Seventeen Kage-Level Fighters-Were They About to Flatten Amegakure?

As the words fell, several Sunagakure scouts fell silent at once.

Uchiha Ren alone had already been enough to leave the Five Great Shinobi Villages struggling to breathe.

Now, the entire Uchiha Shrine had silently grown into a colossal force.

What truly terrified them was not the seventeen Kage-level fighters themselves.

It was the time these people had taken to increase their strength!

One year!

It had taken only one year to go from Jonin to Kage Level!

Throughout the history of the Shinobi World, which Kage-level powerhouse had not possessed extraordinary talent and endured countless battles between life and death before finally reaching that stage?

Many Jonin cultivated bitterly for decades, yet remained unable to break through even in their old age.

But the Uchiha Shrine seemed to completely disregard this insurmountable gulf.

Batch after batch of Kage-level powerhouses emerged directly from the Shrine!

A Konoha ANBU lowered his voice.

"The Uchiha must possess some method of rapidly increasing strength."

"It might be the Great River Qi Refinement Method, or perhaps the resources of the Alchemy Workshop."

"And there is Tiger Leopard Thunderclap as well."

"But news of those things had not been completely absent over the past year."

Another ANBU shook his head.

"Techniques and medicinal ingredients alone could never mass-produce Kage-level fighters."

"The Uchiha must be hiding an even more important secret."

Their gazes simultaneously fell upon the Shrine members.

Alongside their apprehension was an undisguisable longing.

The power to let Jonin break through to Kage Level in merely a year was enough to drive any shinobi village mad!

In the middle of the long street, Uchiha Bori stood at the very front of the Tenth Squad.

He paid no attention to the hushed discussions around him.

Those spies had begun watching the moment the Shrine left