＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ ■ PAST/Germany

After the destruction of the name Escape in the laboratory of the Kunikoku office, Alberto and "Mother" worked in the laboratory of the German state agency.

Though 'my mother' was the only one who worked precisely, and Alberto was an assistant as' personal belongings'.

According to "Mother," it's a far better condition than the previous place, and there's a lot of free time.

My holiday 'mother' used to watch movies with Alberto...... I used to watch SF movies from the last century.

For the record, the bird and number woman who helped Alberto and "Mother" continued to visit under "Mother" more often than not. "My mother" was an excellent technician, so she said she was often relied upon. "Hold it, hold it, hold it" is about "mother."

Back in those days, one game was talked about in the world.

< Infinite Dendrogram >. Genuine dive-shaped VRMMO for breaking reality.

Alberto also knew he existed, but 'Mother' seemed to have a stronger interest in this than Alberto.

"Obviously there's something wrong with the technology that's being used. But on top, I said, 'Do you want to investigate?' Even if I multiply it, 'I can't give you a budget for it'. Could our country (Germany) be chewing somewhere?

…………

I couldn't tell Alberto if the country was really hiding something, or if it meant 'investigating the game isn't your job'.

"There are no more weird rumors. Technolock in the United States… Ah, the best game maker in the industry, huh? That's where they did the < Infinite Dendrogram > investigation, but if they did it normally, they couldn't analyze it. They didn't even find the server."

…………

It was definitely incredible to find the server even though it was MMORPG.

"The communication system itself is a conventional technology... it's not normal radio communication, is it? I can't trace it because I can't analyze it."

…………

Alberto was surprised to see if he was selling that stuff on a price-setting hard that kids could buy.

"If you normally log in as a player, I have no problem with that, but I can't bring in analytics equipment. That's why they're getting a little tough."

……

"Dendro is an unknown production company, isn't it? But there are companies in several countries that sell and manufacture hardware on their behalf. In the United States, ID suppliers are smaller companies. So, Technolock went for it."

……

I felt disturbed by the word "targeted".

"I hacked it with my own corporate data management AI overture."

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Large companies hack into other companies in the industry.

Supercomputers called managed AI… If you're a monster with enormous computational capabilities that can handle all the information in countries and large companies, it's easy to hack into small businesses that don't have managed AI.

But it's an unmistakable crime.

"Design drawings or server locations? I don't know what you're trying to find out."

…………

It is an unfair and underground method.

But Alberto wonders.

That should be the kind of darkness that should never be known to a company.

Why, 'mother' knows.

"So, here's what happened"

When 'Mother' turned on the TV by hand gesture...... there was just a news show going on.

"Technolock, a leading United States game maker, has lost its operations."

When Alberto is surprised, the news tells him the details.

Recently, I had trouble with my network. At that time, confidential files that were in the internal server were leaked.

Not only did the leaked content include the latest technology in gaming hardware, but it also included numerous pieces of evidence of hacking, cracking, and cases involving domestic law that have been frequented by competitors to date.

A major disturbance up and down, including the arrest of management.

They also crashed stock prices and finally ended up in a business failure today.

"It should be noted that the troubled Technology-owned management AI overture caused an unexplained explosion following the leakage of sensitive files…"

So 'Mother' turned off the TV.

"That means"

…………

To see from the flow of the 'mother' story, ID supplier company… No, it's not hard to imagine it being the result of a counter from < Infinite Dendrogram >.

But what can I do to do this?

"Well, you mean the Infinite Dendrogram operation has a management AI that can reverse hack and break the latest pre-generation management AI. Maybe not even the latest form of state authority? Maybe that's what your boss knew he didn't let you down?

…………

Even the latest models don't work, there's something I think of in the words' mother '.

If so, it is further ahead of the latest model (...), or... if it is a new species (...).

"Ah. I'm not gonna let you hack or anything, am I?

…………

As I read Alberto's thoughts, 'Mother' said so.

I knew very thinly that they would say that.

But the words ahead were unexpected.

"'Cause Alberto's gonna have you play normally"

'- Ha?'

◇ ◆

□ ■ Central Arena

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Alberto was killed a second time and destroyed [Firelix].

The next piece of armor he equipped - was the armor.

Hand armor with mechanism for injecting gas into the back of the hand.

Anyone who found out about similar forms of equipment, including the ray in the audience, immediately noticed its use.

Shortly afterwards, a fierce momentum emerges from the armor of Alberto's hands… a white mist erupts.

The fog fills the stage...... but that didn't inhibit the audience from watching the game.

The concentration of fog is thinner than the audience assumes.

To the extent that it looks somewhat watermarked, you can watch the game onstage without any problems.

It is obvious that it does not make sense as a smokescreen of vision crushing.

Then I guess it's the kind of poison, when a lot of the audience thought...

There was a slight anomaly in Figaro's condition.

I move my face and try to explore what's going on around me.

What does Alberto need to explore when he says he hasn't made it slight?

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Explore… or Alberto take out a third weapon against the bewildered Figaro.

It is an easily understandable form of artillery, with Alberto pointing the cannon mouth towards Figaro.

But Figaro doesn't seem to make him run off the stage like he did the other day.

Standing on the spot, exploring the surroundings.

As if you don't see anything (...).

Eventually, Alberto pulled the cannon's traction,

"Huh!"

It was then that Figaro finally jumped off the spot.

A shell dodged by Figaro with a single hair landed in the junction.

It penetrated the five junctions originally prepared for the stage and rocked the junction of the intense increase in integra.

Figaro no longer runs without stopping, and Alberto continues to align the cannon openings with Figaro.

…………

However, Alberto is slightly pointing the cannon inlet downwards than the current shelling.

It's like, just saying it was a mistake to hit the juncture.

The offensive in a thin fog that does not inhibit vision is obvious from the audience, but I was feeling somewhere chiggy about the offensive.

"... Egg Benefit Armor or Hey"

Some spectators observe the identity of this thigh-hugginess.

One of them is a woman watching the game from the box seat - one of them, [the Pope] Saddam Moon Night.

"The more perks and tools you have, the better you can perform."

[Assassination King] Tsukiyoshiro, who serves beside her, also said so as if he understood the situation.

It is the perks of that armor that only seems to have given the audience a thin mist that is creating the situation today, and at the same time because of the drawbacks it has.

"Seya. Same as our [β] maintained its defense against Ranged Attacks instead of target humans, limited range, and reduced target level Yu Triple Weak. The shortcomings - the more rewarding the weapon, the more it can partially perform during life."

"You have two drawbacks. Being able to see inside easily from outside the fog. And..."

"That one, you can see the big ones and do it. Crush the sensory organs in the mist with your own (...). And the drawbacks of crushing the safety."

The two guessed so not only because of the apparently strange behavior of Figaro, but also because of Alberto's own slight indiscretion in exercising his privileged arsenal.

And the two of you are perfectly right to speculate.

The name of the armor is Legendary Benefit Musketeer [Coming Misty Sudoku Dragmist].

It is a perk weapon that completely blocks the visual, auditory and olfactory sensations of those in the fog.

Those who are out of the fog have no meaning, and they will always be in the fog. They will crush their senses first.

It is an extremely flawed and rewarding weapon that is guaranteed to be octopus punched from outside the fog first if used.

Regardless, < UBM > … [Misty Dragon King Dragmist] was used only by hostiles….

"If you want to take that reward weapon, defeat the original UBM. There's a hand you can hit in the fog."

The more perks and tools with flaws, the more they perform.

But the better it is, the more it crushes the flaws or the other way around.

Just as Moon and Night turned [Gloria β] into the most heinous weapon of non-super-job annihilation by dividing the level cap in Kaguya's Thin Light. Lunar night and moonshadow had detected that Alberto was also clearing this flaw, so he was targeting Figaro himself with his sensory organs crushed.

So it was Super Embrio who exchanged it? Did [Firelix] also gain resistance to rewarding weapons as well?

No, Alberto is not dying yet.

I haven't gained any resistance to fog, and it's unclear if I can get more than just not a source of damage.

Therefore, what is synergizing with this shortcoming is not < Embrio >... Job.

- It is the skill of the Crusade Specialized Super Position (...) [Destroyed King].

Crusade Specialization, even so, the impression you receive from that word will vary from person to person.

See it as the great firepower that slaughters many enemies?

Do you see the various enemies as a power that will definitely end with an effective hit?

But [Destroyed King] is different from both.

Extinction is eradication (...).

A few survive in an attempt to burn down a bunch of monsters that do no harm to people with a big fire against them.

Run away somewhere, increase the number, and rebuild.

Eventually, it will be a threat to people again.

I will not tolerate it, but because of it - [Destroyed King].

Except for Deep Righteousness, [Destroyed King] has two skills.

First Skill, Countdown Radar.

Skills in choosing a kind of monster from which you have crusaded yourself and figuring out the position of a monster of the same kind as it.

Second skill, Scar Marking.

Skills that capture the current position and status of the opponent who did the damage himself.

Yes, [Destroyed King] is - a super position specializing in pursuit (...) leading to annihilation.

Terminator hunting him down to the end of the earth, no matter where he flees, no matter where he hides.

They specialize in not letting them get away with it.

But now, Scar Marking has been activated against Figaro.

Earlier, an explosion of [Firelix] that crushed [petrified] Alberto. Figaro jumped out just before and hasn't taken much damage because he also had a heat-resistant accessory. It's a delicate, predatory wound.

But that's enough. The Scar Marking was activated when the explosion of [Firelix] damaged Figaro.

Thus, even if he loses his sight, hearing and sense of smell, Alberto can shell Figaro as guided by Scar Marking.

When he once defeated the [Dragmist], he destroys it by the same means.

Well, Figaro can't sense anything this time...... Alberto's advantage was overwhelming.

"... but you tolerate it well"

Figaro has not been hit by an attack from Alberto when he says he is unilaterally grabbed in position with a crushed majority of five senses.

The moonshadow questioned evasive behavior as if it had obviously guessed the timing of the shelling.

"That hat."

Moon and night point to the feather hat that Figaro uses all the time with a fan in his hand.

"[Windy Chicken Weather Feather] Yu Benefit Musketeers." Killer Sense "or something. I think you've reacted to the dungeon trap."

"I see. So you were able to evade the attack."

all-purpose crisis-sensing equipment.

It just makes sense for Figaro, who is the main solo explorer, to wear it all the time.

"And no. I've been using a lot of gear. What if I had one?

Similar to the words of the moon and night, Figaro switches arms.

One in each hand is the chain.

It is one of Figaro's main wepons, with the name of [Guardian of Red Lotus Chain Prison].

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Two chains that detect and auto-attack the enemy's life response, not sight, hearing, or smell.

I didn't go too far in the fog, and each one crushed Alberto's head and heart.

Alberto melts as he scatters the wreckage of the machine from his body.

"Gamma Star"

However, the technique of enhanced recovery is activated three times, and the lost area is repaired.

The two chains that were still attacking me bounced back on my body surface, and I couldn't scratch a single one.

It is a form of disabling a shock-type physical attack at the price of losing sight of the target once.

Still Figaro did not serve the chain and continued the attack.

Or maybe he doesn't realize that he knocked it down once or that he's already recovered in order not to see it or hear it.

"... hmm?

The moon and night raise one question about the state of such a battle between the two.

It breaks the senses. An attack in the fog is a question in the uneven part.

"I thought from WWV...... arent you brittle (...) hey?

Brittle means Alberto.

Even though it is Figaro who unleashed it that can enhance his gear, he is easily fatally injured by a blow of a weapon that is not a reward weapon.

Regardless, it is not an issue in itself if combined with the skill of gaining resistance… the impression that it is brittle is undeniable.

HP and STR are the statuses that [Destroyer King] tends to ascend as a trend for jobs. END is a few steps below that but... I still get the impression that in this battle in the "tournament" we are suffering too many fatal injury system state anomalies (...).

"Every time I take damage, I sprinkle the mechanical parts, and the whole body is substituted...... TYPE: Body or silly? If I let you do it... that's what I'm gonna do."

Alberto's september trion is TYPE: Body, as the moon and night speculate.

Replace the entire body with the body of the machine.

Although it is an extremely rare category, its few practical examples have several things in common.

One of them is that the rising status in the job is multiplied by a negative correction.

[Criminal King] Zex's nun had a negative correction for all statuses as a price for deformation ability and the nature of the slime.

Similarly, the septentrion also has a status… particularly strong negative correction for END.

It should be higher if you think about being a super position and his level, but in fact even a senior Bishmal can strangle him to death.

It is difficult to say that this shortcoming also works given the tolerance conferred by the septentrion......

(... array is the nature and deformation of the slime, the negatives of the essentially two properties or. Then I wonder if it's the nature of the machine apart from its resistance.)

There are verses that come to mind.

Alberto had his head crushed, or his skills were activated without any problems even if his whole body was petrified.

It is likely that the communication is related to the nature of the body.

But I don't know the answer to that on the moon and night just looking from the box seat.

Perhaps even the relative Figaro is unknown.

"... Hmm"

"Doesn't it, Shadow Yan?

I feel signs of doubt from the moonshadow beside me, and the moon and night inquire.

"I'm sure Mr. Figaro himself realizes that they're brittle."

"Sora do it." Nursing Break. "

"So why aren't we still switching chains?

If you ask me, it's no wonder I'm aware of what I've already destroyed.

But Figaro continues to attack by chains that have already become resistant...

"... what the hell?

"How long have you been out of your foot gear and barefoot?"

[Untied Foot], a perk weapon for anti-restraint, is off the legs of Figaro running on stage, barefoot.

That seemed to have a different aim as well as simply increasing the degree of enhancement by reducing gear.

".................. no way"

Guess what Figaro is trying to do... the moon and night sweated cold.

"Are you kidding me? ',.

But it is not (...).

Shortly afterwards, Figaro, who should have lost three senses - rushed out to Alberto.

to Zigzag not to hit the shell, but surely to Alberto.

It should be in a state that you are not supposed to see, as if you are completely grasping that position.

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Alberto doesn't see Figaro approaching.

But Scar Marking clearly conveys Figaro's proximity.

How do you know where you are?

Alberto thought the reason was for a chain that was beating the surface of his body without any damage - an attack that he inferred from prior information to be a chain.

Thus, the coat is switched to a perk weapon that generates a shockwave around itself, emitting a shockwave into the chain that attacks itself.

Although it is inherently an off-premises weapon of safety that crushes every Alberto's body, it has already gained resistance to physical shocks.

As a result, the chains that would have guided Figaro would have been crushed and shockwave walls could be raised around Alberto.

If you approached me inadvertently, Figaro would feed on it as well as the chain.

And Figaro, who could not see and hear and sniff, pushed to Alberto,

- Stationary in front of the shock wave.

Alberto is stunned that the Scar Marking reaction stopped in front of the shock wave's active area.

Why can you accurately read Alberto's position and attack status in an environment where you have lost three senses?

The answer lies only in what was not lost.

Even if you know Figaro doesn't work, why did you keep attacking him in chains?

It is to measure the distance between you and your opponent with the feeling and response of being pulled into the chain.

At the same time, it explores vibrations by touching the stage directly with bare feet (...).

Find the presence or absence of Alberto's movement, the shelling interval, and the degeneration of the attack from the vibrations transmitted to the stage.

Yes, Figaro, crushed by three senses... was measuring the target's position only by tactile sensation (...).

"Sick!

All I can say is that it's ridiculous. The dueling champion, who made him do the art, sees his enemies in his own time and equips them with new perk weapons in both hands.

The name of the privileged weapon on the left hand side is Ancient Epic [Ice Shooting Big Spear Yokel Floip].

Figaro squeezes the trigger on the pattern while pointing the spearhead of the weapon at Alberto, which looks like a shooting iron horse spear (gunlance).

Moment after moment, a fierce freezing chi was showered by Alberto from the spear tip.

Shockwaves do not prevent frozen air, and everything [freezes] in an instant, neither the perks of the coat, nor the cannon in his hand, nor the [dragmist] of both hands, nor himself.

Figaro stepped on his own foot through the frozen stage, poking a horse spear wrapped around the ice as it was.

The reinforced spike crushes Alberto and his equipment, frozen and significantly reduced in strength, into pure white dust.

"-" Delta Star (Megrez) "

Benefits As the fog clears due to the disappearance of the weapon, Alberto recovers for the fourth time enhanced.

But in front of him is the figure of Figaro with the next weapon.

Right Handed Benefit Armor, Ancient Legendary [Dust Demon Sword Paildin] equipped at the same time as Horse Spear.

Chop up the freshly regenerated Five Bodies of Alberto with an intangible Demon Sword (Energy Blade) that simultaneously showers a Continuously Damaging Condition Abnormality and a Dark Attribute Attack.

Figaro's aim is a cool-time gap.

[Soldier] 's "Last Stand" cannot be reused for five seconds from the end of the effect.

In other words, for five seconds after HP is fully revived... Alberto dies intact without eating too much.

This short time of five seconds - Figaro goes for it.

If it was meant to be, it would be hard to kill off Alberto with full HP in five seconds.

HP is at the head of the ascendant status, and Alberto's HP, a high level HP and STR-type superposition, is well over 200,000 based on negative corrections.

As a result, many people targeted fatal state abnormalities caused by site destruction and proportional damage caused by asphyxiation, but the "Last Stand" becomes reusable even when waiting for the way to die.

But Figaro isn't.

I was trying to sharpen Alberto's HP by concentrating my skills on the weapon in my hand and the AGI lifting gear, using all of the time I had in five seconds.

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Big inferior to AGI, Alberto doesn't have time to switch gear to that onslaught either.

For a second, Alberto's arms lose function as well as missing a third of his HP.

Two seconds, Alberto's head falls into dysfunction, as well as missing two-thirds of his HP.

Three seconds, flashing Alberto's torso onto the horizontal giraffe, as well as HP reaching 1.

Four seconds, double-breached from the top of Alberto's head to his groin. A sharpening blow to the last HP.

Five seconds. Alberto's HP - remains (...).

"... ugh!

The look on Figaro's face raises doubts.

The Last Stand is not activated right now.

Alberto's body is fatally injured, and he can't have HP without job skills.

But now... Alberto survives on HP1.

"-" ε-Star (Arioto) "

- And the fifth enhanced recovery.

Alberto is resurrected, as if nothing had happened.

"This is..."

It was too puzzling a phenomenon.

The general audience will only look like Figaro missed the finish...... no doubt Figaro should have done just enough damage to kill it off.

Still, Alberto held out with HP1...... resurrected.

(... Anything yet?

Alberto's resurrection mechanism is not the only one I've ever seen < Embrio > and Job's Synergy......

Figaro suspected that it was a benefit weapon or a dual structure that entangled something else.

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The resurrected Alberto was silent, but has already taken action.

Next to him, because a new perk weapon was emerging.

Though chopped with Figaro's demon sword, it should be noted that the perk weapon I was about to take out.

It was red as blood...... even more enormous armor than the giant Alberto.

The atmosphere is somewhere different from the perks and tools I have used so far.

Mechanical yet smells like a curse.

The name is Ancient Epic - [Red Thorough-Air Exa Demon].

If you dare say so - it is the most powerful perk weapon for Alberto.

"-" Red stained steel (Exa Demon) "

"-Oooo."

Alberto spoke for the first time of a skill name other than his own.

The great armor of red, adapted to his skill, swallows Alberto as he expands to open his jaw, roaring like a carnivore.

Immediately afterwards, red liquid, which had neither blood nor oil, overflowed from the inside of the armor.

There's a scream in the venue.

I don't understand what happened to the watching audience.

I would even have thought it was Figaro's attack.

But Figaro knew it wasn't.

"Huh!"

Alberto took action at the same time as Figaro jumped backwards to distance himself.

- "Ze star"

Sixth enhanced recovery declared to have not been attacked.

But in the middle of it, the great armor is moving.

The great armor wields its fists up - swinging it down to the stage like a hammer.

- Moments, the stage disappeared (...).

It's as if even meteorites have fallen on the pinpoint. The roar even sounds outside the arena.

The stone material that comprised the stage crushed, rolled up, bounced flying, and countless rock masses burst through the junction multiple times.

Screaming from the audience, but Integra's junction prevents all of the flying rock masses.

But Figaro inside the junction is not.

Numerous fine scratches are made all over the body by inevitably finely countless fragments.

After one impact, on the stage, transformed into a crater, there was Alberto dressed in great red armor and Figaro dyed his whole body into a Zhu.

Assuming Figaro's evacuation was delayed, the damage would have been more serious.

"... I see"

Figaro was guessing about how Alberto's great armor worked.

Alberto... the Great Armor has done nothing special.

I just waved my fist down on the force (...).

I'm just saying that the result was... as miserable as the superiority.

All Body Armor Benefits Armor, [Red Thorough-Air Exa Demon]

The only equipment skill is named "Red Stained Steel (Exa Demon)".

The effect is' After inflicting fixed damage to sharpen the user's HP up to 1, inflict a sharpened numerical amount of Attack and Defense on the Great Armor '.

Alberto with numerous defect reward armaments, but this is a delicacy that is extremely defective.

HP1 and so on, ranging from predatory wounds to death.

But only Synergy exists in Alberto.

transition to a definite state of imminent death.

Gain Immunity to Fixed Damage.

And the tremendous attack and defense gained by draining the HP of [Destroyed King].

I dare you.

Coupled with STR as the original [Destroyer King]... Alberto's offensive power now surpasses that of the [Destroyer King] wrapped around the kamikaze.

Speaking of Figaro, a clean hit would lead to death.

Not to mention... even gaining a Defense equal to Attack.

If you think in common sense, you perceive it as no hitter.

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But there is no color of giving up or despair in Figaro's face.

to the extreme situation of dying if hit...... but he was laughing.

The battle of all means is his own desire… Figaro.

There is no cowardice or compromise there.

Above all, he has a hitter.

Figaro, with so many rewarding weapons, is one of the few weapons that leads to an opponent with so much defense, but still one… there is something that definitely leads.

"Though faster than expected"

With that said, what he had in his hands was a single broadsword.

A sword that has no peculiar decorations, but emits a burning presence just to watch.

- [Gloria alpha].

The strongest trump card to win against Figaro in battle against Xun Yu, Moon and Night, and the < Super >.

Second use in this duel.

But this time the opponent is not a cannon, but an armor to be worn.

Benefit weaponry as well as...... he will also slash himself.

But Figaro chose to focus on slashing the armor in front of him rather than conceiving a seventh gain in resistance.

[Superfighter] with a sword and [King of extermination] with armor around him.

Relative to each other… the final battle of the "tournament” has moved into its final phase.

To be continued