All kinds of brilliant attacks rushed towards Smoothie's body like a tide.
"Ah la la..."
The expression on Smoothie's corpse became a little more serious, a red light flashed in his eyes, and he saw all the oncoming attacks clearly in an instant. He immediately moved his body left and right to avoid the waves of attacks.
Because it is a zombie, it lacks the life energy to support [Armor Color].
But seeing, hearing, and color can still be used.
Relying on his high-level knowledge, Smoothie's corpse, carrying the shadow of Aokiji, perfectly avoided all attacks and took the initiative to face the nearly a hundred members of the pirate group in front.
Seeing that all the attacks like a hail of bullets failed, many members of the pirate group couldn't help but tense up.
"With such a big body... why can't I hit it?!"
They looked solemnly at Smoothie's body, which was approaching rapidly.
Without thinking much, Smoothie rushed straight into their enemy's formation.
Suddenly, everyone felt a sense of pressure.
It's obviously just a zombie...
Why is there such terrible oppression!
Everyone in the pirate group tensed up, suppressed the throbbing in their hearts, and attacked the body of Smoothie that came before them.
The two sides immediately broke into a fight.
But after several rounds of fighting, the pirate group quickly realized something was wrong.
"Missed..."
"It seems to know which direction our attack will come from!!!"
"Damn it, is it because of the domineering power of seeing and hearing..."
"Could he be as powerful as Katakuri-nii-san?!"
No matter how fierce and rapid the attacks from the pirate group were, the body of Smuji, who was nearly five meters tall, was always able to easily dodge and counterattack.
This made them very uncomfortable.
It was like hitting the empty space with all his strength.
However, they are not weak after all. Although their attacks have always failed, they have also noticed the weakness of Smoothie's body.
They noticed that Smoothie's body did not use its armed colors during the attack.
In other words, you cannot use armed colors!
In this way, the threat is greatly reduced.
Smoothie's corpse single-handedly stopped the pirate group headed by Charlotte Mond.
On the other side, Mod controlled the shadow pillar and suppressed Katakuri.
Without the ability to predict the future, Katakuri could not prevent all Mod's attacks. He could only rely on his weaponry and physical strength to reduce the damage as much as possible.
However, after enduring several waves of attacks, Katakuri gradually returned to his previous calmness.
And the visual color that was interrupted due to emotional fluctuations was reused, thus "seeing" Mod's next offensive in advance.
With the help of Observation Color, Katakuri instantly adjusted his response method and took the initiative to create holes on his face, body, and limbs for the shadow pillars to pass through.
Immediately, the glutinous ball at the edge of the cavity squirmed quickly, sealing the shadow pillar within the body, thereby interrupting the shadow pillar's high-frequency attack rhythm.
After sticking to the shadow pillar, Katakuri thought, and nine donut-shaped glutinous rice balls suddenly appeared out of thin air around him, forming an arc formation.
Then, Katakuri's glowing red eyes glanced coldly at Mod below.
Nine rice cakes!
Inside the neatly arranged glutinous dough donuts, nine square, fist-shaped glutinous dough balls covered with solid armament-colored domineering suddenly stretched out. From top to bottom, they attacked Mod below with the sound of breaking through the air.
"The moves are quite similar to Luffy's..."
Looking at Yanchang's flying glutinous fist, Mod was not careless. He stepped back and distanced himself to avoid the attack of the nine rice cakes.
Boom boom boom!
The powerful power contained in Nuotuan's fist blasted out more than a dozen large craters on the ground in an instant, and a large amount of smoke and dust filled the surrounding area.
Ugh...!
The glutinous fist that had just been lifted up from the pit then passed through the smoke and dust at an extremely fast speed and continued to press towards Mod.
Mod responded calmly, but still retreated. While keeping distance, he continued to control the shadow pillar from the air, attacking Katakuri from all directions.
But Katakuri is also multitasking.
While he controlled the nine-headed rice cake to continuously attack Mod, he once again condensed glutinous balls out of thin air to block the incoming shadow pillars one by one.
In just a few seconds, the shadow pillars and glutinous balls, both covered in armed colors, collided with each other hundreds of times.
The resulting dense air explosion sound spread throughout the entire Cake Island in an instant.
Such a fierce attack and defense was only possible because the other members of the pirate group were stopped by Smoothie's body.
Otherwise, with this level of offensive and defensive battle, even if they want to support Katakuri, they probably won't be able to do so.
Mod's eyes flashed red, and he easily avoided the continuous fierce attacks of Kuzumochi. At the same time, he paid attention to Katakuri, who was responding to the shadow pillar's offensive.
"Although it only shows a 9 and a half star Devil Fruit attribute, its domineering power must be more than 9 stars."
"The most troublesome thing is that I can predict the future and the awakening ability similar to the body's elementalization. The combination of the two makes my 'attack hit rate' at an extremely low level."
"Are you going to 'affect' his perception again..."
"But there shouldn't be a second time using the same trick."
"Wanting a protracted war?"
"No, I don't have time to waste time here."
"Then we can only... keep increasing the frequency of attacks until he can't handle it anymore!"
In a short moment, Morde had a lot of thoughts and immediately activated the maximum shadow ability.
Suddenly, under the influence of Maud's ability, a large number of shadows scattered in every corner of Cake Island, as if they had received clear instructions, first gathered into a group, and then rushed towards Maud's location crazily.
"Um?"
Katakuri looked at the movement in the distance and his expression changed slightly.
I saw countless shadow groups sweeping in from a distance—
Like a tsunami that can flood a town in an instant!
Chapter 268 The King of the Night
The bright moon is in the sky.
The bright moonlight is like a hazy silver veil, covering the earth and casting countless shadows.
But now, these shadows that can be seen everywhere, under the control of Mod, are all rushing from a distance.
From a distance, the majestic formation looks like a monstrous tsunami that will swallow up everything in its path, giving people a sense of oppression that is about to suffocate.
This is why Maud set the [rescue plan] after nightfall.
Only night is the time for shadow carnival.
Only night can bring inexhaustible shadows to Maud.
Not only that, it can also break the green pheasant in half, eliciting more powerful combat value.
"Bacardi Mod, it's natural for a man like you to awaken your abilities..."
Katakuri raised his head slightly and looked at the majestic tsunami that swept in from a distance and seemed to submerge the entire Cake Island.
Although he was not surprised that Mod was able to awaken his abilities, the momentum created by the Shadow Tsunami still surprised him.
This does not seem to be the effect of the ability to assimilate "objects".
More like... direct control!
"Is it possible to control so many shadows because the 'assimilation' process is omitted?"
Based on the unconventional scale of the shadow tsunami, Katakuri, who is extremely capable, quickly guessed the reason why Mod was able to control so many shadows.
Generally speaking, the superhuman type can only achieve the ability to freely manipulate [large amounts of matter] similar to the natural type through awakening.
Despite this, the superhuman type's ability to "create things out of thin air" is still far inferior to that of the natural type.
so-
The prerequisite for controlling [a large number of substances of the same attribute] is to use [contact] to [assimilate] the surrounding dead objects into substances with corresponding attributes.
Whether it was Doflamingo's thread fruit or Katakuri's glutinous fruit now.
This rule must be followed before launching a large-scale attack.
But Mod's shadow fruit ability after awakening seems to be an exception.
In other words, the world after nightfall is full of ready-made shadows, so Mod does not need to [assimilate] or [expand] the scale of shadows.
This is simply—
The king of the night.
"Shadow Fruit..."
Seeing the shadow ability displayed by Mod, Katakuri had a clearer understanding of the special features of the shadow fruit.
But he knew very well.
The most powerful thing is not the Shadow Fruit, but Mod who developed the Shadow Fruit to this extent.
"You have attracted so many shadows, what are you going to do..."
Katakuri's eyes flashed red, and he turned to look at Mod, who directly launched his ultimate move.
Facing Katakuri's scrutinizing gaze, Mod's face was so calm that there was no trace of any disturbance.
The shadow tsunami swept behind Mod at an extremely fast speed.
The huge movement caused even attracted the attention of everyone on both sides of the war.
"Tsunami?!"
Many members of the pirate group were dumbfounded as they watched the tsunami that hit a height of over 100 meters.
This was the first time they had seen such an exaggerated tsunami on land.
But they soon realized something was wrong.
"No, not a tsunami!"
"It's a shadow!!!"
"Bacardi Mod's ability...!!!"
As the tsunami got closer and closer, the members of the pirate group finally saw the true face of the tsunami!
Just seeing the existence of "Shadow", they didn't need to think at all, and they thought of Maude like a conditioned reflex.
Because, in their current knowledge, the only man in this world who can control shadows is Bacardi Mod!
"Ah la la, a 'tsunami' of this magnitude is even more powerful than Whitebeard's."
Qing Pheasant turned his head to look at the rushing shadow tsunami, a strange color flashed in his eyes.
While withdrawing his "eyesight" from the battle circle, it did not affect the battle at all. He raised his hand and released a shock wave of cold air, which instantly froze a batch of cookie warriors mass-produced by the Cracker into blocks of ice.
"See, shadows can't be frozen."
Aokiji, who easily froze the Cracker Cookie Warrior, inexplicably thought of what Mod had said to him.
That was when they were enemies of each other in the Chambord Islands...
Now, just looking at the shadow tsunami "summoned" by Mord, Aoki couldn't help but feel an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Shadows cannot be frozen.
Therefore, a tsunami made of shadows is more terrifying than a real tsunami.
"Are you planning to end the battle as soon as possible, Captain..."