Claiming Credit for the Nine-Tails!

"All right, stop standing there like idiots. Send the intelligence back to the village. This was a major victory for us, and a huge reward is waiting. No reason to turn down credit that's been handed to us."

There was no reason to refuse credit delivered right to their doorstep. Once everything was over, they naturally had to claim it.

As for Iwagakure, which had delivered that credit to Hikaru and the others, under Ōnoki's leadership, its shinobi army had withdrawn a considerable distance and begun pitching tents and establishing a camp.

The most impressive command headquarters had to be the one from the original story, when the nations joined forces against Akatsuki. Sensory shinobi from every village had gathered together to create a massive command center with a wide range of methods. Under normal circumstances, even during the Ninja Wars, the villages could never have assembled something like that.

Not to mention anything else, just the number of sensory shinobi responsible for gathering and relaying intelligence would have been enough to give any village a headache. Normally, it was simply impossible to gather such a lineup.

Just look at that war. Information from a command headquarters thousands of miles away could be transmitted straight to the battlefield. Wasn't that incredible? 673!!!

What village could accomplish that under normal circumstances?

Forget the smaller villages—even the Five Great Shinobi Villages could not do it. Just look at how slowly information traveled during wartime. They relied more on ninja hawks and certain summoning beasts adept at such tasks.

Trying to transmit information directly from the village to the battlefield, like a projected message, was nothing more than a dream.

Even Konoha would have struggled to assemble such a team. And even if it somehow cobbled one together, would it have meant anything?