Chapter 143 Charlotte Linlin Will Feel Pain!

Walking around the castle of King's Plateau, Doflamingo's expression was very ugly.

A castle is a castle, but if it sucks, it sucks. 

"See, the roof of this place is still leaking!" Doflamingo pointed towards the wall of the corridor not far away.

"The entire building is over a thousand years old, and it hasn't collapsed. It can be said that your successors did a good job with the repairs, and maintance" Beckman said jokingly.

"This ghostly place is too gloomy, dilapidated, even Mihawk's castle is better than ours." Doflamingo complained, and then said: "I'm going to tear down this castle and build a new palace". 

"Rebuilding will cost a lot of money." Beckman said after thinking about it.

"Well, wealth should gradually circulate in the new Dressrosa." Doflamingo said seriously.

After a short pause, he walked out of the dark and leaky corridor, came to the garden outside, and looked down from the high ground, towards the citizens residence of Dressrosa.

Looking down from this high ground, although Dressrosa's land area is small, the 220,000 people still seem very sparse.

As a child, Doflamingo read some books of the Donquixote Family in Mariejois, which depicted his family's history.

At least according to the situation in the books, more than 800 years ago, when Dressrosa was at its strongest, the number of citizens exceeded one million.

However, that is where it ends.

In today's climate, a population of one million is great, but looking at the whole world, it's nothing special. 

For example, Alabasta, a first-class military power, has a standing army of 600,000 in their capital.

Apart from the insufficient population, the buildings in Dressrosa are generally old and dilapidated. Only the structures within the aristocratic circle are relatively new and luxurious.

Doflamingo is determined to devise new plans for all of these; he aims to transform Dressrosa into a first-class powerhouse!

"I'm constructing a palace, so, of course, it costs money. The people of Dressrosa lack good job opportunities, so they can come and work as laborers for me to build the new palace. As long as we pay wages on time and they have disposable income, we can motivate them to spend money, and Dressrosa can be revitalized," Doflamingo explained.

At this stage, Dressrosa's resources are not abundant, and the Donquixote Family has already started to form a transportation team from North Blue across the Calm Belt.

In other words, the wages that Doflamingo distributes to the people will eventually return to Doflamingo as long as they spend it. This is a closed loop, but everyone who participates in the link benefits!

After chatting about the government affairs of the country for a while, Beckman asked: "Speaking of which, the Big Mom pirates are coming soon, when will we depart?"

"Let's go tomorrow, I have already chosen the battlefield." Doflamingo said immediately.

The initiative of this war is actually in the hands of Doflamingo, because Charlotte Linlin's target is himself.

So as long as Doflamingo appears anywhere, that place will become a battlefield.

In this way, Doflamingo can arrange many things.

"Have you gained any information about the Big Mom Pirates?" Beckman asked again.

After contemplating for a while, Doflamingo said, "The current operational model of the Big Mom Pirates is family-dependent, and the core members are all offspring of Charlotte Linlin. However, at present, her blood descendants are not very strong. Therefore, the external pirate power allied with her is also crucial. The entire Big Mom pirate group doesn't have many formidable fighters, and the backbone is still Charlotte Linlin herself."

Soon, Doflamingo introduced to Beckman the combat power of the Big Mom pirates that is more noteworthy presently.

Needless to say, Katakuri is currently imprisoned in Dressrosa's prison.

He can say that, apart from Charlotte Linlin, among the entire Big Mom pirate group Katakuri is the most capable.

It just so happens that from this, it can be observed that the current Big Mom Pirates are not very strong; otherwise, they wouldn't be silver medalists. 

Apart from Katakuri, the second most capable fighter is a guy who is only in his twenties and one of the current sweet generals of the Big Mom Pirates, Cracker.

From the bounty poster, Cracker is clearly in his twenties, very young, but he looks like a middle-aged uncle.

Doflamingo was aware of his devil fruit ability.

After Cracker, it should be Perospero, the eldest son of Charlotte Linlin, followed by Oven, Daifuku and so on.

"Although these people can be said to be guys who have been famous in New World for a long time, in my opinion, they are all relying on Charlotte Linlin's prestige and are essentially good-for-nothings. They can be used as sharpening stones and left to Diamante, Urouge, and Virgo," Doflamingo said calmly.

Doflamingo didn't think any of the sweet generals, ministers, and children of the Big Mom pirates were strong.

He hopes that these people can become the stepping stones of the Donquixote Family, so that his subordinates can grow well through actual combat with them.

"The only person I value is Charlotte Linlin. That women is a natural monster. As early as the Rocks era, she was already a renown pirate all over the world. She has extremely unique talents and physique. She has monstrous strength, followed by the perfect defense, giving her the nickname of Iron Balloon, due to this she is very arrogant. Doflamingo said in a deep voice

"Is her devil fruit equally as terrifying!?" Beckman asked.

"Yes, it's extremely terrifying. It's a Paramecia ability. It's called the Soul Fruit. Anyone who is afraid of Charlotte Linlin will never be able to defeat her, because as long as you have a little bit of fear, she will can take your soul!" Doflamingo said immediately.

"So powerful?" Beckman responded in surprise.

"A Paramecia devil fruit, as long as it involves rules, is very powerful." Doflamingo said.

Against Charlotte Linlin her devil fruit isn't an issue because an opponent at her level won't be easily afraid. 

Among Paramecia, the love love fruit of Pirate Empress Hancock, is even more terrifying.

As long as you have the slightest thought that you shouldn't have about Hancock, when you face Hancock, you will end up defeated.

Even Blackbeard, Marshall · D · Teach, who later became a member of the Four Emperors, did not dare to be careless. When fighting Hancock, he managed to catch Hancock by surprise. If he didn't surprise her, he might have been defeated. 

Doflamingo was very brief, and continued to introduced some of Charlotte Linlin's abilities, and then said: "That monster has been traveling all over the world for decades, and now she is at her peak, even if it is a Marine Admiral, or Whitebeard, it is impossible to say if they are 100% sure they can beat her, there is no doubt that she is now one of the top powerhouses in this sea.

Charlotte Linlin should be forty-six years old this year, entering her middle age. However, for the powerful, this stage marks the peak of physical fitness, with the most abundant energy. Simultaneously, the accumulated experience in fighting is rich, and combat skills should have been honed to a perfect state!

Once someone reaches this age bracket, their peak strength will be maintain for about ten years, followed by a gradual decline in all their physical attributes. 

All in all, according to Doflamingo, Charlotte Linlin should be at the strongest stage of her life at this time.

"So you don't have the confidence to beat her?" Beckman raised an eyebrow.

"To tell you the truth, if I fight alone, the most I can say is that I won't immediately defeated. Like I said before at this stage, it is difficult to find someone who dares to say that they are sure to defeat Charlotte Linlin." Doflamingo laughed, and then said: "So Beckman, my plan is to gang up on her."

"Two of us double team her?" Beckman hesitated and said, "Is it appropriate for two big men to bully a middle-aged aunt?"

Doflamingo ignored Beckman's suspicious words, and continued: "Let Virgo and the others deal with the miscellaneous soldiers on the battlefield. The two of us must go all out to deal with Charlotte Linlin!"

Beckman didn't say any more nonsense, but asked in a deep voice: "What is our goal?"

"The plan is to make Charlotte Linlin feel pain!" Doflamingo grinned evilly.

Doflamingo never expected to eliminate Charlotte Linlin through such a war.

It's not realistic.

So his strategic goal is also very clear, it's not to defeat Charlotte Linlin, but to make Charlotte Linlin feel pain!

I want to hurt the Big Mom pirates! I want Charlotte Linlin to understand that I am not a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch, but that the Donquixote Family is an existence that can stand on an equal footing with them.

If you want to start an all-out war with us, you must be mentally prepared for the complete destruction of the entire Big Mom pirate group!

Doflamingo believed that a person like Charlotte Linlin would not fight to the death with him, a rookie who had just entered the New World, at this critical moment of scrambling for supremacy

Otherwise, isn't that just giving others a chance?