Drawing Lots for the Matches
The final result was unexpected. Genin of more than one hundred genin from more than twenty ninja villages, only four teams of twelve people stood out and passed the second exam with a full complement of members.
The Five Great Shinobi Villages are Konoha, Kirigakure, Sunagakure, and Raikage. Surprisingly, Iwagakure suffered a major upset this time. Logically speaking, as Iwagakure of the five great ninja villages, even if the rules of the second exam were abnormal, no one expected that there would be a village among the Five Great Shinobi Villages that couldn't even pass the second exam.
The most unacceptable thing was the Iwagakure who Jonin the teams. When he learned that not a single team from the village had passed the Chunin Ninja Exams, the Iwagakure's Jonin turned ashen. He didn't stay in the rest room prepared for the Jonin leading the teams from various villages and left after receiving the news.
The complete annihilation of the Iwagakure army was already humiliating enough; what was he still doing here, just to endure the mocking gazes of the other villages?
Let alone Iwagakure, even the other villages would find this result hard to accept. The elimination rate was simply terrifying. Out of more than a hundred ninjas, only twelve passed, a failure rate of 90%. If it weren't for the fact that only one team from Yemo passed, everyone would have thought that Konoha had cheated in the exam.
Never before have the Chunin Ninja Exams any of the major villages had such a terrifying elimination rate, and these ninjas participating in the competition are the most outstanding Genin in their villages in recent years. If the Chunin Ninja Exams were held in their own villages, all of these people would have passed. But this also shows how cruel the Chunin Ninja Exams are.
The former principal's office at the Ninja Academy has now been converted into the Chunin Ninja Exams command center.
Orochimaru, seated in a chair, received the information on the ninjas who had passed the second round of the Chunin Ninja Exams from a Chunin. Even Orochimaru was shocked to see only twelve sheets. "Only these people passed the second exam?"
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru," the Chunin replied respectfully. "Our village had one force each from Sunagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure passing through, while the entire Iwagakure army was wiped out."
Flipping through the information on the Genin, Orochimaru said with great interest, "Interesting. I originally thought the pass rate would be around 30%, and I was thinking about how to eliminate some people. I didn't need that many for the third round, but I didn't expect only 12 to pass. This saves me some effort."
"Truly a gathering of geniuses; each one who passed is Kekkei Genkai, and, well, one even has two."
"Isn't this more interesting? Only true geniuses are qualified to step onto this stage where everyone is in the spotlight," Orochimaru said with a smile as he looked at Yemo, who was placed at the top.
Orochimaru put down the documents in his hand, stood up from his chair, and strode out the door.
"Let's see who the geniuses are in the second exam!"
The scene takes us back to the dense forest!
After the second exam ended, the medical-nin and Anbu had been waiting outside the exam hall quickly entered the dense forest. Because killing was permitted, the second exam was no longer just an exam, but turned into a bloody war. Countless ninjas died, and even more were injured.
To prepare for the subsequent rescue, Sarutobi Shinnosuke prepared ten medical teams, but there were still not enough people. He had to bring in five more medical-nin from the hospital to make up the medical-nin.
While the losers received treatment on one side, the victors, including Yemo, stood in three rows and four columns on the other, Orochimaru, the examiner who had rushed over, stood in the second-floor corridor.
Looking at Yemo and the other twelve below, Orochimaru didn't speak immediately. After carefully examining them, he grinned and said, "Congratulations on passing the second exam. Genin, no, I should call you Chunin, you are all Chunin now."
"You twelve are the victors, which is why you stand here, unlike those losers outside receiving treatment. As victors, you are qualified to stand on this high platform under the spotlight and compete against each other. As for which of you will be able to defeat all the other contestants and ascend to the throne of the strongest, that depends on your strength."
"Now, begin assigning numbers!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Orochimaru waved his hand and threw out more than a dozen white pieces of paper that he had prepared beforehand. These white pieces of paper flew around haphazardly in the air for a while before landing steadily in the hands of each person.
With this one move alone, he completely subdued the ninjas below, simultaneously using Chakra to control twelve pieces of paper. Such precise control over Chakra was truly terrifying.
Yemo picked up a piece of white paper with the number six written on it. Just then, Hizashi leaned in from behind and whispered, "Yemo, what's your number? I'm number three, and my brother is number nine!"
"I'm number six!" Ye Mo and Yemo Hizashi were not the only ones doing this; every team was getting to know each other's teammate numbers.
"Alright," Orochimaru clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention and explained the rules for the third exam, "Each of you will have a number in your hand. The computer will randomly match you with enemies based on your numbers, not your names. No one will handle the process, so the matchmaking will be absolutely fair. Once the computer has assigned the enemies, the first round of battles will appear on the screen above me."
After listening to Teacher Orochimaru's explanation, Yemo and the others all looked at the huge LCD screen on the third floor. The screen had just been turned on, and a series of numbers from 1 to 12 flew across the screen, which lasted for about half a minute.
The screen flickered, all the numbers disappeared, and the next second, the six-row match information appeared on the screen.
The matchups are 2 vs 8, 3 vs 4, 1 vs 9, 7 vs 12, 6 vs 10, and 5 vs 11.
Yemo is number six, and his opponent is number ten. Unfortunately, everyone only knows the numbers of their own teammates, not the numbers of other teams, so everyone is basically clueless and has no idea who their teammates are.
Yemo looked around at who was most likely to be his opponent. As long as it wasn't Mei Terumi, he didn't care. Just then, he suddenly sensed a murderous gaze fixed on him, and a chill ran down his spine.
Yemo turned his head and was stunned when he saw the source of the murderous aura. It was actually Mei Terumi. Yemo suddenly had a very bad feeling. Could number 10 be Mei Terumi?
Just as she wished for it, Mei Terumi smiled smugly and gently waved the slip of paper in her hand; the "10" was so clear.
Yemo Mei Terumi. Yesterday's incident was the biggest loss she had ever suffered since she was a child. Because of it, she barely slept all night, wishing she could leave the tent and tear Yemo to pieces.
Heaven has been so kind to her, giving her the chance to take revenge the very next day. The thought of crushing Yemo Mei Terumi the gaze of countless people filled Miyu with uncontrollable joy, allowing her to finally vent her hatred.
Mei Terumi was happy, but Yemo was incredibly helpless. How could this happen? The thing he least wanted had happened; he had to fight Mei Terumi in his very first match.
"Sigh," Yemo sighed, scratching the back of his head, at a loss for what to do, "This is so annoying."