＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

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"You did it..."

"Yes! It's our complete victory! Captain!"

The captain of the battalion and the young driver who delights innocently in the fact that the rigid superweapon used a hundred years ago has demonstrated its power as inherited.

Similar words can be heard from other occupants and other vehicles.

Not only they, but [the Great Sage] 's brothers in prison are equally pleased. The priests of the state religion remain [fainted], but their faces are tranquil, and I guess they dream of it with certainty of their victory.

"... hehe, now that's a relief"

I beat that big monster. I won.

The relief and joy it brings is immense.

The captain wins this battle. And I realized the friendship between the two countries in the future and that the future of the Empire had been saved, and I laughed quietly.

But...

"Now the battalion captain will be one with super weapons!

To the innocent words of the driver, the captain nodded... and learned to question.

…… If you got a reward weapon, you'd know that. "

The battalion captain only slightly regrets that he went to the gunman, not himself.

But even so, I don't mind.

It is now that we have accomplished this task that is most rewarding to the Great Captain,

- It should have been (...).

"Yes, Captain..."

A driver who was cheerful until a moment ago is looking back at the battalion captain with a trembling voice like he was frightened of something.

"What's up?

…………

He can't even seem to speak, pointing to the driver's window in front of him.

The captain felt something in the trick and immediately opened Geist's hatch to see what was going on outside the vehicle.

Removing and confirming the binoculars is a large hole created by compression extinction.

The captain looked at the big hole where [Gloria] should have disappeared without leaving a corpse.

Face out of the big hole - three necks and eye contact.

"Stupid......"

As the captain drops his binoculars, he leaks with his voice the emotions of 'unbelievable', 'unbelievable'.

"It's a [super heavy shell] that compresses everything out...!? There's no way I can survive...!

But the words are also empty, and [Gloria] has no scratches.

The wings, which are not even torn, are spread out slowly.

Thus floating, he escaped from the great pit of a kilometer deep, which the earth was made of vanishing in a hemispherical fashion.

Yes, [Gloria] wasn't extinguished.

It just fell to a kilometre below because the space with a radius of one kilometre had been compressed out.

And [Gloria] himself had nothing to do with that compression extinguishing or anything else, but just saying... [Gloria] was slowly floating around showing his spare time.

"This is the biggest weapon in the empire!? Take that, intact...!?"

"Oh, oh..."

While [Gloria], who even survived a superweapon with a legend that obliterated the mythological class and landed as if nothing had happened, it is also impossible for the Second Armor Battalion's crew to intensify their agitation.

The harder it was to imagine an organism that could survive, the more powerful [super heavy artillery shells] were.

Yes, [super heavy shell] was indeed an extremely powerful weapon.

But it doesn't work for [Gloria].

[Ultra-heavy artillery shells] as well as combined magic and heavenly punishment ritual moves were powerful.

Still, it doesn't work for [Gloria].

Because...... since they were wrong (...) from the first step of the [Gloria] offense.

"... all cars attack! Usually destroy with fire!

By witnessing the Five-Body Satisfied [Gloria], the captain realized that the front of the Second Armored Battalion was so shocked that it could collapse.

"He's taking a lot of damage to his body by [super heavy shells]. Now you can usually win with fire!

That is why we had to avoid the collapse of the front, even with hopeful observations that we did not believe in ourselves.

"Ri, roger!

Copy that!

A surrounding vehicle follows the captain's instructions and starts shelling [Gloria].

At the same time, ranged attacks from the < Babylonian Combat Regiment > resumed.

It also adds long-range attack magic by [the Great Sage] 's brothers, and concentrates enough firepower on [Gloria] to double the first attack.

……

But the captain noticed.

I've noticed.

"... can you hear me?

"Hey, what's up!?"

The captain speaks to the driver, but trembles. He has no way of realizing what the captain noticed.

"That's the sound of this shell hitting that [Gloria]..."

"I can't hear you!!"

It is impossible to hear such a trivial noise with a hint of shelling and a magical bombing.

However, the battalion leader, who was at the highest level and also had the sense skills of the auditory system, had a deeper understanding.

"Oh! I can't hear you (...)! I can't hear the hit! It's as if you haven't hit it!!"

I can't hear a ringtone.

There are explosions and magic bursts of shrapnel, but you can't hear a hitting sound such as armoured rounds.

That was the big tip, approaching the secret of [Gloria] 's defensive ability.

But any reflection on it might not have been necessary at this time.

Because even [Gloria] has continued to be attacked,

"There is a change in the subject's head!!"

- Because right now, at this moment, I was about to move on to the offense.

"Rumor of death junction! Check the distance!

"Distance, still three thousand and eight hundred meters! It's three or eight times the range of the junction!

"What...?

The scope of the death curse has been found to be one chilometel.

Therefore, there is no means of attack outside of it.

At least I haven't used it before.

But...

'It's not the two corners that are moving! It's a single corner (...)!

"What!?"

To communicate from the other cars, the captain checks the neck of one corner to the left with binoculars.

It had changed (...) exactly as first reported.

There were three eyes, all covered and hidden by the face cover of the moved crust.

Furthermore, a single corner of the forehead began to glow blue and white.

Plus... I'm slowly starting to open that mouth.

Obviously, something was about to happen.

"... slap it in the mouth of a corner!!"

Believing in his own chills, the captain gives instructions to attack.

Dozens of shells, and attack magic from other groups hits the head.

Some of them also had a burst in the mouth of a single corner.

However, [Gloria] doesn't look as if she enjoyed it.

"FLULULULULULULULULU -"

Eventually, one corner roared,

"-LUSSSHHEEEEWWWWW!!"

It exhaled an enormous beam of light from its mouth.

"Huh!?"

In the light emitted, the captain was prepared for immense damage and his own death.

…………

But nothing happens.

There is no modulation whatsoever in the light emitted from the mouth of a single corner (...).

I'm not dying, I'm not burning at high temperatures.

Really, I'm just in the light like a flashlight.

"What,? What's happening?

Without knowing, the battalion leader thought about what to do,

"... Quick exit from the light!!"

"Huh?"

The driver and each vehicle were instructed to leave immediately.

"There's no way that that monster's behavior that kills all the creatures just by moving around would be harmless!!"

"Ha, yes!!"

The driver moves to jump and attempts to disengage from the light at full speed so as not to hit any other vehicle.

All the armored battalions are covered in light, so it was hard to tell where it was out of the light, but they still rely on the shade of other vehicles that look hideous to run to the outside.

Eventually their vehicle escaped the light.

"So, we're out!

"Okay! Keep your distance... Huh?

The captain realized that it was about getting out of the light.

The head of [Gloria] that emits just enough light to illuminate.

One corner on its head was gradually... discolored (...).

"What? What, happens?

The corner, which was blue and white, became red.

The moment it turned completely red that way,

- "OVERDRIVE"

Thirty-seven [geists] still in the light evaporated (...).

Only for a moment, people and metal put together to become smoke (...) I could see the moment... and then there was nothing left.

Too quiet, completely extinguished without even a sound.

What is remarkable is that those who see it outside the light did not feel any heat.

While emitting super-high temperatures that vaporized the metal in an instant, that one had completely controlled its entropy and trapped all the heat in the light.

"What do you mean,... you bugger!!"

The captain mourns the death of more than half of his own battalion in an instant, but it wasn't over there.

Something terrible happened.

"SHAAAAAAIIINNEEE!!"

With the roar of [Gloria], the running of light moved slowly (...).

That's the ease with which it illuminates with a flashlight - the star-like heat that evaporates all things swings.

Nose screaming.

Both the surviving armored battalion and the [Great Sage] 's brothers cried out their noses.

It is as if there is no such thing as a clay mill junction.

If the light is clear, nothing remains there after a moment of smoke.

There was a tank that was swallowed while retreating.

He hid in prayer in the shadow of the position, and had a brother-in-law who evaporated from position to position.

The light passed through the right half, and there were those who crawled and died quickly, without any explanation, with the remaining left half.

All the priests were swallowed by the light while they passed out.

During the nasal cry, the light also approached the captain's carriage.

"Battalion Captain! Captain, where, where...!

"Who can escape the light..."

The captain responds as he gave up on the wolf driver looking for a place to escape.

He had already given up his life.

There was no family, and my men on hand salt were swallowed by the light except in this vehicle.

No longer, he has nothing.

…………

Only at the end of the day did we care if this incident, which would wipe us out, would not later leave its roots of evil between the kingdom and the empire.

"… please, after this, two countries remain"

In the middle of his last prayerful words, the captain evaporated and mixed with the air.

◇ ◆

Of the four groups, only < Babylonian Combat Regiment > was in formation outside the junction to spare the direct strike of light.

No longer is the kingdom's power wiped out but theirs.

"Captain! This is dangerous. If we don't retreat...!

Fortesla, the owner of the member's prophecy, shakes his head slowly.

"Retreat where?

"Where can't you reach his light or his boundaries! Yes, if you log out......!

"We can do that. But not to our home, Claymill... not to Tian."

Still, there are many tians left in the claiming mill.

The light now sweeps away the three groups that have formed themselves at the junction outside the walls, and it has not extended to the city.

But if we leave it like this, we'll be sure to wipe out all the crawmills.

If it disappears to them, which is the line of defense here, the light and darkness of the inhabitants of the claiming mill will be determined there.

Fortesura will not tolerate that.

"... level kanst and its equivalent level of members follow. We'll fight him in the melee."

"But the bond……!?"

"I have an idea. First... I'll go"

"Oh, owner!!"

Fortesla says so, cutting ahead and approaching [Gloria] with supersonic manoeuvres.

Having exhibited speeds greater than or equal to the speed of sound, Fortesla reaches the outer edge of the [Gloria] instant death junction in seconds of something.

"Come on, Nay."

"OK! Captain!

With an instantly long sword turned nailing in one hand, Fortesura steps into its realm of withered death.

If it is determined to be instant death, and the [brooch] is activated, it will jump away.

Imagine the motion of that moment. Fortesura stepped in,

- Nothing happened to him.

"Just what I thought."

Keep taking a few steps, but there are no signs of death in Fortesla.

Therefore, he lifts up his voice.

"Listen! This guy's boundaries are judged on a level! At a high level, instant death doesn't work!

That's what he scrutinized the information he got from.

As with him, the superiors and the Rebelkanst were not dead even close to [Gloria].

Conversely, there were those who were dead no matter how high their status was with the correction of Embrio.

That's why even the mythical < UBM > is dead.

What determines this instant death is not pure strength or weakness.

Fortesura intuited, however, that it was just a (...) determination (...) as to whether there were enough levels (...).

"Evacuate what [Brooch] activated! Other than that, I'll put a fight on him!

On the sidelines of the subsequent members plunging into the juncture, Fortesura herself walks to the foot of [Gloria].

And

"Thunder Slash!!"

Fortesura slashed the hindlimbs of [Gloria] with his swordsman lineage attack skills while rushing through with supersonic manoeuvres.

…………

For Fortesura, breathtaking seconds.

Immediately afterwards - the golden scale is cut off and blood is shed from the wounds like lines.

It was the first (...) moment [Gloria] was wounded on this battlefield.

"... you still mean that"

[Gloria] 's defensive ability, which was even intact with the extinction of supergravity compression.

That showed that it would not be thorough with a simple amount of damage.

At the same time...... I can tell it's not a defense due to limited attributes, as I didn't get a single cut from all that wide variety of skill and physical attacks.

If it's not pure defense or attribute, [Gloria] decided by a law that it was preventing an attack.

And that law, which has repelled numerous attacks on this battlefield, is

"This guy... released (...) inside the junction. The only thing that works is an attack (...)"

I will not accept any attack from outside the immediate death junction, i.e. the attack of the weak who must avoid the junction (...).

Only those who possess the power (level) not to die in the immediate death junction can enter the junction or scratch [Gloria] on the inside.

The role of the Order of Immediate Death is… the sorting of those who are qualified to fight (...).

"Your magic tare broke."

Subsequent members of the Babylonian Combat Regiment have continued to enter the junction and are attacking [Gloria].

In the middle of it, Fortesura sticks a long sword nailing to the neck of a single horn that evaporated [Gloria]...... many humans.

And he declares,

This is your real battle with the humans.

To be continued