The Injured Admiral Candidate

With a thought from Dawn, the Gravity field spread out once more.

The air began gathering and compressing toward Dawn's left palm. At first, it was only a breeze, then it became a current of air, and finally formed a visible vortex.

At the center of the vortex, the air density surged sharply. The compression raised its temperature, producing a low hum.

A breath later, an air sphere more than fifty meters in diameter formed above Dawn's palm. He pushed his left hand forward, and the sphere left his palm, falling toward the fleet below.

"[Rasengan]"

Before the sphere even arrived, the ice below had begun to crack. The shockwave formed by the compressed air struck first, making the Marine flags snap wildly and leaving some of the weaker Marines unable to keep their footing.

Kuzan looked up at the falling air sphere and raised his right hand, palm facing the sky.

"[Ice Time Capsule]"

A pale stream of freezing air flowing with Armament Haki surged from his palm, condensed into a beam, and shot straight at the descending air sphere.

High-level Armament Haki was like the most precise scalpel. It cut in from a single point, swiftly dismantling and destroying the stable gravitational structure within the air sphere, while the frigid air spread wildly and froze the chaotic air molecules.

The surface of the air sphere was rapidly covered in thick white frost. In the end, it became a huge, loosely structured lump of ice that crashed onto the ice not far in front of Kuzan, shattering into pieces and sending ice dust flying everywhere.

However, at the instant Kuzan neutralized the first attack, Dawn raised his right hand again!

A second ultra-high-density compressed air sphere of the same scale had already formed almost at the same time as