＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

Episode Four: Safe and Dangerous Zones

□ Ray Sterling

When I saw my brother, Embrio - maybe TYPE Arms - I couldn't help but question him.

TYPE: This is what Arms imagined more, demon swords and demon spears, but gatoring cannons -...

"Is Gatling Cannon a fantasy worldview?

"There's a world with a mechanical empire, and mine is an ant, Bear."

Brother Bear laughed as he carried a drum can-shaped magazine and held the barrel of a Gatling cannon to his right.

Looking at its surreal appearance in a slightly frightened manner,

"KIKIKI......"

"CHIKI... CHIKI..."

They've noticed our presence. They've gathered bee and ant insect monsters.

"All right, then, Kumar, who will run through to Lem's fruit field."

That's what Brother Bear said and set up the gatoring cannon... blew it off.

"YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

Moments later, an explosion sounds and insect monsters smash and scatter their body fluids across the wood's finest dust.

Every time the barrel turns and the bullet is thrown out, the carcass increases in production and disappears from the edge of falling to the ground into a game-like light.

The sight is a complete one-sided kill.

Brother Bear shoots faster than the rate at which the monster gushes.

Hundreds of thousands of empty drugpods have been ejected from the Gatling cannon just under a minute from the start.

Normally, there's no way I can hold that thing and shoot it... but if it's as the notation showed earlier, my brother Bear's wearing that guru is almost like a power suit. Maybe it's possible because the correction has a minimum STR of nine hundred or more and is ninety times my level zero. Still, it's strange to be walking while shooting.

I guess some strange force is working because that Gatling cannon doesn't run out of bullets after firing at that pace.

But shooting a gatoring gun in hand like this is like a scene from an old famous movie. It should have been the masterpiece of an actor who would later be governor of the state in the second Android-themed film.

Well, it's going to be a C-level movie at the point where it's the bear's attire, not the muscle moly macho man actor doing it.

"But you're really not going to help..."

It's not the right time to attack or anything. Coming forward to the detour, I'm going to be a hive in an instant, too.

Of course, but even if a monster is being crusaded with great momentum just now, my experience won't come in.

"Ah, you can leave the drop alone, Kumar I want you to follow me perfectly from behind"

The carcass is gone, but the item that came out when I knocked it down remains.

By the way, with the skill Dismantling, it seems that the time to disappear extends so that the carcass can be dismantled. They'll be able to get more items then.

"Okay.... Speaking of which, this situation."

It's a common situation in games.

At the start of the game, lower level player characters progress with the help of higher level allied characters. Allied characters are strong and very helpful, but they generally die at the end of the beginning and become the tightening of the first part.

"" WOW!! "or" I'm familiar "

"... No, that would kill me."

My brother sounded subtle.

In a situation where I can't tell if I'm fighting or working like that, or if I'm even in a cont again, my brother and I stepped over the distance of the 50O Metel and reached the fruit fields of Lem.

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"Who is it?!? Oh, are you...!

In Lem's field of fruit, Liliana was engaged with a herd of insect monsters.

She is dealing with countless insect monsters while sheltering her sister on her back.

"All right, we made it!

"Cavalry (no horse) ascend Kumar!

Side by side delighted that I wasn't too late, my brother hit the gatoring cannon with a grand bang again. The insect siege net is decreasing with tremendous momentum.

... That's good, but don't hit Liliana and her sister by mistake, okay?

While I was worried about the two of them, the siege net was completely extinguished.

I know my brother is strong, but I have the impression that the weapon species Gatling Cannon itself was very useful in the fight against the majority. Even in Japanese history, Gatling guns were active at the time in the Nagaoka clan of the Etsune War.

Besides, we made it to the two of us safely.

"Are you all right?

I spoke the words she hung up on me then, and now I speak them from me.

"You were then... why are you here?

She looks at me like she's surprised.

Hmm? That's like the first time you've noticed me.

So the word "Ah, you are" was directed at you earlier... is that your brother?

"And even you... really, why"

"I'm here to help Kumar. My brother said," You can't leave me alone! Whatever happens, I'm gonna go save her! ♪ 'Cause I'm here to help too, Kumar ♪

Tell me!?

I don't remember you even saying that from a face like that to a dialogue that's about to catch fire!!

"My brother... so"

Liliana is squeaking like she's convinced of something.

Does this air, by any chance, make my brother and Liliana acquaintance?

When I was wondering, Liliana turned to me and bowed deeply.

"Thank you. If you hadn't come, I would have been unable to protect Miriam."

"Yes, no. I was just watching from behind..."

"Still, let me thank you. You have come to save me with reinforcements... and I will never forget this grace."

I'm even guilty through being able to light up Liliana's words.

'Cause I just took the quest, and I really didn't do anything, and I was just parasitic in the safe area behind my brother.

That's why I couldn't look her straight in the eye and strayed from her gaze, and there was her sister, Migliane.

As pictured, no, she was so pretty that she was cuter than pictured.

"Lori? Lorikon bear?

No, I'm not.

"Hiku, hiku..."

Migliane was crying.

That would be so. Because you were surrounded by so many insect monsters and even your life was in danger.

However, it is firmly around the cage in its hand containing about five fruits - possibly rumored lemme fruits.

"And a horn on the rabbit, let's get out of here. It's dangerous when monsters come together again."

"Okay."

At that time, a change occurred in the menu screen.

[NPC joins the party]

[Liliana Grandria joined]

[Migliane Grandria joined]

Oh, does NPC get into the party, too?

The status of the two... Migliane was lower than mine.

But Liliana's status was astonishing.

Liliana Grandria

Occupation: [Saint Knight]

Level: 60 (total level 210)

HP: 5450

MP: 1684

SP: 1430

Total level 210... would be too high.

Well then, Deputy Commander of the SS Knights, which means number two among the knights of the country, so it's not strange to have that much.

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All the while, at that time, I noticed that Brother Bear had a somewhat difficult face (I can't see it directly, but I can tell by the air because we've been dating for years).

"Ray, the quest hasn't been accomplished yet, has it?

"Oh, yeah. Nothing in particular has changed."

"Right."

Brother Bear guards his surroundings with a gatoring gun in place.

That condition is far more serious than it was earlier when I was unobtrusive to insect opponents.

"Brother...?

"Ray, the difficulty of questing in this world is calculated by the quest manager, AI, who calculates the surrounding environment information and people background."

"Huh?"

Calculate environmental information or people background? I think it's boulder management AI doing that one at a time, but that's what matters now......

"So, I thought the difficulty of this quest was a short time-limit quest."

My brother speaks of potatoes and thoughts.

"I thought it was easy to get here because I was there, and yet I was specialized in fighting against the majority. But... '

My brother's gaze turns to a point on the ground.

"Liliana subscribed in the middle of the quest. I mean, this quest is the real deal after we merge." Difficulty after joining Liliana on a total level of 210: five. "

Shortly after that word, the ground that was at the end of my brother's gaze explodes and something huge and long jumps out of the ground.

"GYULUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAA!!!"

They were huge muckades about whether to reach a total length of 30 meters.

"Chi!

Unlike Mukade, however, his epidermis is covered in reptile-like scales, and at the same time he plays easily with his epidermis the bullet of the gatoring cannon unleashed by his brother.

In addition, the face had a quackish jaw growing from up, down, left, and right.

Even beginners can tell right away.

This is strong.

"[Subdragon Beetle (Demidragworm)]......!

I heard Liliana's amazement.

"GIIIEEEEAAAAAAAA!!"

Then the ground bursts again, and yet another monster called [Demidragworm] emerges.

"Are you a subdragon-class monster...... I see, if you're going to protect this child from multiple opponents, you're going to find this difficult with a helper. But hey! '

Contrary to me losing my word because of the intimidation from the two monsters, my brother was rather a sunny voice just saying he was no longer worried.

"That's not enough for me!

And put your arms up,

'You can slap him and crush him, but it's a corner! Baldor! From the fourth morphology -'

"GIIIEEEALEAAAAAAAA!!!"

"GYULUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAA!!!"

"GYUIIILUUUUUAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

"GYULUUUUUUUULOOAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Shortly afterwards, a "third to sixth" [Demidragworm] emerged from the ground on all sides to surround his brother, capturing him with his jaw and disappearing into the ground.

"................................. Huh?

"Huh!"

Me and Liliana squeezing their lips at unexpected things that happened in a flash, even though visual information doesn't yet allow us to sort them out.

I'll check the simple status of the party... but I don't even know if my brother is alive or dead with black paint as usual.

"No, brother, I'm sorry I flagged you... but you'll be collecting it too soon"

The two remaining [Demidragworms] on this scene are approaching us without a brother.

I was instantly thrown out of the safe zone behind my brother.

"Ugh..."

The biggest animal I've ever seen up close on Earth is an elephant.

But now, a monster far bigger than that elephant is approaching us with inorganic hostility.

Honestly, my legs tremble even if I know it's a game.

"... I'd like to ask you something"

Liliana talks to me frightened.

"Hey, what is it?

"I suppress two of them if I can. In the meantime, could you please take my sister somewhere safe?