Ruri smiled disdainfully and said, "It's really hard to believe you're the elite of your countries!"
"You only ran that little distance, and you're already panting like dogs! Heh!" Ruri mocked them.
At Ruri's words, a ninja in the clearing said, "Kid, you really are full of yourself!"
"Oh, what's this? Have you decided to stop resisting?" said another ninja who had just run out of the woods, spotting the two scrolls Ruri had tossed on the ground.
"Let's grab his scrolls first! Then we can take our time settling things among ourselves and see who reaches the finish line first!" one of the Rain Ninja standing in the clearing said to the people around him with a smile.
"This kid's pretty smart. He knew he was alone, so he immediately stopped resisting when faced with this many people and obediently put down his scrolls!" a Konoha ninja said just then.
Ruri merely listened to them with a calm expression. Despite running for so long, there wasn't a drop of sweat on his face, nor was he gasping for breath.
Most of the ninja who had followed behind Ruri, however, were already drenched in sweat and panting heavily.
Ruri's actual speed wasn't this slow. He had deliberately slowed down to wait for them. If he went too fast, they would soon lose track of him, and then he wouldn't be able to achieve his goal.
Ruri looked at the dozens of ninja before him, almost all of whom had arrived. Boli looked at those dozens of ninja, smiled, and said, "Everyone here, I think you've all misunderstood! I still have something important to do, so I'm really pressed for time right now."
"If we followed the normal process, this survival exercise would take about three days to finish. That's why,