thefictionvixens Chapter 525 Moria's Welcome, the Zombie Army
Chapter 525 Moria's Welcome, the Zombie Army
Ye Yu and his group boarded the three-masted sailing ship, which was located in the Devil's Triangle. This area was shrouded in mist for a long time and was devoid of sunlight, making the environment extremely eerie.
Ye Yu walked calmly toward Moria's castle. Dazbonis kept a close watch on his surroundings. He knew very well that Ye Yu was the strongest in the team, but if any danger arose, he would be the one to take the lead and deal with it.
They couldn't stay under Ye Yu's wing forever.
Michita was terrified of this environment, so she clung to Sarah's arm the whole time.
None of the others were afraid.
Although the surrounding environment was rather eerie, these people were all Devil Fruit users with considerable strength, and with Yoru also present, they didn't feel that their lives were in danger.
Marianne was the youngest, but she was quite brave. Although the surrounding environment was gloomy and terrifying, she was still in the mood to walk and draw, painting the surrounding scenery onto her canvas.
Meanwhile, inside Moria's castle, Moria summoned several of his subordinates.
Absalom, who possesses the Clear-Clear Fruit, has a body composed of parts from various animals, including lions, elephants, bears, and gorillas.
His body was created by Hogback, one of Moria's henchmen, a deranged doctor.
The other one is Gothic Lolita, a user of the Ghost-Ghost Fruit, whose abilities are particularly bizarre. It is very difficult to defeat her unless you find out her true form.
These three were Moriah's three most trusted subordinates.
Moria looked at the three men and said, “Guests have boarded the three-masted ship. Go and greet them. I need their shadows.”
Absalom asked, "Lord Moriah, can you kill them?"
Moria looked at Absalom, unsure of what to say for a moment.
He could only say, "If you have the ability to kill them, then of course you can."
Hearing this, Absalom was quite pleased and cruelly said, "That's good. I thought they were your important guests. Since you can kill them, Lord Moria, I will offer their corpses to you."
Moria looked at Absalom with a complicated expression.
However, he couldn't correct him at this point, so he could only say, "That would be even better."
However, Moria thought to himself, "This idiot actually wants to kill someone who can instantly kill Crocodile. He's crazy. But Absalom has the Clear-Clear Fruit, so he shouldn't be in too much danger."
Although Moria didn't think Yoru was really that strong and worth a 51 billion Berry bounty, Yoru's feat of instantly defeating Crocodile and Jack the Drought was undeniable.
That alone is something that Absalom can't match.
Hogback, however, noticed the problem with Moria's tone.
His gaze sharpened slightly, but he didn't say anything.
Perona, who was standing to the side, was also not very bright and completely failed to understand the problem in Moria's words.
Perona laughed and said, "Lord Moria, I will definitely kill them before Absalom does."
Moria's lips twitched slightly, but considering Perona's abilities, as long as her physical body wasn't found, she would be difficult to defeat.
Perona's combat strength is not very strong, but her abilities are very troublesome. Even top-level experts may be ambushed by her abilities.
Moriah knew this all too well.
So although he also thought Perona was an idiot, her methods of self-preservation were much better than Absalom's.
Perona is very loyal to Moria.
Moria looked at Perona and smiled, "Very good, go and bring them back to me."
"Yes!"
After the three left the castle, Hogback summoned a large number of zombies.
Dozens of combat zombies appeared in front of the three.
Looking at the large number of zombies, Absalom asked in bewilderment, "Hogback, is it necessary for you to gather so many fighting zombies?"
Hogback ignored Absalom and ordered the combat zombies to follow him to find Yoru and his group.
Perona floated behind Hogback and asked curiously, "Dr. Hogback, is it really necessary to use so many combat zombies?"
Hogback thought for a moment and said, "Didn't you notice Lord Moria's tone when you were talking to him just now? It's obvious that the person Lord Moria asked us to greet is definitely not a simple character."
Absalom said nonchalantly, "What's so difficult about it? On a three-masted ship, no matter who it is, we can defeat them. This is our territory."
Hogback looked at Absalom and felt a little weary.
However, he didn't want to explain anything to Absalom.
He certainly wouldn't believe it.
Perona, however, seemed to be deep in thought.
She recalled their conversation with Moria earlier; Moria's tone was indeed different from usual.
Is the person they're going to greet really that powerful?
Among the zombies that went to greet Yoru and the others was Oars, a giant. Oars's size was outrageous, reaching a height of 100 meters. Even in the world of One Piece, it was quite absurd for a human to grow to such a huge size.
Moreover, the reason for Oars' death was quite abstract: he froze to death because he wasn't wearing any clothes when he attacked the Land of Ice.
This way of dying is so outrageous that even those who know Oz the Demon probably wouldn't believe it.
Moreover, he wasn't just a soldier; he was the ruler of a country, the founding emperor of a nation. The cause of his death was simply freezing to death because he wasn't wearing any clothes. It's outrageous, so outrageous that it's completely unbelievable how someone with such a mind could have built a country.
However, after being turned into a zombie by Moria, his power was terrifying. His enormous size, coupled with his mastery of the Navy's Six Powers (Shave), gave reason to suspect that he had mastered other Navy Six Powers as well. To wield the Navy Six Powers with such a massive body, his combat power was definitely the strongest among Moria's zombie army.
It possesses monstrous destructive power.
Besides Oars the Demon, there is also a swordsman zombie made from the corpse of Ryuma, the great swordsman of Wano Country, who was stitched together with Brook's shadow.
He was still holding his sword Shusui, which was a national treasure of Wano Country. It was the national treasure that Hiyori Kozuki was willing to exchange for Zoro's father's sword Enma.
It is also one of the few famous swords in the One Piece world that was nurtured into a black blade by the Haki of a swordsman.
Moria's zombie army was quite powerful, but because Moria lost to Kaido, his entire pirate crew was wiped out by Kaido, leaving him the only survivor. This caused him to become very depressed over the years, his strength declined significantly, and he became overly reliant on his Devil Fruit ability.
He did fight Kaido back then, but his crew was simply not strong enough, and he was no match for Kaido, so he was completely wiped out by Kaido.
Even with his newly rebuilt zombie army, it's impossible for him to challenge Kaido.
Moria, however, did not think so. He believed that his zombie army was stronger than before, and that he would definitely be able to defeat Kaido this time.
But he didn't consider that so many years had passed, Kaido had become one of the Four Emperors, and his strength had increased so much that he was no longer the same as when he fought him. However, over the years, Moria's strength had not increased but decreased. If he were to challenge Kaido now, he would only lose even more miserably than before.