What the hell is making games in the Ninja World?.

Chapter 437 "The Last Ninja" Release Date and Press Conference
According to the plan, what follows will be a long-lasting battle of wits and courage between the Ninja Alliance and the Akatsuki organization.

The Ninja Alliance exists in this way, earning its own funding while also receiving funding from the nobility and the wealthy, and then carrying out various missions and fighting against the Akatsuki organization.

The Akatsuki's mission was to occasionally jump out and kill some nobles and daimyo, and then fight with the Ninja Alliance.

It's a classic example of creating a powerful enemy to force people to unite and gain widespread support. To be honest, it's quite crude, but it's very suitable for the Second Ninja World, a world with extraordinary power, a fierce and outrageous culture, and a lack of sufficient political and civilized literacy, as well as qualified management talent.

The Second Shinobi World is different from the main world. It is not easy to complete the transformation as quickly as the main world. Although the Second Konoha will also try its best, it will always need this kind of shaped unity and peace to maintain a basic framework before it succeeds.

At the very least, it is essential to ensure that when the Otsutsuki clan attacks, the ninja world can immediately organize a sufficiently powerful force to deal with them, rather than having to go through the formalities of holding a Five Kage Summit and then forming an allied ninja army.

For the Otsutsuki clan, by the time this whole process is completed, it's too late.

Therefore, it is essential to maintain a powerful united force capable of acting as a whole and rapidly mobilizing the vast majority of resources in the ninja world.

Of course, humans are a bunch of forgetful creatures; there will always be people who think they are safe, and there will always be people who are dissatisfied with or even opposed to the Ninja Alliance.

The Ninja Alliance has its own set of rules to resolve this, but as for the daimyo and nobles outside the Ninja Alliance, it's simple: someone just needs to step forward and declare that they are not under the protection of the Ninja Alliance.

How the Akatsuki wreaks havoc in those places will be none of the Ninja League's business. After all, those guys opposed the Ninja League themselves, and the Ninja League withdrew from it, so they will naturally have to bear the risks themselves.

This is an open strategy, laid out directly, revealing its intentions. Let's see if those nobles and lords who value their lives dare to court death.

Anyway, if these guys are courting death, the Akatsuki would be more than happy to go – Nagato is currently itching to kill all the noble daimyo.

If Nagato hadn't learned a lot and realized that killing alone couldn't solve all the problems and would only bring chaos and more casualties, he would have loved to slaughter all the nobles and daimyo of the Second Shinobi World.

As for the main world, the same is true. However, Konoha in the main world already has a complete reform plan, which is constantly being promoted and changed. Therefore, Nagato's attitude is that he is very happy to join this reform, but he will not do anything himself.

The Second Shinobi World was different. It didn't have the conditions of a main world, and it was also threatened by the Otsutsuki clan. Naturally, Nagato's actions were more hasty.

Fortunately, Nagato listened to advice, and his actions were completely controlled by the main world of Konoha. He also learned a lot through study, so he would only kill those he was allowed to kill.

Purely a tool.

However, Nagato didn't care, since he had already made up his mind the moment he cast the ball.

For Nagato, he was willing to do anything as long as he could see the world become a better place, as long as he could bring true peace to the world, and as long as all the real exploiters could be punished as they deserved. Even if it meant becoming a demon, a sinner in history, or a butcher who would be despised and cursed by countless people in the future, he would not hesitate.

In the learning space, Nagato learned a poem called the Seven Killings Poem.

Although it contains extremely extreme elements, Nagato felt it would be very suitable if its essence were applied to those noble lords.

Forget about the idea that there are good people among the nobles and daimyo. Nagato only believes that while the harm should not extend to family members, the benefits should also not extend to family members. Since those nobles and daimyo enjoy a life of benefiting from the exploitation of the people, they should all be killed!

Yes, the main point is to go to extremes, turning 'making the world feel pain' into targeted attacks.

Of course, it's nothing. After all, bloodshed is inevitable when there is change. People who are aware of this will not stop others from doing these dirty things, even if they feel reluctant to do so.

In short, that's the situation. Because of this series of actions, the Ninja World No. 2 has also entered a state of peace in a sense.

At the same time, there are no longer any obstacles to the promotion of illusion games. Under these circumstances, no force can refuse the development of the illusion game market in the Second Ninja World.

Among them, Sunagakure and Kirigakure actively cooperated with Konoha due to their relationship with the village, choosing to help Konoha expand into the markets of the Land of Wind and the Land of Water, and also including the vassal states of the two great powers.

Faced with this situation, Konoha did not let its staunch allies simply make sacrifices. Instead, it reciprocated by giving the two villages many benefits, making them secondary distributors of the illusion game, and the illusion network began to spread in the two villages as well.

This brought huge benefits to the two villages, and with money, their autonomy naturally increased significantly. They no longer needed to worry about being controlled by the daimyo. Although the Ninja Alliance was established, it was still an alliance, and each village still had its own interests. Once they had interests, they would still be deeply influenced and even controlled by the daimyo because of economic issues.

However, once they have a truly independent and substantial source of income, they naturally gain a high degree of autonomy, and the situation of being controlled by the daimyo will naturally transform into a truly equal cooperative relationship.

This was something the Daimyo didn't want to see, but under the threat of the Akatsuki, they had no choice but to suppress their discontent.

Moreover, Konoha only granted such conditions to Kirigakure and Sunagakure; other villages did not receive such treatment. Therefore, it would not cause a violent backlash from the entire class. The dissatisfaction of the Land of Water and the Land of Wind is nothing compared to the current Ninja Alliance.

In any case, even without these incidents, the Land of Wind and the Land of Water were still at odds with their two subordinate ninja villages, with issues such as withholding funds occurring every year, resulting in a consistently poor relationship between the villages and the daimyo.

And so, the release date for The Last Ninja arrived.

Similarly, in the main world, it was also the Last Ninja press conference.

Through the genjutsu network and the delayed live streaming system, the press conference held in Konoha truly achieved the effect of live streaming across the entire ninja world, and even across worlds—in the Second Ninja World, some people in Konoha with the necessary permissions could also watch the live stream with almost no delay directly through the genjutsu network.

This press conference, which had been in preparation for a long time, was once again hosted by Hinata Ruyan and Yamanaka Hirotada, the go-to hosts of the Konoha Game Merchants Association, while the planner was Uzumaki Kikyo, who was increasingly showing the demeanor of a media queen.

When everything was ready, the press conference began.

The main hall, which can accommodate 50,000 people, was packed to capacity. People from all over the country filled the entire hall, demonstrating the grand scale of this ninja event.

Meanwhile, the number of viewers across the entire ninja world exceeded five million. It should be noted that as a feudal society, there are not many people in the ninja world who can afford to play genjutsu games. Even though the Konoha Game Merchants used projection technology, a live streaming technology that does not require access to the genjutsu network, the number of people who actually have the time, leisure, and means to watch is still extremely small.

Unfortunately, the basic conditions were what they were, and although Konoha was striving for great development, the time was still too short. Even with the extraordinary power of the chakra system, which could accelerate development many times over, the time was still too short. Therefore, having five hundred people watch a grand event simultaneously was truly incredible. When this data was announced, it caused many in the ninja world to gasp in shock and feel deeply astonished, contributing to global warming in the ninja world.

For this reason, many people speculate that this new game will likely become the first game to break the million-unit sales mark.

Don't be fooled by the seemingly small number of millions; consider the sheer number of players in the entire ninja world. Many people play the game through arcades rather than purchasing it themselves, so a million sales is truly phenomenal.

The prediction of a million sales is even based on the fact that Konoha now controls the Land of Fire and is developing industry and commerce, which has boosted the economy and increased the income of many people, giving them more money.

Otherwise, achieving sales of over 600,000 would already be quite impressive.

Of course, these people were unaware of the existence of the Second Ninja World, nor did they know that the Second Ninja World had developed for more than twenty years compared to the main world. The economic situation of the entire Ninja World was better than that of the main world. Even though the market was still expanding, it was not a problem to generate sales of more than 300,000 units.

Furthermore, the market expansion in the Second Ninja World is progressing very quickly, especially after the establishment of the Ninja Alliance. The development speed has been soaring like it's been put on a booster, and it may not be long before it catches up with the market situation before Konoha took control of the Land of Fire.

Of course, once you reach that point, you've pretty much hit the bottom. If you want to continue expanding, you'll need to develop the entire Second Ninja World.

In short, the market performance of this new game is really strong.

Amidst the anticipation of countless people, the press conference began with a review of the history of fantasy games, briefly recalling various past titles and evoking a strong sense of nostalgia.

Once this prelude is complete and people's anticipation and emotions are at their peak, the official introduction of the new game begins.

The opening sequence begins with a three-minute CG animation.

The content simply explains the game's background and main storyline.

Amidst grand and majestic music, scenes of war appear first, depicting the Great Ninja War, a story very familiar to the ninja world.

That was a fictional Fourth Shinobi World War.

For the main world, where the Third Shinobi World War has not yet occurred, the Fourth Shinobi World War is a rather unfamiliar term.

Slaughter and death, destruction and catastrophe—these were the main themes of the Fourth Shinobi World War.

However, the war was far too brutal. Various countries and villages brought out many incredible and destructive weapons, and the tailed beasts were nothing more than toys in front of those weapons.

Among them are super weapons such as chakra cannons and floating fortress-based space-based weapons, which are completely fantastical weapons to most people in the main world, but have indeed appeared in the ninja world.

Under the onslaught of those weapons, mountains and rivers collapsed, seawater overflowed, continents crumbled, earthquakes were constant, and storms raged.

The world was plunged into a long period of destruction and darkness.

For all the ninjas who witnessed this scene, it was truly terrifying. It was like someone who had no concept of the end of the world suddenly seeing the end of the world. Just like on Earth, the movie "2012" brought an unparalleled apocalyptic shock to audiences worldwide because of the terrifying scenes of Earth's destruction, giving rise to a large number of doomsday cultists. There were even many people who genuinely believed that the end of the world was coming, and then spent all their wealth just to enjoy themselves to the fullest before the end of the world arrived.

Of course, some people have built their own doomsday fortresses, preparing to have a place to survive when the apocalypse comes.

This is what the people of the ninja world experienced.

After all, the Fourth Shinobi World War was neither unfamiliar nor distant to the people of the shinobi world, and it wouldn't be surprising if the Third Shinobi World War broke out at any time. These things, combined with the content shown in this anime, make up a truly shocking and terrifying story.

Many people felt their hands and feet turn cold and their hearts chilled at this moment.

Although there are post-apocalyptic works like Left 4 Dead, the impact of Left 4 Dead's completely fictional setting is completely different from that of The Last Ninja's highly realistic setting.

Furthermore, even just Left 4 Dead has instilled a sense of fear about the apocalypse in many people.

It can only be said that the grand narrative and the apocalyptic background story that is close to reality have brought people a huge shock and impact, as well as a strong sense of unease. Just like during the Cold War, when the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was at its most serious, the whole world was afraid that the two nuclear powers would accidentally clash and then launch nuclear bombs, dragging the earth into a devastating nuclear winter.

Ultimately, this scene ended at the two-minute mark.

Under the gray sky, torrential rain poured down, darkness descended, and the calamity of the war's end descended upon the ninja world. Famine, death, natural disasters, environmental pollution, and other problems followed one after another, bringing immense calamity to the ninja world's humankind. More than 90% of the world's population perished in the Fourth Shinobi World War, and 80% of the species in the ninja world also disappeared.

The ninja world has become a wasteland that is not actually a wasteland. Human civilization is on the verge of collapse. War brings the ultimate destruction to this world.

The surviving people and ninjas were caught up in reflection, and the desire and hope for peace became the mainstream. People no longer wanted war.

However, even under these circumstances, the ninja disappeared.

To be precise, it was the disappearance of chakra power that led to the disappearance of the ninjas who represented chakra power.

What's terrifying is that, due to the pollution caused by war, many creatures mutated and became ferocious and terrifying monsters, further worsening the human living environment and inevitably leading to extinction.

Under these circumstances, the only exception, the only remaining baby with chakra, was born. As the protagonist, he was born in this post-apocalyptic wasteland of the ninja world, raised and taught by an elderly ninja who had lost his chakra, and became the last ninja in this world.

As the last ninja, he seeks a path to humanity's salvation in this apocalypse.

With that, the CG animation ended, and the title "The Last Ninja" appeared.

(End of this chapter)