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Had it not been for the Hokage's unique setup, the crew indulging in none other than the Earth scroll would have been blessed with the knowledge of where exactly they were. Unfortunately, once they would remove the seal on their selected wall, they would end up in a far different place from the sober, white room they had been ported in. Once all inside, they would notice that behind them would no longer be the pure white contrasting with the dark path leading to their trial, but a rocky wall. As if that white room had never truly existed in the first place.

It was dark, but small fissures on the ceiling would allow rays of sun to pass through and illuminate some areas. They were not in the Hidden Leaf, that was for certain. The room itself wasn't very big, going as far as ten meters in radius as a rough estimate. It'd be like a dome of sorts, with nothing but rock over them, and what seemed to be a thick pile of rocks set at the opposite edge of the room from where they had supposedly entered. An educated guess could deduce that a rock slide had blocked the passage to what was possibly the entrance/exit of the spot.

As soon as they would move to investigate their current predicament, it'd be clear as day that whatever they were standing on, it wasn't rubble like the rest of the room. Cold, hard metal creasing as they walked, as if its foundation wasn't exactly stable. Upon further inspection and adapting to the darkness, the squad would notice that they'd actually stand on a circular platform of sorts with odd, runic-shaped patterns upon it. With a set of parallel lines far more defined near the center travelling from one end of the circle to the other, as if they were rails.

It would be long after this realization that these odd glyphs on the metallic structure would shine a bright, blue color. A second afterward, it would brutally descend, leaving our protagonists free-falling with it. Well, not for too long, as its speed would adjust. An observant individual could tell this was some sort of lift mechanism. And it was quite rusty in its singular function. Nonetheless, there would be no danger so far. A good thirty second descent would have the team finally land and be comforted to an exit, one in which the haloing light would be somewhat blinding as they would be brutally removed from their darkness-adapted state.

These were ninja, a little light would be nothing. With their vision clearing from the dazing effects of the sun blazing through one of the larger cracks of what seemed to be the complex they were in, Team Daddy would bear witness to the fantastical landscape few eyes had the grace of admiring.

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Ruins, all secluded within the earth and its minerals. Not underground, mind you, for one could see through the crevices of the earthen shell surrounding the abandoned establishment that there'd be a long, endless desert surrounding the space. They were perhaps in a mountain, or some sort of alleviated area. Nonetheless, they'd feel the breeze of the outside world quite well, dragging along the dry heat of the land and the dust of old age.

Before them was none other than one of many civilizations that had fallen, with its own unique architecture to discover. Many passages, most of which ruined, could be seen littering the settlement. Writings on walls, most of which tarnished beyond salvation were abundant. It'd be unfortunate for the more artistically inclined, for many of the drawings made by the now dead culture were suppressed by the effects of father time.

But as they would progress in the hopes to find a clue as to where that scroll would be, the group would notice more than more oddly shaped edifices. They almost looked humanoid, but were far bigger than them, and could be easily be mistaken as another piece of the many ruined buildings. It would not be until they'd further venture down and find the plaza that they'd make a first big discovery.

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Not entirely intact, but recognizable. A gargantuan humanoid statue, or golem, standing solemn. It was at least three times the size of the tallest one of their group, but it was most certainly inert. Its features were thick, and hard to distinguish, though the glyphs on its body were particularly well preserved compared to the rest of the buried city. Its left arm was also distinctly high, as if purposely set this way.

A good eye could notice that the stone behemoth was pointing at a set of rails that went through the city. The same type of rails that they had found in the elevator. They would not be able to tell where it'd lead with all the rubble, but the path it took would not have any particular obstacle. Now, it'd be up to them to use their intuition to get around.