After a night of celebration, everyone woke early the next morning without needing anyone to remind them.
Because next...
It was time to launch the counteroffensive!
Three armies set sail from the borders of the Land of Water, heading for the three nations of Fire, Earth, and Lightning.
When the Extermination Army bound for the Lands of Fire and Lightning reached the shore and disembarked, they found Konoha and Kumogakure ninja who had been waiting for them for quite some time.
The two sides looked at each other. After a brief silence, they both smiled, extended their hands, and clasped them firmly together.
Konoha and Kumogakure had publicly claimed they would not take part in the war, but everyone knew that they had secretly provided tremendous help in yesterday's battle.
Many of the masked ninja fighting the Allied Forces on the front lines had come from those two ninja villages.
After joining forces, they marched straight toward the capitals of the Lands of Fire and Lightning. A Sky Battleship hovered above each army, providing overwhelming fire support.
They crushed everything in their path, advancing with unstoppable momentum—so smoothly that it was almost boring.
The bureaucrats in every city raised white flags and surrendered long before the armies even arrived.
Even when the occasional city stubbornly resisted, a single blast from a Sky Battleship would shatter its walls, and the war would be over.
If not for Oda Ieyasu's request, they could have simply boarded the Sky Battleships and flown directly to the royal capitals of the Lands of Fire and Lightning, ending the battle that very afternoon.
Oda Ieyasu's exact words were:
"We must give the people time, and give history time, to remember this moment."
"Only by crushing forward from the national borders with an iron-fisted stance can we