"Death Forest!!?" Just hearing this name gave people a very bad feeling.
But Minato had heard from Jiraiya-sensei that the Death Forest was often used as the venue for the Chunin Exam, and it was also the venue with the highest elimination rate in the Chunin Exam.
More importantly, many candidates had died in the Death Forest. He did not expect that this time the Ninja Trial would choose that place as the venue for the assessment.
After the man finished his announcement, he was ready to turn around and leave. Hearing this gloomy name, the students in the class had different expressions, and some people even began to shiver. Only Minato stood up after thinking and said, "Wait a minute, I have something to ask you."
"Go ahead," the man turned around slowly and saw that the person asking him the question was the blond boy who looked at him calmly.
"What are the conditions for passing the trial?" Minato asked. When the man heard this, his eyebrows slightly raised. He turned around and smiled, "You are a sharp kid. You noticed the most critical question."
"However, you are still too impatient. Regarding this question, it will be announced to all participants in person tomorrow." After saying that, he walked out of the classroom.
Minato was slightly surprised that he didn't get an answer. It seemed that this so-called qualified method would also involve the issue of fairness, so it was not announced in advance. But we will know it tomorrow.
Kushina still looked unconvinced. Looking at her, Minato frowned slightly. She was also a student of this ninja school.
Naturally, she had to participate in the ninjutsu trial. In the Death Forest full of dangers, would there be an Anbu following her all the time? Or was protecting Kushina's safety also part of the test of the Third Hokage for himself? But even if this didn't happen, Minato would not allow anyone to hurt her.
Then, Shirota-sensei walked in. The strange expression on his face showed that he had just learned the location of the trial. Obviously, none of these students knew where the Death Forest was, a strange name.
According to Shirota-sensei, tomorrow morning, a staff member would lead all the students of the Ninja School to the Death Forest.
After school, each student left the Ninja School with a different look. At this time, in the room at the top of the Ninja School, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at these children through the window with a slightly complicated expression.
"It's my fault that you have to bear all this too early," the Third Hokage sighed, but he was looking forward to it. It's not just Namikaze Minato, but also Uchiha Yoruki, and a few other students.
After school, Minato went home directly. He didn't practice but sorted out everything he had learned in the past year or so. Temporary practice was meaningless.
Now he could only summarize himself, and then better apply what he had learned. It was not easy to get the recognition of the Third Hokage, and the powerful enemies he knew now, in addition to Uchiha Yoruki and the senior Nawaki who graduated nearly a year ago, there were also several other senior guys. Moreover, he recently heard that there were several extremely outstanding students among the freshmen.
With different feelings, these children spent a sleepless night.
The next morning, a large number of people gathered at the gate of the Ninja School, gathering in twos and threes. Among them were Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto.
"The eyes of those two guys are really strange. There are no pupils at all," Kushina looked around and saw a pair of faces of similar age. The only strange thing was that their eyes had no pupils.
Mikoto explained gently, "Those are the two seniors, Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi. They are both from the Hyuga clan, a large clan in the village, and inherited the Byakugan of the Hyuga family."
"Byakugan? What is that?" Kushina was not good at these theoretical knowledge at all.
"A kind of Dojutsu. The Byakugan has a very strong ability to detect, with a 360° view, and can see the flow of chakra and even acupuncture points in the human body. The gentle fist that the Hyuga family is best at uses Taijutsu to attack these acupuncture points to affect the flow of chakra, which is very powerful."
Mikoto, who came from the prestigious Uchiha family, naturally had a thorough understanding of the Byakugan, and she deliberately told Kushina this.
Because Kushina was a little impulsive, she often rushed up to fight with others. Ordinary people might work, but facing the two brothers, reckless actions would not win. She didn't know the specific situation of this trial, so she hoped to help Kushina as much as possible.
"Mikoto, thank you for telling me this," Kushina smiled at Mikoto, and she naturally knew the former's intention.
Minato was observing the surroundings at this moment, and the Anbu who protected Kushina was still hidden in the dark. Uchiha Yoruki came slowly, and the first thing he saw was Minato who was looking around at the moment. He frowned, glanced lightly, and his expression gradually sank. It was clear that Minato was not the only one who noticed the presence of the Anbu.
"Hey, Minato, long time no see!" A figure quickly landed in front of Minato and the others, with a warm smile on his clean face.
"Senior Nawaki!" Minato saw the person coming, and there was a bit of joy in his eyes.
Behind Nawaki, there were a boy and a girl wearing Konoha forehead protectors. After graduating from the Ninja School and becoming a Genin, they were usually divided into groups of three. These two people were obviously Nawaki's teammates. Beside Nawaki, the other Genin who also participated in this trial disdained to get together with the students of the Ninja School, so most of them stayed together.
After a period of time, there were nearly two or three hundred people gathered here, of which the students of the Ninja School accounted for nearly three-quarters, but they were all of different ages. The age of Minato and others was actually still a little young.
When the participants in this trial had gathered, ten Chunins appeared around the Ninja School and gathered the crowd together. After counting the people, these ten Chunins each took dozens of contestants to the Death Forest. When everyone came to a more remote location in Konoha, they could clearly see the somewhat gloomy area behind the iron fence. That was the venue of this trial, the Death Forest.
At this time, a young white-haired man also appeared in front of everyone. He had a handsome face. What was different from other ninjas was that he had a short sword on his back. He stared at the huge crowd in front of him and said with a kind smile on his face.
"I am the chief examiner of this trial, Hatake Sakumo."
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