Pirate Journalist

Chapter 166 Conquering Moria ([-] in [-])

"DAVY BACK FIGHT?" White Beard frowned, his eyes were deep, as if recalling some bad memory: "Have you already discussed it?"

When Whitebeard asked, he unconsciously glanced at Moriah. There was no expression on his face, but his eyes were full of puzzlement.

The difference in strength between the two seems to be a bit big. Under such circumstances, it seems a bit stupid to choose to play the game of stealing people.

"It's been discussed, whoever can absorb the most shadows wins," Murphy said.

The white beard who was still looking at Moria just now was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Murphy with the same eyes: "Are you comparing with the shadow fruit ability user?"

There was a hint of disbelief in his tone, as if he was wondering that the person who had just confronted him for a long time turned out to be this fool in front of him.

"Hey, you have to give it a try!"

Murphy looked around and found that everyone was looking at him a little strangely, so he couldn't help being speechless.

He knew Moria's limit from the original book, and he had confidence in himself, so he agreed.

But others didn't know this, so they were extremely surprised by Murphy's choice.

"It's useless to say more, let's just start." Murphy raised his hand and snapped his fingers, then pointed to Moria and said, "You come first."

"Okay! Hehehehe, let me just let you despair!"

Moria also figured it out in his mind. The real strength of the opponent is indeed very strong, but in the field of shadows, he is the king.

Only he understands that how many shadows can be contained depends not only on physical strength...

Each shadow contains the character, knowledge, technology, etc. of the original owner. Every time the body absorbs such a shadow, it will be affected by one point.

Therefore, if you want to pretend to be more, in addition to physical strength, there is another more important indicator, that is... mental strength.

However, the people in the sea all pay attention to physical strength, no one deliberately exercises, and there is no way to exercise the intangible and invisible mental strength.

Even for him, it is because of the long-term use of this ability that it makes his mental power stronger.

In this way, it is the other party who should really worry about it.

"You can see clearly for yourselves! The shadow gathering place!"

Moria grinned, and the shadows under his control suddenly flooded towards his body, and were absorbed into his body one by one.

10, 100, 200, 500...

As more and more shadows were absorbed, Moria's body became larger and larger.

The eyes were protruding and covered with bloodshot eyes, and the veins on his face trembled, extending all the way to his neck.

However, this is not his limit.

The shadows of those sinners were no longer enough, and Moriah made a direct move, using the shadows of his subordinates.

600, 800, 1000...

Moria's body continued to expand, and when it absorbed 1000 shadows, its entire body had become as tall as a giant.

It's just that he was tall and tall, but his figure was extremely out of shape. With his distorted face, he looked extremely scary.

A thousand shadows is just the limit he can absorb.

But this time, if you fail, you will lose your freedom.

So just in case, Moria gritted his teeth and continued to work hard.

1100, 1200...

At this stage, each additional one was a pain for him.

And the 200 new additions have far exceeded his limit.

Waves of dizziness hit him, and he tried his best to endure it, his consciousness had already begun to blur.

He understood that this time he really reached the limit.

If it continues, I'm afraid that if you don't pay attention, you will faint.

And at that time, these absorbing shadows will all lose control.

Normally, the shadows cut by him would not return to the original owner until he gave an order.

Even if he fainted for some reason, the shadow would not return.

After all, the shadow was either placed by him inside the corpse, or he placed it in someone else's body.

However, there is one exception...

When the shadow gathers on him and he faints again, in this case, the shadow will return to the original owner after leaving the body and has no place to return and no one to control.

Therefore, when using the technique of gathering shadows on yourself, you must not lose consciousness.

Otherwise, all the shadows collected with painstaking efforts will be lost.

"1200." Moria covered his mouth to prevent the shadow from leaking out of his body, while announcing his results in a muffled voice.

"1200." White Beard nodded and repeated, confirming the score.

He looked at Moria with some surprise at this moment, and he could feel the terrifying power contained in that huge body.

Even just one blow of this kind of power might tear the entire Murloc Island apart.

Whitebeard now understands why this pirate named Moria dared to touch Kaido.

It's just that it's a pity that Moriah's own abilities are limited, and he can't control those external forces at all.

Although the power has indeed been strengthened to a terrifying level, in Whitebeard's view, this power is useless at all, and Moria is instead restrained and becomes a target.

"Hey hee hee hee hee!"

However, Moriah himself didn't feel this way, but after spit out all the shadows in sequence, he laughed very freely.

This feeling of power fascinated him, and the breakthrough before the battle also surprised him.

More importantly, with this super-level performance, this competition...

He feels stable!
"A total of 1200 shadows, you will never be able to do it!"

Moria looked at Murphy provocatively, trying to see a trace of panic on Murphy's face.

Unfortunately, Murphy's face was always calm.

"Hmph! That's right, you don't even know what kind of impact it will have on your spirit when someone else's shadow enters your body!" Moriah bared her sharp teeth and said with a sneer, "I'll let you experience it right away. Let me see how long you can hold on! Don't ask for mercy for a while!"

The others looked at Murphy as if watching the excitement, especially the members of the Whitebeard Pirates. They hadn't forgotten what Murphy said to his father just now.

At this time, after seeing Moria's full confidence, they all looked forward to whether Murphy would really make a fool of himself.

"Come on directly." Murphy smiled lightly, then sat cross-legged.

Shadow Gathering Place!
Moria controlled the shadow into Murphy's body, and said with a smile: "If you can't hold on, just say it! Otherwise, you will lose face if you faint! Hehehehe!"

He gathered a hundred shadows in the first wave and put them into Murphy's body in one breath.

Then he stared closely at Murphy, expecting him to look embarrassed.

"Huh? Why didn't you continue?" Murphy seemed to notice Moria's pause, and said a little strangely.

This way, it seems that there is no feeling at all.

"Humph!"

Moria looked gloomy, and continued to control the shadow.

200, 300, 500...

As the shadows grew more and more, Moriah's face became more and more ugly, and the onlookers all had strange expressions on their faces.

They clearly remembered that when Moriah inhaled 500 shadows, his body had swelled a whole circle, his eyes were congested, and his face was covered with blue veins.

On the other hand, Murphy, apart from a slightly stronger body, this guy has not changed at all.

"Hey! Moria! Did you want to join Murphy's command a long time ago, so you specially picked some extremely weak shadows to put in Murphy's body??"

Murphy was obviously not affected, so someone in the crowd raised questions and raised them.

Moria glanced at the crowd, but there was no response, only a look of anxiety on his face.

The script is wrong!

He didn't deliberately pick stronger shadows, but he definitely didn't pick weak ones either.

Why doesn't this guy look like he's changed! ?

He really wanted to have a try, so he had a steelyard in his heart. He would give Murphy the shadow in the order in which he absorbed them.

But the development of things is completely different from what he thought.

No.

There must be a way.

Moria gritted his teeth, and began to control the more powerful shadows to be loaded first, so that Murphy would encounter difficulties faster.

600, 800, 1000...

Murphy glanced at Moriah.

Every time you absorb a shadow, you can feel the character, knowledge and other things of the shadow.

Therefore, it is easy to judge that Moria has started to make small moves.

However, these are things within the rules, and he didn't say anything.

Just raise your hand and feel the power in your body.

More than surging...

He even had an illusion that with this power, combined with his own skills and abilities, he might be able to beat Whitebeard to the ground right now.

This kind of thinking should be a side effect of the influx of external forces.

However, Murphy was not dazzled. He understood even more that a person's strength is not determined by strength alone.

In the process of loading the shadow, he kept looking at the basic quality panel in the system, observing various changes from it.

After loading 1000 shadows, he looked at the power value again.

Strength: 5000 (13526)

What a scary number.

His own strength is 5000 points, and with the blessing of Moriah's ability, it has increased by more than 8000 points.

Although on average, the strength brought by a single shadow is less than 10 points, but it can't stand the amount!
Then, his eyes moved down a little bit.

Spirit: 5000 (3432)

Seeing this place, he understood that the missing points were the mental energy needed to maintain great power.

It looks like the increased strength is completely out of proportion to the decreased spirit.

But Murphy understood that this was the reason why his basic mental power was high enough.

Some weaker shadows can only bring him a little burden.

It is a 'little' burden in the true sense, which only makes the spirit drop a little.

And when Moriah started to make small movements to put some relatively strong shadows into his body, his mental energy consumption increased significantly, and shadows with 4 or 5 points often appeared, and occasionally a few more than 10 points appeared. shadow.

Unfortunately, there are not many such shadows.

The farther to the back, the lower the value of the shadow to be loaded, and finally all return to 'one point'.

Even if there are two thousand more shadows of this kind, there is no problem at all.

Of course, Murphy also understands that as the spirit drops to a certain value and the strength rises to a certain height, the body will eventually lose control.

It's just that he doesn't know where the critical point is.

"Why did you stop again?" Murphy smiled and asked Moria.

While asking, he looked at his raised arm.

This was the first time he had seen his image as a muscular man, and Murphy had to be curious.

"How did you do it?" Moriah's expression collapsed.

Although the 1200 shadows have not yet been inserted, and the ending seems to have not yet been announced, but Moriah looked at Murphy's casual expression and knew that he had lost.

It's just that there is still a trace of unwillingness in his heart, which drives his hand to move again.

Keep on shadowing!
Feeling the growing strength, Murphy said, "It's very simple, because I not only have high physical fitness, but also strong mental strength."

Mental power seems to be of little use, but since coming to this world, it has been used many times.

This made Murphy sigh, if conditions permit, it is still necessary to develop in an all-round way, this is the last word.

Soon, the number of shadows reached the node of 1200.

Moria put the 1201st shadow into Murphy's body with trembling hands, and couldn't hold it anymore, kneeling on the ground with despair on his face.

"Hehe...hehe."

Gradually, Moriah's huge body slumped to the ground, sometimes mad and sometimes laughing miserably.

He seems to see that his freedom has been completely lost, and he has become someone else's pawn, and his dream of the One Piece has also been shattered and scattered all over the place.

White Beard watched from the side, appearing a little silent.

DAVY BACK FIGHT is just that.

If you lose, you lose your entire bet.

However, Dahai didn't regret it.

Because the other party also placed all bets.

Everyone had regretful eyes on their faces. Some lamented the cruelty of the game, some regretted that it was not Murphy who lost, and some simply felt that Moria's appearance was a bit miserable.

In fact, halfway through the game, everyone has already seen the ending.

But when the number of shadows reached 1200, everyone was still very surprised.

Murphy's appearance has not changed much.

What is the limit?
Including White Beard, there was a hint of curiosity in everyone's heart.

However, Murphy is under no obligation to answer them.

He walked up to Moria who was limp on the ground, patted Moria on the shoulder, and said, "I didn't gamble everything just to accept a subordinate who has no fighting spirit, cheer up, where is your dream?" !?"

When Moriah heard the dream, his body trembled, and then he was discouraged again: "My dream is One Piece!"

"It's okay, you can continue to pursue your One Piece, I'm not interested in that thing." Murphy said.

As soon as this was said, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

After all, most pirates have the ambition to get the big secret treasure or become the One Piece King.

It is rare for someone like Murphy to directly say that he is not interested in One Piece.

Whitebeard silently glanced at Murphy.

It has been four years since it was first reported by the newspaper.

If it was an ordinary young man, he would have rushed into the new world long ago.

Murphy, on the other hand, disappeared for four years without any trace of him.

Now it seems that this person's goal is not One Piece or the Great Secret Treasure, so it makes sense.

Whitebeard can understand this very well. In fact, he is not interested. He goes to sea just to have more family members. As for wealth and fame, they are just incidental.

Hearing what Murphy said, Moria raised his eyes, his eyes still dull: "Even if you say that, but I have been under your command, even if you succeed in finding the big secret treasure in the end, it's just for you to find it, and you will become the One Piece King in the end." You are the one who loves you!"

As he spoke, Moria's body became more limp, as if the ground had turned into a puddle of mud.

"You're right...that's fine, if you really find the big secret treasure, I'll let you go free." The corners of Murphy's mouth curled up slightly.

"real or fake!??"

Moria, who was listless just now, jumped up instantly, staring at Murphy with shining eyes, as if he couldn't believe what Murphy said.

"Of course, the Great Secret Treasure is not that easy. In this regard, I will not help you." Murphy shrugged, and then said: "I was thinking, if you can really do it, wait until I let you go free At that time, you would never cross the river and tear down the bridge, would you, at least you were still an ally at that time, wouldn't you?"

"That's right." Moria nodded his head frantically, and quickly agreed with movements that didn't fit his image at all.

"That's it." Murphy smiled and said.

After all, he was obtained through a game of robbing people, so he must be unwilling or frustrated.

Therefore, Moriah must be given hope.

It's just... hope is hope after all.

Murphy stroked his chin and thought about it. He had to hide it from Moriah and held a piece of red history text in his hand.

　There is no doubt that spiritual power is what is said in the original book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)