Cyberpunk: Ultimate Cyborg System

The flames whipped through the woods, and though they didn’t shatter the trees like what one might expect, they ignited everything they touched, painting everything that’s green in a vivid red and orange.

Fire was a human’s worst enemy. Even more so for a Genome whose body is built to withstand extreme cold, with very little resistance to high temperatures. Because of that, Cryonis’s first reaction was to get out of the burning forest. Of course, that proved to be futile right away as the flame torrent followed him to the grass plain.

Cryonis activated his ability the instant his foot touched the ground. Small jagged icicles formed at the tip of his boot, their size increasing as a layer of frost spread through the surroundings. A second later, they turned into massive pillars that blocked the torrent of flames, splitting it apart before it could reach the cold hero.

Cryonis found himself forced to hide behind the ice pillar for the few seconds it took the raging red torrent to stop. He noticed that the flames weren’t powerful enough to instantly break or melt his ice, giving him confidence that he could stand his ground against whoever was getting in his way.

But that wasn’t his objective.

The purple-haired woman had already moved, saved from the cold he had encased them in by the heat from the burning forest, and the man to whom she gave the bag was no longer in sight, having disappeared behind the rising wall of flames. Time was running out, and so Cryonis was forced to take some drastic measures.

The air around him turned misty all of a sudden, sparkling white specs forming and falling to the ground. The grass at his feet had turned into a field of sharp blades, continuing to expand little by little before bursting with explosive speed, instantly reaching the forest.

The frost suffocated the flames and encased the trees, killing the light painting them orange and cutting out the source of the rising smoke. The trees turned into dangerous sculptures, each small protrusion becoming a sharp needle waiting to pierce the flesh of anyone foolish enough to get close.

Cryonis focused his mind, intending to freeze the entire thirty-seventh floor if it meant stopping the thieves from escaping. Things refused to go his way, however. The spreading frost crashed into an insurmountable wall when a wave of flames suddenly spread out from the forest. Something about it was different from the previous torrent, and Cryonis felt it soon enough when the force of an explosion slammed into.

The shockwave shattered the frozen forest first then the pillar behind which the cold hero hid. The stupidity of his actions struck him as his body hit the floor after being blasted by the rapidly expanding air he had just cooled himself.

A devastating explosion shook the floor, shattering every last window on the white mansion. It wasn’t on a level that could harm anyone who happens to be within its radius, but it was powerful enough to blast things away, even pushing against the winds

With his back on the floor, Cryonis stared at the bright ceiling and for a moment wondered why there was nothing had happened despite the forest catching fire just moments ago. Forcing himself up, he gazed at the devastated forest and sighed before reaching up and tapping his earpiece.

"Commissioner Evans, I think I know what that third party was-"