With a grin on his face and eyes giving off a Goading look, Icaris stood completely ready to fight. Nortik's men, on the contrary were rather displeased with his arrival as now it was thier spines that were shivering.
A Bright ray of Sun marked the start of their flashy fight as Icaris flexed his speed infront of them. He blitzed infront of one of the hunting guys, Aspinall, packed a power Magma punch and shoved it into his gut, although Aspinall blocked it with his IceSheild, the punch was still so drastic it flew him back some distance. Then from behind Edward solidified the Air and slammed him into the ground, he then charged directly at him with a giant air hammer, but Icaris blocked it with one arm and with the other he created a firr spiral and plunged it into him. To its reponse, Edward converted himself into Air, thinking he got the better of him. But Icaris grinned, snapped his fingers and with a low voice said:
"Hestia".
Suddenly black flames appeared from the hand from which he just snapped and engulfed Edward entirely. He screamed loudly — in agony but the heat of battle left him down and Icaris was instantly attacked by Nortik's infamous glass blade.
Nortik the glass bender was famous all over the world for his mastery over glass and his swordsmanship. He would pierce even the most powerful Red list criminals with his Glass mastery.
And so a duel with swords started between Icaris who created a fire blade and the Glass Bender with his infamous blade of Death.
Nortik dominated in the Sword fight, but soon enough Icaris gained some distance between them and shot a concentrated Lava beam towards him which he dodged ever so easily and got ahold of him with the sand he stood on. Nortik then threw a series of powerful attacks towards him that included creating sinkholes, and quicksands and even commanding the earth on his fingertips. Icaris was barely dodging those attacks as Nortik's potency and scale of attacks was wide enough to keep up with Icaris's speed.
After these attacks, Nortik stretched his arms and raised them slowly upwards, creating Golems of Sand and Diamonds as a result.
Icaris was breathing heavily, infront of him was a packed Nortik with his army of Golems and behind him were three of his top dogs including Aspinall, Edward and Froggy.
Now the situation appeared to be worse for Icaris and in favor for The Hunting Squad. Arkas standing on top of the ridge was in a major shock as he had never seen his father so immersed in a battle before. From behind, Chloria suddenly dragged him down the ridge and the two started to run away from the battlefield.
Icaris smiled as he saw them run and instantly start to hop in the air and stretch his arms. He let out a strong sigh and blitzed past all the Golems destroying them within a blink and giving off a crazy smile to Nortik. He punched him in the gut, which he blocked but instantly from behind all three of the lackeys attacked at once.
Icaris started to radiate the solar flare and surrounded his hands with Hestia Flames and attacked them engulfing them in never ending flames. The three blocked that attack and finding an opportunity, Aspinall froze the atmosphere and Edward taking Icaris's ablilty to hear compressed giant storms into singular attacks and from his back the young and scared Froggy also created a Hestia flame punch — and three launched an impenetrable attack that could shatter the space. The attack was so immense that Arkas and even Chloria felt threatened by it. For a moment it looked like the end of Icaris yet being directed towards such a powerful attack, Icaris laughed, melted the atmosphere with his radiating energy and caused a giant blast by exploding the elemental gases. He then healed his wounds by converting himself into Pheonix Fire and evaded an Earth shattering combo attack. The three captains were bleeding and panting heavily with bruises all over thier bodies from that attack.
The wreck of Icaris's attack was also so intense that Froggy, even after being a Fire user couldn't heal herself by Pheonix Fire.
Then Icaris raised his finger towards the sky and large fire started to grow ontop of it. That ferocious magma induced fire could have ended the three right there if not for Nortik breaking in between, who threw a sharp glass blade towards him that distinguished the fire.
After getting Icaris's attention, Nortik threw his shoulders back gained full inertia and started to run towards him. He jumped in the air and said:
"Gravitos"
And gravity started to act deeply on to Icaris. He grunted but too late as his feet had been succumbed into the quicksand that suddenly appeared beneath him. Icaris created a Magma Sheild infront of him and shot an endless amount of fire and magma balls — The balls exploded upon touch but Nortik swiftly dodged all those attacks and inturn fired an infinite number of glass and diamond blades at him. It looked over, but Icaris ignited the surroundings again and dodged at the last moment.
Nortik landed down and waited in anticipation. The dust cleared and from the dust came a bruised Icaris reaching towards Nortik but to his surprise, Aspinall froze him mid air and Froggy ignited the ice block on cold blue flames. The four of them stood up straight again, all of them bruised heavily by the beast.
Then a giant explosion and eruption of magma broke the ice block and Icaris came from within the block — now frustrated and growling in rage but the hidden exhaustion on the faces of both sides could be seen vividly.
All five battered and bruised from battle that seemed to be endless — nor the beast neither the hunters were ready to give up or back down from the challenge.
As the Third wave of thier battle started, suddenly the locket of Icaris started to glow, everyone got startled as it happened and suddenly a burning sphere came out of that locket — A spear with flare so bright it and hot it presented the imagery of Hell.
Icaris slammed the ground once with the burning spear and fire erupt in the whole area creating a ring of fire all around them, suffocating those hostile towards Icaris.
The shock on everyone's face was vibrant as clearly it was the first time they had seen such tremendous power. Only being inside that ring suffocated The Hunters and burned thier will to fight and conspired within them emotions of fright and hopelessness. It took a huge toll on the body of Icaris as well but the fire kept him motivated.
Icaris then raised his spear above in the air and a miniature sun started to form on the Sphere and the hopeless hunters just couldn't fathom the reality that was revealing infront of them.
"RUUUUNNNNN"
Nortik shouted as he commanded the Earth to drive them away, far away from this ring and its using maniac.
But it was a moment too late for them as Icaris released the miniature sun towards them.
They flew away from it, gliding on the sand created for them but even the heat was too much to handle for them as all four of them got burn scars just from the approaching death, in the form of sun.
Suddenly from behind a Swordsman in white long coat with Golden Designs came face to face with the giant Miniature Sun and cut the Sun off with his electrocuted blade before it could reach them. The sun split in half and exploded then and there. The explosion was so great it split the ground and changed the terrain of the desert completely into a land of drought.
That attack was the last of Icaris's energy and the spear vanished into the locket again. Icaris was aslo down on his knees breathing heavily and wheezing, as the man who cut the meteor, the Chosen one — Einer Alexiaris appeared in front of him.
Seeing Einer stand infront of him, Icaris chuckled and fainted on spot.
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Tips:
This point in time is exactly fifteen months before the Start of Eiser's Journey.