Naraku's Expectation

In the Shinobi World, jonin already counted as fairly powerful experts, while Kage-level powerhouses could become the leaders of an entire village.

But above the Kage level stood the super-Kage level. Senju Hashirama, who had once swept across the Shinobi World, founded Konoha, and established the one-country-one-village system, was known as the God of Shinobi and possessed super-Kage-level strength.

As his lifelong rival and closest friend, Madara Uchiha, known as the Ninja Asura, likewise possessed super-Kage-level combat power.

The combat power a super-Kage-level powerhouse could unleash far surpassed that of an ordinary Kage-level expert.

Take the Nine-Tails, the strongest among the Tailed Beasts. Ordinary Kage-level experts might not even be able to defeat it. Just like the Third Hokage in the original story, his strength had been utterly insufficient to suppress the Nine-Tails' rampage.

Yet before the First Hokage, who possessed super-Kage-level strength, the Nine-Tails could be suppressed with one hand.

That was the gap between super-Kage and Kage.

And after the First Hokage and Madara, several shinobi with super-Kage-level combat power had now appeared in the Shinobi World once more.

Naraku, Kakashi, and Obito—their combat power had clearly surpassed the Kage level, reaching the super-Kage level.

Besides those three, Orochimaru, who possessed both the Byakugan and Shikotsumyaku bloodlines, could also be said to have barely reached the super-Kage level.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary Kage-level experts, super-Kage-level combat power was already invincible.

But Naraku knew that super-Kage was not the end. Beyond it lay the Six Paths level, and in the future, the Otsutsuki Clan would even appear with combat power surpassing the Six Paths level.

The power they possessed was beyond the imagination of ordinary shinobi.

Thus, even though Naraku now possessed super-Kage-level combat power, he still did not dare slacken in the slightest. If he truly