Grand Line’s Lord Of Shadows

"Tsk... it's so disgusting!"

After a while-

Inside the castle,

Without hesitation for long, Luke made up his mind.

Resisting the indescribable feeling of nausea, he swallowed the whole fruit.

His face turned purple and blue, and it took him a long time to recover.

"What an interesting ability!"

Closing his eyes and feeling the changes in his body, he try to use the ability he had just obtained.

The dark shadow under his feet seemed to have self-awareness; it circled on the ground like a shark.

"Swish..." Soon, it split like a branch.

It turned into one black tentacle after another and moved in the air.

"Chi, chi..."

In an instant, the extremely thick wall was pierced directly by those sharp shadow tentacles as if it were tofu.

It made people's scalps numb.

"Next, it's time to deal with those guys..."

After a moment of practice.

With his strong talent, Luke quickly adapted to his new abilities and was able to use them skillfully.

Then he looked out the gloomy window with a burning gaze while showing a playful smile.

He was not a good guy.

If he let go of the pirates and merchants trapped here, then where would he find tools and materials for experimenting with the Shadow-Shadow Fruit?

Moreover, even if he did not obtain the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, he was not prepared to let these guys go.

Because he had made up his mind from the beginning to use the Thriller Bark as his base camp.

How could he risk having his information leaked out?

As a member of CP9, he would not underestimate the intelligence capabilities of the World Government at all.

CP's spies are omnipresent.

It's not just talk.

"Hehe... are you all here?"

In the forest outside the castle.

There's a large number of skinny and scary figures.

They hid in the forest in groups of three or five but did not rush out.

There were no less than two or three hundred people.

These were pirates, merchants, and travelers who had mistakenly entered this sea area or passed through the nearby sea area and were lured here by Gecko Moria, and were unfortunately trapped on the island.

They had not seen the sun for a long time and were malnourished.

Many people looked like evil spirits and zombies, which was a bit scary.

Obviously, seeing the shadow suddenly return, they wanted to confirm what happened.

See if they had a chance to escape from here next.

"It's too troublesome to deal with them one by one!"

Luke looked calm.

He jumped directly onto the huge window and looked out.

"Buzz—"

The next moment.

Luke's eyes suddenly shone.

An unparalleled momentum spread out from him.

With the castle as the center, it swept in all directions.

"Plop, plop..."

Invisible mental shock.

These pirates and merchants did not have much strength.

One by one, their eyes rolled back, they foamed at their mouth, and fainted.

Conqueror's Haki.

When Luke recovers his memory from his previous life,

Because his entire brain was strongly stimulated, he awakened his Conqueror Haki.

But he has always hidden it and has never revealed it to others.

He has only continued to explore and try in secret.

After years of hard work, he's finally able to control it freely and accurately.

"Sure enough, Conqueror's Haki is closely related to spirit..."

Luke opened his arms.

At this moment, he looked high-spirited: "Since I made up my mind to break away from the World Government, even Conqueror's Haki, which has been making little progress, has begun to improve a lot!"

He can feel it.

Ever since, he really made up his mind to abandon his identity as CP9.

Even if we have to face the endless pursuit of the behemoth World Government in the future, he must live his own wonderful life on this sea without being dominated or instigated by anyone.

From that moment on, it was as if he had broken free from some invisible shackles and restraints.

His Conqueror Haki, which had been making little progress, seemed to have reached a higher level.

His whole spirit began to grow.

"Shadow Clone!"

All of a sudden.

The shadow under his feet suddenly left the ground.

It expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye and turned into a pitch-black human form.

Although it was pitch black and its face could not be seen clearly, his appearance was exactly the same as Luke himself.

"I'll leave it to you; bring them all back!"

In the blink of an eye.

The dark shadow, as if he had self-awareness, turned into a large number of bats.

And with an alarming speed, it rushed out the window.

"Clang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

In Moria's bedroom.

Luke began to rummage through the boxes and searched carefully: "A Warlord can't possibly only have this little treasure, right?"

He had already sneaked in and searched the treasure house above this castle.

In addition to a large amount of cash, there were quite a few gold, silver, and jewelry.

But in total, it is only two to three hundred million Belly.

For ordinary little pirates, this is already an astronomical sum of money.

But for Gecko Moria, a warlord, it is obviously not in line with his identity.

Of course, this guy was beaten to a pulp by Kaido and became a ruined house.

Over the years, he has been hiding in the Florian Triangle's foggy sea.

It's not like other Warlords who attack everywhere, or directly use the identity of Warlord to run various illegal profit-making businesses to become bigger and stronger.

He simply plundered passing ships on nearby routes, so he accumulated less treasure.

That's normal.

But it's a little strange.

This guy is obsessed with robbing tombs, digging up the corpses of strong men, and creating powerful zombies.

As a senior tomb robber.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be only this little treasure.

"Sure enough, just as I said..."

Luke smiled as he looked at the four treasure maps found in the secret compartment.

Three of them are full of traces of time.

There is also a faint smell of earth.

Apparently, they are unearthed cultural relics.

 While the last one, it looks relatively new.

Most likely Moria's own treasure map.

"Captain John's treasure map?" Looking at one of the old treasure maps that looked like ghost drawings, Luke couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

If he remembered correctly, Moria had indeed robbed Captain John's tomb.

And he turned Captain John's body into a zombie.

The key is that a burial armband inlaid with gems fell into Moria's hands.

It seems that thing has something to do with Captain John's treasure.

If this treasure map is true.

Maybe that armband is the key to unlocking this treasure map.

"I can't thank you enough, Moria..."

Luke smiled.

Looking down at Moria's wide-eyed, lifeless body, he said with a bit of sarcasm: "These treasures can save me a lot of trouble!"

"Next, just keep your eyes open and watch carefully... who is truly the most suitable person for the Shadow-Shadow Fruit!"