"Creak..."
Amid the soft sound of the door opening, Chiba cautiously stepped into the Forbidden Jutsu Chamber. Once he had made his decision, he had darted out of the foliage surrounding the hidden sentry post without hesitation. In a single flash, he had arrived at the entrance to the Forbidden Jutsu Chamber.
The guards and hidden sentries truly had not reacted at all. Every last one of them had been caught in a genjutsu. On the surface, they still appeared to be maintaining a tight watch, without the slightest abnormality. Unless one looked closely into their eyes, it would be impossible to tell that they had already fallen under a genjutsu.
Chiba's journey here had truly gone without a hitch. The Forbidden Jutsu Chamber had three layers of defenses. Under normal circumstances, getting inside would have taken considerable effort to deceive all three layers of security—or, at the very least, subdue them with minimal fighting.
But now, he had simply swaggered right in.
As for the various mechanisms hidden within the two seemingly ordinary passages leading deeper into the Forbidden Jutsu Chamber beyond those three layers of security, they were not much of a problem for Chiba. As an Assistant Agent with real authority who had already studied the chamber's blueprints, he had practically swaggered through those as well.
However, judging by the fact that no traps had been triggered in either passage, that genjutsu master had likely used genjutsu to obtain the correct method of passage from the guards at the first three layers of security—the method of avoiding the traps. Then, like Chiba, he had essentially swaggered right in.
At this moment, Chiba was also deeply shocked by that genjutsu master.
From the way the guards along the route had been subdued by genjutsu, he could practically imagine