The Gate of Hades and demon army had appeared in the Shinobi World once again.
Naturally, this drew the World Government's attention, and reports were immediately sent up through every level.
Kong of the High Command promptly issued combat-readiness orders to Raymond at Army Headquarters and Tengen Uzui of Sea Ninja Village.
Raymond knew full well how formidable Hades was and did not dare slack off in the slightest.
On one hand, he shared detailed information regarding the demons with the six Army Generals. On the other, he notified Marshal Nikolai Zhukov of the Astral Legion Army to prepare for battle.
Yet Sea Ninja Village unexpectedly proposed that they and the Ninjutsu Sect deal with the demons first.
This actually went somewhat against protocol.
There was nothing to say about the Ninjutsu Sect. As a local force, it was only natural for them to be the first to resist an invasion.
But Sea Ninja Village was a special operations department within the World Government military.
In other words, the Sea Ninjas were only responsible for intelligence reconnaissance and special missions when necessary.
Such as infiltrating behind enemy lines for assassination or sabotage.
Frontal warfare was supposed to be handled by the Astral Legion and the Main Battle Legion.
So Kong had initially wanted to reject Sea Ninja Village's proposal, but Zephyr unexpectedly suggested that it could be considered.
His reason was that fighting demons was somewhat special.
Whether it was the Astral Legion or the Main Battle Legion, both needed more preparation time.
For example, they needed to equip large quantities of Seastone Bullets, Seastone fragmentation rockets, and Seastone shells.
They also had to specially assemble Devil Fruit Users into temporary units.
All in all, it was extremely troublesome, because most weapons were ineffective against demons.
Even these Seastone weapons