
Though this nearly kills Lio, Galo revives him using the mouth-to-mouth technique. In the battle, Kray reveals that he is a Burnish, and attempts to use Lio to power the warp drive. In a mecha of Deus' design, known as the Deus X Machina, Galo and Lio return to the city to confront Kray. The collective agony caused by the Promare-powered warp drive will cause the Earths immediate destruction. The surging magma is a side effect of subjecting the Promare to pain, and Kray's experiments on the Burnish using incomplete, stolen technology are accelerating its growth. The Promare naturally desire to burn, an instinct inherited by the Burnish. Deus explains that the Burnish can communicate with the Promare, a race of inter-dimensional flame beings that reside in Earth's core after a dimension rift opened shortly before the Great World Blaze. Lio's flames melt the ice and reveal a laboratory run by a holographic projection of Deus Prometh, a scientist killed by Kray. Lio returns to the city to confront Kray, though Galo intervenes and retreats with Lio to the frozen lake. Meanwhile, Freeze Force track and recapture all of the Burnish population but Lio. He discovers that the abilities of the Burnish can be used to create a warp drive, which he intends to use to flee Earth with a select portion of humanity. Kray informs Galo that the Earth will soon be destroyed by an uncontrollable surge of magma from the earth's core. Lio tells Galo that Kray is capturing Burnish for human experiments. As Galo arrives there, he sees Lio attempting to revive a mortally injured Burnish using a mouth-to-mouth flame transfer technique.

However, Lio and other prisoners break themselves free, and escape to the cave near a frozen lake. As Galo succeeds the mission, Mad Burnish leader Lio Fotia is sent to prison by Freeze Force, a police force owned by the city governor Kray Foresight. The team responds to incidents involving Mad Burnish, a group of radical Burnish accused of being terrorists.

Thirty years later, Galo Thymos is a member of the firefighting group Burning Rescue living in the city of Promepolis. Certain humans developed pyrokinetic abilities during and subsequent to the event, and became known as the Burnish. During a calamity known as the Great World Blaze, fires from mass spontaneous human combustions killed half the world's population.
