Assault on Ryūchi Cave!

The Allied Forces were defeated by the Tenshukaku!

This news swept across the entire Shinobi World like a storm.

No one could accept this outcome!

In the eyes of the major powers, with the Three Great Nations going all out, even if they could not crush the Tenshukaku like decayed wood, they should at least have been able to steamroll it within a few rounds.

To that end, major casinos had opened countless betting lines.

Some unknown fat sheep had even wagered ten million ryō that the Allied Forces would steamroll the Tenshukaku within a few months.

The result...

All one could say was that some things were simply governed by causality.

However, after the Allied Forces retreated in defeat, the Daimyos of the Three Great Nations and dozens of smaller nations—who had been scheming against one another through long-distance communications and messengers while dividing up the postwar spoils—were left dumbfounded.

Damn it!

They had already divided up the loot, and now they were being told they had lost?

In any case, these Daimyos and nobles remained silent for who knew how long before someone raised a fatal question.

What do we do next?

Yes, that was what mattered now.

They had completely fallen out with the Tenshukaku, and after losing the war, they would have to live by its mood.

Thus, all the nobles and Daimyos of the smaller nations pinned their hopes on the Daimyos of the Three Great Nations.

The Daimyos of those major nations cursed inwardly.

When they had been fighting over benefits before, those people had shown no intention of obeying their orders.

Now that trouble had come, they expected them to step forward and bear the burden? That was going too far.

So, the Daimyos of the Three Great Nations began passing the buck