Chapter 564: Doflamingo Joins! The First Warlord Is Born! 【1/10 Request Subscription】

As Lu En and Doflamingo each ceased their attacks and withdrew…

After the great battle ended,

Only a desolate wasteland of ruin remained.

Doflamingo's Devil Fruit awakening caused catastrophic environmental destruction.

Lu En's attacks were mostly small-scale, single-target strikes, so the environmental damage was relatively contained.

In contrast, Doflamingo, by activating his Devil Fruit awakening, directly obliterated streets spanning over a kilometer in diameter, causing countless buildings to collapse and shatter.

Huh!

He exhaled heavily, quickly adjusting his state, striving to restore his breathing to a rhythmic cadence.

This battle had drained him terribly.

He had to admit it.

Lu En, the Fist Demon, aged only five, was an extraordinarily terrifying monster of an opponent!

Even when he unleashed his full power, he still saw no clear path to victory.

He had no choice but to call off the fight.

Though his heart seethed with resentment…

For the sake of the Donquixote Family's interests, Doflamingo had no choice but to yield.

As for the casino he had destroyed?

He dared not press the matter further with Lu En.

He silently resolved within himself.

One day, sooner or later…

He would reclaim his honor!

Ssshh—

Feeling the constant, piercing pain coursing through his body, Doflamingo involuntarily gasped, his face pale, his body as if crushed beneath a ten thousand jin heavy mountain.

His movements became painfully slow.

For an ordinary person,

Such injuries, if left untreated, would surely kill him within days.

But for a monster like Doflamingo,

Though his wounds were severe, his immense physique and tenacious vitality meant he need not overly concern himself.

Even without treatment, he was confident he could fully recover within three to five days.

"This monster, the Fist Demon Lu En…"

"He really went for the kill!"

After carefully inspecting his current physical state, Doflamingo felt utterly helpless.

Four ribs shattered,

Eight ribs broken,

Three vertebrae in his back crushed…

In short,

His entire body was nearly covered in wounds, scarred from head to toe.

This was unquestionably the most severe injury Doflamingo had ever suffered in years!

No one had ever

Reduced him to such a pitiful, battered state.

Yet today,

Lu En, aged only five, had done it!

Dragging his weary body, feeling the stabbing pain radiating through him, Doflamingo prepared to turn and leave.

But just then,

Lu En suddenly tossed him an envelope, leaving Doflamingo momentarily stunned.

"What's this?"

As he caught the envelope Lu En had thrown,

He furrowed his brow, eyeing Lu En with suspicion, his movements hesitant, refusing to open it immediately.

"A navy invitation?"

"What does the navy want?"

Doflamingo raised an eyebrow, his gaze solemn and heavy as he looked at Lu En and asked.

So this was it!

The Fist Demon Lu En had come prepared.

He had not randomly stumbled upon the Donquixote Family's territory to cause trouble.

It was purely…

To deliver this navy invitation?

He considered it, and found it highly plausible.

Otherwise, unless the Fist Demon Lu En had gone completely mad, he would never have traveled such a great distance just to disrupt Devil Town.

"In other words,"

"The battle between me and this monster, the Fist Demon Lu En, today… was just because he felt like it? Not because he was ordered to exterminate the Donquixote Family?"

Thinking of this, Doflamingo's lips twitched involuntarily.

This damn monster...

He abuses his strength and acts however he pleases!

Damn it!

So all of this...

was started by that brat, Quan Mo Lu En, on his own initiative.

That casino was destroyed by this brat for nothing.

If he weren't so weak, Doflamingo would now tear Lu En apart limb by limb to quench the rage burning in his heart.

"You can take a close look at what's written here."

"After you've read it..."

"You'll understand the purpose of my visit."

Lu En offered no further explanation, mentioning it in passing.

Upon hearing this,

Doflamingo's brows remained tightly furrowed, never relaxing.

Then,

he took a deep breath, brushed off the dust clinging to his body, tore open the envelope in his hand, and pulled out a white invitation letter from the Marines.

His gaze shifted,

and he began to scrutinize the contents of the invitation with intense focus.

At just the first glance, his pupils contracted involuntarily, his expression subtly altered, and his emotions surged violently.

"World Government Seven Warlords of the Sea?!"

Doflamingo's face changed slightly.

He gradually became fully alert, concentrating entirely on reading the invitation's contents.

Moments later.

Huh!

He exhaled heavily, having finished reading the invitation, his heart reeling with shock.

Clearly,

he was deeply shaken by its contents.

After a long silence,

he suppressed his inner turmoil, his eyes filled with gravity as he turned again to Lu En.

He asked: "Is what's written here true? Is the World Government Seven Warlords of the Sea real? Will the World Government truly recognize it? Will the Marines truly recognize it?"

His heart was full of questions,

and he was desperate to press Lu En for answers.