The Fangs Beginning to Show

The pace quickened.

The Snow Ninja Village had finished its integration.

The next focus could now shift abroad.

It was not just Konoha at the center of the problem.

Since he had taken root in the Land of Snow, he had to consider the two other great powers that shared vast maritime borders with it—the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water. The recent internal strife in the Land of Snow had drawn the attention of these two great powers. Even if it was a small nation on the periphery, the Land of Snow was still a country that possessed a ninja village. As neighboring nations, it wasn't that the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water truly valued the Land of Snow, but they would certainly pay a certain degree of attention to it. This was especially true for the Land of Lightning, where everyone from the Daimyo to the violent Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure had a keen interest in territorial expansion. Of course, their primary target remained the prosperous and wealthy Land of Fire in the center of the continent, but if the Land of Snow were truly a soft persimmon that could be crushed with a light squeeze...

The Land of Lightning and Kumogakure would not mind sending troops to annex this territory!

It was, after all, the size of a country.

Through the development of several generations of Daimyo, and especially the large-scale geothermal generators created by Kazahana Sōsetsu using the entire wealth of the Kazahana Clan, the geographical environment of the Land of Snow had improved significantly compared to the past. In other words, the Land of Snow, which had previously been a mere chicken rib to the two great powers, now had a bit more "meat" on its bones!

Greedy eyes naturally