＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

"You managed to get away from the hall."

"Oh."

In that smokescreen, it was Mr. Patriot who was running away in the same direction as me.

I don't see anyone else, and I've strayed from my predecessors... but I can make sure they're safe in the party's simplified window.

"Is anyone okay with the AETL Coalition?

"This one looks like the party members are safe."

Apparently, he escaped from Igoronak.

After all, Igoronak himself had no vision, and I borrowed this eye to see what was going on around him and remotely manipulated him?

Then, it is possible to escape in the same way when approached again. A hand that cannot be used on the ground where Tian is, but at least this can be done until he escapes to the ground.

Check the map on the second basement floor to set the route to the ground...... I can't.

If you still have your vision, showing (...) your current location and map structure is dangerous.

I'll have to rely on my memory to move.

"Did the directions to the ground fit over there?

"Oh. So, Mr. Ray. of the kingdom is...... no, fine '

Mr. Patriot nodded at my question and said something later and stopped it.

"But even if you didn't, it wouldn't change what I do. I'll do everything I can to protect you.

"Mr. Patriot......"

'Except Voynich, we're all in this war with the intention of shielding ourselves. If I'm the only one beside you in this labyrinth right now, it's my job to protect you.'

"Thank you..."

Thank you very much, Mr. Patriot, for controlling me.

"That's why I want you to promise me, too"

"... what?

"If anything happens, abandon me and survive alone."

"! That's......!

"Even if it conflicts with your creed... just promise me that"

…………

In the eyes peeking from the back of the skeletal helm, I could see a strong will not to say whether or not and… the color I wished for.

"... Yes"

I guess that's why.

I had chosen to snort at his words.

"Thank you"

That's what Mr. Patriot said and started walking ahead.

I step out to follow him, too.

That's how I proceeded through the labyrinth, and when I tried to plug into the T-shaped path,

- He was stepping into a completely different landscape without even blinking.

"Ray!? This...!

Me and Mr. Patriot, and even Nemesis, who was checking the entire perimeter in the Black Dagger state, are stunned by the sudden landscape changes.

"This is a metastasis!? Patriots......!?

I glance at Mr. Patriot next door - but he wasn't there.

On the contrary, there is also no appearance of a nemesis that should be in your hand.

... No!

"Ray! What's up?"

"Even if you move your neck, the landscape you see...? Is this, no way......!?

I'm trying to move my neck, move my legs and see what's going on around me right now.

Even though I say it is, the view you see (...) doesn't interact (...).

I should have turned right, but I'm looking up.

I should have turned left, but I'm looking back.

And even though I meditated my eyes, I could see you looking down at your own body - that's how I saw it. The gear isn't mine.

This...

"Another person's, sight...!

In Mr. Patriot's words, I am still convinced.

Tell me now what's happening to us.

"- You shuffled our sight...!

- I switched the sights of those in this Tomb Labyrinth.

"Shuffle!? Even I am!?

"Oh......! Perhaps it was the guy who was securing Igor Ronak's sight!

Stealing the sight of others.

Probably that special skill......! "Multiple Vision Shuffle"!

"This then......!

I try to move, but I hit the wall for a vision that doesn't interact with the movement at all.

It brings even nausea to too abnormal a vision.

"You mean they did it back...!

Now we're out of sight.

But if everyone in this hierarchy is in this state, Igor Ronak can also understand the sight and position of others...!?

"Not good!?

"Ray! What happened! I can't even see what the Lord sees from me!

My sight, someone's sight linked to mine... I see a familiar figure.

That's a big powered suit with the head buried in the torso......!

"Igoronak (...)! Somebody! Igor Ronak's coming in the front!

I don't know whose sight it is, but I make a warning cry to the inside of the labyrinth.

In my sight, I can clearly see Igor Ronak running for the person.

Now beside Igoronak, there is one monster.

That's an eyeball with wings.

"Franklin's [Broadcast Eye]......!

Originally, a modified monster with video relay capability!

While we're crushing our sight, we're replacing that with Igor Ronak's camera...!

"Ku......!

Igoronak sets up a firearm similar to a shotgun and fires it in front of the Lord of Vision, who apparently has not yet grasped the approximation.

... Immediately afterwards, my sight stains with blood only for a moment and darkens.

After that, another vision comes into my eyes.

It would mean that the owner of his current vision is dead.

'... I understood the situation in your words. This one lost his eyes, and that one would mean securing a stable vision the other way around'

I nodded at Mr. Patriot's words, but realized he didn't see me nodding.

"... Yes. Things are a lot worse than they were earlier."

I guess the reason I didn't use my vision shuffle special skills earlier is because if a lot of people are in the same place, I can get some idea of the situation.

But now it's scattered all over this hierarchy.

... Maybe this hierarchy isn't the only target.

The gear I'm looking at right now, unlike anyone else's thing on that spot, looks good for beginners.

Maybe it belongs to Rookie, who was hunting on the ground or third floor.

Now in my sight, he didn't seem to be able to cope with the zombie in front of him by suddenly moving to a switched sight.

"What do we do? My vision has been replaced with someone else's... '

"Just one thing, I have an idea. First......"

I'm trying to describe my strategy for moving around in this state.

"Owner! Ray Sterling! It's him!"

- Somewhere in the labyrinth, I could hear him screaming out loud, just torn apart.

"Igor Ronak is in the same aisle as you! I can see it in my eyes!

That's a ferocity report. It was a warning from me or someone with Mr. Patriot's vision, the same thing I did the other day.

"Nah!?

Me, Nemesis and Mr. Patriot, we're all stunned.

"-Chick."

- At the same time, I heard tongue-beating from the end of the aisle.

It - it belonged to Igor Ronak, who was trying to sneak up to a distance that could definitely kill us.

"Large, Active"

"Ourai, Hikaru!

Shortly after the two different voices, we heard something heavy landing from the stone floor in front of us...

The nemesis deforms into a black circle shield, stuck between my body and the sound source of the landing.

After a moment, with momentum as if he had been hit simultaneously, me and Nemesis were hooked up in the rear.

"Huh!"

It was clear that was Igoronak's attack.

If arming hasn't changed from what people saw earlier, the kind of shotgun.

If Nemesis hadn't prevented me, my head or [brooch] could have been crushed by now by the shooting at the steeple.

"Nemesis! Are you okay!

"I still have offal... it's about to come in!

It's a shotgun with a lot of power. Perk weaponry, or perhaps bespoke equipment of a kind that has gained power at the expense of range distance.

For that, I guess I was trying to sneak up on you.

"Chip! You can't even see, but you're clever! Another shot......!

"Let it be!

Shortly after the irritating Igoronac voice, I heard Mr. Patriot's voice and armor bump into each other.

"Mr. Patriot......!

"Ray! Don't get out of the shadow of your shield! In sight, they're gonna shoot us!

My eyes don't show the sights around me the same way.

But I understood that Mr. Patriot was facing Igoronak with the sound he heard.

"-" Grand Cross "!

Shortly afterwards, the unique calories of the Holy Class, which I myself have used, came from the space ahead.

"Huh!"

'Even in a situation where you can't see and you can't swing your sword and hit it, if you're a zero distance' Grand Cross'......!

I don't see anything in my eyes.

Grand Cross

"Vito"

"Chi! The operation is heavy!

But I could understand that Mr. Patriot was shredding us and stopping us.

I'm trying to cover him, too.

"Go (...)!"

Mr. Patriot releases only one word, and one that stops a clear will.

I am reminded of the content of my earlier conversation with him… I understand that means' abandon yourself '.

Igoronak is revived no matter how many times he defeats him.

We can't even seal it without petrification.

So he tells me to run while I'm stuck...... Mr. Patriot tells me.

'Think I'll let you get away with it...!

Let him go! - "Grand Cross"!

Third time, Grand Cross.

of meat along with the heat transmitted over the air… Mr. Patriot's own burning odor arrives.

"No, no!

Understand his words as he burns and plunders and is released again.

At this point in time, no matter how bad the aftertaste is, I have to make that decision.

To fulfill his own wishes.

"... excuse me!

Turn your back on someone who tries to protect me, and I'll have an item box on my hips.

I manipulate the item boxes by hand and store the stuff inside... to reveal the means of movement that I tried to convey earlier.

It's - a brilliant jade horse of silver.

"See, Silver!

Silver, whom I called, hissed to affirm.

I knew it. Even if it was shuffling through the sights of the masters and embryos, it didn't necessarily mean it could crush the sights of the machines and equipment, Silver and the other brilliant horses.

In the first place, if we can activate the vision of the machine, we just need to put it on Igoronak himself with a mechanical camera, not a randomly moving enemy vision.

And as you can read, the machine's silver was not eligible for the opponent's < Embrio > skills.

"Shit! Move, Igor Ronak! Don't let these skills stop you... '

I can hear a rush from Igoronak as soon as he lets me get away, but I'm guessing the Grand Cross light runoff is inhibiting my behavior.

No attack from Igoronak.

…………

Due to repeated tricks, it was possible to cross the back of silver even if it was invisible.

And if you can't get out of this predicament by silver......

"Mr. Patriot......"

…………

to him trying to get me away at the expense of myself......

"- I win."

'... oh'

I promised this country and the only one he ever wanted above all that he loved who lived in this country...

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□ ■ - Basement level 2

"... have you escaped"

Video conveyed by [Broadcast Eye] positioned behind Igoronak shows Ray Sterling's back retreating aboard a brilliant jade horse.

Vito tries to manipulate Igoronak to shoot him in the back of it, but the pressure of the "Grand Cross" light runoff significantly limits his operation.

Only the durability of the equipment can be restored to the light of the sacred attribute that burns itself for each user.

"Large, you still can't be active, can you?

"Oh. When they ran away, I was going to keep it to get around. That warning cut me off first. We're just a little further away from reusing it. '

"I know."

They stopped the movement and the short range metastasis still hasn't dawned on cool-time.

Pursuit is impossible at this time.

But this detention won't be that long either.

…………

Patriot was clinging to Igoronak and repeating "Grand Cross" at zero distance.

The equipment is already burning… the inner flesh is on the verge of crushing and scattering.

Still, he wasn't letting go.

"For yourself, huh? I'm very prepared. '

Hikaru said that to Patriot's obsession, sincerely.

I guess the man who stops Igoronac now has something he really wants to protect in this < Infinite Dendrogram >.

On the side of the empire they followed, there were also people running to save the famine empire, like Full Metal Urbs.

Regardless, many people think it's a play, but many desperately scratch their feet again.

Hikaru and the others… The situation in both countries is irrelevant to Igoronak of "immortality”.

It's just that Igoronak's tactical mechanism was cracked on the imperial side, and he was recruited on favourable terms, so he went on to the imperial.

But still - Hikaru and the others don't think of this place as just a game.

Or even if it's a play...... it means a lot.

"It's over."

The Hikals are the Hikals, unwilling to lose or fall.

Immediately after Patriot was exhausted and the Grand Cross was interrupted, Igor Ronak shot Patriot in the head with a shotgun every helm.

Formerly the kingdom's second-largest clan, its owner's premature war shedding.

But the man who inherited his will and ranking survived.

"Can you go after him?

'I can't do it at speed. I can't see it anymore, and it's faster that way.'

"I want to keep it without metastases, given my future foothold."

Silver, who had already put Ray on board, had escaped the view of [Broadcast Eye].

Since the [Igoronac-type] currently operating is not a fuselage with fast feet, it is difficult to catch up.

'Right.... Melo, it's me'

After hearing the words of Vito and Large, Hikaru contacted Melo, the last party member, with a communications magic device.

After talking to Melo two or three words, he nods and hangs up the call.

And I declare to my people in the cockpit of [Red Crystal].

"Melo's work is done. - Stuff it up and win Ray Sterling's neck '

To be continued