The Journey of Freedom After the Awakening of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit

If January obtains the power of the Momo-Momo Fruit, her strength will definitely double instantly, and she might soon be on par with Mitsuba.

It won't be too late for him to eliminate the World Destroyer Shadow Servant by then.

All he needs is a corpse!

Half a minute later.

Bondiwald, who was already frozen and in a state of blurred consciousness, was no match for Moria's shadow slave transformation and obediently became his shadow slave.

After completing the Shadow enslavement, Moria also channeled life energy into Bondiwald, waking him up.

“Master…Master!” Bondiwald stood up, bowed slightly to Moria, and called out with difficulty, his brows furrowed.

As a former world destroyer, his arrogant and domineering attitude was not much different from that of the Celestial Dragons, who looked down on themselves as gods.

The first time he spoke after becoming a shadow slave, he called out "master" with some discomfort and reluctance.

But there's nothing that can be done; the victor is king, the loser is villain. The terror of the Shadow Slaves is something Bondiwald can't change.

Moria ignored Bondiwald and looked at a figure twenty meters deep inside the ice wall.

The face was not clearly visible, but one could vaguely make out that it was a woman under a head of white hair.

He was holding a black scabbard in his left hand, inside which was probably a long sword whose hilt was not clearly visible.

From the ice, the woman appears tall, but not bulky or burly; rather, she is slender and shapely.

Moria looked at the woman because she was talking to him.

"captain!"

Just those two words, nothing more. It wasn't a voice directly in Moria's ear, nor a thought resonating in his heart, but rather a will.

The white-haired woman, twenty meters deep within the ice wall, unleashed her powerful will in the form of the word "Captain," which Moria could feel.

For no apparent reason, Moria understood what the white-haired woman meant by the word "captain".

"Save me, and you'll be my captain!" Moria whispered, then looked at the woman inside the ice wall and chuckled softly.

"can!"

With a thought, Moria manipulated his shadow into a square cage-like blade, slashing towards the white-haired woman.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle...!"

The ice wall was driven into the ground with a loud grinding sound. The further in you went, the harder the ice seemed to become, and it also had a unique chill that seemed to freeze your consciousness, causing even the Armament Haki covering Moria's shadow to show signs of collapse.

"eccentric!"

Moria frowned. The hardness of the ice and the fact that its freezing effect prevented Armament Haki from condensing made him realize that enslaving the prisoners deep within the ice wall might be troublesome.

Fortunately, the current harvest is already substantial, and Moria doesn't want everything.

He remained unmoved and continued to manipulate the shadow to cut into the ice wall.

He wanted to save the white-haired woman; he wanted to see what kind of woman she was who could express her will through words.

Moria didn't even know how to use his will in this way, and he never even imagined that will could be used in this way.

He always thought that willpower was useless except for being poured into fists, feet, swords, and other weapons to increase attack power.

The appearance of the white-haired woman has opened the door to a new world for Moria.

"Perhaps, the question of how to imbue inanimate objects with intelligence rests on your shoulders!"

Moria squinted at the white-haired woman, sensing that the shadow had already cut behind her. With a thought, the shadow contracted and cut, separating the woman and the surrounding ice blocks from the ice wall, and then pulled her away.

The white-haired woman was pulled out of the ice.

"Tap!"

The moment she stepped out of the ice wall, the white-haired woman's ice instantly vaporized. Then, she gracefully flipped in the air and landed in front of Moria.

Unlike Bondiwald, who was frozen unconscious, the white-haired woman was not only fully conscious, but also full of vitality, just like Moria who had just consumed more than a dozen portions of life energy. She showed no signs of having been frozen for a long time.

"captain!"

The white-haired woman faced Moria, bowed slightly, indicating her approval of him as captain and that she had not forgotten her previous promise.

Moria nodded slightly in response, then carefully examined the woman, or rather the girl, before him.

He's very young, looks about eighteen years old.

Standing over five meters tall, he looked about the same height as Moria.

She wore a pair of black leggings, but only the right leg had a body; the left leg had no body below the hip, revealing her long, straight, and powerful white legs.

She wore a short gray tank top that just covered her shapely breasts, revealing her toned abs and slim waist.

With an oval face and delicate features, especially her striking, upward-sloping eyebrows that are captivating and give the impression of someone about to draw their sword and challenge the heavens, she exudes a heroic spirit.

Finally, the short, silver hair that just reaches her chin gives the woman both a heroic and mature look.

"Follow!"

Moria withdrew his gaze from the white-haired girl, activated his Shadow Golden Body mode, and flew rapidly towards other corridors.

The white-haired girl followed Moria silently, moving very fast. Each movement was like a catapult launch, yet without any dramatic commotion, appearing unusually quiet, like a gentle breeze.

The contrast with Bondiwald is striking.

"Tap tap...!"

After activating ten times the speed, Bondiwald used Moonwalk to fly through the air, following behind Moria.

Arriving at a corridor, Moria exited Shadow Mode, and his shadow transformed back into four shadow needles crackling with black lightning. As Moria walked quickly, they moved back and forth between the prison cells on both sides of the corridor, killing all the prisoners.

The white-haired girl and Bondiwald stood on either side of Moria, following him to the left and right.

Three minutes passed.

Moria reached the end of the corridor, where there was a huge room. The door alone was a hundred meters high, and inside, a fat man who was ten or twenty times larger than a giant was squatting on the ground.

"Giant Battleship - San Juan Hungry Wolf!"

Upon seeing this giant, Moria knew who it was.

"So, how about it? Want to be my companion?"

Perhaps it was the white-haired girl's allegiance that put Moria in a good mood; instead of killing the San Juan Wolf Shadow Servant immediately, he extended an invitation to her.

San Juan Wolf looked down at Moria outside the gate, tilting his head as if pondering whether or not to pledge allegiance.

Moria watched calmly without speaking. He only invited him once. After ten seconds, if San Juan Wolf still hadn't decided, then he could only become a shadow servant.

"Captain! Can I have a full meal?!" The hungry wolf of Saint Lake An spoke up as Moria counted down to the ninth second.

Moria laughed and said, "You can eat as much as you want, right now you can eat your fill."

As he spoke, Moria manipulated his shadow to merge into the shadow of the San Juan Wolf, infusing it with the life energy of ten people.

At the same time, they also tentatively subjected him to a little shadow enslavement.

Unexpectedly, it succeeded with ease. Even from beginning to end, the hungry wolf of Saint Lake An didn't show the slightest subconscious resistance.

Chapter 179 Awakening of the Sour-Sour Fruit's Power (Two Chapters Combined)

"This...is he an idiot!" Moria thought to himself.

"So comfortable! I want more!" Saint Lake An, the hungry wolf, lay down in front of the gate, his indifferent and fierce eyes looking at Moria, a large puddle of drool dripping from the corner of his mouth.

Looking at the fierce light emanating from those eyes, Moria believed that if he hadn't already turned the Hungry Wolf of Sacred Lake into a shadow slave, this big guy would probably have already slammed the door open, grabbed him, and stuffed him into his mouth.

Of course, if it really happens, it will be San Juan Wolf who dies.

"Next time!"

Meeting the eyes of the San Juan Wolf, Moria shook his head, looked around, and asked the San Juan Wolf, "How did they get you in here?"

He's several hundred meters tall, too big for the elevator, and the passageway from the sixth to the fifth floor is too narrow for him to fit in.

How did Impel Down manage to bring such a large person in? Moria was curious.

Upon hearing that there was nothing to eat, the hungry wolf of Holy Lake An listlessly rested its chin on the ground, too lazy to even move its hands. It only raised its two large, water-jar-like eyes upwards and whispered, "Up there!"

Moria stepped through the gate and looked up, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

However, it can be roughly guessed that the prison where the Hungry Wolf of St. Lake is imprisoned must be very high, possibly even connected to the ground floor of Impel Down.

"This must be a special passage, specifically used to transport the San Juan Wolves. It might even have been created to imprison them," Moria thought to himself.

"Can you climb up here by yourself?" Moria asked.

"can!"

Saint Lake An, the hungry wolf, nodded, stood up, and with a gentle pull of his hands and feet, the specially made huge shackles on his body instantly broke and fell to the ground with a "bang! clang!"

Clearly, if he weren't weak, these shackles wouldn't have been able to stop the monstrous strength of the San Juan Wolf.

Boom!

Saint Lake An, the hungry wolf, spread his arms out, like five giant electric drill fingers piercing into the wall, and lay sprawled against it.

He turned to Moria, as if asking if he wanted to get in. He could help Moria and the others leave.

Moria shook his head and smiled, "You go upstairs and wait for me. I still have some things to take care of here."

After saying this, Moria turned and left, followed by the tall, white-haired girl and Bondiwald.

The hungry wolf of Saint Lake An obeyed Moria's command and began to climb upwards with a rumbling sound.

Upon arriving in the middle of the corridor, Moria, as before, first used the key to unlock the shackles on the corpses of the Devil Fruit users, and then transformed all the corpses into shadow servants.

After completing the Shadow Servants transformation, Moria recalled all the Shadow Servants into the Shadow Space, then activated Shadow Golden Body Mode again and flew to the next corridor.

"Ok!"

"Finally, someone's here!"

Moria smiled slightly as he arrived at the entrance of the corridor. His Observation Haki detected a group of Impel Down soldiers, led by a powerful aura, who were traveling from the fifth floor to the sixth floor via the spiral staircase.

"go!"

Moria didn't linger and continued flying towards the various prison rooms on the sixth floor.

Two shadow needles circled around him. Whenever he encountered a prison cell with prisoners, he would go in and fire wildly. The prisoners couldn't stop him at all and were shot through the head, dying one by one.

Once a certain number of prisoner corpses have been accumulated, Moria will stop and repeat the previous operation. First, he will remove the Seastone shackles from the corpses of Devil Fruit users, and then he will turn all the corpses into shadow servants.