Small Fishing Village and Good Harbor

Since a carrier fleet was the most suitable means for this surprise attack, Nawaki naturally would not use the Divine Tree Grotto-Heaven to transport the Shinobi Army. He intended to keep that move as a trump card and give the enemy a surprise someday.

A total of 350,000 Konoha shinobi had been concentrated along the northeastern border. Of them, 100,000 had been dispatched by Nawaki to the Land of Frost, leaving 250,000 troops in the Land of Hot Water. To ensure the success of this surprise attack, Nawaki decided to transport all the remaining troops into the Land of Lightning!

If he took away all 250,000 Konoha shinobi, wasn't Nawaki afraid that the newly surrendered Land of Hot Water would rebel due to the lack of troops? He truly was not worried in the slightest! Only a month had passed since the occupation of the Land of Hot Water. Although Konoha had used various methods to establish preliminary control, there were still plenty of people in the Land of Hot Water who cherished their former country and resented Konoha. The reason Nawaki was unafraid of them rising up was that he had transferred a large number of academic shinobi from the Office of the Grand General during this period!

After more than a decade of educational reform, the number of academic shinobi in the Land of Fire had already reached several million. Having received higher education in both ninjutsu and science, these academic shinobi were elites in their respective fields. With the convenience of chakra, they held an incomparable absolute advantage over ordinary people in the same professions. Even as basic laborers, they could accomplish several to more than ten times as much work.

Thus, after academic shinobi entered every line of work, they gained widespread recognition from society. The