient
Eliminate target from far.
They threw knives which were this time tied with mana strings meaning that I couldn't break them. They came flying from an triangular direction like a coordinate attack made from all sides in order to block the escape routes of the enemy. And cornering then in a position from where they could be taken off.
So what should be done in this case. This rendered Jay's skill useless as these knives once again surrounding Jay from all sided were now bound with mana preventing its destruction.
Jay raised walls as a defense measure but from the last two fights they had measured many things. And their analysis proved to be fruitful .
The mana sting controlled knives simply changed their direction upward and went over the barrier. Rendering the barrier useless.
This move surprised Jay but the surprise was yet to come.
In his surprise he left the control of the barrier walls and the Loki units grabbed advantage of that. They grabbed the control of the walls of the barrier and turned its inside into an iron maiden.
With sharp spikes protruding out of the iron maiden closing in closer and closer. And with the control of the barrier relieved and this advantage taken by the Loki units he is not able to get out of the situation.
Jay :
Never thought my magic would be used against me.
But that doesn't mean that Jay had lost against the iron maiden. Jay concentrated and joined his hand as he transported his mana into the ground and from the ground emerged two pillars at such an extreme speed that the barrier which had slightly melded with the other pieces of the barrier broke off and flew to the side and Jay simply walked out of the iron maiden.
Loki units were ready for this situation as they once again lunged at him with knives.
Jay could observed as one had come from the left and one from the right. But there was no sign of the third one.
He was nowhere to be seen by the vision that Jay had. There could be only one place that he could be that was
ABOVE.
Another Loki unit had dived beforehand after pertaining to his calculations.
Jay :
Might as well try something new.
Iron sand pillar.
A pillar made of iron sand rose from the ground and encased one of them in a pillar of iron sand.
And Jay blocked the other blows.
As the Loki one from the left lunged and dived with knives.
While the Loki unit in the right tried to slash my neck and another slash which was meant to slash the body.
Jay avoided them by simply stepping backward.
Jay :
Iron Sand tomb.
The iron sand compressed to the point that the alloy cannot sustain the stress and got crushed while the machinery broke down leaving only his lifeless body when the iron sand dissipated and the control was taken away.
Jay moved the iron sand like a tidal wave in order to attack the Loki units. By spreading out in the area for maximum coverage.
But the Loki units copied Jay's trick and raised a wall of steel to block the incoming iron sand. And while the sand was difficult to control due to it being loose form he had concentrated it into one attack.
It's as if Jay couldn't get a proper grip on the sand like it was being held in a hand . And but would fell out and eventually the entire palm would be cleared of the sand.
So Jay grabbed another point and attracted rhe iron sand to it and threw it over the wall but at that point both the Loki units had disappeared.
Upon closer examination it would look like they had disappeared without any trace.
Suddenly Jay was attacked by his own iron sand. From the moment he had released control over a certain part of the sand which had slipped from his control like fine sand.
While being attacked by the iron sand like a fluid jet of water
Or an aqua jet. Jay just casually ran like hell toward the Loki units while rounding up the iron sand into a tightly compressed sphere filled with Jay's mana. That sphere was not in Jay's hand but was levitating with 2 cm of Jay's hand
Jay had mental note that not to make more iron sand than you actually need when facing a metal bender.
The Loki units came from below the ground as they had somehow dud their way without Jay's detection and as surprise Jay released all the wound up iron sand at both of them.
And both of them ended up buried in iron sand. Jay with a sign of emergency on his face compressed the sand into a tomb. But the Loki units emerged from the tightly bound iron sand. Like it was just water. With a very long knife aimed at Jay.
They adapted to the sand tomb and rendered it ineffective
Jay switched to his fire and instead of retreating away.
He charged his fist and when he was about to unleash it.
The other Loki unit cut his hand which canceled his attack while he got stabbed there was no piercing due to the mended ice dragon armor but it hurt painfully.
Jay's right hand was now soaked in blood decreasing his strength in the right arm.
And the Loki units tried to take full advantage of his situation
They made consecutive coordinate attacks.
And by analyzing Jay's movement patterns they were able to deduce the direction and the speed at which he was going to dodge.
When one Loki unit would attack the other Loki unit would wait just for a little bit and launch a second attack such that it would reach Jay at the moment when he would counter the first attack.
Jay could barely avoid them. And due to the bleeding arm there were inflammatory mediators being released like histamine prostaglandins, platelet Activating factors which produced inflammatory mediated responses.
Which made his skin burn and it made it difficult to concentrate on the fight.
The wound was healing slowly but not enough speed.
Maybe Jay could've used Termeric for wound healing. And he did have Turmeric as a cooking material but he couldn't find the opportunity to get them out.
And he couldnt use any fire attacks due to the same started reason.
Jay stood in the pile of loose iron sand while injecting mana with his feet into the sand.
And as the Loki unit once again made their coordinated attack.
Chains emerged from the loose iron sand as they were converted into iron chains and the mound disappeared leaving them momentarily bound and unable to move.
The estimated time for them to break their chains was 3.4 seconds.
Which gave Jay the initiative for Jay to counter attack.
He maintained a tight grip on the chains such that he could maintain the binding time of 3.4 seconds.
The iron chains started heating up as they transfered their energy while becoming bright red but not as hot since their energies would get transfered to the Loki unit and soon the chains started to sink deep within their bodies and Jay with some of the loose metal he transformed it into lava and poured it on one of the Loki units while the Loki unit burned alive with its internals melted and melded into the lava made from burning hot liquid metal.
This effect was created by Jay but mixing together both his
Fire and metal magic together. He learnt this trick while training under the Fire King and cultivated it even more
During his training with the Man of Steel.
McElroy might also be able to create lava but he can't because he is trained in the opposite attributes which instead of increasing the energy of something and creating entropy most if the time in the system.
McElroy absorbs the energy thus decreasing the entropy decreasing the disorder and decreasing the temperature thus causing hypothermia and the body being unable to keep up without able to do so it perishes.
While at 109° celcius the proteins starts to coagulate. Thus heat becomes an effective method to get rid of enemies.
The Loki unit bound free from his chains. But his body was rifed with marks stemming from the hot chains and some of the bits of the chain melded with the Loki unit.
Jay's wound had completely healed meaning he could use any spell he wished.
The last Loki unit stood up and spawned a bunch of knives like a swarm of flies and using the sidings he controlled them and all of them moved in an independent direction.
Attacking from all sides. When Jay tried to close the distance a wall created by the Loki unit blocked the path.
And Jay couldn't break through it because it had mana string connected.
The fight was getting too dragged out. Jay walked around the wall to find about 28 knives had stabbed his foot.
Causing Jay to fall due to Injuries and even more knives emerged from the sky as the but they were deflected by needles created and launched at hudh speed such that they would miss their trajectories while Jay removed the lodged knives.
And let his wounds heal. With all the knives lodged out quickly as possible Jay launched himself towards the Loki unit to close the distance and the Loki unit had an even brighter idea.
It spawned a pillar and sent Jay hurling upwards. And sent knives flying towards him. But due to the distance the mana string weren't able to latch in for long as the eventually fell back in the earth. Jay flew in the air with his boots but was being targeted and was burning his mana so this trick didn't turn out to be more effective but thus allowed Jay to buy him time until his leg injuries healed. And he dived back down like a fire ball and closed distance for the final time
And shot the Loki unit was a large engulfing fireball and as he tried to block the fire with walls since he didn't have time to dodge or parry it.
The fireball ate through the walls and when it engulfed the Loki unit the fire all exploded like tri nitro toluene. And the
Loki unit was turned into a melting scrap of metal just like the one beneath the pizzeria.
And Jay sat down on the ground with peace for a little while to recover his strength.