However, after an unfavorable start came an unfavorable early phase, because Nara Izumi was not in the camp either. She was nowhere to be seen in the tents or at the assembly point, leaving Xing Ran's squad with only him as a lone extra.
By the time he reached the assembly point, a group of advance troops had already set off.
At this moment, the jōnin in charge of the camp was explaining the situation to the second and final support squad.
It turned out that the Cloud Ninja on the other side had suddenly launched an attack involving over a thousand men that night. Do not think that number was small. At the end of the Third Shinobi World War, the various nations had yet to recover from the conflict. This was not like the era at the beginning of the story, when the entire shinobi world had spent more than a decade recuperating. A war involving over a thousand people was already a medium-to-large campaign.
This force of a thousand Cloud Ninja had surrounded three important camps along the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Hot Water: Camp A7 in the north, Camp C4 in the northeast, and Camp E3 to the east, near the Land of Hot Water's remaining territory.
Although these three camps had different designations, they shared something every Konoha Ninja knew: they were vital frontline resource-transfer camps in their respective directions. In other words, if anything happened here, Konoha's losses would be enormous.
The frontline jōnin commander had immediately issued an order for reinforcements, so this small sentry camp near Camp E3 had to send people to support it as well.
The reinforcements themselves meant little to Xing Ran, but one thing caught his attention. The leading jōnin had split