Even the strongest ninja village, Konoha of the Land of Fire, was extremely terrified by the news that Kirigakure had been occupied by outsiders from another continent.
The other great ninja villages were naturally no exception.
Decades had passed since the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha ended the Warring States period and started the "one country, one village" era.
Now, Madara Uchiha, who was in an underground space, as one of the legendary ninjas who had created this era, was also extremely old and needed to rely on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to stay alive.
So, since the death of Hashirama Senju, the Great Ninja Wars had broken out, and there had been two of them.
If it weren't for outsiders like Karl, then according to the original history, Kumogakure of the Land of Lightning, in order to expand its territory, would have launched a surprise attack on Sunagakure of the Land of Wind, which was one of the five great ninja villages but whose overall strength was the weakest among them, after the news of the Third Kazekage's disappearance spread. Then, just like Hanzō of the Salamander, it would have successively declared war on Iwagakure of the Land of Earth and Konoha of the Land of Fire, fighting one against three.
Even Kirigakure of the Land of Water, which was far from the Ninja Continent, would have been drawn into the Third Great Ninja War because Madara Uchiha was looking for a representative on the Ninja Continent after his death and had been schemed against by the legendary ninja.
Now, Sasori of the Red Sand had not defected, the Third Kazekage had not died, and Kumogakure had not found an opportunity to show the powerful fist of its decades of accumulated foundation to the ninja world. Kirigakure, one of the five great ninja villages, had been occupied by a force from another continent.
Upon learning this news, the Kage and high-ranking officials of the four great ninja villages could not help but be terrified.
When they first received this intelligence, whether it was Hiruzen Sarutobi, Ōnoki, or the Third Raikage, they all had doubts and couldn't believe it.
After verifying it, they immediately summoned the ninjas on missions outside back to the ninja village and sent them to the borders and the daimyo's residence.
Then they all sent Anbu disguised as messengers to the Golden Nation under the pretext of buying weapons to get more intelligence on the four great pirate crews from Doflamingo.
Doflamingo's previous reminder had not only been noticed by Karatachi Yagura.
The other Kage had also remembered the words "four great pirate crews."
But just as the Four Emperors were used to being kings and hegemons in the pirate world, and before seeing Karl defeat the largest-scale Buster Call, they had not taken this brat seriously.
The five great ninja villages, used to being kings and hegemons on the Ninja Continent, only saw each other as rivals and naturally could not take the four great pirate crews seriously.
But now...
Just as the Four Emperors, after hearing that Karl had defeated the largest-scale Buster Call, began to place this brat on the same level as them.
The remaining four great ninja villages all regarded the four great pirate crews as a threat no less than a great ninja village.
Especially with the example of Kirigakure, the four Kage, who realized that the goal of these outsiders was very likely to rule the Ninja Continent, their first thought was actually the same as Danzō Shimura's, to contact the other ninja villages.
But with decades of blood feuds, before encountering a crisis that could threaten the entire world, the four great ninja villages simply could not join forces against the enemy.
Unlike the Four Emperor pirate crews of the pirate world, the five great ninja villages of the Naruto world basically all had squads of three or four.
These ninja squads all had bonds.
Their friendship was very deep, and the death of any one of them would bring great shadow and hatred to the others.
Especially those ninjas whose companions had died at the hands of an enemy village, to ask them to unite with their killer against an enemy was simply more unbearable than killing them.
Therefore...
Even though one of the five great ninja villages had been occupied by an external force from another continent, the other four great ninja villages had no intention of holding a Five Kage Summit.
Especially in this era, when the five great ninja villages were all at their peak, and the Third Tsuchikage, the Third Raikage, and the Third Kazekage were all the strongest Kage in their history, they naturally had no thought of holding a Five Kage Summit.
As time went on, the other five emperor forces also learned of this news.
"Zehahaha... I didn't expect the first person to complete the mission to be the oldest senior. How surprising."
In a small ninja village between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth, Blackbeard, who had transformed that ninja village, which was also not qualified to participate in the Chūnin Exams held by the great ninja villages, into another Beehive, the territory of the Blackbeard Pirates.
Blackbeard's equally unique laugh came from the dimly lit rock mountain building.
The surprised tone showed just how much Blackbeard looked down on Charlotte Linlin.
But Blackbeard did indeed have the qualification to look down on Charlotte Linlin.
Among the four pirate emperors, although Charlotte Linlin was the only one who, like Karl, had an innate monster physique favored by the great sea.
She was several decades older than Karl.
But as a natural-born monster, she not only did not cherish the aptitude given by the world, but instead wasted her talent and potential.
If Sunagakure was recognized as the weakest among the five great ninja villages, then Charlotte Linlin was definitely recognized as the weakest pirate emperor among the Five Emperors.
If it weren't for her large family and prosperous business, and her very promising children, in the two years after Blackbeard became a pirate emperor, his first goal would have been to kick Charlotte Linlin off the world's highest stage.
Now, learning that this weakest senior had actually become the first among the five to complete the mission and successfully occupy one of the five great ninja villages.
While feeling surprised, Blackbeard was also filled with ecstasy.
If even the weakest of the five, Charlotte Linlin, was no match for them, then didn't that mean that the strength of the five great ninja villages was actually weaker than the five emperor forces?
"Zehahaha..."
Thinking of this, Blackbeard immediately walked out from the darkness, his whole body exuding an aura that interpreted what it meant to be dark and evil, and loudly issued the captain's order, "A senior has reached the finish line first. We can't fall behind."
"Boys, let's go—occupy Iwagakure of the Land of Earth!"
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa..."
As Blackbeard's voice spread throughout the otherworldly Beehive, the Blackbeard Pirates, who had nothing to do every day and couldn't stand the loneliness, and who had the fewest people who had mastered chakra, immediately let out a cheer.
And so, the Blackbeard Pirates, with their extremely large number of ability users, officially set their sights on Iwagakure of the Land of Earth.
Like him, there were other pirate emperors and Four Emperor pirate crews.
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