The seawater around the island evaporated into billowing white mist under the intense heat, colliding with the cold air Kuzan released to form a haze of ice crystals that blotted out the sky.
Without any hesitation, Mu Chen activated Susanoo's final form.
Perfect Susanoo! A reddish-brown giant slowly rose behind him, clad in obsidian armor. Its outspread wings obscured the entire sky, and the enormous sword in its hand hummed with apocalyptic lightning. Every breath it took sent violent tremors through space.
This was actually Mu Chen's first time using Perfect Susanoo, so even he did not know how powerful it was. After all, Kuzan now possessed strength on par with an admiral.
As Mu Chen roared, the ground beneath the red giant's feet instantly collapsed. Its overwhelming pressure made the entire island shake violently, and Kuzan's expression immediately turned grave. This was the red giant he had been waiting to face!
That pressure even caused his freezing Devil Fruit ability to falter briefly.
Excitement spread across Kuzan's face.
"In that case, take this! Ice Age!"
Kuzan unleashed his strongest move with everything he had.
An instant later, a thousand-meter-thick layer of ice covered the entire island. Ice spikes pierced out of the ground like icy spears pointing toward the sky.
At the center, an ice mountain a thousand meters tall rose from the earth.
Mu Chen was stunned by the sight as well.
"Whoa, damn! That's pretty impressive. Then I won't hold back!" With that, Susanoo raised its massive sword and swung downward, unleashing a thousand-meter-long arc of purple lightning.
Inside the ice mountain, Kuzan's pupils constricted. Sensing enough power in that strike to cleave the island apart, he slammed both palms against the mountain's inner wall. The entire mountain suddenly split into countless diamond-shaped chunks of ice, which