Pseudo-Z-ONE's crucial Trap had been bounced away, but both sides knew this was only the beginning.
"Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, continue activating its effect," Kira said. "I'll discard another two cards and return 'Timelord Metaion' and 'Timelord Kamion' to my hand."
As he spoke, two more cards were casually Sent to Graveyard.
Brionac's icy-blue body seemed to shimmer as its snowflake-like dragon head released a skyful of freezing mist. The mist condensed into two counter-rotating blizzard vortices above the Timelords. Frost first formed over Metaion's steel joints, while Kamion's crystal body was frozen into an amber-like ice sculpture.
With Brionac's crisp dragon cry, spiderweb cracks suddenly spread across the surfaces of the frozen Timelord statues before they exploded into countless ice crystals. The two Timelords became like streams of water, flying back into Z-ONE's hand amid the shower of ice fragments.
Pseudo-Z-ONE retrieved the two Timelords with his mechanical arm, remaining silent with a cold expression.
"If there are no objections, then I'm coming in."
Kira wore an easy smile, but the more relaxed he appeared, the more the other side seemed shrouded beneath dark clouds.
"Battle. Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, Direct Attack this copy of Z-ONE!"
Blinding frost light erupted from Brionac's head. With a violent sweep of its long tail, hundreds of icy lances condensed in the air and shot toward Z-ONE's nautilus device like a torrential rain.
The instant those ice spears struck the silver shell, spiderweb-like frost cracks immediately crawled across the entire floating device. Bone-piercing cold seeped into the Metalmorph, forming frost patterns even within it. The whole device shook and descended like a frozen bird, metal ice shards constantly peeling from its shell. In that brief instant, the entire nautilus casing was completely frozen into a blue-white crystal and crashed