The Most Confounded Cloud Ninja

This all-out war between the Snow Ninja Village and Kirigakure.

Was undoubtedly another war in which a small ninja village challenged a great one, the first in nearly twenty years. Even though the development of the Land of Snow and the Snow Ninja Village over the past two or three years had been plain for all in the Shinobi World to see, and every nation had taken note of the Snow Ninja's active presence, in the general view, the Snow Ninja Village was still just a small ninja village. For such a village to dare challenge Kirigakure, one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, was almost unthinkable. The moment word of it spread, every nation was in an uproar. Aside from a few people, most thought the Snow Ninja Village was courting its own destruction. But when they later learned that the Snow Ninja Village could field more than three thousand troops in the border war, people across the Shinobi World were utterly shocked. They couldn't understand how a small ninja village established in a remote little country could mobilize so many Ninja!

Even if they were all Genin gathered just to make up the numbers.

That number was already frightening enough.

By comparison, the small countries' ninja villages in the heart of the continent—

At their peak, Amegakure, Waterfall Ninja, and Grass Ninja had each possessed only around three or four thousand Ninja. Those villages were widely recognized as the strongest beneath the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and their histories and foundations far exceeded those of other so-called small ninja villages. What's more, those figures referred to their peak. Asking them to mobilize a force of more than three thousand Ninja all at once now wasn't a matter of making things difficult for them. It was simply impossible.

And