The Great Ninja War Begins

Kisame Hoshigaki's shattered head lolled weakly to one side as he finally breathed his last.

The bloody stench at the bottom of Thunder-Thunder Canyon was firmly pressed into the mud by the damp vapor.

The Raikage did not spare the corpse on the ground a single glance. He spread his thick legs and rushed anxiously toward the dead end of the canyon.

He seized the remnants of the tentacles trapping Killer B with both hands and tore them apart through sheer brute strength.

"B! Hang in there!"

An undisguised tremor ran through the Raikage's rough voice.

Killer B coughed weakly twice, spitting out a mouthful of black blood mixed with sand.

His signature sunglasses had been completely shattered, but fortunately, he had survived.

Yamashiro Aoba knelt in the muck some distance away. The pallor on his face had yet to fully fade, while the horrifying intelligence about one hundred thousand White Zetsu weighed so heavily on his mind that he could barely breathe.

Soon, several days had passed.

Intelligence that an army of one hundred thousand White Zetsu was about to launch a full-scale invasion instantly swept through the entire Five Great Nations via the Intelligence Division's special channels.

That absurdly massive troop count left the higher-ups of every major ninja village unable to sit still.

All their intrigue and deception were forcibly brought to a halt before this world-ending threat.

The war machines of the Five Great Nations began operating frantically with unprecedented, terrifying efficiency.

The Land of Lightning, Land of Water, Land of Wind, Land of Earth, and the Hidden Leaf Village of the Land of Fire set aside their differences and formed an unprecedented Allied Shinobi Forces.

The different village forehead protectors they had once worn were replaced with metal ones engraved with the character for