"They were ruthless! To cement their rule, they destroyed the entire history of the Shinobi World!"
Countless shinobi finally understood, their hearts heavy with dismay.
"No wonder shinobi have always been tools, always ordered around, always fighting among themselves!"
"From the moment Ninshu disbanded, those nobles set a thousand-year scheme in motion!"
"They deliberately stirred up conflict, divided the shinobi, erased history, and tamed their fighting power!"
"They didn't dare confront the shinobi's power, so they used schemes and deception to control the entire Shinobi World!"
Some elderly shinobi sighed deeply with bitter smiles.
"The greatest irony is that countless shinobi spent their lives killing for money, fighting for a thousand years, and died believing they were fighting for their families, for survival."
"Little did they know that, from beginning to end, their slaughter, infighting, sacrifices, and campaigns were all part of the nobles' calculations."
"Generation after generation of shinobi were nothing more than pawns, tools used to wear one another down."
"Exactly. That explains why, after all these years, no shinobi ever dared rebel against the nobles."
The Sky Screen continued playing. The nobles' carefully laid schemes soon took full effect throughout the Shinobi World, bringing them every result they had wanted.
Once those leading daimyō and nobles coordinated their plans and began pulling strings behind the scenes, the Shinobi World plunged rapidly toward the dark future they had envisioned.
Nobles everywhere deliberately posted bounty missions with conflicting interests and overlapping objectives.
The clearest examples were the two supreme clans, the Uchiha and the Senju, which fell completely into the nobles' grasp.
Nobles on one side, seeking to counter powerful enemies, paid lavish sums to hire the decisive, formidable Uchiha Clan to fight for them.
The opposing nobles, seeking to withstand the Uchiha's strength and preserve their own power,