Angry waves surged and fell with the tides.
Warships lined up row upon row like floating giant beasts, silently breaking through the waves and moving forward toward their predetermined destination.
This was a maritime combat force temporarily assembled by Enkō, setting out all the way from the Land of Iron and coordinating with the Funato Clan to form a tightening encirclement around the Whirlpool Country.
Although Enkō outwardly projected absolute confidence in this operation, he did not underestimate the Uzumaki Clan because of it.
Also as a clan with a millennium-long heritage, the foundations of the Uzumaki Clan could not compare to the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, but they still stood above other clans. They were feared even more by other powers due to their terrifying and unfathomable mastery of sealing jutsu.
The reason was quite simple: the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan were strong indeed, but as long as you did not provoke them, they would not deign to quibble with you. The Uzumaki Clan, however, was different. Although they would not come to attack you, portions of their sealing jutsu were sold externally; as long as the price was right, anyone could purchase their sealing ninjutsu.
Thus, almost every clan had been disgusted by their sealing jutsu. If you did not buy while your enemy did, you could not defeat the other side, leaving you with no choice but to buy. Yet after everyone bought them, people would find that the end result was still a tie just like before, but because of sealing jutsu, casualties were much higher than in the past, completely plunging them into a terrifying vortex of internal attrition. The only ones who profited were the Uzumaki Clan alone.
Had the Uzumaki Clan not shared a close relationship with the Senju