A violent roar echoed from the ruins of Clock Tower Village's church! Debris on the ground tumbled, as if the earth itself was about to be overturned!
The rapidly spinning huge chain spear and the Giggantic shadow lizard blade, trailing a black afterglow, collided point to point with an intense, almost ear-splitting metallic grinding sound! The Ferocious Chains on the spear's surface surged forward like a drill with increasingly violent thrusting force, while the shadow lizard blade's trailing shadow transformed into a jet form, fiercely pushing forward!
As if by coincidence, the giant chain spear and the shadow lizard blade suddenly tilted downwards simultaneously. Then, with powerful thrust, both deadly weapons plunged together into the church hall's underground level.
First, there was a moment of silence.
Then, the entire ground suddenly swelled and bulged upwards, and a massive explosion occurred underground!
The chain spear and shadow lizard blade, both underground, simultaneously buckled under the immense impact force of the other and self-destructed in an explosion. This explosion was so violent that it directly destroyed the underground level, which Victor had already hollowed out with his Zip-Zip Fruit ability, and further triggered an island-wide tremor!!
The deafening roar was thunderous. The entire church instantly collapsed completely, and then the ground, centered on the church ruins, rapidly cracked open. Residential ruins were completely annihilated by the uplifted, tilted giant rock formations, and massive amounts of rubble and smoke burst through the ground's seal, rocketing into the sky. Huge chunks of rock, carrying a large amount of soil, tumbled across the shattered earth, as if the end of the world had arrived!
Clock Tower Island met its doom.
Two figures, one large and one small, shot out from the disintegrating church remains! Victor, using his zipper attraction, quickly leaped onto a relatively intact beam of the standing clock. Gecko Moria, on the other hand, was pushed by a surging swarm of bats onto a massive rock, where countless shadow hands temporarily stabilized the giant rock.
"Victor... You brat, my previous attack should have shattered your ribs and left arm, why are you still standing?!"
Gecko Moria's face was very grim. Earlier, to completely kill Victor, he had poured his own shadow into that 'Horn Blade Shadow,' giving it powerful thrust and destructive force. But he hadn't expected that even such a powerful 'Horn Blade Shadow' would be destroyed by this brat, causing him to suffer a significant backlash.
Standing on the clock beam, Victor tore off his tattered black suit, revealing a relatively intact shirt. He slowly rolled up his sleeves, smiling: "I have to thank you for that, Gecko Moria. If you hadn't been giving your winner's speech, giving me enough time, how could I have smoothly reconnected all my shattered bones with zippers?"
Although Victor appeared unfazed on the surface, he knew that the injuries he sustained were absolutely significant. Even with the emergency use of resin zippers to reconnect all seven fractured ribs, his broken left arm bone, and damaged internal organs, his stamina was severely depleted.
For the 'God's Declaration' move just now, he had almost converted all the steel rebar in the entire church hall's underground level into zippers.
Now, both sides are in poor condition. It's a test of who has the stronger will!
"This island is doomed. But before it's destroyed, I'll take you out first!" Gecko Moria took the giant scissors 'Morrigan' from a nearby shadow beast, and stretched his shoulders.
"Anyone can boast, Mr. Moria, but let's let our actions speak for themselves." Victor's palm slowly produced a long sword with a blue patterned hilt, one of the 50 Great Sword, 'hidari no raijin'.
Just then, a violent tremor suddenly erupted in the sky! The dense dust that had covered the sky was directly dispersed by this incredibly strong explosive shockwave, revealing the cold, colossal full moon.
"Ha! Heaven helps me! Shadows have appeared!!" Gecko Moria let out a wild laugh, raising his large scissors and fiercely lunging towards Victor! His adjacent shadow beast also transformed into a fluid black shadow current, following closely behind its master.
"Metal Zipper: Five-String Biwa!"
Victor held his sword in his right hand, blade pointed downwards, his left palm open with five fingers splayed. The tips of his five fingers shimmered with a cold metallic luster under the bright moonlight. Then, five metal chain blades shot like trailing meteors towards Gecko Moria, each chain blade carrying intense vibrating cutting power!
"Heh heh... Naive! Shadow Tide: Cursed Serpent!"
Before the chain blades could reach Gecko Moria, they were intercepted by a surge of shadows that suddenly burst from the ground. The shadow current instantly solidified into five black pythons, each fiercely biting the tip of a chain blade! In an instant, sparks flew uncontrollably from the pythons' mouths, and an ear-piercing grinding sound rattled the air. The giant pythons, composed of fluid shadows, trembled incessantly, clearly unable to hold on much longer.
But that was enough! Gecko Moria was now less than 5 meters away from Victor. He brandished his giant scissors, their tips fiercely aimed at Victor!
Sparks appeared beneath Victor's feet, and his entire body suddenly shifted backward, then he stepped onto the edge of the beam and leaped into mid-air.
Gecko Moria's giant scissors, having missed their target, directly severed the clock beam, then cleanly split the standing clock in two. Amidst flying sparks, this ancient relic, a symbol of Clock Tower Village, was utterly relegated to history.
Victor, having back-jumped into the air, clenched his left hand's five fingers and sharply flipped his palm. The five metal chain blades instantly twisted into a spiral, and the five opposing shadow pythons immediately disintegrated and dispersed!
Then, the twisted chain blades re-formed into a circular long whip. Each segment rotated at high speed, and the whip's surface instantly erupted with a shower of sparks and an ear-piercing buzzing sound.
With Victor's full swing, the chain whip lashed fiercely towards Gecko Moria.
"Metal Zipper: Five-String Biwa: Shimenawa!"
Gecko Moria was directly scattered by the powerful chain whip, no, he instantly turned into flying shadow sludge, and Gecko Moria himself appeared in the distance.
'Shadow's Asura' position swap!
"Taste... this move!" Gecko Moria's right palm was facing upwards, and he slowly raised his right hand with difficulty, then clenched it fiercely!
The scattered shadow fluid on the ground instantly spread out, completely enveloping Victor, who was in mid-air, directly below him. Then, countless shadow stakes rose from the ground, vying to pierce Victor!
"Shadow Tide! Shadow Execution!!"
Victor, with no escape, saw the blade of his renowned sword 'raijin' instantly shatter into a chain blade. He then forcefully flung it into the distance. The rapidly flying chain blade hooked onto a particularly large, tilted rock and automatically reeled in at high speed.
Countless sharp shadow stakes, rising into the sky, intersected and bit into nothingness. In the moment of crisis, Victor was directly pulled out of the fatal execution zone by the chain blade.
After landing on the huge rock, Victor immediately half-crouched, placing his hand on the rock's surface. Large amounts of metallic fluid spread along the rock's surface, and the entire giant rock began to tremble slightly.
Gecko Moria in the distance first widened his eyes when he saw this scene, then suddenly understood, letting out a loud, bizarre laugh:
"Transformation, remote control... Heh heh heh heh heh!!! So that's it! So that's it! You really did get a rare fruit, Zipper Boy! A special Paramecia with innate semi-awakening? Your Devil Fruit awakening path will be more difficult than others, heh heh heh heh heh!! But don't worry, you won't have that problem, because I'll take you out right here! Come, my shadows... come to your master's side!!"
Gecko Moria spread his hands and roared loudly, countless black shadows surging out from the scattered zombie remnants, responding to Gecko Moria's call and transforming into rolling black mud, coiling and gathering at his feet.
"Shadows Asgard!"
New shadows continuously merged into the shadow mass at Gecko Moria's feet. Gradually, his form underwent a transformation.
Victor maintained his half-crouch, expressionlessly watching the figure opposite him gradually become incredibly Giggantic.
Compared to 8 years later in the manga, Gecko Moria at this time was undoubtedly much stronger! Not only did he still possess Armament Haki, but more importantly, his control over Shadows Asgard! At this moment, his body had directly soared to 20 meters, his muscles like they were inflated, and the vast amount of black shadow fluid transformed into a pitch-black, lightless cloak draped over him, while a vast pool of shadows surged at his feet.
The image of a legendary great demon would be no more than this.
"Hmph... 700 shadows... So what if I don't have Conqueror's Haki anymore! I will use the mighty power of this 'Army of the Dead' to reclaim the Pirate King's throne! How about it? Zipper Boy, can you defeat me?
Defeat me, a 'Warlord of the Sea,' the greatest 'King of the Zombies' in history?"
Gecko Moria's eyes were bloodshot, veins bulging all over his body, his expression extremely frenzied. He looked at the stubborn, small, slender figure opposite him, and for some reason, he suddenly thought of himself, defeated miserably after challenging Kaido.
Even if his jaw was shattered by Kaido, even if all his subordinates were brutally massacred, even if his Conqueror's Haki disappeared forever, even if his Armament Haki and Observation Haki uncontrollably began to decline, he had never given up that dream.
The Pirate King's throne is mine!
Victor finally stood up. The massive rock beneath his feet had transformed into a metallic warehouse storing a vast amount of zippers. The surface of this metallic warehouse flowed continuously with streams formed by zippers, containing an enormous quantity of zippers for Victor's use.
He slung the renowned sword 'raijin' over his shoulder, his voice weary but filled with unparalleled determination: "Of course... If I say I can, I can."
"Because I am Victor, the future big boss who will rule the entire world! A mere 'King of the Zombies', don't stand in my way!"
The destruction of Clock Tower Island had begun its countdown.
And the final battle in the ruins of Clock Tower Village had begun!
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