At the critical moment when Aramaki and Moryo were locked in an all-out battle,
fierce fighting was also underway throughout the Shinobi World.
In Wind Province, Edward Newgate and Hashirama Senju; in Earth Province, Sakazuki and Madara Uchiha.
Although they had yet to eliminate the Demon Gods they faced, they had successfully suppressed them, preventing them from continuing to threaten other areas.
Outside the Gate of Hades on the Demon Country battlefield, no new demons emerged after the Fourth Main Battle Legion charged in.
However, there were no small number of demons that had already escaped.
Red Lotus, Tobirama Senju, and Kurama led a large group of shinobi, pursuing, intercepting, and slaughtering the tens of thousands of demons under the fire support of the Sixth Army's bombers and artillery from the Astral Legion.
Yet many demons still escaped, whether through luck or bizarre magic.
Tobirama Senju frowned deeply, concern rising in his heart.
If this continued, even if they defeated Hades, large numbers of demons would remain hidden throughout the Shinobi World.
It would not be easy to wipe them out then.
And that was not even the most troublesome part.
By searching the memories of the demons they had captured alive,
they had learned that demons could possess human bodies and become something similar to Tailed Beast jinchuriki.
In other words, demon hosts!
They could communicate with demons, obtain their magic power, wield that magic power, and eventually become true demons.
In other words, later... no, perhaps even now, there were already people possessed by demons within their own ranks.
And for all sorts of reasons, these people had chosen to keep it secret.
So Tobirama Senju had already begun considering how to flush these people out.
In his view, these demon hosts were even more evil than Uchiha