Allied Forces: Our Blockade Is Impenetrable!

Izumo City.

It lay several hundred kilometers north of the Tenshukaku.

This was the core of the Allied Forces' blockade around the Tenshukaku.

Outposts and fortresses spread outward from here along both flanks, forming a semicircular encirclement that firmly locked the Tenshukaku within.

More than ten thousand shinobi troops were stationed here alone.

Together with several Sky Towers that had been continuously reinforced, evolving from temporary structures into permanent fortifications, as well as ever-thickening city walls, the city had been transformed into a war fortress.

A few kilometers to the south lay the barbed wire, sentry towers, outposts, and more erected by the Tenshukaku.

Construction over there was still in full swing.

That was exactly what the Allied Forces wanted to see.

Because it meant that the Blazing Sun Country had no intention of launching a counteroffensive.

A Cold War!

It meant that, aside from directly fighting, both sides would employ every possible means against one another.

The entire Tenshukaku region was now surrounded so tightly that not even water could pass through. No supplies or people could move in or out.

At least, that was what the intelligence reports said.

But in reality... given the nobles' nature, those in the know knew.

All the Ninja Villages' personnel had withdrawn.

They had suffered terrible losses in this attack, so naturally, they could not continue staying behind.

Thus, the shinobi stationed with the Allied Forces were either Guardian Ninja, shinobi from Ninja Villages, or monks and the like. There were no personnel from the major Ninja Villages.

As a result, the blockade was completely controlled by the nobles.

They were also worried that they would be in danger if the Ninja Villages made contact with the Blazing Sun Country. So even if the Ninja Villages' people had not withdrawn, they would