Immortal Army

After a great battle, the first thing the victors had to do was, of course, clean up the battlefield.

Yet despite its imposing scale, there was not much to clean up. Thanks to proper command and Nawaki's own brave prowess in battle—mainly Yomi's cooperation—the combined forces of the two countries suffered fewer than a thousand casualties after the war. Most of them were injured; fewer than a hundred unfortunate souls had truly lost their lives. On the Immortal Army's side, not only had every high-ranking member been wiped out and all one hundred thousand troops completely immobilized, but Miroku alone had thoroughly destroyed several hundred immortal stone statues.

This casualty ratio was nothing to Nawaki, but to the ninjas of the war-ravaged Land of Demons and Land of Birds, it was an unprecedented miracle! That was why, after the victory, sixty thousand ninjas fervently shouted, "Long live Skywalker!" It represented their recognition of Nawaki. An invincible commander who could bring victory after victory was the figure most embraced by an army.

However, compared to the miraculous victory, the spoils of war seemed utterly insignificant. Other than a huge pile of stone statues and a hundred corpses, there was nothing on the entire battlefield. Compared to ordinary ninjas, the Immortal Army was dirt poor, yet extremely difficult to deal with, so the battlefield cleanup was quickly completed.

What troubled the Shinobi Army's higher-ups was how to deal with these stone statues! Some believed they were far too cumbersome, and transporting them back to the underground palace would be a wasteful, loss-making endeavor. Since Moryo had now been completely dealt with, it would be better to leave these dormant statues here. Not only could they commemorate this legendary war, but this grassland might one day become a landmark like the Valley of