Three hundred shadows! Five hundred shadows! Eight hundred shadows! One thousand shadows!!
With each additional shadow, Moriah's aura grew stronger.
Likewise, these shadows also brought immense pressure to Moriah.
At this moment, Moriah's body had swelled to thirty meters tall, his entire being like an inflated balloon, and his face was covered in bulging veins.
"Hehehe…" Moriah let out a crazy laugh: "I am Gekko Moriah! I am a Shichibukai!!"
Rosen and Bullet quietly watched Moriah.
With their eyesight, they could both tell that Gekko Moriah was at his limit.
Moriah raised his fist and smashed it towards Gluttony.
Moriah's punch was not quite World-shattering, but it was more than enough to shatter mountains and break peaks.
In the original work, Moriah's punch almost capsized Thriller Bark.
The next moment, black Chakra emanated from Gluttony, blocking Moriah's World-destroying punch.
Very strong! But not strong enough!
Rosen and Bullet evaluated in their minds.
That punch barely grazed the edge of Shichibukai level.
But for a Shichibukai, this level of attack was just a basic attack.
And for Moriah, it was a big move.
So, saying his strength was at the bottom of the Shichibukai was quite fair.
The black Chakra on Gluttony's body rapidly condensed into Meridians, bones, and skin.
A two-hundred-meter giant rose from the ground.
The Complete Body - Susanoo stretched out its giant palm and grabbed Moriah's body.
Moriah's overly inflated body was directly crushed by Susanoo's single hand.
Negative Hollow!
Perona attacked again, with three Negative Hollows rushing towards Gluttony.
But this time her Negative Hollows were ineffective; they could not penetrate Susanoo's defensive shell.
Gluttony controlled Susanoo and directly smashed Moriah into the ruins.
Moriah had already lost consciousness at this point, continuously spewing out a large number of shadows from his mouth.
All these shadows returned to their original Master.
"Absalom, take My Lord Moriah and go, I'll hold them off." Perona shouted, as more than a dozen Negative Hollows appeared around her.
Absalom ran to the unconscious Moriah and was about to drag him away.
A cold light flashed in Rosen's eyes, followed by a surge of furious Conqueror's Haki.
The entire Thriller Bark was engulfed by Rosen's Conqueror's Haki.
All of Moriah's subordinates lost consciousness in that instant.
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Moriah woke up three days later.
The first thing he did upon waking was to look for his subordinates; after confirming they were not dead, he calmed down and did not attack Rosen again.
After all, he was defeated but not killed, so he was not there for revenge.
Moriah sat in front of Rosen: "Speak, what do you want from me?"
"Three months. If your strength doesn't satisfy me within three months, then you and your subordinates will die."
Moriah completely failed to understand Rosen's meaning.
Did he need to do something, and therefore needed himself to become stronger to help him?
"What do you want me to do?"
"In short, that's how it is. For the sake of your subordinates, you'd best get your act together."
Although Moriah was annoyed, for the sake of his unfortunate children, he silently endured it.
Strength was the greatest truth in this World; being unable to defeat Rosen and Bullet was his original sin.
"You currently have three problems. One is that your Physical Body is too weak, simply unbearable to look at; pirates from the Four Seas might even be stronger than you. The second is the development of your Shadow-Shadow Fruit; it's incomprehensible how such a powerful Devil Fruit could be developed so eccentrically. The third point is Haki; a Shichibukai who doesn't understand Haki, you are simply the shame of the Shichibukai."
In Rosen's words, Moriah was belittled to worthlessness.
Moriah was furious, but the gap in strength was not something he could bridge in a short time.
"Bullet, for the next three months, you'll be responsible for his Physical Body training every morning. As long as you don't kill him, no matter how severe the injuries, it's fine, even if you break his limbs."
"Alright, leave it to me."
Moriah's foundation was actually very good. After all, his physique was similar to Bullet's; both were super tall and large humanoids.
And who else had this physique? Big Mom, Kaido, Whitebeard, Bullet, Kuma, none of them were weak.
Moriah's talent and Devil Fruit were top-tier, but he had stubbornly turned himself into a couch potato.
But Rosen's words sounded like the words of a Devil to Moriah.
Next, Moriah suffered Bullet's terrifying torment.
Just as Rosen said, Bullet indeed beat him to within an inch of his life.
Perhaps Bullet also wanted to see how Rosen would heal Moriah.
So, for an entire morning, Bullet continuously brutalized Moriah in the most terrifying ways.
By the afternoon, all of Moriah's bones had been broken.
Rosen looked at the bruised and battered Moriah on the ground, and a green light appeared on his palms.
The green light touched Moriah and rapidly healed his injuries; the broken bones in his body quickly mended.
Bullet's eyes lit up: "Can I be treated like this if I sustain such injuries?"
"Yes." Rosen nodded: "If you need to temper your Physical Body through self-mutilation, you can come to me for help after getting injured."
Just then, Moriah jumped up and pointed at Bullet, cursing: "You damn bastard, I'll kill you sooner or later!!"
"Alright, weakling, still spouting threats when you're weak. Are you afraid he won't beat you to a pulp tomorrow?"
Moriah's voice stopped abruptly. Looking back at Bullet, there was great terror hidden in Bullet's smile.
"First, let's develop your Shadow. I have a secret technique here that can control shadows."
"Your shadows, are they due to a secret technique?"
"Something like that, but not entirely."
Just kidding, each of his shadows either possessed the Rinnegan or Pure Eyes; a bottom-tier Shichibukai was dreaming.
Moreover, their physical techniques were inherited from him, and Moriah wouldn't be able to defeat a Shadow Demon even if he trained for another hundred years.
Rosen sat down directly, Moriah followed suit, and Bullet also sat down opposite Rosen.
"Devil Fruits are all about imagination. Shadows are not just human shadows; the shadows of all objects are also shadows. And compared to human shadows, plants and trees won't resist. The power they provide you might not be much, but their quantity is sufficient."
Moriah's eyes lit up. Rosen was right.
When he devoured the shadows of those pirates, those pirates would all resist. No one wanted their shadows to be controlled by others, so their resistance was particularly strong.
But if it were a tree or a flower, then they wouldn't have the concept of resistance.
Moriah immediately tried to steal the shadows of the surrounding plants.
Moriah's Shadow Master left his body, swept over the forest, and took the shadows of the plants in the forest.
Then Moriah once again performed Shadow Gathering Place.
Moriah's body swelled again, ten times, twenty times, thirty times… one hundred times!!
"Haha… this is the correct way to use Shadow Gathering Place." Moriah looked at Rosen again, feeling like he could do it again.
Rosen waved his hand: "Don't overestimate yourself. You can't even defeat one of my shadows, so don't humiliate yourself."
Upon hearing this, Moriah retracted the hostility from his body.
"Currently, we are in the Thriller Bark. It's perpetually dark here, so the shadows of those plants you take won't be killed by sunlight. But if it were elsewhere, then the moment you take the plants' shadows, they would vanish in the sunlight, and your taken shadows would also become ineffective. So you need to control the intensity of your taking, you cannot take the shadows completely, you must leave a part."
Moriah nodded. This was indeed a big problem. If fighting at night, it would be fine, but if fighting during the day, this was indeed a major issue.
"This is one direction of development. There is another direction: in my hometown, there is a Shadow World within shadows. You can develop in this direction."
Moriah's eyes suddenly widened. He seemed to have understood something in that instant.
"It seems you've gained something."
Moriah said with a serious expression: "After I obtained the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, I've always had this feeling that shadows are not things in reality, but rather reflections of something."
"There's also another direction for development, and that's your Shadow Revolution skill."
Shadow Revolution was very similar to Idol Transformation. In fact, Rosen felt that the effect of Shadow Revolution was exactly the same as Idol Transformation.
Both changed the form of the shadow, thereby causing the Physical Body to also change.
In Rosen's view, Moriah's skill had a very large development potential.
"Does Shadow Revolution have development value?" Moriah asked with some skepticism.
Rosen immediately summoned Gluttony, who instantly understood Rosen's intention.
Immediately, Gluttony's figure began to twist and change, and its right arm became incredibly massive.
Rosen's right arm also began to enlarge, becoming as vast as a mountain.
Rosen's right arm was covered with a layer of Armament Haki, and he slapped it towards the distant forest.
Boom—
With this strike, the entire forest was almost leveled.
Moriah watched this scene in shock. Rosen glanced at Moriah: "If I wasn't afraid of sinking Thriller Bark with one slap, this power could be tens of times greater. In this World, when your body is large enough, you can truly do whatever you want."
The Shadow Gathering Place Moriah used earlier, while it allowed him to become a thirty-meter giant, was not large enough.
What if Moriah became two hundred meters, or two thousand meters?
Of course, changing shadows and then affecting the body structure, this move can achieve that. However, if the volume is expanded tens or even hundreds of times while the mass remains unchanged, then the body structure will become very thin. This is also the problem that the Shadow Revolution skill currently needs to overcome.
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