"Has Kirigakure seriously gotten this filthy rich?"
"This is insane. Isn't this a little too extravagant?"
"What does this ship even run on? I can't make heads or tails of how it works!"
While the big shots marveled at how technology changed lives, the examinees on deck suddenly erupted into an uproar.
As the ship approached that forbidden island, the sight before them left them utterly dumbfounded.
"Holy shit! What the hell is that? Why is there a mountain floating in the sky?"
Looking in the direction of the pointing finger, they saw a small, inverted-cone-shaped island actually hovering above the center of the island.
Enormous vines hung down from the Sky Island like chains, connecting it to the land below.
A silver waterfall cascaded from the sky, throwing up several dazzling rainbows in the sunlight.
The kind of scene that existed only in myths completely fried every examinee's CPU.
"This is straight out of a fantasy!"
"I've never seen an island this ridiculous in my entire life!"
Even among the nearby examinees native to Kirigakure, apart from Shinichi, Luohua, and Jūsai, the three well-connected kids who had been here before, everyone else wore the same shocked, provincial expression.
It might have been their own territory, but not just anyone was qualified to take a stroll through this forbidden ground.
"Listen up! This island is the venue for your exam!"
An Elite Jōnin from Kirigakure serving as an examiner stepped forward and announced loudly.
Watching these kids act like they had never seen the world, he wore the superior smile of a city dweller looking at country bumpkins.
"All right, pick your jaws up and get ready to land!"
No sooner had he spoken than the ship came to a steady stop more than a thousand meters from shore.
Immediately