Outside Konoha.
Training Ground 6.
Chiba suddenly clapped his hands together.
"Rumble!"
The ground shook violently as countless thick vines burst from the earth.
The vines twisted around one another and rapidly hardened.
In the blink of an eye.
Ten enormous wooden arenas rose from the ground.
Each was over thirty meters long and wide, with surfaces as smooth as mirrors.
The pupils of the Four Kage on the viewing stands shrank sharply.
Ōnoki gripped the armrest of his chair so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
That kind of power, casually reshaping the terrain at will, was simply despair-inducing.
Mei Terumi bit her lower lip.
The Fifth Hokage of Konoha's strength was utterly unfathomable.
Chiba looked down at the fifty newly promoted Chunin below.
"The first round will narrow fifty down to ten."
"You will be randomly assigned to these ten arenas."
"Five people per arena. Any means are permitted, and alliances are permitted."
"Anyone who falls from the arena will be eliminated."
"The final ten people remaining on the arenas will advance into the top ten!"
The moment he finished speaking.
Number tags appeared out of thin air on the chests of all fifty ninja.
What kind of unfathomable method was this?
The ninja from other villages felt a chill in their hearts.
But Konoha's Genin seemed as though they had been injected with adrenaline.
One hundred thousand Merit Points were beckoning to them!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The sound of air tearing rang out one after another.
Fifty figures swiftly leaped onto their designated arenas.
The battles were on the verge of erupting.
Arena One.
Sasuke Uchiha coldly swept his gaze across the four opponents before him.
Two Konoha Genin, one ninja from Kirigakure, and one from Iwagakure.
"Come at me together."
"Don't waste my time."
Sasuke's hands