The Operation

Seeing that everyone had tacitly agreed, Orochimaru put away the two coffins and stopped needling everyone's already-sensitive nerves.

Hiruzen Sarutobi said solemnly to the Four Kage, "It will take a little more time to fully assemble the allied forces. During this period, Konoha will construct defensive lines along the borders with Iwagakure and Sunagakure, buying time for the allied forces to assemble."

"Apart from our Five Great Villages and the small ninja villages in the surrounding areas, I also plan to contact Mifune of the Land of Iron."

"The Akatsuki seeks to dominate the world. Stopping them isn't merely the responsibility of us ninja. The samurai should also do their part!"

Ōnoki nodded and echoed him. "That's right. We can't rely solely on us ninja. Those samurai can't just sit around either!"

Before the ninja, the world's primary military power had consisted of samurai.

But later, ninja gradually rose to prominence and slowly replaced the samurai, causing the samurai to decline.

Nowadays, the main military forces of every country had been replaced by ninja, and samurai were nearly extinct.

However, raising ninja was difficult, and it also required a certain level of talent.

The threshold for becoming a samurai was relatively low. As a result, many people who couldn't become ninja chose to become samurai in pursuit of strength.

Thus, samurai could still often be seen among the common people.

Generally speaking, although the samurai's overall strength could no longer compare with that of the ninja, they still accounted for a considerable proportion of the military forces throughout society.

This was especially true of the Land of Iron, which was famous for its samurai.

It was the samurai's last Pure Land, the final country whose power was primarily based on samurai.

The leader of all samurai, Mifune, was there.

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