＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

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"To put this skill simply, I have the long-range tracking formula" Revenge is on me. "

Minutes before sheltering Louis and Gringham to confront [Monochrome].

Ray was still in the process of searching for Louis, asking for details of the skills Nemesis had analyzed as he searched.

"Long-range tracking...?

"Build up the damage taken in the form of a shield as a propulsion force. And if activated, the ability to chase, devour, and strike a triple hit (...), whether it's a distant enemy."

That was clearly a powerful skill.

Deal with the distance Ray and Nemesis have never been good at, deal with fast-paced enemies, and even outperform "Vengeance is on me".

Rather, it is only powerful (...).

Even minus the fact that you can only use it once a day, it's strong.

So Ray thought, "Perhaps it's a skill with some other condition".

And it was right.

"However, there are two problems"

"What's that?

"One is that the skill depends not only on the amount of damage, but also on the distance and velocity of the flight."

Nemesis says.

This skill deals a tenth of the damage taken from the target enemy at a distance and speed.

If you were taking 10,000 damage, track the distance of 1,000 meters with AGI 1000. That was the skill.

"... I see, it's a crossroads"

If you want that [monochrome] to hit you directly with its effect, you must at least have the amount of damage, 250,000 damage, that reaches 25,000 meters that [monochrome] reached earlier.

In addition, if the earlier was not the limit of [monochrome], it cannot be said that it will definitely arrive even if it is even more doubled.

If you try to accumulate that much damage, you can use the remaining Counter Absorptions.

"In addition, it takes a minute to activate once you are ready to use your skills (...)"

"... dude"

"In the meantime, naturally, the shield cannot be used, and" Counter Absorption "cannot be tensioned. Somehow, we have to endure it."

One minute after accumulation is complete, until activated.

Unguarded without any guard, exposed to [monochrome] heat lines.

The sight of Lang's head burning off seen in the first air war is past Ray's brain.

But that still doesn't change Ray's choice.

Even if an unprotected minute is the most dangerous time, still use this skill.

So an unprotected minute is not an issue.

"... Either way, that's the only way I can reach him. Don't you?"

"Um," Nemesis responds.

So the question that remains is whether it arrives or not.

The limit of the amount of damage that the ray can accumulate without dying and the limit of the altitude that [monochrome] can reach.

Which limit comes first, this was a skill for fighting like that.

"This may or may not arrive. It's all about how much he attacked..."

When Nemesis nearly said that much - the sky glowed.

It was a [monochrome] hotline, and when he saw it pouring down into the windmill cabin, Ray was rushing out there to be led.

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And now, the meteorological windmill has the largest possible build-up, surpassing the many hotlines of [monochrome] and the illumination of SHINING DESPAIR (Dissapier), which is the maximum firepower.

"Start up"

All the damage accumulated with the third form “α” black circle shield, triggered by Nemesis's own words, will be the propulsion of the third form “β” meteor windmill.

The five feathers of the meteor windmill slowly begin to spin.

The black feathers wind around heavily, but gradually increasing speed.

Yes, the wind. Until now, it has been windless, but as if its windmill itself is starting to bring in or wind so fierce that it winds up.

At more than ten seconds, the windmill is rotating so fast that it is difficult to distinguish by visibility.

Ray continues to grasp the pattern that is likely to be taken by the centrifugal force generated with his scratched right hand.

This rotation is the very process of converting the damage accumulated on the Black Circle Shield.

At the end of the dead line, more than 650,000 damage was accumulated by Ray from [monochrome].

Therefore, this meteor is the tracker of ultrasound that boasts an AGI 65000 and a range of 65000 meters reached.

If hit directly, Meteor Windmill strikes triple - knocking damage approaching 2 million into [monochrome].

It is a decisive blow, a special demon bullet that determines the battle as long as it is unleashed.

Yes, as long as they let it go (...).

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"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

[Monochrome] in heaven wasn't laughing or happy already.

Even using SHINING/DESPAIR, the largest hotline ever released by himself, the ray under his eyes is still alive.

On the contrary, it carries a further fighting spirit and a weapon with so much energy that it can be sensed by [monochrome]

[Monochrome] is intuitive.

- You can't have that.

- With that one, this is gonna break.

- It ends (...)

[Monochrome] was no longer thinking about despairing Ray, etc.

I just have the fear that if I don't end it, it will end.

It was [monochrome] boasting of untouched invincibility at the altitude of heaven, but it was the first feeling of death I felt.

He said he never even felt this emotion when he was a meteorite three hundred years ago.

"KYAKAKYAAAKYAKAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

[Monochrome] charges the energy of the hotline.

[Monochrome] thought that he had already shot in a number of hotlines and that he could not defeat Ray with hotlines intended for continuous firing.

Whatever it actually was, [monochrome] was unthinkable when the hotline just burned “Octopus” went through against Ray, who had not broken his knee in previous attacks.

However, I also expected not enough time to release SHINING/DESPAIR again.

Therefore, what [monochrome] chose was a penetrating heat line released to Gringham.

It was powerful enough to think that the hotline, which had a shorter charge time than SHINING DESPAIR, should be fired in a row to determine the battle.

Whether the choice was handy or bad, it was to be revealed within a minute.

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"I'm not shooting... oh man, don't keep your strength!!"

Twenty seconds from the start of rotation.

The hotline that came down in the meantime wasn't just one shot, but you can't call it "good".

I also know to Nemesis that [monochrome] is ready to kill for sure.

At the same time, there is no power left in my Master to avoid it.

Nemesis thought he could avoid even if he didn't have the skills to defend himself.

But now Ray is full of creativity.

It's not surprising when [you pass out], and it's like a miracle that you're able to hold the nemesis and activate your skills in this way.

'What to do...! The charge still takes forty! There's no way to prevent that hotline!

If the Black Circle Shield is a form of all-powerful defense, the Meteor Windmill is a form of all-powerful attack.

To the Nemesis today, the power to defeat the enemy is not that much power to protect Ray.

Therefore, Nemesis thought that he would take all his time off.

But...

"... no, I'm fine. Nemesis."

"Ray?"

Ray's face, "It's okay," was never strong.

He was a face who believed in something when he said he no longer had any leeway.

"What's okay..."

When Nemesis tries to ask why - the signs over the sky change.

The charge of [Monochrome] has been completed, and a serial penetrating heat line for obliterating the ray is not to be released.

"Ray!"

Nemesis is in a hurry, but Ray, by contrast...

"I'm doing this so flashy... anyone will notice"

I was neither afraid nor desperate.

I still believe in something and even laugh at the edge of my mouth.

"And... if you've noticed, you'll definitely come"

Immediately after, a number of deadly hotlines are emitted from the [monochrome] above.

If you hit it even with a single blow, Ray's HP now will wipe out its roots and its self will be cloud-sprayed with the possibility of reversal.

Still, Ray is not afraid.

Something... like you believe in someone.

"Wouldn't you......? Senior."

And he uttered certain words,

"Not even before they ask!!"

- She (...) also responded to that.

"Fire Resist," "Astroguardo!!"

Moment after moment, Barbaroy in armor over three meters breaks in between him and the hotline so as to hide Ray's body.

It uses a combination of flame resistance and increased defense skills against heat lines pouring from the sky, and serves as a shield for rays.

"... ugh! You pulled out every attribute defense...!! But hey! My defense isn't soft enough to crack like this!! '

Rainstorms and pouring deadly hotlines.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, that would have lasted.

However, Barbaroy protects Ray from all of it, as in the name of the "lid”.

"Ha... Did you shred 30%? Big power, motherfucker. '

That's how Barbaroy threw up somewhere satisfied as he rose white smoke from his armor.

To that appearance, Ray smiled bitterly, and Nemesis bewildered.

"Shen Pa...... Huh? This, Beasley?

"You bet...... I don't care what you think."

'No, I don't know how to look at it. It's the same design as that armor... I mean, Lord, it's Marie's time, you can tell very well...'

While baffled as such, Nemesis has not stopped the meteor windmill from spinning.

The remaining time is 20 seconds.

The third form of force (skill) can then be activated.

"Here."

"Ah..."

Barbaroy says while sprinkling the highest quality [HP recovery potion] on the ray.

"That skill, you get to that [monochrome], right?

"... Yes!

'Then you just think about tapping that power into [monochrome]. I'll take it all out of my way. "

"Yes!!"

Ray leaves Barbaroy with all of his defense, concentrating himself on Nemesis's skills.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

From above, a half frenzied [monochrome] continues to emit a hotline toward the ground.

No longer considers the balance with the rate of energy recovery, a series of shots beyond the limits.

I don't mind the tentacle crystal, the heat ray irradiation mechanism, burning and blowing smoke, [monochrome] keeps firing the heat rays.

"Shrug it!!"

But that hotline just doesn't reach Ray one shot.

Barbaroy stands in front of Ray, but the best wall player (tank) stands.

Therefore, there was no way such a hotline could have taken Ray's life or anything.

And time will come.

"Ray! We're ready!

reported by Nemesis,

"I won't butch!! Ray!!"

Barbaroy encouraged,

"- Oh!!"

Ray responds.

Ray swings the meteor windmill backwards stirring the air at supersonic speeds no longer.

It's like releasing a ball into heaven, and Ray begins to utter certain words.

"The payback..."

That's the inherent skill of a meteor windmill.

That is the crystal of Ray and Nemesis's wishes.

That is the vow of two who tried to overcome their weakness... their desire.

A manifestation of the thought of reaching even the tragedy they once did not reach.

Everywhere, the name of prayer for delivery and hope.

"- To him (OVER) of the stars (STAR)!!!"

And the stars fly.

Flying from a pattern descended through by Ray, five stars fly to heaven.

Make it a meteor, wind star.

Coincidence or no coincidence made me a name for the legend that once sealed [monochrome].

The supersonic meteor (Nemesis) ascended to the dark stars above, pulling the tail of a black aura.

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"KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?"

[Monochrome] also flies again against a meteor that turns to itself at several times the speed of sound from under his eyes.

I don't think about interception. The speed of it clearly exceeded the speed captured by the hotline.

[Monochrome] performs the ascent with all his might beyond the highest speed he has ever exerted and has never even tried.

And two stars rise to heaven.

Both escaping and pursuing stars go far beyond the speed of sound.

I see what you see in the sky from afar.

There are two meteors returning to heaven from the earth.

Meteors, however inverse of heaven and earth, are meteors.

Either is destined to disappear after the flow.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

Fly.

[Monochrome] flies.

I don't think about my MP residual amount, I don't have room for conversion, etc.

However, you change all of your mechanism to speed and escape the slightly lagging black meteor.

The limit point of the organism has already been exceeded.

But there's no sign of stopping at a black meteor, no fine dust.

Dead Chase never ended and [Monochrome] himself exceeded the highest reached altitude to date.

Altitude 35,000 meters over. Unknown world even for [monochrome] before this.

I don't even know how far [monochrome] cracked bodies will have it.

But [monochrome] keeps flying.

Because before it stops, we're only waiting for a definitive extinction.

- I have to run.

- I have to run. I have to run.

- It will end!!

Alternatively, the mood of [monochrome] at that time could have been the same as what [monochrome] has been making.

Yes, despair, which [monochrome] was a source of joy.

... No, [monochrome] is not desperate yet.

[Monochrome] still had hope.

- At that speed, you can't fly anywhere.

- There are limits to this, too.

- That too, somewhere, the limit.

- If you get away with it.

- If that gets to the limit first, this won't end!!

That's the hope [monochrome] holds.

And that's right. Meteor windmills have their limits. The distance you can convert accumulated damage to fly, the limit of 65,000 meters.

Already the altitude is over 50,000 meters.

Time to stay, more than ten seconds.

If you escape all that time, the meteor windmill loses its propulsion.

Therefore, the settlement is this altitude of 50,000 meters over… we will definitely arrive in the thermal zone where meteors are supposedly burned out.

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"... that's a beautiful thing"

Nemesis thought so, chasing him to [monochrome] at the highest speed he had earned.

Nemesis looked at the world with a wide view due to weapon form (Arms), looking at [monochrome] running upwards.

I felt that on earth a world that was blocked by the horizon could be seen everywhere in today's nemesis.

It's not just the kingdom we've been living in.

Neighbourhood and different vistas of the other country.

Something huge that looks like the end of the south.

The breadth of the world, the diversity of the world, was visible to the nemesis of today.

I just thought it was purely beautiful.

One day, I also wanted to actually see the view this way with Ray.

"Before I do... I have something to do"

That was standing in front of Ray, breaking the current tragedy.

What Nemesis should do now, what Nemesis himself wished for, entrusted to Ray.

The limits of meteor windmills are close.

Still, Nemesis flies, swearing to his heart that he will make sure it arrives.

Unexpectedly, there was a word out of his mouth.

'... you, too, would have seen the world from here'

With such words in mind against the [monochrome] in front of him,...... Nemesis squeezed his last force.

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- It's over!

- It's over!

[Monochrome] feared the meteor behind his slowly approaching.

If we escape, we have already lost hope.

As it was, when I was done, I was afraid from the bottom of my heart.

Hundreds of years later, UBM was frightened by the imminent death.

So I don't even think about what I haven't thought about before... I think about it.

- It's over! When you're done, when you're done..................?

Yes, something I've never thought about as a time.

- What happens when this is over (...)?

The question that intelligent things should think at an extremely early age, "What happens when you die" … Now at this moment, I thought for the first time.

And......

- Is that it?

- Why doesn't this want to end (...)?

Things that were floating like stars in heaven in the first place, thinking nothing.

I don't inherently have any thoughts about my end.

Once, [monochrome], like a star, didn't even think about its own existence.

I was delighted to see people's struggles, to know despair, to feel the swing of their hearts seeing despair as joy, to continue to mass produce despair, to see despair.

- That's right. When it's over, I can't see the despair

- If you don't see despair, you can't be happy.

If I didn't want to end up because I still wanted to be happy, I would have thought so until I was on the verge.

- Why (...), were you happy (...)?

Such, to my centuries-old principles of action, I questioned.

Or that, the first time I saw despair… something I should have probably noticed.

The question of hundreds of years late slows the flying speed of [monochrome] slightly......

The Meteor Windmill (Nemesis) reached [Monochrome] the moment [Monochrome] slowed down slightly.

Meteor windmills (nemesis) feed one of their five feathers into a crystal that is the body of [monochrome],

'... farewell. Black heaven star!!'

All the pain I received from [Monochrome] was tapped in - triple return.

"Payback goes beyond the stars".

It is not easy to withstand the enormous amount of damage that is unleashed by that skill, be it ancient Epic < UBM >.

Not to mention the [monochrome] that was sacrificing endurance can't stand it.

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What [monochrome] thought at the last moment...... anyone could tell.

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A dazzling light shined in heaven that day.

It's the moment a < UBM > collapses, when all the light that was accumulating was emitted.

But it wasn't the light of the hotline that < UBM > was emitting, it was just pure... light that just glowed.

In a countryside with a kingdom, the young brothers and sisters were looking at the sky.

"Wow! It's beautiful. - Oh, come on!

"Yeah! I'm glittering!

The young brothers and sisters were innocent and delighted to see a sparkling sky that was different than usual.

A similar interaction would have taken place in many lands where it could have been seen.

None of them is as desperate as its < UBM > has been to make.

There were just words that conveyed pure joy to each other: "You're beautiful".

Or the sight...... something that could have been made for hundreds of years.

Hundreds of years later, < UBM > finally made the world shine a little bit - vanished.

To be continued