The remaining Gang elites collapsed on the ground, watching helplessly as that streak of golden light rapidly grew in their pupils.
BOOM!!!
Lorne slammed down onto the clearing at the center of the headquarters with Klein.
In that instant, all of Black Reef Island seemed to have been struck hard by a giant hammer from beyond the heavens. The violent tremors triggered a small tsunami, sending waves crashing onto the beach and flooding vast stretches of jungle.
A devastating AOE shock wave spread wildly outward in a ring from the point of impact.
The already battered walls, cannons, and ammunition crates that had yet to explode were all reduced to dust by this single strike.
In the microsecond Klein touched the ground, his body could no longer withstand the defense-ignoring True Damage and disintegrated into a cloud of bloody mist.
Immediately afterward, the ground within several hundred meters shattered inch by inch, sending earth and stone flying and forming an enormous crater more than fifty meters in diameter.
The Gang thugs hiding behind cover did not even have time to scream before the golden pulse of energy swept over them, instantly reducing their bodies to ash without leaving so much as a scrap of clothing.
Dust filled the air. The entire manor had vanished, replaced by a massive crater billowing black smoke.
Lorne stood at the very center of the crater, his feet planted where Klein, now reduced to dust, had once stood.
He slowly exhaled a stale breath as the Armament Haki gradually faded from his body, revealing his lean, powerful muscles.
"Phew... put a little too much force into that."
Lorne wiped a smear of blood from his cheek, the last trace Klein had left behind.
His ears twitched, and he turned his gaze toward a collapsed stone