＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ ■ Axe Trial

Ancient [King of the Dead].

It's the top of Ray's relative undead, except for the quick wings.

That would have been even more difficult than Gozumaize , but if it weren't for this environment, it would have been a fierce man comparable to Tian but quick wings.

Even if Ray splits the body up and down with the "Silver Light" blade, the regenerative force and undead creation ability can be said to be abnormal enough to make each one look the same.

Ray defeated an individual from the lower body, as opposed to the divided [King of the Dead], but it still did not settle.

Only an undead monster imitated the [King of the Dead] was created from the lower body.

(But the wreckage of the Undead Monster never became more undead.)

The only thing that can be undone is the main unit fragments.

And no matter how many Shard Undead Monsters you take down, the main body is still alive.

If you want to defeat... [Reaper King], you have no choice but to destroy the irreplaceable part of yourself.

Like when I defeated [Great Dead Spirit], I shattered my head with a blow wrapped in Silver Light.

Ray knew there was no other way to destroy the immortal corpse.

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I've been fighting for an hour now, but I can't see the color of fatigue from the [Reaper King].

Undead are less likely to see physical fatigue.The present [Reaper King] is in a silhouette state, so he is deferred.

In contrast, Ray is already exhausted.

HP is less than half, MP and SP are less than 20%.

I had acquired the technology to activate Silver Light at the moment of cutting, but it was still close to its limit.

Even weapons have been shattered and only one axe spear remains.

Still... Ray hasn't given up yet.

(... even if you can't see the fatigue, it's the same over there.)

Undead's HP is proportional to the volume of the cutting site… and it's not tough.

A viable undead, the base is a magician.

It wasn't like [King of the Beast] had a broken HP, and the subdivided Undead only had enough HP for Silver Light attacks to cause serious injury.

Above all...

([Reaper King] will not undead the same part (...) twice)

The lower body was undead after the left leg, but the same hand was not used after that.

If I could use my lower body to create an undead double in the same shape, I would have had to repeat it once.

I slit my left arm a thousand times, but only once, and then I made an undead with my right arm.

The right-arm undead attacked like a dog, but didn't make a second body after it was defeated.

It was obvious that the same location could not be undone.

(As far as the Signage shows, the maximum HP (...) is shredded each time you create an undead.When the body regenerates, it does not return.The movement is also slower than before the division.In other words, this method of warfare is also a painful measure for [Reaper King].Is that the skill to scrape and use yourself like the ultimate mystery... no, the very thing (...)?

Ray's guess is correct.

The name of the skill used by [King of the Dead] in this fight is "Until Death Splits One (Antilles des) (Du Me Part)".

It is the final meaning of [King of the Dead], but in the final meaning of the super position, it is a relatively "usable" substitute like [General Swarm] 's "one-inch bug (Even) and a five-minute (A Worm) walker (Will Burn)".

Create an undead by shredding the status of each body, and the more volumes and statuses you use, the better the performance of the undead.

As an example of the past, [Reaper King] used this skill to create an army of undead and inflict massive damage.

With less consumption and the ability to instantly form a many-to-one situation even in one-on-one battles, it was one of the few skills that Reaper King could operate in battle in this environment.

However, there are also drawbacks due to the ultimate meaning.

Reaper King Physical defects can be healed with his own other skills, but restoring stats takes 24 hours.Even if the lower half of the body is undead, it is actually the performance excluding the left foot.

And in the battle to date, [Reaper King] has devoted quite a lot of body and status.

…………

[Reaper King] used a far inferior ray to his opponent's final meaning.

Ray is still alive, and the battle is muddy, but it continues.

"If I were you... I wouldn't mean it."

It is a unit that mimics only performance, but Ray cannot help but think that he would be quite angry if he had his ego.

[Reaper King] shreds himself and fights Ray with his bare fists.

But Originally, Undead was created from the carcasses of other creatures, and Magic used not only abnormal states, but also resentful attack magic.

Not to mention that even thought patterns are limited to contextual ones.

Even with Nemesis by Ray's side, if we were both perfect, we would have struggled much harder.

"Still, here... let me win"

…………

Someday you may need the power of an axe to grasp the potential you want.

That's why Ray...

"If the challenge is to defeat the past, I will surpass your corpses."

― ― I decided that the first step would be to defeat [the King of the Dead].

Ooh!

Ray rushed straight to the [King of the Dead] with a sense of urgency.

……

When Ray moves to decide on a match, [Reaper King] also moves.

[Reaper King]... put his right arm into his chest.



Ray knew what the act meant.

The area that has not yet been undead is the upper body excluding both arms.

If so, the part where [Reaper King] is about to undead and use it...!

"Heart!

As Ray predicted, [Reaper King] pulled his heart out of his chest.

The heart that was pulled out of the vessel is like an undead, without any pulsation.

However, after receiving the skills of [King of the Dead] and undead, it swelled like a puffer pig and began to pulse.

What an undead looks like is how it keeps swelling with a fierce heartbeat.

"Bomb...!

Ray suspected that it was a suicide bomber that was also in Kasumi's Summon Monster.

Using your own cardiac undead as an alternative to attack magic that you can't use right now, it's time to wipe out Ray.

Then what should Ray do?

It's settled - we don't change course, we move on.

Ugh!

Running away is bad.

If Ray retreats or strays, [Ghost King] throws an undead heart at it and explodes.

However, Ray intuited that even at close range, the [Reaper King] could not explode his heart with the greatest power.

That's why I'm closing a little distance from the [Reaper King].

The cardiac undead beat weakened and he told Ray that he was reading correctly by squeezing his body.

…………

But the next move wasn't what Ray expected.

[King of the Dead] did not throw the atrophied heart, but tried to hit Ray directly with the martial arts movement that he had shown in previous battles.

Even if the explosive power is suppressed, it is more powerful than King of the Dead 's boxing and kicking.

[Reaper King] grows as soon as his heart gripping arm vanishes, but Ray can't recover that level.He died instantly, depending on the location.

Blocking with a weapon will result in the loss of the last weapon.

Even at the expense of your heart or arm, you kill your opponent.

If you say that this is the same pattern of behavior as before, [Reaper King] can be said to have a terrible obsession.

But....

"Roargh!

- The same goes for the man called "indomitable.”

Ray doesn't stray - he punches his left fist in the right arm that grabs the heart.

I did not hesitate to abandon my left arm to avoid fatal wounds and avoid losing my weapon and running legs (...).



It is nothing more than a imitation [Reaper King], or even the original [Reaper King].

The cardiac undead burst... and both arms vanished one by one.

Still, Ray won't stop.

He has sacrificed his hands and feet to grasp the possibility of victory many times before.

Just as [Reaper King] has replaced his flesh and blood with undead, he has spent himself on a miracle victory.

Therefore, it is the same now.

Shh!

Win at the expense of your left arm.

As he took a step toward the opponent, he shook up the axe spear wrapped in Silver Light.

― ― Break the left arm of the [King of the Dead] where the gap existed.

Then, if I don't smash the skull of the [King of the Dead] who has lost both arms, I will wave down a blow.

To respond to the attack, there was a gap in the unexpected movement of the [Reaper King].

Heart bombing failure.The destruction of the undead, divided into flesh and blood.Decreased status. Blank until both arms regenerate.I don't have time to use abnormal state magic.

On this occasion, [King of the Dead] no longer has the power to stop Ray's blow.

"--I don't want to die..."

--What I stopped was words (...) ---

"Eh!?Shit...!?

Ray was astonished, but soon realized his failure.

It is also one of on-the-spot thinking.

Classic - begging for orders against someone who tries to kill herself.

Words from enemies who thought they would not pass through words other than skills.

Above all, it was fear of death.

Ray stopped the blade swinging down aggressively and suddenly realized it was a trap.

I read a human named Ray and hit him best on this occasion.

As a result of Ray's temporary gap, both tactically and psychologically, against unpredictable behaviors--

― ― Undead, who broke through his chest and appeared, pushed towards Ray.

It's a rib.

Twelve to twenty four ribs turned into a skeleton spear and pierced Ray.

The speed is faster than Ray retreats and faster than swinging down a stopped blade once.

An undead that specializes in penetration will even penetrate the protection of [VDA].

And the white and horrible spear turned the target into a beehive.

……

But that's....

Not Ray (...),

―― ――

--He jumped himself out of the item box, riding a horse.

Brilliant horse, [silver wind].

Ray Sterling's Knight of Love, neither an Embryo nor a privileged weapon.

Therefore, silver could exist as a special piece of equipment in this world.

There are no scratches on the legs that were damaged in the battle against Igoronak.Like other equipment and Ray himself, the world was perfect.

But now, with 24 spears on his torso... he's got a barrel all over his body.

It served as Ray's shield and protected him from the trap of [King of the Dead].

"Silver....!

…………

This silver, like other equipment, is a reproduction in this space and is not real.

However, because it is a machine, the AI of soulless silver is not different from reality.

Whether it was a copy or not, I understood what I had to do.

For Silver, it's about protecting Ray.

--It was to fight the enemy with Ray.

"... it's coming!

Ray also understood the intention of turning silver and showing the machine's eyes.

That's why he draws it too.

――――

Silver with silver light hissing all over her body.

Now in this space, the power furnace of the Glorious Horse has not functioned with any reason... but the power to move is given to it by Ray, the main one.

The silver is therefore powerful, stepping into the legs of the machine.

Regardless of the spread of the worn body, the bone's undead is shattered with silver light, blocking the distance from the [King of the Dead] who was connected through the attack.

One day, the silver itself turns into a silver bullet.

……

[Reaper King] tries to cut off the rib undead from himself and retreat.

But the scratchy bright horse won't allow it to escape.

Chase your enemies as you scatter fragments of yourself from your shattered body.

Empty, Palm !

[Reaper King] fired at the threat of his own capture - or the most dependent skill besides Reaper's Art - with his regenerated right arm.

The blast through the sky wore a silver torso, and the rapidly moving horse finally stopped walking and rolled onto the stage.

But from his back, his lord was already jumping.



In the sight of [King of the Dead], the man with the arm raises a silver light.

And then...

"--That's it."

--The blade that was swinging down cut off the head of [King of the Dead].

The shadow that mimics the [King of the Dead] was a blow - this time it became dust.

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…………

At the end of the battle, the only spectator, the axe, was watching.

Control, Acquisition.1% "

What the winner gains is only one hundredth of what he needs to possess a weapon of immense power.

But it was a first step and a testament to the fact that modern owners have begun to walk the path of being axe users in a true sense.

The fact was glad to see the axe somewhere.

To be continued