Even as the so-called wise general, Sengoku had no time to devise a response in that flash of lightning. He could only instinctively choose the method he had the greatest confidence in.
With an ethereal, sacred Buddhist chant, the Marine Admiral's entire body shone with brilliant golden light.
A golden Great Buddha, no shorter than Charlotte Linlin yet far more powerfully built than her current form, appeared at the bow. Without yielding an inch, it thrust out its enormous palm to meet the overwhelming Haki rushing toward it. "Heaven and Earth, I Alone Am Honored!"
Then—then that seemingly incomparably powerful shockwave could not even buy half a second of delay. Then even Sengoku's massive Buddha body was instantly swallowed whole.
The excruciating pain throughout his body, something he had never experienced in all his years of military service, nearly caused Marine Admiral Sengoku to lose consciousness at once.
Yet this Marine Admiral, always renowned for his intellect, gritted his teeth like his close friend Garp. He desperately pushed his Armament Haki to protect his body as much as possible and held on with all his might, refusing to pass out.
Only after the Great Buddha was carried all the way into the Red Line did he finally let out that last breath he had been holding and fall into darkness.
This overwhelmingly powerful punch not only sent Marine Admiral Sengoku flying seven or eight kilometers, but also blasted a crater over a thousand meters wide into the Red Line's ten-thousand-meter cliff.
The violent tremors it caused even shook the Holy Land Mary Geoise above. Many World Nobles who sat high above others and regarded themselves as gods, including some of the Five Elders, were thrown into a daze. A few especially unlucky ones were even injured by falling chandeliers.
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