The daimyo were not subtle in their movents. If anything, what they were doing could only be described as blatantly high-profile.
For the daimyo, after all, the most important thing was that they controlled the tax wealth of an entire country, possessed the highest authority in that country in na, and stood as its formal ruler.
Because of that, not long after their orders were issued, ninja across their nations began moving in response.
As for wandering ninja, their information networks were limited.
They might have heard Uchiha Chizumi's na at a bounty exchange, and they might even have seen the terrifying size of the bounty on his head, but their narrow worldview left them with no clear understanding of just how strong he actually was.
"The daimyo of the Land of Earth, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Lightning have issued a joint order, summoning ninja from all three nations."
"And what they want isn't for us to attack the Land of Fire. They want us to hunt down one ninja—Uchiha Chizumi!"
"If we can kill Uchiha Chizumi, the daimyo are even willing to let us establish another hidden village within their lands, and even support the rise of another Kage…"
One ninja looked at the recruitnt notice before him, his eyes full of hope and greed.
Even though he was only a wandering shinobi, after surviving in the shinobi world for so many years and taking jobs at bounty stations, he was confident that his own strength was at least on par with most ordinary jōnin.
"It's not just the right to establish another hidden village in one of the three great nations and select a new Kage. The financial reward is just as generous."
"The daimyo of the three nations have kept increasing the bounty on that Uchiha Chizumi from Konoha. By now, the reward on his head has already reached a full 1.2 billion!"
"A bounty of 1.2 billion… if soone really kills Uchiha Chizumi, they'll never need to work as a ninja again for the rest of their life!"
So saw this as their chance to beco a Kage in one leap. Others only cared about the bounty money. After all, 1.2 billion was a completely unimaginable number to most wandering ninja.
"The only thing we really need to worry about is whether Konoha will protect him."
"That Uchiha Chizumi is an Uchiha, and the Uchiha are one of Konoha's major clans. If we try to kill him, we may end up clashing with Konoha itself."
So ninja were tempted, but they remained wary of whether Konoha might intervene.
As for Uchiha Chizumi—
As more and more ninja answered the daimyo's call, the so-called allied ninja army of the three nations had already grown beyond ten thousand in a very short ti, and the number was still rising.
After all, the three daimyo had never said they were only recruiting ninja from their own countries. As the news spread, even ninja from smaller hidden villages began arriving, hoping to take part in this alliance.
"But what exactly did Uchiha Chizumi do to make the daimyo of three great nations throw this much money around?"
That was the reaction of those with poor intelligence who were simply following the crowd.
"What I'm worried about is that his na is Uchiha!"
"The man who once cald the entire shinobi world, the so-called Demon of the Shinobi World, Uchiha Madara, was also an Uchiha!"
"If this Uchiha Chizumi has even a fraction of that old Demon's power, then this battle may not be so easy after all…"
That was the concern of those who had the best information—ninja born into clan lineages outside the hidden villages.
These clan-born ninja had even been personally received by the three daimyo, who made it clear that they were expected to serve as the backbone of this campaign. And in order to get them to commit, the daimyo had naturally revealed a fair bit of what they knew about Uchiha Chizumi.
"Even the old Demon of the Shinobi World couldn't possibly have fought several tens of thousands of ninja head-on, could he?"
"At this rate, the daimyo's joint army may really reach thirty thousand strong!"
"Thirty thousand ninja! Even if every one of them only knew one Fire Release technique, that should still be enough to burn an entire country flat, shouldn't it?"
Another ninja from a clan background dismissed Uchiha Chizumi's power outright.
People always trusted what they themselves had seen.
And unfortunately, Uchiha Chizumi's path of judgnt had not yet extended beyond the Land of Fire, the Land of Water, and the Grass Country.
The movents of the three daimyo were so obvious that the hidden villages of the Land of Earth, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Lightning naturally beca aware of them too.
"What the daimyo are doing is deeply irrational."
"But it also shows that after we've repeatedly resisted the orders of their courts, they've finally been pushed too far."
Inside the Raikage's office in Kumogakure, Samui looked at the Fourth Raikage A and let out a sigh.
Out of the Five Great Villages, Kumogakure was the one most dependent on its daimyo's court. A move like this would an almost nothing to Sunagakure and might even make Rasa laugh—but for Kumogakure, it was a direct problem.
If the daimyo's court truly succeeded in supporting another hidden village, then the amount of money Kumogakure received each year would obviously shrink.
"But all of that assus the daimyo's joint ninja army actually wins."
"Do you really think Uchiha Chizumi can be defeated by a bunch of rabble?"
"Why I don't want to kill Uchiha Chizumi isn't because he's so strong that he scares . It's because I have to take the Land of Fire's stance into account, and because I have to prevent Kumogakure from ending up at war with Konoha!"
The Fourth Raikage was actually judging Uchiha Chizumi quite highly. In his mind, unless he personally stepped in, there probably weren't many people left in the shinobi world capable of dealing with him. Maybe the old Ōnoki had once qualified—but Ōnoki was dead now.
Yes, the Fourth Raikage genuinely did not believe he was weaker than Uchiha Chizumi. And if Uchiha Madara himself had appeared before him right now, A still felt fully capable of fighting and winning.
After all, the Third Raikage had already demonstrated what it ant to stand against ten thousand ninja by sheer force. The Fourth Raikage believed his own power had already surpassed his father's by a fair margin.
"Uchiha Chizumi's strength should be no less than mine."
"And according to our intelligence, Uchiha Chizumi has awakened the Uchiha clan's Susanoo. That power lets him ignore the attacks of ordinary trash outright."
"Even if the combined forces of the three great nations all attack together, they still probably won't be enough to beat him."
"And that suits us just fine. Once that allied army fails, Kumogakure's voice will only carry more weight."
The Fourth Raikage laid down the final tone for the eting.
His view was that they should ignore the daimyo's allied army entirely. Let them fail.
Because once they did, no matter how dissatisfied the Lightning Daimyo might be with Kumogakure, he would have no choice but to depend on them.
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