Dark shadowwaves settled on Maud's body.

Cheeks, neck, collarbones.

A semi-spiral pattern slowly emerges.

As the ripples of the shadow wave faded away, Maud slowly opened her eyes.

In the pupils, a red light lit up.

It's a sight to hear.

After all, the opponent is one of the highest cadres under the command of the Four Emperors, and he cannot be underestimated by Maude.

Even if it is meaningless mental consumption, it must be kept in a state of seeing and hearing.

The changes in Maude's body were seen by Smuge.

"The breath is stronger, is it my delusion......

Looking at Maude, who used the shadow stream Pisces, Smuji frowned slightly.

Surprised, Smuji glanced at the many corpses of the pirates in the square.

"Great, there's plenty of ready-made refills."

Smuji must have it on his mind.

In just one fight, she felt Maude's strength.

Although he said that Maude's hegemony was far inferior to his mother's majesty, his heart was actually full of jealousy.

After all, even its own strongest killing move, the Water Sword, could not compete with Maude's hegemony.

Luckily, there are tens of thousands of ready-made refills on site, which can greatly enhance her durability and strength.

Even if it's a corpse......

As long as it can defeat Bacardi. Maude's capital, she wouldn't mind.

"Huh?"

Smuji reacted suddenly, and linear shadows quietly appeared in his eyes.

"Am I rejoicing? Is it because the subconscious thinks that you can't defeat this guy? ”

"Lord Smuji!"

The overturned pirate crew quickly returned to their positions and gathered around Smuji.

Their voices interrupted Smuji's thoughts.

Smuji took a deep breath and quickly straightened his mind.

In the confrontation just now, she did fall behind.

It's a fact, there's nothing to be stubborn about.

But as long as there is an increase in these refills in the square, the results are not necessarily.

"You guys, help me drag him down, it's only thirty seconds."

"No problem, Lord Smuji!"

The members of the Pirates who came with the team were very aware of the effects of Lord Smudge's Devil Fruit ability.

From the head-to-head confrontation just now, they realized that Lord Smuji in his normal state was probably inferior to Maud in terms of strength.

That's why it's rare for Lord Smuji to take the initiative to ask them to buy time.

Smuji duly reminded, "You are not Bacardi at all. Maude's opponent, so don't go head-to-head with him, just try to contain him......"

"Understood!"

"Let's go!"

A captain-level member leads the charge.

Everyone followed.

As his men moved, Smuji kicked his feet and swept towards the nearby corpse of the pirate.

If self-esteem is not good for defeating the enemy, then what about giving it up?

"Thirty seconds, get these 'juices' in your hands......"

Smuji swung his sword, slashing through the corpses of pirates along the way.

Under the effect of its ability, the longsword acts like a sponge, quickly absorbing juice from the pirate's corpse, and then transmitting it into Smuji's body.

Whew——!

The sword light flew by.

In just a few moments, Smuji had absorbed the water from hundreds of pirate corpses.

A large amount of water entering her body made her body grow larger and taller at a speed visible to the naked eye, which was quite a sense of the giants.

"It's not enough, the opponent is him, these are not enough!"

Out of the importance and jealousy of Maude's strength, Smuji, who had absorbed the water of hundreds of pirates, did not stop there.

She must ensure victory in this battle......

"I want more!"

Smuji looked past the withered corpses on the ground and looked at the fresh corpses beyond.

Her knees bent slightly, and when she was about to make a move, a dark shadow suddenly came.

What caught my eye was Maude, who seemed to be wearing black armor.

"Huh!? ...... so fast!? ”

Smuji was slightly startled.

She has a little understanding of the strength of her subordinates, and it is impossible to block Maude for a minute.

But at thirty seconds, it shouldn't be a problem.

However, it was only less than ten seconds......

Between the lightning and flint, Smuji took a step back.

Maud swung the autumn water and slashed straight at Smuji's vital point.

Smuji's eyes flashed red, and he took advantage of the space he had gained by taking a step back to raise his sword in time to meet Maude's slash.

Boom!

Swords collide and sparks sputter.

Smuji immediately felt a substantial oppressive force from the sword.

Knives and swords, under the friction of force, sparkle sparkles.

Maude's gaze crossed the sparks and landed on Smuji's slightly surprised face, and said calmly: "It turns out that even the water of the corpse can be absorbed, isn't it disgusting?" ”

This ability to increase one's own strength by absorbing water from the target's body is similar to that of the Shadow Gathering.

If it weren't for the sunlight on Fish-Man Island, Maude probably wouldn't have killed the pirates in the square, but cut off their shadows.

If he had known that Smuji would come to the square at this time, Maud would definitely have made a little more effort to cut off the shadows and wipe out the pirates.

In this way, Smuji's amplification ability will be useless.

It's a pity that there are no ifs.

Hearing Maude's slightly teasing words, Smuji's eyes turned cold.

She didn't say anything, and was engrossed in resisting the power that Maude blessed on the Autumn Water Knife.

"Although the juice of the corpse was not fresh enough, I absorbed a hundred or so servings...... Even so, is he still inferior in strength? ”

The oppressive force coming from the sword made Smuji's heart sink slightly.

"If only I could absorb a few hundred more copies......

Out of the corner of his eye, he quickly glanced at the location of his subordinates.

On the ground closest to it, there were six subordinates whose bodies had been split in two, who were supposed to have been killed by Maude.

And farther away, the subordinates who were supposed to be dragging Maude were instead dragged by a group of people who suddenly appeared.

"Those people...... is a member of the Maude Pirates. ”

Seeing the subordinates who were fighting with Lafayette and the others, Smuji suddenly felt in his heart.

No wonder Maud came so quickly to stop her from absorbing the corpse's moisture......

"Do you still have the heart to see somewhere else? Looks like I'm being underestimated by you. ”

Maud's eyes narrowed, and under the amplification of the Shadow Stream Pisces, he suddenly mobilized his strength and pushed Smuji back alive.

Smuji suddenly took several steps back.

Maude stepped forward with his right foot, and the tip of the autumn water knife, covered in the color of the arm, fell down against the ground.

Slash the Shadow!

Maud slashed his knife upward.

A black and red earth crack slash wave ran along the ground and straight towards Smuji, who was only a few steps away.

At such a close distance, with Smuji's height advantage, a ground crack slash wave like this coming from the ground could be dodged at no cost as long as he jumped backwards into the sky.

But the other party is Maude, who has a rather treacherous ability to deal damage through shadows.

Smuji didn't dare to hold it up, and held the long sword in front of him with his backhand.

She was right.

This ground-splitting wave that comes along the ground can indeed cause damage to the target entity by slicing through the shadow.

The Earth Crack Slash Wave slammed into the sword.

The powerful energy that condensed into a mass dispersed violently, stirring up a surging wave of qi, lifting the surrounding sand and gravel and the hem of Smuji's long hair and clothes.

And just as the aftermath of the collision reverberated in all directions, Maud took advantage of the situation and dodged to Smuji's side.

Smuji's eyes turned to the side, and his pupils immediately reflected a sharp chill that flickered on the tip of the knife.

However, it was Maud who stabbed Smuji straight in front of the door of Smuge's sword defense.

If the weapon-colored stab could have been stabbed, it would have killed Smuji on the spot.

At the last moment, Smuji raised his left hand horizontally in front of his face.

The arm guard worn on the left elbow was instantly dyed inky by the color of the armament.

The autumn water that pierced straight from it pierced the armguards covered with armament color.

Boom!

Suddenly, a wave of qi wrapped in energy was vented from the stabbing place to all directions.

Cracks erupted on the ink-colored armguards at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Huh?"

Smuji's pupils shrank sharply.

In the next moment, the armguards fell apart.

The tip of the Autumnwater Knife drove straight in, piercing through the fragments of the arm guard, and stabbed into Smuji's elbow, which was also covered in armor.

Laugh at!

The tip of the knife stabbed into his elbow, splattering several flowers of blood.

Smuji's brows furrowed, but there was a sharp glint in his eyes.

In this extremely short gap between attack and defense, Smuji quickly pulled out the long sword on the ground with his other hand.

"As long as you can stab, what if you give up an arm?"

Returning the favor to his body in the way of others, and carrying the autumn water pierced in his elbow, Smuji drove his sword to stab Maude's vital point.

That's to be expected.

A smile tugged at the corners of Maude's mouth.

Shadow Cicada!

The shadow clone that covered Maude's body cracked a crack through her body behind her back.

As if a golden cicada had broken out of its shell, Maude's body quickly opened cracks and quickly broke away from the shadow split's body.

subsequently

Maud stood behind the shadow clone, her upper body leaning forward slightly, her left hand clinging to the hilt of the ferret, and her right hand making a gesture of holding the knife in the air.

Meanwhile.

Smuji's armament-colored sword pierced through the shadow clone's chest.

But in fact, before the long sword penetrated the shadow clone's chest, Maud had already made a hole in the shadow clone's chest in advance that allowed the long sword to pass through.

This is a common technique used by Nature-based people to dodge armed attacks, but it also applies to shadow clones with the ability to shape freely.

The advance deployment frustrated the idea of Smuge's sword piercing Maude's life.

"No......!"

A sword pierced through the shadow clone, and Smuji instantly realized that something was wrong.

But I saw the shadow clone in front of me, which suddenly scattered into countless pitch-black fragments, like butterflies, flying around.

Without the shadow clone, Smuge's eyes revealed Maude in a strange pose.

Smuji, on the other hand, maintained the movement of the sword and moved forward.

Due to the disappearance of the shadow clone, the autumn water that was stabbed on her elbow was weak, and it was directly bounced away by her armed color.

But......

The bounced autumn water, as if pulled by a magnetic force, flew very precisely towards Maudena's right hand that stretched forward and made a void knife holding gesture.

Everything seems to be a blueprint that Maude has planned in advance......

The autumn water that bounced over was held in Maude's right hand like this.

In this extremely fast confrontation, Smuji, who took this scene into his eyes, suddenly gave birth to an indescribable sense of absurdity.

Maud didn't intend to give Smuji any respite, his eyes flashed with a sharp edge, and his left hand pulled out the stoat, and his body was like an arrow from the string, passing over Smuji's straight sword.

Shadow Knife, Day and Night!

The ferret swords slashed out at the intersection of the two swords, and a white and a black sword flashed from Smuji's body and even the sword's body in an instant.

Clang!

There was a flash of sparks.

The next second.

Maud appeared behind Smuge, her arms stretched out to her sides, shaking off the blood stains on the ferrets and the autumn knives, and then slowly put the knives into their scabbards.

And Smuji's tall body stood motionless in place.

"Double Blade...... Do you just have time to block it......"

Smuji, who had his back to Maude, had his eyes twitching slightly, and his face was slightly pale.

Sneer——!

Maude's chest slashed and burst like a bank spurting out a large amount of blood.

Smuji fell to his knees and fell to his knees.

The blood that spurted from the wound instantly stained the ground in front of him.

Maude, who had put the double knives in the sheath, slowly turned to look at Smuji's back, and said calmly:

"Unknown abilities and moves can often receive miraculous effects, and you should have a deep understanding of this, the general."

“……”

Smuji clutched his bleeding chest and was silent for a moment.

After a moment, she slowly turned around, her eyes falling on the autumn water of the ferret that had been sheathed by Modena.

"You just slashed me, do you think that's the end of it?"

"It's not over yet."

Maud nodded slightly, and then made a gesture to sit back.

The shadows that converged turned into a dark throne behind Maude.

Maud happened to be sitting on the throne turned from a shadow, with Erlang's legs crossed, his hands clasped on his knees, and his head tilted slightly, looking at the battle circle on the other side.

"But your defeat is assured."

“……”

Out of the corner of his eye, Smuji also glanced at another battle circle.

What I saw was the subordinates who were in a rout under the offensive of Lafayette and others.

The situation in the field is already clear.

"Don't get too complacent......"

"It's not over yet!!

Smuji held on to his injuries and slowly stood up.

Maude's eyelids drooped, unmoved:

"If it's another general, with his 'seeing and hearing' level, my tricks may not have such a great effect, oh, I mean, it makes me happy to be able to solve a pirate group's generals in a few moves."

“！！！”

Smuji's face was as cold as winter.

This sentence, which stated the facts, spread throughout the square.

The crew of the Pirates, who were fighting with Lafayette and the others, couldn't help but sneer after hearing Maude's words.

"What are you kidding, Lord Smuge...... Well? ”

They quickly glanced at Smuji in the distance.

When they saw the badly injured Smuji, their faces were shocked.

It's only been a few rounds of fighting!!

"How is this possible......"

"Lord Smuji is a general!"

They couldn't believe what they were seeing.

And the defeat of the star Smudge severely hit their morale.

As Maud put it.

The defeat is assured and irretrievable.

..........

Fishman Street.

Maude's defeat of the general Star Murge in a few rounds is watched by the fishmen of the new Fish-Man Pirates.

In the room, there was silence.

Jones suddenly got up and said in a cold voice, "Go to Dragon Palace City." ”

"Do what?"

A cadre beside him asked subconsciously.

Jones's bloodshot eyes were filled with cold murderous intent.

He sneered.

"Kill the Neptons and all the soldiers."

“！！！”

The fish in the room were shocked.