"The first written exam has only one rule."
"If you're caught cheating, your results will be disqualified immediately."
"You have two hours to answer the questions. Begin."
The timer was started, and exam papers were handed out row by row.
Maki took his paper and quickly scanned it. The questions covered cipher encryption, ninjutsu principles, Soldier Pill formulas, trap techniques, and basic sensory theory. They were certainly difficult.
But he soon noticed the paper's clever design: the questions appeared in the same order for everyone in a row, while an extremely narrow blind spot separated adjacent rows. This was hardly meant to prevent cheating. It was clearly designed to give the candidates plenty of room to maneuver.
The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
The higher-ups had worked everything out long ago.
Soon, the classroom fell completely silent as everyone worked on their answers.
Nawaki bit his pen and wrote furiously, putting all his practice with exam questions to use.
Nonō answered slowly, but every response involving medicine or poisons was detailed and precise, without a single mistake.
Minato habitually read through the entire paper first, then filled in his answers in an orderly fashion.
Kushina answered while keeping an eye on the proctors, secretly using Mind's Eye of the Kagura to exchange answers.
Only Might Duy stared fixedly at the first question, his mind completely blank.
[Of the seven basic cipher encryption algorithms, which is best suited to transmitting information within the coverage of a Sensory Barrier?]
He clenched his pen, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.
Just last night, he had been doing handstand push-ups at the training ground to fire himself up, shouting that youth was invincible. Faced with densely packed theoretical questions, however, his youth had nowhere to shine. His knowledge of cipher encryption extended no