Chapter 402
The Land of Fire, Konoha Village!
Inside the Hokage Building, First Conference Room!
An hour ago, Hiruzen Sarutobi received intelligence about Kirigakure dispatching its Third Legion to the Land of Whirlpools. Because of this, he convened an emergency high-level expanded meeting to discuss how to respond to Kirigakure's move.
If Kirigakure had not dispatched a second legion to the Land of Whirlpools, Konoha wouldn't have to worry much. Haruto Saito had made a military pledge, and his money-burning assassination tactics had proven effective!
However, the sudden deployment of Kirigakure's Third Legion was beyond the scope of Haruto's military pledge.
Konoha did not have enough troops to deal with this unexpected situation.
But that didn't mean Konoha was completely without options.
Because in this Second Shinobi World War, Konoha had yet to deploy its most terrifying core power—
The very people attending this expanded high-level meeting!
The patriarchs of the three major clans of Konoha—Hyuga, Uchiha, and Nara—along with the heads of the Inuzuka, Nakayama, and Aburame clans, and more than twenty other key decision-makers of Konoha!
Konoha had the highest number of elite shinobi in the ninja world!