While the Goa Empire's small fleet was heading to the battlefields of Flower Country and Sang Country.
At this time, Sang 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 Sang Country caught Flower Country off guard.
The effect of a single plague bomb could cause heavy losses for Flower Country, with countless soldiers contracting severe illnesses.
Sang 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 Flower Country was also none of his business.
He only collected a huge intermediary fee from Sang Country, finding suitable arms suppliers for Sang Country, and at the same time, selling a portion of the military supplies he produced to Sang 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 Sea Stone, Doflamingo would not charge the Beasts Pirates an intermediary fee.
After all, the profits from Sea Stone alone were enough for Doflamingo to earn a lot.
Now, even the World Government had to purchase large quantities of Sea Stone 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 Sea Stone agency, Doflamingo had to constantly find customers for the Beasts Pirates' military supplies, and even constantly search for Animal-type Devil Fruit 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 Sea Stone 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, Sang 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 Animal-type Devil Fruit.
After all, the pressure of finding Devil Fruit 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 Three Disasters 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 Flower Country.
The King of Flower Country, King of Ramen, 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 Sang Country, to actually use plague shells!"
King of Ramen 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 Sang Country is truly too despicable."
"Please allow us, the great pillars, to mobilize the entire army and fight those scoundrels from Sang Country to the death!"
Zhang Bao, the chief commander of Flower Country's official pirate forces and a pillar of the Eight-Treasure Marine Corps, had an extremely angry expression, and his calloused fists emitted waves of air.
This was precisely the manifestation of mastering Flower Country's Impact Fist 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.
Impact Fist also possessed powerful defensive capabilities, making it difficult for even swords to harm its user.
However, mastering Impact Fist 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 Impact Fist developed by generations of strong individuals.
They categorized Impact Fist into First Impact Fist, Second Impact Fist..., up to Eight Impact Fist.
Among them, the Eight Impact Fist 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 Conical Pimiento's 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 First Impact Fist of the First Marine Corps was known for its wide-range shockwaves, somewhat similar to Fleet Admiral Sengoku's shockwaves.
Conical Pimiento's 'Eight Impact Fist Profound Mystery: Drill Dragon Drill Nail: Pimiento'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 Zhang Bao, please calm down!"
"According to my intelligence, these military supplies, plague bombs, and poison gas bombs from Sang Country are not weapons they produced at all."
"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 Sang Country!"
King of Ramen looked helplessly at this hot-headed marine corps commander; if they were to clash head-on with Sang Country now, both sides would suffer enormous losses.
It should be known that there were more than just the two pirate Allied Nations in 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 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 West Blue and gain the position of West Blue Overlord.
North Blue once had a King of the Entire North Blue, Germa Kingdom, which has now declined, but Germa 66 still holds the great name of a North Blue Overlord.
Recently, the weakest sea, East Blue, also saw the emergence of an empire, which even defeated the North Blue Overlord Germa, becoming the new East Blue Overlord.
South Sea has not seen any powerful Allied Nations emerge, still maintaining a balance.
As West Blue, which is on par with North Blue and connected to the New World, with many strong individuals emerging, there is no reason why West Blue cannot produce a West Blue Overlord.
Their Flower Country just wanted to seize the position of West Blue Overlord.
But those scoundrels from Sang Country were actually seeking external aid, showing no West Blue backbone at all, so they deserved to be the second strongest in West Blue.