Pearl barely had any footing, both of his hands were cupping the palm-sized crystal, with his elbows placed on the structure to hold himself up without spending any mana trying to float via any other means.
A mage from the Lion's Parade flew up with fire on his shoes to try and intercept Pearl's concentration process, but he was intercepted by Mei, who casted a spell that must've cost her a great bunch of focus and mana as she got a nosebleed with her eyes almost popping out of her sockets.
From Mei's command, ice spewed from the rocky mountains and rose up at least 10 feet, it was in the shape of an arm, with each knuckles protruding sharp icycle tips the opposite direction of the finger as like a backward-slashing guard protect, those tips were sharp enough to pierce, sharper than the fingers themselves which were tip-carved.
The giant ice hand seems to mimic her motion, grabbing upon the fiery boots of that mage and slam him face-first into the rock again without remorse.
