Mikrel hovered above the two, looking down at them.

"You guys don't look like much, I want to finish this and go play with Osei for a bit, before Ataron breaks him."

Helio gritted his teeth and went into first gear.

The temperature around them drastically.

He looked at Helio with curiosity.

"Oh? So you can ascend just like the Rennayans? This must be the dormant energy we've senses in you humans."

Karim prepared himself, creating dozens of flying golems ready to attack.

Mikrel laughed.

The golems dropped out of the sky, frozen and crumbling apart.

He put his hands out wide.

"World of Ice!"

It started with a low wind, then it picked up quickly into a blizzard howling around them.

Karim braced himself, but he was surprised that he didn't feel cold.

His suit was working overtime to keep him warm.

Soon if would require strength from his own body.

Helio had seen this technique before, but not on this scale.

He slowed down the snow blurring his vision of Mikrel, but as the snow stopped in a small circle around them, Mikrel vanished from above.

Almost looking like he manifested out of the snow, he kicked Karim flying into the wind, before Helio could stop him.

"Damn you!"

Their fists met each other's faces, then they continued to strike each other.

Then Mikrel pushed Helio back a couple meters with a round house kick.

Helio dropped to his knees, he could feel a fractured rib and multiple bruises all over his body.

The blood in his lungs forced painful coughs, as it splattered in front of him.

Only to be covered by snow.

He was losing his grip and the blizzard slowly started to cave in.

Mikrel raised his palm, facing Helio.

"You're fight is over warrior, there is no longer any need for you to struggle. Salvation is here."

A sword with a detailed intricate alien looking design, manifested out of ice in thin air.

It hovered naturally into Mikrel's hand.

He prepared to strike down Helio, when a stone bull golem trucked into him, pushing him back a few meters before he cut it down.

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Three more humanoid golems this time rushed at him from all sides.

"Helio!"

"Karim! Are you ok?!"

Karim finally name into view.

He had visible injuries and was bleeding on the side of his head.

"Never better, except for all this ice. I can barely get access to the Earth-"

"The weak, should never be careless, in front of the strong."

Helio stared in disbelief.

This couldn't be happening again.

Karim was hanging on the ice sword protruding out of his stomach.

Mikrel pulled his sword out of Karim, as he staggered back and looked over at Helio, speechless.

He coughed up blood, while holding his stomach, then fell over.

There was a snap, like the sound of a fire starting, within deep within Helio.

His gaze never left his dying comrade, but the blizzard kept disrupting his view.

Memories of Ranesa's corpse and Leon's grave, as well as those within his life, that he was unable to help flashed before his eyes.

Helio was kind and never wanted to hurt others.

He always saw the children of Atlas as those who needed to be stopped, he never actually hated them, especially after meeting Nirro.

However this situation was different.

Mikrel was someone he wanted to kill.

The blizzard started to die down, and the ice began to melt.

A quick trail of ice erupted from under Helio's feet creating a massive ice sheet wall separating Mikrel from Karim.

It continued, for hundreds of meters, then a part of it reached for Mikrel.

He dodged to avoid it and began flying to make distance and observe the phenomenon.

Helio rushed to Karim faster then he'd ever moved in his life.

Injected him with the medicine booster.

Then he placed his hands down over Karim.

The air became sweltering hot, as Helio started to steam, then quickly cool down.

A dome of ice enveloped Karim and started to glow.

Helio's hair popped random streaks of silver.

His turquoise blue veins glowed and began to run even faster.

"Karim, hang in there!

Vapor formed with each breath he took.

He could feel Karim's life slipping away.

Sarah had said it before, the possible real ability of ice wielders was thermoregulation.

There were not many records of advanced ice wielders on Rennaya.

Exceptional ones making a name for themselves once every 50 years.

However she hypothesized that they were capable of manipulating heat on an atomic level, giving them the ability to create miracles.

The hole in Karim's chest started to close, as his organs rearranged themselves back to their original positions.

The heat around Helio intensified, but the ice dome holding Karim, continued glowing, occasional mist rolled off of it.

Helio could feel each blood vessel, artery and organ he was repairing within Karim, taking enormous steps and great focus to be careful.

Slowly Karim's life force started to stabilize, as well as his heartbeat.

Helio felt slight relief, but he knew Karim would still need some immediate medical attention.

Multiple blurs landed behind him, softly.

A medic Saphyra leading a team of multi - racial android medics approached Helio.

"Helio, we'll take it from here."

He nodded.

"Please, take care of him. Tap the ice when you're ready to operate on him."

She nodded back, as the rest of her team carefully lifted Karim in a secure stretcher and started to leave.

"What makes you guys think I will let you get away?

Mikrel said as a massive iceberg hundreds of meters long, manifested in the air above him.

Then it started to plummet down.

Helio's eyes grew wide, there was nowhere to escape, Saphyra would not be able to get away with Karim in time.

Suddenly the iceberg crushed in like an invisible force grabbed it, shattering into millions of pieces.

Mikrel looked up surprised, as did everyone else.

For a faint moment, they could see a figure, hovering in the sky.

"Who is that?"

Helio started to say, but was cut off watching the millions of pieces shower Mikrel at sonic speed, sending him crashing down with an avalanche of ice.

The figure disappeared, while Saphyra made it safely to the shuttle with Karim.

Mikrel exploded out the avalanche yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Who dares!"

Helio appeared before him, not missing the chance.

A massive rotating sphere of thin ice, holding together a swirling tornado of freezing cold air, trailed in front of his right palm, followed by another similar sized sphere on his left, filled with boiling hot water.

Both pressurized with force only found in deep oceans.

"Frost: Aliento de Akewa."

He rapidly clapped his hands together, the sphere's crashed together in front of Mikrel.

The shockwave wave reverberated through the his body, but he held his ground, as he sent Mikrel flying towards the Tasman sea.

The World watched wondering who was helping the Nova's.