Shadow Empress

Big mom's form became somewhat different than before. Her whole body was covered in lightning and fire. They had become a part of her and now she could use them as if she had these abilities all of her life.

When she ate her homies, she also took their memories.

She never expected to be pushed around so much, just so that in the end she would have to sacrifice her children.

Gritting her teeth she vanished from her spot and delivered a ferocious punch that exploded on Elene's crossed arm guard.

'Fast' Elene thought to herself.

This led to her defense being broken, and big mom capitalized on that and brought her left hand, which all of a sudden became a huge sword attached at the elbow to her arm.

She swung the flaming sword hand at Elene who was vulnerable at this moment.

Elene knew that if that hit connected, she would suffer a huge disadvantage for the fight's remaining duration.

'I have to use that!' Elene made her choice immediately.

As such she used one of her techniques. After all, she did not come to fight an emperor of the sea while completely underestimating them.

No. she knew she would win.

All of a sudden Elene switched places with one of the clones that were surrounding them.

This was an ability of hers. She trades places with them, and it was quite a dangerous ability in the correct place. Just like now.

The clone that was hit with the flaming sword was immediately engulfed in fire and destroyed.

But Elene had already closed in on big mom and dealt her own attack to her back.

But then from big mom's shoulders, a thin metallic rod shot out and expanded to form a shield while still connected to big mom.

The shield encompassed her whole form and protected her from the strike of Elene.

'What is that?' Elene thought to herself as she couldn't understand what that was.

Even though the strike contained Haki, all it did to the shield was cracking it, meanwhile big mom suffered no damage.

She started to gloat at Elene who was frowning at her.

"Just give up brat. You have already lost. No one can beat me in this form." Big mom smirked as she announced.

Her newest form gave her speed equal to or even faster than Elene.

Her defense was also taken care of in a manner just like earlier.

And her attack was as deadly as possible. Since she now could use her arms as swords and imbue them with either fire or lightning.

She didn't see how Elene would win against her now.

Even Elene knew that now. Somehow big mom had taken the properties of the homies she had consumed.

"You have already done well enough. No one has in my whole life, forced me to use this technique. Apart from the first time I used it, this is the second time. But now it is already over. Now quietly surrender." Big mom told her.

This was indirect praise from her towards Elene. She started to imagine what specimen she would get if Elene married one of her sons. She was already planning on what to do with Ian and this cake fell on top of her.

This was the mistake of the strong people.

Just seeing they have a bit of advantage, gives them all of their arrogance back. Big mom was already acting as if she had won.

'Do you think you are the only one who has a trump card?' Elene thought in contempt.

And it reflected on her face as big mom frowned.

"What's with that look?" Big mom exclaimed in anger.

"Old hag? Do you think you are the only one with trump cards or what? Even now you still have not done anything against me. You are just baselessly gloating. Just how grand is your ego?" Elene sarcastically told her.

And was the truth, and big mom knew that. Which is why she was enraged.

But then all of a sudden Elene was engulfed in shadows.

The shadows started to circle around her body as if they had a mind of their own.

This continued on for a few more seconds before Elene's form was shown.

She now had a shadow cloak on her body with a hood that covered the top half of her face. The remaining half showed some strange black tattoos on her face.

The cloak was moving around as if it was conscious. A dark fog was swirling around her form. Moving around her, twisting and twirling as if dancing in happiness to be around her.

Below the cloak, she was wearing dark latex pants and a black shirt. Atop of which sat some sort of thin armor that covered her chest, shoulders, hands, and then legs.

Right now Elene was floating around in place. She held her sword in a reverse grip while she had it lined up with her back.

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Then she glared at big mom for a second.

"You thought you are the only one with a few tricks up your sleeve? Hehe, let me show you your mistake then!" Elene laughed as she spoke.

Big mom frowned at her. The moment Elene was engulfed in shadows, she felt her presence vanish.

But even after she showed up now, she still didn't feel her. If she wasn't seeing her now… she wouldn't be sure if she even existed.

All of a sudden Elene dissolved into a dark fog, leaving big mom perplexed at what happened but still vigilant for any attack on her.

But the attack came from under her form. Specifically from her shadow.

Big mom hurriedly used the iron shield to guard against Elene. And she managed to successfully guard it but then her shield broke, which meant the attack was stronger.

Jumping a bit of distance away big mom readied her sword to deal an attack of her own.

She focused her all on that one strike. She was planning to end the fight right then.

"Ikoku"

Flames surrounded the sword for a second before lightning followed soon after. And then big mom used her Haki on the sword to make it more durable and to deliver internal destruction to Elene.

Then she swung with all her might at Elene, releasing a strike so powerful, it started to destroy the ground on its path completely.

But Elene only grinned at this.

The dark fog surrounding them heeded her will and formed a wall in front of her.

When the huge attack came into contact with the wall it started to get absorbed at a very fast rate.

"Old hag, you think you can get rid of me that easily? Haha, dream on!" Elene's laugh echoed out on the battlefield. Ringing through the ear of the crowd, including big mom, who was in a state of shock and couldn't believe such an attack was easily dealt with.