Beyond the wall lay another world.
Danzo emerged from his intangible state, and the instant his feet touched the ground, his eyes swept across the entire space like a hawk's.
This was a secret chamber of roughly fifty square meters, windowless, with all four walls built from a special dark-red stone. Dense Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu formulas covered every surface.
There were no lamps in the room, yet the formulas themselves emitted a warm crimson glow, bathing the chamber in blood-moon light.
At the center of the chamber stood twelve stone altars.
A scroll floated above each altar.
The scrolls were made of different materials—ancient beast hide, yellowed silk, thin sheets of special alloy gleaming with metallic luster, and even a translucent crystal scroll formed entirely from condensed chakra.
Danzo's breathing quickened slightly.
He could sense the weighty aura of a thousand years of Sealing Jutsu inheritance flowing from those scrolls.
Each one represented the Uzumaki Clan's greatest achievement in a particular field.
Without the slightest hesitation, he strode toward the nearest altar and reached for the beast-hide scroll.
The instant his fingers were about to touch it—
The scroll turned intangible.
It had not vanished, but transformed into something between solid and illusory.
Danzo's fingers passed through it as though through a holographic projection, finding nothing but emptiness.
"As expected..." Danzo immediately withdrew his hand, understanding flashing through his eyes. "A dual layer of bloodline seals and cognitive seals.
"Only those with the Uzumaki Bloodline, or those who correctly understand a particular technique, can truly touch the physical object."
He turned to another altar and tried to touch the silk scroll.
It turned intangible as well.
He tried the alloy scroll and the crystal scroll... all were the same.
Danzo frowned deeply.
He had long expected that the Uzumaki Clan's