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

As soon as Moria granted him access, the Red Earl felt his body return to his control.

"Can we fly now?" Moria asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Red Earl took to the sky, circled a few times, and returned to Moria, respectfully saying, "You can fly now!"

As long as it can fly!

With that, crippling Kaido is a sure thing.

With that thought in mind, Moria put the Red Earl into his shadow space.

Chapter 186 Shadow Life (Two Chapters Combined)

"Boss!"

July approached Moria with two small swords in her hand, held them up for him to see, and said, "These two swords are too small for me to use. You should take them back to the Shadow Servant, Golden Lion."

Indeed, the Golden Lion's size is still a bit smaller than July's six-meter stature.

I gave Shiki's twin swords to July before, but she couldn't use them at all.

"Then I'll keep it for now!"

Moria manipulated his shadow to take the twin swords from July's hand and put them into his shadow dimension, then asked, "Do you have any suitable swords to use?"

July smiled wryly and said, "No!"

July shrugged and said helplessly, "I've already asked Sister January, but they don't have a suitable knife for us."

Moria asked in surprise, "Us?"

July explained, "My two older sisters, Five Leaves and Six Leaves, are also missing their axes and longswords, so they can't use the Giant Clan's secret technique - Overlord Kingdom, which has affected their strength to some extent!"

There's really no way around it!

Moria can't possibly make weapons grow bigger or smaller, can he?

Moria thought for a moment and said, "You can use the shadow blades made from my shadow for now!"

Shadow weapons can change size and shape, satisfying anyone's needs.

“Shadow weapons…that works too!” July smiled after a moment of contemplation, then left Moria alone and went back to inform her two older sisters, Goto and Rokuyo.

After leaving in July, Moriah once again fell into deep thought.

Weapons can be big or small!

Theoretically, Moria could enlarge his weapons by manipulating their shadows, just like he could control the size of a zombie's shadow to change its shape. However, Moria has never tried it.

"Give it a try!"

Thinking to himself, Moria took out an ordinary katana from the shadow dimension. It was about 1.2 meters long, two fingers wide, and thick... the thickness of an ordinary sword!

Moria didn't use the two famous swords of the Golden Lion, for fear of accidentally losing them, which would be a greater loss than gain.

Moria planted the knife diagonally on the deck, then manipulated his shadow to merge into the knife's shadow before attempting to make the shadow larger.

"The effect is immediate!"

Moria was overjoyed, for as the shadow of the sword grew larger, the sword itself also grew larger, from 1.2 meters to 3 meters.

However... it feels like it's been enlarged proportionally, making the blade too wide and the sharp edge blunt, making it look like a blunt cleaver.

Each length of the knife has a specific width-to-thickness ratio for the blade, and it cannot be enlarged proportionally.

"Let's make some more adjustments!"

With a thought, Moria manipulated the shadow of the sword to reshape the three-meter-long sword to the proportions of a three-meter-long sword.

Moria himself didn't know the exact ratio of the width to the thickness of this three-meter length. He wasn't a swordsmith, so naturally he didn't know. He could only keep adjusting the ratio to make it look pleasing to the eye.

Perona, who was flying around, turned around and saw Moria's large sword constantly changing shape. Her little eyes lit up immediately, as if she had found a good toy. She flew over to Moria's side and stared at him.

"How amazing!!"

"I really want a little black umbrella that can change size!!"

Perona's eyes seemed to be shining, and she kept repeating to herself.

January and the others also noticed Moria's situation, but no one came to disturb him, knowing that Moria was currently developing his abilities.

July suddenly said with emotion, "Our boss is so kind. He was just complaining that our weapons were too small, and he immediately developed the ability to make our weapons bigger."

Uh-huh!

Five-leaf and six-leaf leaves nodded in agreement, their gazes towards Moria filled with tenderness.

Mitsuha laughed and said, "Shouldn't you be wondering why our boss's Shadow-Shadow Fruit can develop so many strange and wonderful abilities?"

January and the others laughed, indicating that they were already used to their boss's ability to develop his Devil Fruit powers. They could accept even the most surprising abilities.

Moriah's side.

He finally finished shaping the three-meter-long sword. It looked alright, and the handle was much thicker, making it easier to grip.

Moria drew his longsword, performed a series of frenzied sword techniques, and then frowned.

He discovered a serious problem.

Although the knife has changed from 1.2 meters to 3 meters in length and its size has changed, its weight remains the same as the original long knife. After becoming larger, it feels like wielding a hollow iron sword. You don't have to exert any force; it's just bigger, without any increase in weight.

Moreover... once freed from the shadow's control, it will return to its original state.

Moria withdrew his shadow and looked at the sword, now restored to its original size, pondering: How can I keep the sword growing larger while maintaining its corresponding weight?

The answer is...

"Become a shadow life form!!"

Moria suddenly realized that if the weapon became a shadow life form, allowing the shadow to control its size, it could change the weapon's size and maintain that size indefinitely.

As for how to increase the weight of the enlarged weapon, we'll discuss that later.

The problem remains the same: how to imbue the weapon, which is inseparable from its shadow, with intelligence, allowing it to control its own shadow.

"Got it!!"

At that moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Moria's mind.

Shadow Servant Red Earl!

The Shadow Servant, Count Red, whose shadow was partially merged with his own.

The key to imbuing the weapon's shadow life with intelligence lies with Count Red, the Shadow Servant.

Moria laughed, sheathed his ordinary sword and returned to the shadow dimension, then took out the two famous swords belonging to the Golden Lion and stuck them on the deck.

With a thought, Moria manipulated his shadow to merge into the shadows of the two famous swords, then separated a portion of his shadow and merged it with the shadows of the two famous swords, while the rest of his shadow was withdrawn.

Moria then summoned two ordinary shadow servants, and like the Red Earl, merged a part of his own shadow with the shadow servants.

After doing all this, Moria returned the two ordinary shadow servants to the shadow space and had them each walk to the narrow entrance to the shadow space containing the two famous swords of the Golden Lion.

"The next step is crucial!"

Moria thought to himself that he had previously tried to integrate the Shadow Servant into the weapon's shadow space barrier, hoping to give the weapon the Shadow Servant's intelligence.

Well… to put it simply, it's a weapon that incorporates a part of Moria's essence. Although it has the will to live or a soul, it lacks intelligence and is like a vegetable, requiring intelligence or consciousness to control its body (weapon).

The Shadow Servant is the key element that gives the weapon consciousness and intelligence.

Previously, no matter how hard Moria tried to force it, the Shadow Servant could not be integrated into the weapon's shadow space barrier.

"This time will be different!"

As Moria muttered to himself, he manipulated the shadow servants into a stream of water that entered the sword's shadow space, and then ordered them to merge into the barrier of the shadow space.

"Ha ha!"

Moria quickly smiled. As expected, the two famous swords, Shadow Space Barrier and Shadow Servant, which had both merged into his shadow, naturally fused together.

Moriah's shadow acted like a fusing agent, merging two previously incompatible objects together.

Moria's mind sank into the shadow space of the two famous swords, and he found that the originally pitch-black shadow space barrier now had a thousand sparse stars. The stars on the human shadow space barrier were dazzling, which meant that intelligence might not be high, but did it matter? No matter! As long as the weapons could be made to grow bigger and smaller, and could be kept indefinitely, that was fine.

"Grow bigger!" Moria commanded the two famous swords directly.

"Yes, Master!" Suddenly, anthropomorphic eyes and mouths appeared on the two famous swords near their tips, and they spoke.

Two swords flew into the air, just like the sword that Charlotte Linlin's hat had turned into. They could hover in the air, facing Moria as they slowly grew larger, asking, "Master, how big do you want?"

This time, Moria didn't need to be distracted by controlling the shadow's shaping; as the two swords grew larger on their own, they maintained a good width-to-thickness ratio throughout.

“Three…four meters, let it grow to four meters long!” Moria said with a smile, thinking about July’s height.

As soon as he finished speaking, the two famous swords suddenly grew to four meters long, as if they had grown on their own.

"Lord Moria, I want one too!!!" Perona, who had been watching from the side, flew to Moria and held out her little black umbrella to him, her eyes full of longing.

Moria laughed, "You little rascal!!"

Moria neither agreed nor refused, but simply asked Perona to wait, as there was still a weight problem to solve regarding Shadow Life.

Perona didn't pester him, and flew to the side with a smile to watch Moria.

Regarding weight, Moria's idea was to incorporate more of his own shadow, using the shadow to influence the weight of the sword itself.

After all, his shadow itself has the property of weight.

Previously, when he created shadow life forms, the portion of the shadow that he incorporated was actually very small, and it had virtually no impact on the weight of the original sword.

Now that more has been incorporated, the basic weight must have increased.

Thinking this, Moria manipulated his shadow to merge into the shadow of the twin swords. This time, he merged in a shadow weighing about two thousand pounds, one sword weighing two thousand pounds, for a total weight of four thousand pounds.

Moria stretched out his hands, and two knives automatically fell into his hands from the air.

Moria swung each of them and felt that they were a bit heavy, which was in line with the weight of a four-meter-long sword, but definitely not more than two thousand catties.

"Make it bigger, make it longer, up to eight meters long!" Moria commanded.

The two knives grew to eight meters in length. Moria gripped the handles and tossed them around, feeling that they weighed around a thousand pounds, but still less than two thousand pounds.

Moriah then made the sword grow larger, until it reached a length of fourteen meters, at which point the sword weighed a little over two thousand kilograms.

Then the knife gets bigger, but the weight doesn't increase.

It seems that the weight of the sword increases as the shadow grows larger, until the final weight of Moria's merged shadow plus the weight of the sword itself stops increasing.