The natural system started off strong, but the navy finally reached its peak!

Although it was still fierce, its destructive transmission actually showed a slight pause!

Extreme cold not only freezes matter, but also begins to slow down the energy transmission of the spatial shockwave itself!

"Ughhhhh!" Kuzan let out a deep roar, seizing the fleeting opportunity to unleash his last bit of power!

Ice Age: The Coffin!

Instead of spreading outwards, the azure absolute freezing aura emanating from him suddenly expanded outwards by a mere meter.

It formed an incredibly thick, oval-shaped ice coffin, completely encasing him within it!

The moment the ice coffin took shape, the destructive shockwaves from the outside seemed to be briefly blocked.

The interior of the ice coffin was deathly silent, an absolute realm where even atomic motion had almost ceased.

"BOOM!!!" The final energy from the collapse of the airspace erupted completely, blasting the massive ice coffin away like a meteor.

Its surface was covered with terrifying cracks, and it tumbled and smashed through countless floating fragments of space.

It finally crashed heavily onto a massive, still partially collapsed ice sheet a kilometer away, creating a bottomless crater.

"Crack..." A crack spread across the surface of the ice coffin, and then a hand suddenly burst out from it!

Kuzan struggled to open the broken ice coffin and staggered to his feet.

He was in a terrible state, with blood still dripping from the corner of his mouth.

His breath was covered in a distinct layer of white frost, clearly indicating that the desperate defense he had just fought had taken a heavy toll on him.

Kuzan then raised his head and looked at Gern, who was still standing in the air in the distance. There was no sign of retreat in his eyes. Instead, his eyes burned with an even colder fighting spirit.

"It can even shatter space... that's an incredibly exaggerated ability."

He was breathing heavily when he slowly raised his right hand. Extreme cold air began to condense again. His voice was hoarse but clear.

"but......"

"It seems that 'absolute zero,' which can freeze time, is not ineffective against you after all... Gern."

“I didn’t expect this either…” Gern, also panting, smiled slightly.

"You've developed your Devil Fruit abilities to this extent, haven't you, Kuzan?"

Chapter 243 Shocking Flame - Molten Core Explosion

Their gazes met across the distance, a clash of domineering presence!

At this critical moment of confrontation, a sudden change occurred!

"Buzz!!" Centered on Gern, the ground within a kilometer radius began to tremble at a high frequency.

All the ice mirrors shattered simultaneously, and Kuzan's true form vanished in a flash amidst the shattered ice.

"Found you!" Gern suddenly opened his eyes, his scarlet pupils locking onto his left front.

He lunged forward, each step leaving a spiderweb-like crack in his path.

His right fist was drawn back to his waist, and his flowing Haki coiled around it like liquid.

"Black Shock - Instantaneous Prison Hundred Cracks!"

His punches are as powerful as dragons!

Within a hundredth of a second, hundreds of shockwave fist shadows were unleashed, each tearing through the air and causing space to collapse, forming a vacuum channel.

Kuzan's pupils dilated violently, and he crossed his arms, bracing himself with Armament Haki.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" He was blasted back step by step, plowing two deep trenches under his feet.

Sparks from the clash of Armament Haki burst forth like fireworks, while freezing air and shockwaves intertwined to create a destructive storm.

"Ugh!" Kuzan roared, unleashing his full power to freeze the air.

"Permanent Freeze - Zero Domain!" The absolute zero domain expands!

Gern's punches were visibly slowed, as the vibrating particles were suppressed by the extreme low temperature.

Frost climbed up his limbs, attempting to completely freeze his blood.

“I’ve said it many times…” Gern grinned, his Conqueror’s Haki arcs erupting completely.

"This level of freezing power can't freeze me at all!!!" He forcefully shattered the restraints, and his left fist slammed out at a speed beyond the reach of sight.

"Black Shock - Fallen God Nail!!!" The force of the punch pierced the battlefield!

Kuzan's absolute zero field was forcibly torn open, and he was blasted hundreds of meters away, crashing through three icebergs before finally coming to a stop.

Amidst the smoke and dust, Kuzan knelt on one knee, his icy body riddled with cracks. "If this is all there is to it..."

He took a breath and chuckled softly, "You can't beat me!"

"Is that so?" Gern's body temperature began to boil.

The pale white shockwave suddenly became extremely unstable, and the intense friction caused by the high-frequency vibrations caused the surrounding air to begin to distort and heat up.

"Since that's the case..." As soon as he finished speaking, the originally pale and dazzling air-shaking cracks suddenly turned into a blazing orange-red color and spread wildly in the surrounding space!

"Kuzan...can your freezing air seal off the raging fury of the vibrations?!" Gern roared, his voice echoing with a tearing sound due to the high-frequency vibrations.

This is no longer a simple tremor.

Gern directly increased the vibration frequency to a crazy, even self-destructive level.

Extreme friction generates terrifyingly high temperatures capable of melting everything!

Wherever the orange-red shockwave passed, the ice field beneath their feet was not shattered, but instantly vaporized into huge cavities, steaming up scalding white mist.

The chill in the air was violently dispelled, replaced by a burning heat that seared the lungs.

Kuzan's gaze turned completely serious as he sensed a completely different, destructive energy that seemed to incinerate everything.

He looks just like that guy he really hates!

"It's turned into the temperature I hate, Gern!"

"This battle should end!" No longer satisfied with long-range bombardment, Gern stomped on the ground that had turned into glass, transforming into a humanoid shockwave that rushed towards Kuzan!

Kuzan's eyes were icy cold. With a flick of his arms, hundreds of rotating prism-like ice shields instantly condensed in front of him, each several meters thick!

"Useless!" Gern didn't dodge or evade, his right fist, crackling with destructive energy, slammed straight out.

The Prism Ice Shield shattered one after another, unable to stop him for even a moment!

The moment the last ice shield shattered, Kuzan leaped up, dodging Gern's charge, and pressed his hands downwards: "Glacier Coffin!"

A massive ice coffin made of absolute zero cold air sealed Gern inside!

"Can you trap me?!" came Gern's furious roar from inside the ice coffin.

The ice coffin was instantly covered with orange-red cracks, and then it exploded with a bang!

Kuzan's pupils contracted, the light dissipated, and Gern burst through the epicenter of the explosion, his body enveloped in steam.

But the speed noticeably slowed down for a moment, and the orange-red vibration patterns on the body surface dimmed slightly.

The continuous fighting and maintaining high-frequency vibrations had exhausted a huge amount of his physical strength, and Kuzan was in the same boat now.

And so, in that instant when the old force had just been exhausted and the new force had not yet been generated!

Kuzan's figure appeared like a ghost, using the refraction of ice crystals to appear in the blind spot beside Gern!

"Eternal Touch!" Kuzan's icy voice rang out; this touch was only for...

A single strike, and you're frozen forever!

Gern's Observation Haki gave him a warning, and he forcibly turned his body!

Kuzan's hand didn't touch his chest but instead touched his left shoulder!

In an instant, extreme freezing air invaded, attempting to freeze him completely from the inside!

Gern also gained a close-range opportunity by taking a hit from Kuzan!

"Got you!" Gern's left hand was like a burning hot iron, his five fingers spread wide, and the vibrating particles wrapped around it were no longer pale or orange-red!

"Did you do this on purpose?" Kuzan's pupils dilated, and his elemental instincts kicked in, but it was too late!

"Physical exertion will definitely cause you and me to lose our ability to think for a short period of time and rely on instinct."

You only want to touch me, like a wild beast locking onto its prey, not caring where its fangs fall.

But the goal in my mind has always been just one thing!

After saying that, Gern ignored the ice crystals spreading from his shoulder to his chest and pressed his body firmly against Kuzan's chest.

"Shockwave - Molten Core Explosion!"

There was no earth-shattering roar at the beginning, only a muffled buzzing sound like a heartbeat.

Gern's palm seemed to have turned into a black hole, forcibly injecting ultra-high frequency vibrational energy into Kuzan's elemental body without reservation!

Kuzan's body suddenly stiffened, and his pupils were instantly filled with the orange-red light reflected from within.

Time seemed to freeze for three seconds, or perhaps only a moment had passed.

"Crack...crack..." The teeth-grinding cracking sound didn't come from the outside, but from the deepest part of Kuzan's body!

Countless orange-red cracks, resembling lava veins, spread wildly across Gern's icy body, multiplying from the center of his palm until they covered his entire body in the blink of an eye!

He seemed to have transformed into a glass vessel on the verge of shattering, yet within him surged the power of a volcano about to erupt!

The light was so intense that it was impossible to look directly at it, and the terrifying heat even began to vaporize Kuzan's own frozen air!

Next second

"boom!!!!!!!!!!!"

The ultimate explosion erupts from the inside out, completely!

A ball of orange-red destructive light rapidly expanded, instantly engulfing the two figures.

What followed was not a shockwave, but a ring of pure white, silently spreading ripples that instantly shattered all matter into its most primitive particles.

Then came the terrifying, ear-draining roar, and the towering pillar of lava-colored energy!

The entire island groaned under the weight of this final blow, a massive crack piercing through the earth's crust, as if dragging everything into the abyss!

The light faded, and the dust (or perhaps even the dust itself) slowly settled...

At the epicenter of the explosion, a massive crater nearly a kilometer in diameter lay at an unfathomable depth, its edges adorned with scorching, gleaming, glass-like crystals.

Gern knelt on one knee at the edge of the pit, his left arm hanging limply, charred black and emitting wisps of white smoke, clearly having paid a heavy price.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Kuzan stood firm in place.

Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth onto the ground, but was immediately evaporated by the residual heat, making a hissing sound.

“It really is…” He raised his hand to wipe away the blood, looked up at Gern and smiled.

"You've turned me into a 'Want Want Ice Pop'!" Before he could finish speaking, Kuzan's hand, which had been pressing against his chest, finally slipped down limply.

"Bang!" The tall body slammed forward, crashing onto the scorching vitrified ground, the terrifying lava cracks on its body gradually extinguishing.

Ultimately, it was reduced to charred remains, and its icy body no longer reassembled.

This means that the person with the ability has completely lost consciousness.

As Guen looked at the fallen Kuzan, his violently heaving chest slowly calmed down.

Then, dragging his heavily injured body, he walked step by step to Kuzan's side, lay down directly beside him, and chuckled softly.

"It seems..."

"Today was the 'tremor' on my end..."

"That slightly overpowered your 'freeze,' Kuzan."

Chapter 244 The Silence of the Hall of Power

The Holy Land, Mary Geoise, deep within Pangaea.

Inside the Hall of Power, luxury and majesty coexist, while ancient murals on the walls silently gaze upon the center of the room.

There, a specially designed projection Den Den Mushi is clearly projecting the final scene on Sakapatch Island onto the polished floor.