Forty or Fifty Kage-Level Fighters-Who Could Afford to Take Them On?

Inside Amegakure's tower, a newly delivered intelligence report lay spread out before everyone.

After Konan finished reading it, her fingertip stopped over the words "Uchiha Shrine." She did not turn the page for a long while.

"Has Konoha confirmed it?" she asked.

"Confirmed."

White Zetsu replied,

"More than one ninja village has been investigating. When Uchiha set out, four Squads openly revealed seventeen Kage-Level fighters."

"The other Squads remained in the Inner Court and were not seen by outsiders, but counting everyone in the Shrine, there are at least thirty or forty Kage-Level experts."

Deidara snatched up the report.

"Wait, thirty or forty?"

He read it from beginning to end, then went over the roster of the four Squads again.

"Since when did Kage Level become something you could find everywhere? Could a single village really produce that many, hmm?"

"And that is not even counting everyone in the Shrine."

White Zetsu stretched out a hand and pointed to the next line.

"Add Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, and the other strong members of the clan, and Uchiha can probably mobilize forty or fifty Kage-Level fighters in total."

Kakuzu had been studying his own bounty notice. Upon hearing that number, he finally raised his head.

"Forty or fifty Kage-Level fighters."

He set down the bounty notice.

"Uchiha really did not mind spending 120 million on my bounty."

Sasori was concealed within Hiruko, and his tail stinger slowly came to a halt.

"Four Squads have already brought seventeen of them. The rest are staying behind to guard the clan. Even if we hold them off this time, they can reinforce their forces whenever they want."

Kisame's grin slowly faded.

He had fought Kage-Level ninja before. He knew exactly what that title meant.

A single Kage-Level expert was enough to alter the course of