NOVEL WEB Chapter 81: Kano Country: Impact
While the Goa Empire's small fleet was heading to the battlefields of Kano Country and Wano Country, Wano Country had purchased a large batch of military supplies from the Underground Dark Emperors, Joker. Among them were weapons produced in Kaido of the Beasts' territory, Wano Country, and even plague shells manufactured by Plague Queen. This weapon support for Wano Country caught Kano Country off guard. The effect of a single plague bomb could cause heavy losses for Kano Country, with countless soldiers contracting severe illnesses.
Wano Country was very satisfied with this and secretly continued to increase its weapon procurement. This made the Donquixote Family's arms business flourish, earning them a fortune. Anyway, Doflamingo was just an intermediary; the pollution generated by weapon production was none of his business. Even if the entire Wano Country were polluted by the Beasts Pirates' military factories, and the drinking water were contaminated, and the people of Wano Country died out, it wouldn't concern Doflamingo in the slightest. The plague caused by Plague Queen in Kano Country was also none of his business.
He only collected a huge intermediary fee from Wano Country, finding suitable arms suppliers for them, and at the same time, selling a portion of the military supplies he produced to Wano Country. Doflamingo even earned another intermediary fee from those suppliers, profiting from both ends. However, given the strength of the Beasts Pirates, and Doflamingo's desire for an exclusive agency for Wano Country's Seastone, Doflamingo would not charge the Beasts Pirates an intermediary fee. After all, the profits from Seastone alone were enough for Doflamingo to earn a lot. Now, even the World Government had to purchase large quantities of Seastone through Doflamingo.
He, Doflamingo, was the middleman connecting both the dark and light sides, one of the Underground Dark Emperors of the gray area. To stabilize Kaido of the Beasts and secure the Seastone agency, Doflamingo had to constantly find customers for the Beasts Pirates' military supplies, and even constantly search for Zoan-type Devil Fruits for Kaido of the Beasts. The pressure he endured was actually not light. After all, Kaido of the Beasts' military factories in Wano Country were operating year-round, treating the people there as less than human, and weapons were being produced continuously. It was even more arduous and dangerous than the toy workers of Dressrosa. If Doflamingo couldn't sell the weapons produced in Wano Country, he would be hit by a Thunder Bagua from Kaido of the Beasts in a minute.
That's why Doflamingo wanted the Goa Empire as a big client, even going so far as to give away Baby 5 as an 'adopted daughter'. Even many of the weapons for the rebels supported by Crocodile in Alabasta came from Doflamingo. Crocodile's Seastone cages were also made by Doflamingo. Therefore, Doflamingo and Crocodile had many collaborations. Doflamingo was very keen to win over Crocodile and deepen their cooperation. But Doflamingo didn't know at this time that his big client, the Goa Empire, was going to cause trouble for another big client, Wano Country. If he had known, he would have been furious and cursed.
Now he had set his sights on the scientist criminal, Caesar, preparing to produce artificial Zoan-type Devil Fruits. After all, the pressure of finding Devil Fruits for Kaido of the Beasts was also immense. If he could finalize the artificial Devil Fruit business, his cooperation with the Beasts Pirates would be even more stable. Perhaps Kaido of the Beasts would even send the All-Stars to protect him. The pressure of finding sales channels for weapons would also be lighter. So, during this period, Doflamingo had already used his biggest hidden pawn, Vergo, to rescue the major criminal, Caesar.
In the capital of Kano Country, the King of Kano Country, with a crown on his bald head, a dragon tattoo on one side of his bald head, and sunglasses over his eyes, looked at the latest battle report and almost tore off his two handlebar mustaches. "Damn Wano Country, to actually use plague shells!" The King was furious; those scoundrel samurai, who constantly spoke of the samurai spirit, actually used such despicable weapons.
"Your Majesty, originally we had an absolute advantage, but Wano Country is truly too despicable," Don Chinjao, the chief commander of Kano Country's official pirate forces and a pillar of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps, said with an extremely angry expression, and his calloused fists emitted waves of air. This was precisely the manifestation of mastering Kano Country's Hasshoken to its peak. It could unleash widespread shockwaves at any time, shattering swords and shields, and internally injuring enemies. It was a powerful martial art similar to the Ryuo attack method.
Hasshoken also possessed powerful defensive capabilities, making it difficult for even swords to harm its user. However, mastering Hasshoken was not easy, and awakening its profound mysteries was even more difficult. Within the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps, each marine corps had its own unique Hasshoken developed by generations of strong individuals. They categorized Hasshoken into 1st Impact, 2nd Impact..., up to 8th Impact. Among them, the 8th Impact of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps was known for its hardness and armor-piercing ability, with its strongest profound mystery being 'Drill Dragon Drill Nail'. Their inheritance standard was to be able to awaken the profound mystery and break through their family's treasure storage area, the Treasure Jade Ice Mountain.
With Chinjao's pointed fist being dented by Iron Fist Garp, not a single person in the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps could now use the strongest profound mystery to open their Treasure Jade Ice Mountain. And the 1st Impact of the First Marine Corps was known for its wide-range shockwaves, somewhat similar to Fleet Admiral Sengoku's shockwaves. Chinjao's '8th Impact Profound Mystery: Drill Dragon Drill Nail: Chinjao's Gate' could split open dozens of meters deep of hard Treasure Jade Ice Mountain, spanning hundreds to thousands of meters, with a single move.
"Pillar Don Chinjao, please calm down! According to my intelligence, these military supplies, plague bombs, and poison gas bombs from Wano Country are not weapons they produced at all," the King looked helplessly at this hot-headed marine corps commander; if they were to clash head-on with Wano Country now, both sides would suffer enormous losses. "We must first find a way to ascertain the source of their weapons, and then cut off their arms supply lines. Only then can we reduce casualties and defeat Wano Country!"
It should be known that there were more than just the two pirate allied nations in the West Blue. Those jackals and hyenas were waiting for them to be mutually wounded before rushing in to carve them up. The fight between the two strongest in the West Blue should not benefit the third and fourth strongest. Otherwise, this war would lose its original goal. That was to become the strongest in the West Blue and gain the position of West Blue Overlord.
The North Blue once had a King of the Entire North Blue, the Germa Kingdom, which has now declined, but Germa 66 still holds the great name of a North Blue Overlord. Recently, the weakest sea, the East Blue, also saw the emergence of an empire, which even defeated the North Blue Overlord Germa, becoming the new East Blue Overlord.
The South Blue has not seen any powerful allied nations emerge, still maintaining a balance. As the West Blue, which is on par with the North Blue and connected to the New World, with many strong individuals emerging, there is no reason why the West Blue cannot produce a West Blue Overlord.
Their Kano Country just wanted to seize the position of West Blue Overlord. But those scoundrels from Wano Country were actually seeking external aid, showing no West Blue backbone at all, so they deserved to be the second strongest in the West Blue.