Shadow Clone vs. Wood Clone!
"Shadow Warrior!"
The Shadow Horn Spear, which was wrestling with Vidal, suddenly transformed into a humanoid figure four or five meters tall. Moria, looking slightly disheveled, appeared in front of him and, without saying a word, viciously swung his sword at him.
At such close range, coupled with a teleportation-like ability to shift positions, even with his Observation Haki, Vidal only had time to block the shadow blade's edge with his crossed arms.
[Duang--]
Green fragments exploded from the arm armor, but ultimately failed to penetrate the layer of dark light on the skin. The powerful force spread, forcing Vidal to fly backward. He had to take Geppo to dissipate the force before he could barely regain his footing.
"Doppelman!"
Moria was clearly enraged by the 'Giant Horn' he had just heard, and he joined forces with the Doppelman to launch a series of continuous attacks.
If he had been hit head-on by that attack, he would be severely injured, if not dead!
[Bang! Bang! Bang!]
Clad in green armor, Vidal coldly fought two opponents, his fists and feet creating streaks of green afterimages as he engaged in a fierce battle with two perfectly coordinated shadow blades.
Three streaks of light, one green and two black, collided and separated in the air, but each collision produced a tremendous roar.
Vidal's earlier feeling was correct; Moria is indeed the most suitable opponent for him now!
At this moment, Moria possessed a strong physique, superb swordsmanship, and a highly proficient Devil Fruit ability and Armament Haki.
Although he is far from being as strong as he was when he clashed with Kaido in Wano Country, he is indeed a true pirate with a bounty of over 100 million in this era!
Vidal even felt that the figure of 130 million Beli somewhat underestimated Moria.
[Boom--]
A nearly two-meter-long leg covered in a layer of green armor swept through the air and kicked the Shadow Doppelman hard in the chest. The powerful Armament Haki immediately took effect, kicking him directly into the forest.
From this angle, you can clearly see the thick smoke that rose up after the Doppelman landed.
[Duang--]
Moria charged forward again to exchange blows with Vidal, but his gaze immediately faltered.
"Um?"
Because he realized the Doppelman wasn't coming!
"Hmph, you seem to have forgotten that I am also an Ability User." Vidal sneered as he looked at Moria was standing close at hand.
He knocked the Doppelman down just now so that the sea of trees below could trap him; the Doppelman and Shadow Warrior's moves were indeed troublesome.
Their existence is equivalent to giving Moria the ability to teleport and pseudo-elementalize!
This guy's lower body strength isn't very strong, so his speed and agility are far inferior to his upper body. However, the Shadow Warrior allows him to not need to be very fast. If danger arises, he can simply switch positions with the Doppelman or switch the body parts being attacked.
If Moria hadn't lacked Observation Haki, which slowed down his reaction time, it would have been even more difficult to fight him now.
"Hehehe, then I'll go down!" Moria's eyes darted around and he grinned, his entire being instantly turning black.
[Boom!!]
Immediately afterward, a black Flying Slash suddenly appeared from the sea of trees below, and despite the nearby trees' desperate attempts to block it, Moria easily broke through the encirclement.
As expected, the Nativity of a World of Trees technique, with its wide-ranging crowd control, is unlikely to be able to trap an opponent of Moria's caliber.
And so, the combination of the Doppelman and Moria once again appeared before Vidal!
"Moria, how are you going to defeat me if you keep fighting me like this?" Vidal asked pointedly.
"Hehehe, trying to scare me with Marine Admiral?"
Moria's heart sank, but he outwardly sneered contemptuously, "If Admiral wanted to come, he would have already! Although I have a bounty of over a hundred million, I am still an ant in the eyes of those monsters. Even if Marineford, it would only be a Vice Admiral at most!"
Although the Vice Admiral was quite strong, he didn't think he could be kept alive, so these words were actually a form of self-comfort, which made him feel much better.
"Really? But what if I were a disciple of the Sengoku Master?"
"What?"
Vidal's casual remark was like a Heavenly Obstructing Star, shattering Moria's newly formed sense of relief, and his expression immediately became uncertain.
Are you telling the truth?
Vidal didn't answer, just smiled at him, which made Moria even more uneasy. He had witnessed Sengoku's incredible Sengoku in John Pirates, so he was even more reluctant to encounter him again.
At the same time, Vidal's words reached the ears of millions, thus officially revealing his identity as a disciple of the Sengoku to the world!
And this is also one of his purposes; if no one knows his identity, then it has little value.
"This kid is telling me not to go over there!"
The same sentence had a very different meaning in Sengoku's eyes. He didn't care that Vidal made their relationship public, since he was indeed Vidal's teacher, so he was more concerned about the second meaning of the sentence.
Master, please don't interfere. I want to fight him one-on-one!
Just then, the Den Den Mushi on his desk rang. Sengoku picked up the receiver casually and found that it was Antoine Vice Admiral.
The gist is that they couldn't cut the Wood Cage themselves, so they couldn't provide timely support to Vidal!
"Never mind that, leave this battle to him. You guys just need to stabilize the other areas." With that, Sengoku hung up the phone and went back to processing documents, but the Image Den Den Mushi continued to run.
He listened to the live broadcast while working.
Antoine in Sabaody breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the Den Den Mushi hang up. This way, he wasn't held responsible, but he had still lost face in front of his subordinates today!
This made him feel down, thinking that he had been too comfortable for too long and was getting old, so his strength had declined and he couldn't even cut a piece of wood.
Grove 53, the battle between Vidal and Moria resumed, and this time he clearly sensed that the latter's offensive had become much more impatient.
With his left hand, he grabbed the incoming shadow blade, letting his green armor break as it continued to tear, while his right fist transformed into a streak of green light and slammed heavily into Moria's face.
[Bang!]
The next moment, the Haki Emission from behind him was broken through by the slash. Although his back Hardening the Haki, it still made him stagger forward a step. Moria in front of him seized the opportunity, ignoring the blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, and slammed his empty left fist into Vidal's chest.
However, his physical skills were never as strong as his swordsmanship; his fist only made the green armor tremble slightly, but it didn't break at all.
"Burst Gun Tree!"
Vidal gritted his teeth and unleashed his Devil Fruit power, instantly sending more than a dozen wooden spears shooting out from his upper body. Each spear was imbued with Armament Haki, and its tips were all jet black.
"Ah!!"
Moria hadn't expected this to happen, and lacking Observation Haki, he was instantly blasted away by the barrage of wooden spears. The Doppelman behind him fared the same way; though a shadow, it was no different from a human in the face of Haki.
However, it cannot get hurt and has no sense of pain, which is something Moria lacks.
Although he managed to protect himself with Haki in time, his Haki level was not as high as Vidal's, and he was still torn in black by the wooden spear, his body covered in bruises and red marks, and the pain made Moria scream repeatedly.
[Smack!]
On the other side, after forcing Moria and the Doppelman away, Vidal clapped his hands together in front of him and shouted, "Wood Clone!"
Moria had barely recovered when he saw three pieces of wood separate from Vidal's body and quickly mold them into a clone that looked exactly like him.
Then it dawned on me that Vidal also has clones, and judging from the current situation, he can create many of them!
Thank you to Golden Rabbit Silver Dragon Hammer E for the 100 RMB reward!