The next moment!
The golden Buddha stretched out its palm towards Bartholomew Kuma!
A heavy golden giant hand slowly slapped down, scattering the clouds over Takamagahara directly, and an irresistible hurricane instantly rose from the ground!
"Is this... a shockwave?"
Kizaru remembered Marshal Sengoku's usual move, the shockwave.
"No..."
Bartholomew Kuma's voice became somewhat ethereal, his eyes gazing at the sky, his soul seemingly feeling a tremor at that moment: "It's just the air current from the hand's movement... the real impact... is still to come..."
As a Paw-Paw Fruit ability user, Bartholomew Kuma understands this ability better than anyone else. He can clearly sense that the heavy golden palm is continuously compressing air using the Paw-Paw Fruit's ability!
A golden Buddha over ten thousand meters tall...
A golden palm over a thousand meters wide...
This is a terrifying size never seen before on the ocean, and adding air compression with such size and power, when the compressed air shockwave explodes, it's impossible to fathom how terrifying this impact will be...
Once the golden Buddha's palm drops...
Whether it's the air impact from this Buddha's palm falling on any country in the outside world, it's enough to easily destroy a kingdom, even enough to destroy an entire sea area, causing all life in that area to become a blood mist!
The entire ocean would be engulfed by a world-destroying tidal wave due to this strike's force!
This is...
A terrifying power of despair!
A power that no one can imagine how to cope with!
No matter how strong the opponent is, they cannot be a match for this golden Buddha!
This is a power that only gods can possess, beyond human resistance!
Bang!
This is a scene of despair; Bartholomew Kuma watched that wide golden palm descend, his body involuntarily kneeling on the ground, even as the gale continually buffeted his tottering body!
However, oddly enough, Kizaru and Vegapunk, who had been standing nearby, seemed unaffected, and even the grassland gradually ceased to sway with the wind, just as Akihara Kagura said, everything within Takamagahara is under Akihara Kagura's control!
"Spare him!"
Vegapunk also felt fear, shouting loudly at the giant Buddha in the sky: "Please let Kuma survive, he is a member of the Bakania Race, the Bakania Race people are the best human specimens on land!"
Unfortunately...
The speed of sound transmission was a bit too slow...
That wide golden palm directly slapped down!
As the golden palm from the sky descended, Kuma's Bear Paw Impact seemed small and powerless, instantly dissipated!
The golden Buddha's palm finally slapped onto the kneeling Bartholomew Kuma, and in an instant, countless mechanical fragments that had been altered within Kuma's body turned to powder and flew out from his body, turning Kuma almost into a ragged doll!
This is...
The power of the Paw-Paw Fruit...
As long as the power is strong enough, it has the ability to bounce everything away!
However, this power applied to Kuma's body brought him immense pain!
"Ahhhhhh..."
An uncontrollable pain instantly swept across Bartholomew Kuma's body!
This pain...
This pain from the emptiness due to body hollowing, the pain of blood having nowhere to go...
Because most of Kuma's internal organs had been mechanized, it was equivalent to directly stripping away the organs from his body, turning his body hollow, a level of pain that even reminded Kuma of the first time he underwent technological transformation!
I'm about to die, aren't I?
My mechanical organs inside were directly bounced away, leaving my body utterly empty with no chance of survival...
At that time...
How did I manage to endure?
Yes, Bonney...
My daughter Bonney...
Everything was for Bonney to survive, so I could endure through the pain!
Kuma's heart once again recalled the little girl who sustained him, that warmth like spring rain nourished his soul, and even made his body feel a surge of warmth...
Wait...
How can an empty body feel anything?
Kuma blinked open his eyes in disbelief, seeing his body bathed in a white light, as if soaking in the warmest pools, with new organs slowly growing in place of the stripped mechanical ones...
An empty body...
Re-growing new organs?
This is...
The power of the Creator, perhaps?
This can actually make humans spontaneously grow new organs, as if remaking a person entirely!
This mustn't be a human-grasped ability, only great deities possess such power of creation and rebirth!
"Is this the world after death?"
Kuma felt his body healing, tears fell from his eyes, grateful for the gift from the god, indifferent to his death, even relieved and eased: "Here... is paradise!"
However...
No one answered.
Only a vacant, silent space.
As Kuma's body healed, the white light thoroughly dissipated, and dazzling golden brilliance filled Kuma's eyes.
Kuma finally discovered where he was, standing on a piece of golden land, the ground here made entirely of gold-like glimmer, a type of land impossible to find anywhere in the world.
"Hey, is anyone there?"
Kuma called out in the empty golden space, but received no reply.
The tall man could only walk over the golden-like land, step by step, heading in one direction, hoping to meet someone in paradise and learn a bit about what this world of the dead is like.
However...
Kuma quickly reached the end.
The end of this golden land held only five giant gold towering pillars.
Kuma instinctively raised his head, wanting to see the end of those columns.
No...
Those aren't towering pillars...
Those are five golden fingers.
Because this isn't paradise, it's merely the palm of a Buddha.
I...
Seem to still be alive.
Kuma incredulously touched his chest, not feeling the pains of a mechanical body, just an unprecedented vigor, his ears and mind becoming sensitive, even hearing Vegapunk's voice...
"Kuma is a good man..."
"I've never seen a saint like him..."
"Mr. Kagura, please forgive Kuma, I can work for you..."