The Credit for Capturing Enemy Leader Darui Belongs to Me, Darui!

After the Salvation Society won the Battle of Konoha, they successively liberated the ruined Land of Fire, the half-desertified Forest Country, and the Land of Earth, which had attempted to close itself off from the world.

The smaller nations—the Land of Grass, Land of Hot Water, Land of Moon, Land of Demons, and others—collapsed at the mere rumor of their advance. The task of liberating the continent had only one final target left: the Land of Lightning.

Even including the Land of Water, isolated overseas, this war had reached its final cleanup phase.

In the end, the tide of history could not be resisted.

In human society, honest people always suffered losses because they followed the rules, while clever people always profited by exploiting loopholes. Whether in war or peace, it seemed to be the same.

But human society depended on cooperation. Clever people were like hedgehogs: they could work together briefly, but never collaborate for long.

Everyone was an old fox who had gotten rich by plundering others. Occasional cooperation to improve the efficiency of plunder was no problem, but in a long-term partnership, who exactly would be plundering whom?

Thus, clever people could only work alone, parasitize other organizations, or at most use every conceivable method to form a tiny organization of their own.

In fact, when an organization accumulated too many clever people, it became loose and scattered, lost its competitiveness, and suffered crushing defeat in competition.

Only honest people who did not obsess over profit, only honest people willing to yield part of their rights, could organize themselves into a tightly coordinated and powerful force.

Whenever such a powerful organization emerged, as long as it could preserve its internal purity, it could crush every demon and monster in its path.

In the Shinobi World, the nations