Six days later, at two in the afternoon, in a dense forest within Mountain Tomb.
"Kisame was killed by Guy of the Hidden Leaf, but before he died, he sent back intelligence on the Allied Shinobi Forces' troop deployment and the hiding place of the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki. Yakushi Kabuto has already gone to capture them.
"According to Uchiha Obito's plan, the White Zetsu army will launch a surprise attack on the Allied Shinobi Forces tonight. Those White Zetsu possess a Transformation Technique that can even imitate chakra, so ordinary shinobi cannot identify them.
"Tomorrow, all the powerful fighters reincarnated through Impure World Reincarnation will continue to take action."
Sasuke relayed all the intelligence he had received that day to Hawking.
The Allied Shinobi Forces, numbering more than eighty thousand, had officially assembled within the Land of Lightning. Meanwhile, Obito's Akatsuki and the 100,000 White Zetsu were stationed in a secret location called Mountain Tomb across the sea.
"I understand. We'll proceed according to plan tomorrow."
Hawking nodded, sensed the Flying Thunder God Mark on Naruto, and then vanished from where he stood.
To draw out Otsutsuki Isshiki, Kaguya Otsutsuki had to be revived. And reviving Kaguya required the Fourth Shinobi World War, so he would not kill Obito and the others beforehand to stop the war from happening.
In truth, even if he did not need to draw out Otsutsuki Isshiki, he still would not stop this war.
The five great shinobi villages had long-standing grudges, many of them blood-deep. If this war did not resolve the hatred that had accumulated between the villages, there would still be wars later on, and true peace would never come.
Of course, the war had to happen, but there was no need for so many shinobi to die as they had