＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

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It is he who stands in the abyss of deep despair who holds hope.

If you fall, you can't hope, Nara.

Whoever is driven to the brink of it, desires stronger than anyone else.

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An amber dragon is flying through heaven.

A huge presence that covers itself with shining armor that resembles a gem and flies through the sky.

But there was no brilliance of life in its eyes, and there was a figure of man inside the part that touched it.

The dragon's head - the people sitting in the cockpit operated joysticks and meters, and the amber dragon - was piloting a giant weapon mimicking a dragon.

Zweier Empire 1st Special Armor Corps, [Amber Abyss (Amber Abyss)] Squad.

That was their name, the name of the weapon they would drive.

The cockpit has a number of sheets, each of which is divided into giant artificial dragon operations.

"Captain, in twenty minutes at our speed, we will enter the battle area."

A member of the radar team reports to the commanding officer, the magnificent man.

"Well...... finally"

"That's Dr. Flagman's first real battle launch of the brilliant Jade Dragon!

The captain's voice was heavy, but the voice of the young crew holding the joystick was bright.

"Oh. Not only in our [Amber Abyss], but also in other countries, the Brilliant Jade Dragon series is made with the technical contribution of the Flagman Master. Plus, the brilliant Jade Man and the brilliant Jade Horse that Master Flagman himself worked on will be put on the front."

"That's amazing!

The captain grinned bitterly at the innocently delighted crew, "It means we're so cornered that we have to get rid of the hedges of the state and work together," he murmured heartily.

In fact, not only the Zweier Empire to which they belonged, but all the nations of this continent were in a crisis of survival.

by the presence of an enemy.

"More than that, there's still no response from the Flying Dragon Knights of the advance party?

"Yes. Apparently a powerful magic disorder is occurring...... communication magic will not propagate"

"... well. Keep calling me."

No response, the captain felt a jitter and unpleasant sweat seep into his back at the current state of affairs.

Breathe heavily again with anxiety to see how the other crew are doing.

Then I noticed the crew holding the joystick smiling with the photo in their hand.

The picture shows a young woman holding a baby. I was about the same age as the crew with the pictures.

"Ensign, what's that picture?

"Ah, Captain! Hehe, this is it! They sent me from a neglected place this morning! My baby was born! It's a boy!

"What? You, then why didn't you resign! What we're going to...!

"I know!

The second lieutenant blocks the captain's words that he tried to blame.

"Even I know...! This is the bump production of the new machine, and the fact that the other guy is both of those buckets...!

"Ensign..."

There was no bright spot there.

I guess those were fine because they distract the fear.

What's there now is a desperate shape.

But it was still the face of a man who looked forward.

"But you can't say you ran away..., you have to defeat those guys, the Empire... my Amiria and my son who hasn't even named him yet... he's going to die...!

"Ensign..."

"So! I have to defeat them in this [Amber Abyss]! I have to show you that there is hope!!"

"... you're right"

Swallow your own anxiety into the Ensign's words... and the captain looks forward again.

"Gentlemen... hope, we win!!"

"" "Yes!!" "

They in the cockpit bound together with one strong thought.

be the hope of the people.

To that end, they head to the battlefield - and they follow.

"Brilliant Jade Dragon One [Amber Abyss (Amber Abyss)], reach battle airspace!!"

"Advance team, no comm response from the Flying Dragon Knights!!"

"Increased energy response! Families of“ ships of different continents "…" incarnations of armaments ”!!"

Together with verbal confirmation, they alerted the enemy approaching the artificial dragon.

That figure is across the horizon.

But the radar was sure to capture that unusual amount of energy.

"" Armed Incarnation, "we have twenty-five seconds to reach the horizon observation zone!

"Attract! I'll finish with my first shot!!"

"Roger! Abyss Cannon... Fire Attitude!!"

As instructed by the captain, the manipulators of the artificial dragon move to the attack position.

The artificial dragon opens its mouth wide and charges the weapon built into its oral cavity - the compression demon-guided heavy particle acceleration cannon.

A huge amount of energy, just better than a million if it is put into MP figures, comes from the power furnace of an artificial dragon, which is all converged and compressed.

In the mouth of an artificial dragon protected by a special surgical barrier, a large heat bulb is formed with vast compressive magic at its core.

The energy is increased even as it is formed.

"Energy Fill 80............ 90...... 100%!

"Shoot through every horizon!!"

As soon as the energy reaches its limit, Ensign pulls the trigger on the joystick.

"[Abyss Cannon]... Fire!!"

Moments, compressed magic fireballs are fired from the mouth of an artificial dragon.

The fireballs released distort space and contact the ground - hitting enemies across the horizon through the earth.

The earth receives enough heat to evaporate, and the nearby enemy stops its movement.

Immediately after, the magic nucleus of the compressed center is released with a burst of heat.

Gravity magic is activated remotely using half of the magic unleashed.

The remaining magic becomes even more caloric and settles in the ground with supergravity.

That is the true pinnacle of the [Abyss Cannon], a special weapon that does not miss a subject and is completely incinerated by a vast field of heat and gravity.

A few seconds later - a giant flame column stood from the abyss at the bottom of the earth across the horizon.

The figure of the one who moves in it... was not as one.

"…" Armed incarnation ", silence!!"

"Yikes!!"

The captain grips his fist, along with the thought of feeling universal.

"You did it! Again, the compression demon-guided heavy particle acceleration cannon mounted on the brilliant Jade Dragon worked for them too!

"Finally, the one within them..."

"Oh. This victory is not a one-time victory. If we can defeat the whole thing... we can defeat it with other individuals."

"Beast incarnation seems like a hassle to defeat."

"But I'm sure you can. We still have hope."

They laugh.

Laughing at the desperate state of war that made our own manipulative dragon a hope.

It's still a disadvantage strategically, but if we get the means to stand up to it, that's all we can say is hope.

But that's... if it really stands apart.

"... Huh?

"What's up?

The look on the face of whoever was in charge of the radar freezes in amazement.

"" Armed incarnation ", resumption of activities…!!"

The figure could be observed not only on radar, but also optically.

What I saw was a figure of someone slowly surfacing from an abyss dressed in the ground.

A person-shaped figure who stacked thousands of shields of a class known in later life as the Epic Class and withstood the direct blow of the Abyss Cannon.

Enemies freely manipulating tens of millions of armies - the "incarnation of armaments” was alive and well.

"Charge the second shot......!

But you can't let go of the pursuit.

The "incarnation of the armed”, flashing with surrounding shields, deployed an equal number of swords instead.

And then... eject it.

Thousands of Epic equivalent swords become supersonic flying bodies by their enemies and pierce the [Amber Abyss] - shooting through.

The armor of the [Amber Abyss], which should also be designed to withstand a few rounds of the Abyss Cannon, instantly becomes a hive.

The captain died instantly by a sword penetrating the cockpit as he raised a crying cry.

"Amilia aaaaaaaaaaa...!!"

Ensign holding the joystick and the rest of the crew came to a similar end.

Their hope was that [Amber Abyss] … instantly became atomic dust.

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The engagement between [Amber Abyss] and the “incarnation of armaments” is only one act of contact between humanity on this continent and the "ships of the other continent”.

The battle against “incarnation” does not remain only in the air.

"This is the Seventh Demon Guided Infantry Division! Rescue me... no! Make a recommendation for evacuation in the rear area!! This one won't last any longer!!"

"Enemies exist..." The Incarnation of the Beast "! Currently the total number is unknown... but I can't see the earth in their appearance!!"

Infantry Division ravaged by beasts that fill the ground.

"Zweier Kingsguard fleet! The final line of defense was swallowed......!

"He's..." The Black Vortex Incarnate ”is landing on the mainland!!"

A fleet that disappears swallowed by a black vortex space at sea.

None of them were able to be fat.

Humanity is defeated by such an overwhelming difference in power that there can be no rivalry… a civilization that has flourished so much in later life that it was previously called civilization.

Armed with ravages covering heaven.

Countless beasts filling the earth.

A bottomless black vortex that also swallows the sea.

There were many before men, and doom and despair summed up in one will.

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The capital, already told that the front had collapsed and that the “incarnations” of the three bodies were approaching, was in a state of panic.

The people of the Empire of Zweier were desperate to escape to the edge of the world and to the bottom of the earth.

One man sees them like that.

of the Zweir Empire, one of the most developed countries on the continent - is now the king of a country that is not going to emigrate.

"There is no God..."

King Zweier muttered so as he saw the decaying kingdom.

There is no point in praying to God if the business of men is an abnormal world that is so easily broken down.

Because the relative incarnations are like gods...

"I'm sure God will not pray in the world to come"

"Most of all... from now on, if there is a way for mankind to live..." the King thought.

One young man speaks to the king looking out at the doomed empire.

"Your Majesty, the evacuation of the inhabitants to the underground cities, as well as the sealing process of each underground plant… have been completed"

"Right..."

"Confirm the complete destruction of four of the five Brilliant Jade Dragon aircraft. One plane does not float without being submerged in the sea. The Brilliant Jade Man has three completely destroyed and two are missing. All the brilliant jade horses are missing. Now it turns out we can't fight it with the force we can develop as it stands."

"Right..."

"The throne still doesn't move. The natural magic path that was flowing to the building site has been interrupted, so it will take more than a hundred times longer than planned until you put the main engine on fire...... a thousand years. But the mass production type [Brilliant Jade Man]...... The automatic mass production system of the [Brilliant Jade Soldier] series was successfully built. I'm keeping you waiting in sleep mode under Mount Eldim. [Acra Vaster] as well."

"Right..."

"[Acra Vaster] will be automated design and development using data collected from“ incarnations ”. Underneath Mount Eldim, do it with care so they don't notice. It's thought to be difficult to navigate to imitate and counteract abilities, so it would take between 3,000 and 4,000 years to complete."

"... hehe, that's a long story"

"Yeah. But someday I'll show that“ cross-continental ship ”something in my eyes. I won't die until I see it."

"Right...... Then you can see my share too, my friend... Fragman."

"In your favor. Now, I will prepare in the countries that still exist."

"Um, I asked you..."

"Yes.... thank you for your help for a long time"

The young man, called Flagman, said so and quit before the king.

He knew.

That the king, on his throne... is about to perish as king.

"Now, which doom will descend..."

Many of his people were already buried in doom - in the “incarnations” of the "ships of the other continents”.

Therefore he was also contemplating making the path the same as the people.

He ends here.

But their wishes don't end here.

They had a slight desire for their own destruction.

"Someday... we'll be waiting for you in the Underworld, Flagman"

Several beasts appear before the King, who murmured so, breaking down the walls easily.

"…" The Incarnation of the Beast ”? Fortunately, you're not the one who ends up doing nothing."

Saying so, the king rises and covers himself with heavy machine armor.

"[Aircraft King] Wolfgang Magna Zweier. My last battle as king, I'm going to ask you to go out with me…" The Incarnation of the Beast ”!

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It is the end of an era previously called civilization in the afterlife.

The king of one kingdom that flourished in those days... was swallowed by doom on his throne.

The nations and kings that perished similarly are unknown.

But they didn't disappear without leaving anything behind.

Many facilities were left in the ground and in the sea, where their adversary incursions were relatively slow.

They will be called relics in the afterlife.

In it they entrusted numerous powers that were the hope of those who survived.

He left behind numerous goods and technology that he hoped would revive a doomed civilization.

Those were waiting to be found, even after more than two thousand years.

But there were two major miscalculations for those who left their hopes behind.

One is that the incarnation they were fighting for disappeared for each of their mother ships, the "ships of different continents”.

And the other thing... is that the hope left behind was not what they intended.

Their legacy of hope proliferated many moves that were not in keeping with their will.

In one underground plant, bacteria to adjust the environment broke out and began to devour other organisms.

In one underground city, a defensive golem weapon [Magnum Colossus] ran wild, turning those approaching into gatekeepers, whoever they may be.

Mistakes in technology, or due to the passage of time… the goods left behind by civilization in the previous period start to make unwanted moves.

The hope left over for the afterlife becomes the despair of the people.

A nightmare that can only be described as a mistake of some kind, both for those who have left it behind and for those who have been entrusted.

Therefore some called them “errors”.

Mount Eldim... sleeping in a mountain now called another name was one of the “errors”.

More than two thousand years later, the mountain had become the territory of a country with a different name than the Empire of Zweir.

It is one territory of the Kingdom of Alter, the Karcheratan territory.

- It is the border zone between the Kingdom of Alter and the Empire of Drife.

To be Next Age