Moria's face was ashen, his pupils constricting violently, his anger almost igniting his entire body. "This is my territory! You're too arrogant!!! You think I'm a pushover?!"
He suddenly spread his arms, and countless shadows swarmed out from the ground, the cracks in the walls, and the remains of the zombies, like a frenzy of writhing snakes coiling in mid-air, forming dozens of giant, black shadow spears. The very air trembled.
"Shadow Spear!!!"
The black shadow spears, carrying a piercing whistle, rained down on Enel from all directions.
But Enel remained suspended, his arms crossed, a corner of his lip slightly lifted. A hint of contempt flashed in his golden pupils. "...Boring."
With a lift of his hand, lightning gathered in his palm, and in an instant, the heavens and the earth turned dark.
"Divine Punishment: Thunder Punishment!"
"BOOM—!!!"
A pillar of lightning, so bright it lit up the sky, came crashing down, instantly turning the entire area of shadow spears to charcoal. The dazzling pillar of lightning descended from the sky, the high-temperature lightning pressure detonating the ground, sending rubble flying, and instantly vaporizing the shadow spears into charcoal.
Moria gritted his teeth and retreated violently. And just behind him—Hogback had already taken advantage of the chaos to retreat pathetically, shrinking into the ruins of the old castle, scurrying into the shadows like a rat. Absalom, on the other hand, quietly turned invisible, his entire body instantly disappearing into the air as he slowly approached Enel from behind.
"...Hmph, an invisibility ability?" Enel still had his back to him, his tone contemptuous, as if he didn't take this sneak attack seriously at all. "You can't even use Haki. What's the use of being invisible?"
He suddenly held out two fingers, and lightning exploded at their tips. "Thunder Finger: Instant!"
"ZAP!!!"
A flash of lightning cut through the air, and a bolt of lightning accurately hit a certain spot in the air. "Ahhhhhh—!!!"
With Absalom's miserable scream, his entire body became visible. He fell to the ground, his body scorched black and twitching, black smoke constantly coming from his nose and mouth. Enel glanced at him and casually added, "In my Mantra... you're as obvious as if you were running around naked." He sneered, his gaze still locked on Moria.
Seeing this, Moria was so angry he almost coughed up blood, his eyes bloodshot. "You bastard Marine—!!! Do you really think I'm useless?!!!" He suddenly bit his finger, and blood dripped to the ground. He roared, completely unleashing his shadow power. "Shadow's Asgard!!"
"RUMBLE—!!!"
The very foundations of Thriller Bark trembled. Countless shadows gathered frantically and were swallowed into his body. His body swelled rapidly at a visible rate. The sound of his bones stretching and cracking could be heard, and his muscles twisted and bulged like rocks.
A few seconds later, Moria had become a hundred-meter-tall black giant, his shadow covering the sky and the sun, his face a twisted, savage grin, his presence like that of an awakened giant troll. "I'm going to crush you into a meat paste!!!!" He raised his sky-covering giant palm and brought it down on Enel with a destructive pressure.
However, Enel just let out a light yawn, his face full of weariness and contempt. "...Being big is a big deal?" He slowly looked up, his gaze turning completely cold. He spread his hands, and a golden lightning surged, forming a halo like a thunder god's sacred domain.
"Thunder God: Heavenly Punishment!!"
"BOOM—!!!"
The entire sky was completely covered in thunderclouds. Lightning poured down like a raging sea, becoming a tidal wave of thunder that rained down on the black giant.
"Ahhhhhh—!!!!"
The thunder rolled like a heavenly drum. Moria's body convulsed violently in the raging sea of thunder, his shadows being electrocuted out of his body, wailing as they turned to ash in the air. A few seconds later, his body crashed down, smashing heavily into the scorched earth and ruins, without a trace of resistance left. The residual lightning still roared in the air, as if a god's wrath had not yet subsided.
Thriller Bark was in ruins. The walls had collapsed, the earth was cracked, and hundreds of thousands of zombies had been turned to ash in the lightning. Moria struggled to lift his head from the ruins, his entire body scorched black, his gaze scattered. "You... what exactly do you want?!"
Enel slowly walked over, lightning gathering in his palm, forming a scorching white thunder spear that approached Moria's chest. He said in a low voice, "Roy asked me to deliver a message."
"'If you dare to experiment on civilians again... the next one to come will be him.'"
"SZZZZZ—!!!"
The thunder spear instantly pierced Moria's chest, and lightning exploded from his back. "Ahhhhhh—!!!"
With a miserable scream, Moria's massive body collapsed again, and he fainted completely, black smoke constantly coming from his mouth.
"A boring farce," Enel turned around, the lightning on his body gradually dissipating, only weariness and impatience in his golden pupils. He yawned, his tone loose and lazy. "Let's go, moss-head."
Zoro shouldered his newly acquired "Shusui," his gaze sweeping over the surroundings—the old castle had been completely reduced to scorched earth, green smoke still rising from the ruins. Moria's nearly hundred-meter-tall body was half-buried in the ruins, still twitching and shrinking intermittently. His mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "You guy... are you really a Marine?"
Enel raised an eyebrow and sneered. "What, can't a Marine electrocute trash into charcoal?"
"No..." Zoro rubbed his temples, his tone complex. "It's just that you, you're more like a villain than a pirate."
Enel shrugged nonchalantly, then wrinkled his nose and glanced at Moria on the ground with disgust. "Speaking of which, this Shichibukai... do they accept any kind of trash? A guy who can't even use Haki can be one?"
Zoro shook his head. "I heard from Big Brother Roy that there are also real masters among the Shichibukai." He paused and counted on his fingers. "For example, Hawkeye Mihawk, Bartholomew Kuma..."
"Hmph, I'd like to see them for myself sometime," Enel sneered, a hint of interest actually flashing in his eyes.
As they were chatting, the lightning around Enel appeared again, and a thundercloud lifted his figure slowly into the air. Zoro shouldered Shusui and was about to follow when he suddenly turned his head and saw Hogback peeking out from the ruins, secretly directing a few broken zombie soldiers to drag the scorched Moria and the dying Absalom out of the rubble.
"Hey," Zoro raised an eyebrow. "You're just going to let them live? That's not like you."
Enel had his hands behind his head and was leaning back lazily on the thundercloud. "The zombies have all been struck to ash by the lightning. The shadows will naturally fly back." He tilted his head slightly and glanced at Hogback. "Besides... Roy's order was to 'admonish,' not to 'exterminate'."
Zoro nodded thoughtfully and said no more. The next second, a flash of lightning wrapped around the two of them and shot into the sky like a bolt of lightning, cutting through the dark clouds. The two quickly disappeared into the cloudy sky.
In the ruins, Hogback wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, adjusted his crooked glasses, and frantically directed the few remaining zombie soldiers. "Quick! Quick, get Lord Moria inside!" The zombie soldiers clumsily carried Moria, but one of them slipped and, with a "crack," stepped through the scorched floor—
"BOOM!!"
The already crumbling ruined wall collapsed with a roar, sending up a cloud of dust. Hogback stood stunned in the dust for a long time before he let out a roar of anger. "Can anyone even live in this broken place?!?!"
In the distance, Absalom, who had been struck black by the lightning,艰难地 lifted one hand, his voice as weak as a mosquito. "B-Boss... shouldn't we... find a new base..."
The unconscious Moria murmured, as if still in a nightmare, "Kaido... Roy... Enel... why are they all monsters..."
Hogback was in tears. "It's over, it's over... the reconstruction budget will have to be at least tripled!!"
On the distant return ship
Enel stood at the bow of the warship, his earrings tinkling gently in the wind, his long robe fluttering. The thunderclouds in the distance had dispersed, and the sea and the sky were clear.
Zoro leaned against the ship's rail, looking down and wiping Shusui, the blade of the sword reflecting a cold, dark light in the sunlight. He suddenly looked up, his tone unusually serious. "Hey, Enel."
"Hm?"
"Thanks," Zoro said, for once. "Although you're a jerk, this time... you really helped a lot."
Enel was taken aback for a moment, then a sneer appeared on his lips. "Oh? So the moss-head can also speak human?"
"You bastard—!" a vein popped on Zoro's forehead.
But Enel suddenly put away his smile, his gaze on the distant sea horizon, his tone unusually calm. "If you want to thank someone, thank Roy."
"If he hadn't made the arrangements, I wouldn't have bothered to care whether you found your sword or not."
Zoro was silent for a moment, then a slight smile appeared on his lips, and he said softly, "Yeah... I know."
The warship cut through the waves, heading towards Marineford. And behind them, Thriller Bark slowly sank into silence in the sea of mist, without another sound.
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