Hokage: Let Suffering Never Fly

Chapter 18 Sharpen the knife

A few years ago, the Sandaime would never have agreed to this assessment method.

But things are different now. All the countries in the ninja world are ready to move, and everyone plans to take a bite of the Fire Country, which occupies the most fertile land.

It is foreseeable that after a few years, Konoha will face enemies from all sides.

If you still use the previous happy learning method at this time, when these new generations of Konoha go to the battlefield, they will really be nothing but cannon fodder.

Rather than sending them to the battlefield to die, it would be better for Gaia to stop them all in the academy.

Of course, only this session will have this kind of treatment.

This assessment is not only a slap on the ungraduated students, but also a slap on the families of the village.

Gaia, a wandering young man, is better than those genius descendants in your family!

Nidaimu founded Ninja School in order to ensure that Konoha can have a stable talent training channel.

Whether it is a family or a commoner, as long as they are willing to become ninjas and have talent, they can be well cultivated.

But people from various families are not optimistic about this kind of education.

Still uphold the family education.

Among the current Ninja School teachers, they are all civilian ninjas who have retired from the battlefield, and there are no members of various ninja families at all.

In the Hokage Building, Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the situation in the field through the crystal ball in front of him.

When he saw that many students were divided into multiple groups based on their families, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't help but shake his head.

Today's Konoha is still dominated by families. There are many civilians, but not many civilian ninjas.

Among the new generation, there are two rare young strong men with no family background, namely Orochimaru and Jiraiya.

In addition, it is rare to see outstanding ninjas who were born civilians.

As the third Hokage, Hiruzawa Sarutobi is very aware of such drawbacks.

In the village, more civilian heroes are needed to stand up.

Sarutobi Hiruzen turned his attention to Namikaze Minato who had golden hair in the team.

This child is a disciple chosen by Jiraiya. Nearly two months ago, the scene where Minakaze Minato and Gaia fought for the first time, Hiruzaru Sarutobi also peeped through the telescope technique.

Catching a kunai with bare hands, even if Gaia feints at the moment, the kunai's rate of fire is not high, but at this age, it is rare to have this ability.

Sarutobi Hiruzen regarded Minato's ability to take over Gaia Kunai empty-handed that day as Minakaze Minato's ability, and was also very satisfied with this intended disciple.

Perhaps one day, this child will bring a different new wind to Konoha.

……

In the death forest, Gaia stood on the high tower in the middle, looking at the people gathered outside the venue from a distance.

In the past month, he has been thinking about what kind of role the senior Konoha, or that Hokage, wants to take on in this assessment.

The most obvious point is to put pressure on these students who have never been on the battlefield, and urge them to practice in a disguised form. It is best to have the awareness that the enemy will do whatever they can, and they must be prepared before they go to the battlefield.

This will greatly increase their survival rate.

But... Gaia remembered a conversation with Tsunade last night.

"Teacher, if the whetstone is too hard and the knives being sharpened are too brittle, all the knives will break..."

"How about that?"

Tsunade glanced at Gaia in surprise, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The goal set by the village for Gaia is to eliminate 80.00% of the people.

Because among the students participating in the assessment, there are still many "good seedlings".

In the assumption, there is no possibility that Gaia can eliminate everyone.

In terms of personal strength, none of them are Gaia's opponents, but once they form a group, there will be a qualitative change.

It only takes one or two people to hold Gaia back, and the rest of the crowd fights up. Under the premise that no one can be killed, even the elite Chunin teachers who have retired from the battlefield of the Ninja School will definitely be exhausted and defeated.

Unless, Gaia possesses the strength of the Jnin, he can easily defeat the quasi-Junin team of more than 100 people.

This kid thinks a lot.

"Then the whetstone is no longer a whetstone, but will be sharpened into another sharp knife."

This is Tsunade's answer.

Thinking of this, the corners of Gaia's mouth turned up.

Then let me sharpen the knife for you.

In the distance, a red signal flare rose up, which meant that the assessment had begun.

More than 100 students rushed into the forest of death impatiently carrying supplies. Some people used binoculars to discover Gaia above the tower.

The latter, on the other hand, was looking at them with a telescope.

"He's on the tower in the middle!" As soon as the news came out, many students couldn't wait to head towards the tower.

seven days?

Solve the battle in two hours!

The radius is more than ten kilometers. With the foot power of these quasi-genin, even if they save a little energy, it only takes an hour and a half to get there.

With half an hour left, more than 100 of us can't clean up one of them?

At this time, the gap between the ninjas was revealed.

The small groups rushing to the front are all dominated by several families, with the resources and teachings of the family, and their physical fitness is much higher than that of commoner ninjas.

These people broke into the deep forest directly, trying to approach Gaia as quickly as possible.

"No, there may be traps in the forest." Someone reminded that if Gaia was there, he would recognize this person as Shikahisa Nara from the Nara family.

The people gathered around Nara Shikahisa first slowed down and moved towards the open riverbed area, and then other teams noticed this and began to consciously wait for the large force.

More than 100 people gradually gathered into four echelons, and moved up the river, 400 meters apart, towards the location of Gaia, all of which were completed under the guidance of Shikahisa Nara.

……

"Luji, your children are not bad."

Many people gathered in a conference room in the Hokage Building.

Sarutobi Hiruzen used a large special crystal ball to project the scene in the forest of death.

Among them, many are Konoha's Jonin.

The current head of the Nara family, Nara Shikakuchi, is also here. The Nara Shikakuchi who warned everyone about the trap and guided the detachment was his son.

Hearing Sarutobi Hiruzen's praise, Nara Shikayoshi thanked him, but he sighed in his heart and said to himself: "If the target appears so openly, in addition to considering whether there is a trap, we need to consider whether there is a trap. How to disperse the formation for arrest.”

If he arranges, more than 100 people will be divided into three teams and go around in three directions, so that they can take care of each other and guard against traps.

When approaching, use the middle team to test, and the two wing teams to outflank. If the opponent is real, they can also intercept when the opponent retreats.

But...why did the other party do such a stupid thing?

Or, is this a trap to lure everyone to come?

"Hokage-sama, can this vision be switched to Gaia?" someone asked.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi at the front shook his head, but said nothing.

He didn't want to, just watching many students running for more than an hour. If he could change the perspective, he would have done so.

But the problem is that this telescopic technique requires mastering the chakra characteristics of the opponent.

Originally, he could rely on this ninjutsu to monitor Gaia's actions before, but the strange thing is that after last night, he could no longer search for Gaia's location.

Can one's own chakra characteristics also change?Sarutobi Hiruzen never figured this out.