＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ ■ Underground evacuation compartment

Let them do it most effectively and relentlessly, Integra said.

More precisely, otherwise it is no longer possible to deal with it.

Only a few moments left until the main explosion of Supernova.

The only hands available are Tsanron's Dragon King Qi and Integra Magic.

Integra can use all three magic attributes of Heaven and Earth Sea and many of the other attributes of magic. She can also use the metamorphotic magic that appeared in this shelter, as well as the Dark Attribute Composite Grand Magic "Imaginary Meteo", completed by her direct master, her predecessor.

But that's all.

The science and technology products of earlier periods of civilization are also her powers if they were to be, but they cannot be used in this present situation, where the “incarnation” is surely watching.

The magic of a person's body (Tian) is the only reckless way to confront the transcendent calories that exceed that [Gloria's] Ultimate.

Perhaps I can't stand her using defensive magic in full bloom, or a junction that specializes in insulation.

So much so that the calories in Supernova are different digits.

That's why we need fine work.

"Well, Mr. Tsanrong. I'm sorry, but I need you to do your best to expand Dragon King Qi in about two minutes. What, it won't take more than two minutes?"

To the words of Integra, Tsanron nods as he continues to release "Dragon King Qi".

[Great Sage] of the Kingdom. Tsanrong also knows the existence of the most powerful magicians in the kingdom and the West.

That should have been an old man, but I quickly convinced him that if he had succeeded, a new [Great Sage] would have been born.

On this occasion, reinforcements that you don't even wish for.

And if there is a formula to break this situation, there is no alternative to obeying it.

"Well, it'll be over in two minutes, even if it's late. Anyway, in two minutes, the capital will blow up."

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However, he was stunned by the words and jeopardized the output of Dragon King Qi.

"No, not unbearable, or that magical heat wave of fate coming in two minutes.... In about two minutes the walls will melt and the groundwater will pour in."

Tsanrong also already knows that this shelter is a mechanism by which water sources under the Royal Castle can be fed to cage castles.

That means this shelter and the groundwater vein are direct.

If Fuel now comes into contact with the groundwater vein itself, it will cause a supermassive water vapor explosion in the basement of the Wang du... which the Wang du will read and flip (...) every letter.

"Honestly, just the heat that conducts isn't good anymore. I'll hit my hand early...... I need to get his heat out of here (...)"

To that word, Tsanron recalls when Integra appeared.

That's probably short-range transfer magic. Supposedly it can only be used for very limited things, the secret of magic.

I wondered if you were going to use it to send Fuel somewhere.

"Oh. When I say move, I can't metastasize. I can only transfer myself, and the distance is not long. In the first place, if I touch you trying to transfer something like that, I'll burn out first. So, well, the method is simpler and... preliminary."

That said, Integra... hands up.

"That said, I need a little difficult prep to use my initial hand. Oh, forgive me for what I've been saying."

Integra said so, winking with her left eye not wearing a monocle.

"'Cause this was all Chant (...) - High End Heat Resist Wall," "Super Multiple Expansion" "

Shortly after she declared so, there was no difference in the shelter with Integra and Tsanlong.

But the ground part of the royal castle... just above, including the fourth floor part where the Teresians are located, there was a hologram with a message, and a wall surrounded by a circle... a cylindrical junction appeared.

A cylindrical junction stretching from the ground floor to the sky high even breaking through the roof of the royal castle.

Long-range activation and multiple-deployment by long chants… hundreds of antithermal energy-exclusive sea attribute magical junctions formed by it.

It was like a construction site enclosure,

Or directed to heaven - it was like a chimney (...).

And that's not a metaphor.

Integra's contemplative approach to Supernova is simple and preliminary.

"Well, Mr. Tsanrong. Do you know what principles fire attribute magic, such as Crimson Sphere, consists of?

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"Established by the Archetype System as a job skill, if you increase the level, you can use it without knowing the principles, but when you break it down, it consists of three elements"

That's what Integra says and goes on to chant like a lecture.

"Conversion of magic into thermal energy, control to prevent unwanted spread, and orientation to the attack. You don't have to think about that with your head to use it as a job skill, but as that [Flaming King] did, you can also build your own magic if you understand how it works and apply your hands. Like he truncated everything but heat conversion."

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"The ability to create the original magic depends on having the brains and talent to cut into the magic mechanisms simplified by Job. Oh, it's not a magic job, but the previous generation of [Dragon Emperor] said that the technology was in the wrong digits... It's been documented."

Integra pushed up the monocle, touching a little on the alleged monster of the digits among the [dragon emperors] of history.

"And [Daiwei (I)] - if I can't do that, it won't start and I won't take over."

- I launched the Crimson Sphere with my own hands.

"Well, I vomited words for a long time, but this is the only hitter I've got."

Originally constructed from the magical three elements that shoot out fireballs, only one element was pulled out as well as the Fuel.

It's not control. The control of the range designation requires a greater amount of magic than the heat conversion, and if Fuel, which is better than magic, concentrates exclusively on the heat conversion, the control technique cannot also be added with Integra.

But if it's oriented, it's different.

Supernova is the magic of heat conversion only, which has lost all control.

That means that only calories that don't have vectors float.

Therefore, Integra knitted the true opposite of Supernova, a magic that only gives vectors to heat.

In other words, against Fuel's activated final depths, he tries to interfere from the outside and vector heat to recieve.

(The only way to deviate is... up there)

This place is underground. Wherever you shoot in all directions and downwards, the basement melts and the damage on the ground expands.

And worst of all, the king's capital is destroyed by a water vapor explosion in contact with the groundwater veins.

Therefore, directly above...... we have no choice but to expel heat far above.

Like releasing heat fireplace smoke from a chimney into the sky.

(For this purpose, a chimney (...) is provided in advance)

The insulated junction formed by Integra is designed to prevent the heat of Supernova from burning inside the castle as it passes.

Simply releasing upwards burns down the castle with overflowing heat waves.

But if we cover it with her insulated junction, the aftermath of the passage can be done... computationally.

"Mr. Tsanrong, please focus on the other side of" Dragon King Qi "to the top. And I want you to pull up the output one more step when I instruct you. Can you do that?"

'... Yes!

As instructed by Integra, Tsanron manipulates the "Dragon King Qi" darkness.

At the same time, Integra activates calorie-oriented magic upwards.

(Well... what happens)

The loss of Dragon King Qi, which blocks it, and the fact that calories are given directivity, causes the majority of Supernova's calories to flow upward.

Hot air melts down the bulkhead of the shelter ceiling, burning hot air reaches the ground, passing through the chimney of the insulation junction formed by Integra, rising to the sky as it penetrates the ceilings on each floor.

From the sky of the liberated king's capital of heat, a cloud called a cloud evaporates and disappears.

It's a sight as if it were a natural mutation, but what exchanges it was precision manipulation as an experiment in chemistry, rather a quiet flow compared to scale.

(… at the moment, success)

There is no problem with induction at the moment, nor is there a breakdown in the insulation junction that absorbs the aftermath of the heat escaping into the sky.

The reduced heat emitted to the shelter also allowed indoor heating to subside, and the melting of the walls and the influx of groundwater were for the first time distant.

(Computationally, we should be able to keep this up)

But there is anxiety.

Can we let heat escape into the sky even in the explosion of our destiny that comes after this?

In the process, can the insulated junction in the castle withstand to the end?

And can it be prevented in this basement, which is the starting point of the explosion… maximum calorific value?

Even if you let the majority escape into the sky, this basement, the starting point of the explosion, takes the biggest direct blow of heat.

If we can't prevent that with the insulation junction she's going to concentrate on and Tsanrong's Dragon King Qi... regardless of the fine work that will let her escape into the sky, this king's capital will blow up with a water vapor explosion in the groundwater vein.

(The calories that cannot be allowed to escape upwards are roughly 20% of the total. Twenty percent of the heat that wipes out Wang Du...... no more temperature rises are bad considering the water vapor explosion in the groundwater veins. The fate of their explosion...... can you prevent it with me and [Dragon Emperor]? If not, you will lose everything the masters have inherited with my failure)

While showing Tsanrong a relaxed attitude, Integra's voice of mind was mixed with many anxieties.

Cold sweats flowing with tension and fear flow through cheeks mixed with physiological sweats produced by heat.

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But she shakes off such anxiety with her own cheeks stretched hard.

Integra doesn't admit it, even if she's afraid.

Fear, etc., I know I shouldn't hold it.

Because I want to strongly believe that the magic taught by my teacher is not something that I can't even face the final depths of life (...) in exchange for life (...).

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Integra therefore discerns the moment.

In the moment of the explosion, to overlap its own maximum insulation junction.

――――

"Supernova" seen over "Dragon King Qi"...... [Flaming King] The Sun, the fruit of Fuel Rasburn, continues to expand...... its criticality will be less than a minute away.

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In the short time leading up to the moment when it should be said that it is his and those whom he has inherited, Integra recalls the past.

That's the story of a previous generation of [Great Sage] winning a duel with [Flaming King] in such a way as to take away the opponent's eighteenth number and show an overwhelming difference.

Or this might not have happened if previous generations of [Great Sage] hadn't used fire attribute magic to defeat [Flame King].

But now Integra knows that there were two reasons for that.

One is to show the existence of the [Great Sage].

That was four years ago, when the increase in Even the all-purpose but using fire attribute magic completely surpasses fire attribute magic landlords. To show unparalleled [Great Sage] power as a help in the plot to bring us to war afterwards.

The other is to elevate [the Flaming King] Fuel Rasburn.

If you fight “incarnation” sooner or later, the stronger the tien the better.

Thus, by showing Fuel, who was [the Flaming King], the magic ahead of his handling (...), he encouraged arousal and drilling.

If that breaks my heart, there was also a decision that I could not use it in the battle against the “incarnation”.

And the second prospect, as a result, some of it was right, but it came off a lot.

Fuel Rasburn was unbroken, aroused, overlaid with drills, and stronger.

But it was mixed with the deterioration “incarnation," which could make [the Great Sage] 's plans go a long way crazy.

Nor would my predecessors have expected this to happen.

(That's why my master's miscalculation...... now I have to get it right)

[The Flaming King] has taken the edge in the actions of his predecessors [the Great Sage] and has become an obstacle.

Integra is determined that the only person who should liquidate it is herself who has inherited everything from her master...

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Eventually, the time came.

The swelling sun-like flames repeat tickles and small luminescence… reward a critical omen.

"Fully open Dragon King Qi, now!

"Ooh, wow, wow."

In response to Integra's instructions, Tsanron's Dragon King Qi also converts to life force and unfolds beyond its limits.

At the same time, activate the largest insulation junction that Integra was also waiting for.

"Startup -" Hundred layer insulation junction ""

As if it were a box, twenty insulated junctions surround each of the four directions and the bottom of the fuel.

Insulated junctions hide the sun,

Tsanlong's Dragon King Qi covered its surroundings,

――――

Moments of fate - so brilliant that the world was about to disappear filled the space.

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■ Flames

I wonder how many people in the world know what it means to be born at the end of their lives.

I'm sure that percentage can't be quantified. At that moment when the lights of one's life go out, the rest of us do not know what the dying think.

What were you born for, what did you live for, and were satisfied with that whole life?

Only the person knows what it means to be born,... or disappears unknowingly.

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Fuel Rasburn's whole life was a flame.

To the flames alone, it was a lifetime of dedication.

He dedicated time, other ways of life, ethics, even his body.

His life was illuminated by flames and burned out by flames.

At the end of the day, he literally replaced himself with a flame.

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He understands, too.

He said he risked everything to prove that it was the strongest flame, the strongest magic.

But I didn't know what that meant.

What was his whole life dedicated to the flames (...) for?

I remembered that the reason I tried to beat [the Great Sage] was to prove the strongest of fire attribute magic.

The grief of the clan, the end of the drill that went on from an early age, … for the strongest proof.

But I can't find a reason to prove the strongest... by looking.

I have lived for the strongest proof, but what was the proof for?

I've lived for proof since I was young, and I see no other reason.

- It's like, a flame.

Burn something, shine, and later all that remains is burnt ash.

Nothing that makes sense remains, a lifetime of temporary brilliance and heat only.

And if you couldn't prove even the strongest you aimed for, it wouldn't be anything more.

What's the meaning of this lifetime that doesn't even leave a wreck......

"... alive... right. Really... it was amazing magic..."

Unexpectedly admirable words arrived at him, who asks himself even though he loses his thinking brain.

What he felt was the voice of a woman, who was then a fuel with lost eyes, ears and flesh.

I've never heard that voice before.

Because he had already lost his ear when she was talking.

The Lord of that voice was... Integra, who survived his flames.

Integra still stands where it was a refuge.

The sight of the shelter where she was was was changing. The walls separating the underground waters, the source of the royal castle's water, from the shelter melt, and now groundwater flows in like a stream.

It touches the heated shelter walls and floors to become water vapor... but that's not like causing a water vapor explosion.

Because the melting of the walls stayed in a minor range and... the Supernova, which was a heat source, has already been lost.

Now the groundwater is cooling down the walls of the red-hot metal little by little so as to cool the baking stone.

Besides her standing near the center of the shelter, Tsanrong also lay a giant as [Dragon Emperor] in the groundwater again... but her breathing was uninterrupted.

The destruction of the king's capital is avoided, and those who exchanged it live.

The Royal Palace also had a large hole piercing from the basement to the ceiling on the top floor, but it hasn't disappeared.

This means that… [Flaming King] Fuel Rasburn's last magic was prevented without showing the world its destructive power.

"This is true even if you are wearing an accessory for the Master's handmade thermal damage cut, inhibited by the 100-layer insulation junction and the" Dragon King Qi "of the highest-class [Dragon Emperor] in history."

Integra seemed terrible.

He has [burns] all over his body and suffers from more severe injury-based state abnormalities, in part.

The wrapped clothes should also have had heat resistance, but now the charcoal scum runs out.

"And no eyes and no ears. In a junction narrowed to heat, the sound of light was bare...... Thanks to this, even over the lid, the retina burned and the tympanic membrane tore. Honestly, even if I sift through my tongue like this, I'm not even sure if anyone is listening. Maybe he's dead and just a soul. That being said, my whole body hurts from burns, so I guess I'm alive."

Integra continues to talk even though she is seriously injured, or maybe because she wants to realize that she is alive.

Not so much, it was the result of a single piece of paper.

"... though it may already be burning out. Let me just say one thing, Fuel Rasburn."

Integra spins words on him, no longer shadowed or shaped.

Is that a grudge against the wounds you have suffered, or a disdain for imitating them stupid?

The words released from her mouth are:

"I guarantee it in the name of the [Great Sage] who will inherit the knowledge of 2000"

Neither of them.

"Your magic... was the most powerful fire attribute magic of the year 2000. No doubt there was no one better than you in fire attribute magic."

It was just a word to... appreciate his magic.

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Is that the truth, or lip service?

Either way, the words of the [Great Sage] arrived.

To him without shadows or shapes... it did reach his soul.

"I will not forget your magic. We'll never forget all the magic..."

And in the wake of the words he had knitted against the magic, he found only a little meaning in his life… satisfied.

- Right.

- Then what's the point? - I guess it did.

After as much time passed as blinking, there was not even a soul left there.

No resentment, no untrained, as if there was nothing to remember.

The man who gave everything to the flames... burned out.

To be continued