Using the recently shattered body and the fragments to create a slight opening, Ki stepped quickly and erratically to the left and made her way towards the closest cloaked figure.
They were busy trying to conjure up another Nether-flame but seemed to be in a hurry as they saw Ki approaching them at a fast speed. "Ku..damnit!"
They could sense death approaching them so they stopped gathering what power they could and turned their arms towards Ki.
The cold flames in their hands did not look nearly as deadly as the previous attacks but he still held hope that it would be enough to harm her or at least stall her for a moment.
He was just about to release it when a palm grasped his wrist like a snake coiling around its prey.
His wrist was turned the opposite direction that what he intended and a sharp pain was felt as his wrist snapped out of place. "Ack! Argh! Aah!"
The cold flame in his hand had been turned away and was dropped close to him as he could no longer maintain his control over it in his present situation.
He tried to fight back swinging his fist towards Ki but was met with a casual palm strike of her other hand which caught his fist before brushing the impact away.
All of the force he put behind his strike had been redirected away in another direction and his arm had continued to travel towards that direction which followed with his body losing balance.
He did not have time to think before a figure was right up close to him and grasped ahold of his neck digging their nails deep into his flesh and crushing his windpipe.
It was done so quickly and efficiently making use of unpredictable movements and precise movements together.
Fast and slow, gentle and strong, stable and unstable, calm and disoriented, flexible and rigid, the movements of a calculating snake and an aggressive tiger, water and wood, blood and poison which had come together to form her martial arts intertwined working in harmony with each other.
There was a gentleness and control to each of her movements as she controlled her opponent completely.
When an opening was found, the power within her body that had been withheld had been unleashed in a deadly, fast and precise strike that injured or killed them.
The final strike to his throat was almost like a tiger aiming for the throat of its prey to bring it down and finish it off as quickly as possible while a lot of her previous movements had resembled a snake more.
It all seemed to happen so fast that others in the area were caught off guard and had yet to respond before their ally was standing clutching their torn and crushed throat before dropping down dead staining the ground beneath him.
Flames started to be thrown out once more but they were done with less coordination between the group as they started to feel the threat in front of them.
"This one is dangerous!"
"Fire!"
"Kill!"
It was like a dance of death that was being performed surrounded by white snow and ice, bodies started to fall one after another staining the pure white snow and ice red.
The cold flames were flying around as Ki evaded them with very unpredictable patterns of movements then found herself in front of another enemy before quickly dispatching them.
It was not long before she found herself among a larger group as she held a sword that she had picked up from one of her previous opponents.
Her form was seen sliding on the ice ducking under the flames that came towards her then she slashed the ankles of those she was closer to.
The sword stabbed into the ice a little later allowing her to control her movements more and she leapt up into the air performing a flip.
Two cloaked figures dropped lower due to their injured legs and losing their stable footing as Ki leapt deeper into the group.
Her sword moved in a way to precisely cut their bodies in any possible position before quickly moving on to the next.
"What is."
"No.."
After they had been wounded, they could feel that their blood was being drained from them especially those that had taken deadlier wounds or more wounds than others.
Their combat instincts and survival instincts were not lost in those moments so there were a select few that were prepared to deal with it.
Those wounded by her sword had continued to bleed out and those wounded earlier had become much slower and weaker than before as the surrounding blood droplets began to float away from their bodies towards Ki.
It was not until it was already much too late for others to turn the situation around for themselves that one among them had found a solution to the problem.
A cold flame appeared in their palm which was quickly directed towards their wound. "Gaaah! Argh!"
The cold flame started to spread within the open wound as it was frozen solid cutting off the blood being drained from him. "Freeze your wounds!"
He realised how bad of a situation they were in and even if it meant using their own flames on themselves to freeze their wounds, no matter the effects it would have on their bodies later, it was all that they could do in order to deal with their quick loss of blood.
Even if it meant causing permanent damage and frostbite to their bodies, they were more than willing to do it if it meant they could have a single chance.
Their pasts and determination to live in such dire conditions could not be underestimated.
Once one person had taken the risk, others followed with a similar action as they sealed their wounds and turned their gazes towards Ki who was busy fighting further away.
They were about to begin their second bombardment of flames upon her while her focus was elsewhere but suddenly felt strange within their bodies. "Urk.. wha.."