The battle between "Vladimir" and Pawa was truly a battle of equals!
After blocking Pawa's attack, "Vladimir" seemed to be using all his skills to fight Pawa.
Oz, in the shadows, mostly only shows his arms, occasionally his entire body from the chest up, which Vladimir manipulates with ease...
In this way, it has the feeling of every punch landing, which is a fighting style that Sig is familiar with, and it also does not ruin the style of his "Scarlet Reaper".
It appears to be fighting entirely with the power of Shadow Power and Blood Power. Although it occasionally displays physical skills, it generally maintains a "proper" fighting stance.
His style is completely different from Sea King 'Sig reckless fighting style...
Sig's fighting power was significantly diminished when he didn't use the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's external abilities. However, after acquiring Oz's body, Sig's fighting power in "Vladimir" form is now about 90% of what it was before.
With the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Sig's combat emphasizes speed; a mere "Flash of Lightning" is enough to instantly kill most opponents whose Observation Haki is inferior to his.
However, when wielding the Oz's Shadow, the power is indeed much greater than that of Sig's original body under the stimulation of lightning. Furthermore, the current Oz body possesses the duality of flesh and shadow, making it less susceptible to injury. Even if it is pierced, recovery is not difficult.
Because Sig used the power of the "Rose Bishop" to allow it to heal itself, it was essentially like Oz being resurrected and his injuries being healed. This is completely different from the effect of "patching and mending" repairs!
However, this also makes the remaining will at the Mind Body level within Oz's corpse more interfering with Sig's Pale Soul...
So Sig went all out and used the "Shadow Ascetic's " abilities to merge Oz's body into his shadow!
Normally, Shadow Ascetic's abilities wouldn't allow him to stuff such a large, living creature into his shadow. However, because the body of Oz now contains Sig's Pale Soul, it's essentially a "two-way journey," with Sieg actively merging into it.
Especially since Sig is already the "Rose Bishop," and the authority of flesh and blood has been activated, dissolving the "flesh and blood" that is equivalent to his own clone.
In this way, the Pale Soul and Sig's main soul re-establish a direct connection, and even the slightest interference will hardly be able to shake Sig.
However, Sig can no longer completely separate Oz from the shadow; it will take at least Sequence 5... or even Sequence 4 before there is a chance of separation.
This makes it more convenient to carry.
However, the drawback is that when using Oz's shadow body in battle, Sig cannot fully Elementalization. Otherwise, when he completely transforms into lightning, there will be no shadow at all, and Oz's body will be in a state between existence and non-existence. It will Sig some time after he regains his shadow before it can be activated.
It's like you can only choose one of two!
In terms of pure physical strength, Sig's physical body is far inferior to Oz's...
When Sieg felt Oz's power, Sig even wanted to compete with Kaido.
However... in terms of attack, the gap has narrowed considerably, which has also extinguished Sig's idea that "I am stronger Kaido".
Because Sig's "Pale Soul Void" was, after all, a usurper's possession, and the degree of match between his will and body was not high, his Haki was severely weakened.
Haki aura is a combination of willpower and physical strength, not a single "set," so its effect is naturally not very good.
As for Observation Haki, that's easy to say, since Sig's original Observation Haki is already present; just treat Oz's Shadow as a weapon.
However, his Armament Haki was significantly lacking, which greatly limited Oz's Shadow's attack power, leaving him to rely almost entirely on his physical strength.
Seeing that he couldn't deal with the nameless nobody in front of him, Pawa gradually became impatient. "Let's stop here... Hagoku!"
With a single swing, Pawa unleashed a terrifying surge of energy from his greatsword toward Sig.
This is a technique from Elbaf, the Giant Country, and many giants use it as their ultimate move!
It is known as the Elbaf Spear...
Even when using a knife, it manifests as extremely strong penetrating energy, rather than knife energy.
At the critical moment, Sig's pupils narrowed, and he made a decision instantly: he would not transform into lightning to dodge—he was not strong enough to expose himself.
Giant's Shield!
Vladimir stood in mid-air, arms outstretched in a defensive posture, and instantly his shadow on the ground stood up—this time, appearing entirely above his navel...
Given Oz's body proportions, this is already nearly two-thirds of his body.
With his arms raised horizontally, he was using his body as a shield!
This move...
It's like Oz's version of Tekkai!
Logically, after mastering Armament Haki, Sig shouldn't even bother with "Tekkai"—it's common knowledge that using Tekkai always results in being defeated after your guard is broken, and this move seems to "lower your intelligence." After learning "Tekkai," when an opponent's ultimate attack comes, he'll react like Yasuo after unlocking his ultimate, seeing three or more enemy heroes being knocked up...
They've completely lost their ability to make normal judgments! They can't stand not taking the hits head-on!
However, when Sig controlled the Oz's Shadow, his mature Armament Haki was greatly weakened. Unable to solve this problem for the time being, he began to explore a more direct and simpler defensive method. The principle of "Tekkai" was not complicated for Sig, who was already a master of physical combat.
With so many naval prisoners on the Thriller Bark, Sig easily hypnotized some officers and obtained the normal Six Powers training method. After some summarization and organization, he was able to use "Tekkai" and "Shigan," which have a lot in common with Fish-Man Karate training.
Sig didn't intend to train with the "Six Powers"; Fish-Man Karate suited him better, but he could still adapt some techniques.
The immense impact of the Hagoku pierced a large hole in the chest of the Oz's Shadow, but because Oz was too "thick," it didn't penetrate all the way through, only opening about two-thirds of the way...
And the hole in the Oz's Shadow was visibly healing.
After becoming a superposition of flesh and shadow, recovery is easier. The flesh that Sig usually compresses is now silently and continuously transformed into shadow and then transferred to the Oz's Shadow!
If it weren't for the connection created by the shadow, Sig wouldn't be able to heal others with such efficiency.
Of course, even so, it was still quite a drain on Sig – after all, it was such a large piece of meat!
Seeing that even his ultimate move had failed to quickly eliminate the "Vampire," Pawa grew increasingly furious...
While the battle raged on, Moria had already commanded his Zombie Army to storm Captain John's lair.
Just then, a surge of energy clashing emanated from inside Captain John's lair, momentarily halting the chaotic battle outside and causing a section of the lair's structure to collapse.
It's clear that a fierce battle has broken out internally...
Sig initially thought that CP0 had directly attacked Captain John, but after a moment of distraction, his Observation Haki revealed that two great swordsmen with Two-Sword Style were confronting each other amidst the ruins.
One was Captain John, whom we had seen in the bounty poster, and the other... was a guy with his hair in a topknot—unsurprisingly, it should be "Yunlai."
What bothered Sig even more was that, despite all the talk about Two-Sword Style- Two-Sword Style before, Sig didn't know that "Yunlai's " Two-Sword Style actually involved wielding a straight sword and a Bari Saber, just like Captain John's, and wasn't the Wano Country style of Two-Sword Style...