The Raikage gave a dissatisfied snort and sneered, "Well said. Konoha has gone too far. If they still had no use to us, how could we have tolerated them until now?"
"But we can't fall out with Konoha yet. We still need them to hold back some of the Empire's elites for us."
"Besides, there's definitely something strange about Konoha defecting as a whole. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that Konoha staged the entire thing."
The Mizukage, Mei Terumi, propped up her chin, the eyeshadow on her brows already damp with sweat.
For Mei Terumi to take the position of Mizukage, she truly had to thank the appearance of the Immortal Empire.
Otherwise, Uchiha Daiki would never have been forced to flee everywhere, unable to continue controlling the Fourth Mizukage. In the end, Mei Terumi and Ao discovered him and successfully seized power.
Seeing that the three had fallen silent, the Kazekage pushed forward an intelligence report and told them, "I've received some important information."
"What information?" The three immediately turned toward the Kazekage.
"The enemy doesn't seem eager to attack us. On the contrary, they're actually building factories over in Grass Country."
"They seem to be planning to fight us in a war of attrition here."
"I even suspect that their ultimate goal isn't to destroy us, but to seize this world's resources and use them to support their entire Empire."
The three fell silent the moment they heard this.
If the Empire hadn't been serious, did that mean they wouldn't even have the power to resist once the Empire became serious?
Moreover, the truly powerful ruler of the Empire had never appeared from beginning to end.
An Empire capable of making so many experts serve it had a ruler whose strength required no speculation. Just