＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

Kingdom of□■ Alter, Eastern Trading Road, Forest Zone

Phew

About an hour after the quest for Penelope Borozel occurred.

On the open trade route through the woods, Splendida's counterpart exhaled after a full day of work.

Naturally, the wooden body does not react like a mammal, but Splendida's counterfeit usually mimics the person's physical function so that it cannot be understood as a fake.

"I can't do civil engineering work or this body (duplicate) without heavy machinery"

There was a poisonous swamp in front of such a figure.

Yes, a giant poison swamp has been built to block the tidy trade route that connects to Count Ajani's territory and Cardina.

From the poisonous swamp, purple smoke rises in the sky, and the leaves of the surrounding trees gradually wither away.

Of course, Splendida no longer hid that he was the [Venom King].

Dig a hole with the Heavy Machine (...) rewarded from the Chris Fragment and synthesize the poison from your material to fill it.

Such procedures resulted in extremely annoying and difficult-to-removal traffic closures.

It would be difficult for a dragon car to pass through the forest on either side of the road.

As a workaround, you can use the Dragon Car as an item box, bypass the Poison Swamp through the forest, and release the Dragon Car, but the speed cannot be reduced.

Besides, Splendida can't miss the poisonous swamp.

(Well, you can stop this road, or you can fly)

The trade route through this forest is the shortest route to the east, but there is no other route.

In addition, it has nothing to do with airborne residents, such as ground closures.

He also heard that Ray Stirling's magnificent horses had been damaged by the Igoronak assault, but there were still plenty of alternatives to flying. There is also a [second model].

There are many ways you don't have to go through here.

Splendida dared to create a poisonous swamp where the poisonous smoke rises into a smoke cloud on the predicted path of the Barbarians... just to show.

Explicit, almost provocative behavior.

"Splendida is waiting for you here," it's like yelling out loud.

If we really wanted to move safely, we would have avoided it.

Also, even if Beasley's Dragon Car is a trap, if there is no way to fight Splendida, it will be killed by the immortal Splendida after being contained by [Divider] like yesterday.

If you're going to come here because you know that... it's because you're carrying the [Splendida's Computing Stage].

From yesterday's battle and the code left by [Light King], I found a strategy to break Splendida's safety zone.

That's what Splendida wants to know.

Is their prospectus right or wrong?

If so, by what means?

Now that his gimmick is revealed, it is a good opportunity for him.

"Well then....."

At first, Splendida saw a dragon car at the end of the trade route.

The figure that continues along the trade route without deviating or flying.

I had a feeling that I had the ability to defeat Splendida.

"Hey! It's your first time yesterday, Miss Barbaroy!"

Splendida calls out to Beasley, the owner of the Dragon Vehicle, as she waves her right hand wide in front of the Poison Swamp.

The Dragon Carriage is currently being towed with two heads (probably borrowed from the AETL Consortium) of the [Second Model], so if it were roughly separated, it would be a [carriage], but it is a trivial story.

It was still more than 100 meters away, but the dragon car was blowing up.

"... ah, if you can see this (...), will you stop?" It's not that glasses decoration, is it? "

Proceeding like this, Splendida, who is not very strong, will become a wooden corpse.

In addition, Splendida's left arm has a few things in it.

It was Penelope Boroselle who picked it up earlier.

Equipped with anti-gas accessories and held asleep.

This is Ray Stirling's clan, known as the Friendly (or Devilish) Clan.

"It is a calculation that people who have Tian's children will not be run over and killed by others."

... but...

"...... Huh?"

However, the dragon car did not apply the brakes.

The power of that dragon car and the impending dragon car.

The main body of Splendida in the shadows said, "I wonder if she's willing to run like this." She sweated coldly.

"Wait!? This is Tian! Yo! Hey! Left hand! Left hand!?"

Perhaps the girl thought it was a trap, and she showed Penelope sleeping on her left hand.

"With that speed, why don't you go into the Poison Swamp!?" It looks like a tall dragon car, but it's okay!? This is also a set of poison that destroys equipment!? "

"...... Damn"

Beasley, who seemed to have some conflict, braked the dragon car with an openly grumpy face.

The [second model] and the high-end dragon car of Ryugi stopped at the front of Splendida's ten meters without turning over.

However, it seemed that Beasley's color was written "I wanted to sow it as it is."

(and stops. Safe!... heh? Which word just stopped you?)

Although I didn't think that the clan that was moving against the righteous ally's name could have stopped at the expense of the dragon car, there was a little anxiety about the movement that ignored Penelope just now.

"Once again, it's the first time you've met me yesterday, Miss Barbaroy."

"... I knew the Imperial forces would raid us somewhere, but I didn't think it would be such an explicit ambush."

"Nnn, this could be an ambush. It's almost a rendezvous, isn't it?" Even the poisonous swamp that I made. "

Beasley narrows her eyes behind her glasses and squints at Splendida, but Splendida responds lightly without breaking her faint smile.

It's a trap to lure me away from the beginning, right?

…………

Beasley did not respond to the words, but the silence was affirmative.

"A blatantly suspicious movement. Dangerous countermeasures... that's why [Beast King] Class might have hidden balls to take down, but it's hard to send in important battles."

That's not necessarily why people like Cain's Fountain, who stayed in the Fortress of the Empire that Figaro captured, hid in the Dragon Cars.

"In that regard, I'm relieved." It has a reputation for being immortal, and even if it disappears, it's not a tremendous talent for the Empire. Well, it's a coal mine canary. "

“In fact, I didn't have any additional instructions from the King, so I moved on my own,” he added.

"Besides, I left halfway yesterday." I thought I'd do more (...)... "

So Splendida continued the conversation while exchanging taunt...

(... hah?)

I had doubts that the other person was slow to respond (...).

You already knew that Splendida was the [Venom King], and there was a case of [Divider] yesterday.

Since Splendida's counterpart has a girl, it's strange that even if you can't do a gravitational attack without answering questions, you're still not getting off the stage and continuing the conversation.

Moreover, I didn't mention Penelope at all. They even seem to ignore it.

"Um, is there anything you want to say? Look, this girl or something."

…………

Beasley only looks at Splendida in silence.

If this is Ray Stirling, say, "Let her go! 'I would normally say.

(So you're not here after all?)

If Splendida thought, "It's a clump of conscience, but I can't say it's a conscientious person," Ray, you can't leave Splendida's "hostage."

(Nh, I don't feel like I'm lost in action. What do you want? Waiting for something and buying time?)

The dragon car itself was not a trap, and it was possible that the dragon car would come later to take down the opponent who had been hung with a hammer.

Besides, it's a no-reaction now, but if you're actually going to fight, you should think of it as a stalemate, and the gravitationalist Barbaroy Bad Barn would be a good fit.

(Well then, let's keep going.)

As for Splendida, it doesn't matter what comes. Rather, I wanted it.

It is a splendida to figure out what is to be done.

That was the purpose of both the [Super] and [Crystal] allies of the Empire.

Furthermore, it is the desire of the person himself to "know the care of others".

(I think it will be read with that in mind.)

After dealing with them for a long time yesterday, it is possible that they have read the usual Splendida tendency to 'basically passively wait for the other person to respond'.

Besides, there are beauties who specialize in human insight.

(Whatever the beauty, even the dialogue of the silent person spans a few minutes or something.... no, aren't you a little scared? Is that a good fit? Not paranoid?)

The main body says, "Is Despiri the only freak?" When I mumbled, the door on the side of the dragon car was opened.

It was one of the full-fledged creatures who appeared from the inside of the dragon car.

The man who judged that Splendida was "not there" just now.

― ― It was Ray Stirling, the kingdom's.

(What? It's a trap, but you brought the flag?)

There was information that I had boarded, but I thought it would be some kind of deception on the boulder.

However, the opponent in front of me was definitely the same as Ray I saw yesterday.

For a moment, Splendida couldn't grasp the sincerity of her thoughts, but...

"- Who are you (Chi sei)?"

─ ― Even when he saw the hostage, he thought that the man with a cool expression was "not Ray Stirling".

"--- Lizards and sharks (Erlkänig)?"

─ ─ The shadow (...) of Ray's figure moved at the same time as he noticed it.

Ray was supposed to be full-bodied, but he moved much faster than himself.

A supersonic maneuver closes the distance, and Splendida's counterpart touches Splendida's shadow before he releases the poison.

……

Shortly after, the man realizes something and jumps back.

A second later, Splendida's poisonous fog shrouded his space to the brink.

I also fired poison bullets at him and Beasley, but it was also the shadows that stopped them.

A shadow rises from the ground to stop the poison bullets that were fired.

"... ahhhh"

With a series of movements and abilities, Splendida understood who Ray was.

It's the Mister Moon Shadow of [Assassin King], isn't it?

Yeah.

Whether Splendida's words no longer need to impersonate him, the appearance of the person who was Ray is switched.

A man naturally dressed as a butler in black... to the figure of Yoshiro Moonlight, a close friend of Fuzo Moonlight.

The reason for the transformation was the perk weapon used in the fight against the [Beast King].

The moon shadow once again turned into Ray with that special weapon.

I thought that my ability related to shadows was yesterday's code, so I called in a shadow specialist to dive in.

It's unclear how the moonlight rendezvoused with Beasley in the capital.

However, I also thought that I could not help but grasp the trend of the assassins lurking in the shadows.

In fact, it was sent from the gate of Bifrost to replace Ray who had gone to Carcellatan.

This is why the letter Beasley sent to Ray for the moonlit night.

But you hated me.

Splendida reveals the fact that it was decisive in the current offensive and defensive while making the doppelgänger make a provocative motion of waving his finger.

"The ability to manipulate shadows doesn't seem to allow me to enter the safety zone."

I turned into a ray, attracted Splendida's surprise, and fleshed out by the velocity difference.

Its purpose is to penetrate the shadows that appear to hide Splendida by cipher.

However, the moon shadow could not enter the shadow at the foot of the Doppelgänger.

"Sounds like it." Your shadow can't even be manipulated. "

Now, the surrounding trees, the dragon car, and the shadow of the moon shadow itself are stupidly inhabiting the ability to attack.

The moon-shadowed Erlkänig erodes the shadows and changes their nature in its own territory.

That's why you can move your shadows to attack and hide in them.

However, Splendida's shadow is not affected by it.

You can't enter, you can't degrade.

Indeed. The shadows planted in the main body of the Tiru Na Norg are different from the traditional shadows.

A shadowless shadow governed by a different law from that of Erlkänig. There is a difference between sea water and fresh water.

Therefore, it is not possible to dive in Erlkänig so that freshwater fish do not dive into the sea.

Besides, it cannot be pierced by attacks of Light or Holy Attributes.

If I could, I would have been able to pierce the [Lord of Light] 's laser beams into the shadows.

As far as Splendida knows, the safety zone (til na nog) can only be broken if one of two conditions is met.

So, this is the end of the fight, right?

Hit the shadows with your shadows.

It was a convincing hand and one that Splendida had never tried before.

It was one of the opponents who thought that it might break through, but the result was as you can see.

In the moonlight, Splendida cannot be torn. The Kingdom's expected Splendida defeat was a failure.

As for Splendida, there is also relief where one anxiety point is broken.

And if this is the end, we'll just have to defeat Beasley and the Moon Shadows and cut down the power of the Kingdom.

(Looks like there's no one in the Dragon car anymore. However, even though there are hostages, I'm afraid that they will attack us.....)

Beasley answers him when he's thinking about it.

"I and the deputy... it seems that he can't give you a decision."

"Oh, oh, that's clean."

"So, as planned (...) I'll leave it to someone else."



As soon as I found out you were here, I called (...) the main order as well.

When Beasley said so, Splendida heard a strange, but common, sound in her hearing linked to the Doppelgänger.

The sound of the airplane blasting and hard objects breaking the air.

It's not uncommon in real life, but I don't hear much of it in this game... the sound of an airplane flying.

Looking beyond the sky... there was an object flying at high speed from the sky to the east.

It's an aircraft.

A pelican (...) swollen, dirty machine bird.

"Is that...?"

In an underdeveloped aeronautical technology, Infinite Dendrogram was perceived as a kind of… not just an aircraft.

Did you call the Wellkin Alliance for reinforcements? No, they're engaging with a special assault team. Then... no, I know you. That's it)

The person who knows the plane is known to be a transporter (...) named "Cargo Pelican".

Splendida didn't know the name, but he did.

But before Splendida could dig up his memories, the transporter opened the rear hatch.

― ― A person is dropped from there.

It's a free fall like no parachute.

It is still nearly a hundred meters below the ground.

If you are an adult, you will die as a shattered puddle of blood, and even if you are a vanguard, you will be seriously injured.

But he turneth his back as though he had known him, and descends upon the earth with both his feet.

Toes, knees, and fists reach the earth while shifting the impact.

The body of the person who has reached the earth cannot be shattered, and the blood will not fly, and he has a cool face.

"Ever since I saw you on that boat."

That person... the man stood up and said, looking towards Splendida.

He was a young man with red hair.

And he's wearing a blood-stained jacket with a fur that resembles a lion's rainbow.

"You (to)......"

Splendida looked familiar to him.

But Splendida says his name before he does.

- Owner, Eldridge.

The organization he leads and his own name.

"Barbaroy invited me."

And......

"Today, I came to defeat (...)"

- I told them the purpose.

To be continued