Getting serious

The moment big mom pointed her hand at the shadows a small white-colored dot that glowed purple to big mom's eyes headed out to the ally.

This was her ability to manipulate souls.

When the dot reached the place it got swallowed easily and then the shadows there gathered together and twisted about before taking the general shape of a humanoid figure made of darkness.

It had no eyes and it was completely dark. But it did have a mouth as it looked at big mom.

"Mama!" it said. The voice sounding oddly female.

Big mom grinned happily.

"MAMAMAHAHAH!"

The reason she used a part of her soul and did not just make a regular homie was that she saw the benefit of Elene's ability to hide from observation Haki.

It was really useful as evidenced by her being unable to feel or react to Elene's attacks.

"Erebus, tell me where is the little girl hiding!" Big mom ordered as she prepared her attack.

She threw her hat to the sky as she yelled.

"Napoleon!"

Then her hat transformed into a longsword.

She then brought her hand closer to her as she gripped the sword hard and prepared to release a strike.

"THERE, MAMA!" Erebus suddenly shouted and big mom swung her sword without any delay.

"IKOKU!" She yelled.

A huge shockwave was generated and started destroying everything in its path.

Elene who was watching everything happen and was quite shocked at seeing Erebus hurriedly dodged from the trajectory of big mom's attack.

The attack missed her, but it continued on passing the circle made by Ian's crew and it impacted many of her own children… this was painful to watch for her other children but they could say anything, as their mama was just unreasonable that way…

Bert was actually the one responsible for that side from which the attack came, but he dodged it, fortunately.

But then once again Erebus said where Elene was and another attack headed towards Elene as soon as she landed on her feet.

Dodging again Elene exited from her hiding state as she glared at big mom and then Erebus.

A thought then came to Elene's mind.

She had seen how Erebus was made. It came to being from shadows. And Elene was the shadow empress…

If so shouldn't she be able to control it quite easily?

There was one way to found out.

"Erebus! Come over here and serve your empress!" Elene yelled out towards it.

Erebus was about to refuse when its body all of a sudden vanished and appeared next to Elene a bit titled as if it was bowing.

Its priorities all of a sudden changed as if it was rewired to listen to Elene's commands.

Elene thought of something after seeing Napoleon and then yelled.

"Erebus!" The shadowy form transformed all of a sudden into a sword that was quite long.

It almost reached two meters long, with the handle itself being 60cm long. Tendrils of shadows originating from the sword were left flailing about leisurely.

Elene caught the sword with both hands, but she felt it was quite lightweight to hold.

She then put it onto her shoulders as she looked at big mom with a grin.

"I have to thank you Linlin for such a gift!" Elene said with a smug smile.

Which managed to enrage big mom to no ends.

"You damned little girl!" Big mom yelled at her before gritting her teeth.

Although she tried to get Erebus back, she couldn't. She had been trying for a while now, but the connection with her part of the soul was lost all of a sudden.

"IKOKU!" In her rage, she started her attack once again.

And when Elene dodged this time, she once again vanished along with her sword and appeared right next to big mom who was not able to react anyhow thanks to her Haki not alerting her of the danger.

Elene swung her sword testing its sharpness for the first time. She was a bit trained in the sword arts. So while she was not truly adept she was quite capable of throwing flying slashes easily.

And that was what she did.

A huge slash was sent at big mom at point Blank range.

It hit her straight at the back and pushed her forward a huge distance away and got her buried a bit into the ground.

She had released her sword as she was thrown, so the minute she got up she searched for it.

And when she found it lying around she called for it as it flew cutting through the sky for her to hold on to.

This time she looked at Elene in anger. The more she fought her the more she understood how troublesome she was.

Spores like lights were released out of big mom all of sudden. But since she was walking towards Elene still amidst the dust that was raised, they were not visible to Elene.

Those spores merged with the shadows and waited their turn to tell their mama Elene's position whenever Elene hid away.

Big mom grinned at this as she was finally visible to Elene.

Once again there was no visible wound on big mom as she stood there grinning at Elene.

Elene frowned at her.

It appeared that big mom's iron balloon physique was quite the troublesome thing to bypass.

Still, she didn't use her Haki on that strike so it was not like she was totally helpless.

Big mom though had something planned for Elene as she suddenly jumped at the sky and neared her.

"You troublesome brat I'll make sure to punish you well enough that you will not disrespect your betters from now on!" She said as she started to laugh.

"What are you going on about you stupid old hag?" Elene retorted as she was perplexed.

But soon her features turned pale as she stood there watching the surrounding air around big mom turn grim.

"SURRENDER!" Big mom yelled out the first word as she landed near Elene who was suddenly frozen in her place.

The air intensity increased all of a sudden in the surroundings as the weak members of the big mom pirates lost their consciousness all of a sudden even if they were quite far away.

"OR LIFE?" then the pressure descending on Elene increased many times more.