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

The old man, somewhat embarrassed and angry, raised his hand to beckon them again.

Makino, who was behind the bar, quickly came over and tugged at the old man's sleeve, saying with a smile, "Grandpa Village Chief, don't be angry."

Hearing Makino's clear, bell-like voice calling him "Village Chief," the old man showed an embarrassed expression and said gently:

"Don't be angry! Don't be angry. Today is Makino's first day as store manager. I'm not angry."

"But you!"

The old man looked at the people drinking in the tavern and said seriously, "You must leave Makino's tavern before 10 p.m.!"

Ugh!

No!

Inside the tavern, everyone was reluctant; what fun was there if they couldn't drink until midnight?

But the old man insisted that everyone had to leave before 10 o'clock!

Makino is still young, and she inherited her parents' shop alone, so necessary safety measures still need to be taken.

Although those who come here to drink are all from Windmill Village, human nature cannot be tested.

Who knows what kind of bad things these bastards might do when they're drunk in the middle of the night? It's the dead of night when no one's around, which is too dangerous for Makino.

As the village chief of Windmill Village, the old man felt it was his duty to maintain the village's stability and protect Makino's safety.

"Thank you, Grandpa Village Chief!" Makino smiled gently, her eyes narrowed.

Seeing that smile that seemed to melt away all sadness, the old man felt it was even more necessary for him to come and supervise every day.

Make sure everyone in the tavern leaves before 10 p.m. every night.

Just as the tavern in Windmill Village, Makino, was bustling with activity.

On a calm stretch of the East China Sea, a pirate ship lay silently anchored, like a ghost ship.

"It still doesn't work!"

An irritated voice rang out from inside the cabin.

Under the light of an oil lamp, a bald man with white eyes and foaming at the mouth had just died.

A shadow emerged from the bald man's shadow and returned to the feet of a handsome man with two small curved horns on his head.

The man was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, three meters tall, with exceptionally well-developed muscles, like a body of steel. He was Moria, who had been in the East China Sea for a month.

At this point, Moria has changed his identity. Through the transformation of his shadow and the restoration of his life, he has undergone plastic surgery on his appearance. He is now called Jack, a bounty hunter who can conquer the world with his good looks.

What he just did was develop the ability to control living people by modifying their shadows.

However, after a month in the East Blue, and having searched for no fewer than a hundred pirates, they had not succeeded.

In the process of transforming the shadow of a living person, the person often dies before the transformation is even completed.

"Let's clean up the ship first. We'll rest here tonight and continue developing the Shadow Slaves tomorrow!"

Thinking this to himself, Moria left the cabin and walked outside.

Shadow Slave is the name Moria gave to this ability he developed. It means that once a living person is successfully transformed and controlled by his shadow, he will become a slave to his own shadow and be controlled by it.

After coming down from the cabin to the deck, the several shadow servants who had transformed into chefs had already prepared the meal.

Perona sat down beside the laid-out food. When she saw Moria come out, she wiped her drool and said, "Dinner's ready, Lord Moria!"

Halfway through her sentence, Perona quickly changed her tune. It was Moria's order that when she saw him like this, she should call him Jack, or she wouldn't get any food.

"If you're hungry, then eat first. It's not like I'm not letting you eat first."

Moria said helplessly, walked over and sat down, picked up a piece of roast meat and began to enjoy the temptation of the food.

Perona is obedient in everything, except that she has to wait for Moria to eat.

No matter what Moria said, she pretended not to hear it.

They insisted on waiting for Moriah to arrive and speak before they started eating.

The next day, Moria didn't get up until almost noon, only to be woken up by the sound of cannon fire.

"Don't come out!"

Inside the cabin, after instructing Perona, who had also woken up, Moria went to the deck.

Three hundred meters to the left, a pirate ship is approaching us while firing its cannons.

However, the shells seemed to be in "outline mode," not a single one hit the ship, but instead created splashes around it.

"Why did it stop?!"

As soon as he reached the deck, Moria discovered that the shelling had stopped.

On the pirate ship in the distance, a captain-like man called a halt to the cannon fire.

The man looked at Moria through binoculars, then put them down, looked at the photograph in his hand, and then looked at Moria through the binoculars again.

After confirming it several times, cold sweat involuntarily covered his head.

"Why did it stop?!"

"Where is my beautiful melody!"

A towering man, standing 3.2 meters tall and wearing a pirate tricorn hat, walked up to the man holding binoculars with a murderous look on his face and said coldly, "Keep firing! My pirate symphony is about to be completed. Do you have no idea how important this is to me?"

"captain!"

The man pointed to Moria on the ship in the distance and said in a trembling voice, "That's the bounty hunter on that ship, the legendary one who single-handedly wiped out the Tiger Pirates and took Tiger Hank's head to the Marines for a bounty! The Pirate Devourer Jack!"

"Let's leave!" the man suggested.

"Yes, Captain, that man is terrifying."

"Legend has it that every pirate crew that encountered him was devoured by him, and not a single one survived."

"To this day, no one knows how he killed people. It's terrifying, that man."

Not only that man, but everyone else, upon hearing that he was a pirate devourer, immediately thought of the terrifying legends that had recently become popular among pirates in the East Blue, and they all rushed to persuade their captains to leave quickly.

"You bunch of bastards!"

"So what if he defeated Hank the Tiger?"

"What do you take me for! You're just leaving like this? Where's my pride?"

The captain, with his air of "I have the most face, I have to do this," made his underlings feel a pang of pain.

"Captain! Stay calm!!"

"That's the ruthless guy who single-handedly wiped out the Tiger Pirates, the overlords of the East Blue with a total bounty of over 100 million Berries!"

"roll!"

The captain kicked away one of the henchmen who was trying to persuade him, then looked at Moria on the deck in the distance and said in a cold voice, "Get closer and prepare for battle!"

One minute later!

The captain knelt in fear at Moria's feet, begging for Moria's mercy and to spare his life.

"I was blind to your greatness, the Movie Emperor! I swear to follow you to the death!"

The captain, upon seeing the shadows of the ship scattered across the water and the gradually weathering and dissipating bodies of his companions, immediately recalled the news reports and wanted posters he had once read. He instantly realized that he had simply run into an alloy steel plate while trying to show off.

824 million Berries!

Can you believe that such a terrifying pirate with a bounty of this magnitude wouldn't stay in the New World, but instead come to the weakest East Blue to be a bounty hunter?

The captain was speechless, despair filling his heart.

"It still doesn't work!"

Moria sighed. He had just performed the Shadow Slave transformation on these pirates again, but as before, the transformation was incomplete and they all died.

"Only this captain is left!" Moria's eerie gaze fell upon the giant captain.

"My lord, I am willing to follow you to the death, please spare me!"

The captain, quick-witted, burst into tears, looking utterly pitiful.

However, Moria remained unmoved, but just as he was about to make his move.

call out!

A cold light flashed before his eyes.

But the captain, who had been kneeling, suddenly pulled out a dagger from somewhere, scrambled up, and stabbed Moria between the legs.

Moria felt a chill run through his lower body, and his expression hardened.

Noisy!

thump!

Moria sheathed his Shadow Spear, looked at the captain who was clutching his chest and lying on the ground, and said calmly, "He is still a pirate captain after all. Even knowing that he is going to die, he still has the courage to take a gamble."

Chapter 35 The Shadow Slave Navy's Invitation (Please add to your favorites, recommend, and vote with monthly tickets)

"Ok!"

"He's not dead yet!"

Moria was surprised; this captain was incredibly resilient, surviving even with his heart pierced.

However, the person had already lost consciousness and would likely die in another minute.

"Maybe"

Moria's eyes suddenly lit up. Looking at the captain who wasn't quite dead yet, he had a thought and manipulated his shadow to merge into the captain's shadow, beginning the transformation into a shadow slave.

"I see!"

Moria breathed a sigh of relief and smiled; his shadow slave development was a success.

Taking advantage of the moment when a person is on the verge of death, when their consciousness is weak, and when they have virtually no self-resistance, the transformation of the shadow slave is quickly completed.

The transformation of a shadow slave is like modifying a program. When the person was alive, the program was intelligent, with self-repair and defense mechanisms, and even a self-destruct mechanism.

If it encounters a powerful Shadow Slave modification attack and is unable to repair itself, it will initiate a self-destruct program.

So Moria died before he could complete the transformation.