After a moment of silence, a cold wind swept past. Without a word, both men kicked off the ground at the same instant!
The ice exploded beneath them. One blue figure and one white figure streaked forward like cannonballs, charging straight at each other along the center of the shattered ice field!
"Ice Ball!" Kuzan murmured. Hundreds of baseball-sized ice balls instantly condensed around him.
Then his arms blurred as he hurled the balls, each packed with terrifying freezing power, like a catapult firing at full tilt!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The ice balls tore through the air, trailing countless pale streaks of frost.
Like a blizzard flying in reverse, they blanketed the sky as they hurtled toward Gern!
"Just what I wanted!" Gern laughed wildly, never slowing his charge. Fist-sized spheres of pale particles, vibrating at high frequency, instantly materialized before him.
Then he raised his left hand, firing the vibrating spheres head-on into the storm of ice balls like a rapid-fire barrage!
"Heavenquake: Star Chain!"
The next second, the battlefield's center line became a symphony of destruction!
Boom! Boom, boom, boom! Ice balls and vibration spheres collided and annihilated one another at an astonishing rate!
Extreme cold and extreme vibration-two diametrically opposed forces of nature-clashed furiously within that narrow space.
Every collision erupted into a dazzling mass of blue-white energy, the deafening explosions rolling on without end!
Amid the violent airbursts, the freezing power and shock waves that had not fully canceled each other out were forcibly distorted and fused.
The frozen air shattered into billions of crystalline specks, only to be caught by fresh waves of freezing power an instant later.
In a flash, huge, monstrous "ice flowers," formed from countless ice shards and pale arcs of vibrating energy, bloomed one after another in the air between