Overwhelming Advantage
"Damn it, shut up!" Without a doubt, the battle with Kaido was a lingering scar in Moria's heart, Nightmare he never wanted to recall.
"Shadow Horn Spear!" In a fit of rage, Moria summoned three black spears and fired them at Roy side by side.
"Has your life been so comfortable that you've forgotten how to fight?" Roy easily dodged Moria's attack, wielding his Seven Star Sword and slashing down mercilessly. "Such a slow move, it can't even catch up to my shadow."
"Shadow Warrior!" Moria narrowly switched places with his shadow, dodging Roy's attack. However, the beads of sweat on his forehead showed that using his life-saving moves several times in a row was not easy for him.
However, before he could catch his breath, Roy appeared in front of him in an instant and slashed him away with his sword, blood falling like a torrential rain.
Perona felt her worldview had been turned upside down. Shouldn't her master and this Nightmare Roy be on the same level? How come the gap between them seemed even greater than the gap between her and Moria?
"Huh? Something's not right. Why are the surrounding rooms still intact?" Perona belatedly exclaimed in surprise as she recovered from her shock.
Her master was, after all, a renowned Shichibukai. The battle with Nightmare Roy couldn't have been limited to this. Moreover, she had clearly seen Roy's Sword Qi cleave the wall, and there was no blood on the floor of the room that her master had spilled.
"What is this? Their battlefield isn't in this space!" After careful observation, Perona was horrified to discover that the two of them seemed to be fighting in a mirror. She could see them, but couldn't touch them, which was why no sound reached the outside world.
What's even more frightening is that her owner seems completely unaware of this.
"Damn it! If my strongest zombie were completed, the battle would never have ended like this!" Moria said, panting heavily, extremely unwilling.
Although Moria's strength is at the bottom among the Shichibukai, he is still a man who challenged Kaido, so he shouldn't be this weak.
The main reason is that he relied too much on the strength of others, while his own mental and physical health declined too drastically.
"If this is all the power you have, then this boring farce can be declared over."
"It's still early. Let me show you my strongest move, Shadow... Gathering Place!" Moria roared madly, raising his monstrous hands.
"..." Moria looked bewildered. He was prepared to withstand the surge of power, so why hadn't anything happened?
"Where are the shadows? Where are the shadows I control? Why is this happening?" Moria's voice was filled with unconcealed panic. This was his last trump card, how could it end before it even began?
Roy's expression was strange. His purpose in setting up the domain was only to prevent the sounds of the two fighting from being transmitted, but the result was that he accidentally separated Moria from the shadow he controlled.
"Fine, I'll give you one last chance." Roy released the domain's restrictions, and countless shadows surged into Moria's body, causing his size to expand wildly. Moria, who was already a sub-giant, eventually became a monster the size of a castle. If Roy hadn't pulled him into the domain in time, the castle would probably have been reduced to ruins.
Roy felt he was increasingly resembling the foolish villain from his past life's novels, recklessly throwing around when victory seemed assured, which might just allow the enemy to turn the tide with a sliver of health.
"What a pity, even if I'm the main villain, you, Moria, won't be the protagonist who goes into overdrive." Roy looked at the monstrous Moria and shrugged indifferently.
"Aaaaah!" Having absorbed too many shadows into his body, Moria had completely lost his mind and turned into a monster that only knew how to kill and destroy.
"Your power has indeed increased to a rather terrifying level." Roy sighed in surprise as he felt the destruction caused by Moria losing control, but he quickly shook his head. "Unfortunately, your weaknesses are just as obvious as your strengths. You are now nothing more than a balloon that has been inflated to its limit. I don't even need to lift a finger. You will soon perish on your own."
"Moreover, daring to use such a technique that even they cannot control in front of me is simply courting death." For a powerful individual like Roy, Observation Haki has been developed to its extreme, any slight flaw will be magnified infinitely. Only by playing it safe and steady can one succeed.
Of course, if Moria had a choice, he probably wouldn't want to use such a move that would kill a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of his own.
Roy's Conqueror's Haki raged unrestrainedly, impacting Moria's already weakened consciousness.
Sizzle—Bang!
A ghostly shadow burst forth from Moria's face, shooting in all directions, while Moria's clumsy body collapsed with a crash, his size rapidly shrinking until he returned to his previous state.
"This is terrifying! My master is no match for him at all. Is this terrifying guy really Shichibukai? Or is he Marine Admiral or one of the Four Emperors in disguise?" After witnessing the difference in strength between the two sides, Perona had no hope for the outcome of the battle.
But she still didn't expect that Moria's strongest trump card, which absorbed the shadows of a thousand people and possessed the gigantic Moria capable of destroying an island with a single blow, would be defeated so easily by Roy, as if it were no more difficult than swatting a mosquito.
"If Moria could perfectly control his power, he might reach the level of Doflamingo," Roy thought to himself. If that were the case, the outcome of this battle might change. For example, Moria might be able to last longer against Roy.
The Dream Domain receded, Moria's enormous body slammed onto the floor with a creak.
Roy stepped forward with the air of a victor, gently crouched down, and reached his right hand into... Moria's head.
Moria, who had already lost consciousness, was naturally unaware of all this, while Perona, who witnessed the scene, trembled. "So... so terrifying, his hand is stuck in Master's head, Master must have been killed, I... should I take revenge?"
Perona shakily raised her head, and her eyes met Roy's.
"Ahhh..." Perona actually fainted in her spirit form.
Roy's lips twitched. What the hell? He's so powerful now that he can scare people unconscious with just a glance? And he's a ghost in spirit form, no less?