The Third Hokage was troubled, and the Third Kazekage was equally troubled, though for different reasons.
As the situation stabilized, news gradually spread. The outcome of this defeat shocked countless people across the Shinobi World.
Hadn't the battlefield situation in the Land of Rivers been fairly stable?
Why had Sunagakure suffered such a crushing defeat in such a muddled fashion, driven back into the Land of Wind and forced to turn a full-scale war into a localized one?
No matter how poor the Land of Wind was, having war break out on its own soil was never a good thing.
Recently, the daimyo of the Land of Wind had been in a terrible mood. Ever since receiving news that Sunagakure had suffered a defeat and been chased back into the Land of Wind, the hot-tempered daimyo had cursed someone out every single day.
He had insulted every one of Sunagakure's higher-ups by name, with the Third Kazekage being one of his main targets.
Outsiders watched the insults, while insiders watched the spectacle and rationally analyzed the reasons behind the defeat.
In the end, all eyes turned to Jingyi.
Sunagakure's defeat had been caused by those several hundred puppets that attacked the camp.
Quite a few forces in the Shinobi World were wondering what kind of puppets could make Sunagakure, a village built on puppet mastery, suffer such a huge loss.
After learning some information about the puppets, Ōnoki felt that with Jingyi around, Konoha's threat level had risen by two whole tiers without limit.
Iwagakure had previously obtained some intelligence on the puppets, but it had not taken them seriously because those puppets had not been transported to the battlefield.
Now, the puppets had appeared. The moment they did, they gave Sunagakure quite the surprise and left countless people across