The speed at which the branches grew was fast, and they attacked from all directions. Moria, who hadn't fought in over a decade, couldn't react in time. His obese body, which had lost its speed, was immediately entangled at the hands and feet by the branches.
"A Logia-type... the Wood-Wood Fruit. So it's you!"
Entangled by the branches, Moria instantly regained his composure, looking at Link in front of him with a wary expression.
He didn't know when it started, but for him, who could no longer use Haki, the enemies he least wanted to encounter were these guys who could turn into elements.
In the next second, Moria's expression suddenly changed drastically. Looking at the branches binding his body, he said in alarm, "These branches... they can absorb my stamina?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Moria quickly had his shadow detach from his body, forming a shadow clone not far away.
Immediately, the Moria bound by the branches turned into a shadow clone.
Moria once again swapped places with his shadow.
"Brick Bat!"
Moria, who had swapped places with his shadow clone, immediately had his shadow turn into a black line and return to his main body.
Then Moria transformed his shadow into an extending spear and shot it towards Link.
Unfortunately, before the spear could get close to Link, Link's figure vanished into thin air.
When he reappeared, Link was behind Moria.
"Wood Style: Smothering Binding Technique!"
Several branches grew from Link's arm, and like pythons, they wrapped around Moria's body from behind, immediately binding him into a rice dumpling with only his head and feet exposed.
Unlike the branches just now that only absorbed stamina, the moment these branches wrapped around Moria's body, Moria found that he had lost control of his body.
Fortunately, his shadow had shot out as a spear, and Moria could still control that shadow.
Just as the spear detached from Moria's body and was about to turn into a shadow clone again to swap places with Moria, a dozen more branches shot up from the ground. Half of them bound the shadow clone, while the other half quickly formed a cubic wooden box, encasing the shadow clone.
Seeing this, Moria's face showed despair.
Clearly, Link was not giving him a second chance to swap places with his shadow, not even giving the shadow a chance to turn into bats and escape the binding.
Unable to swap places with his shadow, Moria immediately felt his stamina rapidly draining, and his head began to grow heavy.
In a short while, his vision became extremely blurry, as if he were exhausted from fighting for days and nights on end in his prime.
Soon, Moria's head drooped, and he fell into a coma.
The great pirate with a bounty of 320 million Belly was defeated just like that.
Link didn't even use the advantage of the Deep Forest Emergence scene; he just used a few moves to instantly defeat Moria.
Link's current strength, and the terror of Wood Style!
For Link's Wood Style, the enemies he least wanted to encounter were top-tier Logia users.
These users' elementalization and wide-range attacks could easily destroy and evade the entanglement of the Wood Style branches.
For Link to defeat these Logia users with Wood Style, it would take a long time, just like the battle between Aokiji and Akainu for the position of Fleet Admiral.
If his opponents were someone like Kizaru or Enel, Link would be severely countered.
Because Link wouldn't dare to use Deep Forest Emergence. Unless he turned the entire island into a forest, the moment he created a forest, Kizaru and Enel could teleport to another battlefield in the next instant.
Even if he turned the island into a forest and defeated them both, Link couldn't kill them.
With teleportation that ignored all obstacles and the fastest light-speed movement, both Kizaru and Enel could easily escape.
So when fighting these top-tier Logia users, Link's Wood Style didn't have much of an advantage.
But if the enemy was of another type, Link's Wood Style was terrifying.
If the opponent was a clumsy giant or a modified human, it was even better.
These huge, slow-moving guys, just like Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo, would be sucked dry by Link's Wood Style.
Link's Wood Style, besides absorbing stamina, could also seal.
For those who couldn't break free from the seal, being entangled meant defeat.
Gecko Moria was the best example.
To fight Crocodile, Link had to use a combination of techniques like Ninjutsu: Four Violet Flames Formation and Water Style.
To deal with Moria, Link didn't even need to use the Wood Style ultimate move he had recently unlocked. Just one Smothering Binding Technique and two ordinary Wood Style moves were enough to take care of him.
As Moria lost consciousness, a magnificent scene immediately appeared on the Thriller Bark.
Countless shadows shot up into the sky, flying to all corners of the world, returning to their owners' bodies.
A small portion of them landed somewhere on the Thriller Bark, and also on the ghost ships filling the Florian Triangle.
Even from the countless rice dumplings hanging from the treetops created by the Deep Forest Emergence, black shadows flew out.
The shadows that Moria had cut with his Paramecia-type Shadow-Shadow Fruit were all tangible entities.
Moria's shadow clone was also a tangible entity.
But when Moria's ability disappeared, these shadows were no longer tangible and could naturally ignore all obstacles, breaking free from Link's seal.
Not just the zombies' shadows, even the shadow of Moria that Link had sealed returned to Moria's body.
When all the shadows had left, it also declared that Moria's ten years of accumulation had been reset to zero.
The Wood Clone on the other side received the information immediately and quickly escorted the four girls through the cemetery to the main body.
However, looking at the four girls, Link was startled.
"Con... Conqueror's... Haki..."
Link couldn't help but swallow, almost subconsciously taking a step back.
There was no helping it; the scene in front of him was too terrifying.
The usually gentle and elegant girls, who had never been angry with Link, let alone shown any hint of bossiness, were now emitting scorching flames from their bodies.
The temperature was so high that the surrounding air was distorted. Even the Logia-type Flare-Flare Fruit would probably feel inferior.
The four girls had different expressions, but they were all equally scary.
Carina and Nami's eyes were blazing with fire, their faces 'ferocious.'
Robin and Vivi, on the other hand, had smiles on their faces, their eyes curved into crescents.
But the flames on their bodies were tinged with a deep black, as if they were users of a dual fruit that combined the Logia-type Flare-Flare Fruit and the Logia-type Dark-Dark Fruit.
The Wood Clone walked in front, its pace extremely fast.
After escorting the four girls, it immediately turned into a small tree, dispelling the Wood Clone Jutsu.
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