Two days later.
The Land of Waves.
The docks.
A passenger ship slowly sailed in.
Once it docked, Leaf ninjas filed out one after another, and Qian was among them.
Their mission this time was to rotate in and take up garrison duty.
After setting foot on land again, Qian looked back at the passenger ship they had ridden and could not help shaking his head.
Compared with Kirigakure's warships, the passenger ship they had taken not only had poor defenses, but also moved slowly.
It was only because the Land of Waves was not far from the front-line Command Headquarters; otherwise, with a ship like this, if they ran into an attack from Kirigakure, there would be almost no chance of survival.
Still, there was nothing to be done about it. The environment determined the direction of development.
The Land of Fire had vast territory and abundant resources. Whether toward the sea itself or toward the various island nations in the ocean, it had little desire to take anything from them.
Naturally, it had never developed a powerful shipbuilding industry.
By comparison, the Land of Water was a barren country surrounded by sea on all sides. To survive, it could only devote itself heavily to developing its shipbuilding industry.
As a result, it naturally possessed powerful warships.
And it was precisely because they had these warships that Kirigakure could continuously invade the borders of the Land of Fire.
Otherwise, relying on walking on water alone, how could they cross hundreds or even thousands of kilometers of sea?
Setting aside the harsh conditions at sea, the lack of any place to rest, and the constant danger to their lives, the chakra consumption alone was not something an ordinary ninja could endure.
So one of the major tasks of their Forward