The Yamanaka Clan assigned enough personnel to ensure that intelligence could be relayed quickly after their secret techniques were used.
The Medical Unit personnel busily prepared various medicines and tools.
Tsunade's confidante, Shizune, personally directed them, displaying her budding leadership abilities.
The armed forces of the major ninja clans were also actively preparing for war, their morale high.
Seiichi stood atop Hokage Rock, overlooking everything in Konoha as a surge of heroic pride rose within him.
He knew very well that this was only the beginning. The coming war between the Uchiha Empire and the entire Shinobi World would be the main event.
After the meeting ended, the Uchiha who had been outside the window followed Seiichi up to Hokage Rock and looked down at Konoha.
Aside from them, only Tsunade and Orochimaru were there.
"We Uchiha have actually founded a nation!"
Fugaku could not help feeling a little emotional.
He had never even considered founding a nation.
Now, his son had made something he had never dared imagine a reality.
"Father, first tell me how our Uchiha have been doing over the past few years."
Seiichi had fought two battles in succession as soon as he returned.
He still did not know much about the Uchiha's circumstances over the past few years.
"Oh, that reminds me of something.
"A few years ago, not long after you left, a fellow with a half-black, half-white face forced his way into the Uchiha dungeon to rescue Obito.
"Yanren and Yingle stopped him.
"In the end, although he failed to rescue Obito, we couldn't keep him there either.
"He came several more times afterward without succeeding, and then there was no further word of him."
Hearing this, Seiichi knew it was Black Zetsu, that ever-filial son.
Black Zetsu, who had been lying low