Chapter 172: Star Fixing

Going down to the river, Shikamaru crossed the bridge, and looked closely at the ruins of the Maelstrom village. It's hard to believe that such a strong clan could have evaporated like this. Of course, there are no bodies left, as well as bones ... It seems that this poisonous plant loves to deal with people and other animals. Even Shikamaru's presence seemed to unnerve her a little, at least many of the roots were quivering unusually. Although it seemed dangerous, the guy did not stop because of this, but simply went through everything, reaching the main destroyed area.

- It is not surprising that the knowledge was lost, there were no bodies left, which means there is nothing to resurrect. This is bad for me. Although, I know where Kushina and Mito are buried ... The wallpaper might come in handy, but it's not time to deal with the dead women just yet. Yes, and they may not be there, Orochimaru is still that lover of digging in the ground. Mito's scroll can be useful here, its structure resembles a print-out construction, albeit a little vague. But fuin is usually marked inside a scroll, this one is not even revealed. It can be destroyed, apparently, but to reveal it ... It was thoroughly impregnated with some kind of resin and something else ...

With a pensive look, Shikamaru took the scroll out of his bag and examined it again. As always, he didn't look very special. Yellow parchment with an unknown red fuin stamp on both edges. The symbolism really looked like an unsealing formation, or, more simply, the scroll was a part of the stabilization of some kind of sealing technique. At least Shikamaru was leaning towards this theory and not without reason. He succeeded in fuin, and they in essence reminded him of a kind of logical command scheme, moreover, rather developed and not too studied. Chakra sometimes has different properties and many fuin are dependent on this. Shikamaru's specialization was mainly in sealing, so he understood a little more. Still, Mito specialized in this section, so the guy for the most part comprehended this direction. The student followed the path of the teacher. Moreover, it was closer and more interesting to him. At least back in those days, he was thinking about the perfect sealing chain for keeping tailed beasts. This is another reason why he came here before he found the three-tailed, the results of these studies will depend on the further step on the path to mastering the biju chakra.

Shikamaru walked slowly over the remains of the rune tile. Simple fuin for strengthening and reducing weight were drawn on them, rather interesting toys, perhaps, they survived precisely because of their structure. A certain order compensated for the damage and distributed the impact power of the blast waves. It is not a bad idea to create a wall out of such gray tiles, but, of course, waste could bring many to the grave. Still, to form such bricks, you need a lot of experienced people and a lot of the correct aspect ratio of the structures. Simply put, stability is not to be seen if there is a displacement or some kind of accident during the drawing. Although, there were ways to make everything easier, but ... They are quite dangerous.

The tile quickly ran out, and in general it has long outlived its usefulness. The center of the village was destroyed and what was stored underground probably too. Shikamaru took another step onto the thick stones and stopped abruptly. The sense of danger increased, so he frowned.

“Without the Rinnegan, it will be difficult to identify small spatial interactions with fuinprints. At least from my recollection, Nagato was quite capable of detecting the Leaf's barrier, which means these eyes are guided by tiny spatial vibrations. Impressive, but now it's just idle chatter ... - With a pensive look, Shikamaru looked down at his feet and did not find anything new. The tile collapsed a long time ago, he, in fact, descended into the crater from an explosion, like a huge biju of a bomb ... There are only stones everywhere, but ... The location of these destroyed pyramid supporting structures seemed random, but for the fuin master ...

Shikamaru was about to fold a handful of hand seals when he suddenly heard a familiar sound in his head:

"Secrets of Uzumaki"

Objective: to go through the barrier and get the legacy.

- Interesting! - again squinting, the guy instantly changed the color of his eyes, the Sharingan went into action. Shikamaru wanted to remember every detail and understand the principle of the trap, apparently, whoever activated it died a terrible death. But, only he activated only the first layer, now, in the seemingly most ordinary wreckage, there was another activation chain and probably the traps are more dangerous at times. One has only to imagine the danger of an explosion, which created a crater with a diameter of almost a hundred meters, and then assume that it could be even more dangerous.

- This is star anchoring, I read about it ... The calculation of the fuinmaster should be perfect, he fixes the positions of objects and puts fuin marks deep underground and into each stone separately. Simply put, forming the field of interaction of all seals, creating a barrier, movement in which means only death, if you do not know the right path. A safe route naturally exists for disarming, but not here, there is too much debris ... This seal cannot be broken, and if I continue to move towards the middle circle, I simply cannot get out. I already activated the seal, and when I entered the lands of the Maelstrom, Shikamaru's back was covered with cold sweat:

- Such a radius of the barrier ... Creepy ... This means that the next explosion can already demolish everything here. I penetrated the web, as it accepted me, but I can only get out by breaking the interaction of hundreds of seals with each other. In the end, everything will explode, I either die or I can hide. Only this clearly does not suit me, firstly, the explosion may not be one at all, and secondly, I do not want to damage what is hidden under the rubble. If the Uzumaki did not resort to fully activating this exploding structure, then there was a reason. The strangest thing is, why, after all, no one came here and fell into this trap? Many years have passed ... - Shikamaru's gaze turned to the poisonous tentacles of the plant, and he nodded thoughtfully.

- “Maybe it's in him ... Quite cunning. In addition, it may well be that the hidden villages already know about this trap, so they don’t climb ... "

- Star anchoring is not a particularly difficult method if you can count to ten. The difficulty in its ideal execution in this situation ... Suppose that the village was not attacked, the seal of the consolidation is kept underground, people passing through the barrier to exit the village were given the opportunity to extricate themselves from the web. What is the risk of mistakes ... The worst thing is the miscalculation of the fall of all the debris. Of course, ideal designs are not important here, but after activating the second protective layer, the underground seals will probably connect with those that are fixed in the wreckage. If something goes wrong, an unplanned explosion may occur ... Now it is clear why they covered those fuin slabs with seals, all this to stabilize the destruction in the required radius. Not so difficult in appearance, but in practice ... Impressive! This master of barriers and traps is simply a master of his craft. I would like to meet with him during his lifetime.