Deterrence Plan

Konoha.

Minato came out of the meeting room.

He had just held a meeting with the village elders.

They had reached much the same conclusion as Stone Village. In terms of angle and range—

Konoha was now completely within Cloud Village's firing range.

Cloud Village could blast Konoha at any time with a single shot.

Natsuki had to maintain his shadow clone and could not casually use the Flying Thunder God Technique.

So Natsuki had not left Konoha.

He was in Orochimaru's underground laboratory, so he naturally knew what was happening.

When Minato went down, he saw Natsuki's Shadow Clone pinching the center of his forehead and furiously cursing Cloud Village:

"Is something wrong with Cloud Village? Can't they live without stirring up trouble?"

"They actually developed the Space-Time Chakra Cannon four years ahead of schedule."

Standing before Natsuki were Tsunade and Danzo.

Seeing Minato arrive, Natsuki wore a frustrated expression.

He had calculated every possibility, yet never expected Cloud Village to pull something like this.

With this weapon, Cloud Village could be said to have completely leapt ahead by an entire era.

Its power might not match the world-destroying Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Bombs of the future.

But it was still stronger than an ordinary Tailed Beast Bomb.

The key was that Natsuki remembered this Chakra Cannon only required several hundred people pooling their Chakra.

The interval between attacks was no more than an hour.

Konoha was big enough, right? If Cloud Village bombarded it nonstop, Konoha would become a pile of ruins in less than a day.

Even if overheating and wear forced them to extend the intervals, could Konoha last three days?

According to the intelligence Natsuki saw, Mist Village had had an island and a port bombarded.

That could only mean Cloud Village was likely still wary