Could the Five Great Shinobi Villages actually have colluded already?
If so, they were in trouble!
The thought surfaced in the delegates' minds. The pampered upper ranks of the Nobles might not fully understand, but everyone attending this meeting was shrewd.
They naturally knew exactly how the present Shinobi World operated.
All along, these ninja who wielded chakra had been attack dogs kept by the powers that be. They offered their strength as merchandise, debasing themselves and waiting for the highest bidder.
And those who could afford them had always been the Nobles who controlled production, so the entire Shinobi World operated according to a logic of deference to the Nobles.
Even when the occasional faction emerged and tried to overthrow that control or take its place, it would be attacked and destroyed by forces led by the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
After all, in the ninja world, the Five Great Shinobi Villages themselves benefited from the status quo.
To put it crudely, they were the dogs that managed to snatch the bones.
Under this social arrangement, the Nobles remained high above everyone else, and the various powers had no need to worry that these ninja who could soar through the skies and burrow through the earth would rise above them.
But that depended on the Shinobi Villages threatening one another. Only when the ninja fought among themselves did they need the Nobles' resources to support and sustain them.
If all the ninja united, things would become difficult. In terms of sheer destructive power, those lowlife bastards were absurdly formidable.
Although they revered the samurai class, even a warrior nation like the Land of Iron understood that, when it came to actual combat, chakra's destructive power was simply outrageous.
That was also why the signs of a Three-Village Alliance at