Fugaku said nothing more.
With the Land of Rain as powerful as it was now, Konoha would indeed do nothing. They no longer had the strength to confront the Hidden Rain Village head-on, either.
"Akatsuki will keep tracking them and find out what they're after," he said.
Nagato hesitated slightly before speaking.
"I think there's only one reason they're collecting Tailed Beasts!"
Every eye in the room turned to him.
"Besides its unique abilities, the Rinnegan has another use."
Fugaku looked at him in confusion. "What use?"
"Summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!" Nagato said.
Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, he sighed softly.
"The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path is the husk of the Ten-Tails!"
At the words "Ten-Tails," everyone was stunned.
"The Ten-Tails?!"
"I've never even heard of it!"
"There's a Ten-Tails beyond the Nine-Tails?"
"Unbelievable! The Rinnegan can summon the Ten-Tails' husk?"
The meeting room erupted. Clearly, few of them knew much about the Ten-Tails.
"According to legend, the nine Tailed Beasts, from the One-Tail to the Nine-Tails, were born when the Sage of Six Paths split apart the Ten-Tails."
"The Ten-Tails' husk was then sealed on the moon."
Nagato spoke slowly.
The room fell quiet as everyone listened closely to a secret almost unknown to the Ninja World.
"These people clearly intend to gather all nine Tailed Beasts and revive the Ten-Tails!"
"Then one of them will become the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, just like the Sage of Six Paths, to carry out some hidden scheme."
The room grew even quieter. Horror appeared on some faces; others looked bewildered.
A Ten-Tails Jinchūriki!
Those words alone carried crushing weight. This was no single Tailed Beast, but the combined power of all of them.
That power would surely grow by orders of magnitude.
No one could imagine