Sunagakure could not even capture an Elite Jonin who had stolen its puppet secret techniques and had to ask Konoha for help.
That in itself showed just how weak Sunagakure had become.
But there was no helping it. Sunagakure truly had no way to capture Mukade.
Mukade was an Elite Jonin of Sunagakure, an exceptional puppet master.
Chiba was also a puppet master of Sunagakure, but in puppetry, she was slightly inferior to Mukade.
Mukade could control ten puppets.
Chiba could only control eight.
The more puppets a puppet master could control, the stronger that puppet master's abilities were considered to be.
That was precisely why Sasori of the Red Sands had been so powerful. He could control over a hundred puppets at once, a technique known as the Performance of a Hundred Puppets.
Sasori of the Red Sands, who could control over a hundred puppets, was already capable of slaughtering an entire nation.
He earned the name Sasori of the Red Sands by massacring a country, turning its rivers red with blood and staining every inch of its land crimson.
Mukade clearly had not reached Sasori of the Red Sands's level.
However, this mission involved the Ancient Kingdom of Roran, a vanished nation within the Land of Wind, which was why Sunagakure had requested reinforcements from Konoha.
Because the Ancient City of Roran still sealed something away.
It was called the Dragon Vein, and it could provide limitless chakra.
Back then, the Dragon Vein had been sealed by Konoha's Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.
Mukade was now hiding among the ruins of the Ancient City of Roran. No one knew what he intended to do to the Dragon Vein.
If he opened the Dragon Vein and used it to create puppets, he truly could destroy the world.
Of course, that