Chapter 27

The Land of Lightning, whose reputation across the seas still ranked below that of the Lands of Water and Fire, had a naval structure identical to that of the southern Land of Fire, with local noble armies serving as its foundation.

This time, in the campaign to sweep away the sea folk, it naturally did not stand by as one of the Eastern Ocean's three great powers. It mobilized its fleet at once and joined the operation.

Honestly, the Land of Lightning's military system, built around Lightning Release, was probably even less useful at sea than the Land of Fire's Fire Style. If the Land of Fire still possessed some waters in the Eastern Ocean, then the Land of Lightning's navy was, in every respect, only on the level of a large-scale maritime Police Force. Its operational range was limited to its lengthy coastal regions.

But that did not mean it was weak.

Unlike the scattered tactics employed by the Lands of Fire and Water in this operation, the Land of Lightning had concentrated its forces in one place. More than a dozen first-rate warships had departed from its ports and advanced southeast along long-charted sea routes. Cloud Ninja numbering nearly as many as the noble soldiers served as the perfect supplement to their lack of naval combat expertise. Even the Land of Water fleets they encountered along the way had no choice but to retreat.

Without Mist Ninja to hold the line, even the Land of Water navy—the only navy composed of Prefecture Guards—had no desire to provoke such a lavishly equipped force as the Land of Lightning.

For example, just moments ago, a Land of Water search party made up of one large and two small warships had veered away from the Land of Lightning fleet from far