＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ Southeastern Kingdom

"Hey, you know ~?"

"Yes! What is it!

A pair of men and women exchange words like a public tale in a coffee shop while being blown by strong winds.

The man...... the mid teenage boy speaks in some laid back voice, the woman...... the woman slightly older than him beside him responds with a tension like an army or sports club activity.

"They don't have planes in the Empire."

"How can you not be in the land of machines!

It was two strange combinations.

The boy has a rounded overall silhouette due to wearing more than one coat, and windmills are different for hats worn deep in the eye.

The woman painted her brown skin with white ink and wore something like an ethnic costume with bird feathers as its main part.

But there's more to them than their outfits.

Where they are is never the kind of place to talk slowly.

No, I don't even know if it's the right place to say it.

It is above the sky of 5000 meters from the ground.

The boy sits on a cloud that floats in the universe, and the woman rides a alien bird with a deer-like horn.

Crusade ranked third, [Storm King] Cadence.

Crusade ranked fifth, [General Flying] Leaf.

The kingdom's fourth-largest clan, the Welkin Alliance, was talking in the unspoiled skies of the rest of us.

"I couldn't develop it technologically. I'm going up to the sky in this world on Brother Wright's plane, like?

"That's dying!

"Right. The sky is magic."

Speed, durability and swiveling performance. I guess sad, < Infinite Dendrogram > planes all of which fall short of flying standards.

The sky of < Infinite Dendrogram > is a living, if not subdragon class at least.

It is like a sparrow flying through the habitat of a raptor.

"The higher the altitude, the better the performance monsters will be able to adapt to it. Trouble strength to the extent that the pure dragon class on the ground looks cute. We died long before we got used to it."

There are few means for people to get up in the sky.

The quickest way to do this is to get a flyable submissive and ride, but many of the submissive demons humans get rank lower in the skies hegemonic battle.

Temporary flight is also possible with the application of wind attribute magic or ground attribute magic, but that is also limited to the time until the user's magic power (MP) is exhausted.

Flying machines did not develop in < Infinite Dendrogram >, both in terms of vulnerability and magic consumption.

That would be a different story if it reached the realm of the brilliant Jade Dragon of Civilization earlier in the period, but the technology of the Empire has not reached the skill of a single celebrity over hundreds of years from its founding.

"That's why their planes couldn't advance technology."

"Too bad! I wanted to have an air battle with a fighter!

"Rather, the kingdom is flying better ~. [Second model] has a good balance of speed, swivel performance, defense, and duration of sailing ~. You just say 'spread it' ~"

Cadence speaks pleasantly.

"Even so, I can't find it. It's something that a lot of people would know."

"Yes! It's morning, so we let out the birds, but we haven't found them yet!

In the direction Leaf pointed to, there were several bird shadows in the clouds.

"I wonder where you are. Our target - [General Demon (...)]"

Cadence giggles, but his eyes look to the ground behind his narrowed eyelids.

The two targets are Logan Godhardt, one of the Empire's Super Generals.

They move to destroy Logan because they are compatible.

Cadence's ability to exterminate is the highest in the kingdom and can be swept away, whether it be 10,000 armies.

Not only is Leaf's Weird Bird Corps highly capable of fighting against the majority, but it is also possible to penetrate enemy forces and kill targets.

That means the two officially able to kill themselves by tearing apart the protection of the Regiment of Demons.

So they've been looking for Logan since before the war... but they never find him.

Along the way, he had exterminated the Empire's Master and the wild Pure Dragon and Weird Birds, who came up in the sky with monsters, but he couldn't find the key Logan.

He said he'd already circled the whole kingdom.

"And I can't find the flag either!

At the same time as they defeat Logan, they also carry out an imperial flag search.

But even the building-sized flag is still undetectable now.

"Mm-hmm. Maybe you're in 'Where We Can't Find You' on the set or something?

"Where is it!

"I can't find it in the sky, and it's not even the whole city in the kingdom."

So Cadence thought a little bit,

"- Underground or something?

- I uttered the answer (...) as I thought.

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■ Alter Kingdom House/Underground

It was a space lit by artificial lights.

A place where the spaces that originally existed underground were further expanded and organized by < Embrio > and magic.

At its centre stands a flag… the < fort > of the Empire.

It is the underground space that cannot be ascertained from above or above the earth that is the < fort > of the Empire.

The entrance leading to this cavity has already been crushed and made to function as a survival zone by circulating the stored air in the item box.

In robustness, it is inferior to the kingdom that diverted the < ruins > of Calcellatan, but it is a difficult location to discover.

The environment is underground, but the defense is manned, and about half of the middle-clan and duel rankers are in charge of it.

It's quite a stop as a force of war because duels are not as popular in the Empire as kingdoms, but there's a reason for this.

War within the kingdom more than the former. Emphasis is placed on the attacker rather than dividing more power to the disadvantage of defensive warfare in enemy territory, and almost all powerful quasi are turning to attack.

The imperial stance is also evident from the fact that we are hiding and protecting the < fort > rather than fighting it.

But still, one of the great wars is put here.

…………

Sitting on a chair placed directly under the flag is a man with full body armor.

Fully armed to hide to the face, but we all know who that is.

[Demon General] Logan Godhardt.

He is one of the Imperial Powers and this is a defensive necessity.

I was alert to the assassination of the person calling out the devil, waiting with complete armor that was never there.

is a defensive target that cannot be moved.

It cannot be defended in individual combat against a wide area controlled type.

But you can't use a wide area extermination type in this underground cavity.

And even wide area controlled...... Franklin's pandemonium is too huge to match.

Logan was the only wide-area controlled type that could be used to defend the Fort, distributed underground to escape the eyes of the kingdom.

…………

Logan visited here just before the start of the war, and since then he has been silently lined up beside the < fort >.

The other masters were discussing him in a whisper, looking away at him like that.

< SUPER > and undoubtedly the greatest force in the field...... because of its position Logan's constant words and actions are arrogant to others and are treated as swelling as a natural consequence.

"... ugh."

"Oh, hey! Elijah!"

But in the meantime, one of the masters decides to walk out to Logan.

My people try to stop me, but they still don't stop.

"Logan"

It was Elijah who spoke to Logan.

A fierce man who once ranked second in the Empire's duel rankings while in senior positions and still holds the top position.

He was a man of a strong sense of justice and criticized Chrono from the front, who had darkened the kingdom even before the conciliation conference… on the contrary, he was pushed to death penalty.

There is a connection between him and Logan.

He tried Logan many times, who was number one in the duel, and was buried with a touch of armor sleeve by the mythical demon [Zero Over].

I can tell you that the ranked battle that multiplied the number one duel at the time was his execution show.

There are also many things that Logan himself mocked.

It could even be described as an uncluttered hatred.

But now we are both entrusted with the defense of this stronghold.

"... His Royal Highness said that in the worst case, you don't mind abandoning < fort >"

War in a kingdom with a local interest on the enemy's side in the first place.

The Empire was at a disadvantage from the outset in terms of the importance of the location.

Therefore, the worst case scenario is to prioritize the power of battle and throw it away. That's Claudia's decision.

"Still, we'll do everything we can to protect this place. The number of flags is a potential future for the Empire."

He is a worldly man and has a lot of interaction with the people of the Empire.

Therefore, there is also a strong intention to come to this war in which the future of those who saw it was hung.

"That's why! I need your help too! All this time, please!

The future of those who are closer than the causes of the past.

He bowed his head to Logan, swallowing the previous pan as well.

Behavior that also prepares mockery and curse from Logan.

Waiting for Logan to react as his surroundings breathe.

Against them, who also assumed mockery would return, Logan said.

"- Of course!

He slapped Elijah on the shoulder and answered that with a very bright and powerful voice.

"... Huh?

Elijah makes his face shudder for a moment without understanding what happened.

"The skills and demonic powers of the [Demon General] I have! Use it at all costs to protect the Fort from the demons of the Kingdom! Guys! Let's join forces for the future of the Empire!

"Oh, oh..."

Elijah answered with a slight pull.

I can take that for granted.

It's because he fought Logan many times...... the discomfort in this conversation is amazing.

'All right! Hang your heart in one! Uh-oh! Uh-oh!

"Uh, uh..."

"Your voice is low!" All right, Cole Devil Geeganite! One hundred!

"Huh!?

That's a natural consternation.

Because they call [Geeganite], who is said to require considerable costs to summon, when they are not fighting.

I don't think it's sane. It can't be Logan.

But in fact...... [Geeganite] has been called.

"Use it at all costs."

"Come on, everybody, come with me! Uh-oh! Uh-oh!

"" 'EIEIO! EIEIO!' '

"Oh, yeah, ooh!

And while pressured by the great chorus of Logan and the devil, the rest of us recited it in a damned mood.

It is a sight like a potent weather savato, or a strange morning ritual of tension.

"Guys! Good luck!

And after the call was over, everyone but Logan, who was on the spot headed Elijah, thought.

(((- Who?))

What else? It obviously doesn't matter how anyone sees it.

I can even say how to twist different dimensions, not where my personality has changed 180 degrees.

I only think of it as someone else, but I have no reaction to the True or False Judgment, and I even call it [Geeganite], which I can only call [Demon General] (just for the sake of, uh...).

They were too incomprehensible and even suspicious that they were sleeping and having nightmares.

However, he decided to shelf '... the defense seems okay for now, okay'.

To be continued