Chapter 157: The 5 Iron Skulls

“The 5 Iron Skulls.” Min said, looking at the mannequins. “Other than the power hiding masks, this is one of the things you are known for, Wang Ton.”

Ton did not say anything, instead choosing to materialize his green mace club with eyes and mouth of a fish at the end. He pointed the mace at the three Red Dragon members. “Get em!”

The 5 Iron Skulls ran forward.

“Zen,” Ton said quickly, “Leave now!”

Zen nodded ad turned around, beginning to run away.

Huo clicked his tongue as fire gathered around his hands. “Doesn’t look so tough!” he dashed forward to meet them.

“Careful!” Min said.

“BURN!” Huo thrust his arms out and a stream of intense fire shot out, engulfing the 5 Iron Skulls.

Ton had to dodge dodge. “Zen, watch out!”

Zen looked back at the stream of fire coming at him. He dove to the side to dodge the fire and covered his head to protect himself from the heat that singed holes through his shirt and pants.

“Wang Ton, this heat can melt silver!” Huo said. “All that will be left of your Iron Skulls are the Black Iron weapons you wasted on them!”

Two figures, engulfed in fire, leapt out of the stream of fire. The fire engulfing them vanished, one having a scythe and the other a sword. Huo looked at them in shock.

“N-No.” he whispered to himself in horror.

“My Battle Mannequins are fully made out of Black Iron, the silver parts you see are purely decorative.” Ton said.

The scythe and sword wielding mannequins swung him and cut Huo in three.

The others walked out of the blaze, unharmed but their clothing was burnt all off. The one that held a still burning spear threw it at the remaining Min and Shi. The fire around the spear intensified and took the shape of a biiger pike made of swirling flame.

“It is a fire elemental technique!” Shi said before raising a wall of earth before them.

The flying, flaming spear made contact with the wall and there was an explosion of fire and debris.

Shi growled. “This is why I hate fighting Metal Elementalists. You never know what they’ve got up their sleeves.” He slammed his meaty fist into the ground. “I can’t believe he killed Huo!”

“Huo was the weakest of us.” Min said. “He got careless and he died. We won’t make the same mistake.”

Shi nodded before running forward. “Earth Hand Technique: Two Fingers!”

An earth pillar grew from the ground and whipped at the 5 Iron Skulls. The Skulls leapt over the pillar but were then hit by another pillar while in the air.

Ton covered his head at one of the Iron Skulls shot past him. He looked around and all he saw was Min, walking closer to him. Sparks appeared around her then flew into the air, as more time passed, the sparks grew stronger.

“Wait,” Ton said to himself, “where’s…” He ran to the side before the earth he had been standing under erupted with rock and soil. Ton pointed the mouth of his fish head mace at Shi, who was gathering earth above his head and packing it into a boulder. A stream of fire shot out of the mace heading for Shi who manuvread the boulder in front of him to block the fire.

Shi kicked the boulder and sent it shooting at Ton who dodged it by leaping into the air. He pointed the mace and sent out another stream of fire at Shi. A wall of earth grew up beneath Shi’s feet and elevated him up and over the stream of fire that hit the wall.

“One Finger!” Shi shouted before an Earth Pillar grew and would have cruched Ton as its other ended bended over, if he had not dodged.

Ton took aim once again and tow pebbles shot out from his mace. The firt Shi dodged, the other he caught in his fist that had a layer of rock. There was a moment of silence, where he looked at Ton, unimpressed. Vines bursth out of the rock and began to entangle him. He struggled to free himself before falling of the wall and landing in the ground.

On the ground he continued to struggle but the vines wrapped around him. Dust and rock began gathered around him, slowly incasing him in an boulder that formed a rough sphere.

Ton touched his storage stone and out came a massive bronze club. He grunted and lifted it off the ground as he rushed for the boulder. Leaping up he shouted as he brough his club down, ready to strike the boulder. He was tackled away at the last moment and a stream of lightning hit the boulder, where he would have landed if he had not been tackled.

“Zen?” Ton said as he got up from the ground. “I thought I told you to leave.”

“You needed me.” Zen said. “That almost hit you.”

Ton surveyed the area and saw it was true, the lightining had charred everything around the area he was at. The boulder had also been smashed apart, with the vines that had wrapped around Shi being charred.

“Shi, you okay?” Min asked as arcs of electricity rose from the ground shot into the air like tiny reverse lightning strikes. The sound of the crackling was loud, sending Zen’s hairs to stand on edge.

“Yes ma’am,” Shi said as he unsteadily rose to his feet.

“Then get out of the way.” She said.

Shi ran away. Zen knew that Shi was preparing for an attack, and judging from how Ding Wu used lightning, it was an attack that would be difficult for him and Ton to dodge. An Iron Skull appeared before Zen and Ton, this was the one with the wide blades attached to its forearms. It brought its arms together and that was wwhen Zen realised that the Iron Skulls blades were actually to halves of a circular shield.

“So you figured you can’t dodge my attack so you think you’re going to block it?” Min said unimpressed. “Your going to need ore than that to protect yourself.” She raised her had in the air. “Thunder Judgement!”

Lightning came from the air above them struck at their position in a bright explosion of light and fire!