"You're the first? I thought you'd drag it out until the very end, Uncle Kuzan."
"To be honest, I don't think I'm old enough to be called uncle yet. But since I had to come sooner or later, I figured I might as well come early. More importantly, aren't you taking this a little too seriously?"
Looking at Lyliana in her dragon form, Kuzan scratched his head. A Zoan Type Ability User entering Human-Beast Form right from the start clearly meant she was not joking around.
"I don't want to lose either. I still want to go back and celebrate my seventeenth birthday with an undefeated record."
"Isn't that still a few months away?"
"That's close enough. Since I'm younger, I won't hold back with the first move. Dragon Flame!"
Scorching breath swept toward Kuzan, and he could not see the slightest hint of restraint from Lyliana.
The ground scorched by her Dragon Flame instantly cracked apart, and even the wreckage of the warships in the distance showed signs of melting.
"You really aren't holding back! Ice Age!"
Kuzan leaped backward, frost instantly covering his face. He exhaled a stream of freezing air, and countless waves of cold surged forward along the ground, eventually freezing the moisture in the air and forming a massive wall of ice.
Flames and frost collided, sending up thick white mist that blocked both sides' vision.
Both combatants possessed considerable Observation Haki, so the mist did little to affect them. But the few elite soldiers could no longer see anything at all.
"Frozen Two-Spined Spear!"
The water vapor filling the air condensed into two sharp ice spears and flew into the mist.
Crack!
Two crisp snaps rang out, and several broken ice spikes fell to the ground. Lyliana had done nothing at all. Unless this