After clearing out the "discovered" White Zetsu army along the way, the Allied Forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages paid a negligible price.
Aside from a few unlucky individuals, there were basically no casualties.
Thanks to that, the Allied Forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages were now charging ahead triumphantly!
Yet this unusually smooth advance made Shikaku Nara, the chief strategist back at Konoha Headquarters, furrow his brow deeply.
As he listened to the reports of victory coming in from all sides, Shikaku Nara felt increasingly uneasy.
"Something's wrong. Far too wrong. This is going much too smoothly!"
Shikaku Nara's tone was anything but calm.
"Oh? Has something happened to our chief strategist?"
After hearing Shikaku Nara mutter to himself, Soji cast him a curious look.
Since there was temporarily no need for him to take the field, Soji had handed all command duties over to Shikaku Nara.
Although Soji's relationship with the old Ino-Shika-Cho trio was not as close as the bond he shared with his own teammates, they were still good friends.
Therefore, Soji had absolute faith in Shikaku Nara's wisdom.
After all, near the end of the Third Ninja World War, when Kumogakure had wanted to cause trouble for Konoha and was instead counter-schemed by Soji, Shikaku Nara had actually seen through it.
He had simply chosen not to expose it.
For one thing, Kumogakure had been the first to scheme against Konoha and the Hyuga Clan. For another, Soji was his friend and had not done anything harmful to Konoha, so he chose to keep silent.
This showed that Shikaku Nara was not only highly intelligent, but also knew how to conduct himself.
That was precisely why Soji had no intention of interfering with the deployment of the Allied Forces of the Five Great