Five Kage Summit (Happy National Day)

Hidden Stone Village was already in such a state; the other villages could not possibly be doing much better.

So overall, the successive loss of Tailed Beasts by the Five Great Nations was shocking, but not that hard to understand.

After all, each village now had its own problems, and their overall strength was in a weakened state.

In fact, the Akatsuki Organization of the original timeline had only taken a single year to attack all nine Tailed Beasts and Seal every one except the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.

But why did it feel as though they had planned for so long, unlike the current Akatsuki Organization, which moved so quickly?

Because from the time Obito became Madara's successor and plotted the Nine-Tails' Attack until Naruto grew up... fourteen whole years passed. During that time, he and the Akatsuki Organization did not carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan. Instead, they were everywhere... working odd jobs.

Although the Akatsuki Organization was a terrorist organization, it still had a minimum program and a maximum program, as well as operational guidelines and guiding principles.

In Nagato's words: establish a mercenary organization that belonged to no country, provoke several small wars, and first monopolize war commissions from small countries and small ninja villages at low prices.

Then release the Tailed Beasts to expand the scale of war, break the system of the great shinobi nations—destroy their economic systems—and monopolize all wars.

The final goal was to gather and Seal all nine Tailed Beasts, summon the Ten-Tails, and use terrifying deterrence and suffocating pain to restrain everyone into achieving so-called "permanent peace."

And the path toward realizing this grand plan was to follow their leader Nagato and steadfastly walk the path of collecting Tailed Beasts to bring peace to the Shinobi World.

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