Thug Infestation

Meanwhile, Jin’s opponent realized that engaging in a fist fight while Jin’s hands and feet were bright red wasn’t a good idea. Very clever deduction and decision on his part but would be easy to keep Jin away? The brute picked up a table and flung it at Jin who jumped and rolled to avoid the gigantic projectile. As he raised his head to look at his opponent, Jin found the foe to be lifting two chairs. Seriously, this guy was strong and tough not to mention his stamina was way too impressive. This wasn’t the time to be impressed though since those two chairs were now flung at him. He ducked and avoided one of the chairs the last one, he caught in his hands. It did push him back a little but didn’t hurt since the part he held simply set on fire because of his still active spell. Jin raised the temperature of the entire chair and thus set it on fire.

He flung the burning chair at the brute who stepped aside simply letting it fly by. However, Jin wasn’t aiming to hit him by the chair. He was well aware that his opponent was too fast to get hit by the chair, instead he used that as a diversion to get close. Jin’s attempt was a success and he was now close in range. Again another fist fight began but it had little fists from the opposing side and more from Jin since he had caught the thug off guard. Slowly but surely Jin began to prevail since each one of his hits left burn marks and thus the pain began to overwhelm his opponent. Finally, his opponent couldn’t keep up and Jin continued to punch and kick. Two straight punches, one middle kick and finally finishing with a spinning round house kick. The kick knocked the opponent two feet into the air after which he landed on the floor unconscious. Jin looked over at Myra who was done with her opponent as well. The waiters were hiding but still looking at the two mages who had taken down four of those scary thugs. They were now hopeful, even the restaurant owner was peeking at them with a smile.

”I don’t think they’ll attack us anymore during the day. We should probably prepare for the night and just in case, close down the restaurant if they do attack again during the day. The restaurant can stay open in a situation like this, right?”.

For the time being, things were calm and everyone was smiling. The waiters obliged to the request of both Jin and Myra and put a closed sign out of the restaurant. Some customers that had just arrived on the front door had to leave. The owner wasn’t troubled by that though, he seemed like an experience businessman. He knew that once the thugs problem was over, all he needed to do was maintain his food quality and the customers will find their way back to his restaurant. As Myra noticed, a few waiters headed to repair the front door with some nails and hammer. ”I’ll help too”, Jin was about to go help them when one of the waiters stopped him. ”No you won’t” said the owner with a smile, ”Let them do it and you can rest while you have the chance”.

After that, Myra’s stomach growled announcing the fact that she was famished. Jin couldn’t help but notice that he too was hungry and tired from the fight. It would be best if the thugs didn’t attack for some time so the two could recuperate. He pulled his chair and sat down at the table with Myra, a few dishes were placed in front of them. Jin looked at her and waited for her to begin after she did, he began to eat too. The food was tasty and hot as well, freshly prepared specifically for the two of them. ”This is great, you have to tell me your recipe when we’re done” said Jin to the owner who nodded in reply. He probably would have said no under normal circumstances but Jin was helping him, so it was only natural that he helped Jin in return.

After having finished the meal, Jin wondered what the two mages needed to do. ”When those guys return, which I’m sure they will, we need to be ready. There are only two of us and they can be a lot more in number”, he pointed out the obvious to Myra. Of course, she would have already come to that conclusion on her own. What he wanted was to discuss ways to effectively fight their foes.

While Myra walked around thinking about some traps, Jin sat there and thought. He could do what he did last time when they were guarding the house. ”This is a public place though, we can’t be sure that a customer won’t come” he questioned his own plan. Thinking of traps for this kind of a setup was difficult but he believed it wasn’t impossible. ”We will need traps but we can’t damage the restaurant either”, the restaurant owner did say earlier he had no more funds for repairs. ”Thank you, that’s so considerate of you” said the owner smiling at Jin.

It was soon after that, the sound of some approaching individual was heard and Jin accompanied Myra, standing next to the door. While she prepared to punch the individual, he prepared to kick him so it would be double effective. Right when the customer entered, it wasn’t just Myra’s hand that he looked at but Jin’s kick too that stopped a few inches from his stomach. The poor individual must of thought about the restaurant that had no welcoming etiquette. Jin looked at the owner and scratched the back of his neck nervously as he bowed and apologized. It wasn’t their fault really that they were so jumpy. After the client left he resumed his seated position from before and continued to think.

It was then when a crazy idea popped into his mind, it was so crazy that it had the potential of actually working. He smiled and looked at Myra, ”I do have an idea” he said pausing on purpose to increase the anticipation. For a moment, he looked around to make sure that everyone was listening and was curious about what he was going to suggest. ”What do you guys think about Ice skating?” he inquired with a devilish smile. The waiters and the owner had no clue as to what he was suggesting since they didn’t know his magic. He assumed that Myra would probably understand what he meant so he didn’t explain it. Instead, he asked the waiters to remove the chairs and tables from the main hall. Despite having not understood his intention, they began to do as they were asked.

After the furniture was moved by the staff and Myra, Jin began lowering the temperature of the floor. It would take him a couple of minutes to completely freeze the floor. The process did take up a bit of his magic power but wasn’t that hard, this pointed to the fact that his abilities were growing. After he was done freezing the floor, he noticed that the staff was relieved after understanding what he meant earlier. ”With the floor frozen, neither of us have any footing but we are aware of it. So while they are surprised we are already prepared and thus at an advantage”, this was the plan that he had in mind. However, just a simple surprise wouldn’t do; he needed to develop a better trap. ”If I was a thug suddenly on a frozen and slippery floor, I’d probably get to the walls or the pillars to find my footing. In that case..”. His gaze turned to Myra, ”While we’re fighting, you and I must stay away from the walls and the visible pillars”, while he said that he froze the air around the walls and pillars. He did this in a manner that it resulted in large ice spikes emerging from the bottom of those walls and pillars.

He made it so that if those thugs tried to get to the walls or pillars to find their footing, depending on whether they skated their or just slipped there; they would end up pierced. However, that also meant that Jin nor Myra could use those things for their footing either. They could though, if they kept at a distance from the spikes on the bottom and only used the upper body of the walls and pillars. The spikes weren’t that tall since he didn’t mean for the thugs to be killed, he just wanted them injured. Jin was never one to take the life of another; even if they were dark individuals who inflicted harm to others. ”They might attack in numbers so we should keep the place dark. Otherwise, they will just see what we’ve done to the place and possibly avoid it”. In the dark, Jin had an advantage, he could still sense people using his heat perception. He didn’t even have to be directly involved, he could simple take them down at a distance. All he needed to do was use his heat manipulation magic and manipulate the ice he had created by changing the temperatures.

”As long as they are on the ice, they are in my domain and I can take care of them. Those who remain, you make sure they are taken care of” said Jin to Myra. He trusted that whatever his plan lacked, Myra was more than capable of handling it.

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And so the influx of non intellectual brutes began, the first ones to enter instantly fell pretty to the cleverly devised plan. No wonder everyone was happy with Jin’s plan, they all had expected it to work nicely and it did; for now at least. Not only did they slipped, Myra took care of their conscious by using her spell and now they were no longer a thread. Jin noticed that Myra was doing the crowd control so he would probably end up dealing with the big guy. So instead of waiting for her to tell him to take care of the large brute, he already began his work.

Since the time the large brute had entered the icy domain, Jin had begun to cool down his body temperature. The man was standing on the floor but at a distance; however, he was still in indirect contact with Jin and thus in the range of Jin’s magic and abilities. Agitated at the fact that how easily his weaker colleagues were taken out, the man tried to charge forward. It was then that he noticed, ”What the heck?!” shouted the man as his feet wouldn’t budge. In the dark it was a bit difficult to notice but he then felt the cold feet he had. Not the figurative kind of cold feet, it was the literal kind; he’d probably get the other kind later. Jin knew that if he tried to freeze the entire body of the large individual, it would take up too much time. So instead, he only focused the temperature change on his feet and thus managed to freeze his feet. Now the man’s feet were all icy and stuck to the already icy floor.

While the large brute struggled to release himself from the ice, Jin casually skated through the ice to the large brute and launched a clothesline maneuver at him. The man’s feet were frozen and stuck, so he didn’t fall but it made the impact far more stronger. Jin wasn’t running but rather sliding on the icy floor so he already had some momentum on to his attack. ”Why you little..” before the ill mannered goon could use television mature words, Jin launched another attack and this time managed to knock out the guy. After that, out of mercy he unfroze the feet of the goon, letting him fall like a sack of potatoes. He then skated back to his original position assuming that their work wasn’t completed yet.  ”Next!” said Jin sounding like a doctor calling for the next patient. He was feeling pretty confident about the trap, his abilities and Myra’s as well.

All good things must come to an end: quite fitting to Jin's current predicament. He was confident about his trap and his abilities; however, his mistake was to underestimate the enemy. He hadn't done that before but it happened because he was not a veteran just yet. He was happy that everything was going smoothly, so he failed to noticed that they had gone a bit too smoothly. Only when things are too good do they tend to suddenly turn for the worst. Jin hadn't taken into account a foe that could use magic and break through the wall. His trap was directed at people entering from the door. His smile vanished and his expressions got serious, the foes that stood before them were not like the others. He could sense it, he knew it; they had that aura around them. "They broke through the wall, now they can see the ice and the traps around the walls and the pillars. The ice spike around the wall are destroyed too, along with the wall."

It was now going to be a one on one fight for both Jin and Myra. It was time to pick opponents but it appeared had already chosen their targets. The quiet one headed for Jin and stood in front of him, his gaze was directed at Jin. It was quite clear right then that once again, Jin would have to deal with the smarter one of the twins. Considering how Myra was good at aggravating others, it was probably better that way. "Taking him on in a one on one battle will be a mistake. I have my warriors but I won't use them now. That's my trump card, I'll use it to change the course of the battle", his strategy was simple and hopefully would turn to be effective.

"Enough talk, let's begin" said Jin's opponent as he smashed his foot into the icy floor and cracked it completely. So, Jin's trap that compromised the footing of his opponent was now shattered along with the ice. "Both of us don't know exactly what kind of magic the other uses, so we're both at an advantage and a disadvantage. If I can make him think that I'm a ice mage, I can have the element of surprise as well". Better to have more than just one trump card at your disposal than one. These twins had just arrived and had noticed only the ice, so they would normally assume one of the two was an ice mage. They weren't there to see the burning chair attacks Jin had used before.

The foe ran towards Jin, stepping firmly on the now cracked ice that had lost its slippery effects. Jin got into a defensive position and waited for the foe to get closer. A close range battle would eventually be to his advantage, he just had to be a little patient. In order to secure a swift victory, he had to be more careful. As soon as the opponent got close, instead of aiming for Jin he aimed at the ground, slamming his fist into it. This resulted in giant pieces of wood appearing from the ground and heading straight for him. Jin grabbed them and began to freeze them according to his strategy, he couldn't reveal his heat capabilities just yet. As expected, the wood wasn't meant to hurt but rather restrain him. It froze but it still managed to wrap itself around him and apparently restrict Jin's movements. "Wood make? I can take care of this one easily", he thought to himself pretending to be caught. The foe stood there with an evil grin on his face, foolishly thinking that he had caught Jin in his trap.

The foe looked at Jin who was faking to be caught in the wooden trap; "It appears this battle is over", he prepared to attack Jin once more. Jin looked at Myra who was at a distance from him, she wasn't that far but she was far enough. He activated his spell which wasn't visible since it only altered the temperature of a specific area around him. "Room", the temperature around Jin had begun to heat up and as the foe walked closer to him he began to sweat and the remaining ice around him began to melt. As he got closer, the temperature was heated up enough for him to realize that this was no coincidence but by then it was already too late. Jin had also been heating up the wood around him, it began red and burst into flames as the wood mage got closer to him.

"What?!", it took him by surprise as Jin had planned for it to. Getting free from the wood that had wrapped around him he rushed for his enemy. He had already heated his leg muscles to provide him the extra speed boost, the temperature around him was favorable for a heat based attack. Jin's preparation were complete, one swift attack should seal the deal. "Emperor's Armor!" shouted Jin as a heat based armor appeared around his right hand. Jin got close and the startled enemy couldn't make sense of what had just happened resulting in a direct hit from Jin's signature move. The fist boosted with Jin's heat manipulation collided with the torso of the wood mage and sent him flying a good few feet. The spell activated before provided an additional boost to the damage and Jin deactivated both spells after impact since he knew the job was done. The twin was blasted through the wall and was now unconscious and burned quite a bit. The armor of heat slowly disappeared from Jin's arm similar to how it had appeared.

When he turned he saw Myra falling and rushed to her side to prevent her from hitting the floor directly, he barely got to her in time; she was already unconscious by then. The staff came out applauding, the manager had tears of joy in his eyes; his troubles were over. Jin lifted his guild mate in his arms and escorted her to a table nearby. He too was exhausted from the fight since the two mages had fought for quite a while. His magic had been used quite a bit but he was happy that they had managed to help the manager. After Myra recovered, the two guild mages set off to return to their guild island together.