＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Holy Knight] Ray Sterling

Luke and I broke up by promising to "party together next time because we're novices to each other".

And since Luke didn't seem to have about Job yet (he started the game without any previous information and didn't even know about the transfer), I let him use the [Competency Diagnostics Catalog] that my brother gave me.

Looks like we found some good jobs, and they're going to get them.

Let's look forward to partying about what the hell you're going to get.

For that reason, me and Nemesis, who broke up with Luke and the others, were coming to the Noz Forest, just ahead of the North Gate, as planned.

"Do it."

"Uhm, let's try to level him up at once."

Step into the second novice hunting ground with the nemesis that has already transformed into a great sword.

Compared to the < Easter Plains >, the view is poor because of the trees that stand side by side, and difficult to see when you are twenty meters away.

But it looks like there are other players out there because they hear battle noises coming from there. Just like me, it must be the beginners who ran out on Easter Plains.

I walked into < Noz Forest > for about two minutes and discovered a monster like a wolf.

At the same time as putting it into view, the monster name [Tealwolf] appeared.

The number of [Tealwolf] is three.

"Suddenly."

In terms of RPG's stones, it's risky to deal with multiple opponents just after raising the level of the hunting grounds, but you'll have to.

That one takes the lead, and one of the leading bites me.

The amount of damage is 22, the first damage today.

I decided to focus on the attack because it's okay to take about 30 more shots.

The three of them surround me, but I've narrowed my focus to one of them in the front.

As the three attack each other by a time difference, I don't mind the other two. Concentrate on just one of the front and intercept.

Black sword hits, one screams.

It is not a one-size-fits-all like [Little Goblin] or [Rabbit], but the damage makes the movement blatantly dull.

"You can do this."

I kept repeating the same thing.

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Five minutes later, there stood a threesome drop item and me with my HP down in half and one level up.

"All right, we can do up to three"

"That's how it is."

Heal with First Heel in preparation for your next battle.

HP height and self-healing, [Holy Knight] is a great way to level up.

"Okay, fully healed."

"And this is level 5, and HP is over 800? It's getting better stats, and now it looks like it can withstand Demidra's attacks."

"... even if you can, boss, it'll be a while."

If I did all that, I'd shrink my life span.

"Only monsters are usually hunted to level 20."

'That might be good, too. I wonder if I'll be evolving into a second form by then.'

"What happens when nemesis evolves? My brother said it couldn't be too different."

"It will probably remain an addition to skills and a change in appearance as a weapon. Well, I don't know if this is going to evolve from third to fourth. '

"Advanced Evolution, was it?

'Yes. From first to third is called a lower category, or usually a category. Around here it generally fits into Arms, Gardner, Chariots, Castle and Territory. I'm Maiden, but I'm Arms too. Other rare categories are also worn with five regular categories somewhere'

Are there any categories that deviate entirely from those five?

"Then advanced categories from fourth to sixth. Unique colors become stronger around here. Some categories are usually like pure enhancement of categories, others are specific to unique skills and become unique categories'

Looks like Brother Bear's Fourth is a tank... but is it an enhancement of the Chariots?

Even though it was firearms-arms in the beginning, it evolved into a superior species in another category along the way.

"So what's the seventh form?

I don't know.

... Hey.

"There is no detail in the knowledge I was born with. I guess it's not like I can give you information from the beginning '

"Is that what this is about?"

A year and a half after the start, it seems there are less than a hundred people, so it's probably Top Secret.

'There's just something I know. In this world, more than the fourth form is called advanced not only in the classification of Embrio, but also in strength'.

"I see."

"Pushing me up to the fourth." Until then, if you can. "

"Well, they won't tell me."

I guess a ranker is more than an advanced gathering, and if you want to get in there, I have to get there, too.

"Let's start with an authentic level up. I'm gonna graduate from this hunting ground by the end of the day to level 13."

It was already evening, and the sky visible from among the trees was stained with orange, but the hunt still continued.

I hear there will be more monsters at night, but I've come with Don.

"That's what I meant."

"All right, then, hurry up and..."

- Moments, my vision leaned.

No, it's not my sight that's leaning, it's myself.

The shock and paralysis left in the comet lets you know that something hit the side of the head directly.

Simple status told me my HP disappeared 80% in the current shock.

"Hey, there."

Untouched large damage.

You can't even move your hands and feet with dizziness because you were struck in the head.

"Master!"

Nemesis lifts up his voice.

I thought you were worried about me, but no.

This is a warning.

"Heh!" Counter Absorption!

Twenty-four hours after yesterday's use, Nemesis will use the Counter Absorption, which the stock has recovered from.

At that time, something clashed against the unfolding wall of light.

"Gaggy, giggy!!"

It's a small monster that combines a bullet-like streamlined shape with a shape similar to that of a hungry ghost.

I'm trying to break through the wall of light, but I'm not fulfilling it.

Did this guy do the damage earlier?

"Monsters, huh?

No, it can't be.

The attack power is too different for the monster here than the earlier [Tealwolf].

I also feel different from a boss monster like Demi Dragworm.

Most importantly, a monster doesn't have a “name” that should appear at the time of viewing.

This guy...

"Cool!"

The Counter Absorption disappeared, and at the same time that monster that hit the wall of light disappeared.

'If you attack, it disappears. Once you attack, you die. Suicide bomber type monster, yes but not a monster...... master! This guy!

"Gardner (...)...!"

TYPE: Gardner.

Monster shaped.

I see, I know this one better than Babi.

Whatever you think of that, it's a monster.

"Master, back off! Someone's after your lord!

"Whatever you don't tell me!

Finally, freed from the dizziness, I ran out to the North Gate, hanging my healing magic on myself.

So I finally got a grip on what was going on around me.

player screams echo.

That's not one or two, either, dozens of screams.

If that creature is an Embrio, it's the player who's doing this.

PK (Player Killer) - The act of a player killing a player in a game, which has existed since the dawn of the MMO.

Apparently, the guy who attacked me is attacking other players and mass-producing the victims.

An attack that drives my HP, which should be exceptionally high in the current level band, to death in an instant.

It would be unbearable for a player to take this place to the right level.

This is not the earliest "beginner's hunting ground", “beginner's" … "hunting ground”.

They turned us around on the hunting side.

"That Gardner would have died just now, why are there still more victims!?"

"Those guys are probably the advanced category of Gardner, TYPE: Legion. form a group (...). Instead, the performance of the whole thing seems to be low!

"Is that low, it's not funny"

And the advanced category means that PK is also advanced.

"Bad Minutes, Noh...!

…………

Horn to horn, now we have to go back to the king's capital...

This PK bastard shouldn't be following us all over the city either.

No, ignore my thoughts.

"Gagging, giggling, giggling"

A voice heard from behind, a monster that would fly in a meteor-like orbit from behind,

"Mass......!

Kill me.

"- Will they!

I turned around and slammed the black sword into the monster of a bullet.

"Gi...... Gi Gi Gi"

The monster of the bullet was deflected by the great black sword, hitting the woods trees and spreading his life, finishing his role.

"... it's outrageous!

'Wouldn't you do it, Master! Now the rest.'

Just run into the city.

I guess that's what you tried to say. The Nemesis word stops.

There is no face in a nemesis that has become a great sword.

But I know where Nemesis's gaze is.

Beyond the trees in the woods, in the bonyards and in the dims, there was someone.

Man or woman, old or young, man or no.

Even that doesn't tell me about the silhouette of the guy who can boycott you with his teeth.

The only thing I know is - that he's got something like a pistol in his right hand.

The left hand is - the embryo is glowing.

And I was convinced.

This is him.

This is the guy who's trying to kill me.

"Run!! Master!

I had chosen to escape without having to respond to the words of Nemesis.

Twenty meters to go.

Much shorter distance than the escape row from that orchard.

That's why we're going through the woods to the city.

"Kill me... stop!

I ran out.

But I heard shots fired behind my back.

At the same time, I feel terribly intimidated.

I had to run.

But with the chills looming from behind, I... turned around.

The sight there.

It's a monster of a bullet that me and Nemesis, one shot at a time, have painstakingly dodged.

That monster - "flies in large groups enough to fill his sight" - a hell of a picture.

Shortly afterwards, a bunch of monsters crushed my body, not even while I was blinking.

[Fatal damage]

[Party wiped out]

[Resuscitable time elapsed]

[Death Penalty: Login Limit 24h]

To be continued