Outside the Daimyo's Court, no one would care even if you idiots beat each other's brains out, but the war could not spread into the Daimyo's Court.
That was the bottom line of every nation's daimyo.
It was also a line every village obeyed.
Look at Sunagakure. They had practically looted the Land of Rain clean, yet they had deliberately spared the Daimyo's Court. Was it because they did not want to take it?
No, they did.
Because the Daimyo's Court was the richest place in the Land of Rain. But once they touched it, Sunagakure would become the public enemy of the entire Shinobi World.
Even the daimyo of the Land of Wind would not tolerate such behavior from them.
The Land of Rivers bore traces of war everywhere.
In some places, many bodies that had not been dealt with in time had simply been left in the wilderness.
Because of the war, large numbers of Land of Rivers civilians had fled toward the Daimyo's Court. Only there could they live safely.
The Land of Rivers was larger than the Land of Rain, and it had more places that could shelter civilians from the flames of war.
Even if the war continued for several years, the Land of Rivers would not end up in a worse state than the Land of Rain.
By comparison, the Land of Rain was the one truly suffering.
Its territory was not large to begin with, yet a chaotic free-for-all that had lasted over a year had broken out, battering the entire country into ruins.
During the war, vast numbers of civilians had fled into neighboring countries.
After the war subsided, the Land of Rain's population had plummeted to less than half its former number.
"Hmm."
Stop!
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