In fact, since the supply of free magical element (ether) had stopped, the chain of command inside the mobile base was temporarily disorganized.

［Who the hell is interfering with me?]

［Commander, we are currently investigating. However, the supply of free magical element (ether) has stopped. We are switching to pooled magical element (mana), so please wait a moment.]

［Please be ready as soon as possible.]

［Yes, sir.]

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Shinobi 1 reports.

Jin had confirmed the situation with two sources of information: Shinobi 1's visual information and the information from the Peeper Telescope.

But then...

"Whoa!

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"Is it in response to the interruption of the supply of free magical element (ether)?"

"Yes."

Now all we have is Shinobi I's visual information.

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Through this hole, we can send and receive magic waves = ether waves.

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"Right. Please contact me."

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Be careful.

Shinobi leader Shinobu I calls out a warning.

The passageway ends at the end of the corridor and becomes a partition wall.

In fact, the Shinobi Forces are most unfamiliar with such partitions.

Since the bulkheads are designed to fit the original users of the facility, the smaller are at a disadvantage.

The opening and closing mechanism of this bulkhead was a lever type.

Use the force field generator.

Understood.

Shinobi Nisso and Sansan worked together to operate the opening and closing mechanism of the bulkhead, and the door opened shortly after.

They carefully checked the other side, but there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary, so Shinobi Nyu and Sangami decided to proceed first.

No abnormalities.

All right, let's all proceed.

After confirming that there was no danger, the ten continued to advance.

After passing through three similar bulkheads, the atmosphere has clearly changed. They are now brightly lit.

Please be more careful.

Copy.

Not knowing how far their invisibility will go, the ten of them proceed cautiously.

We should look for a passageway or a staircase that leads down.

According to the results of our preliminary inspection with the Peeper Telescope, we should be three floors down.

After an hour of searching without being detected, Shinobu Riku finally found the stairs.

Finally, Shinobu Riku found a place that looked like it.

I think it is a hatch.

The wall of the hatch protrudes slightly, and a rectangular joint can be seen.

There is a control panel at the level of a standard human waist.

Ancient characters ......<> are displayed in the same script used by .

The people of Horai Island have been educated by < beforehand, so they can read it without any problem.

"Open" and "closed"? I'm sure of it.

Shinobi I uses the force field generator to levitate and operates the panel.

The door opens.

Hmm, it seems that the energy in this base has been restored.

The fact that it works like this even though the supply of free magical element (ether) has been cut off indicates that the reserve energy reserves are sufficient.

The fact that it's spreading to such an unpopular section of the city ...... is not to be underestimated.

Shinobu I peeked inside the door with caution.

As he had hoped, it was what could be called an <>.

There was an elevator leading up or down.

First of all, I and the rest of you will go down. I'll call you if everything's all right.

Understood.

The five "Shinobi" slowly make their way to the door and board the elevator that is supposed to take them downstairs. ...... is...

It's stuck.

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Well, this is not good.

Shinobi 1 and the others look around the elevator room.

There is a hatch here.

Shinobi San found a round hatch.

It has a hand-cranked handle.

It is marked "for emergency use".

It seems to be an emergency or maintenance passage.

Okay, let's use this.

It was more difficult to turn the handle, but it took five of us to turn it, and we managed to open the hatch.

Inside is a vertical hole. There is a ladder attached to it.

As I suspected, it seemed to be for emergency or maintenance purposes, and the vertical hole was barely big enough for a single person to pass through.

But it is too wide for the Shinobi Forces.

Since ladders cannot be used, we descend slowly using the force field generator.

However, they could only reach two floors down in this vertical hole.

One more floor to go. We need to find a way to go down again.

We exit the shaft. It was the same place as the two floors above.

Since nothing was happening, Shinobu I called up some pickups from the land and started to investigate.

The first floor of the building was a small building.

"Well, it looks like an office building.

Jin who was watching the images in the Horaijima command center thought to himself.

In the company building where Jin was working, the <> was separated from the office room by a door or something.

It seems that the place where the Shinobi Unit is now located is also separated in such a way.

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The old man advised the Shinobi Forces.

All right, let's go out for a while.

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Carefully.

And then they opened the door and found a deformed golem waiting for them.