＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ Central Arena

Participants who are not supposed to be there, [Destroyed King] Alberto Schwartzkaiser, are stuck all over the venue.

This “tournament” can only be attended by < MASTER > who belongs to the Kingdom, and if you participate, you will be able to move to another country for the next three years… even in real life.

In addition, if you commit a crime of imprisonment within the Kingdom for more than a year, it is a contract that will render all savepoints, including those of other countries, unusable.

That is why it should not have been possible that a corner of the strongest clan, synonymous with Cardina, is participating in this “tournament" in another country.

Alberto was a leader in the special nature monster crusade not just in Cardina...... < UBM > and was more active than anyone in troubles against monsters.

At the same time, he was second only to [God of Fight] in the duel rankings.

Even if it had any purpose, I can say it's too big a pawn to keep in the kingdom for three years.

"... what's the aim?

Ultimia also looked down from the VIP table.

(When will he belong to the kingdom?

At least, she's not involved.

Someone from the Territorial nobility with the authority to change affiliations of would have secretly made Alberto belong to the kingdom.

(Besides, there were no names among the subscribers. Then participation will mean same-day draw)

If it had been registered a long time ago, we would have noticed, and we could have struck measures such as prior contact.

But Alberto hasn't registered.

I won the lottery slot today, which was empty for a few people, and I joined it.

By chance (...).

(... the odds are low. However, fraud is a mechanism that does not occur)

The lottery is determined to be won by randomly electing from those wishing to draw the lottery on the day.

Officials are tied up in [contracts] so that no intentional changes or manipulations can be made as a result.

That's why participation can't be anything but a coincidence, and it can't be that you didn't win.

(If possible...... Chair of Cardina)

Someone called a witch who reads about the future.

It was thought to mean excellence in the ability to read the situation, but maybe it really meant something more direct.

That's if you can even predict when you're going to win the lottery for the day...... it's a bummer.

That such a person has continued to intervene in wars between kingdoms and empires, or that he has sent Alberto in this time. I can't see how much that means to both of them.

(There has always been a cooperative consultation from Cardina. That you were refusing, but forcibly came to make a loan to the kingdom? Until you change your affiliation with < super >, not temporary reinforcements)

Is it true that the benefits of getting there are in Cardina?

…… In the first place, when the hell is Cardina going to [annihilate the king]...)

Just then, when Ultimia had further doubts, there was a voice on stage announcing the start of the game between Bishmal and Alberto.

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"Let the game begin......!

The decree for the start of the match was announced and the match between Bishmal and Alberto began.

But neither of us move.

Neither Bishmall, which is supposed to storm without one or two, nor Alberto, which is supposed to be superficial, will strike.

"... cum!

Bishmal realizes himself, unable to move at the start of the game, and looks bitter.

I am upset by the unlikely situation and have not been able to make my own golden pattern.

It was even on the back that I was closing information and concentrating before the game.

I missed my chance, so I went around to take a look at it instead of raiding it.

I'm losing myself to unexpected events.

…………

Alberto's expression against didn't move.

The faceless expression, as if it were made of iron, does not enlighten others of any of its thoughts.

Stay silent and slowly walk over to Bishmal.

The move seems to be full of gaps at first glance, but no.

My upper body wasn't shaking, and the more I could tell, the more stable I felt.

With a martial arts master or a mechanical move, Alberto packs the distance......

…………

Remaining silent...... I offered you my right hand.

It is a handshake.

……

It was an offer overflowing with sportsmanship as an athlete, but the behavior made Bishmal even more impressive.

It's natural to think it might be a trap.

But it can't be a trap to offer a handshake to Bishmal, who shoots deadly firepower through contact.

Neither Bishmal, nor anyone in the audience, nor he can understand the behavior... but only the four of us could understand it in the venue.

The men who fought Alberto by the fourth round, which was an audience free match, knew Alberto would do so at the start of the match.

In contrast, some have launched attacks, and some have responded with agitation.

What we could say in common... was that the offer to shake hands was not a trap or an attack.

".................. oh"

After the idea, Bishmal shook that hand in response to Alberto's offer.

It returns a steely feel that doesn't feel the elasticity of the meat, but the handshake ends without anything.

Alberto, who then releases his hand, neither attacks Bishmal, but turns his back and returns to his own starting position.

It was full of gaps, and it also seemed like if I attacked it with special skills, I could defeat it with one blow.

…………

But Bishmal didn't do it.

Half my hesitation to attack my defenseless back.

And since he is a ranker in the war, he has half the risk perception.

I had a feeling that if we attacked here, that would be it.

Nothing happens, and the two only pinch hands and return to the starting position.

This is where the game begins, and Alberto finally takes a fighting stance.

But......

……

Bishmal is surprised to see Alberto's structure.

I have heard that Alberto's style of combat is extensive bombardment by heavy equipment.

It is also known to the public for being the owner of the super offensive power that has crusaded every monster and for the accidental shooting of crusading < UBM >.

Also in the duel, they should have used firearms, starting with perk weapons.

But now Alberto was unarmed and took a hands-on karate stand.

"What about weapons?

…………

Alberto shakes his head silently.

It is natural to accept that it is a provocation that there is no need to use a weapon.

However, Bishmal noticed that Alberto's gaze over the sunglasses… was directed to the audience.

(... Are you thinking about the possibility of destroying the junction with your own attacks?

Cardina's Arena he would have fought before and Gideon's Arena. The mechanism should both be the same.

However, Gideon's boundaries have been broken and escaped by < UBM > after putting a strong emphasis on them the other day.

Considering its priors (...), Alberto may have sealed his own offensive power.

If so, two things can be assumed apart from whether it can actually be broken.

That Alberto has that much pride in his own firepower.

That we are concerned about the consequences of harm being done to the audience in case.

If you look at it, it doesn't look like you are using weapons as well as Embrio's skills.

Alberto dares to choose a battle in a flying corner drop.

"Right."

Bishmal doesn't say "don't lick".

Whatever way you fight, it's Alberto's choice.

That's why Bishmal also chooses how to fight.

Bishmall advances to Alberto.

But - I don't use sult firepower.

To avoid the opponent using his weapon, first challenge him only with his own fighting ability.

That doesn't just go with their handles......

(You can't give them all the way out with a burden on them! Then I'd be better off carrying a handful and doing it equally in spirit too!

And the battle between the two takes on a form that doesn't seem like a battle between them.

It is a fight without weapons, without flames and without superordinary powers.

…………

The audience turns to a different game haul than usual Bishmal, but Alberto doesn't move.

Bishmall's fistfights and combined onslaught are carried out with the precise martial arts of the machine.

The eyeballs move visibly inside the sunglasses, and the best possible movement to capture Bishmal's movements is to cut them.

Apart from the high status of the super position, the skill was also outstanding.

"Don't do it......!

Alberto's STR and END height are communicated whenever the flesh comes into contact even though it is touched.

Even the same fighting style is a different stance from the AGI-type riser.

(AGI is no different than me but this guy has good eyes!

Bishmal thinks as he checks Alberto's status in The Nursing.

(It captures exactly what happens to me!

He continues to take his best hand in responding to Bishmal's actions.

In combat, Alberto's guard is the Iron Wall.

But on the other hand, I'm weak on offense.

Focus on attacking, and even if there is a gap that the Bishmall side is aware of, it doesn't strike in.

As a result, Alberto's HP is shredded due to the slightest amount of damage.

The audience begins to be enlivened by the battle at Bishmall's advantage.

But the inside of Bishmal at the time is in a hurry.

(Slightly sooner or later!

Alberto watches Bishmall behave and follows suit.

Its responsiveness is gradually increasing.

As if they were learning Bishmal's movements, the guard's speed and accuracy are gradually increasing.

If we continue like this, any day will be completely read out and crushed by Alberto, who turned to the attacker.

He is a [King of Doom] who excels in offense, yet stands around like a durable type.

"If so...!

Bishmal jumps into Alberto's nostalgia.

Naturally Alberto tries to cope with it... but the eyes behind the sunglasses open slightly.

Only for a moment was my vision blocked by the flaming light,

Shortly after, Bishmal, who should have been in front of him, had disappeared.

Only Bishmal's wearing jacket occupied Alberto's vision after the flames went out.

I move my vision and try to find Bishmal,

"Got it...!

Alberto's neck movement is forced to stop by Bishmal, who hung a chalk sleeper from behind him.

Bishmal's gear is bespoke to suit him, which inflames with the power of a sult.

Therefore, apart from his condition as a cloth, he has also been granted equipment skills that inflame as well.

Now he detached his gear in "Instant Attachment" at the same time as inflaming it, sweeping his own body only backwards for a moment.

As a result, the body left the inflamed garment behind and the garment was de-equipped by de-equipping to return to its original garment.

Bishmal hides the double blindfold of flames and cloth and moves to the rear of Alberto in a low position like a tackle.

It was assembled from behind out of sight.

"Excited!!

And Bishmal caged his full strength - breaking the hard Alberto's neck in one breath.

…………

Alberto's neck leans more than 90 degrees to the right knock.

Normally, it is an abnormal condition of the [cervical vertebral fracture], an abnormal injury system that is not imminent but will soon lead to death.

At a fierce rate, Alberto's HP goes to zero.

Screaming as well as cheering from the audience mixes with a settlement that you don't see much in a traditional duel.

But Bishmal doesn't loosen it with force in his arm that strangles Alberto.

Because I didn't think it was over.

…………

Alberto moves his eyeballs and looks at Bishmal's right arm as his neck remains crushed and broken.

Grab an arm that strangles you with both your own arms, but Bishmal still doesn't pull it off.

Eventually, Alberto's HP enters the red zone.

carve numbers to zero like a countdown,

Reached the stage of death at one more point,

- That's where it stopped.

"-" Alpha Star "

- At the same time, the skills are declared with his neck pressed and broken.

A voice as if it had nothing to do with the fact that the trachea is crushed...... Alberto's body is enveloped in light with his first utterance of this match.

Shortly afterwards, two changes occurred.

One is that the response disappeared from the neck that Bishmal is tightening. Technically, I am responsive... but it has turned into a feeling of tightening even with rubber tubes or slime.

And the other one,

"Gu......!?

- Bishmal's right arm smashed.

The bones of the arms that had been grabbed by Alberto are scattered, the meat stirred and the meat bags packed in the skin are finished.

Alberto pulled and chopped Bishmal's right arm off the restraint, losing its original strength without expression.

In both of those palms, there seemed to be something bouncing between batin, batin and invisible.

"Heh... did you use your skills!

Bishmal doesn't understand what happened.

But there was something visible and certain.

Alberto's HP, which should have been reduced to HP1, is fast.

"Lulah!!

Then until he sharpens again and Bishmal moves his body that has lost his right arm and releases a kick.

Alberto also takes a defensive stance, as he did earlier.

Put your left arm up and take Bishmal's attack.

But it's not the same as before.

I didn't make it faint, as if there was no damage whatsoever.

In fact, there has also been no decrease in HP.

"Huh!?

Bishmal also makes contact and immediately perceives.

The moment the kick hit, the shock gained the feel of diffusion.

It was as if he had hit him even in the slime, and the response he had until the last minute disappeared.

…………

In contrast, Alberto's counterattack echoes Bishmal's core.

The moment his right palm touched his leg, the impact of crushing his body broke through.

"Gu......!

Jump backwards to distance.

Not as badly wounded as the right arm grabbed earlier, but the damage to the right foot is significant even in a flash of contact.

With the current offense, it's confirmed.

There is no longer a single victory in combat.

If you're going to find a winning chance, there's nothing but an assault by Sult, Bishmal's original way of fighting.

The same is shouted out of the audience.

…………

…………

Both Bishmal and Alberto were silenced, creating a slight gap where neither moved.

And......

…………

Alberto "instantly equipped" a firearm similar to a revolving magazine grenade launcher and fired it at Bishmal's feet.

The bullet that landed on the stage generated an explosion of red lotus that resembled the Crimson Sphere.

Bishmal avoided it aggressively, while also understanding what silent Alberto was trying to say.

"I used a weapon. Don't worry about using your weapon, 'he said.

"Then I'll let you use it!" Blast of Fire "

Moments, Bishmal's body is engulfed in flames - turning into flames themselves.

Bishmal, who has become like the middle of an elemental of man and heat, dares Alberto to assault his eighteenth.

Alberto instantly shoots the grenade at Bishmall, but the body of the flame does not count as an explosion of a projectile.

Eventually Bishmall thins flesh and Alberto instantly releases his hand from the grenade and punches his own right palm...... smashing Bishmall's right hand into the attack.

However, the attack on Bishmal, which has become elementary... does not allow for contact shock waves.

Conversely, the arm of the touched Alberto is evaporated in an instant.

Alberto tries to take out a new weapon with his left arm without moving, but Bishmal releases a high kick earlier than that.

A kick released from a mass of heat dissolves Alberto's left arm from his shoulder, causing him to eat that foot into his heart as well.

A broken left arm falls onto the stage...... glimpse of a melted steel section.

"Whoa whoa whoa!!

Alberto's HP enters the red zone for the second time, but Bishmall hits the head more than the first time.

Even if Alberto has enhanced healing skills, I thought I could just knock in a series of hits without any clearance to prevent activation itself... No, I intuited.

Acting and pushing ahead of thinking, faster than thinking about becoming or not becoming.

This is where Bishmal manifests his true pinnacle.

Shatter, melt, continuously hit and inflame the head, driving it into an undeclarable state of skill.

Eventually when Alberto's HP reaches 1 again,

Again HP stops at 1,

"-" Beta Star "

- A heartless voice echoed from the void.

"... Ha"

Even listening to that declaration, Bishmal did not stop the arm of the attack.

But when I hit it with two or three shots, I already guessed.

Alberto, who reconstituted his lost head and both arms, did not even suffer Bishmal's inflammation.

The clothes that surround you burn, but not a single burn mark on their skin.

And if Alberto waved the knife...... Bishmal's body, which should have integrated with the heat, was mutilated.

Until earlier, the body evaporated just by touching it, crushing Bishmall in reverse.

"... that's how it works"

Bishmal was convinced of Alberto's power.

The first effect is full HP speed.

The second effect is gaining a completely close resistance to the opponent's means of attack.

The third effect is the acquisition of an effective means of attack on the opponent's body.

It is a super powerful skill with a combination of three effects.

(Does that mean you didn't use it immediately after eating it mean you can only use it in critical dying conditions)

As a price for the force, I would expect it to be available only in the dying state of HP1.

But there is another secret to Alberto's methods of warfare.

(Both times, his HP stood on the verge of zeroing. Do you also have so-called eating skills? Of which job, what was the generic skill of the name......?

The name of that skill that Bishmal could not recall the details is "Last Stand".

He is a junior soldier [Leah Soldier] job skill in the soldier system and survives a deadly attack for five seconds on HP1.

Nor does it invalidate damage, a skill that doesn't make much sense in < Infinite Dendrogram > where conventional RPGs often have a direct link between physical condition and HP anyway. I cannot move properly the five seconds given because I am dying, and if the effect expires, I will first die of an injury system condition abnormality.

The difference between [Dead Soldier] 's "Last Command" is that it is recoverable by healing magic, not resuscitation magic, but due to the short effect time, it is rarely possible to make it. I might have said that "Last Command" is still a better skill to use if you think about activity time.

It's usable once in a duel because HP doesn't go to 0, but it's pointless unless the super position shoots the final depth with a draw aim at death. Nor does a ranker get a job for the draw, which presupposes winning in the first place.

But not in Alberto's case.

Just for a few seconds… If you can live forever with just the time to activate your skills, you gain enhancements after fully recovering HP.

Synergy with Job.

(... all I can say is that boulders are super)

Bishmal understands Alberto's style.

Endure any attack in a state of imminent death.

Fully recover from Dying and gain Resistance to Dying Attacks thanks to Embrio's skills.

And you gain the means to attack that can defeat the enemies you attack.

Probably not unlimited skills.

Bishmal expects it to be a number of skill because he can't see a significant depletion of MP or SP.

If we let it run out, we can't recover from dying anymore.

Conversely, if you don't have more means of attacking than the number of times your skills have been used, you can't defeat them.

In Bishmall, where there is no means of attack other than fighting and inflammation, you will never win when those two endurances are gained.

Instead, because there are many who specialize in one art, there are very few who can win even in the rankers.

Even that cashmere won't be able to win because it only has a knife extraction technique.

"Wow, wow, wow."

But still, Bishmal doesn't stop the attack's limbs.

He doesn't have it, such as the battle to retreat from the ex.

Even if it's a dead end wall, he pushes on.

Whether it breaks or not, proceed until it breaks.

Because that's a man named Bishmal.

…………

Alberto was silent.

What did you think of your opponent who kept pounding on the attack that stopped working, but stupidly?

But he did not insult Bishmar.

Visualize Bishmal's movements just as he did before gaining resistance, doing his best defense against that movement, but mixing his attackers in between.

After that repetition, the limits also come to Bishmall.

You've reached the trigger limit for Special Skills and the damage taken from Alberto's attack, double limit.

"...... ha"

If you look at the results, you can say that Bishmal just kept on riding his opponent's winning streak and lost.

But I had no regrets for him, wondering.

At least since I started fighting, I couldn't help but feel pushed forward.

Bishmal thought so, saying he had no regrets now that he could fight like himself.

Eventually the game will have a moment of settlement,

"- Good Game"

With his first words outside of Alberto's declaration of skill, Bishmal was beheaded.

That's how he lost...... Alberto went pawn to the quarterfinals.

To be continued