Mokgetsu's words stirred excitement among the Ninja Academy students present.
The specifics of the special training on the Genin side will be announced during the briefing, but there's no such thing for the Ninja Academy here.
So they assumed this special training would be similar to previous ones, focusing on basic Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, but unexpectedly, there was a course on Chakra Nature Transformation.
Although the Ninja Academy doesn't teach Chakra Nature Transformation, it systematically covers some theoretical knowledge related to Chakra, which includes content related to Nature Transformation.
In simple terms, they know that such a thing exists and that it's a must-learn item for studying the Five Ninjutsu, but that's as far as their knowledge goes.
"With so many students, presumably, there are people with all five Chakra Attributes. How is he going to teach them?" Nara Shiomizu looked around and realized that Mokgetsu was the only teacher, feeling a bit puzzled.
He had thought there would be five teachers, each teaching a different Nature Transformation, at most with Mokgetsu as the special training leader teaching a few more projects, but it seemed like there was only Mokgetsu as the teacher.
"Could it be that he has mastered all five Chakra Attributes to a level sufficient for teaching?" Nara Shiomizu speculated, then shook his head in denial.
Even if Mokgetsu mastered the Five Great Attributes, it would be impossible to teach so many people all by himself. Nara Shiomizu casually glanced around, feeling there might be around seven hundred people here.
He thought that there probably wouldn't be formal lessons today, so the other teachers didn't come.
Not to mention Nara Shiomizu, who was participating in the special training for the first time, but if not for Asuma, Namiashi Raido, and Yuhi Kurenai heavily praising the grand scene of Mokgetsu using the Five Elements Ninjutsu, Namiashi Raido, who had attended a special training before, would probably have thought the same; mastering the Five Ninjutsu so skillfully or teaching seven hundred people single-handedly seems a bit far-fetched.
"First, there will be a group testing, after which I will divide you into groups based on your overall strength for teaching." Mokgetsu said, forming seals and using the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to create fifteen Shadow Clones.
There were too many students, and if he tested them one by one, it might take the whole day just for testing.
Because teaching Nature Transformation was involved, Mokgetsu also purchased a large amount of Chakra Test Paper to test the students' attributes.
Even though the number of students increased, Mokgetsu did not intend to increase the number of groups, keeping only three groups: A, B, and C.
If they were divided too finely, the difficulty of teaching would increase instead. To allow as many students as possible to benefit from the strengthened teaching of skills, having three groups was most appropriate; fewer groups would lead to a large disparity in strength within each group, and more groups would make it difficult for Mokgetsu to manage.
Besides the three groups, he would also divide them by Chakra attributes for separate teaching during the Chakra Nature Transformation practice.
Even with fifteen Shadow Clones plus Mokgetsu himself conducting the tests, it took two hours to complete all the records due to the large number of students.
Mokgetsu first canceled the Shadow Clones to organize the memories and then created two more Shadow Clones for the grouping work.
"Now, this is the list of C group members. Students whose names are called, please come over to this side." Once the Shadow Clone completed the list, it immediately walked in front of the students and said.
"Kotetsu Hagane, Kamizuki Izumo, Mitarashi Anko..."
"Ah, why am I still in C group this time? That shouldn't be." Anko scratched her head. She remembered that towards the end of the last special training, Mokgetsu said she had B group strength. How did her strength improve over the year, yet she was downgraded?
"Heh heh, let's go. Bragging doesn't help; in Teacher Mokgetsu's eyes, you're on the same level as us." Hagane Kotetsu chuckled.
While he also hoped to be directly assigned to B group, hearing that Anko was also in C group instantly lifted his mood.
His own misfortune was regrettable, but it was hard not to laugh at his friend's misfortune.
"I support you, Anko, to prove with your strength that Teacher Mokgetsu made a mistake in grouping." Kamizuki Izumo encouraged.
"Why don't you go? Do you think I'm stupid?" Anko rolled her eyes at Kamizuki Izumo, choosing to trust Teacher Mokgetsu's judgment as correct.
She was proven right, as students from B group and even A group from the last training were also placed into C group.
"Uzuki Yugao, Gekkou Hayate..."
With Mokgetsu continuously reading names, most of the current students were placed in C group.
"The grouping criteria are stricter this time, even you've been placed in C group." Uzuki Yugao noticed that this special training might be more rigorous than the last.
"That's great! It means we're in the same group. Actually, the group doesn't matter; Teacher Mokgetsu will teach earnestly in any group." Gekkou Hayate said with a smile.
"Next is the list of B group students." Once the C group list was read out, another Shadow Clone moved aside and began to call the names of B group members.
"Asakawa Sankei, Nakamori Gouichi..."
The B group students were mostly newly graduated Genin from this year who had learned a bit of Nature Transformation but weren't very skilled at it.
Once the B group students were all called, Mokgetsu didn't need to read the A group students' list anymore; he would just take the remaining students with him.
"Not bad, getting placed in A group again this time." Shiranui Genma said, patting Ebisu's shoulder.
"Yeah." Ebisu nodded, it was indeed nice. He had been placed in B group at the start of the last special training, and it was only after performing well in the subsequent tests that he moved to A group. Starting in A group this time was indeed comfortable.
"In the morning, practice Chakra Nature Transformation, in the afternoon, practice Taijutsu." Mokgetsu announced the day's schedule for A group.