BOOOOM—RUMBLE—RUMBLE!!!
"The sky fell and the earth split" was no longer enough to describe the devastation.
The ten thousand wooden fists of True Several Thousand Hands, each stretching thousands of meters, had converged and crashed down. Their remaining force could not possibly stop after erasing a mere Ant King. This was a world-ending blow imbued with the ruler of the Great Empire's two-hundredfold gravity and the supreme mysteries of Sage Art Wood Release!
A microsecond after Meruem's green demonic body was hammered apart in midair and reduced to nothing, that unending torrent of fists poured its planet-shattering kinetic force onto the vast primordial land below!
The first thing it struck was the enormous Ant King's nest, a hundred meters tall and sprawling across a thousand kilometers.
Built from countless magical beasts' bones and a special high-strength mucus, this underground fortress embodied the Chimera Ants' greatest ingenuity. Yet within a thousandth of a second of meeting the aftershock of those Wood Release fists, it crumpled like a sandcastle beneath a hundred million tons of hydraulic pressure.
CRACK—BOOM!
It offered not the slightest resistance. The entire thousand-kilometer nest was flattened by overwhelming gravity and kinetic force! Its dense network of tunnels, its hatching pools, and even the hundreds of thousands of low-ranking Soldier Ants and Squadron Leaders cowering in its deepest reaches were subjected to physical pressure tens of thousands of times greater than that of an ordinary bomb. Before they could scream, they were crushed along with the solid rock into a thin layer of powder!
Then the crust collapsed without mercy!
THOOM!!!
The primordial forest basin of the NGL Autonomous Nation, a landscape millions of years old, was torn open and pierced by that irresistible divine power! The mantle groaned under the strain. Across hundreds of kilometers, the ground caved