"What's going on? Excessive chakra fluctuations have appeared in the village's Forest of Death, on a scale no less than the Nine-Tails!"
The Chunin who had been sitting at his desk monitoring the village through the barrier suddenly straightened, his eyes narrowing sharply as though he had seen something incomprehensible.
"No, I have to report this to Lord Hokage right away!"
He scrambled to his feet, but the excessive chakra had frightened him so badly that he stumbled and crawled out of the office, shouting.
"Where are the ANBU? An S-rank emergency has occurred in the Forest of Death!!!"
The instant his shout rang out, several ANBU routinely stationed there appeared. Two immediately used the Body Flicker Technique and headed straight for the Hokage Building, while the remaining one helped the Chunin up.
"What happened? An S-rank emergency is no joke!"
Although he wore an ANBU mask, the tension in his voice was unmistakable.
"Excessive chakra fluctuations, no less than the Nine-Tailed Fox going on a rampage. What do you think?"
Seeing that the situation had been reported, and that his own strength would be of no use in something like this, the Chunin simply started chatting with the ANBU to calm himself down.
"The Chunin Ninja Exams are taking place in the Forest of Death right now. How could something like this happen?"
The ANBU's voice also sounded a little panicked. Then he asked, "Could the Nine-Tailed Fox have broken free of the Sealing Technique again?"
The Chunin shook his head. If the Nine-Tailed Fox were rampaging, the barrier would not have reacted like this.
Strangely enough, the older barriers had shown no reaction whatsoever to such enormous chakra fluctuations. Instead, the barriers updated in recent years had sounded the alarm.
The older barriers had played a crucial role