Along the straight earthen trench Naruto had blasted out with a single palm strike, over a thousand Konoha ninja were rushing toward Amegakure.
Konoha now had fewer than four thousand registered ninja. Tsunade's ninja registration number alone showed that she had been the 2,302nd person to register as a Genin. Yet two years later, by the time Kushina Uzumaki graduated, that number had risen to 7,310.
Those two numbers were enough to show how brutal that two-year war had been. Members of every ninja clan had been forced into battle, precisely the outcome Hiruzen Sarutobi had been most pleased to see.
By the later stages of the war, most people on the battlefield had been Genin, with Chunin leading squads and Jonin pitifully scarce. Otherwise, Konoha's White Fang would not have earned such a massive reputation throughout the Ninja World merely by killing Sasori's parents.
Of course, the war had only just begun. The scale of battle in this era was nothing like the Fourth Shinobi World War, where tens of thousands fought at a time. Sending over a thousand ninja without affecting Konoha's normal operations was already the village's limit. The other major ninja villages were more or less the same.
At that moment, Naruto was lying on Katsuyu's back with Tsunade, staring blankly into space.
He simply could not muster the slightest enthusiasm for a chaotic battle involving over a thousand people. Only now did he understand why Madara Uchiha had been so arrogant back then. With so few people, if the enemy had not been spread out so widely, Naruto felt he could slap them all flat with one hand.
He had originally been full of enthusiasm, planning to use this as a rehearsal for the upcoming Fourth Shinobi World War in the Main World. After all,