12: Chapter 6: Freezing the Entire Field, Aokiji’s Probe!
(Part 2) 12: Chapter 6: Freezing the Entire Field, Aokiji’s Probe!
(Part 2) Alex also noticed that in the distance, a large number of pirates had already fled Marineford’s harbor, sailing their ships toward the vast depths of the ocean.
He frowned slightly and scoffed.
‘It seems if I don’t display a fraction of my power, I won’t be able to save Whitebeard in peace.?’ Alex tapped his foot against the ground, sending a powerful shockwave surging deep into the seabed.
Boom!
A muffled rumble echoed from the depths of the earth’s crust.
Tens of kilometers away, the surface of the ocean was suddenly violently upheaved by an invisible giant hand, instantly swelling into a towering tsunami dozens of meters high.
The crest of the wave, churning with crushed ice, blotted out the sun as it crashed down toward the fleeing pirate ships!
“Holy shit!
Do the Marines have another ambush waiting for us?!” “What kind of Devil Fruit power is this?!
It summoned a tsunami out of nowhere!” The pirates were scared out of their wits.
They desperately tried to turn their ships around, but it was far too late.
They watched in horror as the colossal wave prepared to swallow them whole!
At that exact moment, a ring of blinding white light erupted from beneath Alex’s feet.
The temperature within the ring was absolute zero.
It expanded across the sea at lightning speed, instantly flash-freezing everything in its path!
The members of the Blackbeard Pirates, who were closest to Alex, were instantly transformed into lifelike ice sculptures!
From a bird’s-eye view, with Marineford at the epicenter, the white ring of frost swept across the vast expanse of the ocean.
The raging sea was instantly locked in solid ice, trapping all the fleeing pirate ships mid-escape!
Even the magma meteor plummeting from the sky was suddenly coated in a thick layer of white frost, suspended mid-air in blatant defiance of gravity!
Across the battlefield, the one hundred thousand elite Marines—save for the Admirals—found their feet frozen solidly to the ground, rendering them entirely immobile!
In less than a single second, a massive frozen crater formed around Marine Headquarters, trapping every single Marine and pirate within its icy confines.
Alex shook his head.
Free from the oppressive laws of the Saint Seiya world, every casual movement he made carried apocalyptic power!
He had only intended to freeze a few kilometers of the surrounding ocean, but he had accidentally flash-frozen an area spanning hundreds of miles.
He would have to be much more careful with his output in the future.
Otherwise, a single *Aurora Execution* might literally plunge the entire One Piece world back into the Ice Age.
On the shoreline, the Warlords of the Sea, the Three Admirals, and Fleet Admiral Sengoku were all dusted with ice crystals.
Their expressions were exceptionally grim.
“Is this…
Ice Age?” someone muttered in disbelief.
Instantly, everyone’s gaze shifted to Aokiji.
The mysterious youth’s technique was identical in nature to Aokiji’s signature move, Ice Age, but its sheer scale and power eclipsed Aokiji’s by hundreds, if not thousands, of times!
Sengoku pressed down on the brim of his hat and spoke in a low, gravelly voice.
“Aokiji, what’s his background?
Can you counter him?” Sengoku’s previously triumphant mood evaporated into deep frustration.
Was his meticulously orchestrated Paramount War going to be ruined by some mysterious kid who popped out of nowhere?
Aokiji exhaled a breath of white mist.
The very moment the air left his lips, it crystallized into ice beads that shattered against the ground.
For the first time, his perpetually lazy, elongated face morphed into an expression of absolute gravity.
“A freezing power of this magnitude…
I can’t do that.” While the youth’s ability closely mirrored his own Ice-Ice Fruit, it was infinitely more terrifying than his ultimate technique, Ice Age.
Even if Aokiji pushed himself beyond his absolute limits, freezing such an expansive stretch of the ocean in an instant was completely impossible.
“I’ll test him!” Encountering an opponent who wielded the same element, Aokiji couldn’t suppress his morbid curiosity.
‘What kind of Devil Fruit is that?
Is his mastery of ice really superior to mine?’ Aokiji’s entire body was enveloped in pure, white frost—the visual manifestation of fully activating his Devil Fruit and converting his body into its elemental state.
With a wave of his hand, a concentrated blast of freezing air shot toward Alex like an arrow released from a bowstring.
Using a cold attack against the Aquarius Gold Saint?
Alex genuinely didn’t know whether to applaud Aokiji’s bravery or pity his sheer ignorance.
Alex couldn’t even be bothered to lift a finger in defense.
He simply supported the remaining half of Whitebeard’s ruined face, pried his jaw open, and tipped the small vial, pouring the crimson liquid down the old pirate’s throat.
Crack!
With a crisp shattering sound, the concentrated blast of freezing air abruptly shattered half a meter away from Alex’s body.
Aokiji’s attack, which felt no different than a snowball thrown by a toddler, failed to inflict even a fraction of a degree of harm.
It merely hit an invisible wall of absolute cold and slid harmlessly to the ground!
The Warlords of the Sea, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, and the remaining two Admirals all slowly turned their bewildered gazes back to Aokiji.
Though no one uttered a single word, the collective judgment in their eyes was screamingly clear: “Aokiji…..
was that your grand ‘test’?”