077, The Truth

Battles in war might last only a few dozen minutes before one side was defeated or routed. What followed was endless pursuit and battlefield cleanup. Yet the most time-consuming part of war was the march—and marching brought another problem: fatigue.

If two sides fought, with one rested and waiting while the other launched a lightning assault from a thousand miles away, then with equal troop numbers, the outcome was easy to predict. Even traveling by vehicle for too long left one deeply exhausted.

Most so-called strategies were simply the result of making the fullest use of marching and time management.

Thus, group teleportation technology and spatial abilities capable of rapidly reaching every battlefield were Beyond-Grade powers that could decide a war even in high-level Void conflicts.

In truth, when Rimuru showed that he could swallow countless people and use himself as an instant transport hub to move armies with the Flying Thunder God, the Third Mizukage had already wanted to say... if that ability were made public, the other Ninja Villages would likely calm down at once. At the level of warfare, that ability itself was already one of the basic conditions for victory.

Even so, he was still a little dumbfounded. He had expected Rimuru to unite the ninja world, and he had thought nothing Rimuru did now could surprise him anymore. But what the hell was this? Why had he suddenly announced that he was going to slay a god?!

Because he knew Rimuru's strength, the Water Shadow understood deeply that his disciple had no need to lie. In other words, what Rimuru said might all be true—but he did not care whether it was true or not. What he cared about was... if you provoked a god and got killed by it, what would happen to the