That signature laughter spread around, alarming many lives in the shadows.
"Bacardi Mod, your shadow... I'm going to make a decision!"
Moria spread his hands and opened his big mouth full of sharp teeth.
His face and even his eyes were filled with a sense of violence mixed with a cold aura.
he knows.
The newcomer in front of me is very unusual.
After entering the Great Channel, not only did the bounty skyrocket, but the route that so many people feared was regarded as nothing.
He was clearly on that route some time ago, and then suddenly appeared on another route, and now he has even come to his territory - the Devil's Triangle.
How
Moria was not interested in delving into it.
He admitted that Maude was the strongest newcomer he had encountered in the nine years of hibernation after returning from the new world.
But so what
During the years he lurked in the Devil's Triangle, he punished numerous rookie pirate groups.
What he likes to see the most is the tragic look of those newcomers whose dreams and goals are shattered when they are only one step away from the terminal island of the first half of the Grand Route!
"Hehehe..."
Moria stared at Maud with bloodshot eyes.
The swarm of bats transformed from the shadow first dispersed, and then rushed towards Mod from all directions.
"Intelligence is intelligence. Some information can only be verified in actual combat..."
Maud's Observation Color is always on.
The bats coming from all around were all within his [field of vision].
"first… "
A glimmer of light flashed in Maud's eyes, and she pressed a lead bullet with a different color from the regular one into the barrel of Murkrow's gun. She immediately put away the flintlock gun and held the Chidori in front of her.
A vaguely bloody aura swayed from Mod's feet.
Gun.Daisy.
Maude's knife-holding arm suddenly bent backwards, like clockwork.
Instead, he used the long sword as a foil sword and stabbed out streaks of flying sword energy in all directions at super high speed, like a blooming white daisy.
This move depends on the sword skills of the mad woman named Abby in Mad Hatter Town.
The difference is that Abe can't knock the sting out, but Maude can.
The streaks of wheat-like sword energy were like bullets, smashing the flying shadow bats into pieces.
"The intensity is average. Is it because the shadows are scattered?"
Compared to the pitch-black spear that thrust out from the shadow just now, these bats were vulnerable to a single blow.
However, the mechanism of shadow is similar to that of elementalization, and it can freely change forms after leaving the body.
This also means that no matter how much damage the shadow leaves the body, as long as it can freely shape itself to match the body before returning, the body will not suffer any harm.
In other words, pouring attacks on the shadow is a waste of energy, unless...
"Let's try it with the armed color..."
Mod's thoughts moved, and after smashing the group of bats, he rushed straight towards Moria.
Moria looked coldly at Mod who rushed over.
"Shadow Mage."
The scattered shadow returned to Moriah at the speed of light, and then was shaped into a three-dimensional shadow with the same body shape and appearance as him.
"Hehehe..."
Moria stood behind the shadow clone without any substantive movement from beginning to end.
It's not that he thinks that Shadow alone can defeat Mord, but that's always been his style.
Whether in battle or in daily life, I will always rely on others and shadows...
This kind of influence and performance brought about by personality is nothing in daily life.
But if it is used in battle, it will undoubtedly give up part of its own advantages.
The shadow mage bared his fangs and took a long step to face Mord, who was charging towards him with a knife.
Without any fancy skills, the Shadow Mage raised his hands and slapped Mod on the head hard from top to bottom.
The speed was not very fast. Not only was Mod able to react, he could easily pass the Shadow Mage and go straight to Moria not far away.
But he didn't do this because he knew that Moria had the ability to switch places with the Shadow Mage at any time.
Calmly looking at the palm that fell, Maud released his weapon color and wrapped it around the Chidori Sword.
Not far away, Moria's eyes narrowed.
With just one glance, he could tell that Moder was very proficient in armed colors.
This kind of ability to make a mess in the new world is not common in the first half of the Grand Line, let alone appear in a newcomer.
Even if there were, Moria had never seen such superb domineering skills in a newcomer.
call out!
Maud slashed out with his sword and easily cut off the hands that the Shadow Mage was slapping at him.
He should have taken advantage of the situation to cut off the Shadow Mage's legs, but a red light flashed in Mod's eyes, and he used the Silent Step in an instant. His figure disappeared in the wind, and in the next moment, he had retreated ten meters away.
At this moment, the dark arms that he had severed turned into a black net in mid-air, covering his original location.
"Ah… "
Looking at the empty black net, Maud, who escaped in time, chuckled.
The sword strike just now looked like it had cut off the Shadow Mage's arms, but in fact it was the Shadow Mage who cut off his arms in advance before he withstood the attack, to create a gap for the attack to pass through.
This operation is the most commonly used technique by natural ability users to avoid armed attacks.
It's not surprising that Shadow, whose ability mechanism is similar to that of the Nature system, can do this.
But it also sent a message to Maud...
That is, armed attacks will cause damage to the shadow, or in other words, inhibit the shadow's ability to recover and shape freely.
What if the knife just cut off the shadow mage's arms really happened.
Then, when the injured Shadow Mage returns to Moria's body, the damage will truly be fed back to Moria.
After having this idea, Maude considered another possibility.
Even if both of Moriah's arms are broken, he can reattach the arms by "correcting" his own shadow, and the possibility of growing the arms again is not ruled out.
I just don't know if Moria's mastery of abilities has reached such a level that is a bit unbelievable just thinking about it.
"Shadow Fruit..."
During the brief contact, Mod had to admit that the shadow fruit has changing and flexible characteristics, and its upper limit is not weak.
Instead of using it to silently create a zombie army with many flaws, it is better to improve the effectiveness of the shadow fruit in actual combat.
All we can say is that Moriah took a wrong path and wasted his youth.
Mod gathered his thoughts and calmly stared at the shadow mage who retracted the black web and reshaped it, and slowly stretched out his left hand to his side.
Bailey, who was thrown out by Maude as a hidden weapon not long ago, quietly ran back at this moment, then jumped towards Maude.
His body transformed into a long knife in mid-air, and the handle of the knife was aimed at Maude's stretched out left hand.
It looked as if the long knife flew back to Maud's hand on its own.
Mod held two swords in his hands and rushed towards the shadow mage again.
After confirming that the weapon color can be effective against the shadow, he can focus all his attention on attacking the shadow.
Not far away, Moria snorted coldly.
He had punished countless pirates in the Devil's Triangle, but only Mod made him feel threatened, which made him very uncomfortable.
“All it takes is the right moment.”
Moria's cold eyes glanced at Maud's shadow.
Cut off the shadow.
The battle can be over in an instant.
Chapter 128 Domineering is Capital
For Morde's shadow, which is definitely not weak in quality, Moria is bound to win.
On the other hand, Moder never thought of wasting Moria's shadow fruit, which is at the top level in the superhuman system.
Both sides have their own needs, and both have the main goal of "capturing" the other party alive.
"Hehehe..."
Moria's cold gaze was directed at Mod, who was directly in front of him.
The shadow mage whose outline matched his appearance walked silently and rushed straight towards Mod.
Maud raised his hand and cut away two sword energy.
The sword energy moved along the ground, like a ground wave, and arrived in front of the Shadow Mage in an instant.
Facing the sword energy that was about to hit his face, the shadow mage's body suddenly turned into bats, flying in all directions to avoid the sword energy coming from Mord.
The two sword energy passed over the bat swarm and went straight into the forest a hundred meters away, easily destroying more than a dozen large trees along the way, causing a considerable commotion.
Then, the bats that had avoided the sword energy gathered together at an extremely fast speed and regrouped into the shadow mage.
During this brief period of reorganization, Maude took a silent step and flashed in front of the Shadow Mage.
Hidden Blade Style, Shadow Windmill!
The two swords in Maude's hands were swinging forward and backward, and they swung out two strong semi-arc blades towards Moria's arm.
The plover is in front, the stoat behind.
The two slashes that came one after another were very close to each other.
Moria, who saw Mod's move from the perspective of a bystander, made a decision in a flash of lightning.
He controlled the shadow mage to sink directly to the ground and turned into a pool of shadow, thus completely avoiding the weapon-colored slash that was approaching Chi Chi.
If not for the strong aggression shown by Moder before, Moria would be willing to take some risks in this time of interaction between offense and defense in exchange for better counterattack opportunities.
But precisely because Mod put a lot of pressure on Moria, Moria chose to avoid the edge temporarily and let the Shadow Mage completely avoid risks.
"Shadow Horn Gun!"
The pool of shadow that sank to the ground suddenly transformed into a three-dimensional shape, shaping into a thick black pointed spear, which pierced Maud's abdomen with lightning speed.
Mod's eyes reflected the image of the Shadow Horn Spear piercing directly, with no intention of giving in.
Yao cut!
The chidori and ferret, each wrapped in armament colors, crossed each other, and then from top to bottom, they slashed forward towards the shadow horn spear piercing from the ground.
When Moria saw this, her expression changed slightly.
In order to completely avoid potential risks in the previous confrontation, Moria acted cautiously and let the Shadow Mage transform from a three-dimensional shape into a flat shape.
This also means that in the process of switching from a flat shadow to a three-dimensional shadow, there will inevitably be a delay in launching the next wave of offensive.
Although the delay was short, it was enough for Mod to stop his attack and even reorganize his offensive.
Seeing the slash coming, the pitch-black spear shaped by the shadow quickly retracted to the ground like an electric shock and turned into a pool of shadow again.
Mod's cross-cut attack failed.
The Shadow Horn Gun should be Moria's strongest single attack method, and it has strong penetrating power.
But in the face of armed color, the power will be greatly reduced.