After a long while.
A third ship appeared in the waters off Punk Hazard.
It was not a Marine warship. It looked like nothing more than an ordinary merchant vessel, flying no flag of any faction.
This was Vergo's ship, loaded with experimental materials he had gathered for Caesar.
But before the ship reached the dock, Vergo spotted a vast expanse of sails in the distance:
"Marine warships?"
"Are there other Marines here?"
Vergo immediately became tense.
As he ordered his trusted sailors to halt the ship, he anxiously pulled out a Den Den Mushi and called Caesar:
"Caesar?"
"What's going on?"
"Why are there two Marine warships at Punk Hazard's dock?"
However, the voice coming from the Den Den Mushi was not Caesar's, but that of a young man with a teasing tone:
"Vergo."
"You're a Marine Vice Admiral. Why are you afraid of your own warships?"
"Who are you?!"
Alarm bells rang in Vergo's mind. He immediately turned and ordered his attendants:
"Quick!"
"Turn the ship around and get out of here!"
"Don't waste your effort."
The voice from the Den Den Mushi turned cold:
"I see you."
As soon as the words fell, Vergo felt the air around him suddenly plunge below freezing.
And this drastic change in temperature did not affect merely the few feet of space around him.
Vergo raised his head against the chill and found that his entire field of vision had turned snow-white.
The sea had become a glacier, and the ship he was aboard had turned into an ice sculpture, unable to move in the slightest.
"Ice Age!"
Garen slowly withdrew the biting cold aura around him and descended from the frost-filled sky, landing before Vergo.
"..."
Kuzan's expression was rather strange.
He had seen Garen use multiple abilities before, but