＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Conversation of the mentor

"The organisms of this world extend their existence by intangible information energy, called resources besides physical and chemical life activities. Most of all, there are creatures, undead, even minerals."

"Resource mobility."

"That's right. The resources that the organism was enclosed with dying naturally return. When this is murder by others, some move on to the defeated. The presence is augmented when the holding resource exceeds a certain amount on this move. This is what we call leveling up. This biocidal resource movement occurs in both human-borne organisms and monsters. However, resource mobility is less efficient than it used to be when it comes to monsters. Do you remember why that is?

"Yes, because the resource turns into an item"

"Oh. The whole“ incarnation ”thing, the" incarnation of the balance ”conferred on all monsters. Monsters convert resources into items derived from themselves upon death. It means that the rest of the lesser will move to the defeated or to nature. Also, that degradation“ incarnate "… that's the same thing. Most of the resources are collected and used to reconstitute the body called the avatar. Therefore, if leveling efficiency is a priority, mass killing of unincorporated tians of such systems is the most efficient (...) way to level up. The heavens and the earth today and the former [king] can be said to be an easy example of this."

"How can heaven and earth have so many excelled in talent?

"It's the result of weak and strong eating. Because only the strong survived, only the strong, the descendants of those who excelled in talent. The heavens and the earth once fought against the" incarnation "… the“ incarnation of stone molars ”that crushed the continent divided them from the continent. The sea separating the country's interior and exterior made it possible to say that it had been disconnected from the continent for more than 1000 years. Therefore, it was established as a kind of worm poison."

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"Now, let's get back to the level. In the case of monsters, they level up as is, but in the case of humans, there is no mechanism for humans to receive the resources of others themselves. Humans cannot level without a vessel (...) of resources called Job. I mean, the biggest difference between humans and monsters is Job. But how much of a vessel called Job can be placed within itself and what type of vessel can be placed varies from individual to individual. This is also the identity of this world's talent. And wherever you go, the original human limit is two senior positions and six junior positions, or 500 levels."

"But you have a super position."

"That's an external vessel, to put it bluntly. A kind of transfer talent, left behind by the previous administrators of this world. Unlimited resource containers as far as intangible and confirmed. Therefore, if even the holders of talent who do not reach 500 complete the conditions and acquire them, the cap will disappear. As such, it is the only means set in the world to transcend human limits"

"for transcending human limits… the only means"

"Sometimes there are means beyond the limits of human beings, besides the most superior positions."

"Huh? Isn't it the only one?

"I can prepare it for myself even if the world doesn't prepare it. So will what we made. Gear is easy to understand. If you acquire equipment that acts on your stats and skills, you gain that much strength. I am equipped while improving the [MP Booster] of the civilized era with me now and earlier"

"[MP Booster]?

"As the name suggests, it's equipment that greatly increases MP and increases magic power. But instead of jumping up the MP by more than ten times, the [MP booster] at the time also had a tenfold lifespan...... no, it scrapes faster than that. So what I am using is something that has lost its disadvantages even if it has lost its performance. I think the initial type is still there, but be careful not to use it by mistake."

"Yes. So, Master, what else is there besides gear?

"It's about quitting the human race."

"Quit being human?

"Don't you see? Jobs are for humans, and the only means of breaking the limits in a job is a superposition. If so, other than that, if we are looking for a way to break the limits, then we are looking for a way other than human. In terms of how a jobless body works, humans can't be very strong"

"I know what you mean. Pure Dragon is stronger than a level 500 combat position. That's what this is about, isn't it?

"Exactly. Basically, the top monsters are stronger than humans. This is especially true if you have to be super. That's why if you quit humans, you can get closer to that strength."

"But [the Great Necromancer] is... not, is it?

"Oh. That can earn undead properties, but it doesn't transcend that much. In the end, there is a restriction called Job. No, should I say limiter? [The Great Necromancer] is undead, but it's still a human frame."

"So what kind of things come out of that frame?

"A lot of precedent is alienation by a newly created magical rampage. Attack magic can be self-destructive, but it can be so with necromancy and healing magic, and then reinforcement magic. Especially if a good surgeon does, he often becomes an unconventionally powerful monster. Most of them are certified as UBM."

"Runaway..."

"Be mindful of this possibility. At least, I won't make that kind of magic until I find my own successor, don't try. It sucks that inheritance is interrupted. Crystals alone may not find the next generation."

"Yes.... but don't even use the master because I'm there"

"Even if I know. Which way, it won't be long... but I'm not willing to throw it away. Use it effectively until the end."

"Master..."

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■ Flames

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In a certain mountain, an old man sits on a stump.

It's like you're meditating or sleeping... or you look dead.

Three and a half years after the duel with [the Great Sage], the old man - [the Flaming King] Fuel Rasburn was in a mountain-deep temple in the southwest of the kingdom.

The mansions in the city he once used for his research have been burned down with his own hands before he moved himself here.

After that duel, his reputation became significantly underrated.

If the beholder sees it, he will understand that Fuel was also a rare masterpiece and that was a super advanced magic reward.

But from the side, it's two to four and... it's very easy to understand and lose.

In the first place, it will not be taken into account that giving more than one sense of righteousness is in itself an impossibility of [the Flaming King] in history.

Only the result that '[the Flaming King] did not extend as if to the [Great Sage]' is widespread to the public.

It was therefore considered by the public that Fuel's disappearance was also meant to avoid that reputation.

In fact, he doesn't care about such a public reputation or anything.

It's not in his mind right now, like there's room for such a murmur.

The only thing that occupies his mind is the echo of the fact that he 'failed'.

He challenged [the Great Sage], the all-powerful wizard, with a single force that he risked his life on, but with that power he was shown an overwhelming inequality and defeated.

To prove the strongest, the drill to go beyond the [Great Sage]... didn't make any sense.

It was the same result of being utterly denied my life.

And then for over three years, I'm just spending time alone in this mountain.

It is a life devoted exclusively to fire attribute magic over the ex, and a body without a wife.

Nestled in a mountainous land, no one cares.

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Continue meditating alone He was silent.

But there's a noise that's not a voice around him like that.

That's the sound of flames.

Around him I sat down - a total of sixty four fireballs floating.

It's not "The Stars," it's the lower magic "Fireball."

But even so, we cannot normally move this many numbers in parallel.

After losing to [The Great Sage] in numbers, power and speed, he built up drills again… he had gained control and speed over his former duel.

It is the result of an attempt to further open the edge of one's own limits in search of further ways.

But he knows.

Even if we're ahead of here, we can't get there on our own.

"Again... not enough"

That's how he shrugged and put out the fireballs around him.

What he was trying to do was the same... multiple simultaneous controls of the Star.

If he is now, he may also reach the realm of four simultaneous shots carried out by [the Great Sage] … or more.

But that was impossible for fundamental reasons.

"I don't have enough magic..."

He doesn't have an MP that just releases four Stars at the same time.

Even if I squeezed my own MP to the limit, up to three simultaneous shots was the numerical limit.

As long as we raise the level, there will be more MP.

However, it is not unlimited when it comes to super positions with no level limits.

[The Great Sage] has lived more than a hundred years and has increased his level. Fuel will also need a few more decades to get to that area.

I don't know if I can catch up while I'm alive.

And I just caught up with you. You can't win that.

In a former duel, I have dared to use fire attribute magic, but [Great Sage] can use all attributes. If incompatible magic is used, defeat is assured, even with comparable MP and control capabilities.

If you want to break it with only a single force, you have to outdo the other person.

That is what it was once like to have a knitted dual star for it.

…………

Fuel remembers.

Give me the moment when I was smashed to pieces of my own duel.

I can't forget the gaze of [The Great Sage].

Smiling gaze as if even a child showing off crap had seen it.

For [The Great Sage], the only power Fuel gained by risking his life was to that extent.

"... toys, huh?"

Fuel knows.

[The Great Sage] is only known for "Imaginary Meteo" because that "Star" is a technology that cut a long time ago for [The Great Sage].

I didn't think I could use it, so I stopped using it.

And Fuel challenged him with technology that was even worse than the technology he decided he couldn't use.

Fuel mocks herself that it will also be disappointed and even children will be turned to the same eyes she sees.

That's why when we can see each other in the next (...) we have to outdo the fire attribute magic of… [The Great Sage].

Yes, Fuel hasn't given up.

I've meditated alone away from people and loaded with drills...... for another challenge.

Where the result of 'complete defeat' has been followed, he no longer has a way to live other than to defeat [the Great Sage] with “the most powerful of magic” … No.

That's why I haven't stopped drilling after being crushed everything up to the duel.

He does not know that the name "Magic Most Powerful” has been moved to the name of Fatum.

He doesn't even know that there was a war ahead and [the Great Sage] died.

In the mountains detached from the public, just drilling alone for a purpose.

I'm even glad to say that's madness from the rest of us... he's normal.

It's just a story where values and the world of life itself were nothing else.

"... who is it?

Unexpectedly, he said so with his eyes closed.

It is neither an assessment of one's own drilling nor one against a retrospective past.

Words for someone who just showed up here.

"" Nice to meet you. Mr. Fuel Rasburne. ""

Soon they were among the trees of the mountains.

Two voices that deviated slightly like a carousel.

A white woman in a wheelchair in a forest buried with leaves of wood.

A tough black man pushing a wheelchair.

- [Soul sales] La Crima was showing up in front of Fuel.

"" My name is La Crima. It is [soul sales]. "

"The Master. There were some of them. So, what do you want from me?

"" I'm a scout. Would you like to be a member of our clan…… exactly? ♪ Or? ♪

"Clan?"

"" It's a clan of nominees. "

To the words, Fuel smiled bitterly.

"A criminal? I don't remember the nomination.

"" -But you must be killing a lot of people, right? "Hmm?"

But that's what La Crima said to Fuel, who smiles bitterly, to be conclusive.

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"" This mountain is very quiet, isn't it? No sign of a monster. And there's no sign of people. This place was home to high level monsters in the kingdom, so it should have been famous as a training ground "but"

"What are you trying to say?

"" How much has the level gone up? ♪ Or? ♪

What La Crima is trying to say is, in other words, this is it.

'How many monsters and... have you been killing Tian for coming to this mountain to raise the level?'.

Because those who know Tian know that experience efficiency is better.

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"" It's wise not to attack towns and villages and target Tian like making this place a hunting ground. Because high level tians have good experience "et al."

"... Huh"

Fuel laughs.

It's not pleasant, it's just a little funny to laugh at.

I had a little empathy for that word you said was wise.

"Oh. I didn't count it otherwise, but I killed it to boost my magic."

He said so, quite naturally.

It's a madman's word, but he's not crazy or anything.

It's just a story where values and the world of life itself were nothing else.

His values are to strive for and prove the strongest with fire attribute magic.

The world he lives in is the Raspburn family, for which everything was there.

The goal is to be strong… there is no such thing as a cluttered excess (...) that protects someone or devotes them to people.

Therefore, there are no major problems, such as killing others to increase the level (become stronger).

"It's like you're a resident of heaven and earth."

"There's something about empathy. So did you say a criminal clan? raw hate, but I have to further myself, so I don't have time to be doing that"

With no, Fuel makes fireballs in both hands.

It wasn't "Fireball" until recently. Make it his frontier, magic that has not yet been broken except once [the Great Sage]...... it is a dual star.

Staring at the fireballs made in both hands - only with the eyes of a black La Crima that exposed only one eye to be exact - La Crima says.

"" It is you who are stronger than you are now that I offer you the price of joining my people "

Fuel frowns at the words.

"I'm stronger than I am now," he said...?

"If you want to make a deal with me, let's be sure."

White La Crima offers her hand as if she were a demon with a contract.

Fuel's answer to that is:

"If you mean to give me more strength now, let me show you the proof left first!

That's what I said and fired the two-handed "Star" at La Crima.

The special magic of all the humans and monsters we've met in this mountain have evaporated under one blow.

whereas La Crima,

I couldn't even avoid hitting him straight.

The aftermath alone inflames the surrounding grass trees and burns even the Fuel's Anvil.

At the heart of all that ultra-high fever, La Crima is there.

And......

"... I see this stunning... since [The Great Sage]"

The two "stars" were - held in the hands of a black man (...).

A black man with his hands off a wheelchair sticks his hands forward and grabs the Star as if it were a ball.

While grasping a "star" that can melt even mythical metals instead of steel, a man's hand doesn't even break shape instead of melting.

Look, at some point, the man is no longer human.

I wore my whole body in an indescribable gloss, either gold or silver... a figure of a man who is more gigantic and distorted than a man.

On the chest of its metal body is engraved the inscription 'Ferrum Idea'.

"You're stronger than you are now, which I can give you. That's a sample."

Because of the silence of the black La Crima, who exposed himself, only the words of the white La Crima, not the ringing, reach Fuel's ears.

There is no difference in white La Crima, but there is no appearance that the clothes and skin you are wearing burn with excess heat.

Or maybe white La Crima isn't who it is again.

"... convinced"

A black man standing as if it wasn't working, under his greatest depths.

If you say that this is the power that has been created, you can also trust the phrase 'you are stronger than you are now'.

"Let's name it again. My name is La Crima. It's a way to change people."

That's what White La Crima says as she sings.

"Let me turn your tears (La Crima) into joy. If you want power, give it power far beyond what it is today."

"... a body that withstands heat?

"I will answer your request"

"... magic. I need more magic than that [Great Sage]."

With that in his mouth, Fuel realized that he was willing to ride the suggestion of these dreaded Phantoms.

And if you realize... your resolve will be set in the direction of getting on with the story.

I may have been going to quit on humans, but that's trivial for Fuel.

Because what matters to him is that he becomes the strongest by fire attribute magic… nothing but defeating [the Great Sage].

"I understand. Let's treat it that way."

And La Crima easily accepted the demand for more magic than [the Great Sage].

…………

Easily smash down the wall you were hitting.

Is that a spider's thread stretched out of heaven, or...

"... are you like the devil?

I just think of it as a kind of demon who instigates and invites you to hell.

Thus to Fuel, who asked so sincerely, La Crima......

"No. I'm sure it's the kind of" raw merchant. "

I answered that, looking extremely serious.

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Thus, Fuel Rasburn was modified to [Ignis Idea].

I got a foreign law, quit humans, and built in multiple life-saving [MP boosters].

The immense magic that I got that way and the slightest amount of life.

So there's only one thing he wants.

It is the end of the desire of the clan - the overthrow of the [Great Sage].

And he followed the invisible shadow, searching for the disappeared... and raided the royal castle.

There, without knowing what to wait for.

To be continued