Wood Release Chakra Mode

The Shinobi World Axis Alliance, led by Iwagakure, was officially established.

Its war aim was clear: attack Konoha, seize its land, plunder Konoha's wealth and Kekkei Genkai, and completely overturn the Shinobi World order established during Hashirama Senju's era.

As for Hidden Mist, which had been excluded from the alliance, its situation was different.

Hidden Mist stood isolated overseas, cut off from the Shinobi World mainland. What it most wanted to see was the ninja villages of the mainland fighting one another while it reaped the benefits.

This tendency to watch the fire from across the river made the three major ninja villages tacitly agree not to trust Hidden Mist. After all, no one could guarantee that, if they proposed an alliance to Hidden Mist, it would not sell the alliance's intelligence to Konoha in order to maintain the balance between both sides of the war.

Besides, every party in the alliance had long regarded Konoha as something already in their grasp, like a slab of fat meat on a chopping board. Naturally, they did not want another person joining in to share it.

The more people there were eating the meat, the less profit each person would get.

The three sides hit it off during their secret talks.

At that moment, A proposed, "Kumogakure has three unused Gospel Treatment Cards. If necessary, the day before the war begins, we can send weaker death-row operatives to infiltrate Konoha and attempt to assassinate Toji Zenin."

"Success would be ideal. Even if they failed, we would not need to worry about alerting the enemy. To treat the heavily poisoned ninja at the front, Toji would still have to leave Konoha and head to the battlefield. It would not affect our decapitation plan at all."

This was an open scheme.

Ōnoki politely declined.