You Lost Your Lives; We Lost Our Chance to Deal with the Tenshukaku!

A month later!

The Land of Water had been completely cleared out.

Ninja efficiency truly was outstanding, especially with airships as transportation.

Now, every town and city had fallen under the management of the priestesses.

As for the villages below that level, it would take a long time to bring them under control.

But as long as they controlled the cities and towns, the rest was no longer a problem.

After taking the Land of Water, the population controlled by the Tenshukaku had instantly risen from less than thirty million to around two hundred million—a qualitative leap.

That was the greatest gain!

The Land of Water was vast. No matter how miserable the living conditions were, its population was still considerable.

After all, life would always find a way!

Even if they could not grow grain, they could still gather all kinds of food.

The Shinobi World's people truly had endurance worthy of admiration.

For other ninja villages, however, population might only be a burden.

After all, a ninja's management capacity extended to, at most, a single village. Any more than that exceeded their limits.

And most of them could not even manage one village properly. (Konoha F4: Are you taking shots at us too?)

The nations of the Shinobi World were the same!

The domestic governing ability of nobles and bureaucrats could always be described in the worst possible terms.

They only looked remotely acceptable because there was a ninja village with absolutely no administrative ability whatsoever propping them up. Otherwise, they would be unbearable to watch.

The Tenshukaku was different.

Tang Ping had been utterly disappointed in the Shinobi World's systems and bureaucrats from the very beginning. That was why he had built a new management model and cultivated the priestesses as an administrative class.

That was what