To be honest, Nara Shikaku's plan sounded somewhat like a risky move off the beaten path.
After all, if they deliberately let Moryo into the place where his body was sealed, then the slightest mishap would leave them facing a three-quarter complete Moryo whose soul and body had become one. Half of his soul was with the Shrine Maiden.
Just how terrifying a truly complete Moryo would be, Nara Shikaku did not know. Konoha did not know. Even the Shrine Maiden herself did not know.
Because none of them had ever seen one.
It was precisely because Nara Shikaku did not know how severe the consequences might be that, eager to investigate Moryo, he proposed such a dangerous plan.
Otherwise, if Moryo remained determined to hide, then just as he had over the past half year, the Shinobi World was so vast that they would have no way to begin searching for him.
Besides...
The Land of Swamps was closer to the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind. Even if something truly went wrong and the plan failed, those two would be the first to clean up the mess.
That might even ease some of the pressure Konoha was currently under.
As for some world-ending crisis...
To be fair, only Jiraiya fully believed the Great Toad Sage's supposed prophecy of the world's destruction.
The others did not think the world could be destroyed so easily.
After all, no one had broadened their horizons yet and let them know that ninjutsu might truly possess the power to create or destroy worlds.
Moreover, priorities mattered. What Konoha wanted most right now was some sudden incident that could interrupt the increasingly unfavorable course of the war.
After all, the Will of Fire personally affirmed by the First Hokage was to eliminate