Boom!
The air exploded, and wind and thunder roared.
"Gah!!"
Moria's eyeballs bulged, bloodshot, and his bloated, obese body arched backward. He was lifted off the ground by Rorschach's punch.
In that instant, Moria felt as if his internal organs had been shattered by the Marine boy's punch. His bones felt soft throughout his body, and his seven-meter-tall frame leaked blood uncontrollably, like a broken sack.
His fat body flew backward for over a hundred meters, bumping into Oars, who was clashing with Pamir, making him stumble. Only then did Moria stop, falling onto the sandy ground, his face covered in sand.
It was precisely because of this sudden collision that Oars, who was about to swing his giant sword at Pamir, stumbled forward. His already shattered right foot lost its balance, and his mountain-like body tilted backward, about to fall.
Pamir, holding his heavy steel fishing rod, seized this rare opportunity. He immediately dropped the rod, charged forward with a muffled roar, raised his thick right arm high, revealing the honeycomb-arranged Reject Dials, and delivered an elbow strike to Oars's falling head.
"Fifth Gear! Olympus Impact!!"
Pamir roared, desperately activating all the Reject Dials on his entire arm guard, unleashing the stored impact force that Rorschach had helped him accumulate, all at once.
There was a deafening boom, like thunder, violently striking Oars's forehead.
Bang!
In a short, explosive sound, Oars's massive head collapsed, cracked, and burst apart piece by piece!
Countless bloodless flesh and bone fragments shot out from Oars's headless neck, whizzing in all directions.
Two thick curved horns whistled through the air, spinning hundreds of meters away, embedding themselves with a boom into Alubarna's city wall.
The Demon Oars, headless, though originally a corpse filled with Moria's shadows, could no longer rise.
A large mass of pitch-black shadow struggled out from his severed neck. The shadow vaguely resembled a swordsman with curly hair.
Pamir, who had unleashed this ultimate strike far beyond what his body could endure, was sent flying backward a hundred meters by the terrifying recoil, crashing heavily into a sand dune and stirring up a massive cloud of yellow sand.
His entire right arm was shattered, dangling uselessly in front of him.
Rorschach shook his head at the sight.
Why were these guys all fighting so desperately?
At this moment, on the chaotic desert battlefield, the situation had completely tilted in favor of the Marines.
Apart from Moria, the main forces of the enemy army had all been cut down.
The remaining zombie soldiers and Happo Navy warriors, under the devastation of Enel, Law, Bepo, and others, were completely routed and had begun a full-scale retreat.
Cobra, watching from the city wall, immediately ordered Pell and Chaka to lead the Royal Guard out of the city to capture the remaining stragglers who had completely lost their will to fight.
Rorschach did not stop them.
He first turned to look at Hibari, finding her face pale, with bloodstains on her lips and chest. Yet, she was looking at her hand and giggling foolishly, which made Rorschach's mouth twitch.
He couldn't help but wave a hand in front of Hibari's eyes. "Hey, are you alright? Did you hit your head?"
"This little injury is nothing, Big Brother Rorschach. Compared to that, look at this!" Hibari happily ran forward, extending her hand towards Rorschach's eyes.
On her delicate, pale palm, a pitch-black color slowly emerged, covering her entire forearm and hand.
"This is... Armament Haki?" Rorschach pretended not to see the smug look on the little girl's face and feigned surprise.
"Mm!" Hibari nodded like a pecking chick, waving her pitch-black arm, two small dimples appearing on her cheeks as she chirped, "It's Armament Haki! I finally awakened Armament Haki too, Big Brother Rorschach! Now I'm the third person on the Kirin to have Armament Haki. From now on, I can help Big Brother Rorschach even more."
Rorschach chuckled, reaching out to ruffle her hair. "That's great, but don't get conceited. Keep working hard! After awakening Armament Haki, I believe your strength will make a leap forward."
Logia-type Devil Fruit users inherently possess wide-ranging attack abilities.
If they can awaken Haki, their strength will definitely see a qualitative improvement.
For example, Enel, after gaining powerful Observation Haki, could lock onto opponents from thousands of meters away and use lightning for long-range strikes.
If he could possess Armament Haki, he could further amplify the power of his lightning, and then his Goro Goro no Mi ability would become even more terrifying.
Just like Rorschach.
"Hoo... hoo..."
Behind him, heavy breathing sounded.
Rorschach's smile faded, and he slowly turned around.
On the sandy ground, Moria struggled to get up, propping himself on the ground. Blood continuously dripped from his mouth, and his vision was blurry.
He gasped, looking around, taking in the full situation of the battlefield.
Not far away, Oars's sixty-meter-tall body lay on the ground, like a small mountain.
His neck was empty, his head gone.
In the distance, Ryuma's corpse was cleanly cut in half, scattered on the ground.
The ground was littered with corpses—zombie soldiers and soldiers from the two Flower Country armies.
As far as the eye could see, the vast battlefield had completely lost its former clamor. Only he remained standing.
The Marines, along with Alabasta's Royal Guard, were rounding up the few remaining Flower Country warriors.
The tide had turned.
The Marines' strength had exceeded Moria's expectations.
Especially the one who used electricity, and, this one in front of him.
Rorschach stepped forward, stopping a dozen meters from Moria. He looked indifferently at the bloodshot-eyed Moria, and said calmly, "Surrender, Moria. If you insist on going your own way and resisting stubbornly, I advise you to think about Crocodile's fate."
Moria's gloomy face twitched at the words. He glanced at Crocodile's corpse impaled on the distant city wall.
His lips stretched into a grin, revealing a mouth full of jagged fangs. His shoulders convulsed, and he let out a maniacal, bizarre laugh.
"Kishishishishi, kishishishishishi!"
"For a true pirate, death is no threat at all!"
"Marine Rorschach, I admit your power is truly monstrously strong."
Moria spread his arms, baring his chest, and laughed uproward, "Kishishishishi! You also have a good group of subordinates, but in the end... you'll still lose everything! Do you know why? My experience tells me why I lost those famous and capable subordinates? It's because they were alive, that's why they were lost! If everyone was a zombie from the start, I wouldn't lose anyone!"
"Shadow! Asgard!"
As Moria let out a chilling, bizarre cry, the shadow at his feet rose up, detached from his body, and instantly plunged into the surrounding darkness, extending in all directions. It split into countless tiny black lines, which immediately connected to the zombie soldiers who had knelt and surrendered, to the injured Happo Navy and Sappo Navy who had given up fighting, and even further away, to the shadows of the fleeing people, and even the Marines and Royal Guard.
Under the dark sky, two huge, blood-red eyes faintly appeared.
On the vast desert ground, the zombie soldiers connected by black lines fell to the ground with thuds, their shadows then rapidly surging out from their bodies, flowing along the black lines and continuously pouring into Moria's body.
As for the living Flower Country warriors, some Marine soldiers, and a large number of Royal Guards, the moment their shadows were tugged and pulled up, the black lines surged, forming shadowy scissors that snip-snapped, cutting off their shadows. Just like the zombie soldiers, they continuously flowed into Moria.
The moment their shadows were cut, the shadow's owner immediately rolled their eyes and collapsed like wood.
Thousands of Flower Country warriors were all affected, falling like cut wheat.
Among the two hundred Marine soldiers, except for a few dozen people closer to Enel, they all cleanly fainted.
The thousands of Royal Guards led by Pell and Chaka were no exception; along with the two Zoan-type Devil Fruit users themselves, they all fell to the ground, their shadows harvested.
In just an instant, on the vast desert, less than a hundred people remained standing.
This terrifying sight filled those who weren't affected with dread.
On the city wall, Cobra felt a chill throughout his body, looking at the thousands of Royal Guards who had instantly collapsed, his eyes wide with disbelief.
"Even Pell and Chaka... Is this a joke? Gecko Moria, he's actually this terrifying?"
"Big Brother Rorschach! Bepo and the others... are they alright?" Hibari called out worriedly.
"They're fine, just temporarily unconscious. Don't worry. It's night now, the sun isn't out, so even without their shadows, they'll be fine. As long as we defeat the shadow's owner, all those absorbed shadows will be released."
Rorschach looked at Moria, whose body was swelling like a balloon, and gently shook his head. "I estimate we won't even need to act; this guy's body is about to collapse on its own. Excessive rage has made him lose his mind, using power he can't control."
In front, a chilling roar erupted from Moria's wide-open mouth.
His already bloated body, originally seven meters tall, now exceeded the sixty-meter-tall Demon Oars, swelling to over a hundred meters in height.
His eyeballs bulged, bloodshot.
His eye sockets were split open, continuously bleeding.
His thick neck was like the body of a Sea King, covered in large, python-like veins.
His hands and feet had also become as massive as stone pillars. His already stout body now resembled a giant hot air balloon dozens of meters in diameter, standing tall on the desert ground in front of Alubarna.
The two horns on his head had also grown incredibly thick, pointing towards the sky.
His massive, hundred-meter-tall body obscured the cool moonlight cast from the sky, casting a large shadow over Rorschach.
At this moment, Moria truly looked like a demon himself.
"Kishishishishi! Kishishishishishi!"
The bizarre laughter from Moria's mouth sounded like thousands of different voices overlapping, all laughing at once, sending shivers down one's spine and making one's back grow cold.
He stooped his mountain-like body, looking at Rorschach, who now seemed as tiny as an ant. "Now, I've absorbed three thousand shadows, Marine Rorschach. Do you know how strong I am now? Do you know why I was able to contend with Kaido back then? Let me show you just how powerful the Kage Kage no Mi truly is!"
Moria raised his terrifying, dozens-of-meters-long giant arm and swung it heavily down towards Rorschach.
Rumble rumble rumble!
The fist, larger than a house, had not even touched the ground, yet it had already blasted the air within thousands of meters.
On the desert ground beneath Moria, a monstrous sandstorm suddenly rose.
It was imaginable that if Moria's punch were allowed to strike the ground, it would likely crack the very desert beneath his feet.
At that time, the terrifying tremors would undoubtedly reach the distant capital city.
Amidst the swirling yellow sand, Rorschach stood expressionless, his cape flapping wildly behind him.
Buzz buzz buzz buzz!
A deep blue aura surged from within him. In an instant, it radiated outwards from where he stood, covering thousands of meters of land, dyeing the ground within a thousand-meter radius with a deep blue glow.
Enel's pupils gradually widened.
This.
He rubbed his eyes, looking at the deep blue desert ground. Even the distant cliff and city walls had turned a deep blue.
What the hell is this?!
Moria's giant fist slammed into the ground.
Boom!
The boundless, violent impact made the desert for thousands of meters around vibrate with a buzzing sound.
But under the armament of the deep blue Haki, the ground did not crack or collapse.
The surrounding air layers compressed and expanded, forming terrifying air cannons that exploded with booms, like rolling thunder, echoing across the sky.
"Roar!!"
Moria's pillar-like foot stomped the ground, and his arm rose again, hammering down on Rorschach.
"This power can indeed be called overwhelmingly strong, but sacrificing flexibility and mind for such clumsy strength can, at most, only destroy terrain."
Rorschach secretly shook his head, looking at the sky-covering giant fist descending. He stomped his foot, and his body instantly expanded to eight meters, his azure scales reflecting the moonlight. His thick Kirin claw punched upwards, striking Moria's house-sized giant fist.
Bang!!
An earth-shattering explosion, like thousands of blasting charges erupting, or a volcano erupting in the desert.
Rings of chaotic and violent air blasted from Rorschach's fist, stirring up waves of surging storms across the thousands of meters of desert.
Law's face changed drastically. He spread the five fingers of his right hand, and his thousand-meter-diameter Room flashed before the monstrous storm, sweeping away the Marines and Royal Guard soldiers from the ground.
Hibari and Enel's bodies exploded with bangs, turning into cloud mist and electrical arcs.
Moria, his eyes bloodshot, having absorbed too many shadows and his mind muddled, opened his mouth and let out a pained howl.
His smashing giant arm, starting from the back of his right fist, began to crack inch by inch.
The dozens-of-meters-long giant arm was like cracked earth, splitting open with scarlet blood fissures. Vast amounts of blood gushed out like a waterfall, splashing onto the ground.
His internal tendons, bones, and muscles were violently impacted and shaken by a terrifying, volcanic eruption-like force, tearing and breaking.
Large amounts of blood surged out like fountains from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Along with the massive amounts of blood, wisps of black shadows also sprayed out.
Hundreds, thousands of black shadows broke free from Moria's hundred-meter-tall body, flying towards the sky like scattered flowers, shooting in all directions, covering the entire sky, appearing eerie and terrifying.
As large numbers of shadows escaped and flew away from his body, Moria's hundred-meter-tall body also rapidly shrunk, like a deflating balloon.
Moria's body collapsed with a thud, like a golden mountain falling or a jade pillar toppling, crashing heavily onto the ground.
His blood-red eyes stared intently at Rorschach.
Upon seeing Rorschach's cast-iron-like, scaled, and antlered form, Moria suddenly froze.
"Kaido!! It's you again! You bastard!"
(End of Chapter)
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