Looking at the despair in the two pirates' eyes, Doflamingo showed no mercy. In just a few moves, he cleaved them both in half.
The pirates left behind to hold the ships were absolutely not among the strongest. The truly powerful pirates had surely already invaded Dressrosa.
After slaughtering that batch of pirates, the remaining pirate ships no longer dared to block his path. Even the pirates aboard abandoned their ships and fled deeper into Dressrosa.
Looking at the empty pirate ships, Doflamingo did not order them sunk. Pirate ships capable of sailing the New World were, in every respect, no inferior to the Marines' new warships.
This counted as a substantial haul. Naturally, Doflamingo was a little more lenient with things that already belonged to him.
Well, although he had not yet finished cutting down all those pirates, Doflamingo was already full of confidence in his victory.
Dressrosa was a very small island nation. The entire country was only about the size of a city.
In the original story, Doflamingo could cover the entire country with a single Birdcage. By that estimate, the whole nation probably had no more than a hundred thousand or so people.
In fact, Doflamingo had once considered using this country as his foundation.
After all, the Donquixote Family naturally possessed the right to rule this country, and pirates still placed considerable faith in bloodlines. If he truly wanted to play the game of stealing a nation, it would not have been difficult. At most, Doflamingo would have needed to be more meticulous and thorough, and treat the deposed royal family a little more gently.
But once he learned the size of Dressrosa, he abandoned the idea.
It was too small! That was Doflamingo's only impression. Perhaps it could develop into a prosperous and wealthy