There were quite a few shinobi clans to visit, more than a dozen in all.
Every one of them had a population of over a hundred.
Back when Tenshukaku was what it used to be, they would not have spared it a second glance.
But the Blazing Sun Country, now at the height of its power, was different.
Especially after they witnessed Konoha's decay and the hypocrisy of the Hokage Faction.
In the past, for the protection provided by the Hokage Faction, they could endure even if they could not eat the meat and could only drink the scraps of soup left behind by the Hokage Faction.
But now, with Konoha suffering one defeat after another, even if not for themselves, they had to consider their clans.
The Will of Fire might still work on civilians, but not on shinobi clans. Their lives did not belong to them alone, which was why they wavered.
More importantly, the Blazing Sun Country had been founded by people from Konoha, so they had no psychological resistance to defecting to it.
Now, any sharp-eyed ninja could see that the Allied Forces had completely lost the momentum.
The currencies of the Allied Forces' nations were plummeting wildly, while vast numbers of refugees emerged.
The nobles only saw the wealth growing in the lands and warehouses under their names. They paid no attention to anything else.
But the shinobi could see it, and they had warned them. Not only had it done no good, they had even been branded as "troublemakers."
The reason was not hard to guess.
It was ordinary people who suffered. What did that have to do with nobles sitting high above them? By exposing that fact, the shinobi were cutting off their source of wealth.
Cutting off someone's source of wealth was