"Ahem!"
Hearing Number 14's response and his halted footsteps, Number 15 coughed toward the entrance of the secret chamber.
At this moment, they could not simply barge in.
Earlier, Chiba had already told them that one of his Slug Sage Art clones was here. In other words, someone was guarding this secret chamber.
A Slug Sage Art clone did not share real-time telepathic awareness with its original body. It was unlike a split body, where one only needed to think of something to read the information in the original body's or split body's mind. It even seemed that the original body could, to a certain extent, take control of a split body. Though both sides retained a degree of independence, the original body still held absolute dominance over the split body.
And this Slug Sage Art clone was guarding the secret chamber. Without real-time telepathic awareness, if they entered rashly, they could very well be treated as enemies and attacked.
This Slug Sage Art clone might not even recognize them.
Number 15 did not have a comprehensive understanding of Chiba's strength, but Number 14 knew it quite thoroughly and clearly.
Even if it was only a Slug Sage Art clone, with the boost of Sage Art, they would likely find it difficult to withstand.
What was more, Chiba had always developed both taijutsu and ninjutsu comprehensively. With Sage Art Chakra, both his taijutsu and ninjutsu would receive immense enhancements. Even if Slug Sage Art could not use techniques like the Eight Gates, which required a real physical body, nor possess the power with the distinct traits of the Transcendent Power within Chiba, Sage Art-level ninjutsu and taijutsu alone would be enough to give them a terrible time.
Compared to the other members of Dawn, Number 14's strength was not especially