On the ice, the war gradually intensified!
Seeing First Division Commander Marco kick Admiral Kizaru flying, Third Division Commander Diamond Jozu pressed the advantage.
He roared, bent his burly, diamond-transformed body sharply forward, and drove both hands straight into the ice Kuzan had created!
Ooooooh-!
With a deafening, teeth-grating crack, Jozu tore a chunk of ice as massive as a warship straight out of the frozen plain!
He raised the iceberg high above his head, veins bulging along his muscle-bound arms, then hurled it toward the distant Execution Platform with all his strength.
"Try stopping this if you've got the guts, Marines!!!"
The enormous iceberg tore through the air with unstoppable momentum, blotting out the sky and casting a shadow over the ground as it hurtled toward the Execution Platform.
Beneath the Execution Platform, Akainu Sakazuki, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them.
Looking at the chunk of ice flying toward him, he shook his head helplessly and muttered in a voice full of disdain, "Honestly, every last one of them is so impatient. A bunch of shirkers."
He slowly rose from his chair, terrifying waves of heat beginning to radiate from his body. The ice beneath his feet instantly melted and evaporated.
"If all of us, our strongest fighters, rush out there, who's going to protect this place?"
Akainu raised his magma-coated right arm and punched toward the iceberg flying through the sky.
"Great Eruption!"
A towering column of lava erupted from his arm to meet the iceberg.
Yet, just as ice and fire were about to collide in a spectacular display.
Something suddenly changed!
High in the air, a pure golden rift silently unzipped.
The rift slowly spread open in midair, and an indescribable, soul-shaking presence seeped out.
Like a bottomless black hole, the