Chapter 848

"Doflamingo, what exactly are you trying to do? Do you want to make the events of ten years ago repeat themselves? You heartless demon, you will be struck down by heaven!"

King Riku stared at Doflamingo, gnashing his teeth.

Doflamingo narrowed his eyes slightly, as if pondering something: "Haha! Struck down by heaven? So what if I am! Who in this world could possibly punish me!"

Doflamingo's expression suddenly turned gloomy: "Since you asked, I'll tell you! What happened ten years ago is nothing but child's play compared to the Birdcage I'm about to activate!"

"Everyone's life inside the Birdcage will be taken by me. I am the true king, I am the true ruler, haha!"

"W-what!" King Riku and Lu Jushi were both stunned upon hearing this!

"This guy is insane!" King Riku widened his eyes.

"My lovely slaves, welcome to my Birdcage. You will all become my food today! Pica! Throw these troublesome pests out to feed the birds!"

At Doflamingo's command, Pica, who had been lurking in the shadows, finally moved.

He controlled the surrounding ground, making it writhe and squirm.

This caused Wang Lufei and the others to lose their footing and fall directly.

"Third Layer of the Zizai Jiyi Gong — Meat Cushion!"

To mitigate the damage from the high-altitude fall, Wang Lufei immediately activated the third layer of the Zizai Jiyi Gong, instantly turning his belly into a balloon to reduce the force of the descent.

"Oh? This brat actually cultivated such a peculiar martial art?" Doflamingo frowned.

But he quickly returned to calm; after all, everyone inside the Birdcage was going to die anyway.

Although Wang Lufei's cultivation of the Zizai Jiyi Gong was profound, it was not invincible.

Once everyone had fallen, Doflamingo used his fingers to control the threads of that string puppet.

The threads shot continuously into the sky, and immediately after, strings descended from above, piercing directly into the ground on the outskirts of Dressrosa.

Looking from the sky, Dressrosa now looked as if it had been locked inside a birdcage, with the entire perimeter covered in dense, fine netting.

Doflamingo was the most terrifying hunter within it.

The martial artists intending to leave Dressrosa were all filled with panic at the sight of these threads appearing before them.

"What is this thing! How did it come down from the sky!"

"Let's run for our lives! Forget about those people!"

"I don't want to die! My wife is still waiting for me at home!"

The crowd grew frantic, and some of the cowardly ones even wet their pants in fear.

A group of martial artists ran straight into the threads.

In their minds, they thought, aren't these just ordinary threads?

But the next moment, they regretted it!

After hitting the threads, they were sliced apart, turning into fragments that scattered across the ground, dissolving into blood mist.

Those martial artists who had thought they could escape easily were stunned.

What... what is this thing!

"Let me try cutting it with a blade!" said a bearded martial artist.

The martial artist beside him nodded, then drew his long sword and slashed at the thread.

The result left everyone in shock!

When the sword hit the thread, it was the tip of the sword that snapped off!

How is this possible!

Everyone was too shocked to speak.

"How about we try finding another exit to leave this place?" suggested an older middle-aged man.

The crowd nodded in agreement; after all, staying here was useless.

But when they searched everywhere, trying to find a way out, they discovered that all exits had been sealed.

"Damn bastard! He didn't even leave us a single path! This Doflamingo is truly insane!"

"That's right! This person is completely crazy! Why would he do such a thing?"

"Heh! Perhaps he knew we would try to escape, so he set this trap on purpose!"

The crowd was furious; had they known, they wouldn't have come to Dressrosa.

Now they couldn't leave even if they wanted to.

"Heh! Enjoy the taste of death slowly here!"

Doflamingo sneered.

The angrier these people were, the greater his ambition grew!

The feeling that everything was under his control was simply too satisfying.

"Parasite Thread!"

Flying in the sky, Doflamingo continued to activate his ability, rooting the threads that could control human bodies into this group of people.

This was a technique that could make a martial artist lose their combat ability in an instant!

Doflamingo had once relied on it to slay several Grandmaster-level powerhouses!

Doflamingo controlled those threads, taking full control of these people.

The Imperial Guards were the same; one by one, they began to take up weapons and slaughter the surrounding civilians.

"Ah! Help!"

"Let us go! What are you doing!"

"Please, spare us!"

The civilians wailed.

Seeing the civilians wailing and begging, Doflamingo felt a sudden surge of annoyance.

He swung his right hand downward violently, and the civilians instantly stopped their wailing, their bodies turning stiff as puppets as they attacked the Imperial Guards.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing! Why are you attacking ordinary civilians!"

The Imperial Guards who hadn't been controlled shouted, but the next second, they were pierced through the chest by sharp blades, blood splattering everywhere!

"Hahaha! Kill! Kill to your heart's content!"

Doflamingo became manic; in his eyes, the only meaning for these people's existence was to please him.

Slaughter, only constant slaughter could make him more excited!

"Stay away from me, my body is out of control!"

"Damn it! You guy actually attacked ordinary civilians! Are you even human! You're worse than a beast!"

"I don't want to become a monster, please, spare my life!"

The Imperial Guards were in agony; they wanted to break free from these restraints but were completely unable to, forced to watch themselves become monsters slaughtering civilians.

"... Commander Sun Yixiao, please kill me. If this continues, I truly fail the training the Imperial Guards gave me."

The controlled Imperial Guards begged.

They were all veterans who had fought on the battlefield for years; to end up like this was simply a disgrace!

Sun Yixiao stood up at this moment: "Although this old man is blind, I can still hear the wailing in Dressrosa! Doflamingo, are you trying to turn this place into hell? This old man will be the first to disagree!"

With that, Sun Yixiao drew his sword and severed the threads controlling the Imperial Guards, releasing them from their restraints.

This left the Imperial Guards, who had thought they were doomed, with looks of excitement and awe.

But no matter how strong Sun Yixiao was, he couldn't save everyone controlled in the entire town.

The flames of war began to spread, and soon, all sorts of screams rang out across Dressrosa.

Countless corpses lay on both sides of the streets, blood flowed across the ground, and a heavy, bloody stench filled the air.

The civilians began to understand what had happened ten years ago.

"Did I misunderstand King Riku and the others ten years ago? Were they also controlled by Doflamingo before they rebelled?" an elderly woman with white hair muttered to herself.

"That disaster ten years ago must have been Doflamingo's doing. So we've been wronging King Riku for so long!"

"I said we shouldn't have doubted King Riku!"

"Even their only bloodline, Rebecca, received so much malice from us!"

In Dressrosa, many civilians knelt on the ground, repenting.

The culprits behind it all were hiding in the shadows, watching the scene unfold.

"Master, look at how stupid these civilians are. Now I suspect that if we had ruled them with bloody, violent means from the start, they would have already surrendered to us."

Beside Doflamingo, Meihua Shisan and the others flattered him.

And what they said was indeed true.