Therefore, what we needed to do now was push Kirigakure further down the path of war!!"
The place she had regarded as home had been destroyed, and Konan was furious. Yet she could only endure it and continue following the plan. However, because of Ronglin's series of retaliations, Akatsuki had gone into hiding and could no longer flaunt itself openly—at least not for the time being. They would push Kirigakure onto the road to war again, and as Kirigakure was steadily drained, it would be the time for Akatsuki to further expand its control over the village.
"Are those same old stubborn fools still holding out?"
It would not be easy to push Kirigakure into joining the war.
"There are still quite a few."
Konan's delicate brows were tightly furrowed. Thinking of all these troublesome matters gave her a headache. She raised a hand and waved it dismissively.
"Inform Uchiha Madara and have him speed things up. Urge Kirigakure to enter the war, or the people from the Small Nations Alliance will be no match for them. Those useless fools are completely vulnerable.
"Also, intelligence gathered from various places shows that the Four Great Ninja Villages have begun sending reinforcements. The current number is two thousand from each village—eight thousand in total."
Two thousand additional men from each village did not seem like much, but together, that was eight thousand people. With that, the number of ninjas in the Four Great Ninja Villages' alliance on the battlefield had exceeded twenty thousand!!!
That was a terrifying figure. Not long after the war began, several thousand ninjas from the Small Nations Alliance had already been killed or wounded. Even if they intended to fight a war of attrition, it would not take long before the Small Nations Alliance was crushed.
Just think