Chapter 6: Fire And Ice

With the speed of a burning fire the red one lashed out at Oscar, as soon as he made impact, a series of blows followed, each landing on his torso.

Oscar fell backwards by a distance and crashed on the ground.

{HP: 97/100}

He dusted himself and stood up to face them again. He stood erect, his eyes fixed on them with keen focus, his breath calm and steady; he was fearless.

"System," he whispered, "What's the status of my bloodlust?"

{Bloodlust: Normal}

For a quick moment Oscar's eyes expanded in surprise.

'What the hell! I thought it'd be higher than this with all this rage I'm feeling inside me.'

Unexpectedly the blue guy landed a punch on the right side of his cheeks, crushing the ice ball that's on his fist on Oscar's jawbones.

Oscar's body was projected into a building, crashing into the glass window and landing in the sitting room of the first floor.

He sat up and scratched the back of his head with a look of confusion. His clever plan had actually been ruled out. He has to hastily form another strategy to win the fight.

{HP: 93/100}

Suddenly the two men came crashing into the building leaving a massive hole on the wall as they approached Oscar menacingly, fire and ice cooperating to cause his doom.

Oscar stood up and maintained his composure, appearing rather fearless though he was panicking in his head.

'What do I do? What do I do?'

The two men lashed out at him at the same time crashing his spine through a wall and then to the cold rough ground, mounted punches followed immediately in different shades of fire and ice, all pounding his face to be one with the ground.

The system beeped…

{HP: 87/100}

It then beeped again…

{HP: 80/100}

A series of beeps followed overlapping one another with green tabs reporting the constant drain of his heath bar while Oscar lay on the ground with eyes closed and blood dripping out of his face like he was leaking. He lay there quietly, daydreaming about the nightmare of his extinction.

The system beeped again with a tab…

{HP: 57/100}

'Oh, the explosion,' Oscar's thought rang.

Bam! Oscar exploded blowing the two men out of his face alongside every piece of remaining furniture in the building and the brick walls around him.

He stood up and wiped the dust of his torn apart shirt as he gasped for air, "How could I have forgotten that?"

"What the fuck was that?" the red guy stepped into the building again covered in dust.

The blue guy followed behind him, his arm already bleeding.

'What the fuck! How did they survive that?' Oscar couldn't believe his eyes. 'This fight was supposed to be over by now. They're supposed to be dead.'

"Let's finish this once and for all," the blue guy ordered the red one as he marched up to him.

"System check Bloodlust," Oscar whispered to the system again.

{Bloodlust: Normal}

'What the hell!' this time Oscar showed vivid frustration.

"What? Was that your best move?" the red guy mocked and raised his hands in the air trying to lit his flames up again but nothing was happening.

He turned to his partner with a stare of confusion and then back to Oscar again. Then he raised his hand a second time trying to lit himself up but failed again.

He turned to his partner a second time, this time in an obvious state of perplexity. Oscar observed closely but silently.

"Let's finish this off," uninformed the blue guy tried to ice himself up but nothing seemed to be happening.

Seeing his partner was just as powerless as him he turned to Oscar, "What did you do to us?"

"I'd love to take credit for this, but your head is the prize I was actually aiming for," Oscar charged towards them with agility, initiating a 2v1 hand to hand combat.

It seems they too are good at martial arts, they matched his speed, strength and skills. After all, Oscar was untrained and was just getting started in his new reality. But even so, he held them off, they couldn't overpower a determined young soldier.

Mid combat the red guy felt something in his veins and quickly lit up in flames again striking Oscar to the corner with a fist of fire. Seeing this, his buddy tried his power instantly and glowed in ice.

Right before he stood up and charged towards them again the system beeped…

{HP: 50/100}

{Protective measures initiated}

{System shutting down in 3… 2…}

Oscar's eyes expanded in a state of panic.

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