Action Strategy

Shinji's team was assigned a scroll marked with the character "Heaven."

According to the rules of this exam, his team had to collect at least one scroll marked with the character "Earth" in the Forest of Death and have every member successfully reach the central tower to pass this stage.

In other words,

Under the best possible circumstances, they only needed to defeat one team and have all their members reach the central tower in the Forest of Death to pass the second exam.

Of course, that was merely the ideal situation.

The "Forest of Death" was a real primeval forest filled with wild beasts and venomous insects, so it was dangerous in itself. On top of that, this second exam was a real battle, and the rules allowed casualties. Every examinee had signed a life-and-death waiver, so every team would do its best to weaken its opponents and reduce the pressure they would face in the third exam.

Before long, Shinji's team arrived at Entrance 17.

All the teams participating in the second exam would be randomly assigned to one of twenty different entrances to enter the Forest of Death.

Besides Shinji's team, Entrance 17 had also been assigned two Iwagakure teams, two Kirigakure teams, and one team each from the Star Ninja and Takigakure Ninja.

However, none of these teams had any particularly powerful members. Thus, when they discovered that they had been assigned to the same entrance as Shinji, their expressions all changed, and they hurriedly kept their distance!

At that moment, the examiner opened the iron gate at Entrance 17 and said to the seven teams before him, "The entire Forest of Death is covered by surveillance, and ANBU patrols are also present inside. If you find yourselves unable to continue the exam, you may fire