＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

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The battle at was about to come to an end.

Franklin's army of monsters, counting 55,000, has been defeated by the hands of the [Destroyer King], and the remaining half has been gradually swept away by the < Master > and the still alive [Destroyer King].

Also, monsters created by Franklin as a single point, not mass produced, [RSK] has been defeated by Ray Sterling, [DGF] and [KOS] by [Destroyer King].

And not only in this < Jand Meadow >, but in downtown Gideon, the battle is beginning to come to an end.

Monsters and PK have almost been driven away, with the exception of Franklin, who was the biggest fighter on the Imperial side [King of Music] has become a death penalty.

A large number of people had no longer decided, and the imperial side, led by Franklin, had its defeat confirmed.

Normally, the survival of the Imperial side is withdrawn and the battle is over, but the battle is not over yet.

Because the Imperial Power is the "Suicide” series.

A biological weapon engraved in a cell to keep moving forward and killing until death.

Therefore, to sweep all of it, the kingdom's < master > fights, and the [king of destruction] 's < embrio > Baldor keeps firing artillery.

The “Suicide” series, a short distance from the kingdom, is still being exploded from terrain to terrain by Baldor artillery fire.

One of the masters was watching.

"That's amazing, Ray's brother."

One < master > - Luke watched the Baldor shelling and watched the battlefield in much the same way as the guests watching the fireworks show.

Most of all, that's common to almost everyone in this battlefield, not just Luke.

By the time a large number of advanced masters arrived on this battlefield, they were set to step back.

There was a strong sense of compassion on the part of the senior that Rookie, who had worked so hard so far, would not be a death penalty rather than lowering his legs...

Even for Luke, he thought there was no way to leave the front because he couldn't keep up with advanced combat speeds without Union Jack or Liz's cover.

"Big firecrackers... but it doesn't fit your brother's < Embrio > a bit (...), though I also care..."

Whimpering about that, Luke was realizing the power and performance of the different digits in the Valdor.

While shooting all that shelling, Ray didn't even get a shot at the precision.

Yes, of all the rookies on this battlefield, only Ray is still fighting.

I ran through this battlefield to Franklin, the chief.

Luke watched Ray and [Destroyer King] - Shu exchange conversations about something.

That wasn't something to speak for, it was by [telepathic cuffs] that Shu handed Ray before he left the arena, but Luke understood.

Ray hopes to head to Franklin's sitting pandemonium, and Shu decides to help.

The two of them had not strayed together and had decided what they should do at their will.

That was a little dazzling for Luke.

As you can see in the aftermath, Luke is still looking at the shelling of the Valdor.

……

Luke caught sight of something.

That is still in the midst of the explosion where the Baldollar gunfire pours down.

"That's..."

There was a familiar silhouette amidst explosive flames and earthen smoke.

The silhouette quickly disappeared across the earth smoke... but Luke could understand that it was rushing for pandemonium.

I also understood what you were on your way for.

Luke sighs.

Because I knew it was my fault.

I've left her (...) at ease, but I knew it was because of it.

But at the same time, I think.

"It's a little better than worrying..."

Just a little, good, he said.

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□ ■ Upper Pandemonium, Warcraft Factory

Franklin, the head of tonight's terrorist plot, was smiling.

The situation is no longer reversed, and the modified monsters that were winning in numbers are also about to be driven away by overwhelming destruction and a willingness to defend Gideon.

Still, Franklin was laughing.

One < master > over his own < embrio >, the pandemonium - laughed relative to Ray Sterling.

"[Destroyer King] is in the middle of a great effort. You could have slept in the back, Ray-kun, couldn't you?

"After all, is half of [the King of Destruction] 's movement for a purpose?" Franklin speculated in Ray's appearance.

[Destroyer King] 's flashy move is to catch Franklin's ear and eyes and help Ray get off here.

Evidence of this is that Ray on silver was followed in that shelling without being involved.

Additionally, the monster that was distributing it as a sensor to various parts of the Jund Meadow has also been crushed by that shelling.

Finally, the monsters for video relays around Pandemonium have also been crushed, so no one has seen Franklin and Ray relative.

"But [Destroyer King]..."

And Franklin also had enough information at his disposal for [Destroyer King] to help Ray.

That's a name.

Franklin, who had the Analytical Eye of Wisdom and read the status of [Destroyer King], also saw the name [Destroyer King].

The name Shu Sterling.

"I'm gonna ask you one question. Hey, Ray Sterling. Do you know a man named Shu Sterling?

"My brother."

Franklin snorted along convincingly in that reply... grinned bitterly.

"The brother and sister of Maiden? There's a similar story."

……

"So what brings you all the way here with your brother's hand?

"I have three things to do."

"Oh so much. I know one thing but hey."

Franklin points to a point on the floor of the pandemonium.

There is one young girl - Elizabeth, the second princess of the Alter kingdom - falling unconscious.

"You're here to help that kid, aren't you? Your brother can't break the pandemonium without holding her."

For Pandemonium, Elizabete is an Achilles tendon.

Without her, [Destroyer King] relentlessly shoots shells directly into the pandemonium.

Because we know that, Franklin also takes care not to let Ray rescue Elizabeth.

"So, what's the second?

"I need to ask you something."

"What I want to hear, hey"

That was within the assumptions for Franklin.

If you're just here to rescue me, you can scratch me accidentally while I'm on silver.

Also, if the aim is to defeat Franklin, you can ambush him.

But it was only natural to go out of my way to get off Silver and assume that the conversation had more purpose than having a long conversation.

"What do you want to hear? Recommended hunting grounds? What do I know about < UBM > habitats? Or the inside of our country?

Franklin thought it would be none of those things as he said it.

"You... why did you do this?

Neither was the question in Franklin's assumptions.

"Why... don't you remember? My purpose."

"Your purpose is to frustrate the people of the kingdom by making sure Gideon loses like no other."

"What, you remember that?"

"That's not what I want to hear."

"So, what is it?

In a hella Franklin inquiry, Ray inquired looking straight into his eyes.

"... what do you think the people of Tian are?

On that question, Franklin was pounded into the void, and then pounded his hand like he was good at it.

"Oh. Is that it? Are we talking about Infinite Dendrogram being a world or a game?

To Franklin, who returned the question, Ray nods.

"Well, well... ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Oh, laugh.

like his jaw was off. Franklin laughed heavily, laughing out of breath,

"- Whoever thinks this place is just a game (...) is an idiot or a kid who gets a real explanation."

I said that with a face that didn't even bring a single smile to my face.

"The game? There's no reason for the game. Reality, modeling, and life. Every aspect but around the system transcends the gameplay. Just to be clear, in any case this is a game (...) It doesn't even look like a game without a system that just says"

…………

"I don't even know what this is. My prediction is national...... no, I'm thinking it might be the human experimental phase of a world-wide virtual world building plan, but is that unlikely because you're jumping too far over the cutting edge? Like someone said," It could be another real world, or it could be alien intervention. "

"... then what do you think the people who live in this world are"

"AI with such an advanced spirit that it cannot be distinguished from human beings. Or a real otherworlder. or equivalent“ life. "At least not a simple bit of flashing"

Franklin separated words there once,

"So I'll tell you what. I would have executed this plan, even if this place were Earth, under the same circumstances, under the same conditions, with the same abilities... Thousands of people will die."

That's what I assured you.

"Isn't that what you wanted to hear, Ray? Being Maiden's master, you wondered why I had such a terrible plan?

"How can you do that......!

Take Franklin's answer and ask with a voice that Ray squeezes out of his heart.

That is the word wholeheartedly asked by those who perceived the life of this world to be real life, to the tragedy that was about to happen.

So Franklin answered that for real, too.

"Because I don't want to lose anymore.

Because I don't want to turn to the side that swings.

Because I want to live freely, make freely and enjoy the world freely.

I won't let anyone tie me up.

Because whoever blocks my way of life decides to ravage whatever it is "

So Franklin's words are over.

In response to Ray's question, he answered everything with it.

That may be vague and incomprehensible to anyone but Franklin, but for Franklin himself there was everything in that word.

Ray understands that too, and one more thing.

Franklin doesn't quit every tragedy to lose, which is why he absolutely has to be beaten, he said.

Because Franklin could have all kinds of tragedies if he was to pierce that way of life.

"Well, I'm done with my second business. So, what's the third?

Franklin asks Ray, reversing his tone.

"... it's, uhh!

Faster than Ray answered that question - the pandemonium rocked.

That didn't pandemonium move.

Pandemonium was shaken by the impact of the "shelling".

"Attack of [Destroyer King]? Even though there's still a princess over here? You cut the paralysis, huh?

A sound of doubt leaks out of Franklin's mouth.

Because at the end of Franklin's gaze... where the princess had fallen until earlier, there was no sign of the princess.

Ray hasn't done anything.

I'm not sure it's Ray because Franklin himself was paying attention.

Someone other than Ray rescued Elizabeth while erasing the signs and took her out.

To those who could do that...... Franklin had an idea.

"Super Killer"... I see. “You too."

While Franklin focuses on Ray's movements and conversations, Super Kill rescues the princess.

Franklin couldn't tell if that was a meeting from the start, or if Ray's move was ridden by Super Kill.

Either way, it doesn't make sense.

Pandemonium lost his shield protecting himself from shelling.

Countless artillery fire pierces the pandemonium, smashing down its giant factory-like giant.

"... it's intense"

Franklin managed to stand as he deposited himself on the installed railing on a violently rocking pandemonium.

Franklin understood that the shelling would not fly to the top of the pandemonium for Ray to be there, but still the pandemonium would soon sink. Even HP doesn't have 10% left.

…………

Both my defeat and the destruction of the pandemonium fit within the plan's assumptions.

Plan D is activated even if Franklin is defeated.

Franklin has already lurked a suicide bomber-specific monster [NDW (New Clear Dragworm)] with a tactical bomb in the basement of the Central Arena.

If Plan D is activated, [NDW] rises to the ground and kills all the humans in the venue.

From crushing Gideon's useful resource called the Central Arena, Plan D is the most successful and least prioritized plan.

If Franklin scattered, it should have activated.

But......

"It's already been dealt with..."

Franklin sighs.

The spade, the key to the Tiger's final plan, had already vanished.

"I had a feeling about that, but hey"

That it was not the two supposed < super > but the third [king of destruction] who showed up to defeat Franklin.

As a result, the two < super > in the Central Arena became floating pawns, this result was expected.

The spaces diving deep underground are usually impossible to deal with, but if you have the special skill of Xuan Yu shown in Super Clash, you can deal with it without any problems.

I would have struck another hand if I had known before today's Super Clash, but later festival.

A form in which a monster created with a single item of MVP privilege, but therefore unable to make a second one, was wasted even more after [DGF].

And with Plan D crushed, Franklin's winning eyes are gone.

If Franklin falls here, it will be Franklin's total defeat.

At least Franklin alone should have escaped......

"... is it too late"

Pandemonium, which has little fighting power, even in giants, is on the verge of being completely destroyed by Baldor artillery fire.

The monsters of Casling distributed to the Jand Meadows have also been wiped out.

And Franklin will also be a death penalty soon.

Because - there was a look of Ray running up the top of the pandemonium toward Franklin.

I also spare no time riding, I don't ride silver, I run through it with my own legs.

"I knew the third thing was to take me down."

The distance between Ray and Franklin shrinks, but Franklin has no hand in holding it back.

I ran out of bespoke monsters I had in hand.

No one defends Franklin at the earliest opportunity.

(I have no choice. Let's lose here. But sooner or later......)

Franklin made up his mind about his death penalty and beyond with giving up.

- That's when the whole silhouette popped over the pandemonium.

"Huh!"

"Huh?"

The figure, with surprise, was captured by Ray and by Franklin with doubt.

- It's half broken.

He is forcing a stripped fuselage to wrap ice armor around it.

It was a fuselage mounted by Hugo and armed with Coquitos.

……………………

< Magingear > had already taken so much damage that there was no life if it was a person.

That wasn't just due to the battle with Luke and the others.

Wounds received after the battle and after unlocking Hellgate of his own volition and sending Luke and the Masters out.

It's a wound sustained by the [Destroyer King] 's bald dollar rushing through the blazing flames of destruction scattered.

Sole, who sustained more severe damage than the previous day's battle of Goz, could still be moving.

"Ahhhhhhh!!"

Hugo's roar running through < Maggie >.

With a voice that Hugo, who plays the knight, would never utter, < Maggie > stood before Ray.

Yes, he stood between Franklin and Ray, as if to protect Franklin.

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Hugo has continued to get lost this evening, to this point.

Should I join the plan or not?

Is your deed right or not?

Can I be hostile to Ray, who lined up the bamboo yesterday?

But those strays, defeated by Luke, listening to him, and Franklin activating Plan C… buried in further strays.

In that stray, Hugo solved the Hell Gate.

When I thought I shouldn't stay like this, I unraveled it.

But I don't know if that was even right.

The deed can stop the tragedy in front of you, but it was definitely negative for Franklin.

But I'm lost again remembering that Franklin is lying in the first place and trying to destroy Gideon...

It was abandoned from Luke, who, along with the other < masters >, headed towards < Jand Meadow >, and eventually the [charm] effect time passed, and still kept getting lost...

Hugo stopped thinking... getting lost.

Because I realized I couldn't move a single step as long as I kept thinking and getting lost.

When I abandoned every stray and self-questioning that way...... only one answer remained.

The last answer to what you want to do.

The last remaining answer was from the beginning in Yuri with Hugo's... Hugo as his avatar... just one answer.

That's......

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"-" My sister... I'll protect her. "Huh!!"

With the words of Hugo, < Maggie > moves out.

"Here, take you down!!"

Ice fighters storm as they forcibly connect the torn body with the power of Coquitos.

Towards Ray, yesterday's friend and today's enemy, with all due respect.

- Come on, Hugo.

Ray took Hugo's will relative to his own.

That's how [the Holy Knight] and [the High-Level Pilot] clash together, being Maiden's < Master >.

Second and last staggering following the West Gate.

That was only a short amount of time in time.

"Motor... Slash!!"

< MaginGear > wields his right arm and wields the Ice Cross Sword with the activation of his skills.

"... ugh! Kuh! '

But at that moment, the armor that was covering his right arm peels off and the parts on his right arm fall off.

The swinging right arm bounces off and flies in the direction of the day after tomorrow.

Its right arm was countered by "Vengeance is on Me" at the staggering West Gate.

Arm under “Dragon Demon” 's "Trihorn Grandasher".

After a number of heavy hits, his arm missed its endurance limit, and he couldn't resist activating his skills here and now.

"Yet!!" Motor Slash!! "

"Motor Slash" in his left arm without putting intermittent hair in his right arm, which ended in underdevelopment.

A reverse horizontally shaken blade of ice approaches to cut Ray's body.

"I can't get rid of the armor. Then...!!"

In contrast, Ray threw a weapon tangled in his right arm - a black sword nemesis detached from his own right arm - into the sky.

And while dodging the sharp blade of the ice cross sword by giving himself up - I dared to offer my own right arm to the blade's orbit (...).

"Huh...!!"

Right arm cut by an ice blade.

A lot of damage, bleeding, hitting Ray.

However, the sharpness of the cleavage did not cause the body to be flushed by the impact of the cutting.

"... sickness!

Let him jump as he bowed and enter the pocket of < Maggie >.

At the same time, the nemesis of the great black sword thrown in the sky returns to Ray.

But the right arm is amputated, and the left arm cannot grasp the nemesis on the carbide Ray.

- No.

……!!

"Nah!?"

Ray was taking the black sword pattern - "bite it off”.

……!!

"Respond!!"

Ray is silent.

But Nemesis responds to that will.

Ray wields his neck as he bites the black sword pattern, sticking the blade of the black sword into the ice armor covering the cockpit of < Magingear >.

It doesn't get pierced.

But still, I didn't mind.

"-" Revenge is on me "!!"

The wording of the Nemesis skill activation is released.

Immediately afterwards, the counter skill "Vengeance is on me" is activated and the Ice Armor is hit with doubling damage of the amputation of the right arm.

Moments, the ice armor disappears.

And the black blade, which no longer has anything to hold back - stands against Hugo's heart.

"Ahhh."

Leaving only that one word, Hugo vanished into the dust of light.

At the same time, Coquitos, Hugo's < Embrio >, disappeared and the wreckage was shattered by previous damage.

"Hurrah!!"

Settlement with Hugo.

But Ray's legs don't stop.

Drop the nemesis out of your mouth and rush through your goal in a heartbeat.

Ahead is Franklin.

Don't even run away..., no, it's Franklin standing like he forgot to run away from the moment Hugo disappeared.

"Fran, Clin......!

While losing his right arm and dropping his nemesis, Ray rushes through for Franklin.

Now Ray is here because of that.

Because that's what Ray came here for.

It's not just the rescue of the princess.

It's not just questions with Franklin.

And defeating Franklin is not an end in itself.

That's for what I've been deciding for a long time.

- He said, "Whoever punched a kid in the face like this, I'm gonna punch him in the face."

- I'll punch you in the face. Wash your neck, super.

To “just once, beat Franklin up”.

"FRANKLYWING!!"

Strongly willing not to liquidate everything until then, Ray punched Franklin through his right cheek with his carburized left arm.

"Huh!?"

The impact of the clash causes the brittle carbide left arm to collapse.

However, the moment his fist captured Franklin's face, he burst out of his fist - from his [armor] and wrapped his entire body around Franklin.

In an instant, Franklin ends up in a human pine.

Franklin doesn't have a [lifesaving brooch] anymore, and he doesn't have a Life Link opponent.

The purgatory flame instantly shredded Franklin's life (HP), which he called himself inferior - fogging it.

"......, ugh"

On the verge of extinction according to the rules, Franklin has only one word:

"... we'll win next."

That's what I left behind... the dust of light.

One < super > who plotted and executed this evening's plan, similar to a nightmare for the kingdom, and tried to create numerous tragedies and imperial victories... has now become a dust of light in the hands of one rookie here.

That's the end of this case.

◇

Or maybe this ending was decided.

One (Franklin) tried to use one child (Migliane).

When one Rookie (Ray) decides to help one child (Migliane).

Maybe it was decided.

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Twenty minutes after the disappearance of Franklin. The last piece of the “Suicide” series was destroyed and the battle at Gideon came to an end.

Franklin's PK - Death (Death Penalty) or Loss.

“Suicide” series - total annihilation.

“Club" [King of Music] Berdolbel - death.

“Spade." [NDW] - Death.

“Heart" [High-Level Pilot] Hugo Receps - Death.

“Diamond." [Archprofessor] Mr. Franklin - Death.

Duel City Massive Terror Plan “Franklin's Game" - End.

To be continued