The Land of Rain was a small country situated between the three great nations of Fire, Wind, and Earth.
Ever since the Second Shinobi World War broke out, all three great nations had tacitly chosen the Land of Rain as their battlefield, reducing the impact of the war on their own countries.
The Land of Rain, however, suffered a devastating blow as a result. With war right on their doorstep, the common people lived in constant fear.
Productivity declined, bandits and outlaws proliferated, and cowardly deserters from the battlefield reinvented themselves as bandit chiefs in mountain strongholds.
Yet just as the three sides fought one another, a man stepped forward.
Under the name of the Demigod, he led Amegakure in declaring war on three of the Five Great Shinobi Villages at once.
In the end, Hanzō drove back the shinobi of the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth through his own formidable strength, but ultimately failed to defeat the Land of Fire, which possessed Konoha, the strongest shinobi village.
Even so, Konoha suffered heavy losses, and the militant faction among the Land of Fire's leadership weakened.
Although they won the war, Hanzō's name as the Demigod also became widely known.
When signing the surrender treaty, the Land of Fire did not make too many demands.
After all, the Land of Fire's original plan had been to strike first, conquer the Land of Rain, and use it as a route to send troops directly against the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.
The outbreak of war was inevitable, its cause still rooted in the unequal distribution of productive capacity, which stirred envy in other countries.
But who could have known that the Land of Rain would produce someone like Hanzo of the Salamander?
He had stood against