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

The difference is huge!

Magellan's eyes were filled with disbelief. His Armament Haki was like tofu in front of those tiny shadow needles, easily penetrated and completely ineffective.

"I'm not the Fifth Emperor. Any nobody who knows Armament Haki can exchange a few blows with me!"

Moria approached Magellan, looked at the future warden of prisons, and smiled.

With his current strength, speed, Armament Haki, and power are all top-notch. What else could he do against Magellan now but instantly kill him? He would fight for dozens of moves, then unleash a small but powerful attack, and finally finish him off.

That's something that only happens in anime. In reality, when the strong beat the weak, it's an instant and utter crushing defeat. They won't give you a chance to fight back, and you don't have the strength to fight back.

Just like Magellan at this moment, is he not strong? He is very strong, but he is much weaker than Moria, so he can only be instantly killed.

"What incredible vitality!"

Seeing that Magellan was still alive and had not yet lost consciousness, Moria sighed.

The fact that this guy can still have such vitality even with his internal organs pierced through shows that his body is also very strong.

Then I thought about the side effects of the Poison-Poison Fruit, which can cause diarrhea to the point of cramps. If you're not physically strong, you really can't withstand the constant diarrhea.

Seeing Moria standing in front of him, Magellan mustered his last bit of courage.

"poison…"

"Pfft pfft...!"

Magellan tried to use Venom to envelop Moria, but Moria didn't give him the chance. In an instant, Shadow Needles gave him a full-body acupuncture treatment except for his head.

Numerous shadow needle holes appeared on Magellan's body, from which blood gushed.

thump!

Magellan finally closed his eyes and collapsed to the ground. He wasn't dead, but he was close to it.

Moria quickly transformed him into a shadow slave.

Although the speed was a bit slow without Helen's cooperation, Magellan still became Moria's shadow slave.

In this way, the future director of the addiction treatment center will be found.

As for Quinn, let him be the deputy director.

After Moria channeled life energy into Magellan to help him recover from his injuries and stand up, he instructed him, "Go and guard the main gate on the ground floor. Kill anyone who tries to leave."

Moriah kept his word and vowed not to let a single person go.

"Yes, boss!" Magellan nodded, then walked past Moria and ran down to the ground floor.

Midway through, they encountered Magellan's Impel Down soldiers, but before they could even cheer, they were struck head-on by a poisonous dragon and died instantly from the poison. Their bodies were then transformed into Shadow Servants and joined the Shadow Servant army.

Moria continued toward the second level of the prison, replicating his actions from the first level. He created two hundred shadow servants, sent them to kill people, and then turned the corpses into shadow servants.

The prison cells couldn't stop the shadowy, flowing body at all, and even sea stone was useless against it.

One by one, prisoners in the prison cells were killed by shadow servants, who then became shadow servants themselves, and then went to the next cell, and so on, until all the prisoners in the first layer of the prison were turned into shadow servants.

As for the soldiers of Impel Down, they naturally became part of the Shadow Servant army as well.

Even those soldiers who managed to escape would encounter the Shadow Slave Magellan at the exit gate and eventually become part of the Shadow Servant army.

Moriah thus passed through the second and third levels.

Upon reaching the fourth level of the prison, Moria encountered a strange Impel Down soldier, who was probably some kind of leader.

Taking advantage of the chaos and invasion of Impel Down, when no one was paying attention to him, this guy opened the prison cells and practiced his swordsmanship on the prisoners inside.

When Moria arrived at this floor, there were already more than a dozen prisoners lying in pools of blood, all killed by a single stab wound, with no other stab wounds on their bodies.

"interesting!"

Moria smiled, looking at the tall man who had just walked out of the cell. Like Magellan, he had a pair of wings on his back, the real ones of which were unclear, and he was holding a bloodstained longsword in his hand.

Judging from his appearance, the man was quite young, in his early twenties, with a youthful look that suggested he had just graduated from school.

But the man's face, stained with a few drops of blood, made him look somewhat strange.

The man looked at Moria warily. From the faint yet deadly aura emanating from Moria, he knew that this was the one who had invaded Impel Down.

But...didn't Magellan already go and stop it?

How did this guy manage to get here, bypassing Magellan?

Clearly, the man did not know Moria.

However, Moria recognized the man with the knife.

Shiryu of the Rain, the future warden of Impel Down, was in his previous life ranked as the first mate of the Blackbeard Pirates.

Everyone believes that he is a powerful swordsman.

However, in the anime, this guy actually ate the Clear-Clear Fruit, leading Moria to suspect that he was just a pervert.

"Want to come out and explore the world with me?" Moria asked with a smile.

Shiryu didn't speak. He knew this man was dangerous, but he had come to Impel Down to practice his swordsmanship. He would only leave the sea after he had reached the end of Impel Down.

Therefore, Shiliu rejected Moria.

Of course, he didn't say it, but simply pointed his clenched longsword at Moria, silently expressing his will.

As a master swordsman, he can only do what he wants; no one can force him.

Even the man in front of him who posed a fatal threat to him was not an option.

"Whoosh...!"

"Pfft pfft...!"

If you don't want to, then go die. Moria didn't even glance at Shiryu of the Rain, who was riddled with shadow needles. He walked past the corpse and, incidentally, turned him and the prisoners he had killed into shadow servants.

What future Blackbeard Pirates first mate? He's not even interested in turning Moria into a shadow slave. He's not even as interested in the sword Moria is holding.

Inviting Shiryu was just a spur-of-the-moment decision, and he dared to refuse? Doesn't that mean he's inferior to Blackbeard? Moria wouldn't let him go.

Moria stored the knife in his shadow dimension.

In this lifetime, Shiryu of the Rain can only become an insignificant shadow servant, so there's no need to give him such a famous sword.

What a waste!

……

that's it.

Moria made his way up to the sixth level of Impel Down.

No one has come in to this floor yet.

After all, a bounty of hundreds of millions is only for criminals whom the world government deems extremely heinous and whose crimes cannot be known to the world. They are not so easy to find and catch.

After walking through the familiar corridor, Moria arrived in front of the ice wall.

Reaching out to touch the ice wall, it wasn't as icy as last time, and it lacked that bone-chilling feeling.

Moriah waited quietly in front of the ice wall.

The ice wall is melting, and wisps of white vapor are emanating from it, increasing in number, and water is beginning to accumulate on the ground.

Before reaching the sixth floor, Moria instructed his shadow servant to tell Magellan to turn on the switch controlling the ice wall and thaw it. He wanted to take all the Devil Fruit abilities that the World Government feared and that had been scattered outside into his own hands.

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Chapter 198 Sea King Shadow Servant Falls at Marine Headquarters

It took almost six hours for the ice wall to melt completely.

Moria stepped into the ice wall, looked at the somewhat murky ice water on the ground, and remained silent for a moment.

I got nothing.

Those prisoners frozen deep within the ice wall melted along with it as the ice wall melted, not even giving Moria a chance to become a shadow servant.

Deep within the ice wall, apart from the ice-elemental user who kept a sliver of life alive, the user had actually become one with the ice wall.

So when the ice wall melted, those ability users also melted and died.

Helen must have known she was about to become one with the ice, which is why she had such a strong will to survive that she transformed into the word "Captain" to call for help from Moria.

Otherwise, once she melts into the ice, she'll be essentially dead.

Speaking of this, Moriah later asked Helen about it.

I then realized that the ability to directly translate willpower into language to convey messages is not a skill at all, nor can it be learned; it is simply a miracle performed under a strong survival instinct.

So when Moriah wanted to learn the technique of communicating through will from Helen, Helen was also bewildered. She couldn't communicate through will anymore.

This made Moria secretly regret it for a long time.

Once mastered, the skill of expressing one's will in words will greatly enhance both one's strength and mental fortitude.

……

Moria didn't linger after failing to find anything on the sixth ice wall and returned to the fifth.

On this floor, all the prisoners and guards, including the wolves in the snow, have become shadow servants.

On this floor, Moria had taken all the other shadow servants into his shadow space, except for those he needed to locate in the connected walls, cells, and other shadow spaces.

Now his shadow space is very large, and with the addition of the shadow space connected by positioning, it can hold not only tens of thousands of people, but hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

The fourth layer is the same; apart from the one that positions itself within the Shadow Space, all the other Shadow Servants are taken into the Shadow Space.

Thus, Moria arrived at the deck in front of the exit gate of Impel Down, accompanied only by his shadow slave Magellan. Behind him, the entire Impel Down had become a ghost town, and even the Den Den Mushi that were monitoring them had all turned into shadow servants.

Standing on the edge of the deck, looking out at the sea, Moria didn't rush to the Marine Headquarters.

Impel Down is located in the Calm Belt, where there are many Sea Kings.

Moria has not yet created any Sea King Shadows.

"Let's go hunting!"

With a thought, Moria's shadow expanded on the ground, and hundreds of shadow servants, Brugri, sprang out from it.

These are the sea monsters guarding the first level of Impel Down prison, each wielding a double-edged axe made from a shadow.

Despite its small size, it makes a living by hunting sea kings.