Digimon: I really didn't want to be the Digimon Emperor!

With the energy supply, a barrier formed on the surface of the Silverhorn Beast, resisting the electric current from the lightning ball.

Cheng Yuan used the energy from the legacy of the Vajra Beast to control the Silver Horn Beast to unleash a [Counterattack Flame Ball], the scorching fireball forcing the Vajra Beast to retreat repeatedly.

"Sister, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." The silver-horned beast's voice was trembling with tears, but its hands moved without slowing down at all.

"You brat!" The golden-horned beast dodged awkwardly, its spiked club carving a deep furrow in the ground. "When did you learn that move?"

The data and energy left behind by Vajramon acted like a giant battery, continuously powering Silverhornmon's "burst" state. Puppymon was finally able to catch its breath, lying on the control panel with its tongue lolling out.

"Golden Horn Beast! Don't be fooled by humans!" The Galemon struck back Sepikmon with its staff, its piercing voice cutting through the battlefield, "Your brother has betrayed us!"

The demonic beast charged forward, brandishing its bone club: "Take care of this traitor first!"

"Get out of my way!" Goldhorn suddenly turned its spiked club around, blocking Demonmon's path. "It's none of your business to teach my brother a lesson!"

Upon seeing this, the Wind Calamity Beast immediately joined the battle to attack the Silver Horn Beast.

The chaotic battle between the three adult Digimon unleashed a violent energy storm, blowing away the surrounding Savagemon and Mammoth like fallen leaves.

Seppimon and Targetmon stood frozen in place, completely unable to get involved.

"How did they start fighting amongst themselves?" Target Beast scratched the flame decorations on its head; its newly acquired AJ sneakers were even a little deformed.

As expected of a seasoned, mature beast, the Wind Calamity Beast was ruthless in every move, forcing Cheng Yuan's Silver Horn Beast into a series of defeats.

When Golden Horn Beast saw its younger brother being bullied, it flew into a rage and used its [Demon Burial] to send Demon Beast flying, then turned around to rescue Silver Horn Beast.

"Bang!" The demon beast flew into the distant forest like a cannonball.

Meanwhile, in the forest—

"Huh?" A figure wearing a black baseball cap suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Mo raised his head, his scarlet eyes fixed on the direction where the battle had broken out. "What are that annoying kid and Digimon doing here?"

"And from this direction..." It sensed the energy and data bursting forth from this direction, a battle was about to erupt.

"Could it be that the evil beasts are heading that way too...?" Mo's lips curled into a sinister smile as he transformed into a swarm of bats and flew towards the battlefield.

When Mo arrived at the battlefield, a large-scale war had indeed broken out. The Savagemon and the Monkeymon were locked in fierce combat. If it weren't for a group of Savagemon with golden horns remaining inactive, the war among these adult Digimon would likely have been one-sided.

In the center of the battlefield, his pupils contracted.

Six adult Digimon were engaged in a chaotic battle, with the legions of Savagemon and Mammoth fighting fiercely. But what attracted his attention the most was the green figure wielding a bone club and launching a frenzied attack.

"Demon Beast!" Mo was so excited that his bat wings trembled.

That was the very demon beast he had been searching for. Mo was immediately excited and wished he could run over, grab the demon beast, and swallow it whole.

But he quickly calmed down. Rushing in directly was too dangerous; he needed to wait for the right opportunity.

Under the cover of the jungle, Mo silently approached the battlefield.

All the Digimon that tried to attack him were torn to pieces by the suddenly appearing Devilmon.

He approached the center of the battlefield as if it were deserted.

Just then, Goldenhorn's [Demon Burial] blasted Demonmon directly towards the location where Mo was!

Cheng Yuan, inside the Silver Horn Beast, spotted Mo's figure through the observation window. At that moment, the Demon Beast's body was about to be struck by the [Demon Burial] attack.

If that force were to hit an ordinary person, they would either die or be maimed.

"Mo! Watch out!" Cheng Yuan's exclamation came from inside the Silver Horned Beast. He didn't have time to think and controlled the Silver Horned Beast to rush forward in one step, using its huge body to block Mo.

"Boom!" The demon beast crashed heavily into the silver-horned beast, shaking the entire cockpit and causing spiderweb-like cracks to appear in the observation window.

Mo was also a little angry at the big guy blocking the evil beast from flying over, but he was surprised to find that the person inside was actually that annoying human, and there was also that little dog beast with the aura of dark gears inside. There was no mistake, they were inside.

"Mo, what are you doing here? Quickly retreat to a safe place!" Cheng Yuan shouted anxiously.

Cheng Yuan's sudden action instantly ignited the fury of Galemon and Demonmon. The two Champion-level Digimon attacked simultaneously, unleashing a violent energy storm.

"You're courting death!" The Wind Calamity Beast grinned and brandished its bone staff, unleashing countless wind blades that roared down upon the evil hurricane. The Demon Beast, meanwhile, swung its massive bone club, slamming it down with immense force on the Silver Horn Beast's back.

Cheng Yuan gritted his teeth and maneuvered the massive body of the Silver Horned Beast to block Mo's path.

The silver heavy armor groaned under the double attack, its armor plates dented and deformed, and blinding sparks of data bursting from the seams.

"Crack!" The observation window suddenly shattered, creating an even larger crack, and a vicious hurricane poured into the cockpit through the gap.

Cheng Yuan felt a chill on his cheek, and three bloody streaks instantly appeared. The data cocoon flickered violently and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Mo slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes beneath his black baseball cap. A strange smile curled at the corner of his lips: "Hmph, trying to save me? Foolish human. Let me show you what terrifying being you think you can save, and let you taste despair."

"Thud." The baseball cap fell to the ground.

Mo's skin began to crack, revealing the dark body of a demon beneath. His clothes ripped open, and a pair of enormous bat wings unfurled with a "whoosh." His body swelled to over four meters tall, and a ferocious evil symbol appeared on his chest.

"I am the Welch'erni-Beliaburg Demon Beast!" The demon beast's voice echoed like the sounds of hell.

Upon seeing its terrifying appearance, Cheng Yuan exclaimed in shock, "Demon Beast! What have you done to Mo?"

"No, that's not right." Cheng Yuan suddenly realized, "So Mo... is a demon beast!"

The monster laughed maniacally; he enjoyed watching humanity's despair, especially this human who had repeatedly surpassed him.

However, the terrified expression the monster had expected didn't appear. Instead, Cheng Yuan's eyes lit up: "Holy crap, that transformation was so cool! No wonder the little monster listened to you so much!"

Demon Beast: "..."

Why is this human's reaction different from what I expected?

Shouldn't they be terrified? Desperate?

"Demon, quickly use the Dark Portal to block the hurricane!" Cheng Yuan had studied the skills of this early mini-boss in Digimon back in the day, and he blurted out one of Demon's signature moves.

As luck would have it, the demonic beast actually raised its hand and waved it the instant he shouted. A jet-black energy gate appeared out of thin air, perfectly blocking the evil hurricane of the Wind Calamity Beast. The moment the two dark energies collided, a chilling hiss erupted.

"Yes! That's it!" Cheng Yuan excitedly slapped the control panel. "Next, use Death Claw!"

Even more coincidentally, Demonmon was in the gap between its skills being on cooldown. A glint flashed in Demonmon's eyes, and its right hand instantly transformed into a huge black energy claw, clamping down on Demonmon with lightning speed.

These were two signature skills that appeared in the animation back then, and Cheng Yuan just happened to shout them out, and the monster used them. It was all such a coincidence.

"Great job, Devil Beast!" Cheng Yuan shouted.

The monster's veins bulged, and it wished it could strangle this noisy fellow.

This damned human not only saw through his moves, but also dared to boss him around like a beast tamer? What's worse, he inexplicably used the skill himself!

It's as if he's directing me!

"Shut up!" the demon beast squeezed out two words from between its teeth, and Death Claw unconsciously increased its pressure, causing the demon beast to let out a painful howl.

What he most wanted to strangle right now wasn't the evil beast, but the noisy little brat in the cockpit.

Just as the demon beast unfurled its Razor Wings, preparing to cleave the Silverhorn beast and its cockpit in two, at the last second, a golden lightning bolt ripped across the battlefield.

[Demon Burial]!

The golden-horned beast was enveloped in violent electric currents, and its spiked club, imbued with destructive energy, slammed down.

"Stay away from my brother!"

The shockwave of [Demon Burial] cracked the ground like a spiderweb, but the dark energy around the demon beast surged like a living thing, completely devouring the power of the thunder.

With its left hand, it parried the Golden Horn Beast's fierce attack, while its right hand, with its Death Claw, gripped the Demon Beast tightly. At the same time, it maintained the Dark Portal to block the evil hurricane of the Wind Calamity Beast, managing to fight against three opponents without being at a disadvantage.

“An ant is just an ant.” The demon beast’s bat wings unfurled in the darkness, its scarlet eyes gleaming with contempt. “A few more would be futile.”

Devimon unleashed a sudden burst of Dark Wave, sending countless black bats whistling out and blasting away all the surrounding Digimon. The nearby Rookie Digimon were instantly crushed into data packets upon impact.

Only the demon beast in his hand was still struggling.

“Finally… finally this moment has arrived…” The demon beast revealed a ferocious smile, activating [Dark Devour], and countless writhing black tentacles surged forth. These tentacles, like living creatures, coiled around the demon beast's neck, corroding its greenish skin into black data.

"Become a part of me!" The demonic beast's grotesque laughter echoed across the battlefield.

The demon beast's bone club clattered to the ground, the heart-wrenching howl abruptly ceased, leaving only the writhing sound of its devouring tentacles.

The demon beast's body could only convulse helplessly, inch by inch disappearing into the demon beast's abdominal cavity.

By absorbing this demon beast, he can complete his evolutionary framework and obtain the key to the path to becoming the Demon King...

Cheng Yuan was thrown back along with Silverhorn. Knowing that Devilmon was no benevolent creature, he exclaimed in alarm upon witnessing the scene, "Oh no! Stop it! Devilmon will evolve after absorbing Demonmon!"

Seppimon and Targetmon immediately launched an attack, but it was too late. Most of Giramon's body had been swallowed by darkness, leaving only its two legs kicking helplessly in the air.

Chapter 58 Dark Evolution

"Boom—"

The dark energy surrounding the demon beast surged forth like a burst dam, instantly uprooting trees within a hundred meters radius.

The torn tree trunks were corroded into black data fragments mid-air, resembling a bizarre black storm.

The body of the demon beast has been completely devoured, turning into countless data streams that surge within its body, reconstructing with its digital core and gradually merging into a completely new digital core.

"Hahaha!" The demon beast laughed wildly, its bat wings fully unfurled, blotting out the sky. "Finally! Finally, this moment has come! The ancient prophecy of Welchner is about to be fulfilled!"

Through the Silverhorn Beast's observation window, which was now cracked into a spiderweb, Cheng Yuan saw a ferocious dark gear emerging from the Demon Beast's chest, spinning wildly.

The gear surface was engraved with ancient digital runes, exuding a suffocatingly evil aura.

“That’s… the Dark Gear?” Cheng Yuan’s pupils contracted sharply. He had seen this thing in the anime before—an evil device that could control other Digimon.

"Woof!" The little dog suddenly curled up in pain, its sacred ring flashing violently. "It hurts so much..."

Cheng Yuan quickly hugged it: "What's wrong?"

Seeing the little dog beast like this, he immediately thought of the scene in the abandoned factory, when the little dog beast suddenly convulsed.

“It…is calling me…” The little dog struggled to lift its head, a glint of black light flashing in its azure eyes.

Cheng Yuan immediately brought up the system interface to check the status of the puppy beast and found that the dark attribute value was soaring at an astonishing rate.

Wealth Value: 291200

Digimon: Puppymon

[Types: Dragon 9, Angel 60, Beast 90... Fallen Angel 50]

[Elements: Holy 3635, Light 3560, Dark 3120, Ice 10...]

[Darkness +15]

[Darkness +18]

[Darkness +20]

[Darkness +18]

……

The growth rate of the Dark attribute is unprecedented, breaking records every few seconds.

Cheng Yuan's heart skipped a beat. No wonder the demon beast had been following them! It turned out that the little dog beast had already had a dark gear implanted inside its body!

He recalled Mo's various unusual behaviors and the occasional abnormal behavior of the little dog beast; everything made sense now.

"Hold on, Silverhorn!" Cheng Yuan shouted to the struggling little dog beast while holding it in his arms. At the same time, his fingers flew across the system interface, continuously adding points to the little dog beast.

Recently, in order to train the puppy beast to become familiar with its own power, Cheng Yuan has not spent too much money on it, except for maintaining the necessary attribute suppression.

Through song subscription fees, reselling data cubes, and coaching fees, he amassed a fortune of up to 29 yuan.

Now is the time to put them to good use!

He was glad that he had always maintained a strategy of allocating points to both the Divine and Light attributes, and had always suppressed the Dark attribute; otherwise, the puppy beast might have been completely corroded by the Dark Gear long ago.

Cheng Yuan maintained a faster rate of increase than the Dark attribute, frantically adding Holy and Light attribute points to the puppy beast.

【財富值271200（-20000），神聖系3735（+100），光系3660（+100）】

After its attributes increased, the puppy seemed to feel a little better, but the dark attribute continued to grow, as if it had been deliberately forced to grow by the demon beast. The light of the sacred ring and the dark energy clashed fiercely within the puppy's body, causing it to whimper in pain.

The situation on the battlefield can change in an instant.

Devimon's dark energy formed a towering black tornado, forcing all Digimon to retreat. Galemon's evil hurricane was child's play before this power, instantly torn to shreds.

"What... what kind of power is this?" The golden-horned beast's spiked club crashed to the ground, its long green hair whipping wildly in the wind.

"Waaah... How terrifying..." The silver-horned beast's voice was choked with sobs, its massive body trembling.

The monster's form began to undergo an astonishing change. Its body, which was already over four meters tall, continued to expand, and the bone spikes on its bat wings became even more ferocious, each one gleaming with a cold, metallic light.