Chapter 601

Gia also brought a group of cavalry to the streets of Dressrosa at this time.

"Dear fellow villagers, please listen to a few words!"

Gia shouted loudly!

Hearing his words, the people looked toward Gia, confused and puzzled!

At this time, Gia spread a blanket on the street and said: "Our City Lord's Mansion has encountered difficulties now, so I ask the fellow villagers to take out all your money and lend it to us. After the storm passes, we will return all the money to you!"

"What the hell? What's going on? We don't have much money in our family!"

"That's right, that's right! We don't have that much money to lend you!"

"Yeah! We are dirt poor, where would we have so much money to lend you!"

One villager after another refused.

Although these people lived very affluent lives, as soon as they heard the City Lord's Mansion was borrowing money from them, they exploded instantly!

"It's not like the City Lord's Mansion is broke, why borrow from us?"

The people complained one after another.

They didn't believe Gia's words, thinking this was just Gia's excuse!

Gia and the other soldiers were a bit angry. Their King Riku risked negotiating with Doflamingo for the lives of these people.

And these guys actually doubted their City Lord so easily?

Gia stared at these people coldly and said: "Do you not believe the promise of the highest authority in Dressrosa?"

Hearing Gia's words, the surrounding people looked at each other.

This...

They hesitated a bit; King Riku still held a very high status in their hearts!

After all, King Riku had always been a man of his word, and there had never been an instance of him breaking his promise to anyone.

Thinking of this, many people began to stir!

"Okay! I am willing to give all my savings to the City Lord! I only ask that the City Lord does not forget the survival of us commoners!"

"I'll donate too!"

"I'll donate too!"

Not long after, more and more people expressed their willingness to donate all their savings to the City Lord.

Even children took out their pocket money.

Gia's eyes were slightly red with emotion: "Thank you everyone!"

In the City Lord's Mansion, King Riku was waiting for Gia and the others to bring back the gold.

Suddenly, a thread shot into his body.

His body began to be controlled by someone like a puppet.

"Hmm?" He opened his eyes in horror!

The one controlling King Riku was Doflamingo, who was currently at the highest point of the City Lord's Mansion, overlooking the entire Dressrosa.

"Hehe, King Riku, you are still too naive after all!"

Doflamingo sneered repeatedly.

"What do you want to do?"

King Riku struggled, but it was of no use at all.

Doflamingo narrowed his eyes as he looked into the distance: "Go! Go and kill the people who are loyal to you and believe in you! Become a tyrant who treats human life like grass! Only then will you be more like King Riku!"

Doflamingo's words reached King Riku's ears, immediately infuriating him!

"I will never become the kind of demon you speak of!"

King Riku roared!

"That's not up to you; people controlled by my threads can only obey my commands!"

Doflamingo snorted coldly and then manipulated King Riku to rush into the crowd.

"Ah! Help!"

"Someone save me!"

Screams erupted everywhere, and blood kept splashing out!

King Riku was crazily hacking and killing the surrounding people...

"Hahaha! Satisfying! This feeling is just too great!"

Doflamingo laughed non-stop.

A wise city lord suddenly turned into a demon slaughtering the people.

This contrast and transformation were truly shocking.

At this moment, a figure rushed into the crowd, heading straight for King Riku.

"City Lord! Are you crazy! You are actually slaughtering our people?"

The person who came was none other than Zhao Yuan, the commander of the vanguard battalion!

Zhao Yuan had originally been guarding outside the city, and after hearing about the chaos in the city, he rushed back.

However, what Zhao Yuan didn't expect was that as soon as he returned, he encountered King Riku slaughtering the people!

"City Lord, what has happened to you?"

Zhao Yuan panicked!

He had known King Riku for decades and knew his character better than anyone!

How could King Riku suddenly become like this?

King Riku was crying, but the movements in his hands did not stop at all.

"Ahhhhh! Someone stop me!" King Riku screamed, appearing to have gone insane.

Seeing King Riku in this state, Zhao Yuan's eyes became slightly moist!

He knew that King Riku must have been provoked by something to be like this.

"City Lord, wake up! Wake up! You are the hope of Dressrosa! You cannot be like this!"

Zhao Yuan was sweating profusely with anxiety! He looked at the surrounding soldiers and shouted sternly: "What are you still standing there for! Hurry up and stop him!"

Following Zhao Yuan's stern shout, those soldiers drew their swords one after another and pounced toward King Riku.

"Let's make this place even more chaotic! Parasite Thread!" Doflamingo activated his ability again, using threads to control these soldiers who intended to stop King Riku.

"Slaughter them! My puppets!" Doflamingo shouted excitedly.

His goal in controlling King Riku was to slaughter the city and make the people feel disgust toward King Riku!

King Riku was the hope of Dressrosa; if he slaughtered the people in the city, then Dressrosa would inevitably fall into chaos, and it wouldn't be impossible for it to perish.

"Hahaha! In this way, the hearts of the people will no longer be stable, and King Riku will be finished."

Doflamingo's heart was filled with joy.

The slaughter officially began!

In the eyes of the people, King Riku was leading his soldiers to slaughter them.

Such a scene filled these people's hearts with fear, but even more so with hatred for King Riku!

"Ahhhhh! I'll fight you to the death!" An old woman suddenly stood out; she raised the kitchen knife in her hand and pounced toward King Riku!

"Puchi!" A blade cut King Riku's arm.

Blood immediately sprayed out, staining the old woman's cheeks red.

"Ahhhh! King Riku, I curse you! I curse you to a miserable death!" The old woman roared.

King Riku shouted: "Go! Hurry and leave here! I can't control my body!"

After saying this, King Riku swung his sword and slashed at the old woman, and she was cut down to the ground!

King Riku's face was gloomy to the extreme; he looked at the others around him: "All of you, go! Hurry and go! You will only die if you stay here!"

King Riku's behavior touched everyone's bottom line, and everyone became angry.

"King Riku! We respected you so much before! You are actually returning kindness with enmity! We'll fight you to the death!"

"That's right! We must avenge those innocent people who died miserably!"

"Kill!"

In an instant, the two groups were locked in a fierce battle.