"Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands~"
S-Buddha Form took a deep breath and solemnly pressed his palms together. The ground shook violently, and a Buddha ten thousand meters tall rose from the earth.
Using True Several Thousand Hands nearly drained him dry, as his Wood Release relied entirely on stamina and mental energy. His arms and legs trembled. Gritting his teeth, he directly controlled the thousand arms behind him and sent them striking at Gyuki.
In the distance, Vegapunk, who had been rescued by Kuma, used his special glasses to observe S-Buddha Form's condition ten thousand meters above. A gleam flashed in his eyes as he thought, As expected, the wood ability isn't a Devil Fruit power. If it were, using a move wouldn't leave him this weak. Liu Qing has something in his body that I haven't discovered.
And S-Buddha Form doesn't have that inside him, so using the wood ability directly consumes enormous amounts of stamina and mental energy. That expenditure is over a thousand times greater than Liu Qing's when he uses his wood ability.
He thought of how Liu Qing could freely use True Several Thousand Hands without feeling weak, then looked at S-Buddha Form now. Just one use had left him as exhausted as if he had released himself fifty times without stopping.
Before he could continue observing, Kuma slapped both of them, one strike each. Vegapunk and Jewelry Bonney instantly disappeared, while Kuma himself collapsed to the ground and lay motionless.
In Pangaea Castle, Imu sat in his chair, constantly following the battle on Future Island through telepathy. After seeing S-Buddha Form's ability, he couldn't help recalling the terrifying power Liu Qing had unleashed two years earlier.
An idea came to him. A magic circle then appeared beneath his chair, and he