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

The warden's heavy punch, propelled by the acceleration of his run, slammed into the guard's knife, pressing down on the blade and then heavily onto his body.

"Snap! Snap..."

As expected, in an instant, the warden's sternum fractured, and a tremendous force struck, blasting him away into the distance, where he crashed into a high wall and sank into the ruins.

Although he didn't die, he was crippled and couldn't get up for the time being.

"Was it a deliberate act of knocking him away to save his life?" The young girl Helen glanced thoughtfully at the warden, gaining a deeper understanding of her captain's abilities.

The warden withdrew his fist, turned around, and came to Helen's side. The three of them continued through the corridor and flew up to the upper passage.

"Boom!"

Another loud bang, and a large hole was torn open in the roof of the first floor of Impel Down. The hungry wolf from St. Lake crawled out and sat on the wall at the edge of the hole.

Moria, who had already emerged and was standing on the shadow of the disc, manipulated the shadow to fly towards San Juan Wolf.

Looking at the San Juan Wolf, Moria blinked, making sure he wasn't mistaken; the big fat guy seemed to have shrunk.

"This is... a Devil Fruit ability?" Moria asked curiously.

At this time, San Juan Wolf was only fifteen meters tall, about the same height as a typical giant. Compared to his previous height of at least one hundred meters, he was more than ten times shorter.

This ability to change size so drastically must be a Devil Fruit power.

Moria seems to have forgotten whether the original work mentioned that San Juan Garou was a Devil Fruit user.

"Huh! I've shrunk!" San Juan Wolf looked at himself with a surprised expression, then looked at Moria and said, "I don't know what kind of ability this is!"

"..." Moria shook his head and didn't ask any more questions. He was already certain that this fat man was an idiot, or at least mentally deficient in some ways.

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

Chapter 181 The Five Elders Have a Solution (Two Chapters Combined)

"Tap tap...!"

A moment later, the three girls, including Helen, flew out and hovered in the air.

"Huh!" Moria's curious gaze fell on the girl's feet.

The prison warden and Bondiwald both hovered in the air using Moonwalk, while only the girl, like Moria, stood in the air.

A circle of black runes spread out beneath the girl's feet, like Moria's shadow disc, supporting her body.

Helen noticed Moria's gaze and explained, "Air can also be petrified and cursed, turning it into something with the same properties as stone."

"Understood!" Moria nodded and gave the girl a thumbs up.

The curse turned the air into stone, but it didn't fall like stone, so people could stand on it.

It seems quite reasonable!

"What a load of rubbish!" Moria couldn't help but retort.

However, Moria still admired the girl's ability to develop her Devil Fruit powers to such an extent that she could use a petrification curse to this extent.

With a thought, Moria expanded the Shadow Disc and had the four of them come up, preparing to take them directly from the air across the Red Line to the New World.

Everyone else jumped onto Moria's giant shadow disc, but Helen didn't.

Before Moria could ask, Helen explained, "Captain, I have some things to take care of. I'll come find you in the New World after I'm done."

Moria didn't ask what was wrong, but instead asked with a smile, "Do you need any help?"

Helen shook her head and said, "No need, I can handle it myself."

Moria nodded and smiled, "Then wait a minute, I have something good for you."

As he spoke, Moria manipulated his shadow to merge into Helen's shadow, connecting and locating her shadow space.

Throughout the entire process, Helen showed absolute trust in Moria and did not believe that Moria would use mind control to enslave her.

In response to this trust, Moria proactively explained that by connecting to the Shadow Space and granting her the authority to control the Shadow Servants, her Shadow Space could function like a storage space.

Moria then summoned a Shadow Servant Newsbird and placed it in Helen's shadow space, explaining to her, "The Shadow Servant Newsbird has a certain sense of distance from me, no matter how far away it is. With its guidance, you can find me accurately."

Moria laughed and said, "Just come back through it after you've finished your business."

Helen bowed slightly and said solemnly, "Captain Moriah, I will return as quickly as possible after I have finished my business."

Moriah nodded, and then the two went their separate ways.

……

Naval Headquarters.

Marineford.

A naval captain responsible for contacting Impel Down every half hour frantically pushed open the door to the Fleet Admiral's office.

"Clang!"

The door was rudely flung open, and the three people in the office—Kong, Garp, and Sengoku—all looked at the naval captain who had barged in without knocking.

"Marshal Kong!!"

The naval captain, drenched in sweat, didn't bother to wipe it off. He strode to his desk and reported, "Imperial City hasn't contacted us for over half an hour, and our early warning communications haven't been answered either."

"What?!" Kong's pupils contracted, and he slammed his hands on the desk, standing up and roaring, "That means Impel Down may have lost communication half an hour ago!!"

"Yes...yes!" the naval captain said weakly.

"Damn it!!" Steelbone Kong cursed angrily, "Why didn't you report it the moment you lost contact?"

“Because…” The naval captain felt a little aggrieved. Communication with Impel Down was usually only once every half hour, and… there had never been any accidents before. Who would have thought that he would encounter an accident on his first day in office? He wanted to explain, but Kong had already waved him away.

"Imperial City has lost contact... Could it be..." Sengoku and Garp stood up, exchanged a heavy look, and simultaneously thought of a certain man.

"Hopefully it's not that guy!" Garp and the other man thought to themselves.

Kong said to Garp and Sengoku, "You've probably guessed that Impel Down might be in the worst possible situation. You two should go to Impel Down right now, and I'll have Tsuru lead five warships to support you afterwards."

"Understood!" Garp and Sengoku nodded, turned and left, pushed open the office door, came to the corridor, and used Moonwalk to fly quickly towards Impel Down.

Both were top-tier powerhouses, terrifying monsters with monstrous physical strength.

In just eight hours, Garp and Sengoku, who had fully activated Moonwalk, arrived at Impel Down.

"Was it really hacked?!"

High in the air, as they approached Impel Down, Garp and Sengoku saw the large hole that San Juan Garou had made in the top floor of Impel Down.

"This is bad!"

"The Warring States Period!"

Garp frowned. It wasn't a prison break, but an invasion. They even managed to control or destroy the communications room before Impel Down even had time to contact Marine Headquarters.

People with this kind of ability or strength are few and far between on this vast ocean.

The only person Garp could think of was Moria, who possessed both unique abilities and immense strength.

"I hope not!"

As they spoke, Sengoku and Garp landed in front of the Impel Down gates.

"A great general of the Warring States period!"

"Lieutenant General Garp!"

The soldiers guarding the gate saw Garp and Sengoku land and quickly stepped forward to salute.

"what's the situation?"

"Where is the director?"

As Sengoku walked into Impel Down, he asked the question.

The soldiers, following behind Sengoku and Garp, exchanged bewildered glances, unsure how to respond.

Many soldiers witnessed the scene where the prison warden punched the warden, sending him flying, and then left with the two escaped prisoners.

Later, the scene of him leaving with Moria, the actor, over Impel Down was also observed by the soldiers through their binoculars.

How do I answer this? Should I say that their prison warden quit his post and became a pirate?

The soldiers remained silent, still finding it hard to accept the warden's betrayal.

Zhan Guo frowned, about to reprimand someone, when a soldier captain reached out and said with a wry smile, "General Zhan Guo, come with me and you'll see. We can't explain what happened either!"

Whether or not the warden had betrayed the regime was a matter of great concern to the warden, whom they had always respected, so the soldiers dared not speak out of turn.

It would be better to have the warden and deputy warden, who are the only people in the city whose positions are second only to the warden of prisons, in charge.

Following the soldier who led the way, Garp and Sengoku arrived at the infirmary.

Before the soldiers could knock, Sengoku and Garp pushed the door open and went in. The soldier who was leading the way smiled wryly and did not go in, but stood guard outside the door.

"Impossible! [The agency]..."

In the infirmary, the warden, with a white cloth wrapped around his chest, lay on the hospital bed. Magellan stood beside the bed arguing with him. When they heard the door open, the two stopped and looked towards the doorway.

"General Sengoku, Vice Admiral Garp!" the two shouted simultaneously.

"What happened?" Sengoku asked directly.

“It’s the Best Actor…” Magellan briefly recounted Moria’s sudden invasion of Impel Down, his massacre of all the prisoners in Level 6, his taking away the bodies, and his eventual kidnapping of the warden.

“No, the director left voluntarily!” the guard lying on the bed retorted.

"Impossible! How could the warden voluntarily leave with the pirates!" Magellan was agitated; he couldn't believe that the respected warden would betray Impel Down.

Before Sengoku and Garp arrived, Magellan and the warden were arguing about this.

The warden also respected the prison warden.

But the thought of facing that sudden, swift punch...

He saw the familiar yet indifferent gaze of the prison warden across from him.

He instantly realized that his respected warden had truly betrayed him.

Because of respect and familiarity, when the warden showed that indifferent look in his eyes, even if the warden didn't want to believe it, reason told him that the warden had betrayed him.

But Magellan never believed it, which is why he argued with Magellan.

"Stop arguing!"