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

Clang! Clang!

The most obvious thing is that Victor can no longer easily dodge Moria's attacks.

The two began exchanging blows head-on!

The intense impact of their punches filled the air, and on the deck at the bow of the ship, there was no one else around the two fighters.

Moria's shadow, along with eight officers and the underlings, fought at the stern.

The battle on both sides has now reached a stalemate!

However, the balance of power in the battle is tilting in Moria's favor.

call out!

Moria sidestepped Viktor's claws and spun around, delivering a side knee strike to Viktor's stomach before he could recover his strength.

bump!

A tremendous force surged through his abdomen, and the intense pain instantly turned Victor's face pale. He coughed up a mouthful of blood and was sent flying by the force, crashing into the cabin.

Nowhere and nowhere!

Moria clenched his fists, making a cracking sound like soybeans.

I checked my body and it felt very hot, like I was on fire.

The Observation Haki seemed to be completely integrated with the body. After anticipating Viktor's movements, the instinctive attack launched in the instant of dodging naturally brought the power in the body to the strike, which was not only fast and powerful, but also unexpected.

Before Victor could react, Moria sent him flying with a single blow.

By this point in the battle, Moria had achieved his goal.

"It's time to end this battle." Moria mustered all his strength, preparing for the final blow.

bump!

Victor smashed open the blasted cabin door, stepped out, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and stared at Moria with a sinister look.

"What's wrong with this guy? There should be limits to promotions!"

"To go from a complete novice in combat to possessing combat awareness and actions that left me no time to react—this is something only a human can do!"

"This guy isn't human!"

Finally, Viktor came to a conclusion, and at the same time, a feeling of defeat began to creep into his heart.

This feeling was hard for Viktor to accept. He still had dreams to fulfill, how could he fall in such a place, defeated by someone who had already failed?

Victor's eyes hardened, his sharp gaze fixed on Moria.

"I'm going to be the Pirate King! How could I possibly lose to a loser like you!" Viktor roared, his body seemingly empowered by his dream, his aura suddenly surged, and his muscles almost turned into beast-like forms.

call out!

Victor clenched his right fist and accelerated like a bullet, instantly rushing towards Moria.

Moria remained calm throughout, his Observation Haki having already allowed him to clearly see Viktor's actions.

The instant Viktor moved, Moria also moved, making the same move as Viktor, and also throwing out a right punch.

call out!

The moment the two men drew close, both had their left legs in front and their right legs behind, concentrating all their strength into their right fists.

"This guy?" A hint of doubt flashed in Victor's eyes. Moria didn't dodge or pay attention to his attack. Instead, he punched Moria in the heart.

"I'm a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user, I refuse to believe your regenerative abilities are stronger than mine!" Viktor hardened his heart, didn't defend himself, and also punched Moria's heart.

At this moment, both of them were covered in Armament Haki!

Viktor was very confident in the powerful recovery ability he gained from his Haki combined with his Zoan-type Devil Fruit power. Just like the attack he had just received, he only coughed up blood. He could withstand an attack of that level for half a day.

He didn't believe that Moria, who was merely a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user, could last longer than him.

At this moment, Victor bet that Moria's stamina was not as strong as his and that he would eventually be worn down to death.

"Only a fool would stall. This is a fatal blow. You know nothing of my power, kid!" A mocking thought flashed through Moria's mind. Just as Viktor's fist was about to touch his chest, Moria had a thought, and his chest, where his heart was, suddenly turned into a shadow and automatically opened up a hole.

"What!!!" At this moment, Victor was shocked. His fist passed through Moria's body, just like hitting the fluid body of a Logia-type Devil Fruit user.

At the same time, Moria's right hand also transformed into a shadow, becoming a sharp hand blade.

Noisy!

Unsurprisingly, Moria's Armament Haki, stronger than Viktor's, combined with the toughness and sharpness of the black sword Shusui, allowed him to break through Viktor's Armament Haki defense with a hand chop, piercing his chest and heart.

Uh!

Viktor felt a sharp pain in his chest, followed by a spurt of blood from his mouth. He stared blankly at the dark shadow blade that Moria had pierced his heart, momentarily stunned. He then turned to Moria beside him and suddenly said with a self-deprecating laugh, "So you haven't been using your full strength all along."

After saying this in fits and starts, Victor slammed his head down and draped his entire body over Moria's right arm.

Noisy!

Moria withdrew his right hand, and Victor collapsed onto the splint.

"Kid, what kind of king did you say you wanted to be again!" Moria flicked the blood off his hands and said mischievously, his back to Victor.

"Viktor!!!" The moment Viktor's life ended, the eight executives who knew his voice had disappeared using their Observation Haki all changed their expressions.

Then they all charged toward Moria!

With a wave of his left hand, Moria's shadow spear, transformed from his shadow, suddenly doubled in speed under his control.

In addition, Moria's Observation Haki allowed him to sense the movement of the eight executives. His Shadow Spear, fired at lightning speed, pierced the hearts of five of them, leaving them suspended in mid-air.

Three of them were significantly stronger than the other five in terms of strength and Observation Haki; the Shadow Spear attack was instantly blocked by them.

These three happened to be the swordsmen who attacked Moria at the beginning.

Clang clang clang!

The three men's longswords pierced through Moria's body almost simultaneously, the sharp blades cutting through the air and creating three slashing waves behind Moria.

The three appeared behind Moria, all with a look of delight on their faces, as if they had already chopped Moria into several pieces.

But

Zizizi!

The three felt a sharp pain in their chests and looked down in surprise at the shadow spear that had pierced their hearts. Blood immediately gushed from their mouths. They tried to turn around, but Moria had already withdrawn the shadow spear. Losing their footing, the three collapsed onto the plank with a thud.

Moria naturally dodged the three attacks by turning his body into a shadow.

Although his Observation Haki wasn't strong enough to see the future, it was more than enough to predict the attack trajectories of the three young swordsmen.

So how will Gecko Moria, who is already so powerful, be defeated by Luffy, who doesn't even have Haki, in the future?

Is it possible that Armament Haki can't be used if the body isn't up to par?

But surely it's not to the point that he can't even use Observation Haki?

He felt that in any anime, Moria would have...

never mind!

Moria suddenly remembered a scene in the anime where he trapped Luffy in a shadow box, but instead of using sharp techniques like the Shadow Gun to kill Luffy, he just attacked him randomly as if he had lost his mind, and Luffy, being a Gum-Gum Fruit user, was unharmed.

In the end, Luffy turned the tables!

"So, in future battles, if you can kill someone with a knife, don't use your fists; if you can pierce their heart and kill them instantly, don't stab their stomach or anything like that." Moria silently warned himself, lest he end up being killed in the future.

"Lord Moriah, thank you for saving us!"

“We were forced onto the ship by Victor and his gang; we are not with them.”

"You are too powerful. You will definitely be the Pirate King in the future. We see the light in you. Please allow us to follow you!"

After Victor and the eight officers died, a group of henchmen came to Moria's side about ten meters away and told him how they had been forced onto the ship and that they were to follow Moria.

From their expressions, Moria could tell that some people had indeed been forced to board the ship, while others had boarded with the intention of taking advantage of the wind.

Now that Moria has defeated Victor and the others, these people want to hitch a ride on Moria's coattails.

These guys probably don't even know how many times they've hitched a ride.

Judging from these guys' style of holding back during the fight and just cheering from the sidelines.

Moria was not optimistic about which term he would be.

So Moria smiled, and as these underlings curled their lips into smiles that they were already used to.

As soon as Moria had the thought, the shadow that had returned to his side suddenly shot out countless shadow spears, aiming at those lackeys.

Zizizizi!

All the underlings perished without exception, and then the shadow was devoured by Moria, while the body turned to ashes.

After doing all this, Moria was the only one left alive on the ship, and he went to Victor's side.

At this point, Viktor had been dead for less than an hour, and his body was still warm.

Now, Moria wants to test whether his ability to create zombies has been upgraded after his Devil Fruit power awakens.

With a thought, Moria controlled the shadow and attached it to Viktor's shadow. Instead of devouring it, he assimilated and transformed it, turning Viktor's shadow into an independent shadow that he could control.

This is different from devouring a shadow. Devouring means completely digesting the shadow and turning it into your own nutrients, absorbing it. A devoured shadow simply disappears.

Assimilation and transformation turn a shadow into an independent, controllable shadow. The shadow's inherent combat skills and strength do not disappear in essence.

Not long after!

In about three minutes, Viktor's shadow was assimilated and transformed, and then Moria controlled Viktor's shadow to merge into his body.

Then, Viktor's shadow, assimilated and modified by Moria, covered his corpse like flowing black water, seeping into it, until Viktor's corpse became a half-shadow, half-flesh state.

At this point, the upgraded zombie is complete.

At the same time, Moria also learned just how terrifying the upgraded zombies really were.

Chapter 06 Moria's Shadow Legion

"With this ability, it's impossible not to let loose!" After carefully examining the condition of Viktor's corpse, Moria smiled and said, "From now on, we'll call you the Shadow Legion, and the individual members will be called Shadow Servants. Zombies are too lame and don't suit your style!"

Next, Moria tested the abilities and characteristics of the Shadow Servant Victor one by one.

First, Shadow Servant Victor, with a body that is half flesh and half shadow, has a fluid body like a Logia-type Devil Fruit user. Except for Seastone, which will instantly disintegrate, only Armament Haki can injure him.