The Continent Trembles, the Land of Light is Established!

April 20th was destined to be a date etched into history. On this day, the old order was thoroughly dismantled, and a brand-new nation was born upon this continent.

On this day, five shinobi villages, including Konoha, announced their merger, uniting under the leadership of Konoha's Kizaru.

On this day, the name of the Land of Light appeared on this continent for the very first time.

The Land of Light—a massive nation occupying nearly the entire continent and its surrounding islands, a grand unified state the likes of which history had never seen, and the first nation to exist without the rule of a Feudal Lord or nobility.

Even though the people of the continent, especially the intellectuals, had long guessed at the ambitions of the Shinobi Village Alliance led by Konoha, they were still plunged into shock when the day truly arrived.

Could a nation without nobles or Feudal Lords, a nation managed by shinobi, truly be governed well?

Countless people who had just become citizens of the Land of Light were mired in confusion and unease.

Everyone had been accustomed to the evils of the nobility for a thousand years; to put it bluntly, they had adapted to it.

Now that shinobi were replacing the nobles to rule over them, people were uncertain: would shinobi be even more wicked than the nobles?

Although the declaration led by Konoha emphasized that the new Land of Light had no privileged classes and that all were equal before the law, the commoners, long accustomed to noble rule, found it truly difficult to believe such a proclamation.

Who wouldn't want to be above others? Who wouldn't want to pass on wealth and power to their descendants for eternity?

In this day and age, it was common practice for noble lords and officials