A few days later.
The Land of Wind.
The war between the Hidden Sand Village and Iwagakure had come to an abrupt end after Zhengye's overwhelming display of power.
Although both sides had lost quite a few people, neither had suffered crippling damage.
Iwagakure's Five-Tails Jinchuriki had been captured, but the Hidden Sand Village's Fourth Kazekage had also defected.
In a strange way, that balanced things out.
Rasa's defection sparked another wave of scorn and complaints in the village. It seemed no one in Sunagakure was surprised that he would abandon them.
After all, he had far too many black marks on his record.
His defection hardly seemed unexpected.
Although losing its fully automated mining machine put some financial pressure on the Hidden Sand Village.
The Daimyo of the Land of Wind was delighted with their victory in this war and immediately allocated a substantial sum of money to them.
This allowed the Hidden Sand Village to pay the outstanding compensation for its previous casualties.
Life would be a little harder from here on, but they would manage.
At that moment, the Fifth Kazekage, Pakura, was alone above the Kazekage Building, holding a fireball in each hand.
She was slowly drifting down from high in the air.
She swung her left hand, detonating the fireball in front of her and pushing herself back a little.
She threw the fireball in her right hand beneath her feet. Boom!
Her entire body shot upward a little.
As she formed hand seals, five more fireballs appeared behind her, rotating.
A current of hot air instantly caught her descending body, though she was moving much more slowly than before.
"I can still only glide, but it's progress."
Pakura frowned and muttered to herself.
She was working on a way to fly.
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