Boom!
Fist and barrier collided head-on!
The shockwave spread outward in a sphere, instantly leveling the remaining prison walls around them. The barrier, reinforced with Aramaki's considerable Armament Haki, did not even last a second before shattering with a deafening crash!
The concentrated impact slammed viciously into Aramaki's treant body!
"Urgh—!"
The enormous treant was like a small mountain struck by something flying at high speed. He was sent hurtling hundreds of meters away, his massive body smashing through every remaining building and wall along the way. At last, he crashed into a plaza within the Royal Capital like a meteor, triggering a violent explosion. Smoke and dirt surged into the sky, forming a small mushroom cloud.
Broken branches and shattered trunks scattered everywhere. The treant Aramaki had become, along with everything around him, seemed to have been reduced to ashes by that single punch.
The kingdom guards who had rushed over after hearing the commotion, hoping to maintain order, were merely grazed by the edge of the shockwave, yet each of them coughed blood, suffered broken bones and torn muscles, and collapsed to the ground.
Adams floated in midair, the hem of his black coat billowing in the wind. His aqua-blue eyes calmly watched the ruins below, shrouded in smoke and dust.
Suddenly, from the barren and devastated ground before him, a tender green sapling burst from the earth at a visible speed. It swiftly expanded and grew... In the blink of an eye, Aramaki's figure "grew" out from the tree once more, returning to human form.
However, blood now trickled from the corner of Aramaki's mouth, and his aura was noticeably weaker than before.
He had been imprisoned for too long, and his body had yet to recover to its peak. After taking Adams's merciless Conqueror's Haki Infusion