A Mere Raikage!

The central tower of the Land of Loulan had sixty floors and stood two hundred meters tall.

It had already reached the height of a skyscraper in the modern world. In the Shinobi World of this era, such a building could be called truly unique.

Back then, after Mukade, the rogue Sand ninja, had assumed the identity of Minister An Lushan, he had indeed enslaved the people of Loulan to manufacture puppets for him. Yet it had to be acknowledged that he had also brought many things to Loulan.

The people of Loulan could now enjoy heating, running water, electric lights, even elevators and apartments in the middle of this desert. They truly had to thank him for using the Dragon Vein and puppets to build all of it.

Of course.

An Lushan's methods had not been particularly clever. He could have made the people of Loulan willingly work for him, for Loulan, and for themselves, yet he had chosen the most foolish option: forced enslavement.

That was the limitation of his way of thinking.

At the very top of this central tower stood the grand hall where the queen received outsiders.

At this moment, Sara sat upright upon the throne, her expression calm as she watched four Cloud-Hidden ninjas suddenly appear in the hall like phantoms.

"I never expected the queen of Loulan to still be here."

One of the chunin, dressed in black with a white single-shouldered cloak, gripped a sharp black kunai and looked at Sara in surprise.

"As queen, I naturally stand with my country."

After saying that, a cold smile appeared on her face. "Besides, you are Cloud-Hidden ninjas, one of the Five Great Ninja Villages—not those savage, lowly, damned bandits. I have nothing to worry about, do I?"

"..."

The four Cloud-Hidden ninjas immediately