An extremely cold white chill burst from within Aokiji's body. Like a living creature, it spread in all directions at incredible speed.
The turbulent sea froze solid the instant it came into contact with the white chill, sealed by a cold so extreme it could freeze souls. An unimaginably thick layer of ice spread toward the horizon at a breathtaking pace.
In the blink of an eye, the sea before them was completely sealed by Aokiji's "Ice Age," transformed into an endless expanse of azure frozen land.
Biting winds swept ice shards across the empty ice field, howling mournfully.
"Still as formidable as ever."
On the land by the coastline, a slender little hand quietly sprouted from the ground, an alert eye embedded in its palm.
Through the Flower-Flower Fruit's power, Robin observed the battle from afar and softly exclaimed.
Although Aokiji was no longer her nightmare, seeing the man who had once driven her into despair being pinned down and beaten by Dawn still gave her an indescribable sense of satisfaction.
Dawn slowly descended onto the ice field. The instant he landed, a cloud of ice shards kicked up by the impact suddenly came under someone's control and wrapped around his feet.
Hard chunks of ice formed from thin air, freezing both his legs firmly to the frigid ice field beneath him.
A dense mass of dark energy surged up from beneath his feet and instantly devoured the ice. Dawn bent his knees, the thick tendons in his calves tightening like bowstrings before erupting with tremendous force and launching him into the sky.
Amid continuous cracking explosions, a gigantic ice spear over a hundred meters thick suddenly rose from the frozen field before Aokiji.
Like a towering pillar supporting the heavens, it extended endlessly from the ground into the