The Second Hokage's Decision! The Thousand-Year Fate of the Senju and Uchiha

A deathly silence shrouded the council hall.

The nobles, who had been ecstatic moments ago over the return of the God of Shinobi, were now all pale as ghosts.

Who was Hashirama?

He was the legend of the Shinobi World who had ended the Warring States Era by himself, subdued the nine Tailed Beasts, and made every shinobi clan afraid to raise their heads.

In the Land of Fire, commoners and nobles alike regarded him as the absolute strongest shinobi, someone no one could ever surpass.

But now, Hashirama had lost.

Even if he had possessed only seventy or eighty percent of his strength, this result was still enough to overturn everything they believed.

What terrified them even more was that the one who had defeated Hashirama was Uchiha Lumen, the very person they had just been plotting against!

"Kumogakure lost... not because the Fourth Raikage was incompetent."

A minister muttered to himself.

"The Eight-Tails and Two-Tails were suppressed, not because the Uchiha happened to hold the advantage."

"Lumen truly has the power to wipe out a major shinobi village..."

The nobles who had first proposed eliminating the Uchiha turned deathly pale, their hands trembling uncontrollably.

They had intended to use Konoha to destroy the Uchiha and seize hundreds of billions in compensation.

But if Konoha truly dared to make a move, Lumen would not even need to mobilize the Uchiha Shrine.

He alone would be enough to slaughter his way through all of Konoha, then hunt down every Daimyo and noble involved in the scheme!

The Land of Fire's Daimyo was frozen in his seat as well.

He had originally wanted to use Uchiha Lumen to undermine Hashirama's prestige, yet the answer he received was even more horrifying.

A powerful figure who could defeat the God of Shinobi and