As soon as the mist had formed, similar to Leng Shi, Lei Shi dashed at the second teammate who was also in charge of restricting the movements of the Green Jade Mamba.
Unlike the lean man, this teammate was of average build. Lei Shi attacked his head with his saber in a downward hack, causing him to block with his bow, for he was an archer.
After that attack, Lei Shi jumped backwards.
But right as the archer aimed at him, about to start firing killer-shots since there was now some distance between the both of them, and while Lei Shi was still air-borne, from below, a powerful electric beam shot at the archer, the electric beam was similar to thunder both in nature and suddenness.
*ZAP*
*Brrrrr* the archer was ravaged by the electricity.
"Argghhh!!!" he yelled in pain.
The electric beam came from a square object that was similar to a mine, and that mine was planted by Lei Shi when he did his last attack.
He had attached it to his foot, and had left it below the archer when he jumped backwards.
That could only happen because Archers naturally stood in a fixed position when they fired their arrows, and as he was already taking the initiative to jump backwards, the archer's natural reaction was to fire arrows at him while he was still air-borne and couldn't dodge his arrows easily.
Secondly, it was due to most Archers' problem of having lower-level of battle experience when it came to close-combat.
Lastly, the cover of the mist contributed to the mine going unnoticed.
*Swish*
As the electric beam from the mine battered the Archer, Leng Shi, like a bolt of lightening, darted at and hacked at the Archer who was immobilized as a result of the electric beam.
*Bang*
The saber connected. It split the head of the Archer, ending his life.
Flame Lady, upon seeing how Lei Shi and Leng Shi killed her teammates seemed to have noticed something "Wait... Ice... Electricity... Don't tell me! Bolt King! Frost King! You bastards, how dare you?! You killed my husband, and not only do you have the guts to show yourselves before me, you also killed more of my colleagues. DIE!!!" Flame Lady sounded crazed as the end of her words. She trembled from raged.
She wouldn't be wrong even if she went completely nuts; these were the killers of her husband. Heaven knows how many times she had dream of crossing paths with them.
BOOM
She ignited herself, and flames were being released in all directions with her at the centre.
She flew into the air, and putting her palms in front her chest, with them facing each other and a gap being between them, her HTB suit opened a hole at its chest, and from it, energy from its energy core poured out and formed a ball of flames like a sun.
She poured all of her energy reserves, the energy of a Rank 5 HTB suit, into it.
As the energy flowed into it, the ball of flames became bigger and more condensed.
When it reached a particular point, energy stopped coming out of the opening. She had dried up her energy reserves.
At this point, the ball of flames was so hot and condensed that it could be considered a mini-sun.
Furthermore, the heat from the flames which she released from all parts of her body and the ball of flames which she created had dispersed the mist, revealing Lei Shi, Leng Shi and the Green Jade Mamba.
"DIE!!!" Flame Lady screamed at the top of her lungs, sounding fiendish.
She then launched the ball of flames downwards, towards them.
This attack of hers was something only Rank 5 HTB suits and higher could do, and she seemed to have put all her energy into it. It couldn't be more obvious that she wanted Lei Shi and Leng Shi dead.
Lei Shi and Leng Shi didn't even have hopes of blocking such an attack, they witnessed, firsthand, the difference between Rank 4 HTB suits and Rank 5 HTB suits, and that difference was more than just a number, it was so much more.
The twins sped away from the ball of flames at their top speed. Even the Green Jade Mamba fled while spurting water on its body. Both men and Beast rushed to the lake.
BOOOOOOM
The ball of flames crashed into the ground, at the spot they were a moment ago.
Its explosion was catastrophic. Its heat evaporated everything while its flames destroyed everything.
After the explosion, nothing was left standing; the land was desolate and charred. There were no trees or other forms of life.
A huge crater had formed at the crash site of the ball of flames, to the point that water flowed from the lake into it because the crater had extended into its periphery. Leng Shi and Lei Shi were nowhere to be seen.
Thirty seconds later, the Carrier arrived at the crater.
The man with the Ash-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor came out of it.
He looked around and asked "What happened here? What would make someone create and detonate a Cruel Sun?"
"I don't know sir. But we can ask her" answered a man in a Rank 5 HTB suit while pointing at Flame Lady who was about fifty-meters away from the crater.
Flame Lady sat with her back leaning on a charred tree as she breathed heavily.
Such an attack was dangerous even for her, the creator. It was for that reason that the inventors of the HTB suit created an automatic escape mechanism which reserves a little energy in the core of the HTB suit and uses it to power the thrusters of the HTB suit to escape the blasted radius of the explosion, but the downside was that the wielder would be vulnerable after making such a terrifying attack due to having all their HTB suit's energy depleted.
The man in the Ash-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor flew to her and landed in front of her.
She sat there, waiting for her HTB suit to recharge its energy core.
The man in the Ash-colored HTB suit came closer to her and opened his mouth, but before he could speak, he felt something and abruptly turned around and blocked a powerful fist that was aimed at the back of his head.
*Boom*
*Rumble* the ground trembled from the collision.
"Who the hell are you" asked the man with Green-colored Rank 6 HTB suit.
"That's my line" the man in the Ash-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor replied, unafraid.
"Stop. They're not the ones who did this. I did" Flame Lady said as she stood up, leaning on the tree.
"Why?" the man in the Green-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor, looked at her and asked her, confused.
"It was those two Bastards. The ones that took your spot to fight the Green Jade Mamba" she replied spitefully.
"Them? How? Why?" he asked consecutively..
"It turns out they were actually Bolt King and Frost King. And as for why, there's no need to give a reason. They killed my husband, me doing everything in my power to kill them is something I must do" Flame Lady answered him, not concealing the hate in her eyes.
"Oh, is that so? Then who is this?" asked the man in the Green-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor, turning his head from her to look at the man in the Ash-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor.
"I am Malcolm, one of the five Enforcers of Acme Company" the man in the Ash-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor replied.
After hearing his identity, the man in the Green-colored Rank 6 HTB Armor was surprised then he also introduced himself "My name is Gideon, and I am one of the three Elders of Kangaroo Corps".
Malcolm was also a little surprised after hearing Gideon's identity, he then said "I am looking for two felons; they were here not too long ago".
"We saw two felons alright, I don't know if it's the same ones were talking about" replied Flame Lady.
"These are their pictures. They use Ice and Electricity as their fighting elements" Malcolm said as he showed them Lei Shi and Leng Shi's pictures.
"That's them!" Flame Lady exclaimed.
The picture showed Leng Shi and Lei Shi in their current disguises, the same disguises they had on when the Acme Company guards caught up to them last.
"That's perfect. Thank you for your assistance. We'll be moving then" said Malcolm as he turned and faced the Carrier.
"There's a possibility that their real identities are Bolt King and Frost King, the mercenaries." said Flame Lady spitefully.
"Thank you, but that is, as you said, a possibility. Everything would be revealed when we capture or kill them" replied Malcolm to Flame Lady.
Flame Lady was triggered by his words and wanted to start swearing that the two people in the picture were Bolt King and Frost King. However, Gideon spoke before she could "You're correct, but I have a suggestion. Since you're hunting them down and we have unsettled grudges with them, as they have killed many of our colleagues, why don't we form an alliance and kill them?"
Malcolm paused for sometime, considering it.
After he thought of how it would be, having another Rank 6 HTB Armor wielder as a helper together with the good relations that would be formed between Kangaroo Corps and Acme Company, he accepted the offer, but with condition that after killing Leng Shi and Lei Shi, he will take all their possessions together with their bodies. Gideon and Flame Lady accepted.
After the agreement was made, they all boarded the Carrier and sped onwards, in the direction the twins fled.
In a screen, on the dashboard of the Carrier, Flame Lady and Gideon saw two red dots, which where close to each other, being chased by a white dot. After asking, Malcolm explained that the two dots represented the two felons that they were chasing while the white dot represented them in the Carrier.
This utterly dumbfounded Gideon and Flame Lady, but after asking how it came to be possible, they were told that they were tracking the AI monitors of their HTB suit as how a god would track their creation.
This shocked them even more; they never expected that those AI monitors who were very helpful to HTB suit wielders were homing devices.