The palm strike truly couldn't have looked simpler. Ilman had relied on the momentum from his final leap to enhance his attack, but the gesture itself didn't feature anything special or complicated.
Nevertheless, the elderly King experienced a far different truth. On the outside, the palm strike was indeed violent and mighty, but its real power lay in what it released inside the tree.
Despite the straightforward, direct hit, the energy that entered the black and grey trunk was multilayered, as if belonging to different attacks.
Concentric and expanding waves of dense but trembling energy entered the tree's base and rose throughout it, pushing aside its insides while forcing them to mimic their unusual rhythm.
The elderly King didn't have conventional organs, especially in that giant form. True Chaos mostly made up his insides, allowing him to control the gargantuan tree, its branches, and its roots, acting as a circulatory, nervous, and muscular system simultaneously.
