Moria did not think that he, who had fought inextricably with Kaido of the Beasts and only narrowly lost, would lose to a brat.
So, he had been tailing them relentlessly.
Seeing this, Merlin did not take any further action.
The two ships, one in front and one behind, approached the shore of an uninhabited primitive island two hours later.
Looking at the pirate ship on the shore hundreds of meters away, Merlin jumped onto the shore without hesitation.
His eyes were burning with fighting spirit.
His aura rose.
He issued a challenge to Moria standing on the ship in the distance.
"Kishishishi!"
A sharp laugh rang out. Amidst the fluttering sound of wings, a flock of shadow bats flew from the ship over there and converged ten meters away from Merlin to form a life-size shadow of Moria. Immediately after, their positions swapped.
Moria's figure appeared abruptly.
"Is it you?
"That arrogant and conceited brat.
"Heard your strength is very strong?"
Moria looked down at Merlin relying on his height, his sharp voice spreading out.
Merlin sized up this guy at close range. Although tall, his figure was already somewhat out of shape, and there were no weapons on his body. However, at this time, looking at the two guys coming down from the opposite ship, these two people existed in Merlin's memory.
Absalom.
Perona.
However.
"Shichibukai? Gecko Moria? Heard. You were defeated by a man of the Oni race back then? Is that so?"
Saying this, Merlin narrowed his eyes slightly, but a pair of black upward-curved demon horns grew on both sides of his forehead in the blink of an eye.
Moria's eyes widened suddenly, his face became hideous in an instant, gritting his teeth and roaring curses: "Damn brat, you're looking for death."
With a wave of his big hand, the shadow under him expanded in the blink of an eye, and a torrent of shadow bats charged at Merlin.
Those dense shadow bats all grew a pair of sharp fangs, pouncing over in the blink of an eye.
At this moment.
A wisp of red light flashed in Merlin's eyes. Observation Haki predicted the action pattern of the flying shadow bats.
His right hand rested on the hilt of Zanye. In an instant, a dark light appeared. Clang! The atmosphere rubbed and shattered, and the blade beam impacted and spread out instantly.
In the blink of an eye, this impact hit the shadow bat torrent. Only hearing a boom!, the explosion-like air wave impact spread, dispersing all the incoming shadow bats in an instant.
Moria's eyes widened suddenly. Seeing the violent impact rushing over, shadows spread on his fist, turning into a shadow gauntlet comparable to steel, and swung a punch.
Boom!
The impact driven by Moria's punch collided instantly with the explosion impact slashed out by Merlin.
Turbulent airflow spread between the two.
At this moment, Absalom, one of the two people who had just arrived behind Moria, was overturned by the impact, letting out a series of screams.
While Perona's figure stood still on the spot, this strong wind passed straight through her body.
A few seconds later, the strong wind dissipated.
At this time, a white transparent ghost figure like a teru teru bozu suddenly flashed in Merlin's field of vision. His pupils shrank sharply.
He dodged instantly leaving the spot.
The ghost figure pounced on empty air instantly.
At the same time, looking at Perona who had faint expectation in her eyes in the distance, Merlin raised the katana in his hand and slashed down.
An air blade slash shot over. In the blink of an eye, the slash penetrated her body.
At this time, a flash of 'as expected' passed through his eyes. It's a spirit body. And at this moment, Perona was stunned on the spot, slowly lowered her head mechanically, looking at her chest. Something just cut across here.
"Wah yah yah!" Suddenly screaming, then floating to hide behind Moria, showing her head and baring her teeth at Merlin: "Your opponent is Moria, not me! You shameless stinky guy, bullying a little girl."
Merlin turned his gaze. At this time, he suddenly discovered that Absalom had disappeared.
However, at this moment in his Observation Haki, a human electric field also appeared behind Moria.
Holo-Holo Fruit (Horo Horo no Mi), Clear-Clear Fruit (Suke Suke no Mi).
Merlin thought of this instantly.
At this time, Moria looked at Merlin solemnly, then said to Merlin: "Let's go fight in the distance. Don't accidentally hurt our respective people."
At this time, Merlin sensed that his three people had arrived beside him, then nodded.
However, Merlin spoke to them at this time: "You guys be careful. One of them is a Clear-Clear Fruit ability user, and one is a Holo-Holo Fruit ability user. Their abilities are very tricky and dangerous."
Pink narrowed his eyes slightly at this time, looked behind Moria, and nodded: "Leave the Clear-Clear Fruit ability user to me."
Merlin nodded and said: "But you have to pay more attention to the little girl who is the Holo-Holo Fruit ability user.
"The Holo-Holo Fruit ability user can create a kind of Negative Hollow. After contact, it will make people extremely negative and temporarily lose the will to resist.
"This is a dangerous ability to interfere with emotions recorded in the encyclopedia."
Hearing this, Monet and the others nodded one after another.
And at this moment, hearing Merlin reveal the effects of their abilities just like that, Moria's eye corner twitched, and he screeched: "You two be careful for me. If things go wrong, you can run first."
Absalom and Perona nodded one after another in response.
The next moment, Merlin and Moria looked at each other, then both moved simultaneously, rushing towards the interior of the island.
At this time, the four people on the bright side in the field looked at each other.
The next moment, Baby 5's hands transformed into cannon barrels, firing shell after shell around Perona with bang bang bang! sounds.
Boom boom boom boom!!!
"Ahhhh!" Suddenly, Absalom, who was still standing beside Perona, screamed suddenly. Immediately after, a heavy object flew backward and smashed heavily on the ground, his figure manifesting.
Seeing this, Pink dove into the sand. As soon as he touched it, the sandy ground around him was instantly transformed into water flow, splashing sand-colored spray.
Immediately after, his whole figure submerged under the sand. In the blink of an eye, he rushed out from under Absalom. With splashes splashing, he hugged his waist from behind and soared into the sky, then spiraled down from the air to the ground. Boom!
Like an explosion.
Absalom instantly spat blood and lay limp on the ground, no longer moving.
Under the joint cooperation of Baby 5 and Pink, he was KO'd instantly.
At this time, a delicate shout rang out: "Negative Hollows."
In the blink of an eye, five or six Negative Hollow figures appeared around Pink. Pink was startled and hurriedly sank into the ground. However, the ghosts also penetrated the ground. Then, Pink's figure floated up from under the sand, released his ability, and crawled on the ground. At the same time, an extremely negative voice came out weakly: "Living is really tiring, I might as well die. If there is an afterlife, I want to be a sandworm!"
"Horo horo, serves you right!!"
Perona's spirit body put her hands on her hips, raised her chin and laughed happily, then looked at Monet and Baby 5 with a wicked gaze.
With a wave of her small hands, two Negative Hollows flew quickly towards them.
The two looked shocked and hurriedly dodged quickly.
Just after running two hundred meters, Observation Haki sensed an aura wilting instantly. Merlin turned his head and saw Absalom being dealt with. The corner of his mouth rose, mocking Moria not far away: "Your subordinates are not that great?"
However, at this time, Moria also saw Pink being dealt with by Perona, and his sharp laughter retorted: "Do your people only know how to run?"
The next moment.
The ground under his feet depressed, and his figure rushed towards Moria rapidly. A residual shadow flashed by. Immediately after, a slash cut towards the fist Moria smashed over.
Clang! A dull metal collision sound rang out. Under the explosion-like immense force, the figures of the two flew back to both sides.
His feet plowing a ten-meter groove in the ground, after stabilizing his figure, Merlin narrowed his eyes: "Your strength is not small!"
Moria looked at a blood mark appearing on his fist edge, his eye corner twitching. However, he wouldn't show weakness, sneering: "Wait until I slaughter you, then your body will be mine."
"Necrophilia? Or homosexuality?"
Merlin looked at him with contempt. Moria instantly became furious, shouting and screeching: "Bastard, I am not a homosexual!"
Merlin swung a slash, but his mouth was unforgiving: "Then you admit to being a necrophile?"
Moria smashed the slash with a punch, panting and roaring: "Shadow Horn Spear (Kage-Zuno Yari)!"
The shadow under him spread out instantly, enveloping the ground with a diameter of one hundred meters around him. Immediately after, shadow lances pierced out from the ground like earth spikes.
And the tips of these lances flashed with iron-like cold light.
Merlin's figure moved nimbly through the lance thrusts. His eyes suddenly flashed, Haki surged from his body, wrapping and hardening.
The pitch-black katana with an iron luster, following his figure's nimble dodging, swung out continuously. Under super speed bursts, the lance thrusts were cut off instantly one by one.
"Ahhhhh!" Moria suddenly screamed. Wounds cut by blades appeared abruptly on his body, blood spurting out instantly.
At the same time, the shadows spreading to the surrounding ground retracted instantly. Moria panted heavily, staring at Merlin with bloodshot eyes: "Armament Haki?"
Merlin's eyes flashed, stopping his figure, grinning and chuckling: "Although you can control your shadow, your shadow and yourself are symbiotic and closely connected. Shadows cut by Haki will return the injury to your main body, right?
"After all, like a shadow following the form, right?"
Moria ground his fangs. Merlin was right. Attacks without Haki, even if they shattered the shadow, wouldn't cause damage to his main body. Conversely, with Haki, it could hurt him.
At this time, Merlin's gaze was subtle: "You, don't tell me you don't know Haki?"
Moria laughed in anger, roaring: "When I was venturing in the New World, you were still a puddle of liquid!
"I don't know? You must be joking."
Saying this, stomping the ground with both feet, shadows wrapping his fists, invisible Armament Haki lingering on the fist edge, he rushed over wildly at an extreme speed inconsistent with his body shape, punching out one by one.
And at the same time.
Just as he rushed over, Merlin spread his legs, muscles and bones all over his body tensed instantly. Violent power surged from his body, Haki wrapped around, Zanye glowing with dark light pulled back to accumulate power.
Just the moment he punched over, a black dark light oppressed the atmosphere and whistled out.
In an instant, fist and blade edge collided.
Clang—
In this instant, an explosion-like shock erupted from around the two.
A ring-shaped terrifying shockwave spread out in the blink of an eye.
The ground under their feet cracked instantly.
The two wrestled with each other, teeth-aching sounds of metal grinding ringing out continuously.
At this moment, blue-white electric currents jumped between Merlin's double horns. Taking a deep breath, instantly, terrifying high-voltage current erupted from his body.
Zzzzz.... Boom crack!!!
A ten-meter diameter blue-white current light ball bloomed instantly.
"Ahhhhh!!!"
A miserable howl rang out abruptly at this moment.
A few seconds later, the current dissipated.
Moria was paralyzed on the spot. Both of them were charred black all over. However, black flames lingered on Merlin's body surface, absorbing the calamity.
Sensing that Moria's fist had lost strength, Merlin shifted his sword, and Moria's figure tilted to the side.
At this moment.
The ground under his feet collapsed instantly. With a bang, Merlin's figure shot up like a cannonball, arriving in front of Moria's neck. Immediately after, a dark red beam appeared abruptly.
Zwing! Amidst the sound of the blade, a slash beheaded Moria.
However, at this time, Moria's figure in front of him suddenly disintegrated, turning into shadow fragments flying backward.
Merlin landed on the ground, looking calmly at Moria, who was charred black all over and panting heavily a hundred meters away.
A long, narrow cut appeared on the lower side of his neck at this moment.
Blood flowed like a stream.
A touch of extreme lingering fear remained in his eyes. The slash that even he had to call stunning just now kept echoing in Moria's mind.
If not for swapping bodies by controlling the shadow at the critical moment, he would probably have been beheaded just now.
However, the wound on the neck returned by the shadow was still not optimistic at this moment. He controlled the shadow to float up, reached out and pressed on the neck of his shadow, pulling down hard.
With intense consumption of energy, the next moment, the wound on his neck transferred instantly to his chest.
By controlling the symbiotic shadow to interfere with the physical body, even injuries could be transferred.
Panting heavily, Moria stared fixedly at Merlin, the thick fear in his eyes seeming about to flow out, "Are you sure you want to fight me to the death?"
A glint flashed in Merlin's eyes. This guy chickened out. However, at this moment, Merlin looked at him coldly and said in a cold voice: "Since you chose to hunt me down, then let's fight to the end today!
"Only one of us can leave here alive today."
Moria's face became hideous, roaring with a sharp voice: "Since you insist on this, then I will accompany you to the end!!!"