＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

As soon as "Vengeance is on Me" hit him directly, [Gardranda] 's abdomen exploded into a fine piece of wood dust, and his body split up and down.

When that body made a noise on the earth and fell, it was extinguished by becoming a particle of light, just like any other monster's path.

And when [Gardranda] disappears, he can also lose the temper he was able to stand in.

Three meters away, a thick mist of impatience that doesn't look busy disappears into the sun just naturally.

[< UBM > [Gardranda the Great Ghost] has been crusaded]

[I elect MVP]

[[Ray Sterling] has been elected MVP]

[Giving [Ray Sterling] MVP Benefits [♪ Armor Gardranda]]

Disenchantment and the current message are telling me the end of the battle.

I watched the announcing window as it fell to the ground.

"Won, did you?"

"Not yet......!

Luke is still fighting [Crimson Rockbird] over it.

Quick, we need to go to the rescue...

"But Master! Your lord is still in a state anomaly... '

When I looked at the status window, my temper disappeared, but the triple state anomaly remained.

[Toxic] and HP is shredding, and MP and SP are already depleted.

But we have to recover somehow and go rescue Luke......

In addition to the [Rockbird] above, that attack just before destroying [Gardranda].

That is definitely......

"Ray! Are you alright -!

When I turned around according to my voice, Marie was about to rush over, who didn't see me after she gave me the [soothing all-purpose psychotropic (Ericcil)].

He must have come closer because his temper had disappeared.

"Condition abnormality display is terrible. Wait a minute, please."

You checked in the party's simplified window, and Marie said so and removed a few bottles of medicine from the item box - a wristband type different from my bag type or the pocket type used by Chesha.

Same kind of HP recovery potion I was using. Plus a bottle labeled MP, SP.

"Restore HP, MP, and SP with first aid first. I wish I had [antidote], but I've used it up now. I originally only had [soothing all-purpose psychic drug] for [intoxication] and [debilitation]..."

What Marie saw with the words were those carriage people who were similarly distracted by me.

Everyone, including the escort, seems to have fallen because of [intoxication] and [debilitation], but no one seems to have died of [ferocity].

From what I can tell by the words, Marie was handling it.

"I had quite a few, hey. Escorts, merchants, their families. It's all twelve of them together, so I ran out of them."

It was in the mood of being [a pharmacist] to give her pills around. - Okay, Marie laughs.

Marie has always been a carriage folk...... Apparently she was doing everything she could to keep Tian from dying.

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"What? I'm so annoyed. If Ray's a middle-aged man, he'll sue you."

Nimanima...... I don't remember laughing like that.

"No, you're sweet, I thought"

"It's not nice or anything. Don't you hate it?"

"No?"

"It's okay because even if you kill a player, it's just Despena, but Tian won't come back to life. I'm NG because I kinda hate permanent loss."

"... right"

Is it the same as I feel bad aftertaste?

But players can kill, as for me who just got killed recently... Ah.

"Yes, Marie. Wasn't there anyone around here earlier?

"Oh yes! There was that too!

Marie meets Pong with her hand.

"I saw it! Same guy I saw in that Noz Forest shot [Gardranda] in the left shoulder!

Was that the Embrio...

But why did he only shoot in the left shoulder?

If the goal is to defeat [Gardranda], who is < UBM >, you can shoot and terminate not only on the left shoulder, but elsewhere as well. That way the MVP was him.

Now it's like you did my assistant knife.

"Since the shooting, < Super Kill > has left. Looks like he's on his way to Gideon, too."

"Right..."

Then we might run into each other again.

"Oh, you recovered?

"Oh."

Recovery in the potion was also taking place during the conversation. HP is decreasing with [fierce poison], but MP and SP returned.

Nemesis deforms into a black flag axe spear.

Unlike the previous one, however, "Reversal is like a Flying Flag" is not activated.

'Cause you defeated [Gardranda], the culprit of a state anomaly...'

"Reversal is like a Flying Flag" is a skill used by hostiles to reverse state anomalies and debuff effects.

Apparently the skill cannot be activated now that [Gardranda], an adversary, is gone as the source of the state anomaly.

... It's hard to be user-friendly inside.

After defeating the enemy, he could die of an abnormal condition...

"Well, I have no choice. Reversal is like a Flying Flag. The base status is up, so I'll try."

My level has risen three to 23 in the battle ahead.

What they can't even do with a monster worth a dragon...

"Master, by the way. I hope you recovered. '

Nemesis twitches the tip of the axe spear upwards.

"How are you willing to break into air warfare (...)?

That reminded me of something I had completely lost track of.

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I can't just do it with this.

I wasn't thinking.

Instead of going to help you, you won't get your hands or feet.

"Um, do you even throw stones?

"I can't reach that height..."

Even [Rockbird] with huge wings is tall enough to be dotted.

Luke and Babi don't even see the dots...... Ah.

"You're down"

[Rockbird], which seemed like a dot, descends.

I saw that. Me and Marie get up.

but things are not right.

It's slowly lowering altitude, not a fast steep descent when you raid me.

Eventually I noticed when [Rockbird] looked fine.

[Rockbird] 's back, with Luke on board who was supposed to have been fighting.

[Rockbird] landed slowly and lowered Luke to the ground.

"Mr. Ray! Mr. Marie! Were you okay!?

"Oh, this one's fine... but who's Luke? I don't see any babies."

"Babi's tired in battle and he's back inside me."

That's what Luke says and shows the left hand crest.

"Right.... So what about that [Crimson Rockbird]?

"It's Audrey!

"KIIIEAAA!"

Big bird?

Oh, Audrey?

'I don't know if you're naming me...'

"Yes! If I enchanted you, I could do Tame!

Well, did Luke also have a low probability tame for the effect of "The Charm of Males"?

... which means this guy is also.

You don't know what it looks like. Really.

"No, wait... this bird, it must have been [Gardranda] 's horseman"

"At first, it was hard to attract and work, and Tame wasn't going to be able to do it, but it suddenly started to work when I was clear downstairs."

When the mood clears, it's time for me to defeat [Gardranda] in equals.

You mean the Lord [Gardranda] is dead and no longer a horseman, and the difficulty of charm and thyme is reduced?

If you look [Crimson Rockbird]...... Audrey is rubbing her wings against Luke's back.

Is it courtship or something? I seem to miss Luke a lot.

And I also feel the name Audrey suits me better than Marilyn. I don't know what Audrey Hepburn thinks from behind the grass leaves.

"I was worried because I was too angry to know how Ray and the others were doing."

"Oh, I won. Thanks to Luke and Marie."

'And thanks to me!

"I know. Thanks, Nemesis."

'... ugh, yeah. If you know what I mean...'

Hmm?

That's a strange reaction.

"So now you've got it all cleaned up."

"Right."

I felt bad about the last Super Kill, but there's nothing I can do about it more than not be here anymore.

For one thing, I put him on the shelf and decided to prioritize Marilyn's recovery, which is now in [Jewel] with me.

We waited together for the state anomaly to fall out while restoring HP with my recovery magic and Marie's medication.

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All state abnormalities disappeared after less than 10 minutes, either because the culprit's temper had disappeared.

People in the carriage fleet had also recovered in those days.

Their leader, the merchant, Mr. Alejandro, wanted to thank us.

Mr. Alejandro was a somewhat Latino brown, dandy thirties man, but he was thanked in tears for "I would have died and my family would have died without you," "I am a benefactor of life," and "I can't thank you enough," and both me and Luke lit up.

Mr. Alejandro and the others continue to aim for Gideon, so we decided to go the same way.

He lost a few of his escorts in the previous battle and was worried because the remaining ones were not sufficient.

Mr. Alejandro was very pleased with our proposal.

As we were causing the carriage to leave, the people of the Chamber of Commerce and the survivors of the escort were taking something out of the nostalgia of the dead.

Seeing it, it looked like a box-shaped item box.

They kept the bodies of the dead, one at a time.

Each body was in possession of one item box at a time.

Asking Marie, she said that was the “coffin” of Tian people coming and going from the city.

There are also monsters. There is always a danger of death because it is a dangerous journey.

But if any of his companions survived the loss of their lives, they would be sent to their families and their homeland without corruption.

So they say that all of Tian's merchants and adventurers have item boxes for them to enter.

It gave a slight sense of the death-view of the monsters and other Tian people in close proximity to the danger of death.

"... coffin, huh?"

I've never felt special about NPC dying in a game other than < Infinite Dendrogram >, but it wasn't now.

Just a little bit, I can breathe.

Even though I know this is the game, I'm not going to get used to people dying over here.

Maybe that's because < Infinite Dendrogram > is too real.

Or…….

"Well... now, okay"

I interrupted the thought and went back to the task of waking up the carriage.

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About half a day after I re-left, I was rocked by Marilyn's dragon car, when the sun tilted.

We arrived in Gideon, the dueling city.

To be continued