＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ ■ Border zones and platforms

Not long before [Bandit King] Zeta moved in the Wang capital, there was movement on the floor just after Claudia pushed the switch.

Everything was moving in that moment, as if the word 'trigger' Claudia had literally been.

First, Leviathan moved.

Putting Behemot beside Claudia, he himself jumped to Ultimia.

A small blade in its hand. The blade crossing is very short and doesn't seem to have the ability to kill... but the blade with the surface painted on the liquid.

Throw it - to Ultimia.

There was some sort of poison applied to it, and Ultimia pulls out the lower back sword - [the original Holy Sword Alter] and cuts it off.

But shortly after Ultimia waved her sword, Leviathan herself was approaching close range.

"Secure, eh!

"- Broken wood."

To such a Leviathan, Shu's upper kick pierces him from across.

He had already deformed his gear to [Bear Kamikaze Kimunkamui], so the first shoot-only optical camouflage and signal blockade worked, and an invisible blow penetrated Leviathan's cervical spine.

The blow of Shu, which [Beast King] stood ready to deal with whenever he moved, hits the position he was aiming for, exerting its power with maximum efficiency.

"Huh!"

Even a servant Leviathan couldn't stomp on that kick, which once destroyed a monster equivalent to an epic class, and was bounced off like a shell... puts a hole in a crashing wall.

But - its neck, which was hit directly, has not been cut or broken a thousand times.

Leviathan is right up ahead blown away.

Then he shakes his arms and crushes the piercing guided bullet that was released from Marie to chase him into a piece of wood dust.

The time taken to attack that far is less than five seconds.

Many other escorts who were on the spot were seen upset.

Above all, I also see amazement and agitation from other escorts on the imperial side at Leviathan's murder, which abruptly raided the plenipotentiary of the Conference of Reconciliation.

To that appearance, Shu was convinced that 'I see'.

Nor was the Imperial side heard of this step except Behemott and Leviathan, I suppose.

Apart from Claudia, a plenipotentiary agent, and [the Beast King], a flank in the vicinity of the King, there was no one on the Imperial side... who knew the full extent of the conclave on this occasion.

"I knew you couldn't."

Claudia said so, more naturally, that she was prevented from committing the crime she had directed herself.

"If I could kill you, I wouldn't have had to use such a toy or put extra effort into it."

"Oh, you can't do that. No matter how many other things die, Ultimia lives and secures. This is strict."

"... that's not for me. I still ask Behemott"

"KK."

Somewhere soothing in the pressing air of murder, … but without even concealing that the content is aimed at the abduction of Ultimia, acting head of state of the Kingdom.

"Claudia... What do you mean...! Plus the switch just now......!

"This conciliation meeting is over."

That's what Claudia said as if it were nothing.

"He just there...... his name fits in Ray, doesn't it? Ray must have deciphered our thoughts, right? If you are exposed to the details in your hand, it is impossible to reconcile in this setting, and you will no longer see the harmony you want."

No matter how serene the harmonious conditions on the surface, the Empire comes to set a trap.

Therefore, we will be much more vigilant in future harmony than we are now, and traps like this one will not be possible.

"But it is true that the Empire does not want to wage war. It's a last resort. So before the war, we will crush a country called the Kingdom."

"... how?

Ray asks questions to Claudia, who said unwillingly that he would crush the kingdom.

"First, securing or killing the second and third princesses. And secure Ultimia on this occasion. This will crush the kingdom. Oh, the [Bandit King] Zeta that you pointed out on the switch earlier, along with her original companion, must be raiding the King's Capital."

Upset runs over the shocking words' securing or killing the princesses', and 'raiding the king's capital', which were unleashed without precaution.

Civilians are trying to get in touch with Wang Du with communications magic, and Marie and others were trying to get outside.

And Ray turned again toward the king's capital.

Don't move.

Shu controlled those movements in a nutshell.

Don't move here now.

Again, it's comparable to the Wang Du raid... and it's a front line enough to outrun it.

Or because you have an opponent who could be killed the moment he turns away... [Beast King]?

[Destroyer King], already in a combat posture, was with the greatest tension.

In that,

"... you seriously think the kingdom will crumble just because we're gone?

Wang du raid and… thinking of his sisters, who would have been intended for that purpose, but did not move off the spot under his responsibility as depositary of the state, Ultimia asked Claudia.

"I think so, don't I? Because the kingdom is the kingdom because the Ultimias, descendants of the founding kings... the royalty remains."

That said, Claudia points to Ultimia.

"Now the kingdom is coming together because we have Ultimia. So, flip it...... can it be put together by other nobles?

……

"The largest in the kingdom aristocracy was the Duke of Lunnings. But the [Gloria] case has devastated the clan royalist party. And then, a lot of noblemen have been harmed in the war ahead. The highest rank in a safe aristocracy is the Marquis of Findle? But that one's a compilation of intelligence. I'm not the person at the top of the country. Otherwise Count Gideon? But you're too young. Put him at the top and there will be a clap on the mess. If we can't even set up a surrogate king, neither [the pledge] nor [the war kingdom]... we can't do anything derived from the Head of State, and the country will be dysfunctional."

Claudia continues, "And..."

"Even if someone is forced to try to top it in order to put away the confusion, someone who doesn't want it to always be will pull their legs. It's obvious, given that there are nobles like the Marquis de Borozel who want to extend their rights even by plotting the assassination of a princess. And without the royal family, I have a good idea how many nobles will bow down to us. Besides, you won't be joining the Empire. But I don't know if you're outside the Empire. Nissa Border Bob, who has a territory to the southwest, is close to Legendary, so we might hope to be merged over there on this occasion. So to speak, Count Chiola, who governs the western harbour zone, is also very close to the trade fleet of Gran Barroa. Grand Baroa will want land territory, too, and you're going to be greeted on favourable terms.... and well, if the pillars (...) are gone, a lot of that will happen and you'll fall apart like you once did in the Warring States"

Without the royal pillar, Claudia tells us that the kingdom will be scattered across several small nations.

Originally a gathering of small nations, the kingdom united by the Founding King. It is conceivable to return to the small group of countries again.

But more problematic than that...... Claudia knows too much about the Kingdom's inner affairs.

Instead of Ultimia, even < DIN > has suspicious information. I hold some of that in my arms.

The source is derived from [Bandit King].

[Bandit King] belongs to the clan < IF >. No one can imagine how much information that owner, [King of Crimes] Zex Würfel, was carrying within the kingdom.

And he's handing that information over to members of the < IF >, and he's sharing it. Besides, Zeta herself collects a lot of information, so the database of < IF > is huge.

This terrorism and the sale of back information about the kingdom.

It was on those two points that the Empire asked [Bandit King].

Drain the royalty from the kingdom to drive the country itself into dysfunction and tear it apart with interference from other countries, not just the empire.

The liver of this strategy is whether other countries really move into the embrace of intimate aristocracy......

(... are there some lines like that)

Maybe he's already talked to Granvaroa and Legendaria, Shu thought.

Those two countries do not participate in the war between kingdoms and empires.

But after the kingdom collapses, they come to absorb the territory (...).

Such an agreement... it was possible that we had a contract that we could only gain from those two countries.

The Empire also has advantages.

If the kingdom collapses, the opposing forces of Cardina, the largest virtual enemy, will collapse.

But few kingdoms are swept up by the empire, which is a bad man.

So join other nations hostile to Cardina as well and gently absorb the kingdom. That's what I'm after.

(... the marriage alliance between the Kingdom and the Yellow River also disappears without a second princess? Even as the Yellow River complains about the Empire, there is a cardina in between. Impossible such as military invasion. Instead, if it does, you can scrape Cardina and say, "Hooray.")

Another route, the crossing of the Hard Winter Mountains, is also more impossible than Cardina, Shu knows.

I once tried to do it because I was caught crashing my prized floating fortress by [comet godbird Tunguska], the king of the sky in the Hard Winter Mountains.

The empire's thoughts seem twelve enough to deal with Tian, either in the kingdom or in other countries.

But......

"... that could happen only to Tian. But what happens to us...? Even if the kingdom is gone, there's going to be a lot of people biting the empire, right?

Shu said so looking at his brother for a moment.

Whether it falls apart as a country or not, there will always be < masters > of the former kingdoms who defy the Empire.

In particular, it is difficult to prevent the assassination of dignitaries by [Shadow] or [Assassin King].

"Shh. Even if I tie you up with nomination arrangements, I don't think I can do one or two things in return. Even if we move to another country."

"The reward is exciting, so why don't you come to the Empire?

"If we think it's that easy to go back to sleep, it's a big mistake."

"You don't mind making it the imperial state religion, do you?

"... Ugh, it's so easy for us... Hey Tamma, let me think..."

The moon and night were half-seriously shaken by the light presentation of the greatest demands once rejected by the kingdom.

"... don't think everyone just falls in reward like feminized seniors"

That's what Ray told Claudia to tow as she reduced her fondness for the moon and night just a little bit.

"Right. I know some of them are like you. Instead, if you keep staying in the kingdom after that defeat, then you know that's more like it."

If it's a profit priority, it's either moving to another country or it's like a turnaround hired by Franklin in Gideon's case earlier.

Many of the remaining < masters > now have marginal tiens in the kingdom or like the kingdom itself and want to protect it.

Claudia said, "So..."

"You think you're going to go out on such a hard means without even preparing a way to seal such a < master > move?

"... what are the measures?

"I can't tell you. 'Cause it's still up front."

Claudia says the words as she turns her gaze back to Ultimia.

"Two princesses in the king's capital, hold down Ultimia here. After that, we'll take action on it."

The True or False Judgment still does not respond to a series of statements.

Really, I guess I'm thinking about dealing with < master > after the breakdown of the kingdom.

(From what I haven't shown vigilance for the assassination, he seems to be thinking a lot less. Then the liver here is still......)

Protecting the princesses from the hands of the Empire was the most important point.

If the kingdom cannot survive as a kingdom, things will roll as the empire thinks.

(… it is not good to be slighted by Teresia in the first place. Worst...... I'm gonna pack it (...))

Shu, one of the few people to know the true specificity of Theresia, shed a different sweat on his back than the sweat flowing relative to the [Beast King] in front of him.

Consider that the best thing to do is to head to the defense of the King's capital as soon as possible.

The King's capital is now the escort of the earlier [Ra's God] raids and pacification meetings, because the protruding power is almost the shell of a raven. Depending on the size of the opponent, everything ends.

But the biggest problem before returning to King's Capital... is that the opponent won't let you get away easily.

Against the “strongest physics” [Beast King], the retreat battle is bad.

(Probably crush AGI type like Super Kill or Moon Shadow first. Disappear or sink into the shadows, but come crush every map with no hesitation. Even if only those two were escaped at last, we would be faster than those two [Beast King] with our blunt feet. It's as useless as possible to 'snort' that's bound to go around. If that's the case, there's an escort on the other side (Claudia) who can't destroy indiscriminately.

And even if [Beast King] isn't there, I don't know how long it would take to get back to the King's Capital if hypersonic manoeuvres weren't available.

(But in either case, the delay in arriving in the Wang capital remains the same only for what we fought for. The best thing to do is to protect Ultimia here, or still force her to escape...)

When Shu is turning his mind,

"... I'll ask you one thing, Claudia"

Ultimia uttered silence after hearing Claudia's ploy.

"Yeah, I'll ask."

"An assault in Wang Du. Can you stop me on your instructions?

"Yes, if you push the button below this switch, it should stop..."

The moment Claudia showed her right hand with the switch while lightly exposing the means to stop terrorism.

Ultimia waved the [Alter] she had at Claudia's disposal,

I cut my right hand with the switch off - off my wrist.

Ultimia tries to grab a wrist that falls with the opposite hand from the sword, but it still doesn't arrive because it was critical in time for the sword.

So earlier than that, Claudia plays her own right wrist with her left hand and flies it backwards.

The Imperial masters, whose wrists fell in front of them, screamed and inadvertently lagged behind.

"... already"

Looking at her right wrist, which fell to the floor, Claudia appealed to her displeasure by swelling her cheeks slightly.

"I want to cut my hand off with me until I cut off my wrist... it's a sign of willingness to stop being my friend!?"

It was a terribly faint angry color for having her wrist amputated, Claudia said.

In contrast, Ultimia......

"No. You're my best friend, Claudia"

Deny her words.

"But as the sister of those children whose lives are being targeted for your and your brother's schemes, and as the bearer of this country... I turn my sword to you. I'm prepared to be resented by my best friend for the rest of my life."

After denying it, I declare my will.

There is no anger in Claudia's eyes to see such ultimia.

Instead...... I saw joy.

"Huhuhuhuhuhu. You know, we're kind of alike."

"... is that right?

"Yeah, I'm gonna take you away from me, even if I resent you my whole life."

That said, Claudia smiles happily.

"But I won't resent you as much as I've been cut off. I'm sure it's the same even with my neck cut off. It's no different than trying to get hurt a thousand times."

What's in Claudia's sight is deep friendship and... different emotions mixed with it.

"It just doesn't hurt that much this time."

When Claudia shrugged so...... the sound of Gushari (...) echoed on the floor.

Looking at the source of that sound, Claudia's right wrist, which had been cut off, was... moving alone (...) and gripping the switch.

From the cross section of that wrist, there is a splash of patch and spark… the metal frame and electrical wiring are painted on the red liquid.

"Claudia. You..."

"I'm diving the training ground, too. I'm losing some of my original body. In the words of Cyborg, right?

Claudia told me to be nothing...... I took the tip off my right elbow.

Then remove the new arm from the item box and join it to the elbow showing the cross section.

That's something with a cover that mimics human skin, boneless and... only looks like combat (...).

"Now, the switches, which are the quickest means of stopping, are gone. But... if I call for a halt to communications magic, Zeta is supposed to leave the king's capital. I promise it in [the contract], so I'm sure."

"... Claudia?

While deliberately presenting himself with the means to stop the King's capital's terrorism... Claudia smiles.

The True and False Judgment had told the statement that there were no lies just as there had been earlier.

Just then, the external guards came to the floor because they heard the impact of the first attack with Leviathan.

That was almost all that remained of each other's escorts, but there was no [cat god] Tom Cat on the kingdom side, and no [rat god] Chrono Crown on the imperial side.

"... has also gathered. That's just great."

Claudia looked around and groaned so.

Then point yourself in the right hand of the machine, then point to Ultimia.

"We want Ultimate. You guys want my figure to stop the King's Capital terror. With each other pointing the blade, this is no longer a place for harmony. So, what do we do?

With that said, Claudia wraps her armor around her whole body in Instant Attachment.

No, that's not armor... mechanical armor (power suit).

Made with privileged materials, dedicated to her… red mechanical armor like blood.

"We take each other away. And the escort protects what we need to protect."

What was then removed was a mechanical spiral horse spear (drill lance).

The spear she once acquired herself by crusading the ancient legendary < UBM >.

Claudia turns the giant spear in circles as if she doesn't feel the weight, etc.

"It's just a little different from your brother's plan... but I've made it a very clear structure."

(... that's what I mean)

Shu is convinced...... toothpick.

It is also for this reason that Claudia taught the raid on the King's Capital.

To sharpen and increase the reasons why the Ultimians flee using the brakes of terrorism called themselves as bait.

In addition, this prevented the kingdom side from killing Claudia.

Because we have to keep him alive and let him give a stop order.

It can be managed with [charm] in itself, but if it is dead, it will also be impossible. The art of resurrecting the living reason is not something that can be done unless it is [Pluto].

Regardless of which way you choose to make the rapid journey to the King's Capital, it is difficult to defend the King's Capital given [the Beast King] and the speed of travel.

The only way to stop terrorism is not to head to the King's Capital and faster than to head to the King's Capital... Claudia in front of you.

The only way for the Kingdom side to minimize the damage is to win the Imperial Guard, including [the Beast King] here, to capture Claudia alive and have him issue a stop order.

I mean, there's no other way to get on Claudia's thoughts and win on them.

"So... here we go, huh?

Claudia declared the beginning of the struggle, pointing the tip of the spiral horse spear towards Ultimia.

◇

Even when Claudia declared the start, most of them did not know what to do for a moment.

Those who are not following the story, rather than the insane switch.

Or those who cannot move themselves by concentrating their consciousness on what is to be protected.

Stagnation is only for a moment, and if it is the < master > of a battle, it can move quickly in a moment.

But in the first moment when the other masters couldn't move - there were four who moved.

[General Demon] Logan Godhardt said, "I see. So you can fight Ray Sterling and defeat him on this spot!" and try to exercise the new tactics of his demonic summons.

[Beast King] Leviathan, who received Behemott's will, begins his transformation from the present Maiden body into a Guardian body capable of releasing all his statuses.

[Woman Pope] Dependent Moon Night executes "Lunar Exclusion Realm/Thinning" for the "Total Level" of "Empire's < Master >".

[Destroyer] Shu Sterling fleshed out to Leviathan on the way to transformation.

"Huhahahaha! Let's go!" Cole Deville... "

Just before Logan tried to activate the demon summons.

An imperial escort, starting with him, was "thin" to make the total level a sixth,

"- The Endangered Realm."

Moon and Night activated skills caused - everyone but [Beast King] to die instantly.

Though he endured only a moment with the activation of [Brooch], he is quickly torn apart by a constant instant death verdict, and instantly dies without a voice.

That is the "Immediate death of a human organism below the total level of 100 within a radius of 500 Metel" equipment skill - the "Endangered Junction" of the super weapon [Gloria beta].

Almost all of the imperial side's escorts, including those who were on external security, become a death penalty without knowing what happened, as opposed to that threat in the former [Gloria] case.

A combo of "thin" with the sum level itself as a sixth and "extinct junction" that obliterates the sum level of 100 or less.

One of the trump cards of the [Pope] Dependent Moon Night, which confines the subject to man but causes more terrible consequences than the former [Gloria].

Only [the Beast King] was spared from instant death because he was at or above the original total level of 600.

Even in the same super position, [General Demon] was dying instantly when he was in the process of rebuilding his level.

The Imperial Guard devastated itself with the irrationality once tasted by the Kingdom.

"... how useless"

That's how Leviathan threw up as he slowly expanded and abandoned his human form.

'So, what are you going to do?

Leviathan asks, looking down at Shu, who is clinging to his growing self.

But Shu doesn't answer that, his own brother... looks back at Ray.

…………

While I decided that my future actions were in my best hands and was convinced that this was the tactic with the highest chance of winning [Beast King] in the current situation... I had some hesitation.

Because it will surely send my brother and his companions to the dead.

Claudia is the biggest factor in this kind of battle, and there is enough here to be sure of victory.

Fighting such an opponent without Shu, the greatest force on the kingdom's side, is tantamount to a death sentence.

But Ray's eyes, which Shu looked back at... were not frightened of the shards either.

Scared, etc., has already vanished into readiness.

Therefore, Shu also decided to be prepared.

I decided to leave my biggest and strongest enemy... here.

Therefore, he turned to his brother... and left this to say.

- I'll take care of it.

"- Taken care of."

With those words exchanged, Shu steps in both feet with all his might.

His broken STR tells Shu and the Leviathan he held the recoil as he devastated the floor of the floor of the floor.

Fast movement in step by foot force (STR).

Shu flew like a shell with that momentum, vanishing from the corner where Leviathan clashed earlier and the wall collapsed to the outside of the floor.

entrust the battle on this occasion to my brother......

◇

Most of the Imperial Guards died instantly.

Shu Sterling and Leviathan leave the room together.

Later there were two princesses pointing their swords and spears at each other.

A mixture of the Death Period and the Eighty-Six Kingdoms.

And just one in the Empire...... no, only one left < master >.

Make the Empire strongest, “physics strongest".

- [Beast King] Behemot remained there.

…………

Behemott is silent as he drops off a hole in the wall and two people who disappeared there......

'... their opponents are gone. Levi, sloppy'

Was that too much shock, squeaking and sighing like that in normal language, not slang?

It darkens the atmosphere that surrounds you when you say you are semi-surrounded by the < master > of the kingdom, as if you mourn that no one but Shu is going to deal with you.

'I have no choice... Immediately secure the princess of the kingdom..., and to Shu I too...'

That's what Behemott says and turns to Ultimia......

"-No."

One < master > raised his voice so as to stop her like that.

"Your opponent is not my brother."

one < master > - Ray Sterling was

"We're your opponents."

Looking straight at the “strongest physics" (behemott)......

"We will stop the Beast King."

- Like my old brother, I declared so.

Behemott said so Ray and his fellow citizens who were willing to do the same around him... with the kind of eyes he would see even in "The Rare Thing".

…………

So the lid opened patchy, closed, and opened again...

"imba...... (although I think it is an imbalance......)"

Raising the mouth angle of the beast's jaw, grinning,

- I like it.

I stood up for signs of ferocity from all over my body - moving into a combat posture.

And the curtain goes up.

For Ray Sterling, the first battle against the "strongest” began…

To be continued