"Is it ready? Is everything really ready?"
Having just come ashore, the dragon Sancho came running over, nudging around with his head like a puppy. He looked utterly impatient.
Doflamingo's mouth twitched slightly as he pushed away the enormous dragon head shoved in front of him. Turning to look, he found that nearly all the dragon-like creatures at the top of Beast-Dragon Island's food chain were standing on the beach as though lined up in a queue.
The animals of the Pirate World were highly intelligent, with an average IQ close to Luffy's. Naturally, they had no objection to eating Devil Fruits.
Aside from animals that were instinctively capable of swimming, most animals were complete landlubbers. Since they would never learn to swim anyway, they naturally did not care about the Devil Fruit's side effects.
Moreover, after taking human form, not only would their intelligence increase somewhat and allow them to learn human language, but more importantly, they could learn humanity's systematic cultivation methods.
Aside from apes and monkeys, even if other animals were intelligent enough, learning human cultivation methods was useless because the difference between their forms was simply too great.
Having been born on this island where the strong preyed on the weak and strength reigned supreme, the animals of Beast-Dragon Island understood the importance of power even more deeply.
Ignoring the impatient Sancho, Doflamingo swept his Observation Haki across Beast-Dragon Island's terrain. He could not help sighing. "Has the Navy base here been withdrawn?"
That was perfectly normal. After all, this had been the Navy base deepest in the New World, and its original purpose had been to monitor Kaido's Beasts Pirates.
After Kaido took over Wano Country, the base's purpose naturally diminished greatly. Furthermore, because Doflamingo had repeatedly attacked the World Government's Holy Land Mary Geoise,