＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Commercial city Cortana/Mayoral residence

"Hino... Hino...!?"

Mayor Cortana, Douglas Coyne was heartlessly running inside his own mansion.

"Sir, what the hell... ahhhhhhhh!?"

What the mayor looks like...... a maid at the mayor's mansion screams like she's lost her sanity as countless maggots are shaping her legs on behalf of both legs cut off by Aragorn.

But the mayor didn't mind... on the contrary, he was headed to his destination, unaware of his own condition on both feet.

The mayor headed in the basement of the mayor's residence.

A place that brought in numerous floaters and slaves and turned them into bodies. It's a morgue for rituals.

"Gi no, I just need a ritual, gishiki...!!"

The mayor goes underground with a single heart that doesn't want to die while losing his sanity to the imminent fear of death.

I don't want to die.

That is the driving force behind the mayor and the reason he tried to perform the ritual by the beads of [De Welmis].

The reason itself existed before the mayor got the beads.

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It was another year ago that the mayor suffered from a systemic illness.

The mayor's body was worn out by the decay caused by aging and the gut disease caused by years of enjoyable living.

It also began to be difficult for everyday life, and the word 'death' clearly began to cross the back of my brain.

Because I approached death, or even in my nightly bed, I began to see the hallucinations of those I had abused and killed in my previous life.

If I die, I lose everything I've ever gained, and I'm not sure what will happen after I die.

Many old stories also tell us that those who buy too much of the grievances of others will continue to suffer after death. (It is also a fact based on the observations of the Necromancer)

The mayor was laughing at those stories with his nose, but after death approached him, he became afraid of it.

The mayor since he suffered from the disease was wearing a duvet on his bed every night to rattle his fearless, unmeshed teeth.

You're wearing a futon because when you're on your face, you're not supposed to see it, you see something you don't want to see.

It appears on the windowsill...... its own face where the dead phase can be seen by the disease.

And he is Friar, the wife of a man who denigrated him on charges of innocence during the mayoral election a few years ago.

You can see the face of the woman you were supposed to have taken and killed as a slave at night.

As if, waiting for the mayor to die.

Not only about her and her husband, but as a merchant, as a politician, he has done numerous evils.

Recently, he also received large sums of money from the Gozmaids Bandits operating on the border with the Kingdom and provided assistance with exercises and magic items for the army leading the Royal Army in consideration.

Many children and those who tried to save them died for it, but he was only happy with more money to get into his nostalgia.

I've been repeating that for decades.

But now that I was dying, I wondered if I would receive those rewards if I died... I was feeling terrified at my own initiative.

Those days went on, one day a few weeks ago.

"I don't like it... I don't want to die... I don't like it..."

With tears as if they were children, the mayor was also clearly afraid of imminent death that night.

I also felt that I could hear my men and servants talking about what they would do after I died, if I had cleared my ears.

"Wow, I... I don't want to die yet... I don't want to die...!!"

He rose from the merchant, acted as a politician, and climbed up to the mayor of the first city, depending on the way he saw Cardina's second...

The ability to speak in Parliament is also second only to the Chair.

Of a united nation called Cardina, you can say vice king.

But the wealth, the honor, the power he has accumulated so far... will soon disappear with his death.

And before death are those whom he has slain for greed, waiting with grievances.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

Pessimistic about his future and crying to be humbled... something inadvertently rocked the mayor's worn duvet softly.

It was the wind blowing in through the window.

Soon the mayor's bedroom window was open, and the wind blew in from it.

".................. cum"

For a moment, the mayor thought I'd call a servant to shut him down, but he hated to show his crying face to the brink, and decided he had no choice but to close it with his own hands.

When I poked my wand with my aching body and trembling hands and feet, and still approached the window.

There was something strange on the floor.

"... what is this?

It was, like, a crystal bead.

Under the beads is laid a placing letter, where it reads: 'Presentation. This is what you are looking for. Put the beads on your pillow and hope for your health and youthfulness, it will come true'.

The mayor looked at the bead in a frigid odor, closing the window...... and picking up the bead.

Why did you pick it up thinking it was frigid?

That's because the mayor had strange temptations that he couldn't ignore in his beads and in his letter.

traces of a clear intruder and a strange bead, but the mayor returned to the bed with the bead in his hand in the wind that it was right to do so, then placed the bead on his pillow,

"Healthy body and youthfulness to me... Hehe, what am I doing to these beads..."

I went to bed whining in a sense of self-derision, but not lowering the beads from bed.

And when I woke up the next morning - he was getting a healthy body in sight.

The face that the Dead Minister had been looking at became as if he had been rejuvenated, with no body pain, no limb tremors, no fine dust.

The mayor hasn't felt liberated in a long time...... that's what I hadn't tasted in decades.

"Ha ha. This is... this is, the hell...!

"Kimino Body, Katachi Tamotta Mama Shuzencita"

!?

Unexpectedly, I heard an unheard voice in the mayor's brain.

That wasn't a hallucination, it seemed like someone nearby was going to talk to me.

"So who... where are you!

"Watashiha [De Welmis]. Kiminoteni Ireta Tamani Fuji Lareta Thing '

"What...?

Then, [De Welmis] spoke about himself.

that they are < UBM >.

That it was sealed to the beads by [Dragon Emperor] more than 600 years ago.

And that it was taken out of the Yellow River by someone and brought into the mayor's mansion.

The mayor is puzzled by its content, as well as sees the paper that was placed with the beads.

Who on earth gave him what should also be called the national treasure of the Yellow River?

The mayor trembles, speculating that the aim is something to provoke a war with the Yellow River by giving it to himself, a leading Cardina figure.

[De Welmis] told the mayor that he thought it would be better to return the beads to the Yellow River.

If you let go of the beads, you won't be able to maintain your body repair.

He said he would return to a body overflowing with disease and old age.

If you heard that, you couldn't have chosen that choice for the mayor, who remembered the fear before he became healthy with the power of [De Welmis].

In the end, the mayor decided to keep [De Welmis] 's beads secret.

Then there was the act of convincing the people in the house that they didn't think they were mayors, that they took the trouble to prove it but eventually 'special items worked', something that wasn't a lie.

That's how after putting aside time, [De Welmis] started talking again.

"jitsuhaki mini hodokoshita shuzen hawatashino chicarano sbete dehanai"

"What...?

"Watashino Chikara Hakimi Tachiga“ Froufushi ”Toyob Monoda"

"What!?"

Then [De Welmis] communicated the ritual steps to become immortal.

Firstly, 'we need between 100 and 200 bodies',.

And 'after the killing, you must rest for a certain period of time',.

After such a lower preparation, the Ritual of Obtaining the Body of Immortality is ready.

It was detrimental to many lives, but if it was the wealth and power of the mayor, it would be easy to keep things hidden. It would even have been easier if we had narrowed the subject down to vagabonds and slaves.

"Kimino kyoryokuga areva gishiki okonael tomow. Kyouryokshite Morae Naidalowka '

"... if you perform that ritual"

"Kimmimo“ Froufsi ”Ninal"

Even in this < Infinite Dendrogram >, where magic and necromancy existed, it was too black and a monstrous invitation.

But the mayor rode the invitation.

It would also have been significant that [De Welmis] had advanced its power and turned the mayor's body into a healthy body.

"Immortality... if you become immortal..."

If you become immortal, you will have nothing to do with the fear that looms upon that death during the Golden Wheel, the fear after death.

For the mayor, there was nothing more to want than that.

And the mayor rode [De Welmis] 's invitation and began to move to gain immortality.

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And now, the mayor was following us to the cellar, which is a ritual place.

"Hino, Hino... we're here!! We got away, we got here!

The basement is stacked with the bodies of nearly two hundred human beings who have killed them so far.

Oddly enough, it was loaded with corpses but didn't smell a bit rotten.

The corpses are all luminous and even the scratches you put on them to kill them are beautifully tidied holes.

The mayor took out the [De Welmis] beads he had hidden in his nostalgia.

"Come on! Start the ritual!

"Soushyou"

Shortly after the mayor ordered [De Welmis] to

The mayor's right hand - irrespective of his will - slammed [De Welmis] 's beads on the stone floor.

"……………………………?

I didn't mean to do that to the mayor.

But it was as if my body had been moved from the inside... beating the beads.

Pearls sealed by the secret art of the previous generations [Dragon Emperor].

It is a treasure that can use the power of a sealed < UBM >, but it is not so strong.

Even a few years ago, beads were smashed in some part of the kingdom and sealed inside < UBM > was freed.

Therefore, even now, the beads slapped against the stone floor are lightly crushed... < UBM > is released.

That was a little pussy.

Never < UBM >... so insignificant a monster with isolated powers.

But, undoubtedly, it is the [demon maggots reincarnated de Wermis].

'You've never seen me face to face like this. Douglas. "

[De Welmis] has spoken, smooth enough not to compare to the voice he has spoken to the mayor until then.

In contrast, the spoken mayor cannot move.

by movement and, and fear.

"Hih, hih...!

The mayor has been able to interact with [De Welmis] until now because of the assumption that 'it can be controlled because it is sealed by beads'.

But now, it's open from the beads.

To face < UBM > without any constraints is tantamount to death for Tian.

I thought I was being used for emancipation, and the mayor was desperate.

But...

'I hope you're not so frightened. I have no intention of harming you. "

To the frightening mayor, [De Welmis] spoke gently.

"Hey...?

'I told you. When you perform the ritual of immortality. Of course, you, my friend, are with me. Live forever with me'

The voice had no intention of malice or deceiving the other person.

I sincerely consider the mayor my friend and am trying to give him immortality.

The matter was also passed on to the mayor, who appeased him.

"Oh well! Then finish the ritual before that [Pluto] arrives."

'That would be better. Let's get started.'

Shortly after [De Welmis] said so - a herd of bodies resting indoors moved out.

The bodies of slaves and vagabonds that Douglas ordered private soldiers to kill are beginning to move in a luminous body that shouldn't seem like a dead man.

"The body...!

"It's not a corpse. Because he's alive. '

"... what?

'Oh, yeah. Do we have to talk from there first? The split formed when your body was repaired (...) was limited in its ability to speak and the information conveyed was limited. Just fine. Let's talk about it while we build the body of immortality'

There was something the mayor wanted to ask about the content of the words, but before that, [De Welmis] started talking about his abilities.

"My ability is" Enabling Rebirth. "It is a skill to replace (...) the flesh, bones and organs of organisms maligned by injuries or diseases with my split '

…… ……

"The split works the same as the original organ it replaced, and blood and the like also improve quality during circulation. In addition, it also has the power to supplement vitality, thus making parts of the flesh substituted for fractions healthier than before. Because the incubation lasts and there is no deterioration over time, we can live forever. And 99% of the body can be replaced again using injured malignant cells in an attempt to destroy and incinerate them. Yeah, Douglas had a malignant whole body, so the effect was enhanced because of the wide range of substitutions for the split, and I guess he looked younger. '

"Wait, I don't know what you're talking about..."

Simply put, "I use bad parts of my body as ingredients to make my body healthy."

That much chewed up, and the mayor finally understood.

But that's where the mayor cares.

"What is a split?

In response to that question, the most direct answer would have been the mayor's feet - maggots' feet grown instead of both.

However, [De Welmis] did not show it and instead turned his attention to the moving corpse.

[De Welmis] said the bodies were alive, gathered in one place... falling over.

People who disregard things like bones and joints, become gnarly (...) and collapse.

From its eyes, from its mouth, from every hole in its body - countless white maggots crawled out.

"That's my split."

――――

The mayor sees maggots overflowing from the body, and notices both legs of his maggots, losing words.

But he doesn't look like he cared about such a mayor, and [De Welmis] goes on to say it.

"The body of a person who is going to die as a result of cardiopulmonary arrest is the perfect way to make my split. The lethal wound site can be replaced by the decaying brain cells, the rotting whole body, and sequentially divided. '

[De Welmis] keeps talking in the way that he hasn't said anything strange.

'I would have liked to have increased the number by substitution for a few more days if I could, but now would be the limit than anyone appeared to try to take my power away from you'

Maggots overflowing from the body assemble the unsubstituted parts of the corpse that were their own hosts - leaving cells that are not yet dead, like scattered garbage.

It may be said that maggots born of substituting the human body for materials are made of human cells.

But that's obviously not a person.

The maggots, which were originally the bodies of numerous corpses, forget their original snails and assemble them to combine them into another form.

Maggots born of a corpse, on the fingers of their hands.

Maggots born of a corpse, on the toes of the feet.

Maggots born of a corpse, and many maggots, gather in the form of maggots as they are.

It was about the same size as the volume of nearly 200 corpses that gave birth to several human limbs on maggots… it was invisible to humans.

Or if it's a crop, you may not have to lose your sanity yet, but it's alive.

Pulsed as one.

Maggots born of corpses had become new catfish...... new life (...).

A sight too nasty.

As for the sight of waiting before death, even hell sucks below.

Or at this moment of birth, if Ray Sterling or Hugo Receps were present...... I would have remembered [Grievance Cow Horse Gozmaize], the manifestation of grievance.

But that's not like this.

Rather the opposite.

If that [gozmaize] moves the body by resentment undead.

This is a monster that transforms the cells of an organism into maggots and keeps them alive (...).

Eventually, a little pimple, the main body of [De Welmis], approaches that piece of maggots.

The maggots chunk embraces his own father and reveals all of his body.

The giant, now made up of maggots for 200 people, was [De Welmis] 's body.

"... oh... ahhh?

The mayor did his hand feeling tickled in his ear as he couldn't distract himself from the unusual sight in front of him.

When I put my finger in my ear - there was a maggot attached to my fingertips.

"... ah? ……!? Ahhhhhhhh!?"

That's how he found out.

[De Welmis] 's voice, whispering to him so far, was not speaking directly to his heart.

- In his skull, a split maggot was whispering to his eardrum.

"Your body has been tamed with my split."

[De Welmis] speaks quietly to the mayor rolling around the stone floor with physiological aversion.

"Unlike other meat, you will live with me until you become the last piece of the cell. Thanks to you, I was able to get out again and build my body right away. I really appreciate it."

And proudly, proudly, and reassuringly,

"So let us live together eternally (...)"

- [De Welmis] said that again.

"Oh, that's... no way..."

The most appalling thing for the mayor is that [De Welmis] words are uttered with 100% goodwill and gratitude.

I'm trying to gain eternal life with the mayor thinking it's really good.

But raw for [De Welmis] is completely different from raw people think.

[De Welmis] Raw is the reincarnation of a person's somatic cells into maggots to make use of them forever.

Therefore, there is no falsehood in the ability of [Demonic Maggots Reborn De Welmis].

'Giving the user a healthy raw and even a new eternal raw' is no mistake.

Yes, I can give you new raw here.

- There's a new eternal raw as a maggot.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?"

The mayor will understand.

It is not even the corpse-connected undead (fresh golem) that will be created now (...).

You won't even be allowed to die, maggots hardening.

'I want you to feel safe. Because I don't feel any pain. I may be confused at first, but I'm sure you'll be happy too'

From the heart, [De Welmis] said so.

But the mayor shakes his head and cries.

"No! This is different...!?"

Like the raw and undead raw are different.

so that multicellular organisms and single-celled organisms are different raw.

The mayor did not consider the possibility that the immortality he would be given would be completely different from what he wanted.

Where does the soul go when it is taken in as part of a body that will not die forever?

I couldn't go anywhere, I might have been locked up forever.

Whether you stare at a mass of maggots in search of at least salvation, maggots made from humans can't even see the will of a person or anything. It's just a whisper.

It was also the future of the mayor.

"I don't like it uhhhhhhhh!!"

Having understood that, the mayor loses his sanity, cries and tries to escape from the underground to the ground.

Because I thought it would be better to be sentenced to death if you were enough to be taken in by something like this.

But it's too late.

[De Welmis] moves the maggots that replaced most of the mayor's body, and the mayor who was trying to escape walks to the maggots chunk in reverse.

It is taken from the fingertips into a mass of maggots, which is broken down little by little and incorporated.

"I don't like it, I don't like it ahhhhhhhhhhh!?"

Desperate, crying over and over again...... the mayor is swallowed up by [De Welmis].

His final words like that are:

"Kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me..."

As for the last words of an old man obsessed with life for fear of death, it was terribly ironic.

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Thus, welcoming the mayor to complete his body, [Demon Maggots Reborn De Welmis] - broke through a cramped underground ceiling and began to enter the ground.

To make up for the body (maggots) that is still lacking in volume for creating it earlier than planned.

To be continued