Jenso threw a quick glance over his shoulder to see the icicles head his way. He turned to face the icicles and attempted to jump over them. He turned to face the child once more. 'What the heck...' He muttered, looking at his stomach. 'What is he..?' Jenso thought, and frowned. 'It seems like my heat isn't strong enough to melt his stomach either..' He glared at the boy. He had to have a weakness, and Jenso just needed to find it.

The icicles stopped in front of the boy, and turned upright again. He spun around, and the ice rotated around him. Then, he extended a hand, and they boomeranged past his body, and towards Jenso like a machine-gun, one after another. The boy stayed locked on and made sure to be as accurate as possible.

Jenso dashed at the boy as he fired the icicles at him as a surge of power rushed through him. He remembered about how much Paulie had suffered, and he clenched his fists in anger. He attempted to weave through the icicles with great speed, constantly weaving left and right to give the boy a harder target to fire at. He attempted to reach the boy and aimed an upper-cut punch at his face with his right hand.

Jenso's attempt to weave past the icicles was haphazard, and one of them was embedded deep into his left shoulder, but in his risky dash, he landed his fist on the boy's mask while he was busy trying to score a lethal strike. The mask flew off into the air and pulled the cloak he wore with it, revealing the boys entire body..

He was a crystalline humanoid golem. His body refracted the light like he was made of glass, and his face was human-like, lit up by the orange core within it. His hands also glowed orange, as did the area around where his heart would've been if he were human. The golem flew several feet back and stopped in midair, several feet off the ground with its head focused on Jenso. The strike wasn't as strong as it might've been if Jenso's heated aura affected the boy.

"Golem ice is harder than steel, human. I will make quick work of you," He hummed, raising a hand. The spike in Jenso's shoulder began to glow, and dissolve into his bloodstream, freezing his entire left arm in an instant. "It will not be painless."

Jenso cringed in pain as his left arm froze. "If you think I'm going to give up, you're wrong! You and your golems killed everyone in Pharie Village, and I won't let you get away with it!" He shouted. He dashed at the boy, aiming a punch with his frozen left hand at his heart.

The boy rose his hand. As Jenso got closer, he lost more and more control of his arm's movement until it stopped completely. "Foolish boy," he taunted, throwing Jenso's arm away, and by extension, Jenso in his entirety.

Jenso staggered back and placed the palm of his hand on his frozen arm in an attempt to melt it. 'Shit..he can control the ice on my arm too..' He thought. "So, why are you doing this anyway? Do you just want magical power, or what?" He asked. He was unsure if the boy would even bother to respond, but he needed to free his arm if he wanted to stand a chance.

"Shut up."

With that, he flew towards Jenso at top speed and pulled both his arms back, flexing his icy muscles and thrusting them forward towards Jenso, unleashing a wave of cold energy.

Jenso was unsure if his attempt to melt his arm even worked, but he wasn't going to give up. He focused on melting the ice on his elbow and shoulder first as a surge of power rushed through him. He attempted to move out of the way of the cold wave by dashing to the right, and moved at the boy's left side. He aimed a kick with his left foot at the core in the boy's head.

Jenso narrowly evaded being frozen in an instant by the boys attack, but his foot merely knocked the golem into a midair spin, dealing no visible damage. "You have no mastery over your element." The golem, when upside down, dove upwards into Jenso and hugged his entire body with his own, and began to overpower his fiery will with his oppressive ice powers.

Jenso frowned as the ice power began to overwhelm him. As he was losing strength, he thought back about how he ended up in the situation he is now, and how Paulie was frozen and got in a heap of trouble. 'It's all my fault...If I didn't show up, Paulie and the Warbly Birds would've been underground and alive still..' He thought, gritting his teeth. '...No! I can't quit! He killed everyone Paulie cared about, and I can still save him!' He thought, as a surge of power rushed through him. He attempted to break free from the boy's grasp. "Mastery...I don't need that to beat YOU!!" He shouted, attempting to push the boy away a bit with his frozen arm. He followed up with his other arm, aiming to ram his fist at the area where the boy's heart would be.

The boy didn't allow Jenso any leeway at all, not even enough for him to free his arms. "Useless words. Speak no more. Sleep." He droned on. Jenso's entire body began to freeze over. His strength wasn't nearly enough to overcome the golems precise magical body. Without the heat from his arcane network, he stood no chance.

Jenso cringed as his body began to freeze over. "Paulie...I'm sorry.." He muttered, closing his eyes. 'Wait...master my element, huh? Maybe..' He thought, as he began to focus. He did the same thing like he did when he was stuck in the ice cage. He cleared his mind entirely. He began to feel the heat within him intensify. 'Come on, come on...COME ON!!' He thought, as the heat intensified even more. Suddenly, flames erupted from within, coating his body entirely. "I WON'T LET YOU WIN!!" He roared, as his eyes flashed open.

The golem boy flinched as the flames engulfed him and Jenso for a split second before dying down. He let go and floated away quickly, only to see Jenso with his fists on fire. "Hmm.." The golem didn't seem too surprised. Then again, was he even capable of emotions? It didn't really matter. The golem floated farther back and rose both its hands with their palms facing Jenso.

The real battle began now.

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The golem boy released a flurry of icicles from both of its hands, one after another, firing them towards Jenso at top speed. Meanwhile, he continued to float from side to side, several feet off the ground, to avoid falling prey to any of Jenso's physical attacks too easily, while changing the angle of his ice shards.

Jenso kept weaving through the flurry of icicles, constantly changing his position to give the golem a hard time to strike him. He tried to make his way to the boy while trying to avoid getting hit, aiming a punch at the boy's stomach with his right hand.

The golem threw one shard after another, missing constantly but not stopping his barrage until Jenso was up close with him. He noticed that the injury one Jenso's left arm was still open and smirked. The boy pulled his hands back and flew further away from Jenso to avoid allowing him to strike at all. "Never," He whispered, conjuring a giant prismatic icy ball above him, several feet in width, and sending it towards Jenso.

Jenso attempted to jump out of the way of the icy ball, glaring at the golem. He dashed at him and launched a barrage of punches at the boy with both hands, hoping to make it difficult for him to dodge.

The golem's nearly invisible eyes narrowed, and the orb of ice exploded into hundreds of tiny shards, heading towards Jenso from behind. He then met Jenso's barrage with his own fists, covered in a magical aura of frost, matching every punch methodically, while receiving no damage in return.

Jenso heard the noise of the orb exploding behind him. He leaped into the air to avoid the shards, continueing his punching barrage. As Jenso threw the last punch of his barrage, he suddenly opened his hand hoping that the golem would respond by swinging his fist once more to meet his. He hoped to catch the golem's fist with his right hand and keep a tight grip on it, followed up with his left fist which he aimed at the golem's heart area.