I travel through thousands of worlds at the same time

"Kuga clan boy! Don't underestimate the Kumo Ninja!!!"

Faced with Kaguya-kunmaro's persuasion to surrender, Dodai, who had been seriously injured, did not choose to surrender. As he spoke, he stood up straight, and his aura became even more powerful, even giving the illusion that he had broken through to the level of Kage, causing the elite ninja troops who were capturing prisoners and watching the battle around him to take a defensive stance.

Faced with the scene where Dodai was obviously using some explosive secret technique or self-harm secret technique and his strength suddenly increased, Kaguya Kimimaro appeared calm and held the bone sword condensed by the bloodline limit [Corpse Vein], and instantly cut through the lava [Lava Release] performed by Dodai, and then stabbed directly at the opponent's heart. At this time, Dodai no longer wanted to dodge, or it could be said that his current state was not suitable for a protracted battle with the opponent, and he had to fight quickly and decisively.

Dodai made up his mind and did not conceal the power he unleashed. The [Lao Shitsu] he mastered directly formed a continuous offensive. If anyone was touched by it, they would most likely be melted by the lava that looked as flexible as rubber. However, what Dodai did not expect was that Kaguya Junmaro did not dodge or evade but rushed straight forward. The bone armor around his body instantly ejected bone blades, which completely shattered the lava like a whirlwind.

This time, Dodai was unable to dodge, and was pierced directly through the heart by Kaguya-kunmaro's bone sword. However, his final blow, which he made with all his strength, only left a tiny crack on his opponent's bone armor, and then he recovered!

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"Mo, the Kumogakure Village has been occupied. I guess they sent messages to the Kumogakure ninja troops stationed outside and the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning before they were defeated..."

Later, at the top of the Raikage Building in the Cloud Village, Tsunade waved to her man, then stood beside Li Mo with Konan, being intimate with him while happily reporting the battle situation.

The war in the Cloud Village has ended. Strictly speaking, it has only been over an hour. However, with the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee being captured, and a large number of Cloud Ninjas either dead or captured, there is no doubt that the Cloud Village was defeated. Even Tsunade would at most feel that it was a bit troublesome that the other party spread some news before the defeat, but she did not think that the Cloud Village still had hope of turning the tables.

You said the reason, which is another flaw of the ninja village system. When the ninja clan and civilian ninjas are gathered together, the families of those ninja clan and civilian ninjas all live in the ninja village. In the past, they could avoid the unfortunate fate of those oppressed civilians because of the ninja village. However, when the enemy has attacked the ninja village, these ninjas and even the families of the ninja clan have become a weak point, and the ninja village needs to spend a lot of manpower to evacuate and protect them.

The families of the ninja soldiers who were sent out from the Cloud Village also became prisoners of the Ninja World Alliance while they were still in the village. It can be said that if the bottom line of the Ninja World Alliance was a little lower, they would directly use the families to threaten the Cloud Ninjas stationed in various places in the Land of Lightning. Perhaps there are some Cloud Ninjas who don't care about their families, but most of the ninjas cannot be so cruel, and the probability of successfully persuading them to surrender is very high.

As for the private armed forces of the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Lightning, that is a more troublesome matter. After all, in order to maintain their power and wealth, it is a bit troublesome for them to mobilize the armed forces.

"Well done, but the Land of Lightning and those Cloud Ninjas are no problem!"

Li Mo seemed to be in a good mood regarding Tsunade's report. He looked at the Raikage Building and the controlled Cloud Village, but did not take the dispatched Cloud Ninja Army and the armed forces of the Land of Lightning seriously, appearing to be disdainful.

In any case, Li Mo's current attitude towards the Land of Lightning and the Cloud Village is that of elite monsters who are used as a starting point. Even the Rock Village and the Land of Earth are not taken seriously by him. The only thing that makes him pay attention is the Konoha Village, which may be in trouble. Other small ninja villages have been regarded as chickens and pottery dogs by him, and those daimyo and nobles should have been swept into the garbage of history long ago.

Looking at the Kumogakure that had fallen into his hands, Li Mo's heart was filled with lofty ambitions. He was even more looking forward to the time when he would completely control the ninja world. Now, he looked at the Kumogakure and directly issued a judgment:

"The Cloud Ninja Village and the Land of Lightning will become a historical term of the past!"

Chapter 72 Sweeping the Land of Thunder

At the same time as the Cloud Village was attacked, the landing fleet arranged by Li Mo directly launched a raid on several ports of the Land of Lightning, and the remaining few border ninja troops of the Cloud Village all encountered a harassment force composed of shadow soldiers.

Against the ports and camps where the Cloud Ninja Army was stationed, the shadow soldiers used the same tactics as they did in the Cloud Ninja Village. They simply blew up their important logistics warehouses first, and then launched harassment operations!

Even though the ninja armies organized by the major ninja villages in the ninja world are all ninjas who possess extraordinary powers, the logistical supplies and various equipment they need still need to be transported by logistical troops. Storage equipment such as sealing scrolls that require sealing rituals to make are not something that ordinary ninjas can afford.

After all, the Sealing Scroll seems to be able to seal a lot of supplies and is indeed very convenient to use, but this thing requires the patience of ninjas who are proficient in sealing techniques to manufacture it. Not only is its production volume shockingly low, the manufacturing cost of the Sealing Scroll alone is an astonishing figure. What's more, the number of uses of the Sealing Scroll is limited. Even in Konoha Village, which was the most financially wealthy in the past, only a small number of ninjas could afford the Sealing Scroll, and its capacity was not enough to transport large amounts of logistical supplies.

At the very least, during the Ninja World War, except for a very small number of valuable materials that could be transported by sealing scrolls, food, common medicines and ninja tools were all transported by logistics convoys. Ninja armies and large ninja villages that were stationed in one place for a long time would inevitably prepare multiple logistics warehouses and store a certain amount of materials needed for combat to deal with possible wars.

Now, the shadow soldiers directly blew up the warehouse containing ninja tools, blasting talismans and other combat supplies. The Cloud Ninja Village suffered the consequences. Many of the Cloud Ninjas who fought against the shadow soldiers had to rely on their own ninja swords, kunai and blasting talismans. Even the Cloud Ninjas who were good at using throwing ninja tools such as kunai and senbon, accidentally ran out of their throwing ninja tools and had to bite the bullet and fight with the shadow soldiers.

The result was that when the Cloud Ninjas of the Cloud Village were fighting a mopping-up battle with the Shadow Soldiers in small teams, the elite troops of the Ninja World Alliance had already broken through the thin defense line outside the village and rushed into the Cloud Village, dooming the Cloud Ninjas to failure.

Especially after Li Mo took control of the Cloud Village, he immediately used it as an important military control area. Subsequently, a large number of Ninja Alliance troops placed the Cloud Ninja captives and their families in the prisoner camp. The few Cloud Ninja troops that were harassed by the shadow soldiers received the news that the Cloud Village had been occupied and their families had been captured, and they immediately fell into chaos.

——The last message conveyed by the Cloud Village was actually to inform the ninja army outside and the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning to be vigilant. However, they overestimated the psychological endurance of those Cloud Ninjas. Not every ninja can be so cold-blooded as to ignore their families falling into the hands of the enemy, and can fight the enemy to the end without hesitation. Even the members of the ninja army sent out by the Cloud Village can be regarded as strictly trained ninjas, but it does not mean that they can turn their backs on their relatives. On the contrary, many Cloud Ninjas lost their will to fight as soon as they learned that the ninja village was occupied and their families were captured.

Even though there were many Cloud Ninjas who wanted to fight to the end, the fighting spirit in the hearts of more Cloud Ninjas disappeared in an instant when they learned that the Cloud Village had fallen and even the Fourth Raikage Ai and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee had been taken prisoner. Moreover, none of the commanders of the several Cloud Ninja armies were leaders who could convince others. They could not think of taking any action for the time being and had to bite the bullet and wipe out those shadow soldiers.

Compared to the Cloud Ninja Village that had fallen into Li Mo's hands, causing chaos among the other Cloud Ninja armies stationed outside, the armed forces in the hands of the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Lightning were not affected much, but the enemies they encountered were unprecedentedly powerful.

The Daimyo of the Land of Lightning had the honor of becoming the first target to be killed as an example. The capital of the Land of Lightning where he was staying was attacked by the airship brigade three hours after the Cloud Village was conquered. The protective barrier of the castle tower in the capital of the Land of Lightning only lasted for a few seconds before it was broken through by the chakra cannon equipped by the airship brigade, followed by a one-sided massacre.

It should be said that the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and these nobles in the capital have indeed not given up in the past few years. In the entire capital, there are more than 30,000 "elite" Genin or ninja school students at the first level, and there are even almost a thousand elites who have reached the Chunin level around the Daimyo. It can be said that their strength is really not bad.

In the current ninja world, all parties are constantly expanding their military strength, and the defense of the capital of the Land of Lightning can be considered quite good. Even if an enemy of the first level of the five major ninja villages launches a surprise attack, they may not be able to easily capture the capital of the Land of Lightning.

Moreover, in addition to the military force of the capital, the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning also has military forces in his own territories and in the hands of other nobles, which are several times greater than this level. Moreover, there is the existence of the Cloud Village, one of the five major ninja villages. No matter how you look at it, it seems that the Daimyo and the nobles are trying their best to expand the military, which has even led to the economic depression of the Land of Lightning.

Under such circumstances, the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and those great nobles still have a good sense of security. Unless they are the Kage-level strongmen who are extremely good at lurking and assassinating, they can rely on the armed forces in their hands to make the most favorable choice for themselves when the Ninja Alliance and the Big Ninja Village go to war. Even if they really cannot defeat the Ninja Alliance and surrender, they can always get good conditions with the military force in their hands, right?

Unfortunately, the daimyos and nobles of the Land of Lightning never expected that Li Mo would disdain their little tricks. The trade and smuggling between them in the past was just a cover-up. The small number of nobles in the Ninja Alliance who were used to feign compliance were just a signboard, which successfully deceived the enemies.

When the Ninja Alliance's airship brigade raided the capital of the Land of Lightning, the commanders of all the armed forces in the capital were targeted and eliminated. Except for the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning who was protected by two quasi-kage-level strongmen and was not killed on the spot by the raiding shadow soldiers, all the other nobles in the capital of the Land of Lightning were in bad luck and became completely a part of the shadow soldiers' battle record.

As for the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning, he actually didn't survive for long. He and his own protective force watched helplessly as three Kage-level strongmen, including Mitarashi Anko and Kuroki Raiga, and thousands of elite ninja troops broke into the castle tower. Then he "bravely" died on the spot, and even his family was burned down along with the castle tower.

When the daimyo and nobles in the capital of the Land of Lightning were all killed, the rest of the work, such as cleaning up the mess, became very simple.

Even though there are nearly 30,000 armed forces in the capital of the Country of Thunder, they were originally the sum of the daimyo and the nobles. Not everyone can command these tens of thousands of troops. Even the daimyo of the Country of Thunder can only control his own troops and the troops of his nobles. At best, he can use the righteousness and actual benefits to induce other nobles to join. It is impossible for everyone to obey a single order.

If the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning really had that much power, he would have thought of centralizing power a long time ago. However, including the most powerful Daimyo of the Land of Fire, the Daimyo of each country only controls their own territories and influences the territories of nobles with whom they have close relationships and interests. The other nobles simply obey orders and not words. If it were not for the powerful aggressiveness shown by the Ninja Alliance and its unfriendly attitude towards daimyos, nobles and even ninja villages, the Land of Lightning and the daimyos and nobles of other countries might not necessarily unite in this way.

Of course, the alliance between the daimyos and nobles of various countries is limited to protecting their own interests. The armed forces gathered by them contributing money and manpower are used to protect themselves. When a real war breaks out, the ninjas from those ninja villages are prepared to go. The situation in the Land of Lightning is a typical case in the ninja world. Including the daimyos of the Land of Lightning himself, the strongest forces in their hands are all carried by their side, and they have never thought of letting anyone interfere.

Similarly, when other great nobles in the Land of Lightning contributed manpower, money and effort to form armed forces, they would not think about making contributions to the daimyo or others. The command power was firmly in their own hands. Except for these great nobles themselves giving orders, it was wishful thinking for others to want to command the power of those great nobles.

At this time, the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and the great nobles in the capital were suddenly attacked and declared defeated. Without the coordination and command of their boss, the more than 30,000 armed forces were divided into multiple armed groups with different actions. Some of them stayed in their own military camps and waited for a turning point, some rushed out directly to prepare for rescue operations, and others simply turned into mobs and wreaked havoc in the capital of the Land of Lightning.

As for those armed forces that had become a loose sand, the elite of the Ninja Alliance cooperated with the shadow soldiers to easily defeat the other side, killing their leaders and core members. The remaining ordinary soldiers basically resigned themselves to their fate.

That's right, the Ninja Alliance took action against those armed forces, but they directly cleared out all the generals and core members. Those who were trusted by the daimyo and nobles and could command the armed forces they formed were either related to the daimyo and nobles, or were simply their descendants or even heirs. There was no such thing as persuading them to surrender.

Even if those guys surrendered, Li Mo felt that they were probably planning to endure the humiliation and then look for a chance to turn against him, so he would naturally not show mercy.

Especially in the current state of war, death is a common occurrence. Li Mo naturally would not mind using this opportunity to eliminate those unstable factors. Otherwise, in cases like the Water Kingdom and the Wind Kingdom, the problems between the daimyo and the nobles have only been dealt with until now. Now that he is facing a decisive battle, he will no longer cover it up.

Once the capital of the Land of Lightning was destroyed, the rest of the territory became meat on the chopping board. Under Li Mo's order, the Ninja Alliance even chose to give priority to controlling the big cities and key roads of the Land of Lightning. Tsunade led the team to attack the border ninja army of the Land of Lightning directly. In the morning of the next day, they easily dealt with the ninja army composed of tens of thousands of Cloud Ninjas.

There was no way. After a day of rumors, most of the Cloud Ninjas who knew that their village had been lost were concerned about what they should do next and the situation of their relatives in the Cloud Ninja Village. Of course, many people had ideas like revenge and fighting, but in the current situation where the village had been captured, the warehouse had been blown up by the enemy, and the future was uncertain, the Cloud Ninjas, who usually acted in a brutal manner, could no longer be tough.

When Tsunade and her men arrived by airship, the morale and combat effectiveness of the Cloud Border Ninja Army stationed in the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Lightning had seriously declined. When Tsunade used the [Wood Release] Bloodline Limit, she directly destroyed the Cloud Border Ninja Army's will to resist.

It's really not that those stubborn Cloud Ninjas are unwilling to fight. It's purely because of the [Wood Release] used to clean up the Cloud Ninja Border Ninja Army. It's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. The Cloud Ninja Border Ninja Army, with only one quasi-shadow as the commander, has no one who can compete with Tsunade. After she directly performed the [Wood Release*Tree World Advent Technique], those resisting Cloud Ninjas were easily subdued by the giant trees and vines, and the only Cloud Ninja quasi-shadow was KOed by her with one punch.

After all, Tsunade has already entered the super-kage level and her strength is quite good. If she is at the peak level of Kage like the Fourth Raikage, she might be able to last one or two rounds in front of her. But for Cricket, who is a quasi-kage, it is already very rare for her to take action personally. However, the opponent was defeated as soon as he met Tsunade.

The leader was defeated and captured, the base camp was captured by the enemy and his family was lost, and the overall morale of the army was low. Under such extremely unfavorable conditions, if he could still organize the Cloud Ninja to counterattack, he would be a top military commander.

Unfortunately, in the ninja world where supernatural powers are prevalent, a simple commander is not as good as those commanders at the level of military gods in the ordinary world. It is more of a contest of hard power, and there are a lot of warriors in the Cloud Ninja, but there are not many commanders with brains. In addition, the Cloud Ninja Village, which advocates the use of force, is not very interested in power struggles, so it is even more impossible to have a top-notch war god commander.

After Tsunade annihilated the strongest Kumo Ninja Army and captured most of them, a large number of Ninja Army from the Shinobi Alliance who came on transport airships quickly occupied this key fortress. It should be noted that this fortress can allow the Kumo Ninja Army to quickly support the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth, but it also built some defense lines and fortresses to prevent Konoha Village and Iwagakure from attacking them, and it can also be used as a fortress on the front line of the battle.

At the same time, several other Cloud Ninja armies in the Land of Lightning either surrendered or died. Facing the elite attacks of the Ninja World Alliance and the bad news of the Cloud Ninja Village being occupied, they had already lost their will to fight. The remaining armed forces of the Land of Lightning had their leaders and backbones killed by decapitation tactics, and were persuaded to surrender by intelligence personnel who had infiltrated previously, and the situation in the Land of Lightning was quickly controlled.

At this time, the news of the defeat of the Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning had already spread to the remaining forces of the united camp. Those small countries and small ninja villages were terrified, and the remaining two large ninja villages were also stunned by this shocking news!

Chapter 73 Shocking the Ninja World

"What? Is this the end of the Kumogakure and the Land of Lightning?!"

When the news of the defeat of the Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning spread, in the office of the Tsuchikage building in the Iwagakure, the increasingly elderly Third Tsuchikage looked at the spy in front of him in disbelief, and rarely lost his composure and loudly questioned his subordinates.

This was a very difficult thing to see for the highly prestigious Third Tsuchikage. Already over seventy years old, he always acted in a very serious manner in front of his subordinates. Occasionally he was not serious, but that was only with close relatives. But in front of most of the Rock Ninjas, he had to act as if he was confident, otherwise it would be difficult for the Rock Ninjas to trust an overly active Tsuchikage.

Especially for the Iwagakure, which lacks successors, the Third Tsuchikage had to handle all major matters personally in the past. Occasionally, there were a few younger ninjas with outstanding abilities who could be appointed as jonin commanders or in charge of part of the work of the ninja village. This was acceptable and could be gradually trained, but it was a bit of a stretch for them to become Tsuchikage candidates, let alone become the new generation of Tsuchikage. Otherwise, the Third Tsuchikage would not be seventy years old and still be busy with the affairs of the Iwagakure.

This is different from the Third Hokage of Konoha Village. In the original plot of "Naruto", the Third Hokage clung to his position for his own power, otherwise either Jiraiya or Tsunade could have served as the Fifth Hokage, and the news of the Three Ninjas in Konoha Village would not have been gradually erased. As for the Third Tsuchikage, there was really no suitable candidate. At least a Kage-level strongman had to be qualified to serve as the Tsuchikage.

Unfortunately, there are several quasi-Kage-level strongmen in the Iwagakure, but the only Kage-level strongmen are the Third Tsuchikage and the two Tailed Beast Jinchuriki. They all relied on external forces to reach the level of Kage-level strongmen. Among the younger generation, only Dilada has the hope of being promoted to Kage-level strongmen within ten years, and the other candidates are either too old or too young.

However, the Third Tsuchikage, who was facing the dilemma of having no successor, did not care about the future succession of the Fourth Tsuchikage. He stared with wide eyes at the subordinate who reported the bad news, hoping that what the other party said was a joke rather than the cruel truth!

"Lord Tsuchikage, it has been confirmed that the border ninja army of the Land of Lightning has been defeated and subdued by the Ninja World Alliance, and the spies of the capital of the Land of Lightning and the Cloud Ninja Village have lost contact..."

Hearing the Third Tsuchikage asking him such an out-of-control question, the trusted subordinate of the Third Tsuchikage who had quietly come in to report the news felt a little helpless, but he still spoke very calmly and told him the bad news that he had just confirmed over and over again.

After all, when he just received this bad news, he thought he might have heard it wrong. Just yesterday, he received the news that the Ninja World Alliance was attacking the Cloud Village. Everyone even estimated how long the Cloud Village could resist and sent the border garrison ninja troops and other armed forces of the Land of Lightning to support it. However, the next day, he received the result that the Cloud Village and the Land of Lightning announced their complete defeat. This was beyond the understanding of the remaining three major ninja villages and three major countries, and they felt that it was completely impossible to happen.

You know, the Cloud Village is different from the Sand Village. The current strength of the Cloud Village is even comparable to the three former Sand Villages. Moreover, when they had already made certain preparations for the battle, they still knelt down to the Ninja Alliance in just one day? !

"…It seems that the Cloud Village is truly doomed, the Land of Lightning has also lost its capital and daimyo, and the Ninja Alliance has already achieved their strategic goal this time!"

Hearing the affirmative words of his trusted subordinate, the Third Tsuchikage stood there for a long while, and then he exhaled a deep breath. His short dwarf-like figure seemed like an indestructible rock, and his voice was particularly decisive and cold: "Pass on my order, immediately let the border ninja army bordering the Land of Lightning prepare for battle, and also contact the Daimyo and the Fifth Hokage for me, and we should discuss how to counterattack the Land of Lightning!"

Well, after experiencing three Ninja World Wars, the Third Tsuchikage, who had seen a lot of war and death, had the last bit of hope in his heart shattered. He naturally understood how complicated the structure of a big ninja village and the capital of the country where it was located was. The fact that there was no news from the spies he had arranged also proved that the situation in the Land of Lightning and the Rain Village was very bad.

In the entire ninja world, the intelligence work of the Iwagakure is definitely at a good level. If not the best, it is definitely in the top three of all forces. During the three Ninja World Wars, the Iwagakure spies stationed in various ninja villages and even important cities in various countries formed a very well-informed intelligence network. Otherwise, in the original plot of "Naruto", the other four major ninja villages had not yet realized the danger of the Akatsuki organization, but the Iwagakure had some relatively accurate information.

Even though all parties in the ninja world have joined forces to form a united camp, the intelligence network of the Iwagakure is still in operation. Even the intelligence networks of other ninja villages and even daimyo are still transmitting intelligence from other forces in the united camp. Current news proves that the situation in the Land of Lightning has already collapsed. If the Iwagakure and the Land of Earth do not want to be attacked from both sides, they must quickly respond.

Now, the Third Tsuchikage, who had no hope of luck, was ready to quickly join forces with Konoha Village and the Daimyo and other forces to quickly prepare to launch an attack on the Ninja Alliance that occupied the Land of Lightning and the Cloud Village. The subordinate of the Third Tsuchikage half-knelt on the ground respectfully and responded:

"Yes! Lord Tsuchikage!"

……

Compared to the Third Tsuchikage who received and confirmed the news the fastest and was actively preparing to find other people to attack the Land of Lightning, Konoha Village, whose intelligence action was a step slower, also received news that the Kumo Village and the Land of Lightning were captured by the Ninja Alliance.

This is similar to the situation of the Iwagakure. Konoha Village, which had been besieged by other ninja villages three times during the three Ninja World Wars, naturally invested a lot of manpower and resources in intelligence work. However, the existence of the first three generations of Hokage and the Root turned Konoha Village's originally very good intelligence network into several interconnected but distinct systems. Even though the Fifth Hokage Jiraiya worked hard for several years, he was unable to take back all the power of the Hokage.

After all, Jiraiya was not a ruthless and cruel politician. Although he was very dissatisfied with the treatment of his teacher Sarutobi Hiruzen, he did not go to the extent of directly destroying him. Even Shimura Danzo of the Root and the two Konoha elders were suppressed under the pretext of gradually taking back power. The reason was that he knew that the current situation would not allow any major chaos to occur within Konoha Village itself. Although the tactic of gradually slicing the sausage seemed to be time-consuming, it was barely a good thing for Konoha Village at this time.

After several years, Jiraiya had secured the position of the Fifth Hokage, but he was still a long way from completely wielding the power of the Hokage. Both the three previous Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo, and even the two Konoha elders still retained certain power. A side consequence was that the intelligence network of Konoha Village was divided into several parts, and the intelligence obtained might not be delivered to Jiraiya in the first place.

Now, after receiving this bad news, Jiraiya directly convened a meeting of all the senior leaders of Konoha Village, including the former three Hokages Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo and many elite jonin, all of whom immediately rushed to the Hokage Building to attend the meeting.

"...As of an hour ago, we have confirmed the battle situation in the Land of Lightning. The Ninja Alliance has completed the occupation and is attacking us from multiple directions!"

In the conference room of the Hokage Building, Nara Shikaku, the squad leader of the Jonin Squad, stood in front of a blackboard with a map of the situation in the Ninja World. With one hand he pointed his baton at the area of ​​the Land of Lightning that was originally classified as a friendly side, and with the other hand he placed a few black chess pieces that symbolized the enemy on the blackboard, and spoke very cautiously.

On the entire ninja world topographic map, you can clearly see that the ninja world camps are marked with colors. The Fire Country is red, the Earth Country is yellow, the Lightning Country is blue, and other small countries are directly marked in white. The black of the Ninja Alliance is very conspicuous. Originally, there were more than a dozen black chess pieces placed on the border between the Fire Country, the Earth Country, and the Rain Country, confronting the United Camp. In addition, there were models of many warships placed in the ocean area near the Fire Country.

Obviously, this topographic map of the Ninja World alone explains Konoha Village's judgment on the United Camp and the Ninja Alliance. The United Camp is still composed of multiple forces. Compared with the Ninja Alliance that concentrates all its strength, the United Camp is actually at a disadvantage in all aspects. It's just that its huge size looks intimidating, and people in the know about the United Camp are unlikely to publicize such things.

However, when Konoha Village received the news, they realized the situation was not good as soon as they saw the topographic map of the Ninja World. They had originally been on guard against attacks from the Ninja World Alliance in the Wind Country and at sea, but they had not expected that the Lightning Country was so weak that the Fire Country was now under attack from both sides and had to consider how to deal with threats from the sea!

"Did those useless people from the Kumogakure lose just like that?"

Seeing the rather grim map of the ninja world, Danzo Shimura, who claimed that he had recently transplanted an arm to himself and was wearing an eye patch, was the first to speak. His words were full of hatred towards the Cloud Village. It was obvious that he still remembered the arm he had lost fighting a Cloud Ninja a few years ago.

"According to the information we have collected so far, the Kumogakure Village and the border Kumogakure Ninja Army were most likely destroyed by... the attack of Wood Release Ninjutsu!"

After hearing what Danzo Shimura said, Nara Shikaku glanced at Jiraiya who was sitting at the seat at the top of the conference room. After getting the order of consent from his own Hokage, even though he had known the news earlier, he tried to calm down the various thoughts that arose in his mind, and then he looked at all the Konoha ninjas present and told them the key information in his hand word by word.

Well, Konoha Village's intelligence network has proved its value. Although the Iwagakure received the news a little earlier, they did not observe as carefully as the spies of Konoha Village, and collected important information that was suspected to be the reappearance of the [Wood Release] Bloodline Limit!

"Wood Release? How is this possible?!"

"Wait a minute, maybe it's the one we haven't heard from since..."

"But the question is, what should we do now?"

There is no doubt that Nara Shikaku's words were like a huge stone thrown into a pond. The Konoha elders, Konoha elite jonin and ninja clan leaders who were originally sitting quietly at the scene could no longer sit still. They all started talking with surprise on their faces.

Even the former third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen had an exceptionally interesting expression at this moment. He had acquiesced to Konoha Village's secret research project to reproduce the [Wood Release Bloodline Limit] in order to allow Konoha Village to have one more top ninja who could use [Wood Release] to suppress the ninja world. However, no one knew how many people died and how much resources were invested in the experiment, and in the end, all he produced was just an ordinary Wood Release ninja, Yamato.

At the very least, he was Yamato who performed the [Wood Release * Three Rooms and One Hall Technique]. He was pretty mediocre at mastering Wood Release Ninja, and was considered to have reached the level of a formal jonin. But compared with the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, who was so feared by the ninja world, the Wood Release Ninja Yamato disappointed everyone who knew about it. However, the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, still hid his existence. Even Orochimaru, who was doing the experiment at the time, didn't know of his existence. Only he and Danzo Shimura knew the specific situation.

However, the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen knew that another top-level warrior who could reproduce the [Wood Release] was born. Just from what Nara Shikaku said, this warrior who could use the [Wood Release] bloodline limit could not deal with the Kumogakure and Kumogakure border ninja army, which was definitely not comparable to Yamato who had just reached the threshold of elite jonin. What's more, the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen even concealed this news from Jiraiya.

Now, the former third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't know what to say. He and Shimura Danzo looked at each other, not knowing how to discuss this topic. Even if someone had guessed some possibilities, they would not be stupid enough to say it directly, or they didn't know how to pursue it.

"Alright! Everyone be quiet, we are now discussing how to deal with the current battle situation!"

Seeing the meeting room become noisy, Jiraiya, who had been silently thinking about the problem just now, frowned and spoke loudly, which directly calmed the atmosphere in the meeting room. Then he did not discuss the topic of the [Wood Release] ninja that upset him, but directly set the key issue as the response strategy for the current war situation: "Order the border ninja troops on guard against the Land of Lightning to enter the first level of combat readiness, and the ninjas in the village begin to assemble and organize, and make all preparations to be ready for battle at any time..."

When giving this order, Jiraiya's face became extremely cold. He naturally knew what the order he issued meant. It would most likely plunge Konoha Village into the meat grinder of war again. It was unknown how many ninjas would die.

Unfortunately, Jiraiya saw the prospect of a brutal war, but was unable to stop it. Even as the fifth Hokage, he had to be prepared to fight the enemy to the end under the demands of the Fire Country Daimyo and the Ninja Alliance's direct attempt to eliminate the ninja village. And just looking at the current war situation, it would be nonsense to say that the Ninja Alliance would not continue to attack. With the loss of the joint camp of the Lightning Country and the Cloud Village, it was impossible for them to sit and wait for a terrible ending.

No matter how you look at it, the three major countries, the three major ninja villages and a group of younger brothers joined forces, but were successfully raided by the other side and occupied the Land of Lightning and the Cloud Village. The remaining two major countries, the two major ninja villages and those fence-sitters, are they just waiting to die if they don't fight back?

"Yes, Lord Hokage!"

Hearing Jiraiya's order, the Konoha high-ups, who had no idea how many thoughts arose in his mind, all stood up and responded respectfully. Even the former three Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo and the two Konoha elders, did not have any objections at this time. They could not come up with any better suggestions, so they could only agree with Jiraiya's order, which at least seemed to be the most reliable proposal.

Following Jiraiya's order, Konoha Village and Iwagakure quickly increased the defenses of the border ninja army. The entire ninja village quickly went from the previous semi-mobilization state to a full mobilization state, ready to join the war with the Ninja Alliance in a timely manner!

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"Damn it, damn it, Raizo has been killed. We must explain this to the people of the Land of Earth and have those ninjas join forces to launch an attack immediately. It would be best if we could eliminate the threat of the Ninja Alliance..."

On the other side, in the capital of the Fire Country, the Daimyo of the Fire Country also received the news. He was no longer as calm and relaxed as before, watching the Ninja World War as leisurely as if it were a play. Instead, he was extremely irritable and fearful.

The reason was very simple. The Daimyo of the Land of Fire had received news from the spies arranged in the Land of Lightning. He at least knew that the capital of the Land of Lightning had been occupied by the Ninja Alliance, and that the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and many nobles had turned into corpses. How could the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, who prided himself on being a superior man, accept this? In the past, he always prided himself on being the high and mighty Daimyo with extremely noble blood, who held the power of the Land of Fire and enjoyed all the glory and wealth.

Even during the three Ninja World Wars that were fought with mountains of blood and mountains of corpses, the Fire Country Daimyo and the daimyos and nobles of other countries just sat on their high feet and watched the fun. No matter how fierce the fighting was, the ninjas would at most slash their knives at civilians and merchants. Nobles, except for a very few unlucky ones, would never be targeted by the ninjas, unless they were taking some spying actions against the nobles of the hostile country. No ninja dared to openly provoke the daimyo.

Over time, the daimyos and nobles of various countries regarded themselves as chess players outside the game, and regarded the ninjas who fought each other or carried out missions as hunting dogs. Otherwise, the Ninja World Alliance would not have been established. When the interests of the daimyos, nobles and even ninja villages of various countries were threatened, these guys jumped up like farts whose toes were stepped on, and they contributed money, manpower and effort to unite multiple forces to form a united camp.