＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Kingdom of Alter

Gideon, the second city of the Kingdom of Alter.

To the east of the city are the mountains known as the Cruella Mountains.

< Cruella Mountains > is also the border with neighboring Cardina.

From the hem opposite the mountains lies the wilderness and the desert, from which is the territory of Cardina.

Not many people know why that sight of parting in the mountains and wilderness, as we drew the line, is now unimportant.

The problem is that < Cruella Mountain Zone > has long been the root castle of the Bandits.

The Bandits are not one.

Several bandits are nesting in this mountain.

Even if they are crusaded by those who have received the Adventurer Alliance's request, a new band of bandits will be erected again.

It is this < Cruella Mountains > that keeps repeating it.

There are two reasons for this.

One is that the kingdom cannot move massive forces because it is a border zone.

We cannot carry out large-scale, military-led mountain hunting to stimulate Cardina if we move troops at the border.

The second is that this mountainous area is one of the largest Gideon in the kingdom's cities and one of the major trading routes of Cardina, famous as a commercial nation.

It also means an area with a lot of "delicious” prey from the bandits who steal loads and gold.

Because of these circumstances, those who become bandits in the Cruella Mountains continue to follow.

Truth be told, this bandit issue wasn't a bad story for the Adventurer Guild.

A newly occurring band of bandits means a gathering of those who have fallen prey to the bandits.

Job levels are just like stopping in the middle of a junior position, too.

Such a band of bandits can destroy you without any particular bitterness if you are an active adventurer.

Rather, that turns the economy of adventurers.

It's not a bad story, from the guild or from the crusading adventurers.

I deserve the bandits to be crusaded, and the villages and pedestrians who were damaged... though I would have to say they were unhappy.

It was a bandit group issue in the Cruella Mountains that smelled like blood and gold, but things changed from one time to another.

One of the newly formed bandits began kidnapping children from nearby villages and Gideon.

That's how I demand a ransom.

If you refuse, the child will not return.

If you pay the ransom, the child will return, or some of the body will be returned.

It was a joke.

Naturally, the victim of the abduction of the child asked the Adventurers Guild to crusade the Bandits, and the Guild received them as usual.

However, I thought there might be a handyman in that M.O. for kidnapping a child from all over the city.

He therefore dispatched a party composed exclusively of senior positions, particularly outstanding among Tian's adventurers who were active in the Adventurers Guild.

That party where even pure dragons can be crusaded.

I will definitely crusade the bandits, no matter if they have some skill, and bring them back if they still have children alive.

They intended to do so themselves.

The leader of that party, famous for his handsome face in the alley, went on a bandit crusade with a smile in response to the people sending him out.

Seeing that smile, "they would do it," the Adventurer Guild and other adventurers, above all the inhabitants of Gideon, thought.

The next day, the "food" on the leader's face was placed at the entrance to the guild.

With a sticker called "replacement" and just as many fingers as the number of children being kidnapped right now.

The Adventurer Guild rushed into this unexpected situation, but quickly struck out into the next hand.

That's man-made sea tactics by multiple adventurer parties.

Overwhelming with more than a hundred adventurers, it annihilates the Bandits.

Among the adventurers on the crusade are several.

Guildmaster of Gideon's Adventurer Guild thought:

'You can win this, if you can't win...', he said.

Three days later, he was resurrected (...) from < master > to "It's all gone. That's no good," the report said.

According to their report, the majority of the enemies were miscellaneous soldiers, but only the two had strong opponents against digits.

It's the undead of the human horse race and the big man of the bullhead race.

Too strong, most of the adventurers were defeated by just those two.

Alternatively, he was killed by a high-level undead monster called by the undead.

In response to that report, the Alliance Master realized that this was not a case in their hands.

At the same time, I learned that there was no hitter at the earliest.

I contacted the military, but I can't move the army because it's near the border.

[Superfighter], who is enrolled in Gideon and can win a single ride, declined the request.

When that happens, the means to counter it is not in the Adventurer's Guild.

Occasionally, an adventurer party remembered in his arms went out on request, but the results were set.

And every time they failed, the body and the child's fingers arrived.

While that went on...... the Adventurer Guild kept that bandit's crusade request from appearing.

For more than a year now, the Bandits - known as the Gozmaids Bandits - have been based in the Cruella Mountains.

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It was a dim basement in an abandoned fort.

"On the third day of the month, deposit confirmation. No applicable material. To be returned"

One man groans at something as he heads to an old desk in the humidity of his body.

"Fourth of the month, unpaid. Applicable materials available. Materialized."

Compare some paperwork, squeeze words, and write something down on the books at hand.

That looks like a shop ledger, and besides the one at hand, a similar book can be seen on the table.

Together, it can also be described as a man who is shady but just keeping books in the basement of the store.

In fact, the man thought so.

The product the man handled was in the next room where the man books.

There were several cages in the next room where the man kept his books.

There was a small creature in the cage, and that was the product the man handled.

"On the fifth day of the month, deposit confirmation. Applicable materials available. Return“ head only "after material

That's what the man says and gets up and goes to the next room.

The way a man walked was odd.

The upper body was a person, but the lower body was that of a horse.

It is a subrace also known as the Horse Race.

In this world, some human horse types are monster centaurs, while others are subhuman.

The border between such monsters and subhumans is whether or not you can get a job.

Monsters can't get a job.

Some exist as [Goblin Warrior] or [Goblin Archer], but that's because it's a monster with that name and not a job.

I don't have that skill that I can acquire for every job in that evidence, I'm just wielding a weapon.

So to speak, this man of the human race was subhuman in scope.

Because a man is in a job.

All the little creatures in the cage are asleep, and I don't even notice a man entering the room.

The man of the human horse takes the little creature out of the cage marked with the fifth and placing it on the stone floor of his room.

Place chained shackles connected to the floor in the hands and feet of small creatures.

The floor is painted with magic formations, which were painted by the man himself.

The man takes the crystal like out of his nose and puts it in front of him.

■■■■■■

A man grumbles about something against the magic formation.

Then the magic brightens up and emits a little violet power.

"Gaaaaaaaa!!!?"

At the same time, a sleeping little creature woke up.

For the screaming of the little creature, the colour of suffering appeared strong.

I try to jump up my body, but I can't do that either because it's chained up.

In a slight gap, bend the body into a letter and slap your back on the stone floor.

The skin shackled with hands and feet is torn and blood seeps through.

That situation lasted less than five minutes,

"Oh, oh, my..."

The little creature - the human child was desperate.

"That was less than I thought."

After the child died, the man on the human horse said that while looking at the crystal at hand.

Then he chopped it off with a large blade that had the neck of the child's remains ready, and threw it on the bag and into a cage that said "to be returned".

Carefully place the remaining torso in a container marked "Material".

Then I go back to my desk like it's nothing and put the books on.

If you know what books it keeps, it's no longer a ledger.

It's a bloodstained curse that marks the end of a child's life.

"Sixth of the month, unpaid. No applicable material.“ Processing. "Goz."

"Ah."

When I heard the man's voice, something moved in the darkness of the basement.

That was an even bigger man than the man on the human horse.

A big man with a cow head and ghost fangs.

The bull-headed man, called Goz by the man of the human horse, dragged one girl out of a cage marked number six.

The girl dragged out by Goz is still asleep, hanging with one hand.

Or maybe I should have just slept like this.

But Goz gently slapped the girl on the cheek.

As if those close to you would.

The girl woke up by it,

"It's better to scare him."

- I was devoured while I was alive.

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When Goz finished his "meal," the man with the human horse also finished bookkeeping.

"Goz, don't get too dirty"

"Gahaha, Mays, this is the worst stain I've ever seen with a bunch of kids."

"What I'm saying is your stinking saliva"

"Oh, well, I'll be careful."

Man of the Human Horse - Mays took a little sigh of relief at the untouchable response of Goz and changed the story.

"First of all, that's it for today. Goz, we'll be out of here by the end of tomorrow."

"Ahhh? Are you leaving here?

"Oh. I have that event in Gideon in two days. In that case, some of the people gathered might try to discuss us. Everyone in is not indifferent like that [superfighter]. I'm sorry about the trouble."

"Together. Can't you guys fuck each other?

"You can't. I don't care about the advanced party level, but super positions are just a challenge. In the first place."

Mays cut the words there and said the words to press in case.

They're the ones who are where we want to be.

"Gear hahaha, no!

Goz replied with a laugh to Maize's words looking somewhere.

That's how the men leave the basement.

"Oh, speaking of which, wow. I told you we were leaving, but what are you going to do with your men? My men still work diligently and collectively."

"Oh."

Mays answers Goz's question with his eyes - like a flame of fire sparkling a blinding orbit.

"Whatever, take (...) Let's go"

"Gahaha, I hope it all goes in (...)"

Advanced Fighter Position [Grunter (Strong Gladiator)] Cannibal Bullhead Ghostman Goz.

Senior Position in the Necromancer System [Great Necromancer (Rich)] Human Horse Resentment Maize.

His names are the Gozmaiz Bandits.

Follow nearly a hundred men and have advanced top-class fighting power… it is Gideon's most feared kidnapping and murder group.

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