The outcome of the battle at Uzushio Village swiftly swept across the entire shinobi world.
Although the threat of annihilation hanging over Uzushio Village had been thwarted, the chain reaction it triggered had not subsided. Instead, it made the situation in the shinobi world even more complex and delicate.
As one of the shinobi world's foremost powers, Konoha had always drawn the attention of other shinobi villages, and the Uzushio Village incident only deepened the rift between Konoha and the four great shinobi villages.
The four great shinobi villages showed clear unease over Konoha's overwhelming strength. In particular, the defeat of the four Kage left them more shocked than ever by Uchiha Shinichi's power.
It was as though the era of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had returned, and the shinobi world's established order seemed to be starting to waver.
Konoha was no longer merely a regional power, but a pivotal force deeply embedded in the power struggles of the entire shinobi world.
Genji, the elder of the Land of Water, convened an emergency meeting. Its agenda was to select the Third Mizukage and strengthen internal stability, preventing their position from being shattered by the power of Konoha and Uchiha Shinichi as it had been in the Uzushio Village incident.
Some radical shinobi even proposed continuing their alliance with the other three great shinobi villages, settling everything in a single decisive campaign to stop Konoha from becoming the future ruler of the shinobi world.
Third Raikage A's failure to display his expected strength in the battle also sent shock waves through the Land of Lightning's leadership.
According to intelligence reports, all four Kage had been killed by Uchiha Shinichi with a single slash each as they fled!
The Land of Lightning had always revered strength, and the allied forces'