Thug Infestation

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.