＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

TYPE: Castle.

of the building and has never fought anywhere but Franklin before.

I hear that Castle is not the right place to come forward in battle in the first place.

Apparently, there are many capability characteristics of production and base systems, and once installed, the majority of them are immovable without being stored in the crest.

In the case of Franklin's Pandemonium, it was < Embrio > producing and transporting monsters, and it came out on the battlefield like an aircraft carrier because it had grown legs and was movable.

But this time...

"I see. If it's a Castle of Cages, can you even use it in battle"

As Nemesis says, if it's the ability to trap an opponent, it could certainly be battle-oriented.

But... even if we lock it up, this seems too broad.

The stage has all fitted in, and this makes no sense to lock it up.

Where is Lang himself in the first place......

"Ha-ha-ha. This isn't a cage, and Castle isn't the only one."

From overhead, I heard voices.

Looking up at the top of the spherical cage...... I saw a distinctive silhouette in the sun's backlight.

It was - a rider figure across a large bike with a punch angle.

"This guy's TYPE is Chariots Castle"

motorcycles fixed to suck on the surface of the cage in an upside down state and riders across it.

I can hear Lang over the helmet like the racer would wear, not the mask of a feature hero.

TYPE: Chariots Castle.

That means the cage that trapped us and Lang's motorcycle, both of which are.

"And this isn't a cage..."

spherical cages and motorbikes.

Two pairs.

Seeing him cross the bike, I was reminded of a word behind my brain.

"Glove (...) Of (...) Death (...)...!"

"You know that! Well, then let's talk about it!

Gloves of Death.

A type of motorcycle stunt that travels through a metal sphere.

360 degrees, on the contrary, it's an extremely difficult stunt to run around on a motorcycle without distinction between up and down.

In other words, this - if the earlier proclamation is a special skill - Halley's name < Embrio > probably makes Globe of Death a capability trait.

"... you weren't a hippogriff rider?

"Raw Hate and this guy can only run in here."

Lang said so as he laid his hands on the tank part of his crossed bike.

"Moving around outside, Pete... our hippogriff is essential."

This means that Hippogriff is a replacement car, and it is only by deploying this metal sphere and riding the bike that Lang can show off his lead.

At the same time, I know exactly why I didn't use it in [monochrome] warfare.

I don't think this metal sphere can fly.

"I heard Mr. Riser's junior, but does that mean even as a motorcyclist..."

'That's what you did!

He answered my words with a laugh.

... Nevertheless, he gave me a lot of details about himself.

He didn't even set me up for losing him.

Or is it that you felt unfair and, to some extent, told me that you were the only one with my information?

Such squareness is also similar to that of Mr. Riser.

"Come on, then, it's time to boob."

Lang grabbed the handle and started blowing Halley's accelerator.

Along with the engine sound, black exhaust smoke is emitted from the bike muffler.

"... right"

In response, I will also have Silver deploy a barrier of compressed air due to "wind hooves".

But instead of completely covering the entire perimeter, it's a gap shape, like this metal sphere.

At the same time, he ejects the "Hell of a Qi" from the [armor] of his right hand.

The gushing temper flows out of the gap of the barrier into the sphere.

Seen, the chi builds up inside without leaking outside from the mesh portion of the metal sphere.

Aside from the visible metal parts, there may be mechanisms like junctions.

"I told you about the bad stuff earlier, but I'm a little excited to be able to do it with Ray Sterling."

Lang felt signs of laughter over his helmet when he developed an atmosphere similar to the duel rankers I had staged a simulation fight with.

"So don't blink at me."

That's how he keeps blowing the accelerator into small pieces,

"My halley starts from..."

The moment he turned the accelerator at hand wide - his figure disappeared.

……

A hidden remnant in the corner of his sight tells him that it is due to high-speed movement, not instantaneous movement.

But too fast.

I didn't blink, but I lost sight of it in an instant.

"Heh! Behind you!

I felt shocked, faster than turning to Nemesis's warning.

"Huh... ⁉"

My own weight, on the contrary, a heavy blow blowing up every silver with me on it.

After being torn through the barrier of compressed air, HP is shredded with damage that is never light.

It's not just that, we're bounced off the inside wall in the opposite direction.

But there's a riddle of shadows coming after us.

That's Lang's bike across.

The colour of the motorcycle, which could not be confirmed by the backlight, was blue and white, like a comet in colour... I was trying not to chase us that had been bounced off.

Eventually, my distance shrunk to zero.

"Nemesis!"

"Answer!"

The bike rammed into Nemesis's expanded Counter Absorption from the front.

For every damage that was supposed to hit us, the kinetic energy we had is sucked into the wall of light to temporarily stop the movement.

"Purgatory Fire!"

Turn your left hand toward Lang and let the high heat flame radiate at all costs.

Lang tried to slice the steering wheel back and avoid it, but the flame arrived slightly faster.

"Chi!"

Broiled and damaged the surface of the motorcycle and the rider suit, he accelerates back and leaves us.

Lang walks with his back to us.

But what awaits him ahead is the inner wall of the sphere, and he rushes up to that wall - without bumping into it - while accelerating again to a level that is difficult to see.

"Huh! Silver!

…………

Shortly after Silver took off into the air in the center of the sphere with an aggressive "wind hoof," a blue and white shadow passed us as we left the sound behind.

"... I see, of. In this sphere, there's no need for him to slow down."

It is the Globe of Death that keeps running without even distinction up and down while accelerating on the bike and turning around.

Thus, if the opponent has his feet on somewhere in the inner wall, he can accelerate and clash to the end of the perimeter, wherever it may be.

Only this aerial part can be said to be a strong safety zone, but it is also not known how far it is safe.

If this sphere is his < Embrio > and this is the main battlefield, then it is only natural that we have the measure to the escape route to that extent.

I just keep running now...... they'll set up some countermeasure at some point in time.

"Nevertheless..."

Lang's speed clearly exceeds his sound speed.

If my body feels right, it's a few steps faster than Marie's combat maneuver.

Its velocity is also converted into attack power as it is.

Had I not been durable and had my HP not been increased with the new [VDA], the situation would have gotten even worse with the injury system condition abnormality.

Silver is taking damage, and the speed at which it can be put out doesn't seem adequate.

"Senior position, and so fast in < Senior Embrio >? I saw there was some kind of seed and trick. '

"Oh......"

There are several factors that increase the performance of.

What I've seen so often are 'extra costs', 'conditions', 'uncontrolled' and 'restricted'.

Needless to say, the additional cost is to use something other than MP or SP for exercising skills and improving performance. My brother Baldor is spending the cost on ammunition, and if we take the Nemesis damage counter seriously, we'll be classified as this.

The condition is that it will only take effect when the specified condition is fulfilled. Mr. Figaro's gear count is inversely proportional, battle time proportional, and Nemesis's Reversal is like a Flying Flag.

Uncontrolled does not identify enemy allies. Or the lack of control that gives up any control and even involves itself raises the output. I have heard that one of the modified humans who raided the Wang capital was such an arrangement.

And restrictions are functional limitations. The limit on the number of skills and what can only be used in a specific environment apply. [Super Embrio of the Beast King] that Counter Absorption was this and raised his status with the restriction of "No Skill other than Special Ability."

Lang's halley has also raised its foundation performance by a dozen eighty-nine restrictions.

He said that bike can only run in a metal sphere.

In other words, by limiting the space available to you to the sphere, you are jumping up your speed and ability to storm as a chariot.

If there's a flaw, I guess it means the person outside this cage can't do anything about it.

Even if that's not as good as my brother's, those with wide area firepower can bring it into one-sided games from the outside.

Including this weakness, therefore speed and assault power.

And this weakness can't be a weakness in a duel.

Because metal spheres are about the same size as the stage.

The opponent does not escape the confinement range or attack from the outside.

I can even say it's optimized for duels.

"... Could Lang have been a duel ranker too?

When I said such a question, Lang answered me walking through the sphere at a rate that was difficult to see.

The Doppler effect made it difficult to hear things everywhere. I could hear words and understand what they meant.

"At one time! But not long before I met you, Max's guy dropped me from 30th place! They didn't even have two names yet!

Former Ranker.

If you look at that speed and the onslaught, you have no choice but to be convinced.

He's also one of those fierce men who outnumber me in local power.

Would you be able to equate or outweigh it by adding privileged weaponry......?

But......

"... Ray, this is not gonna work."

Because of the "Hell of a Qi" used earlier, the sphere is already full of Qi.

If you are suffering from a triple condition anomaly, it should also be difficult to keep the bike running at that speed...... no sign of that.

But what seems to be the reason for this began to be perceived.

"Aside from the temper... the gas is mixed"

Distracted by the black-purple curiosity, black gas flows through the sphere.

That's what was leaking from the muffler when Lang was blowing the accelerator.

I thought it was just smoke, but apparently it's not.

"Halley...... Halley Comet. Right."

Let Lang's < Embrio > motif go through your thoughts and get to something that sounds like an answer.

"'Harry's Tail'......"

That is a phenomenon that has spread more than 130 years ago.

Halley Comet, the first known periodic comet on Earth.

The tail of that comet...... a fluttering language spread all over the world based on the theory that the gas part is toxic and all life on Earth dies, or is suffocated to death by being taken by a comet.

Regardless, there was no gas reaching Earth or taking the air.

It's just an anecdote of concern.

But in this case, which bears the name of Halley Comet, it seems to be true.

The smoke exhaust remains the poison gas and fills the metal sphere.

I guess the reason this one didn't leak outside is in the form of a hitchhiker who didn't know how to keep that poison gas out.

Then there's one more thing I can tell.

"... that means you're wearing an oxygen mask over there too"

Otherwise, I wouldn't use that skill.

Oddly enough, my idea of him was similar.

Thanks to you, this one doesn't have to be poisoned by the other with [Stormface], but it doesn't go through there either.

As this one does. It would be around the time I realized 'this won't settle me'.

We must therefore set ourselves up to win against each other and against the other.

But I've got my hands full against Lang.

Opponents running around endlessly at high speeds.

I can't catch up at speed, it's hard to aim and hit the counter.

Given the amount of damage taken, it is likely that even The Return will still fail to catch up, making it difficult to hit Shining Dispair. The Grand Cross has a lug until it's activated.

It's probably useless to imitate your status in "The Pursuit". That's the fast type of vehicle, and I can't keep up with imitating my person's status.

If so, we will have to swerve the Purgatory Fire extensively and broil it little by little.

"No, there's more..."

When I thought I still had a hand to hit, I learned the feeling of poppy skin.

Intuition to danger.

An illogical red flag that doesn't make sense.

He pulled the silver compass toward him and avoided it slightly to the right.

- Moment after moment, a blue and white shadow passed directly beside me at supersonic speed.

The shadow thrust backwards as I hoofed Silver's left armor and my left leg.

"... hey, ah⁉"

Get in shape so you don't fall desperately.

Slightly behind staggering, it is understood that the present shadow is Lang himself across the bike.

Rotating like a bullet... I've been dancing through the universe.

Yes, probably bounced off the inner wall when the acceleration reached its maximum (...).

It's as if the racer courses out and blows up.

But if I hit it straight, there was the speed and power that could crush me every silver.

"Huh...!

The shadow flies away to the rear inner wall, but there's nothing there already.

There's nothing like Lang and the motorcycle crashing against the inner wall and turning into a piece of wood dust, and the engine noise that is still left behind in the body still echoes from up, down, left, and right.

Apparently, we're making a successful landing from that state and entering a re-acceleration.

'... that move, what's the logic?

Nemesis, who understands the situation, grunts so with a voice of half war and half surprise.

…………

I agree, but I also have a sense of sight.

When I was in high school, I felt like I had this move on a hobby comic book I had in my room. Did you say Mao Nam Tornado or something?

I think it's past the boulder to do whatever bike I ride, but in Lang's case, Halley is born with Globe of Death, a bike stunt, as his ability trait in the first place.

Originally, he may be one of those people with such qualities.

"It doesn't look like this is a safe place either. But... how do you hit it?

Nemesis groans in a bitter voice.

Lang will already go into re-acceleration and set up that move again at some point in time.

I saw no minute of respite until the next attack.

If you keep hitting and away repeatedly, you will fail to dodge and defend somewhere and lose.

Some hands turn off damage and kinetic energy in Counter Absorption, but the speed is too fast to read where it might come from. There is a strong risk of undermining the direction of tension.

In this situation, the hand you can hit...

"Is there only..."

There is only one.

"MP is... Enough"

After the battle against [the Beast King] at the pageant conference, he did a massive amount of de-cursing of the cursed weaponry. Especially the amount of absorption from the bearer axe, [purple resentment stray A] accumulates enough resentment to use an array.

Even if you don't have a portion of your left foot, it's probably enough for you to be limited on this stage.

The rest depends on Halley's specifications, but worst of all, he bribes with Hell's Chi.

'... Ray. Lord, are you going to do that?

It's me. I didn't think I'd have anything more to do.

'Is it okay to use it?

Double in line with Halley. Besides, there's no audience this time, and it's not powerful enough to break.

Besides, I'm sure... I don't even need to be that powerful.

"Then try it."

"Respond"

Respond fleshly to Nemesis and I slap Silver in the neck gently.

"Long time no see, but please"

Silver responds with a hissing engine sound.

And I...

"Windshoe - activated"

Use that skill - that tactic of war again.

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□ ■ Central Arena/Stage

'You're strong. The boulder is Ray Sterling!

Lang groaned so with a heartbeat of exhilarating half nervous half as he sickened through Halley's inner wall.

The first shot from the rocket start was not accelerating enough and could not be a fatal hit.

An ambush after escaping from the opponent's sight at super high speeds, but it did not lead to serious damage to the compressed air barrier and the Guardian of the Sacred Knight, as well as to a ray with durable status, with injury-based state abnormalities.

The next blow, he set up a chase where he fell ill, but was held back by the wall of light. This is the form prevented by the advantages of the Counter Absorption, which can be deployed in the specified direction in any position.

In addition, he also suffered a hand injury from Purgatory Fire. Given the difference in maximum HP between the two, it can be said that the damage at this point is almost five minutes.

As soon as Ray retreated into the air, Lang decided to exercise two tactics.

One is a measure that affects the state abnormally by the Poison Gas skill Tail of Harry.

If it becomes a state anomaly, Lang will benefit from it.

Assuming it is converted into a buff by Reversal, there is no problem. "Tail of Harry" status anomalies are not of reduced status. Therefore, there is also no increase in status in "Reversal".

Instead, if you change form to use Reversal, Counter Absorption will no longer be available, giving you more chances of a deadly blow.

But this measure has been nullified, and Lang knows why.

Although the [Stormface] Ray wore was unknown to Lang, it was nevertheless easy to deduce from the convenience of wearing an oxygen helmet to avoid suffering from the "Tail of Harry" condition anomaly himself that it would be similar.

Thus the state anomaly measure is nullified, and the tactics of nature and lang are narrowed to one.

It's a flying assault at maximum acceleration.

Bike halleys can only run in metal sphere halleys.

Something that just glues around like a periodic comet in a sphere of cosmic color.

That is why Halley does not allow other followers within this interior.

The maximum speed at the moment, including Lang himself being a [disease cavalry], is more than five times the speed of sound.

It takes nearly a minute of acceleration to reach it, but conversely, if it does, it exerts a breaking speed and power as a fifth form.

That works even if you jump, and if an object weighing more than 400 kilograms in total clashes at that rate, you would suffer instant death damage without a special defense or ridiculous status.

The defeat in the duel so far was due to almost all of it being crushed before maximum acceleration, including the fight against Max, who fell off the ranker.

Therefore, a state of view in the air, like the current Ray, is a must-win form for Lang.

From the timing and direction that even Nemesis's Counter Absorption can't react to, he could decide to fight in one blow...... but the thought is removed by Ray's own intuition in evasion.

The Special Strike stays a few decisions on Ray's body, and Lang is forced to re-accelerate.

Still, I had a response.

There's just a response that says you can win for sure as long as you hit it straight.

(Maximum acceleration in 40 seconds! We've already reached a speed that we can't catch up with over there! If you don't understand the timing of your next jump and screw up Counter Absorption, you can win!

If it can be avoided, that's fine.

Just repeat it again.

The only concern is that the Counter Absorption's defensive timing and direction coincide, but vice versa.

I can win...... Lang thought.

It was then that the Rays became strange.

(That's...)

to Ray...... changes happen to the silver that Ray rode precisely.

I am starting to draw in the surrounding gases and build a barrier of compressed air again.

The barrier was stained black because of the harsh air and poison gas that filled the interior of the halley.

(Are you going to consolidate your protection and prevent me from jumping! But it's my biggest attack! Most of the walls. Then you can't prevent them!

That's what Lang thinks with certainty when he lets them break through even the walls of misrills and ancient epic metals.

Alternatively, it may be an abdomen that reads the angle of incidence by creating a barrier in all directions and succeeds in Counter Absorption with a rear (...).

"Funny! See if you can make it!

As such, a long and short time passes.

At the end of Lang's maximum acceleration, Silver... was still collecting air.

I've been collecting air, but it's not in a vacuum.

Because Halley's combination with Tail of Harry doesn't help prevent air from flowing in from the outside, even if it has a mechanism to prevent air from leaking. The same mechanism is in place to prevent the junction of the arena from being vacuumed by flames and the like.

But whether there's air or not, there's no obstacle to Lang and Harry's disease.

"How thick you've made it, it's not a balloon-proof move!

That's how Lang screams and tries to fly off every motorcycle to unleash a blow of todome.

(- No, it's not)

At that moment, instincts understood before thinking.

Or, I remembered (...).

The sight I once saw. The color I once saw.

That the reason the color of the silver barrier is black is not for the poison gas taken in.

That it was compressed to an extremely high density, but because... it stopped even letting light through, but it was therefore black.

(This is...)

Lang knows that.

I'm sure many of those on Gideon's edge know.

Fighting a certain monster, which is what Ray Sterling has come to call “indomitable”.

So it became the deciding factor for victory, one method of warfare.

A bill outside Ray's basic method of warfare, which is only used in that battle.

That's what......

"-" Windshoe ", disarm"

- It is a major explosion caused by compressed air called wind and hoof bombs (...).

An enormous amount of gas that continues to be compressed is released externally with Ray's declaration.

A blast without heat scatters the shock, as it once did, but inside Halley it causes catastrophic events that far surpass the fight against [RSK].

The factor that did so was the 'don't leak air inside' halley itself.

The blast wields ferocity in the confined space, as if to explode dynamite in the vault.

Still, Halley can't crush it.

The stubborn Castle, who did not let the insiders escape, also withstood the explosion.

But some things are unbearable.

That's not a vault or dynamite thing.

Lang himself, who is only one of the contents and does not have enough endurance to withstand.

In the midst of a raging destruction, Lang was losing all his HP without setting aside time.

At least... before Ray.

To be continued