One familiar face after another put immense pressure on the Roger Pirates.
They were especially familiar with Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr, three powerful fighters who had been shaking the world since the previous era.
The Army's yellow uniforms also caught their eyes.
They had encountered the Army before, too.
Beyond them stood unfamiliar powerhouses, most likely from the World Government.
This lineup was even more terrifying than the Flying Pirates.
Against the Flying Pirates, they could still call themselves evenly matched, falling short only in the number of high-end combatants.
But against the combined encirclement of the World Government and the Navy, they were outnumbered more than two to one in top combatants alone.
The enemy had the advantage in high-end combatants as well.
They had come determined to wipe out the Roger Pirates.
This was even more terrifying than the previous attempts to surround and destroy them.
"Ice Age!"
A figure leaped from a warship.
The chill radiating from his feet froze the seawater. Kuzan dropped to one knee and placed both hands on the sea's surface.
Terrifying cold erupted from his body in an instant, as though even the air would freeze solid.
Waves of cold spread continuously through the seawater.
Before their eyes, the surging waves turned to white ice, as if frozen in time.
The air seemed to turn frigid all at once, and an area stretching more than ten kilometers around them became a vast expanse of white in the blink of an eye.
The entire sea was frozen, the ice reaching a hundred meters beneath the surface.
The warships and the Roger Pirates' Oro Jackson alike were locked into the ice, unable to move at all.
With the sea frozen and every hope of escape cut off, both sides were about to fight to