Meanwhile, at the G-1 Branch Base, before the massive Elevator passage leading up to Mary Geoise atop the Red Line.
The battlefield had become a bizarre spectacle, a hellscape of ice and gold that eerily mirrored Gern's confrontation with Saint Garling at the entrance to Mary Geoise above.
The enormous, brilliantly gleaming golden giant Tesoro had transformed into had now become a spectacular ice sculpture!
Kuzan's Ice Age had frozen most of its body solid. Its golden radiance refracted through the clear ice with a cold sheen, leaving him temporarily unable to move.
Even Lipo, who had tried to interfere with Kuzan using her healing energy, had been grazed by a sudden ice spear. Her petite body was instantly frozen inside a massive block of ice, her expression locked in astonishment.
Elsewhere, Snake Princess Toritoma moved like a phantom, combining fierce, Armament Haki-coated kicks with swordplay as she relentlessly attacked Kuzan's lower body and flanks, searching for an opening.
Dracule Mihawk also forced Kuzan to conjure thick ice shields to block his attacks, sending ice shards flying everywhere.
Facing two elite swordsmen at once, Kuzan had not been defeated, but they had him firmly pinned down, unable to break away.
Up in the sky-
Lightning blazed around Enel. Though his injuries had not fully healed, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's terrifying speed and destructive power remained astonishing, and countless lightning serpents lunged at Kizaru as he flickered through the air.
Bartholomew Kuma used precise, instantaneous "Pressure Cannons" to cut off Kizaru's escape routes, occasionally even using his paw-pad ability to repel Enel's lightning toward Kizaru from trickier angles.
Kizaru turned into golden light, flickering through the air to evade them while drawling, "Ooh~ How scary~"
He occasionally counterattacked with Yasakani no Magatama and the Ama no Murakumo. He seemed hard-pressed, but in