Chapter 27: Give it your all, or they will all die (Please read on) (Ch 27)

Boom——!
The dull thumping sound almost tore my eardrums.
Moonlight Moriah’s nearly seven-meter-tall body flew backwards uncontrollably like a piece of casually discarded rag.
His huge body broke through the air, bringing out a series of sharp explosions, and several white air waves visible to the naked eye exploded behind him.
Then, there was a loud bang, and the solid outer wall of the castle was like paper, and he smashed a hideous big hole in it.
Rubble flew everywhere and smoke and dust billowed, instantly obscuring the view.
“BOOM——!!!”
The shock wave came towards them with gravel and dust. Perona screamed and was almost blown upside down. Absalom subconsciously tried to activate his ability to become invisible, but found that his legs were weak and he could not move. Doctor Hogback rolled his eyes and almost fainted on the spot.
It was not until Moriah’s figure disappeared in the smoke and dust of the castle’s broken hole that the three of them, like chickens being strangled by the neck, burst into belated, distorted screams: “Lord Moriah–!” “Master–!”
Before the smoke and dust cleared, a roar of suppressed pain came from the ruins: “Get away from me!!!”
This was followed by an uncontrollable cough, followed by a mouthful of blood.
“puff……”
Moonlight Moriah struggled to climb out of the rubble. His tall body looked extremely disheveled at the moment. His face was covered with dust, and the blood flowing from the corners of his mouth was particularly eye-catching.
He held his abdomen tightly, as he felt waves of severe pain from there that made his eyes go black, and it seemed as if his internal organs had been displaced by the punch.
He staggered, almost unable to stand, and a wheezing sound came from his throat.
“Damn… little devil…”
The impact of this punch, the irrational and terrifying power, made him seem to be back in Wano Country, facing the devil-like “Hundred Beasts” Kaido, the same blow, the same…
It was so powerful that he couldn’t even think of resisting.
The mixture of shame and severe pain twisted Moria’s face.
“Hmm?” Moze’s voice was full of obvious doubt and pure curiosity. It penetrated the dense smoke and fell clearly into everyone’s ears. “Is this all?”
He even leisurely brushed off the non-existent dust on his shoulders.
“I thought the Shichibukai could hold out a little longer.”
He turned his gaze to the trio trembling in fear at the castle gate and pointed his finger at them casually: “If this is all you are capable of, then these three…”
Moze paused, then showed a bright but cold smile on his face: “Maybe I have to stay here with you today, forever.”
Upon hearing this, Perona and the other two turned pale instantly. Absalom’s legs even went limp and he collapsed to the ground with a thump. Hogback began to mutter nonsense like “experimental subject” and “dissection”.
“You little bastard… stop getting carried away!” Moriah looked up suddenly, his eyes burning with flames of humiliation and anger.
He endured the severe pain in his abdomen and straightened his back. “Don’t underestimate me! I am the leader of the Gekko Pirates… One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea! Gekko Moriah!!!”
With a deafening roar, he opened his arms.
“Shadow gathering place!!!”
At the command, the entire terrifying three-masted ship seemed to come alive.
Countless twisted shadows of various shapes emerged from every corner of the castle, from the ground, and even from the air like a summoned tide, turning into black streams, rushing towards Moria.
They penetrated into Moria’s body like liquid, and his body began to expand and expand at a speed visible to the naked eye!
His muscles were knotted and his bones creaked under the heavy weight. His already huge body became even more deformed and bloated. A chaotic and majestic aura that far exceeded the previous one rose into the sky.
Faced with this astonishing sight, Mo Ze simply crossed his arms, watching with interest, and even stretched out his fingers in a serious manner, counting as if to name names.
“…nine hundred and eight…one thousand…one thousand and eleven…tsk, it’s still coming…one thousand and twelve.”
He stroked his chin, as if talking to himself, or as if he was deliberately speaking to Moria: “One thousand two hundred shadows, it seems that I am not so fat that I can’t walk at all.”
He remembered that when he fought with Straw Hat Luffy in the future, this guy almost burst himself and lost his mind after stuffing a thousand shadows into himself.
Moria is still conscious and in control now.
Obviously, he had not yet fallen to that level.
“Well, it’s a little stronger than expected. It’s worth warming up a little more.”
Moriah, who had absorbed a large amount of shadows, had a deeper and rougher voice, like two boulders rubbing against each other: “Little brat… now laugh as much as you want! Soon… you won’t be able to laugh anymore! I’m going to blast you into powder!!”
The extremely bloated body that had almost lost its human form was still trembling slightly, and every breath brought out a heavy bellows sound.
The huge pair of scissors that he had held in his hand before now looked like a toy compared to his bloated palm.
Moria threw it away, raised his strong right hand, spread out his five fingers, and then suddenly clenched them!
“Woooooooooooooo!!!”
The air seemed to be filled with the wails of countless souls, and the endless shadows that had previously poured into his body were forcibly drawn out and gathered again.
The dense, insoluble shadow substance seemed to have life, rapidly spinning, compressing, and condensing above his palm.
In just a short moment, a huge pair of black scissors with a hideous shape and an ominous black light flashing on the blade took shape. Its length even exceeded the height of Moria’s huge body at the moment!
This is not the end yet.
“Aaaaah——!” Moria roared again, his willpower highly concentrated.
An invisible force covered it, and the surface of the giant shadow scissors that had just taken shape was quickly stained with a deeper layer of pure black with a hard texture.
The black armament color domineering flowed like a living thing, wrapping the entire giant scissors and emitting a skin-tingling sense of oppression.
The air around the giant shears seemed to become sticky.
“Shadow…Horn…Knife!!!”
As he shouted the name of the move, Moria raised the giant scissors high above his head.
The terrifying weight caused the main castle of the entire terrifying three-masted ship to groan even more violently, and the wooden boards of the hull broke with a continuous creaking sound.
“This is what it looks like.” Mo Ze looked at the huge shadow scissors wrapped in dark domineering aura, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
This power, this will, was somewhat interesting, as it made him feel that he was no longer just one-sidedly bullying an outdated fat man.
“Let me see,” Mozer whispered, with a tremor of almost pleasure in his voice, “how much weight is left in the man who once fought Kaido the Beast.”
A strong sense of oppression came over me, and the ominous shadow seemed to swallow up all the light.
The sense of crisis did not bring fear, but instead accelerated the blood flow in Moze’s body, and a burning sensation spread from his heart to his limbs.
Wisps of breath began to escape from Moze’s mouth.
The look in his eyes quietly changed, as if something invisible had ignited in the depths of his originally clear pupils, making them deeper and revealing a pure will focused on destruction.
It was as if there was a pitch-black flame rising from it.
At the deepest part of the pupil, the flame condensed and deformed, eventually outlining a clear, sharp-edged bull head pattern.
He lowered his body slightly, took a half step back with his right leg, and stood firmly.
Slowly raise your right fist, place it at your waist, and then – clench it!
There are no earth-shaking air waves, no colorful energy effects, only an indescribable sense of solidity.
It was as if what he was holding was not his own fist, but the center of gravity of the entire space.
The air twisted slightly around the fist, making an inaudible buzzing sound.
All the strength and all the will are compressed and condensed towards this extreme point.
Faced with Moria’s all-out attack, Moze chose to respond in the most direct way.
“Destruction-fist!”