"Holy shit!"
Nagato silently sent his regards to Minato's late father in the underworld.
"It's only the first exam. Isn't this kind of setup way too damaging to one's lifespan?"
Minato had just told him about the "unspoken rules" of the first exam.
Other than the first question, which was so simple that every contestant could answer it, all the remaining questions were absurdly difficult.
There was nothing inherently wrong with that. After all, what the organizers wanted to test was not their ability to answer questions normally, but their ability to gather intelligence through ninjutsu and cheat.
Staff members assigned to pass around answers had already been planted in the examination hall.
But this exam differed from the original. Though the original questions had been difficult, top students with solid theoretical knowledge like Sakura had still been capable of answering them independently.
In this exam, every question other than the first was impossible for the contestants to answer! If one had to define the difficulty level, it would be comparable to questions used to select academy-level scholars in the real world!
How could an ordinary top student possibly solve that?
This meant that the only way for examinees to obtain answers in this test was through the staff members arranged in advance!
If that were all there was to the unspoken rules, quite a few Genin contestants would have been capable of noticing it.
The problem was that among the eighteen staff members passing around exam answers, only one was giving out the real answers. The rest were all traps!
Since none of the examinees could tell whether an answer was real or fake, getting the genuine one depended entirely on luck. One chance in eighteen—just thinking about it was terrifying!
Faced with Nagato's blunt criticism, Minato said helplessly,