After everyone had finished expressing their sentiments, they all quieted down with curiosity, waiting for the chat group's next announcement.
Everyone was eager to know what Naruto's world's score would be this time.
Last time, his score had already reached 1500 points.
This time, he was in third place again.
Could it be that he had regressed?
Since the Hokages had joined the chat group, they had never seen any world's score go backward.
If Naruto's world's score had indeed regressed, it would be a very special event for them.
Just as everyone was speculating, the voice of the chat group rang out.
In the central light screen, an image appeared!
[The Seventh Hokage Naruto's world, national power display complete!]
[Final National Power Score: 1650 points!]
1650 points!
This score was actually quite high!
The second-place Tobirama's world only had 700 points!
In other words, there was only a 50-point difference between second and third place.
This gap was remarkably small.
Generally, the difference between worlds of different rankings was around a few hundred points.
A gap as tiny as 50 points seemed to be the first of its kind so far.
Naruto's world only needed to put in a little more effort to reach the second-place score.
It was a shame they didn't make it.
After seeing this score, Naruto was momentarily stunned, then couldn't help but laugh wryly.
"I never expected it to be just 50 points short," he said. "What a pity!"
This time, the score was truly close to second place. If the gap had been larger, he wouldn't have felt so regretful.
The others also comforted him.
Minato said, "Only 50 points short, it's nothing! Maybe next time you can close that gap. Honestly, this is a good thing! After all, the smaller the gap, the easier it is to catch up, right?"
Kakashi chimed in as well. "That's right, Naruto! You still improved by over a hundred points this time! And considering everything that happened in your world, making such progress is already quite an achievement."
Everyone said so.
Naruto felt much less depressed inside.
He wasn't as upset as before now!
However, Naruto reflected on himself.
To be honest, he hadn't worked hard enough over the past six months.
If he had truly put in enough effort,
he wouldn't have only improved by 150 points.
He remembered very clearly.
The last time he first entered the meeting,
his National Power Score had already reached 1500 points.
And this time, after six months,
he had only improved by 150 points.
To be honest, this rate of progress really wasn't fast.
If only he had worked harder.
Naruto secretly made a decision in his heart.
After this meeting ended and he returned home,
he would do everything possible to strive for development,
to make his world develop even better!
From then on,
the top three rankings had already been determined.
What remained were the rankings from fourth to twelfth place.
As for these rankings,
the Hokages present honestly didn't care much.
After all, everyone had attended many meetings
and understood one thing very clearly:
the top three received additional rewards,
while the rest only received the baseline rewards.
Although the baseline rewards weren't bad,
there wasn't much room for choice.
Moreover, in terms of ranking, who was ahead or behind
didn't seem all that important.
So the Hokages didn't pay much attention to these rankings.
What everyone cared about now was
when this ranking would end?
Then it would be time for the rewards!
Getting the rewards in hand
was what mattered most!
Everyone voluntarily quieted down,
looking at the Light Screen,
waiting for the Chat Group to announce the following rankings.
Soon, the voice of the Chat Group sounded.
[Fourth Place: Madara Uchiha's World!]
[The world has long been unified, and you have begun targeting the Tailed Beasts.]
[Successfully captured two Tailed Beasts.]
[This has allowed your national power to grow to a certain extent.]
[Final National Power Score: 1350 points]
After seeing this score,
Madara Uchiha nodded slightly in his heart.
Last time, he had 1200 points.
This time, he had also improved by 150 points.
If it were before,
he probably could have made it into the top three.
But now, the competition was quite fierce.
None of the Hokages present were pushovers; their scores were all quite high.
So the growth in his points
didn't bring him much advantage.
While observing the national power development of others,
Madara Uchiha reflected on his own approach.
In his own view,
he had been focused on dealing with the Tailed Beasts before
and hadn't paid much attention to technological matters.
Although the increase in Tailed Beasts contributed significantly to national power,
technology was still somewhat lacking.
And technology was clearly the fastest-growing aspect at this stage.
So his ranking dropping by one place
was something he considered quite normal.
Next, the voice of the Chat Group continued.
[Fifth Place: Road to Ninja Tsunade's World]
[Final National Power Score: 1210 points!]
[Sixth Place: First Hokage Hashirama Senju's World]
[Final National Power Score: 1110 points]
[Seventh Place: Tsunade Senju's World]
[Final National Power Score: 1000 points]
After seeing the current scores...
The Hokages all felt quite gratified.
Especially those whose final rankings were seventh or higher.
At this point, the biggest difference from before was that now, even the seventh-place ranking had achieved a National Power Score reaching the level of one thousand points.
Everyone could easily surpass the second-tier reward pool.
It had to be said, this was a very significant improvement.
And with each session, everyone made some progress.
This was still very good.
A sense of hope arose in everyone's hearts.
If they continued to work hard next time, perhaps they could truly do even better!
At that moment, the voice of the Chat Group sounded again.
On the Light Screen, the next ranking text appeared!
[Eighth Place: Fantasy World of Sixth Hokage Uchiha Obito]
[Final National Power Ranking: 950 points]
[Ninth Place: World of Sixth Hokage Kakashi]
[Final National Power Ranking: 900 points]
These two worlds, just as before, had been steadily progressing.
Their scores were steadily rising.
Although they had not yet reached the one-thousand-point milestone, both 950 and 900 points could be said to be very close.
It could be predicted that by the next meeting, their worlds would be able to enter the thousand-point domain!
This was still quite rapid progress.
Indeed, after everyone learned how to increase national power so quickly, things proceeded very smoothly.
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