"Let's discuss countermeasures. After all, our opponent is Lock."
Tenya Iida, waiting to enter the building, proposed this to his fellow Hero team members, Shoto Todoroki, Fumikage Tokoyami, and Minoru Mineta.
He was eager to win, and he also understood that Lock, a Pro Hero, was definitely not someone a single person could take on.
"I'll face him head-on. You just need to find a way to touch the nuclear weapon."
Shoto Todoroki answered coldly. Unlike Katsuki Bakugo, he listened to his teammates and was willing to cooperate with them.
Cold on the outside, warm on the inside.
They had also briefly exchanged information about their Quirks. On the surface, he was indeed the only one with the strength to stand against Lock.
And when he thought of the live broadcast of the license exam in September, the first round of the assessment that he had watched in his third year of junior high,
Lock's flames spewing from his mouth, he wanted to contend with them using his half-cold side!
"Well then, let's search for the nuclear weapon in four directions, and report over the small radio communicators once we find its location. Then the three of us will wait for an opening to retrieve it."
Immediately, Tenya Iida, Fumikage Tokoyami, and Minoru Mineta agreed to this strategy, and just then All Might's voice came through the radio.
The four members of the Hero team stepped into the building.
Their backs looked like those of brave warriors challenging a demon, treating death as a homecoming.
Then, as soon as they entered the door, Lock was right there in plain sight, with no hidden nuclear weapon behind him.
"Yo, you guys are finally here. I was so bored I fell asleep waiting."
Lock yawned and stretched his body, as if waking from a nap.
The Hero quartet:
Everyone watching in the monitoring room: "..."
Normally, shouldn't you fight through a bunch of monsters and mobs to clear the stage before you meet the final boss?
Lock, the Demon King, doesn't play by the usual routine!
Suddenly, they struck together.
Frost continued to spread through the building. Shoto Todoroki used his half-cold side, covering the entire first floor in front of him in the blink of an eye.
He didn't care that Lock had appeared so unexpectedly, and he didn't get distracted. Since he was here, they would defeat him here!
"This is my first fight with you, right?"
Lock jumped lightly to avoid having his feet frozen by the spreading frost, then touched the ground with his toes and landed smoothly.
This might be a very unfavorable environment for other people, but for Lock it was like going home, and he even felt the urge to take off his shirt.
Shoto Todoroki, who owned the Half-Cold Half-Hot Quirk, was undoubtedly the most interesting and the strongest of the four in front of him.
Too bad he was still holding back, unwilling to use his half-hot side.
"I'll give you a piece of advice. If you don't go all out, you'll lose without any resistance!" The corners of Lock's mouth curled up, the magic power in his body surged, and he changed his clothes: "Flame Emperor Armor!"
As soon as the words fell, a scorching wave of flames radiated overwhelmingly from Lock's body.
Ice and snow melted!
The frost covering the building instantly melted into countless water droplets.
The four members of the Hero team, as well as everyone in the monitoring room, were stunned to see this.
The raging flames, the crimson, orange, and black armor that exerted infinite pressure, and the flaming sword in his hand were exactly the armor Lock had worn when he defeated the Iron Shark.
Shoto Todoroki's pupils dilated, and he subconsciously used his Quirk, instantly creating an ice wall in front of them to shield them.
It was an instinctive sense of fear. His own ice couldn't compete with this, and the last person who had given him this feeling was his father!
The Flame Hero, Endeavor, whose Quirk was named Hellflame, known to the world as the strongest fire Quirk!
"Just an ice wall? That's not nearly enough."
While the few of them were stunned, Lock had already rushed over, cutting through the air with his flame blade and making a warped, burning sound.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The flame sword waved lightly, and the ice wall instantly melted away.
At the same time, the air that had been severely chilled was heated again, causing an explosion and sending out a shockwave.
"Follow our original plan."
Amid the smoke, Shoto Todoroki hastily created another ice wall, at least enough to hold Lock off head-on for a while.
After hearing his words, Tenya Iida, Fumikage Tokoyami, and Minoru Mineta each circled in an arc and ran to the left and right!
Lock had placed the nuclear weapon in the center, open on all sides.
It happened that the Hero team had four members. One of them could hold the front, and as long as one of the remaining three could touch the nuclear weapon, they could win this combat training.
This was the tactic the four Heroes had discussed during their five minutes!
"Good idea." Looking at the three figures in the smoke, Lock praised them, and the flame sword in his hand suddenly ignited with a blood-red flame. "But the gap in strength is too big, and tricks are useless."
"Flame Emperor: Scarlet Sword!"
Lock held the sword horizontally and swung it violently forward, and a terrifying stream of flame formed a circle around Shoto Todoroki's position, just like the arc of their trajectory.
Flame Prison!
Shoto Todoroki kept creating ice to resist. Although it melted into water in a short time and soaked his whole body, he was at least able to hold his position without being hurt.
In short, Shoto Todoroki was stuck here for a while.
Lock paid no attention to Shoto Todoroki, because he had to deal with the other three. Otherwise, if they touched the nuclear weapon, he would lose.
"In this combat training, as long as we touch the nuclear weapon, we win!"
Iida, who had reached the left side of the nuclear weapon, said loudly to Tokoyami on the right side and Minoru Mineta behind it.
Immediately after, the three of them each relied on their own abilities.
The engines in Tenya Iida's calves roared.
Tokoyami jumped up, and Dark Shadow emerged from his chest, stretching as far as it could to touch the nuclear weapon.
Minoru Mineta also frantically pulled the grape-like balls off his head, intending to bounce himself over, as he had in the Quirk Apprehension Test.
"Maximum horsepower!" Tenya Iida's face was grim and full of determination, and he used the trump card he had developed: "Recipro Burst!"
Immediately, the engines in Tenya Iida's calves shot out explosive flames.
The momentum he gained at the cost of sacrificing his engines made his whole body burst forward at a speed the naked eye couldn't follow, leaving an afterimage on the spot as he rushed toward the nuclear weapon.
The flaming sword in Lock's hand gently picked at the ground beneath the nuclear weapon, then dragged it firmly onto the blade and lifted it up!
Tenya Iida, looking astonished, had only just leapt into the air, and the key point was that his forward momentum was stopped by Lock.
Lock reached out leisurely, and with sharp eyes and quick hands, he grabbed Iida's arm.
The huge strength in his hand instantly stopped Tenya Iida's figure, like a sudden brake.
"Then it's time to act as a teacher and teach you about your problems, Iida."
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