A different kind of digital world adventure

It seems that the World Tree is reasonable, but considering that Daimon Hideaki is Daimon's father, Taichi thinks it would be better to change the World Tree's form.

Thinking this, Taiichi was about to speak, but before he could, he heard the World Tree say something else.

"If you find this face truly blasphemous."

As he spoke, you could see that Daimon Ying's facial features had all turned into blurry pixels. You could make out that it was a face, but you couldn't see any details.

It feels like going from 4K to 40p.

"How about this?"

""

Taiyi turned his head to look at the large gate.

"What do you think, Daimon?"

Daimon Masaru looked left and right and still felt awkward, but after all, Yggdrasil had taken a step back, and considering Kurata Akihiro's past misdeeds, as his captain, being punished for it couldn't be considered taking it out on him. So, in the end, Daimon Masaru sighed.

"so be it."

This was considered a temporary consensus, and then Taiichi looked at the World Tree.

"In that case, let's get down to business—I heard you called us here to reward us?"

"I wonder what kind of award it is?"

"I am very grateful for your contributions to the digital world."

A lifeless voice rang out from Daimon Ying's mouth, and then the World Tree suddenly waved its hand. In the next moment, a cluster of orange-yellow and light blue data codes was materialized by the World Tree.

"This is my reward to you."

With that, World Tree pushed the two bundles of code in its hands in front of Taiichi and Yamato.

"what is this?"

Looking at the code before him, Taiyi made a guess.

"Digital Soul?"

"This is a partial access to the digital world."

The World Tree, without changing its expression, uttered some truly astonishing words.

"They respectively represent the complete authority over the Eastern Forest region and the complete authority over the Northern Volcanic region."

"With this, you can do whatever you want in your respective areas."

The World Tree paused again.

"There is no need to explain to anyone, nor to apply to anyone, including myself."

Then, fearing that the two still didn't understand the importance of this permission, World Tree added some further explanation of its usage.

"For example, you can use this permission to create Digimon at will. As long as you pay a certain price, you can even revive (restore) Digimon that have died (deleted data) from the Dark Area (Recycle Bin)."

"?!"

Upon hearing this, Ahe was immediately startled, and then, looking at the thing in front of him, he was incredibly excited.

If Yamato has any wish, it is definitely to make up for the mistakes he made in the past. In the past, this was to fulfill Mercurymon's last wish, but if he could really be resurrected, Yamato would definitely choose to completely resurrect the Digimon that died because of him, especially Mercurymon!

So Ahe wanted to take over this authority without even thinking about it.

And he did indeed reach out his hand.

Snapped!

But just as they were about to meet, Taiichi suddenly grabbed Aya's wrist.

"Wait a minute, Ah He."

"what are you doing!"

Awa turned his head and glared at Taiichi, his expression almost breathless.

"What a great opportunity! Do you really want to stop me from resurrecting Mercury and the others?"

"You don't want the Digimon to be revived at all? If so, then you are my enemy..."

Taiichi sighed, then said to Awa,

"Ahe, if this continues, I'll have to do what we agreed on before."

""

In short, while it didn't completely calm A-He down, it certainly made him more rational.

"What do you mean?"

"In short, don't be so impatient. Let's find out the details first before talking about anything else."

Taiichi gave Awa a look, not caring whether Awa understood or not, and then turned to gaze at the World Tree.

"This award is indeed quite significant, but I think if we accept it, we'll probably have to live in this place forever?"

"Of course not," the World Tree replied instantly. "Your movements will not be restricted in any way. I understand what you mean; even traveling to other worlds will not be affected at all, except..."

"But you still need to come back here from time to time to take charge of management, right?"

After Taiichi finished speaking about the World Tree, he sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I appreciate your kindness, but I'll pass on this matter. After all, managing a Digital World is just too much trouble. I'm just an elementary school student and I don't have that kind of ability at all."

"To protect the flowers of our motherland, please don't torture me like this."

"Flowers of the motherland? You?"

Zijella?

“As for Awa, I certainly have no right to interfere.” Taiichi turned to look at Awa. “But Awa, do you really want to manage an entire area? You know, even now it’s almost driving you crazy.”

"I..."

"If you want to revive a Digimon, why not just ask Yggdrasil? It's a reward anyway."

"But..." Hearing this, Ahe was clearly tempted, but then he seemed to remember something, and his expression darkened.

"I still need to atone for my sins..."

"There's no need to manage things yourself to atone for your sins. After all, to put it bluntly, with your management style, you might not get a good result even if you work yourself to death."

Taiichi shrugged.

"So I think the best way for you to atone is to revive Mercury and then have you come back here often to help and assist Mercury."

“Hmm…” A-He’s interest became even more obvious. “What you said seems to make a lot of sense.”

"right?"

Taiichi looked at the World Tree,

"What does Your Excellency mean? May we change the reward?"

"Resurrecting deleted data requires enormous computing power and could even damage hardware, causing the entire Digital World to collapse." But who would have thought that the World Tree would actually say this?

"Therefore I cannot agree."

"What did you mean by saying you could revive Digimon at will?"

"That's because you'll have to bear that cost yourselves." Before Yggdrasil could speak, Koushiro spoke first. Seeing everyone looking over, Koushiro shrugged. "It's a very simple principle. Yggdrasil wants to treat Yamato and Taichi as its extensions to share the cost of computing power. Besides, since they have the permissions of the main unit, the extensions can also perform some administrator operations."

"However, that consumes the processing power of the extension itself."

"This sounds a bit like..." Meimei thought for a moment, gesturing wildly, and then described it, "Working for you, and then paying you... something like that?"

"That's obviously inaccurate," Guangzilang corrected. "The correct way to say it is that you'll be working for them, and they'll also..."

I'm incredibly grateful, but I also want you to pay for it.

""

After this summary, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, and then all turned to look at the World Tree.

So this is what kind of award it is?

Even the World Tree side remained unusually silent for a moment before slowly speaking.

"The world has a big problem; computing power is severely insufficient, and it urgently needs help."

"I hope you can help me for the sake of billions of Digimon."

"I'm willing to help, just tell me what difficulties you're facing." Tai Yi looked a little displeased. "But isn't this kind of moral blackmail unnecessary?"

He helps because he is kind, not because it is a necessary obligation. If someone insists on making this his obligation, then he can let the other party know why he is throwing those fists.

"You guys probably figured it out too, right?"

The World Tree did not give up.

"The digital world, not just this one, but all digital worlds, are facing a crisis of collapse."

"No digital world can escape this crisis."

"To survive, one must resort to any means necessary to enhance one's own strength."

"I can unite with your world and form an alliance to meet that terrible challenge together."

The World Tree watched them.

"This is not only for the world, but also for you."

""

Everyone fell silent for a moment upon hearing this, unsure of what to say, and turned to look at Taiyi.

"Exchanges are certainly possible, but they must be based on equality." Taiyi's tone remained calm. "We welcome any friend who wants to communicate with us on an equal footing, but for those who are not so friendly, we may need to reach a more thorough understanding before we can cooperate."

""

Before the World Tree could speak, Taiyi spoke up.

"To be honest, we originally came here to ask some questions."

"I'd like to ask, if some problems arise in the Digital World, how would you solve them?"

"Find the root of the problem, and then eliminate the root of the problem," the World Tree answered without hesitation.

"What if the root cause of this problem cannot be eliminated?"

“Then reset the world and destroy the soil that is the root of it,” the World Tree blurted out.

Upon hearing this answer, Taiichi nodded in understanding.

"That's right, then I understand."

It's confirmed. This guy is actually the same type as the World Tree we knew before.

Or it could simply be a replica of the World Tree without encountering the Dire Demon.

In that case, Tai's desire to continue communicating with Yggdrasil diminishes considerably. It seems he can't rely on Yggdrasil for resurrection, as he certainly wouldn't accept such demanding conditions. So, he'll have to find his own way. Although Tai feels that the Omegamon formed from their combined form definitely possesses such an ability, this is ultimately just a gut feeling. If it really doesn't work, Tai will have to think of other methods...

It's not that there's no way. To put it bluntly, it's about rescuing people from the Dark Zone, which means going down to extremely deep areas where Digimon shouldn't exist at all. That's one danger. Another is that it requires extremely high computing power to rewrite this data. Considering the huge number of people, the computing power required is absolutely astronomical. Even Taiichi can't say for sure if he can afford such a huge amount of computing power.

Furthermore, descending to such a low level requires certain permissions, and we probably need to discuss this with the World Tree.

Things are quite complicated, but there's still a way.

Thinking this, Taiichi looked at Aya and asked,

"What are your thoughts, Ahe?"

"I..."

Ahe stared at the access permissions before him, remaining silent for a long while.

"If I wanted to revive all the Digimon, could I do that with my computing power?"

“Almost impossible.”

Koushiro did some calculations from the side.

"Based on the computing power you've demonstrated so far, you might not even be able to revive all the Digimon, let alone all the Ultimate Digimon."

"But if it transforms into Omegamon, based on my previous observations, it should be able to handle that situation."

"In that case, I think we should hold off for now, go back and practice our fusion first, and then make other plans after we've trained Omegamon."

Taiyi then made another suggestion.