After all, Hatake Kakashi's character was not as arrogant as Mitarai Anko. For the second exam, Shikamaru led a group of advanced candidates to the venue - the 17th training ground.
Konoha Village itself is a military organization. The largest areas in the village are not residential buildings or office buildings, but various training venues. Last year, the No. 44 training ground was nicknamed the "Forest of Death", and today's
This slightly smaller Training Ground No. 17 is just one of them.
By the time Shikamaru led a group of candidates to the outskirts of the training ground, Kakashi Hatake had already been waiting there for some time.
"Thank you, Shikamaru!" Hatake Kakashi put away the novel in his hand, greeted Shikamaru lazily, and looked thoughtfully at the genin following him: "It seems that the first game
The exam went very well.”
The number of candidates following Shikamaru was pitifully small, less than a quarter of the original number. When Kakashi Hatake said "good", he obviously meant that the written examination had the effect of eliminating candidates.
"I'll leave the rest to you." Shikamaru looked at the training ground behind Hatake Kakashi. Different from the "Death Forest", the 17th training ground was a plain, although there was an iron fence around it.
, but you can still clearly see the towering towers standing on the plain.
The rules of the second exam are actually very simple. There are thirteen towers standing in the 17th training ground. These towers are scattered in every corner of the training ground. The interiors of six of the towers have been marked the same by Kakashi Hatake.
, these six marked towers are the candidates' goals. Of course, Hatake Kakashi will not clearly tell these candidates which towers are marked and what the marks look like. This requires the candidates to find the towers themselves.
differences between.
Forty-eight hours after the exam begins, the candidates will have to spend time in this training ground. Their goal is to seize the marked tower. To pass this exam, the team must occupy a marked tower alone. Forty-eight
Once the hour passes, whichever team captures the marked tower will be considered the winner.
In other words, there are only a maximum of six qualifying teams for this exam, and all remaining candidate teams will be eliminated.
However, Shikamaru doubted whether there could be as many as six teams that could successfully advance. Kakashi Hatake did not tell the candidates what the marks in the tower looked like. In other words, if you want to know which tower is the marked tower, at least
Thirteen towers need to be observed one by one, and among the candidates who know in advance that the number of promotion places is limited, this process will definitely not be peaceful.
There is another point that cannot be ignored, that is, only those who "survive" the forty-eight hours and still occupy the tower after the exam is considered a winner. From another perspective, even if they do nothing for the first forty-seven hours and fifty-nine minutes
, but successfully capture the tower at the last moment, it is considered a victory, so when to start joining the battle for the tower will be something that each team must pay attention to.
"By the way, there are supplies including ninja tools hidden in the Marking Tower." After Kakashi Hatake explained the general rules of the second exam, he patted the back of his head as if he had just thought of it: "Although it's not much, but
I'm worried that you won't have enough when the time comes, so I put some away, and you have to look for it yourself."
All the candidates looked at each other. For low-level ninjas who are not proficient in more ninjutsu, the importance of ninja tools is self-evident. In the forty-eight hours of high-intensity war, ninja tools will be consumed very quickly, Kakashi informed
This gives these candidates another need to occupy the tower - supplies.
This undoubtedly adds fuel to the already tense atmosphere among the candidates. Even candidates who hold a wait-and-see attitude and are prepared to wait to snatch the tower later will not want other teams to successfully occupy the marked tower and obtain supplies.
…………
Shikamaru watched the last group of candidates enter the training ground, then turned around and asked Hatake Kakashi, who was starting to look through his intimate paradise again: "Did you really put supplies in the marking tower?"
Kakashi Hatake didn't explain this when he first made the plan, so Shikamaru had doubts.
"Of course not." Kakashi Hatake didn't even raise his head. He just let out a weird smirk from under the mask that covered most of his face: "I'm lying to them, otherwise they'll wait until the end of time to fight for the tower.
What if there is an accident and no one is promoted?"
Shikamaru raised his eyebrows. He really had nothing to say to the unscrupulous Kakashi Hatake. Regardless of someone who was immersed in the novel, he went to a small building inside the training ground and waited for the exam.
result.
…………
Unlike Shikamaru, Hatake Kakashi and others who were calmly waiting for the test results, the candidates inside the training ground started fighting as soon as the test started.
Although Shikamaru eliminated many candidates in the written examination, sixteen teams still remained. If they want to occupy the few places, they must compete with other candidates, and the competition process cannot of course rely on peace.
of negotiations.
Snap!
Ri Xiang Neji watched the enemy in front of him collapse limply on the grass, and slowly withdrew his soft fist posture.
In this exam, even a strong team, if they become emboldened and get into too many fights with others, they may fail and lose the qualification to advance, not to mention the possibility of being besieged.
In contrast, being able to ambush and eliminate one or two teams when the situation is favorable can also reduce competitors to some extent. Most of the people who have this idea are teams that have a certain degree of confidence in their own strength. Rixiang Neji and others encountered this.
So does the team.
It's a pity that they picked the wrong person.
This team of Taki ninjas is very strong, but unfortunately for Ri Xiang Neji's Byakugan, the ambush became a ridiculous move. After the ambush turned into an encounter, in just three minutes, Li Luo Ke and Ri Xiang Neji
He Tiantian easily defeated the enemy and was unscathed himself.
But there was no trace of pride on the faces of the three people who ended the battle. The exam had just begun. Even with their strength, if they were not careful, they would inevitably fail.
Not to mention the fierce battle among the candidates in the training ground. Before Shikamaru, who had just stepped into the small building in the training ground, had a chance to drink water, he was called to the office by Tsunade, who had been waiting here for a while, and the third session.
Together with the examiner, Shizune Kato, we started discussing the holding of the third exam.
Unlike last year, Tsunade put a lot of effort into making Konoha Village famous for this exam. The third exam, which was originally scheduled to be one day, was changed to two days, and the preliminaries for the third exam were eliminated. Shikamaru said
This is noncommittal, and most of his tasks are related to maintaining order and security.
However, this year, the person who came to represent the Daimyo of the Land of Fire was still the elder Mita Hideo. This old man had watched the match between Shikamaru and Gaara last year. He valued Shikamaru very much and later recommended him to the Daimyo for important positions. Although regardless of
Neither Tsunade nor Shikamaru thought of agreeing to this proposal, but out of courtesy, Tsunade arranged for Shikamaru to protect the other party in the third exam and shoulder the responsibility of explaining it.
…………
As time goes by, the second Chunin exam is coming to an end. The six top Chunin elites from Konoha Village will go to the six marked towers respectively to bring the winning team of candidates to Tsunade temporarily.
In the small building where he stayed, the rules of the third exam were explained.
Tsunade, Shikamaru, Hatake Kakashi and Kato Shizune were all waiting in an indoor training ground early. After a while, the Konoha chuunin who went out had already brought the candidate team.
As expected, Neji Riku, Rock Lee and Genin Class 3, where Tenten was, and the temporary Class 10 composed of Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka and Nozakura, all passed the second exam smoothly.
Tsunade showed an unabashed smile of satisfaction. With these outstanding genin advancing, more than half of her goal had been accomplished.
Just like Shikamaru's suspicion before the start of the second exam, apart from the teams sent by several Xiaoqiang, only one team of candidates from Taki Ninja Village passed the exam together. When the Konoha Chuunin went to lead the team of candidates,
There were two marked towers with no results, and all the candidates were ruthlessly eliminated.
After experiencing Shikamaru's psychological offensive in the written examination and the brutal fighting in the second examination, Konohagakure will no longer try to think of complicated methods to test the psychological quality of the remaining candidates. First, ask if anyone feels physically
She felt unwell and needed medical ninja treatment. After receiving negative answers from everyone, Tsunade began to explain.
The words of the Third Hokage last year were very similar. Although most of the people in front of him were teenagers, who were even at school age in Shikamaru's previous life, in this world, many times they had to face cruel competition to the death. As Hokage, Tsunade must
All their meaningless fantasies were completely torn apart, and the bloody reality was presented before their eyes.
"This is war." Tsunade used this as her opening statement: "Countries show their strength and potential, kill some people's unrealistic delusions, put uncontrollable friction and struggle on the table, and at the same time obtain the greatest benefits.
...,This is the origin of the Chunin Examination!"