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

Chapter 180 The Cursed Helen (Two Chapters Combined)

"Clang!"

In mid-air, the tall girl jumped up, bringing her legs together and pressing them tightly against her buttocks, her knees against her chest. She drew a long sword from its black sheath and pointed it downwards, her hands clasped together as she gripped the hilt, the tip of the sword pointing straight down.

As her body fell naturally, the tall girl's long knife pierced the green, highly acidic liquid before her body could move.

In an instant.

Tadpole-like black, twisted runes emerged from the tall girl's longsword, spreading outwards like a spider web across the green, highly acidic liquid.

"Tap!"

The tall girl's feet, clad in purple high heels, landed on the green, highly acidic liquid as if they were on rocky ground; she neither sank in nor showed any signs of being corroded by the acid.

Clearly, it was the effect of those black, twisted incantations.

"Tap!"

Moria landed as well, and deliberately stomped on it a little harder.

It's very hard!

The strong acid liquid seems to have had its properties altered; it still looks like a strong acid liquid, but its state is no longer what it used to be.

"Cheng!"

The girl stood up, drew her long sword, gripped the hilt with her right hand, performed a beautiful flourish, and sheathed the sword.

"What kind of ability is this?" Moria asked directly.

The tall girl turned around, looked at Moria, a strange glint in her eyes, and replied, "I am a cursed person who ate the Curse-Curse Fruit."

The tall young woman glanced down at the green, highly acidic liquid and explained, "I just used a petrification curse on this thing, turning it into stone."

The petrification curse of the tall girl is different from the petrification ability of Boa Hancock's Love-Love Fruit.

The petrification curse does not actually turn an object into stone; it only alters the original physical properties of the object, making it resemble the physical properties of stone.

So a strong acid liquid is still a strong acid liquid; it's just that the fluidity of the liquid and the corrosiveness of the strong acid have turned into the hardness of stone and the lack of corrosiveness.

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the tall girl's curse-fruit power; Moria believes that the tall girl has many more terrifying curse abilities.

Moreover… the Curse Fruit, a fruit ability that sounds terrifying just from its name, made Moria shudder at the thought.

This could be a Devil Fruit ability similar to the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, a one-hit kill type of power that is incredibly overpowered.

With such an ability user by his side, Moria's habitual caution kicked in again.

Moria gave the tall girl a deep look, suppressing the urge to enslave her, and asked, "What's your name?"

The tall girl was taken aback. She glanced at Moria's serious face and realized that the captain she had taken as her had never known her from the beginning.

She was surprised that Moria didn't ask her name or abilities at first, and assumed that Moria had already seen her information and knew about her.

As a result… the tall girl rolled her eyes at Moria, a very small one, and said, “Eris Helen, that’s my name!”

“Eris…” Moria chuckled thoughtfully, “It really is… a perfect match for your Devil Fruit ability.”

The tall young woman, Helen, remained silent, then said self-deprecatingly, "The goddess of curses, huh! She certainly lives up to the name, doesn't she...?"

The tall girl suddenly stopped talking, blinked shyly, and, not daring to look Moria in the eye, whispered, "I don't know you, Captain..."

Moria couldn't help but roll his eyes at her. "So you don't even know my name? Then how dare you roll your eyes at me just now? Don't think I can't see it just because it's a small eye roll."

"..." The tall girl blushed, unable to contain herself, and quickly turned her head away.

Moriah shook his head and smiled, "My name is Moriah!"

Moria flew upwards, glanced at the tall girl and Bondiwald, and said, "You two continue to stop that prison warden."

After saying that, Moria sped away.

Just then.

When the warden first saw his awakened ability covered by black runes and turn into something like stone, his expression changed drastically.

"The source of the curse - Eris Helen!!!"

"A female pirate from a hundred years ago is still alive, and her abilities have even grown stronger!"

The warden was shaken as if by a tidal wave. Having read the intelligence records, he knew just how much of a storm that woman with the power of the cursed fruit had stirred up and how much damage she had caused to the world.

What price did the World Government pay to capture her?

And... how incredibly powerful the Curse-Curse Fruit's abilities are.

"This is troublesome. My abilities are completely useless against her."

"This is the only way!"

The warden quickly made up his mind, and then, just as Moria was about to accelerate away, he placed his hands on the ground again.

"Sour Swamp! Ha...!"

With a loud shout from the warden, he unleashed his awakened abilities to their fullest extent.

In an instant.

One-third of the entire sixth level of Impel Down prison was transformed into a green, highly acidic liquid.

The ground, walls, doors, and even the shackles on the prisoners that touched the ground—as long as they weren't made of sea stone—all turned into a strong green acid liquid in that instant.

The prisoners in the cell were instantly submerged in a strong green acid liquid. After a short while, only white bones could be seen emerging. Then, the bones could not withstand the corrosive effect of the strong acid and eventually turned into white smoke and disappeared.

"what……!"

"Green Ghost, what are you doing...!"

"hateful………"

"It hurts so much, grandpa..."

"Green Ghost... I curse you to wear a green hat every day... Ah..."

"what……"

The screams of the prisoners as they faced death echoed throughout the entire sixth level of the prison in that instant.

"They don't want to continue expanding my shadow servants!"

Moria stopped in mid-air and saw the green acid liquid spreading towards the remaining prisoners, avoiding their area and the already massacred prison area. He chuckled and didn't pay much attention.

Most of the powerful figures on the sixth level were turned into shadow servants by him.

He has already recruited top-tier powerhouses like the Red Earl and the World Destroyer.

The purpose of coming to Impel Down has been successfully achieved.

The others are just extras; if they're gone, they're gone, it doesn't matter.

"Tap!"

Moria returned and landed in front of the tall girl. He walked towards the warden and said with a smile, "Come on, let's go say hello to our future comrade!"

The tall girl gave Moria's retreating figure a strange look, shook her head, and followed.

She didn't think the warden would agree to board his own captain's ship.

Bondiwald remained silent throughout, following behind Moria.

Not long after.

As Moria and his two companions turned a corner, they saw the warden with his hands on the ground.

At this point, the two sides were about 800 meters apart, which was a distance they could cover in less than two seconds with a catapult launch.

"Tap tap...!"

Moria didn't rush to make a move; he simply walked over.

The warden was pleased with this arrangement. When Moria was a hundred meters away, he lowered his hands, stood up straight, and faced Moria.

At this point, his goal was achieved.

In the entire sixth level of the prison, all the prisoners died, leaving Moria not even a trace of his body.

All the prisoners who weren't killed by Moria were eventually melted down by the warden.

"If Magellan knew he had killed so many prisoners, he'd probably be furious!"

The warden smiled inwardly, then looked solemnly at Moria and his group of three who continued to walk towards them.

"Actor, World Destroyer, Source of Curse, what is all this?!"

Seeing this lineup, the warden felt a bitter taste in his mouth. Although he didn't collapse, he was filled with despair.

Any one of these three individuals, in their respective eras, would have been a vicious person whom the world government would have racked its brains to eliminate.

Now that they're all gathered together, he's run into them.

Stopping twenty meters in front of the warden, Moria looked at the man who was taller than him and grinned, "Looks like you're pretty desperate!"

Before the warden could react, Moria continued with a laugh, "How about it? Want to board my ship and come with me to the New World to live a carefree life, becoming a pirate with dreams!"

"I refuse..." Before he could finish speaking, the prison warden's expression changed.

"call out!"

A black line flashed towards him in the air. He instantly controlled his body to turn to the left, tilting his chest back. At the same time, he clenched his right fist and delivered a horizontal punch to his left chest.

"Ding!"

The black line reflected off the warden's chest, resembling a pencil-sized needle.

"call out!"

"Cheng!"

At the same moment, the tall young woman Helen appeared to the left of the prison warden the instant he threw the flying needle with his right fist, drew her sword and slashed horizontally towards his neck.

"Clang!"

The warden raised his left arm and held it near his temple to block the girl's attack. The Armament Haki covering his arm also blocked the girl's petrification curse.

"bump!"

Almost instantly, before the warden could make a move, Bondiwald appeared behind him and delivered a heavy punch at a hundred times the speed, imbued with powerful Ryuo Haki, slamming it hard into the warden's back from a distance.