Woke up angry, Cryo stood back up with a strong urge to kill. He ran out the hole he made after smashing through the wall. He slides down the hole after he created a descending platform of ice. Across the bridge, Derrick stood with Heath and Sam.
"I can take on those two on my own easily, but not him. He's gonna be a pain in the ass. So, those two will probably get in his way. Either that or they'll be forced to be spectators."
Cryo conjured a sharp blade from ice. From the heel of his boot, he unleashes a blast of ice. Jagged spikes that waved up. It stood about sixty feet tall. A hole blew up directly at the center of the ice wall. Derrick dashes through it. Cryo pivots back to his left. Derrick lands where Cryo was. His legs were stretched out, holding his blade beside him. He flips his sword grip to an ice-pick grip then slashes forward. He slashes through Cryo's shins, even after he dodges.
Derrick stood up and horizontally slashed Cryo's stomach. Cryo just kept leaping backward, not even dodging this time. He took the hits but it doesn't have any effect.
Derrick then sets his blade ablaze. Then slashed horizontally again toward the ice wall Cryo created earlier. Cryo jumps off the bridge and the slash of flames from Derrick's blade melted the wall.
"He dodges me for real when I use my flames."
Cryo then climbed back up the bridge. He stood on top of the railings. He tapped his boot twice on the railing.
"That's why he was flung to the building earlier. It's because he would've evaporated."
Derrick then held his blade low with one hand. He looked at Cryo. He senses no difference.
"Your body spell is your forté, isn't it?"
"If I say yes?"
"Makes it easier for me to take you in."
"You're not gonna kill me?"
"Might wanna take you in for interrogation. But that body spell of yours is annoying."
"Like you said, it is my forté."
Then a projectile was thrown at Cryo at subsonic speed. A flaming thin card. Heath's "Spade Ace". The card was traveling flat and vertically. Like a portrait piece of paper on a desk. Cryo reached out his right hand to the side. His palm out, leveled to the card's trajectory, slightly lower. As the card got to Cryo's hand, he flicked up the bottom of his palm. It threw the card out of trajectory, it was now headed to the sky. Cryo then jumps, flips vertically, and kicks the card back at Heath.
"These kids yours?"
"You assume they're mine? No. They're just some random kids."
Cryo then paused while staring at Heath and Sam across the bridge. Heath and Sam were waiting for Cryo to attack. Or Derrick to make a move. Cryo didn't move nor did Derrick. Ten seconds had passed. No movement. Another ten seconds.
"Fuck."
From the sky, out of nowhere, landed the man Heath fought. He landed directly in the middle of the bridge. He was flaming as he dropped, carrying massive force. Seems like he was actively increasing the force of his fall. The entire bridge collapsed as he landed. Explosions unleashed from the heel of his boots as he landed. He brought everything down, except the small part of railing and bridge that Cryo was standing on. Derrick was standing on the edge of the bridge, connected to the part of Cryo's.
"Why are you here?" Cryo asked as he tries to wipe away the dust and smoke
"Boss wanted me to have a little bit of fun."
"Yeah, it's called enjoying the festival. Not burning it down."
"Don't act like you care."
"I don't. I just don't get why you have to burn the festival down."
"I wanted to."
"No way, right? His wavelengths similar to Shino's heat side. Is he a fucking Supreme-rank, too?"
"Well, did you get the ring at least?"
"Yeah, I'm done here. You can take over."
"Alright then."
"See you around, Ablaze... God, I hate that name."
Cryo then dissolved into mist and disappeared.
Derrick puts his blade behind him and pulled out a spear. White pole with light blue crystal-like tip. His former was the Solar Blade now it's the North Pole. A magic weapon that works similarly to the Solar Blade, but instead of fire it's ice.
Derrick waited for nothing and threw the spear down at Ablaze. He takes a step back and the spear misses. It pierces the rubble on ground. Then from its tip, it started freezing the rubble and the water in the channel. Ablaze wasn't affected by the ice. Simply because he was too hot to freeze.
Ablaze then raised his hands with his wrist pointing outwards at Heath and Sam. Then dust starts travelling from his wrist. It circles around both Heath and Sam. He then snaps his fingers and the dusts starts sparkling. They made crackling noises. Flames erupted from each spec of dust. "Gunpowder" was his spell.
Derrick, before the moment of ignition, grabbed both Sam and Heath and brought them down to the channel. By brought, he threw them down there. While he travelled from the edge of the bridge to his spear. He grabbed his spear then dashed back to where Heath and Sam landed.
"That was quick. That took about two seconds. Less."
"Thanks."
"Heh."
Ablaze then had his hands spread apart but low. He engulfed his hands with fire. An immense converging of mana on both of his hands. A lot more condensed than Dan's "Black Envelope". Far more condensed. He started giggling to himself. He put his hands together, close to his heart. The mana got more condensed. The flames were burning from orange to white with a little shade of blue. Derrick could feel the heat from where he was standing—approximately twenty feet away.
He spread his hands and only one hand was flaming. The fire completely changed color to bright blue. He then swipes his flame engulfed hand and yelled in his raspy voice "SCORCHING VEIL!" A literal veil of superhot flames covered the entire channel. Derrick threw his spear in the other direction and grab a hold of the two's clothes. He dashed away from the veil of flames and to his spear. From the entire channel to the entire street. The flames melted the frozen water and burned it into vapor.
Derrick stops about eighty meters away from the veil and grabbed his spear. The tip of the spear glowed bright blue. "Jigoku No Shi" a specific and special ability of the North Pole to turn all hot temperature—relative to the user—to freezing temperature; zero degree Celcius.
The veil of flames turned into a gush of cold wind. The spear was headed at Ablaze. Derrick's second target. The spear would definitely pierce his heart. Ablaze stood his ground and bent his back all the way down. Like an incomplete bridge stretch. The tip of his left finger on the ground, barely supporting him. And his right hand catches the spear.
"He caught it? He's the worst kind of sorcerer to fight." Derrick said. It's true. A sorcerer typically can either fight but can't use large spells. Or the other way around. Ablaze can fight CQC and use large spells.
"Hell's Death, huh? I guess I'll show you Hell's Devil."
"True Manifestation: Hell's Devil, Stage 1"
His arms started to be enveloped by brimstone. Black silverish rock that had cracks which you could see magma from. It enveloped barely to his elbows and from his toes to his knees.
"Something's different."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know. But, it's bad."
"How bad?"
Ablaze threw the spear back at Derrick. The speed was incredible. The force should be enough to pierce several buildings. The spear's trajectory would stab right through Derrick's head. Derrick quickly releases his knees and the spear brushes his hair. Gave him a slight trim. The spear landed right behind him. The staff slanted firmly on top of his head. The spear then burned his head and he had to move away from it. The spear then melted away from the middle.
"Fuck."
"Did he just melt your spear?"
"None of you are cold sorcerers are you?"
"Nope."
"No."
"Well, let me tell you: I'm gonna die if I get punched by him. Or any significant blow. You red hoodie, probably would too. And you... You'd die of the sheer heat within proximity."
"Don't you have anything else?"
"That was my only cold-type weapon. Now I see why the ice guy wanted to leave."
"We can take him. I'm sure of it."
"Fine, then we'll all be ash."
"Sam, run. You're the weakest one here. So, leave."
"That's not nice."
"No, he's right. You'll die. And you don't have a weapon either."
Ablaze stomped his right foot to the ground. A small veil of superhot flame traversed the dried out channel. Heath then stepped up in front and drew "Heart Ace" and expanded it to a giant card. Then from the card, Heath unleased a stream of flames. The flames combined and was shot upwards. Then the flames quickly subsided.
Derrick puts both his hands behind his back. Paused for a second then pulled his hands back to his front. On his right hand, he wore a metal gauntlet that was wrapped with an insulator to heat. And on his left, was a knife.
Ablaze jumped up and burst out propelling flames from his palms and feet. He flies toward them like a jet.
Derrick turned around. Grabbed Sam and threw him up to the street. That distracted him. He didn't realize that Ablaze's speed was increasing greatly. Ablaze pulled back his left hand as far back as he can. Then he drove his fist to Derrick's right cheek. Derrick triangulated his right hand next to his face. But, not quick enough. Heath drew "Heart Ace" and placed it between Derrick and Ablaze. The card cushioned the impact. It blocked the initial impact by half its force, but Ablaze released another attack from the same punch. "Devil's Wrath"—propelling force of superhot fire shot at a single point—threw Derrick forty yards back. Derrick catches the ground with his feet and slid on the ice.
"That was bad. Despite the shield and the gauntlet, it still hurt." He thought as he stretched his right arm.
Ablaze then pivots his body 180 degrees as he brought his right hand swinging horizontally. Heath dropped down backwards. Then he placed his hands above his head then unleashed "Hand Thrusters" to get away from Ablaze. He got up on his two feet, with his back facing Ablaze.
"It was just a swing but it was hot. Too hot. He was right. Sam could die just by proximity."
"What's wrong? I thought you said you'll kill me."
Heath said nothing. He turns to him.
Ablaze swung his right arm from after he missed, low to the ground and snapped his fingers as he did it. A sudden explosion occurred in front of Heath's face. Heath was thrown half the distance between Derrick and Ablaze.
Derrick then closed the distance between him and Ablaze and went in for a stab with his knife. Ablaze caught the knife with his hand. Derrick pulled back the knife and it was just the handle left. Liquid metal then dripped from Ablaze's palm.
Ablaze raised his fist to punch Derrick. Derrick shifted his body and dodges it. Then he lands a risky hit. And elbow strike to Ablaze's abdomen. Then he turns and stood on Ablaze's right and kicked all the way up to his jaw.
Ablaze fell a few steps back. Then he wiped his under-neck and laughed.
Derrick then sighed. He felt relieved. He knew he couldn't beat him.
Ablaze raised both his fist into the air and was about to smash the ground and release a force that would definitely kill Derrick and Heath. But, he stopped. He was distracted by a sudden surge of a mana wavelength that was similar to Shujin's.
He puts his hand down slowly and turned behind him. It was Cathy. She was wearing her usual clothes. She had a spear of ice ready on hand. It wasn't even sweating from the heat that Ablaze emitted, however. There was a circle of flowing water behind her. It was circulating fast, but not too fast.
"Water Bitch..."
"Surprised you know that."
"Tch. I'm out."
Ablaze spun around in place and engulfed in flames and disappeared. No trace of him left.