Massive flames damaging buildings continue in Tondo and Binondo in Manila. Guardians from different directions are assisting the civilians from their respective homes.
"Humans helping one another?" the man in silver who is floating, aims his gauntlet at the guardians, "time to die."
From his gauntlet, fire manifests; multiplying and forming a large round ball. Multiple volumes of flames emerge from the ball, and it strikes the guardians, however, a gigantic wall appears out of nowhere.
The fire strikes the wall, and no scratches or cracks can be seen on the wall.
"Who summoned that wall?"
He swings his hand which causes massive flames to emerge, and it strikes the ice wall. 01 lets out massive flames upon the ice wall until it has cracks, and bursts to pieces.
He snickers. "That wall is a solid one. I think I'm getting entertained but everything has a goodbye."
His armor begins to glow red. He releases flames from the holes in his armor, and then, the flames turn onto wings and coat his gauntlets up to his chestplate.
He strikes the buildings with massive fireballs, they fall in half and some explode until their bottom level.
He swings his gauntlets and the flames covering it, extend everywhere; causing craters on the road it lands, and slaughtering those guardians sprinting from him.
"Cowards always run!" he laughed.
He flies in a certain direction, and his velocity is faster but a force of wind goes toward him which causes him to stop moving.
"That was strong," he says, "I wonder where it came from? So that I can kill that person."
He flies backward only to avoid a large scythe made of wind. He continues to fly away from the scythe but a chain made of water wraps around his whole armor.
"You're going down!" Allen slammed 01 on numerous buildings through his water chains.
Allen is standing on the rooftop of a building that is not being engulfed in flames.
Stone walls emerge from the road. 01 releases flames which evaporates the water chains wrapping around him.
He flaps his wings and flies onto the sky but only to move aside.
He clenches his gauntlets covered in flames, and yells, "These fools! You're not going to bring me down!"
"Earth Weapon: Giga Stone Hammer."
The ground begins to tremble as a gigantic hammer made of stone comes out from the ground.
A man standing on a wall grabs the handle of the hammer. Every corner of his lip rises as he swings his gigantic hammer toward the enemy.
01 remains levitating as he watches the hammer go towards him. He channels more fire onto the flames wrapping around his gauntlets and turns them to the same size as the hammer.
He holds the hammer, therefore, his flames glow brighter. The hammer starts to liquify causing delight in 01's eyes and laughter from the man wielding it.
"I hope you're fine, Captain Ignacio!"
A man, Ignacio with blue flaming wings flies toward 01 at a fast rate. Upon reaching him, Ignacio strikes 01's helm but he catches Ignacio's hand with his other gauntlet.
"This is your plan?" 01 chuckles, "Useless."
Ignacio pulls his hand away from his grasp. He moves closer to 01; striking every part of his armor with hand thrusts and elbow strikes.
Tinta lands on 01, and before reaching 01, he swings his sword which releases a force of his pressure
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The force hits 01's helm, and he is pushed down to the ground. While landing on the ground, the man standing above the wall summons another stone wall.
He pushes it, striking 01 until the wall reaches a burning building. The building immediately crumbles to pieces; every piece of it hits 01.
Ignacio flies down above the wall, he drops Tinta right beside the man standing above the wall.
Tinta says calmly, "There's no guarantee that we break his armor... my technique won't be enough to defeat him."
"My name's Ignacio," Ignacio says while standing beside Tinta, "yes, you're right, but I can see that we have the potential to truly bring him down."
He brings out his phone and moves it closer to his ear. The fallen pieces of the buildings are scattered everywhere by the huge combustion of bright fire.
"I don't have a good feeling about this," the man standing on the wall says, "by the way, my name is Platinum. Please, do bring chocolates to my funeral."
"Idiot," Ignacio throws his phone away, "no one is going to die."
From the huge smoke, a man in silver armor is ambling towards the stone wall while the three young men are holding their weapons with a firm grasp; Platinum with his iron hammer, Tinta with his sword, and Ignacio with a long sword made of blue flames.
"You can use iron?" Tinta glanced at Platinum's weapon.
Ignacio sighs. "He can but only for his weapon. Using too much iron makes his energy run out."
The three men sprint toward 01 at full speed. Ignacio flaps his wings which releases a wave of blue flames toward 01, however, it is countered by a wave made of red flames.
Tinta jumps across the clashing flames, therefore, he reaches 01. With a serious, piercing stare, he strikes 01 with his sword with so much speed but 01 moves side to side.
Tinta swings his sword downwards, and quickly, swings it upwards which strikes 01's armor.
A deep scratch occurs on 01's armor, and Tinta thrusts his sword on his chest plate but the wings extend towards his sword; wrapping around its blade.
An iron hammer strikes his helm which propels 01 to the nearest burning vehicles.
Ignacio lets out massive flames at 01. The flames fade away, and Ignacio's eyes widen as his mouth drops.
"Impossible! My fire is blue and his flames are red," Ignacio's hands are shaking, "how can he?"
"Survive?" 01 said while standing on a burning crater.
01 vanishes and appears right in front of Platinum and Tinta. Platinum narrows his eyes, and he swings his hammer towards 01 but 01 holds it with his gauntlet.
01 kicks Platinum's waist causing his eyes to widen and mouth to open wide, and he is pushed by the kick.
01 strikes Tinta with fast punches but Tinta steps side to side; avoiding every punch.
"You've improved!" 01 yelled joyfully.
"No need to shout for I know!"
Tinta swings his sword but 01 flies away from him, only for Ignacio to strike him with a gigantic corseque made of blue flames.
The spear corseque penetrates 01's armor and reaches his flesh.
Tinta inhales deeply, and a stairway of stone walls emerges right in front of him. Platinum smiles while watching Tinta jump from one stone wall to another stone wall.
"I need to put him down!" Tinta leaped the final stairway which leads him to reach 01.
The words of Allen echo in his mind which says, "Your job is to defeat him or weaken him to a state where he cannot fight."
01 holds the corseque and begins to pull it from his armor but water chains go toward his gauntlets; wrapping around his gauntlets and pulling it backward from the corseque.
"What the fuck is this?!" 01 yelled angrily as his gauntlets were clenching and his teeth gritting.
Tinta channels his energy onto the blade of his sword, and it takes on the form of wind.
Upon reaching 01, Tinta strikes him with his sword which pierces his armor.
The young man deepens the sword into his enemy's flesh, and there, he channels a great pressure which causes 01's armor to explode and the hole in his chest to enlarge.
"I did it," Tinta begins to smile while watching 01 falling from the blade of his sword.
Allen's eyes widen, and he shouts, "He did it! I knew it! I can trust him!"
A yellow light shines brightly piercing the eyes of those who are witnessing it, and Tinta covers his eyes with his hand.
When the light disappears, Tinta lowers his hand from his eyes.
He looks around while falling but Ignacio catches him in mid-air, and upon almost reaching the ground, he throws Tinta on the ground.
Tinta lands in a standing position, and he cracks his knuckle. He slides his sword into its sheath and sighs.
"He escaped. What was that light?" Tinta looked menacingly at the sky.
He only sees the clouds moving gently in different directions.
Ignacio is standing far from Tinta, and he is looking steadily at the young man. "How can he stand against that murderer."
He closes his hands. "Just what are you? Despite not having any elemental abilities, you were able to stab him?
"It should be me that defeated him! It should be me!"
He releases blue wings from his back, therefore, he flaps them until he is levitating.Thereafter, he flies away, leaving Tinta staring at the sky, but Tinta turns around and remains staring at nothingness.
Ignacio says to himself. "The sky is my witness of how much I envy your capabilities! From this day on, you are now my rival, Tinta!"
Tinta walks in a certain direction while saying to himself. "What is the purpose of growing strong if I can't defeat my enemy?!"