Seeing the scarlet balloon flying towards Perona, Moria shouted.
"Don't worry, Lord Moria, I am in soul form now and will not be injured by bombs..."
Floating in mid-air like a ghost, looking at the hideous scarlet balloon, Perona carefully said the last word: "Huh?"
Bang!!
"ah!!!"
The balloon exploded and screams suddenly came from a distance.
The spirit body Perona in the air was directly blown away, and she who was left in the castle was holding her head with a splitting headache and rolling crazily on the ground.
"Do you still think you have such high soul strength? It turns out that you only rely on the fruit ability after all?"
Seeing this, Lovett calmly shook his head.
"Consume certain energy in the body, and through the carrier of Devil Fruit, the magic circuit is released, producing different effects...the same as the Titan Soldier."
Perona converts the consumed life energy into soul energy, which does not mean how strong her soul is. The same thing can be done with spells...
"But, it doesn't have this kind of growth potential."
A spell is a mathematical problem, and whatever the problem is, there is an answer.
The Devil Fruit provides the user with a problem-solving idea. By following the idea, more questions can be asked, which is something that the Titan Soldier cannot do.
"Is there really any senior who has come to this world?"
Lovett was suddenly startled to think of this possibility.
Giving some kind of power and growth to a group of mortal races is very much like the mage world!!
Flying bats!
At this time, movement in the distance attracted his attention.
Dark shadow bats scattered around Moriah, gathering into a dense swarm and rushing towards him.
Countless zombies along the way instinctively wanted to help him stop him, but as a Shichibukai, Moria's moves were not something ordinary people could block. He immediately tore the zombies into pieces, causing black shadows to spit out from their mouths.
"After all, it is the soul that is taken from the living person, not the remnant soul of the corpse itself."
Soul compatibility is a topic that cannot be avoided.
"but……"
He pressed the cane on the ground with his left hand. Facing the incoming bloodthirsty bats, Lovett gently raised his right hand and let the red-eyed raven land on his fingertips.
"Playing long-range attacks with me is too stupid."
The necromancer is also a mage!
Cursed Magic·Crowfeather Storm!
"Gah!"
The red-eyed raven spread its wings at his fingertips and let out a cry. Then it flapped its wings in the direction of Lovett's push, scattering thick black smoke.
Pu Ling Leng...!
The sound of wings flapping was endless, and the black smoke twisted in the air to form a vortex. Soon, the black-eyed ravens turned into entities, forming an overwhelming flock of crows and swooped towards the opposite side.
"What?!"
Moria was instantly shocked.
Compared to the Crow Feather Storm that filled the space as thick as a wall, his bat swarm was like a stream meeting an ocean, swallowed up by crows in an instant.
"Jiji!"
The shadow bats were unable to resist effectively and were torn to pieces by the black crows. Then the black crows continued unabated, forming a mighty black torrent and attacking Moriah himself.
Shadow Mage!
Shadow Warrior!
Without time to think about it, Moria smelled the infiltrating threat and summoned his clone to help him resist the attack while shifting his position through his shadow.
If he had known that Lovett was coming with bad intentions, he would have made preparations before he showed up.
Thumping...
Amidst the agitation, the black shadow mage waved his arms and was torn into pieces by the crowd of crows. Then he continued to move forward and tore the transferred shadow warrior into pieces. However, by this time, Moria had already moved away and arrived at the outskirts of the battlefield.
"I'm just here to ask you to borrow some zombies. There's no need to fight, Captain Moria."
Lovett followed closely and looked through the fog.
"Don't be too proud, it's not over yet!"
Knowing that he had been exposed, Moria gritted his teeth bitterly, and a pool of ink began to spread around, like a black carpet, gradually covering up the original color of the soil.
"This is……"
Seeing this familiar scene, Lovett almost thought that Moria was going to summon something from the world of the dead, but through his mental perception, he realized that he was overthinking it.
These ink marks are not the gates to the realm of the dead, but the simplest shadows.
When I looked up, the moonlight shone through the thick fog at some point. The oblique angle cast mottled shadows on the castle and the forest, connecting them with the carpet.
"This is just a simple shadow, but..."
Silently squinting his eyes, Lovett discovered that Moria's move significantly avoided the risk of being manipulated by him.
"Hehehehehe, do you think I haven't done anything these years, kid!"
Standing on the edge of the carpet, Moriah opened his palms and laughed wildly.
"It's almost, I'm about to enter the realm of fruit awakening!"
Hearing this, Lovett's expression condensed.
It is indeed a "fruit awakening"!
That is the higher-level power of the Devil Fruit. Once awakened, the fruit's ability will be turned upside down and incredibly strengthened.
At the same time, not every Devil Fruit can be awakened. Devil Fruits that can be awakened are extremely rare, so whether they can be awakened has been decided from the beginning.
"Shadow Fruit, I didn't expect it to reach this point."
Doflamingo's Thread Fruit can assimilate inorganic matter into white threads after awakening, but what about the Shadow Fruit?
From a shadow that controls living people, to a shadow that controls everything!
"Feel this new power!"
Moria shouted, causing the shadows on the ground to boil.
This is a very strange sight. The bright moonlight hangs in the sky, but the ground is always as dark as ink, and no light can be seen. At the same time, the shadows that are obviously flat on the ground are boiling bubbles upward at this moment, just like the real water surface.
.
"Ocean of Shadows·Shadow Shark!"
As Moria roared, the "water surface" not far away exploded, and a huge black shark five to six meters long jumped out from the shadow and attacked Lovett.
Seeing this, Lovett's expression changed, and he spread the fingers of his right hand and raised it.
Buzz!!
The surging mental power exploded wantonly, and an invisible wall suddenly appeared in the air. Immediately, Lovett turned his palms and pressed down.
Bang...!
Wow!
The giant shark was directly pushed back to the ground by the hand of magic power, and the soil was torn apart.
However, a strange sound of water flow sounded, and the black shark fell back to the "water surface" and sank directly into it. This move seemed to be extremely destructive, but it failed to destroy it successfully.
"Hehehehehe, useless Black Earl!"
Moria smiled when he saw this: "Even if you crush them in the air, you can't destroy them. They are just shadows. No matter how strong your attack is, can you destroy the shadows?"
Unlike moves such as Shadow Mage and Scattered Bat, this pure shadow cannot even be defined as an existing entity, and of course cannot be destroyed by external forces.
In response, Lovett waved his cane and swept out a series of red arcs, crushing the attacking sharks into pieces.
"It's really difficult."
It has no soul characteristics and is purely a shadow. This makes it difficult for the professional knowledge of the Necromancy School to do anything about this move. The rest can only be analyzed from a spell perspective.
However, after analysis, Lovett had to admit that there was something to this trick.
Letting the shadow retain its characteristics as a vassal of the main body and form an independent attack is a skill that is impressive in the mage world.
only……
"There are many weaknesses!"
Silently swatting away the shark that attacked again, Lovett sighed.
"Shadows are not lethal. If you want shadows to harm objects in reality, you must reassemble a container for them. This container comes from your fruit ability, and the vitality link lines should not be obvious."
In Lovett's sight, lines invisible to the naked eye extended from Moria's body, like the roots of a plant, digging deeply into the shadow carpet to provide it with "nourishment."
This is the inevitable conversion effect when a person with abilities uses abilities, converting their own stored energy into fruitful abilities. The bond is clear and dazzling.
"What?"
Moria was shocked when he heard this, and shadow mages emerged from the carpet and stood in front of him.
But Lovett didn't look at him and continued: "And it's the same as the cause-and-effect spells of the mystical school. It's also a result, so there must be a cause!"
"Arrogant! Can you really stop me?"
After all, Moria controlled the shadow ocean and caused the "sea water" to surge.
Bang!!
A black shark tens of meters long jumped out of the water. Even if the details could not be seen at all, the teeth in its mouth were still frightening.