If They Withdraw, Konoha Withdraws Too

Bringing Shion with him, he arrived at Minato Namikaze's place. The moment he entered, he saw the exhausted Fourth Hokage.

"Ensei?!"

"You're finally here..."

The moment Minato Namikaze saw Uchiha Ensei, delight immediately burst into his eyes.

Seeing this, Uchiha Ensei could more or less guess what had happened.

Although he had left Flying Thunder God Kunai with certain important people, allowing him to sense them as long as they activated the Flying Thunder God Mark,

Uchiha Ensei had also said that they were not to use the Flying Thunder God Mark to contact him unless it was an extremely urgent matter.

Therefore, when faced with matters that were not especially important, Minato Namikaze simply had no way of contacting Uchiha Ensei.

"Madara Uchiha?"

Uchiha Ensei spoke, uttering a very familiar name.

At the mention of that name, a complicated emotion flashed through Minato Namikaze's eyes.

"Not just him. There's also Chimei from the Land of Demons. The battlefield has now fallen into a standoff."

"And that's with Madara Uchiha not taking the initiative to expand the conflict."

"If they launch an attack, it will be difficult to predict who wins the war."

Minato Namikaze used the most concise words he could to describe the difficulties Konoha was currently facing.

Fun fact: the Third Shinobi World War had only ended a few years ago. Every ninja village had suffered enormous losses during the war and had not had time to recover.

Under such circumstances, the five ninja villages gathering more than eighty thousand ninja was already the utmost limit of what they could manage.

Yet even so, not a single Kage dared to take the lead in launching even one battle.

Yes, that's right. The Five Great Ninja Villages were still maintaining their encirclement of the Land of Dawn, with