A rumor quickly spread far and wide.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi is critically ill!
As soon as the hero who almost unified Japan collapses, a power vacuum will immediately form.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshie, Mouri Hideyoshi, Uesugi Kagekatsu... all major powerful clans, along with the Mystical Sect forces supporting them, like the Tiantai Sect behind Tokugawa, or the True Word Sect close to the Maeda Family, dispatched their most elite masters and spies to the Capital City.
The officials, monks, Kakarinja, Sword Masters who had just suppressed the Hundred Ghosts and had no time to catch their breath, were instantly swept into the vortex of the power struggle.
Currently, the Capital City, though seemingly in post-disaster reconstruction, is in fact undercurrents surging, with all factions intertwined, guarding against each other while spying, like a Gunpowder Barrel ready to explode with just a spark.
And this spark was deliberately ignited quickly.
"Our portraits... have been posted!"
