"Was this Konoha?"
The members of the Allied Shinobi Forces stared at the sight before them in shock, their twisted expressions looking extraordinarily strange.
"This is the right place, but this..."
The Ninja who had visited Konoha before found the ruins before them even harder to accept.
Those bustling streets, the lively izakayas, the Ninja Academy filled with laughter, the conspicuous Hokage Building...
It was all gone!
Only now did the Allied Shinobi Forces understand why every village took the Akatsuki so seriously and had sent so many elite Ninja to form a force to wipe them out.
Regardless of how the Akatsuki had done it, the fact that Konoha had been devastated to this extent was enough to show just how powerful the enemy was.
But after seeing Konoha's miserable condition, the Allied Shinobi Forces no longer believed a word of what the Konoha Ninja had said earlier.
The entire village had been destroyed like this. How could not a single person have died?
So Konoha was definitely lying to preserve its dignity!
That absolutely had to be it!
Not long after the Allied Shinobi Forces finished looking over the ruins of Konoha and returned to their temporary camp, the intelligence was immediately sent out.
Through various secret channels, the intelligence flew back to every village.
The Land of Earth, Iwagakure.
"What!"
"Konoha was destroyed!"
"Where did this intelligence come from? Is it true or false?"
Ōnoki, who had been swamped with work, froze. After hearing his subordinate's report, his face was filled with shock.
How was something like this possible? After all, Shihōin Naraku was still...
No, Shihōin Naraku was leading the Allied Shinobi Forces to wipe out the Akatsuki's bases. He wasn't in Konoha at all.
So... this intelligence was true!
Ōnoki stopped working and sat