Blood trickled down from the wound on his cheek.

Moria's eyes suddenly became extremely terrifying.

"Hey-hee-hee......"

The signature laughter spread all around, alarming many lives in the shadows.

"Bacardi. Maude, your shadow...... I'm going to decide! ”

Moria's hands spread out, opening her large, fanged mouth.

His face and even his eyes were filled with a tyrannical meaning mixed with a cold aura.

He knows.

The newcomer in front of me is very unusual.

Since entering the Great Passage, not only has the bounty skyrocketed, but also the course that has been feared by so many people has become nothing.

Some time ago, he was obviously on that route, 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 digging deeper.

He admits that Maud is the strongest newcomer he has ever met in nine years of dormancy since returning from the New World.

But so what?

In the years that he has been dormant in the Devil's Triangle, there are countless rookie pirates who have been sanctioned by him.

What he likes to see most is the tragic appearance of those newcomers who are only one step away from the first half of the Great Route, when their dreams and goals are punctured!

"Hey-hee-hee......"

Moria stared at Maude, bloodshot in her eyes.

The swarm of bats transformed from the shadows first dispersed, then rushed towards Maud from all directions.

"Intelligence is intelligence, and some information can only be verified in actual combat......"

Maud's Sight and Hearing is always on.

The bats that came from all around were in his [vision].

"First ......"

Maude's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and she pressed a buckshot of a color different from the usual one into the barrel of the crow's gun, and immediately put away her flintlock pistol, holding a thousand birds in front of her.

A faintly revealing blood-colored aura swept away from Maude's feet.

Gun. Daisy.

Maude's knife-wielding arm bent back suddenly, like a wound clockwork.

But he used the long knife as a swords, and stabbed out flying wheat mang sword qi in all directions at super high speed, like a blooming white daisy.

This move depends on the sword skills of the mad woman named Abbe in Mad Hatter Town.

The difference is that Abbey can't knock the thorn out, while Maud can.

The wheat-shaped sword qi was like a bullet, smashing the shadow bats that flew into the air.

"Is the average intensity because of the scattered shadows?"

Compared to the pitch-black spear that burst out of the shadows just now, these bats were vulnerable.

It's just that the mechanism of shadows is similar to elementalization, and it can freely change form after leaving the body.

This means that no matter how much damage the shadow that leaves the body, as long as it can freely shape the same shape as the body before returning, it will not cause any damage to the body.

That is, pouring an attack on the shadow is a pure waste of effort, unless......

"Let's try it out with the armament color......"

Maude's mind moved, and after smashing the group of bats, he rushed straight towards Moria.

Moria looked coldly at Maude who rushed over.

"Shadow Mage."

The scattered shadow returned to Moriah at the speed of light, and immediately formed a three-dimensional shadow with the same body shape and appearance as him.

"Hey-hee-hee......"

Moria stood behind the shadow clone and didn't make any substantive movements from beginning to end.

It's not that he thinks he can defeat Maude with his shadow alone, but his style has always been like this.

Whether in battle or in daily life, he always relies on others and shadows......

This kind of influence and manifestation brought about by personality is nothing in daily life.

But if it is placed in battle, it is undoubtedly giving up some of its own advantages.

The Shadow Mage grinned and strode towards Maud, who was rushing at the knife in his hand.

Without any fancy skill, the Shadow Mage raised his hands and slapped Maud's head hard from the top down.

It wasn't fast, and Maud could not only react, but also easily pass the Shadow Mage and go straight to Moria not far away.

But he didn't, knowing that Moria had the ability to switch places with the Shadow Mage at any time.

Calmly looking at the palm that fell, Maude released an armed color and wrapped around the body of the hodori.

Not far away, Moria's gaze froze.

With just one glance, he could see that Maude's armed color proficiency was high.

This ability to rot the streets in a new world is not common in the first half of the Great Passage, let alone in a new person.

Even if there were, Moria had never seen such a masterful domineering skill in a newcomer.

Whew——!

Maud slashed out, easily slicing off the shadow mage's hands.

He should have taken advantage of the situation to cut off the shadow mage's legs again, but Maude's eyes flashed red, and he used silent steps in an instant, his body disappeared into the wind, and the next moment, he was already ten meters away.

At this moment, the pitch-black arms that had been severed by him turned into a black net in mid-air, covering his original location.

"Heh......"

Looking at the black net in the air, Maude, who retreated in time, chuckled.

The knife just now looked like it had severed the Shadow Mage's arms, but in fact, it was the Shadow Mage who cut off his arms before he was slashed, so as to free up the gap for the slash to pass through.

This is the most common technique used by Nature-based abilities to evade armed color attacks.

It's not surprising that a shadow with a similar ability mechanic to the natural system can do this.

But it also sends a message to Maude......

That is, the Shadow will be damaged by the Armed Color Attack, or in other words, it will contain the Shadow's ability to recover and shape freely.

If that knife really cut off the shadow mage's arms.

Then, when the injured Shadow Mage returns to Moria's body, the damage will be truly fed back to Moria.

With this in mind, Maude considered another possibility.

Even if Moria has both arms broken, she can reconnect her arms by "correcting" her own shadow, and the possibility of regrowing her arms cannot be ruled out.

I just don't know if Moria's mastery of ability has reached this level that is a bit unbelievable just thinking about it.

"Shadow Fruit ......"

After a brief encounter, Maud had to admit that the Shadow Fruit had changeable and flexible characteristics, and its upper limit was not weak.

Instead of muffling to create a zombie army with many flaws, it is better to honestly improve the ability effect of the Shadow Fruit in actual combat.

It can only be said that Moria has taken the wrong path and wasted her youth in vain.

Maud gathered her thoughts, calmly staring at the shadow mage who had retracted the black net and reshaped, and slowly stretched out her left hand to her side.

Bailey, who was thrown by Maud as a hidden weapon not long ago, quietly ran back at this moment, and then jumped lightly and jumped towards Maude.

His body morphed into a long knife in mid-air, the hilt of which was aimed at Maude's outstretched left hand.

It looked as if the long knife flew back into Maud's hand on its own.

Maud slashed at the Shadow Mage once more, with twin knives in hand.

After confirming that the armed color works on Shadow, he can focus all of his focus on attacking Shadow.

Not far away, Moria snorted coldly.

He'd sanctioned countless pirates in the Devil's Triangle, but only Maud made him feel threatened, which made him uncomfortable.

"All it takes is one right moment."

Moria's grim gaze glanced at Maude's shadow.

Cut off the shadows.

The battle can be over in an instant.