Tsukiakari has been formed, the Yonkou have fallen into disgrace, and the nations have declared the Fifth Great Ninja War;the world is in shambles. Josho Adashino, determined to stop the madness, declares himself the leader of a faction intended to be the world's savior. But he himself is succumbing to his own madness, and his own techniques are turned against him by the remnants of the elite caste before the time of the hidden villages. When these ninja with the powers of old rise up, who will remain, in a shattered world, to oppose them?