＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ [Eltrame] - Bridge

The bridge of the [Eltrame] was detached from the ship by Zhang's unleashed "True Vortex True Knife Cyclone Dragon Heel" and fell into the desert.

…………

While buried in the rubble, Manigold was awaiting rescue.

Stuck in rubble with no distinction between up and down, and these few minutes.

The damage has been converted into money with his own skills, but he was in the vicious circle of being further buried by that money.

You can shoot and consume Gold and Silver Artillery, but shooting in this state without any direction can also damage the ship.

As a result, all he could do was wait.

"You were right to be evacuating the crew from the bridge. I'm the only one who can bury him alive."

At the time the first bullet flew into the bridge, Manigold was also looking at the complete destruction of the bridge.

Each other's original mounds are wide-area extermination. Because I knew there was no reason to blow the bridge.

"But I'm weak for survival. I was also hit by a Fatum guy before. I envy that color mess when it's like this."

In his spare time, Manigold waited for his rescue, spilling reflections on his shortcomings and stupidity, among other things.

That's how thirty minutes went by.

Manigold trapped in rubble and silver coins for half an hour while upside down, though without any damage.

In my heart, I said, "... it's no good being a case of no help coming? ',' it's time for a skill time limit...... 'when I got a little anxious.

The debris and silver coins around him began to move collectively.

"... are you here"

It was an odd sight that the rubble itself would move to rescue him.

So much less, his eyes glanced at the desert night sky instead of the rubble darkness.

Plus, I could see Isala.

"Thank you, Lord, for waiting"

"Oh."

Isara, who helped Manigold with the metal manipulation, does not ask him, 'Are you okay' or anything like that.

For Manigold, it's a prerequisite to be safe.

But Isara wasn't safe.

Although it was defended by metal manipulation, it was seen that it had sustained considerable damage due to the "Rotaro Ha" activated at close range.

It's not as life-threatening as it sounds, but it's severely wounded to fight.

So much so that I've [fainted] before.

But still, as an escort to Manigold, I gave top priority to his rescue as soon as I woke up.

"We're dirty to each other. When you're done, let's take a bath in the cabin. Most…"

Manigold sends his sights to Chirali and the ship......

"I may not have anything more to do..."

The combat noise from the [Eltram]... has been deafening for a long time.

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Then about two hours later, the figure of Manigold and Isala was in their rooms.

The battle on board was almost over at the time Hugo crusaded the [wreckage dragon machine], and all that remained was post-processing.

The problem was that the ship's power reactor was no longer available.

Anyway, the power block was the heart of the battle. There is a problem connecting with the ship because it stopped once and was exposed to explosions and high temperatures when it was about to be removed.

It may be possible to repair the power furnace, but at least it is unlikely to be possible to reconnect to the ship and move it now.

It should be noted that Manigold insisted strongly that the ship's staff had 'full responsibility for the Dreiffe Orthodox Government, a terrorist group, and < IF >'.

In fact, the damage caused by the suicide bombing of the Genocide Condor appeared to be enormous, but in such a way as to avoid being exhausted by Hugo and Niara and the others.

Manigold had since contacted Dragnomad because the ship was not moving and had instructed him to send a ship for rescue.

As a member of the clan directly under the Speaker, Sephiroto, including the rescue request, Manigold was set to move with it. He said he had nothing to do, but it can also be said that it is the duty of public organisations to carry jobs other than fighting.

That's how I finally got a paragraph, and Manigold was back in his room with Isala.

But Manigold's face sinking his hips on the couch is bitter.

"Well, I've gotten a lot of information in the last two hours..."

The reason for the bitter expression is because of something (...) that I have witnessed during the post-processing since I escaped.

"... we'll see in turn. Including what I haven't heard yet."

As Manigold was being pursued for processing, Isala was moving around gathering information.

Now it is also a combination of that information.

"Yes, sir."

Isara takes out dozens of pictures.

That was on the surveillance cameras on board, or taken with their own cameras during post-processing.

"First, a mechanical dragon who was engaged with the Lord broke into the ship and killed Mr. Eldridge. Then on the power block, we enter the triplets with Mr. Hugo, the head of the Orthodox government. We defeated and retreated. Members of Mr. Eldridge's clan have also died in these battles."

"Later, let's say we look for Eldridge and give him the reward. There must be a savepoint somewhere in the berth. I can look for it."

Eldridge was working twelve minutes at the time he was holding Emily back.

On top of that, Manigold was not willing to blame for being joined and defeated by a mechanical dragon.

"... that mechanical dragon is one of ten eighty-nine rascals"

Together, this cardina serves as a venue for activity, and has been the subject of several contradictions.

"[Murder Princess] seems to have retreated with the worm users who attacked the Lord and me before the retreat of the Machine Dragon"

"Eldridge crushed me. That's why I took care of it.... but also that worm user? There and there, there's no room for reinforcement."

Manigold exhaled with a relaxed throat "hu" and a breathless sigh.

Two great clans wielding power in this Cardina table and back.

It is more a confrontational relationship than one that we have to contend with.

"Well, enough about < IF >. The problem is... the Orthodox government."

"Sacrifices are being made around room blocks by Orthodox government military personnel. Included among them were the counterparties to this transaction."

"... you must have had a daughter, but you too?

"Currently not confirmed"

"Let's arrange to look. If he's dead, he needs to be put in the same grave as my father, and if he's alive, he needs to be put in a foster home run by you."

"Yes."

Isara runs orphanages throughout Cardina.

He also serves as Manigold's escort and mistress to earn that money.

"Continued."

"On the Orthodox side, Curtis Erdona, the chief, died in battle. But the fuselage turned into < UBM >, and Mr. Hugo crusaded it."

"... that's a pretty pointless situation, too. Still better than that situation (...)"

I was thinking of the possibility that Hugo would be victorious by Hellgate than the other guy was a murderer.

But I had no idea what to do.

"The battle has wrecked Mr. Hugo's fuselage."

"Damage to the person..."

Hugo, who joined Manigold, logged out to leave it to later.

The majority of the body was in [burn] condition, the body and the spirit that went through the death struggle, both because they were in considerable fatigue. The scratches were reduced with items in Manigold's possession, but it was still difficult to say that they were complete.

Later, he said he would log in again by the time the pick-up ship arrived.

"I'll tell him later that I'll have the repair bill. The repair of the fuselage is in Dragnomad's workshop… there is a question as to whether he can be a cult…"

Manigold has also checked for damage to the fuselage.

The shedding of limbs, except for the left arm, the breakage of armor almost all over the body, and the damage to the internal electrical system are also tremendous.

Expect not to stand alone with the product-level self-repair features provided for the parts.

Caluto, the lord of Cardina's mechanical workshop, is an engineer who has similarly moved from the Empire to AR I. CA, and has also been entrusted with the coordination of [Blue Opera].

But in the first place, AR-I CA can't do much harm to the fuselage.

It is doubtful whether it is possible to repair the damaged fuselage.

"… in some cases, let's take the owner's hand"

The owner of < SEPHILOTO > holds the sixth form < EMBRIO > of < SUPER >.

Depending on the operation, however, it is said to be the most useful capability in < Sephiroto >.

With his help, Manigold thought that even Cardina would be able to fix the fuselage.

Seeing Manigold put his thoughts together, Isala proceeds.

"At the time of the death of Curtis Erdona, the head of the Orthodox government, the battle on board was over"

"............... the problem is that"

Manigold looks up to the ceiling of the room as he leaves his head on a soft sofa.

"What I heard from the surviving people...... I want to double-check. State it in turn."

There are people in the Orthodox government who have been captured almost intact.

Those are the ones Faye engaged with.

He was immediately awakened and interrogated because he was only put to sleep in [forced sleep].

They were asked that the Orthodox government terrorism had already failed and Curtis had also died… as they had noticed, they confessed to the details of this plan. (It would also have been significant to have flickered the judicial deal)

"The first thing that guided them in this case was that Chris Fragment."

"A technician who was previously familiar with civilization-related machines and also designed this ship…. Well, the guys who raided the special hall suspected that line at the time they came out in a hidden elevator. The on-board staff doesn't even know how it works. If I wasn't the engineer who designed it, I wouldn't know."

Based on this information, Manigold examined Chris Fragment's nomination arrangements to the Chair.

Not far away, arrangements will go around during Cardina.

"But this clutter. You will also be aware that your involvement will be discovered. Aside from my position as a renowned technician, I have a question as to why I took part in such a plan..."

That's about it, Manigold looked bitter again.

"Maybe that involves the problems that still remain"

…………

"Continued."

"Yes. In their plan, they are firstly splitting up their hands and sending their forces onboard. Half the power of the VIP to contain the gathered special halls. And you have half the fighting power to emerge from the mall and contain all parts of the ship. The chief is among the latter."

"The former was destroyed by us. And the latter was destroyed in battle everywhere on board."

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"The Orthodox government was scattered all over the ship, except for those who remained in the mall. It's an evacuation block containing power blocks, bridges, room blocks, cargo blocks, and emergency escape boats."

power block with a power furnace that was their aim.

Bridges packed by the staff in charge of the manoeuvres and command.

Room block with a large number of passengers who did not attend the special hall ball.

Cargo blocks full of tons of loads and full of things that can be supplies for them.

Evacuation blocks to keep the fugitives out and to secure small boats escaping from the ship.

All are important offensive goals for them.

While we were holding back the resistance with the hostages in the special hall, we tried to control them all.

"Yes, and with all that, they were destroyed"

The devastation of the terrorist organization is delightful, but Manigold held his face down with his hands when he said that was the biggest problem.

"In the freight and evacuation blocks - there was no one (...),"

In the power block, by Hugo and the others.

in the bridge by Manigold and Isala.

Room blocks are by Emily from the trail of the body.

We know that each has been wiped out.

But there's no one on the cargo and evacuation blocks.

Asking the surviving Master, he said no one fought there.

Still, in both, the Orthodox soldiers were dying.

"First, some goods had been lost in the cargo blocks. There were also traces of strong pressure on the interior wall of the cargo block. It appears that some item boxes were damaged inside and the contents were freed. At that point, the doors of the cargo blocks do not appear to have been liberated, but then the doors are liberated by the Orthodox Government. There is no indication that the contents have overflowed externally."

Isala, a metal manipulation specialist, was reading what happened to the cargo block from the traces.

"I mean, something happened in the freight block and the item box broke. But by the time the soldiers opened the door, everything that came out had disappeared."

"Yes."

"What's the list of missing goods?

"They are all [gems] of heavenly attribute attack magic. They were supposed to be transported to Dragnomad as cargo. The total monetary value is more than 500 million lire. The carrier also asks the carrier for a guarantee in this matter."

"Including that, the carrier would lean in compensation. It's too bad to hear about this on the virgin voyage of a giant ship of tiger children.... if you want to let go of the power furnace for the money, I'll tell you I'll buy it out."

Manigold decided that this carrier would be over by now, including the damage on board and the destruction of the convoy.

"Next, evacuation block"

"The throwing slope of the escape boat was being released. But not a single escape boat has been reduced."

If this had reduced the number of escape boats, it would have led to the reasoning that 'the Orthodox government that raided the cargo block escaped with [gems] as it were'.

But Manigold decided otherwise.

"... the cargo and evacuation blocks were adjacent."

"Yes, we are adjacent to each other to take out the cargo in case of an emergency"

"Should the bad guy (...) be seen moving directly from the cargo block to the evacuation block? I left a sign."

That's what Manigold says, takes some pictures.

That's a picture of the armor rolling on the floor.

Army uniforms and armoured magic gear are rolling on the floor.

And in them, without exception, there was a massive clog of white powder.

- That's what there will be for every human being.

"Is this grain of ice... the end of human beings (...)"

When it was a corpse, it was confirmed by skill.

Yes, these are photographs of the bodies of the soldiers found in the cargo and evacuation blocks.

grains of ice...... they were all frozen as I said.

But it's clearly not like Hugo's Hellgate.

Those bodies were all powder of ice (...).

The frozen body was crushed into dust without exception.

That could be...

"Even though it is a pillar of salt (...)"

Associating himself with an Old Testament passage, Manigold muttered so.

He looked bitter all the time because he found the body that died this inexperienced way.

Similar bodies have been found nearly twenty times.

"Well, how do you see it?

"Sea attribute...... that's the thermal energy absorption of the ice attribute. But they didn't physically crush the frozen body."

"What do you mean?

"Rather, it stands out as' frozen while powdered '. Legendary Vampire Family… [Blood Warrior (Brad Cavalier)] I thought it was close to the symptoms of Vital Squeeze they used."

[Blood Warrior] is a senior position in Tian where only the vampire clan is supposedly available.

The skill they use is Vital Squeeze….

"HP drain skills. and the opponent who defeated it would be ash (...)..."

"My guess is, the skills that killed the soldiers would be the same. We're taking away life and thermal energy at the same time and in an instant."

"Now, where was the killer who did that?

"Take this."

Isara took out one crystal ball.

"What's that?

"This video crystal holds the records of multiple magic cameras that were installed in the cargo block of the [Eltram]. I moved it before I recovered the staff."

"Big deal."

For the first time in Isala's truly capable work, Manigold honestly said so.

Manigold encourages regeneration with tricks, and Isala responds accordingly.

Often a scan of the camera's records took place, but eventually… arrived at a moment that would have mirrored the decisive moment and the killer.

The sound free footage shown showed the six military men.

That's what the soldiers looked like when they were still alive, before they became body photographs.

They have something in front of the freight block door...... manipulating items to unlock the freight block.

In no time they unlock and open the freight block door.

Shortly afterwards, slowly from the inside... things appeared that only looked black.

"... invisible"

"Perhaps we are also absorbing light energy. Because it doesn't reflect light, it just looks completely black."

It was as if a fallout was occurring in the space itself.

But the anomaly of it is not just the appearance of pitch black.

The overall moulding was similar to the human mould, but only half left (...) exists, as I made it straight in the midline.

"I thought you might not be human... what do you mean?

Not only because of the appearance of the anomaly, but also because of the indication of the name over the head...... it was obvious that it was a monster.

But the monster's left overhead name was the anomaly.

- [■ White death ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - Almera]

Naming convention for < UBM >.

But as well as appearance...... half of the names are (...) disappearing (...).

Half (...) approach the military.

But the soldiers don't see it coming.

Its < UBM > captured in camera footage, as if they didn't see it.

Eventually, < UBM > makes contact with one of the military personnel.

And it was a moment.

In an instant...... man became a powder of ice and finished.

In soundless footage, a garment filled with white powder falls to the floor.

While the military noticed that and looked at the clothes, two more touched and collapsed to the floor as well (...).

So the military finally saw the anomaly.

But I don't see it.

Even though the results caused by < UBM > are visible, the < UBM > itself is not.

With a look of fear, the firearm is pointed at the other side, unusually allowances or gradual indiscriminate shooting of the invisible.

Some of the bullets touched < UBM > but it didn't work.

The bullet had stopped when it touched the surface of its body, which only looked black.

Keep falling to the floor.

The warhead is not even crushed (...).

"... sucked kinetic energy, is that why?

Manigold mouthed the speculation, and Isala nodded.

During that interaction, the rest of the military had also turned out to be ice powder.

And the black < UBM > left somewhere as if it were a child's pains (...), jumping on one leg.

Isara stopped the footage there.

…………

Both of them, there were no words.

There was just a painful silence there.

"There was something behind our battle that we didn't know what to do...?

…………

It was like a horror movie.

There was so much fighting on board with the Orthodox government and the < IF >.

In the vortex of that struggle, something other than the struggle was happening.

Without even being distracted by its existence by the numerous powerful men who were aboard or attacking this ship.

"... and this one too"

Isara retrieves the video crystal again.

"What's that?

"This one belongs to the evacuation block. We have footage near the drop slope."

"I knew you'd care about anything but battle, but this needs to raise your salary,"

"Thank you very much."

After such interaction, the two see the video crystal records again.

Video of the evacuation block showed a black < UBM > approaching the side of the slope.

Then, < UBM > approached the operating equipment of the slope and moved the machine cleverly.

Eventually, the slope was released, and the black < UBM > got off the slope himself and went out of the boat.

"............... what time is the slope released?

"Records indicate that the ship stopped a short while ago."

Then the black < UBM > out of the slope would have taken the form of being left behind on a ship that was going away.

As a result, that one went wild.

But in a way... I can also say the ship was saved because of it.

"... you're quite wise < UBM >"

I'm running a human machine.

It means you have wisdom and knowledge.

On top of that, the cargo and evacuation blocks are attacking the military.

"Incomprehensible."

Obviously willing to harm people, but that's how he escapes the ship after attacking the military.

Manigold questioned it, but eventually remembers the placement of the blocks on board.

"The evacuation block is next to the cargo block...... well"

Perhaps that < UBM > was going outside from the start. By some means, you must have figured out the location of the nearest exit.

To that end, to the passing stumble... I sucked and killed the soldiers.

We only think of the killing of humans as a hassle to that extent.

Extremely dangerous.

"... put that < UBM > on the cargo block (...) What's he thinking?

"UBM...?...... ah"

At the same time as Isala leaked her words as she realized something, Manigold took one bead out of her nostalgia.

It is the bead of humanization that Manigold was getting by the deal before the incident.

"I don't think < UBM > stayed on the boat and made a big deal out of it on the cargo block. Probably loaded in beaded condition...... you should see it broken and resurrected. Or maybe even a device that would break the beads remotely."

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"But there was an" ice bead "in the information Hugo got from journalists. It's a lot of sword swallowing to just call that 'ice', but that would make no mistake. The location means it was already on the move."

Or did you only express the power to suck thermal energy with it in the beads?

"But why on the freight block?

"... the missing cargo was the [gem] of the heavenly attribute, right?

"Yes.... is that what you mean"

"Heavenly attribute magic is a magic that generates and increases energy."

That's where I came to think of it, and Manigold went ahead with his thinking.

It is clear that that < UBM > absorbs a wide variety of energy.

And as you are yourself, there are many types that absorb energy that convert it into some kind of force.

Maybe someone unleashed < UBM > absorbing that energy inside the cargo block and fed it tons of [gems] as bait (...).

"But who put the beads down? Is it Chris Fragment that he guided the Orthodox government?

Chris Fragment, the designer of this ship, would also be able to set up concealed doors and passageways to place beads on the cargo block without anyone noticing.

"... that seems likely, but I don't know the motive. It's conflicting behavior."

"If the purpose of 'supporting them', which I told the Orthodox government, was true, it would only harm the plan. There is no way < UBM > could be released. Conversely, if the aim is to free that < UBM > on this ship, there is no need to guide the Orthodox government. Is that what you're saying?

To Isala's words, Manigold nods.

"If both were guided by Chris Fragment, it doesn't make sense. What were you thinking, moving the two on the same board? Besides, < UBM > has just left the ship with only damage to the Orthodox government. It just doesn't make sense."

"Maybe it wasn't the result you wanted (...)"

"What...? No, I see..."

As a result, < UBM > went wild without joining the riots.

But that wasn't necessarily going to go wild.

Stay on the boat... there was also a chance I got mixed up in that riot.

Chris Fragment may have wanted you there.

"Or... was either (...) good (...)"

Was there anything to be gained from any of the random appearances, as waving the two six races?

In any case, I can't grasp the purpose.

Manigold remembered how uncomfortable it was, like being seated in a game with no rules or winning conditions.

"I don't know what the purpose is, but... I'm pretty sure that < UBM > is close to the worst"

Energy absorption capacity performed at unusual rates.

The ability to conceal that cannot be perceived by the naked eye.

Or maybe he has other abilities.

That < UBM > could be worse than Curtis Erdona or Rascal the Black Onyx or Emily Killingston who raided this ship.

"You can't leave that alone. We need to raise the report with the chairman immediately....?

In an attempt to retrieve the communications equipment, Manigold became doubtful.

(... the chancellor couldn't predict the existence of that < UBM >?

The question arises as to whether a witch called “futuristic vision” could not have foreseen the emergence of such a powerful opponent.

Or…….

(Did you dare... leave it?

If you think so, sometimes you realize.

Instruction given by the chancellor to 'get out to the ball'.

That wasn't to annihilate the Orthodox government that occupied the special hall......,

I thought it was to avoid (...) the encounter between Manigold and that < UBM >.

…………

Doubt is endless.

I don't even understand.

If you really knew, it's just an unknown reason to let that thing go wild in the land of Cardina.

What good has a person who has moved the interests of the state first and foremost done so….

In the end, Manigold didn't get an answer.

But only the signs that I was standing on the edge of some sort of far-fetched conspiracy... felt.

To be continued