＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Drife Imperial Effective Dominant Area/Former Lunnings Territory

The former Lunings territory is an area that has changed its meaning many times in a short period of time for humans in the kingdom.

The former Duke of Lunnings territory was the largest barn zone in the kingdom. He had earned foreign currency by producing crops that were much more than residents consumed and exporting them to countries with food production difficulties such as the Empire of Drife and Grand Barore.

But a year and a while ago the Duke of Lunnings territory as a barn zone was devastated.

The inhabitants of the Duke of Lunnings' territory were exterminated by the sudden onslaught of the strongest < SUBM >, [Tripolar Dragon Gloria], and the Lord, the Duke of Lunnings, died. There were also many suicides among the slightly surviving residents who abandoned their land or... or pessimistic about the future.

Moreover, [Gloria] 's "Endangered Borders" also caused devastating damage to crops and natural environments that were in their fertile state at the time, making the Duke of Lunnings, which should have been a barn zone, a land of uninhabited death.

From then on, preparations were under way for reconstruction as a royal jurisdiction, formerly Lunnings territory.

Then, six months after the onslaught of [Gloria].

The former Lunnings territory, which was the land of death, became a battlefield.

The Imperial Army and the Royal Army intercepting it from a border road close to Mt. Thunder Dragon.

The former Lunings territory, where the inhabitants did not already exist, was ideal as a battlefield…, except that it was in the interest of the kingdom.

Residents do not exist and there is no need to feel comfortable with anything.

Therefore, it was a battlefield where < master > would be able to give his full strength.

Many elite masters.

Although [the Great Professor] creates countless modified monsters.

[Demon General] leads the dreaded army of demons.

And with a step to take, it breaks the earth, and even crushes the stars down from heaven with wielding claws [Beast King].

The Royal Army wielded its power without any reproach or restriction, and was devastated.

Since then, the former Lunings territory has become the land of the Empire, not the territory of the Kingdom.

The imperial movement was quick, moving the imperial peasants immediately to the western side close to the empire within the former Lunnings territory.

We then asked < Master >, suitable for farming and architecture, for rapid maintenance, and the western side of the former Lunings territory was in the process of reviving itself as a barn zone of the Empire.

It still aims to expand its scope slightly and eventually to completely eliminate the famine in the Empire.

Due to these circumstances, it is said that 'the legal assignment as imperial territory of the former Lunnings territory' will certainly also be mentioned in the harmonious terms on the part of the Imperial State at this harmonious meeting. To be entirely imperial, not effective control, but also legal.

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The former Lunings territory was devastated by [Gloria], but the damage to the building was not so much because most of it was the death of organisms caused by the Endangered Realm.

There are later sites of villages devastated by the war, etc., but the city of Lunnings in the heart of the realm remains safe for most of the buildings.

However, that does not mean that it remains the same.

Once, Lunnings was named a meadow city, though in the heart of a blue meadow.

At present, however, it has become a dead field that has not left a single grass tree behind by the onslaught of [Gloria].

Every organism in the vicinity died in that incident, and tens of thousands of bodies rolled over.

Therefore, it is not now called a meadow city.

The extinct city of Lunnings.

Not an official name, but that was the most suitable common name.

Immediately after the incident there was resentment in every carcass, Lunnings, where the undead roamed, but as of the last pre-war period, the work of purification by the clergy of the Moon Sessions has been completed and the bodies have been cleaned up.

Still, no one wanted to migrate and was left as a literal ghost town.

But now there were many people in that extinct city of Lunnings.

That is the hundreds of < masters > employed by the Empire at this harmonious meeting.

"... dawn in a city with a saying, or a pattern that would definitely happen if it were an RPG"

"That's a pattern of zombies and grudges coming out and your buddies disappearing little by little."

While preparing for dawn in what used to be the auditorium, the participants in the escort shared their thoughts.

It should be noted that neither did they choose the auditorium from the beginning, as they are trying to make the auditorium their bedding. Some groups tried to sleep in hotels in the city.

But the stench stained the bedding that wasn't washed for more than a year and someone leaked, "... there's Tian who died on the bed, isn't there?" The whining spread, trying to sleep in hotels and private houses. "Yes, it was gone.

In the end, only the space is ready for bed in one auditorium with its own bedding.

Some of them don't even like being in Ghost Town, so much so that they log out until tomorrow morning's departure time.

For the record, [Demon General] Logan Godhardt was one of those people who logged out, "Can you sleep in a place like this! I'll let you go back to your room!," Mystery was no longer an inescapable throwaway dialogue for one shot.

"... I guess the camp was better"

"Silly. If you camp with this number of adults, you won't be able to sleep as long as a monster comes by. Besides, this city is the most decent in Lunnings territory. You've already cleansed the undead."

There are no smaller villages or cities to reach than Lunnings, and there are still few places where the undead roam. That's all [Gloria] suffered.

"Then if you take the inn on the west side, which is well maintained and pioneered..."

"If you do, on the contrary, you won't be able to make it to the harmony conference tomorrow at noon"

"Ah, well.... I guess the guys on the kingdom side are staying in decent cities and villages. I'm jealous."

"... but he's not even supposed to be so jealous."

My buddy whispered at me for being a fool compared to my accommodation.

"What the fuck?

"I hear the Kingdom-side escort, two-thirds, was darkened the day before the escort began to become Despena"

"Huh!?"

"Be quiet," the companion cautions him, who has accidentally spoken out.

"Besides, it sounds like Chrono's the one who did it"

"... are you serious?"

[Rajin] Chrono Crown.

His name… notoriety is known in the Empire.

Because many of the sixth forms of < master > have been attacked by him, the PK.

He is also known to have retaliated against him several times in a group and… all of it in return.

"Wait, Chrono's in this escort, right? Oh, well, that one during the day..."

"Oh. That's the starting fight"

During the day, there was a certain incident among a group headed for the harmony conference.

A leading figure in the escort, the third place in the Empire's duel, said to Chrono, "What are you going to do!" and they were stuffed.

If I did now, it would have been a pursuit to the matter of darkening the kingdom.

But Krono's response to that, he said, was somewhat uneven.

As a result, the dueling third-place ranker became fierce, challenging the fight, and… a death penalty.

"... but you didn't have a problem, did you?

"Oh. I heard Princess Claudia said, 'Unless you're tired of Tian, there's no law prohibiting us from fighting each other'. I mean, it seems that Princess Claudia decided not to blame for the day fights and the darkness."

Legally, you're right.

However, they felt chilly that in view of the current situation there was no blame whatsoever.

"There's no problem darkening the Kingdom's escorts or reducing our escorts... What does this mean?

"I don't know. However, maybe he thinks it's okay to have fewer escorts when it comes to this one. Whatever I say, there's only so many of them. It's about [the Beast King], Logan, and the chrono in question that jumps through the escort and is powerful. Even the guy who got hit wasn't a super position, even if he was a ranker. Honestly, even one of those three is stronger than all the others."

"... hey, why are you such a face this time? The stronger guys, they should have been here, right?

The Empire is gathering < masters > in preparation for the war against kingdoms and cardinas.

Therefore, there are also more than one Super Battle Master in the country.

"Besides, yeah? This time, the Imperial Tian is only here, isn't he?

Yes, the only participating member of the Imperial side in the pageant is Claudia, with the exception of the escort.

It is not accompanied by a civilian, there is no offering or a samurai, and in Tian, she is the only one to attend the harmony conference.

He should still be staying at the former Duke's residence in this extinct city of Lunnings with only [Beast King], his escort.

"Both darkness and fellowship are tolerated. His Royal Highness is the only participant.... Isn't it weird how much everything is?

"... there are several possibilities. I think the worst of these patterns... is when this pageant is about making the case for war."

"Ah?"

"If Princess Claudia dies at the pageant, she will be injured. Tailor it to the work of the kingdom. So, the [Beast King] and Logan brought in as they were... avalanche into the kingdom with the power of < Super >. At the same time, they attack the kingdom from the eastern Kalceratan side with other forces left in the country. There are only those three famous spots in the escort because those three are enough, and because they're turning the other forces around. What do you say Princess Claudia is the only one to make sure there are no sacrifices other than Princess Claudia in an empire that is understaffed?

"... What?

"It's not like we can't fight without that one. We're just gonna lose our easy to understand goals."

"... so it sucks (...)"

"Oh, the harmony conference will be the start of a muddy state of war. Just now, the troublesome Cardina can't move because she's rubbing the gramballor."

"It seems possible..."

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Such conversations took place many times between the Imperial masters.

They are escorts, they do not know what the harmony conference is about, and thus they exchange imaginations in the name of "Oh, isn't it" and "Isn't it like this".

But if you insist...... their imagination is as if it were different from reality.

Reality's King's plan is far more peaceful than they imagined,

- Or because it's progressing with unimaginable spiciness.

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■ Former Duke of Lunnings residence

Former Duke of Lunnings residence.

The mansion where the Lord, the Duke of Lunnings and his wife once lived, is now as deserted as the city.

The Duke, who was inspecting arable land in a former [Gloria] raid, died, as did his wife, among the shelters he was making underground. The Shelter did not prevent the Endangered Realm.

It was the first time in a year that a certain sound had sounded on such an unmanned duke's mansion.

It's a facility built deep down on the ground floor...... it's heard from the bathroom.

In other words, it is the sound of water dripping from the abyss.

"I knew bathing anywhere was a good thing ~"

Claudia said so comfortably as she soaked herself in the bathroom and extended her legs.

Earlier, she had cleaned her own large baths, adjusted her water supply magic items, and filled the hot water into the large baths to get ready for bathing.

So ready and now relaxing.

She stretched out and spoke to the entrance to the bathroom.

"Behemott and Levy won't even come in. -?

No.

"No, sir."

Standing there was Leviathan holding the [Beast King] behemoth.

They watch Claudia bathe as she serves as an escort.

"I can't calm down if I'm just naked here."

"In the first place, why are you bathing?

"Huh? 'Cause it's a pageant tomorrow, and you're meeting Ultimia, so you're gonna have to clean yourself up, right?

"... in the tub where the body was rolling (...), is it?

That said, Leviathan sees the corner of the bathroom.

There are traces of mannequins left unawares there.

Perhaps there was once a dead one here, who rotted and left traces of it before becoming undead.

Just cleaned, indelible death trail.

But Claudia, soaking up in the tub in a pleasant way, doesn't look like she cared either.

"The body was rolling...... what's wrong with that (...)?

That's how you tilt your little neck,

"Sometimes you take a direct bath in a corpse, right?

That's what I say and move my fingers in circles.

Behemott and Leviathan realized that the trick was to use their fingers when waving the spear.

"How many times have you worn blood and guts from your head in the last year's civil war?"

She sighed in remembrance of what happened last year as she said that and rolled her hair.

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A feud called the King's Succession Battle in the Empire last year.

The cause of why it happened ends up with two people.

One is Xanafald Wolfgang Dryfe, the previous king of kings.

He is over eighty years old and has lived a long time as a tian other than a long-lived species.

But still, I will not give that status to the Crown Prince.

No, I didn't even decide to succeed the Crown Prince in the first place.

At the time, the Empire had two powerful princes as successors.

He is the first prince born from the side chamber, and the second prince born from the main chamber just after that.

He did not make it clear which of these two would make him king, but rather moved on and let him compete.

As if to say darkly, "I will survive, and I will take the survivor as my successor".

But even through that darkness, the two princes did not die, … only the third prince and his wife, who were not the spindle of the successor feud from the beginning, had lost their lives.

That's how King Zanafaldo's life finally ran out, with his successor undecided.

King Xanafard, who had left his successor undecided, left such a will as to what he had in mind.

"Fight with those who have the right to inherit the throne. He who stood at the apex shall be the next king."

A quick story is, "Kill each other inside."

In the dark, I finally made myself clear in my will, not in my will.

It is unclear whether King Zanafaldo stated it sane, or in the madness of old and ill.

Though a significant proportion of those who knew King Xanafard when he was alive thought, "Even sane would say so".

All royal families with the right to inherit the throne heard the disclosed will as they met together in a conference room within the [Dryfe Emperstand], the heart of the royal capital.

The leading candidates, the First Prince and the Second Prince, and their sons, immediately set the stage for returning to their own supportive mother, the territory of the great nobility.

There will be obstruction from hostile factions between now and returning to the territory, or there may be a traitor from within.

But still, everyone thought I was going to survive and become king.

What's about to start is the Empire's biggest civil war.

Most of those who were on the spot thought that the civil war between the brothers, or the bone meat whose parents and children would take the king's throne, would begin the moment they left this chamber.

To conclude, their expectations fell off.

Why?

First and second princes, both faction humans… because no one (...) could leave the conference room alive.

Because immediately after the disclosure of the will (...), they were all killed.

He who exchanged it... the son of the third prince, who had already died, and who was most behind the right of inheritance... said this with his bloodbathed face of return.

"Now your brother is the next king," he said.

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King's Inheritance Battle.

That could never be said to be a high right to inherit the throne, something that the present emperor has happened to inherit.

More precisely… it was a civil war to induce the great nobility of the country to recognize it after inheriting the king according to his will.

A battle that was far more in opposition forces to sweep away the opposition.

Claudia and Reinhardt's allies are their relatives, the Barbaros Border Uncle House.

In addition, a handful of civilian and military personnel who are also difficult to put into numbers.

And it was just [Beast King] Behemot, a friend of Claudia and the others.

But as a result... that was enough.

"I miss you."

"WP (Good Luck)"

Anyway, it's a miracle you survived.

"It's true. Especially your uncle's old nest... how many times did you think the Secret Service would kill you..."

Until there are more Drife Special Assignment Soldiers with the greatest Imperial power. They are also a force that opposed the reign of the current king, and have released assassins many times.

But as a result, the Secret Service was literally wiped out at the hands of [Beast King] and [No General] Gifted Barbaros, and Claudia herself.

"Though it was worth it and your brother was able to prepare this country..."

The empire has now swept away opposition forces, but as a result it has become a rock under the king.

Tian's shortage of personnel, caused by the solemnity of the dissident nobility, was a serious problem, but he has filled that hole with the recruitment of outstanding civilians and the hiring of < masters > as a military force.

The empire changed dramatically in the current royal policy, as if lizards abandoned their hands and feet to snakes and become dragons rather than purgatory......

And then it was the last war that arose from the state that if only annexation with the kingdom was exchanged...

"Tomorrow's harmonious meeting will depend on the future of the empire and kingdom… us and Ultimia. Tomorrow, escort, will you hold on?

"ic (yeah, ok)"

Claudia asked her friend to smile and behemoth nodded again to respond to it.

"... Speaking of which, I haven't heard from you yet, what's the goal of this negotiation?

"Uh, wait a minute, please"

To Leviathan's question, Claudia put her hand on the temple and thought to remind her of something,

"- There are three landing points. The first is a complete end to the war in its present state with the Kingdom. The second is the annexation by the surrender of the Kingdom. The third is setting the winning and losing conditions for the next war. The priority remains one, two, and three. At worst, clear the third one."

…………

"... your brother said so."

"Yeah, okay."

To Claudia's words, Leviathan nodded convincingly.

"I'm really counting on you tomorrow."

"KK (let it be)"

"We'll protect you next to Behemott."

As such, the night falls, and time passes.

There is only a few minutes until the harmony meeting.

To be continued