Everyone in the office held their breath.
Over a thousand Kage-level shinobi.
In the past, they would never even have dared imagine such a number.
Despite decades of development, the Five Great Shinobi Villages still had only a handful of Kage-level fighters.
A single Kage-level shinobi was enough to make a shinobi village a pillar of a great nation.
But if the Uchiha could train Kage-level shinobi in large numbers, and those numbers kept growing over time, it meant their power would not decline just because one powerful individual grew old.
Ōnoki looked at everyone and said slowly:
"Ren will grow old. Shisui will grow old. Itachi will grow old too."
"But as long as the Uchiha training system remains, new powerhouses will keep emerging."
"That is the true source of the Uchiha's confidence."
"Not their three top fighters today, but their ability to produce powerful fighters without end."
No one argued.
The pro-war faction had still been plotting in secret, imagining the villages joining forces and reclaiming the initiative once Uchiha Ren grew old.
But after hearing Ōnoki's analysis, they fell utterly silent.
Even if Ren passed away a century later, the Uchiha would have new powerhouses to take his place.
Even when Shisui and Itachi were no longer young, the talented Uchiha of the next generation, and the generation after that, would continue to grow.
As long as this system was not destroyed, the Uchiha had a limitless future.
Ōnoki said gravely, "Every village must reform."
"Reform how shinobi are trained, how resources are distributed, and how industries and armies operate."
"If we keep developing the way we have in the past, within a few decades at most, every village will be left far behind by the Uchiha."
"When that happens, the question won't be whether we want