Source of All Evil!

The Five Great Shinobi Villages' Allied Forces were hurting badly enough already!!!

Such expenditure was fatal to other shinobi villages. They simply could not spend most of a village's funds on countless Explosive Tags just to ambush people, but Amegakure could.

Akatsuki did not need to slowly train shinobi with vast amounts of money like the other villages did. As long as they had money, they could squander it without restraint.

Spending most of their money on countless Explosive Tags was nothing to Akatsuki.

"Damn it!!! Where did Akatsuki get so many Explosive Tags?!"

Among shinobi tools, Explosive Tags had always remained expensive. Aside from the neutral Land of Artisans, other countries could only produce a limited quantity themselves—not even enough for self-sufficiency—and had to purchase them.

One could imagine how much wealth the Land of Artisans had accumulated over the years. If their country had not remained neutral, the Five Great Shinobi Villages would have destroyed it immediately. No one wanted their lifeline to be in someone else's hands.

Shinobi battles could not be separated from the consumption of shinobi tools. If the Land of Artisans were not a neutral country, with the wealth they accumulated every year, who knew how powerful the shinobi village they established would be!!!

While money was not everything, one could do nothing without it. That principle had never changed since ancient times. If one wanted to establish a village and cultivate forces belonging to that village, fine!! But aside from people, the most important thing was resources, and when it came to resources, money was indispensable!

Without money, one could do nothing. There were many Small Countries and small villages in the Hokage World, but many small shinobi villages had a hard time getting by. They could not obtain the abundant mission rewards