The chakra chains did extend as his opponent suspected, but they were met with bitter opposition from the chains of Bocchiere’s outer path, creating tangled mass of chains as they struggled to gain an advantage on the opposing party with their chakra absorption quality—to no avail.
AMBIENT ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE RISING PRECIPITIOUSLY. CURRENT TEMPERATURE: 1245 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT AND CLIMBING.
RECOMMENDED COURSE OF ACTION: DEPLOY DRONE #186329-A, CODENAME “Big Chill”.Tobias clapped his hands together as Bocchiere and his clone approached to initiate a summoning technique. The plume of smoke created as a result of this simple maneuver momentarily obscured the Imperatorem from the approaching duo. When the smoke cleared, a massive metallic
humanoid stood in the duo’s path.
A panel opened on the robot’s chest, revealing a sphere sitting in the very center of the metallic chamber. There were a myriad of tubes that branched outward from the sphere, although they never actually touched it, instead hovering mere centimeters from the sphere’s surface. Big Chill lifted its left hand and began to pull the IR Radiation released from the two approaching bodies into it. The drone was crafted from metals including a multiferroic alloy known as
Ni45Co5Mn4OSn10, a non-magnetic solid that, upon absorbing some of the heat in Big Chill’s surroundings, became strongly magnetic as a result. This allowed it to sap the energy that excited the air molecules around them and convert it into electricity to power it. The sphere began to spin rapidly as more IR radiation was absorbed, creating streams of electricity that danced off the sphere and into the tubes surrounding it.
The process was highly efficient but there was an upper limit to the amount of heat Big Chill could absorb at one time before it had to discharge some of the energy (though this absorption ceiling was incredibly high). The sudden loss of kinetic energy in his environment caused the air to return to a reasonable temperature that posed no threat to the mechanical structures of either party.
Big Chill rushed forward to intercept Bocchiere and his clone, but not without first firing a burst of pale blue energy from the large pulse rifle that was its right arm. Although the energy was maintained in a compact form for most of its flight, it would rapidly expand as it entered the duo’s vicinity
(10 feet) in the hopes of blowing them both to bits, or at the very least forcing them to separate lest they suffer the aforementioned fate. If they did separate, this would make it more difficult for their King’s Raiment to work in tandem, thus slowing the speed at which the ambient temperature increased. In the meantime, Tobias started to perform a string of hand-signs in preparation for his next technique. It was also important to mention that Big Chill's absorption of the ambient heat continued so long as Bocc and his clone pumped out heat and the effect was more pronounced up close (10 feet), such that the drone would strip the heat right from their bodies to assure an icy death if they got too close.