A Rehearsal for Unity

As the five Kage declared the highest level of military readiness, the Shinobi World began to be shrouded in a strange atmosphere.

Generally speaking, before a large-scale war capable of affecting the entire Shinobi World broke out, there would be extremely obvious signs. At the very least, the situations in every nation would have long since become tense.

Yet this time, it had come so suddenly that everyone was left somewhat stunned.

Of course, although they were caught off guard, the battle-hardened shinobi had experienced a four-year war only a few years ago, and quickly adjusted themselves.

The new generation of shinobi who had never been on the battlefield were even more enthusiastic, filled with anticipation.

In this atmosphere, the morale of the Konoha Ninja was unexpectedly high.

The reason was simple. "War" and "a war they could win" were completely different concepts. The former meant the unknown and death, while the latter meant glory—glory powerful enough to overshadow death.

At this moment, all shinobi were full of confidence in the war. They even believed victory was certain, because... there simply seemed to be no possibility of defeat.

This was the Five Great Nations joining forces to declare war on the Land of Rain. It would already be impressive if such a small nation could deal with one great nation, much less five great nations working together now.

So what if the other side had already collected seven Tailed Beasts?

Since the Third Great Ninja War, Konoha had fought one against four, endured the attack during the Chunin Exams, and attacked Hidden Cloud Village... Through Konoha's propaganda, Chen had already been shaped into the new God of Shinobi.

With a Hokage like him, wouldn't victory come in minutes?

Although they were forming the Allied Shinobi Forces, the major