It was nowhere near winter. If he remembered correctly, it was way closer to summer than it was to winter.
Even if Ursus was colder than most of the counties in Terra, frost shouldn't be forming at this time of the year.
But that was what the bar owner was looking at the front of his door.
He needed to make sure that he was not seeing things. However, no matter how many times he rubbed his eyes, frost was still forming.
This stunned him so much that he needed to take a step back.
"What's going on?"
BronzeHammer, who was drinking, noticed that his glass was getting suspiciously colder now. He slowly put down the cup and looked at them and saw the frost. His brows wrinkled at this.
He stood up from his seat and stared at the door.
Something was about to happen.
Moments later with a burst of cold wind, the door went wide open.
The sound of boots hitting the wooden floor echoed throughout the quiet bar.
Soon, a vague figure covered by the misty cold air appeared in everyone's eyes. When the mist finally started to settle down they saw who it was.
"... Woman?" The bar owner was even more surprised by this.
The said woman was now scanning the people in the bar with her grey pupils. After a while, they finally landed at BronzeHammer.
"Are you a BronzeHammer?" FrostNova said slowly. Her voice was like the wind that came from the depths of a snow-capped mountain. It was so cold that some of them thought that was making the environment colder.
The man in question just stared back at her. Both sides did not say a word.
Finally, after what felt like forever, BronzeHammer broke the silence by chickling to himself.
"Are you the bounty that Chris found?" He smirked at her, "That was fast. DIdi he really wants me to be dead that badly?"
"... Chris? Who's that? I do not know what you mean," FrostNova glared at him, "And I'm not a bounty hunter."
"...You don't sound like you're lying," BronzeHammer said, "So if you aren't a bounty hunter. Are you a friend of Jiu? If so, I'm not interested in women at the moment. I'd rather let you stay here for a drink or two."
FrostNova did not say anything to all of this and before she could do anything, BronzeHammer's men that were in the bar started to surround her. Five men were now surrounding her.
"What a young lady like you doing here? Trying to find some trouble for yourself?"
"Hey! Seeing that the boss did not want her, can I take her instead?"
Everyone around her burst into laughter.
However, FrostNova did not pay any attention to any of them, like they did not exist. Her eyes didn't leave BronzeHammer for even a second.
The man in question just stared back at her.
She was not normal.
"I will ask you again," Her voice sounded demanding now. The temperature around them started to plummet, "Are you BronzeHammer?"
He did not answer her question. What he did was, nudge his head to his subordinate standing near her.
Seeing the signal all of them lifted their weapon, most were using machetes and went to take FrostNova.
As their weapon slowly neared her, she was still standing still in place. They thought that she was too afraid to move. They were severely wrong.
Before their weapons could reach her, black frost spread rapidly from their weapon. However, the black frost did not stop and continued to move to their body. Seeing this most of them were about to let go of their weapon but it was too late for them. As they were about to scream in shock, they were cut off before their whole body was engulfed in black ice, imprisoning them.
Bearing witness to what was happening, BronzeHammer's eyes widened. Then he noticed something appearing behind his woman.
A figure, wearing the same clothes as her but this person was a man, appeared from behind her. The man lifted up his weapon, a sledgehammer, and frost started to gather around it. With a battle cry, the man swung his weapon hard, and with a single attack, he hit all of the men that were frozen in black ice.
The frozen people shattered and pieces of them littered the bar's floor. They were now artworks on the floor now.
When the cold mist finally settled down, FrostNova was surrounded by a ground of white clothes people.
BronzeHammer, who had witnessed everything, gradually put his smile away. He stared at FrostNova. Then he spoke slowly, "... You are indeed not the bounty hunter that Chris found. So who really are you? I don't remember seeing any of your faces and uniform before. Are you a unit from Ursus?"
FrostNova answered back, "We do not have relations with Ursus' government."
"Then what are you?"
FrostNova did not speak. Seeing this, the person that was holding a hammer, Zane was glad to say what was in his mind
"We came here to take your life."
"... Oh really now? Quite confident of yourself there," Hearing this, BronzeHammer places his hand around his neck. What followed after was the sound of crackling. His expression then became a little bit ferocious as he smirked at all of them, "You are allowed to try."
When his voice dropped, every member of the Yeti, excerpts for FrostNova sprung into action. They run to him with their weapon aimed to kill the man. Frost was forming on their weapons as they were nearing closer to him. And as one slammed they attacked him.
BronzeHammer seeing their attack getting near him, bent down and did something simple.
He jumped.
He jumped really high.
He jumped high enough so that every attack missed him completely.
As he was still in the air he saw the place where he just stood was slowly forming ice. The Yeti squad saw that there were spirals of winds under his feet, making him seemingly float in the air.
"Ice, huh?" He hummed in the air, "Well this is quite unfortunate for you."
With that, he slowly grabbed his weapon, a hammer that was much bigger than the one that Zane just used, and lifted it above his head. Winds started to gather around it and when enough winds were around it, BronzeHammer let gravity do its job and made him fall.
His body slammed hard onto the ice but the Yetis were not going to let them be an easy target for him. Before they were about to be hit and jumped away from his attack and were far enough to be hit.
BronzeHammer crashed into the floor, making the ice shatter and scattered through the bar. The debris from his attack covered his figure.
The Yetis were surprised at his ability. They did not expect him to be able to use Arts.
As the debris slowly settled down, they could see BronzeHammer's figure standing on the now shattered ice below his feet. If they did not doge his attack they would not be surprised that their body would turn out like the ice.
"Lik I said,'' BronzeHammer smirked at them, "You are quite unfortunate to be facing me."
He went to attack.
He raised his first and like his weapon, winds gathered around it. His first target? The guard that was not far from him. With winds roaring around his first he slammed it on the guard's mask.
With much force, he broke their mask and pushed them to the bar counter. The hit was so strong that the guard smashed through the counter, destroying it in the process.
The other did not stand idly as this happened though.
Two of them gathered frost around their hands and blasted them towards him. While the other two went to attack him.
Now there were two Arts attacks followed by two people fastly approaching him.
BronzeHammer smirked at their attempt and was more than happy to face them.
Before the ice blasts could hit him, he gathered winds around his hammer again. He then spun. With this, he trapped the ice blast. With the winds adding more power he redirects the ice blast back to the guards.
The two of them were surprised by this but acted fast. They lifted up their weapon and blocked it. However, with the BronzeHammer's wind, the attacks were much more powerful than what they were expecting.
They were blasted to the wall behind them.
However, BronzeHammer was not done with his attacks. Seeing that the casters were now defenseless, he went to them.
They were about to lift the sword to face him but he moved too fast for them to react.
In seconds he was in front of them. He lifted his hammer up and a blast of him blew them away, knocking the table around them to fly them.
Seeing the group was now dealt with, he went to attack FrostNova.
Winds gathered under his boots and rocketed him towards her. He lifted his hammer high and was about to slam it on her head.
However, before he could do anything to her, he saw a figure standing in front of her.
In the next moment, he felt a blunt object slamming on his chest.
Being hit, he put some distance between himself and his attacker.
When he was far enough he saw who hit him. It was the person that he punched in the face just now.
Now with his mask gone, BronzeHammer got to see the man's face. But he did not care what he looked like. What he did care about was that he saw some crystal near his neck.
These people were Infected.
"... I see," He dusted his chest and acted like the hit did not bother him. He smiled and looked at FrostNova and Flake in front of him, "You are an Infected. I've heard that Ursus has some groups of Infected, but why are you bothering me?"
"Asshole!" Flake shouted at him, "Big Sis! Leave this guy to me-."
When he was about to step in front of his sister, he saw FrostNova walking in front of him first.
"Big Sis?" Flake looked at her back confusingly.
FrostNova stood tall in front of her opponent, "Let me deal with you alone."
Hearing this, Flake became worried for her sister, "Big Sis, you can't! Let us deal with him!"
" Usually I would agree with you," FrostNova walked slowly towards BronzeHammer, " However, this guy is not weak. With my way of fighting, it's better that I deal with him alone. I don't want to hurt any of you."
"... But your body."
"I won't fall here," She said calmly, " I have told you this many times by now. I still need to do so much before I can."
With that, Zane had nothing to say to her.
In front of her, BronzeHammer's eyes squinted slightly, "Are you going to fight me alone? Tsk. Should I say that you are arrogant or are a fool? It would be a shame that I kill a lady like-"
Before his words were finished, BronzeHammer suddenly stared wide-eyed. He looked down to see that half of his body had already been frozen in place.
"...You talk too much," FrostNova said, "Luckily there are a lot of people in hell that would have time to listen to you."
{Rhodes Island's Psychologist}
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