When the shadow of a bat emerged from Shane's body.
His previously quiet power finally received another boost.
First, his body rapidly caved in, looking extremely weak.
Shane was already skin and bones, as though he might drop dead the next second.
"Hahahaha!"
His sinister laughter sounded like a hundred thousand bats flying out of a thousand-year-old cave.
Shane's eyes turned blood red, and darkness broke his entire body down into individual bats.
Whoosh!
It took only an instant.
Darkness spread like ink, and many bats flew from Shane's shoulders toward the Five Elders.
The Devil Fruit Awakening of Vampire Form.
Shane's presence was incredibly weak at that moment. Clearly, he had already been in poor condition, and awakening another new Devil Fruit had consumed a great deal more of the energy in his body.
At last.
Since the start of the Paramount War, Shane had reached his weakest state.
However.
Just as the Five Elders were congratulating themselves, thinking they could seize the chance to win.
They saw Shane's bat wings turn into individual bats. Once destroyed, they instead became even more dark bats.
When they looked down, they discovered that Shane's shadow had turned into bats too!
Originally, because Shane had awakened too many Devil Fruits related to light and lightning, the Dark-Dark Fruit.
Had begun to repel Shane.
But after Vampire Form awakened, its existing ability to produce some darkness on its own expanded, allowing him to use the Dark-Dark Fruit's power more perfectly.
Swish!
From that point on.
Shane gained a pair of bat wings formed from dark bats, along with a shadow composed of the same element.
Moreover, he no longer needed to slip into darkness to turn invisible. After his Devil Fruit Awakening, both his own shadow and his bat wings could serve as