Slaughter in the Dark!

"Hey, why is it so dark!"

"Yeah, why did the screen go black?"

As the Wood Cage was completely sealed off, Grove 53 was immediately plunged into darkness, plunging the live stream into complete black. This caused a stir among the viewers, with some expressing concern for Vidal's safety.

The New World, Potemado Island.

"Um?"

"I see!" Rayleigh exclaimed, feigning Satori as he watched the screen go black. "This navy officer named Vidal really does have the air of the Sengoku."

Shanks threw aside the finished chocolate bean packaging bag, stood up and asked doubtfully, "Mr. Reilly, what do you mean?"

Roger Gaban, standing to the side, were deep in thought, but their eyes also met Rayleigh's. The latter smiled slightly, "Think back, weren't there black lines in the sky in the previous scene?"

"If I'm not mistaken, it was probably Vidal used his Devil Fruit power to create a Birdcage -like wooden prison to cover the battlefield area in order to prevent Moria from escaping."

Rayleigh also felt that Vidal's actions were partly motivated by a desire to prevent others from interfering in the battle, a fact evident from his decision to broadcast the entire world live.

Since it's a live broadcast, it's best to have only one main character.

But he felt it was pointless to say more, Roger and the others wouldn't be interested in these things anyway.

"Why did the screen go black?" another burly man, whose identity was unknown, asked.

Rayleigh saw that the screen was still black, and thought that he probably wouldn't be able to see the battle going on until a winner was decided and the victor stood beside the loser.

"Through the previous battles, it's clear that although Vidal's strength is weaker than Moria's, he used techniques like binding, seizing, and strangling to suppress the latter. However, Moria's Doppelman and Shadow Warrior can easily break free from these techniques, so we must find a way to limit these two abilities!"

Rayleigh's words made all of Roger Pirates's crew members present fall into deep thought.

They wondered, if they were fighting Moria themselves, facing the Doppelman and Shadow Warrior, would they have a way to stop him?

After all, even among the Moria Roger Pirates, very few could defeat Moria with a single, overwhelming blow, giving him no time to react.

"I see!" Roger understood and burst into laughter. "Haha, that brat from the navy sealed the gaps in the wooden cell, turning it into a sealed dome, which is why the screen went black!"

"That's right, if I'm not mistaken, this barrier should be starting to close in now. As a result, Moria's space to dodge will only get smaller and smaller, and in the end he will have no choice but to engage in close combat with Vidal, leaving him with no room to dodge."

As soon as Rayleigh finished speaking, the previously dark scene lit up again, but the perspective changed to the outer perimeter of Grove 53. This time, everyone could see a large wooden dome slowly closing in!

"It's true! Amazing, Mr. Rayleigh!" Shanks exclaimed, his mouth agape. Bucky, equally shocked, Buggy instinctively behind him.

"What's impressive is this navy guy named Vidal, if he planned all of this from the beginning," Rayleigh remarked meaningfully.

"Was the disciple of the strategist of the Warring Sengoku also a strategist?" Gaban understood what he meant.

"But wouldn't this method simply involve blasting open the wooden shield?" Buggy realized he had discovered a blind spot.

"You idiot Buggy, do you think your opponents will watch you do that?" Shanks retorted, turning his head.

"What did you say!" Buggy roared, but Roger spoke up, "Indeed, in a battle of equal strength, it's difficult to be distracted by other things."

This discussion among Roger Pirates was actually quite similar among the major powers around the world, especially after the scene of the wooden barrier closing up appeared, many people saw through Vidal's intentions.

This is a navy that excels at fighting with strategy!

From this moment on, Vidal's identity as a disciple of the Sengoku was finally accepted and recognized by the mainstream world.

Inside the wooden enclosure, Moria was in a panic!

Because it was so dark, we could barely see anything, it was like we were completely blind. The key thing was that Vidal seemed to be really dead, there wasn't a sound at all.

This is the weakness of not having Awakening Observation Haki; relying too much on the five senses in battle.

On the other side, in the darkness, 'Osiris', whose upper body had been split in two, silently recovered completely.

Vidal was of course not dead. Although that Triple Shadow Demon Slash would probably have killed him if it had hit him, unfortunately, he dodged it.

The method of dodging is something few people have ever seen in this day and age. It involves using the powerful predictive ability of Observation Haki to actively separate the attacked part into elements at the very moment before the attack touches the body!

If the wooden shield above his head was inspired by Doflamingo, then this move is inspired by the future Kuzan.

Judging from the current results, it's very good!

In fact, this move wasn't invincible in Vidal's eyes. If he encountered someone with stronger Observation Haki, its effectiveness would definitely be greatly reduced.

After all, there are things in this world that I predicted, just as you predicted.

Now it's time to deal with that 'Shadow Bat'.

Vidal could clearly sense Moria's presence. He didn't move. Since Vidar's current size was too large, even taking a single step would make a huge noise. So he directly activated the power of the Woods-Woods Fruit, causing more than a dozen thick, long vines to grow from around Moria. The whole process was completely silent.

Moria, however, couldn't contain himself any longer. The excessively dark and quiet environment was becoming unbearable for him, and he prepared to swing his sword upwards to test it out!

Since we can't figure out what happened, we might as well just rush out.

What a simple thing!

However, Vidal wouldn't allow him to do so. Just as he was about to make a move, his Observation Haki had already anticipated his actions. All the vines that were already in place instantly wrapped around Moria's limbs, including Makasi and Yifuli!

[Bang!!]

At the same time, the next second after the vines moved, 'Osiris' and 'Apis Divine Bull' rushed forward. The former pinned down the struggling Moria and began to hammer him fiercely in the darkness, while the latter used its horns to thrust forward and pierced the throat of Yifuli, who was bound by the vines and unable to move, with extreme precision!

Vidal was quite familiar with the Shadow-Shadow Fruit; once the owner of the shadow died, the shadow would also disappear.

Since that's the case, we might as well take advantage of the darkness and chaos to kill those guys who gave Moria his power first.

As for capturing them alive and throwing them into Impel Down?

What time is it? I don't have time to think about these things. Let's win first!

"Cough cough. It hurts so much." Yifuli, lying on the ground, opened his eyes wide in pain and tried to say something, but the sharp pain in his throat and the blood blocked his voice, and even now his vision was completely black.

He never saw the last glimmer of light before he died, plunging into eternal darkness!

This is battle, this is slaughter.

"Hey—you're still alive?!"

Moria was punched several times, and the pain made him scream. Although he couldn't see anything, he wasn't stupid; how could he not know that it was Vidal who was hitting him?

"Shadow Warrior!"

Without a word, he switched positions and successfully escaped the vines' bindings and 'Osiris's' beating. But he immediately discovered that the power within him was rapidly dissipating like flowing water, which completely panicked Moria.

"Ah! Captain!!"

That wasn't all. In the darkness, he heard Makasi's screams, followed by another portion of his power dissipating.

Moria had a hunch what had happened, and his eyes instantly turned bloodshot, like a demon's. "You killed them! Didn't you? You killed Makasi, Lusi’en, and Yifuli!"

He roared in the direction the sound came from.

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