A different kind of digital world adventure

It resembles MetalGarurumon in appearance, but its steel wings on its back have been replaced by a huge energy cannon. Its entire body exudes a ferocious aura, like a doomsday vehicle. Upon its birth, it immediately and without hesitation unleashed a cannon shot forward.

"Ultimate Crossbow Cannon!"

The target of the final bowgun is not any of the royal knights, but the one in the very center who is also the easiest to hit.

world Tree!

"!"

Just as this seemingly ordinary blue beam was about to approach the World Tree, the World Tree suddenly became alert. It seemed that the power of this beam possessed some ability to dismantle its own data, which made the World Tree immediately take countermeasures without hesitation.

As the ground rumbled, countless crystals suddenly rose from the ground, transforming into a magnificent crystal forest around the World Tree. The next moment, all the crystals began to shoot outwards, instantly forming a net around the World Tree, blocking the blue light cannon's path from all directions.

This is a crystallized water droplet with a radius of twenty kilometers!

These crystals are a substance materialized by the World Tree through its authority in the Digital World. They possess the ability to transform into any substance and are essentially a concrete manifestation of its management authority. Currently, they can be seen as a versatile offensive and defensive tactic of the World Tree, capable of both defending against and assimilating the opponent's attacks, and launching targeted attacks with maximum restraint after analysis.

It can be said to be an extremely powerful move.

However, when this move comes into contact with the Light Cannon of the Endless Garurumon, it can be seen that all the crystals are only neutralizing the power of the Light Cannon, but they are completely unable to merge with the Light Cannon. There is something in this seemingly ordinary Light Cannon that the World Tree cannot analyze, and it is this thing that allows this attack to cause considerable damage to the World Tree.

However, although it could not analyze it, the World Tree understood its true nature immediately.

Before a true god, the ruler of a digital world, what is there that such a being cannot control?

The answer is something that exists beyond this world.

For example, human emotions, or perhaps, the administrative authority of another world.

In fact, Yggdrasil sensed both of these things from the aura of Endogarurus.

It's truly unbelievable that a human, especially one who has remained stable under my constant surveillance for so long, could gain partial access to the digital world in such a short time. How... did they manage to do that?

After much thought, the only variable is Taichi Yagami, who appears from somewhere else.

Although these people seem to belong to the same place, the most unique one among them is still Yagami Taichi.

He not only catalyzed his own partner, but also likely had a significant impact on his companions to varying degrees.

However, this effect is not obvious in other people, but it is more obvious in A-He.

In a way, this can be considered a unique characteristic of friendship badges.

Badge... Joy/Yi Er Yin San. Neon Jiu Liu San Er.

World Tree's thoughts drifted back to the badge.

Are these so-called badges really some kind of evolutionary machine created by the digital world by imitating human emotions?

Yggdrasil is also a manager, and because it is a manager, it is even clearer that if the so-called crests are really just some kind of evolution machine created by the Digital World, then it is basically impossible for Digimon to have multiple forms. After all, the amount of data that a Digimon can carry is limited. If a Digimon evolves into a certain form, especially after reaching the Ultimate level, the resources consumed to transform into other forms are at least twice as many as those consumed to evolve into the first form.

However, whether it's Taiichi or Yamato, everyone can perfectly achieve form transformation without any loss. Such a machine... the World Tree simply cannot create.

So the World Tree had been considering why this situation was happening. After observing Yamato for many years, the World Tree had actually come up with a hypothesis, and the appearance of Taichi and the others confirmed the correctness of its hypothesis.

That is, these badges are not actually a representation of human emotions, but rather a representation of certain prominent emotions among these teenagers.

These badges are evolutionary devices tailor-made for these children.

What's special isn't the badges, but these children.

In other words, without these badges, these boys could still evolve their Digimon, it would just be a little more complicated, but without these boys, these badges would never have been created.

Badges are accessories for children, carrying all their emotions. However, some emotions stand out more, which is why a badge of courage represents courage and a badge of love represents love.

However, this does not mean that they have no other emotions besides courage. Just as honesty has a courageous side and knowledge has a pure side, these emotions can also be expressed by the badge. It's just that all the emotions are unified under a more prominent emotion, so what is outwardly expressed is still a specific, single emotion.

It was only after confirming this that the World Tree was so eager to obtain these guys.

He didn't know how these humans came to be, or how their Digital World discovered them. The World Tree didn't really care about those things. He only knew that these priceless treasures discovered by other Digital Worlds were now within his own territory.

It's like a gay guy seeing a stunningly beautiful dung beetle in a certain situation; no matter what, he'd never let it go!

I must have you all!!

boom!

The World Tree has begun to go berserk.

Endless crystals rose from the ground, instantly forming a massive crystal light screen around the World Tree. The Endorphin Light Cannon was immediately blocked when it struck this screen. No matter how much Endorphin tried to increase its power, it could not make any progress. In the next moment, these crystals suddenly transformed into countless particles and were released outwards. In the blink of an eye, they reached Endorphin and formed a huge crystal a hundred meters in size in front of it, crashing into Endorphin like a meteorite.

Upon seeing this, Endogarurus immediately unleashed its full power attack on the giant crystal. It could be seen that many craters were indeed blasted into the crystal, but it did not shatter into pieces and continued to approach Endogarurus.

Upon seeing this, Ahe immediately wanted to retreat and advance, but the World Tree had already anticipated this idea. So, at the moment he looked back, he could see that a huge crystal, about a hundred meters in size, had appeared behind him at some unknown time.

Not only that, but there were also huge crystals approaching Ahe from all sides, above, below, and to the left and right.

Even if Endogarurus now has the ability to cut down trees, its size is still what it is. As long as it attacks with almost infinite data regardless of the cost, Endogarurus still cannot do anything to Yggdrasil!

He is now about to capture both Nururu and Awa!

boom!

But the World Tree did not succeed, because just as the crystal cage was about to close, a giant sword suddenly appeared from the sky and fell into the crystal cage at high speed. It then pierced through both Yamato and Dojuro, and with its enormous kinetic energy, it forcibly carried the two through the crystal, breaking through the crystal's restraints in an almost tragic way.

Outside the crystal cage, Taiichi broke through the Royal Knights' encirclement and waited at the cage's edge. After the Dragon Beast Shattered Sword emerged with Endogarurus, he quickly put Endogarurus down. Before Endogarurus could react, the power of fate activated, sacrificing his own injury to erase Yamato's injured fate. Then, the terrifying gash on Endogarurus's body visibly disappeared.

At the same time, VictoryGreymon's aura visibly weakened.

"Are you alright, Ahe?"

Taiichi didn't care about this, but asked Awa how he was doing.

""

As for Yamato, he was completely stunned. Tai's movements had been incredibly fast. Yamato had only just begun to feel pain when it completely vanished, causing him to experience phantom pain instead. However, upon seeing the huge gash on VictoryGreymon's body, Yamato swallowed his words and instead asked with concern,

"Putting me aside... are you alright?"

"Me? Oh, I'm fine."

Taiichi shrugged nonchalantly.

"These are just minor injuries, they'll be fine in a bit."

As it spoke, VictoryGreymon's entire body glowed, and the huge hole in its chest disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even its armor was repaired to look brand new.

The World Tree has undergone so many repairs, and although there's no way to stop it, it's normal that Taiichi has learned a thing or two from it.

""

Seeing this, Ahe was speechless for a long time, finally looking at the assembled royal knights.

"Let's deal with the immediate problem first."

"Hmm." Taiichi didn't understand Yamato's silence, and even if he did, he wouldn't care. He looked up at the Royal Knights in the sky, who were beginning to gather their strength again, and suddenly said to Yamato.

“Ahe, you’re not yet proficient in using the ultimate form of Nugaruru, so you can’t unleash its true power. So follow my movements, and let’s move quickly together.”

"Row."

Ahe nodded immediately.

"Just go ahead and do it, I'll definitely be able to keep up with you."

"Ok."

"Then let's go."

With that, VictoryGreymon performed a sword flourish in mid-air, and the next moment it transformed into a streak of light, charging upwards.

"Trident Gaia!"

Seeing this, Endogarurumon followed suit, mimicking VictoryGreymon's movements, transforming into a streak of light and charging towards the Royal Knights, simultaneously unleashing their strongest attacks.

"Ultimate Crossbow Cannon!"

boom!

Two beams of light, one red and one blue, began to converge in mid-air in a double helix pattern. After countless helixes, they completely merged into a single beam of pure white light. The moment this beam appeared, all the Royal Knights felt as if a world had been created. Immediately, they responded in unison. Under the command of Knightlordmon and Aromon, all the Royal Knights began to unleash their attacks methodically. Under the cover of Magnamon's power, the energy of all the Royal Knights achieved a basic level of harmony. Then, under the power of Knightlordmon and Aromon, they began to merge with each other. It was as if they were building a cannon. All the Royal Knights' attacks were the components of this cannon. These components could, of course, also be used as melee or firearms. And when the cannon was fully formed, it could unleash a terrifying power thousands of times stronger than any of its components combined!

air!

Thus, a pure black sun gradually took shape above the heads of Aromamon and Knightlordmon under their command. Then, this sun appeared at the tip of Omegamon's sword, which had the strongest control over it, and Omegamon would unleash the most powerful attack of all the Royal Knights.

You could see that Omegamon's armor was vibrating constantly, clearly indicating that controlling the black sun was already putting a strain on it. Omegamon didn't dare to hesitate any longer and immediately locked onto the stream of light rushing towards Mina. The next moment, Omegamon swung down without hesitation.

Swah——

Black and white collided in an instant.

All particles were annihilated in an instant, and even existing concepts were shattered. At this moment, people seemed to hear the lament of matter and see the disappearance of color.

All five senses were completely disordered at this moment!

After an unknown amount of time, the chaotic feeling gradually subsided. As their minds regained a little rationality, the group finally remembered that they were in the middle of a battlefield. So they immediately looked up at the main battle area and saw that both VictoryGreymon's side and the Royal Knights' side were in tatters. Not only were there no clean spots on their bodies, but three of their limbs had even been broken!

But the next second, the green light on the other side and the golden light on Taiyi's side flashed at the same time, and then both sides seemed to recover quickly as if time had reversed. The next moment, with a loud shout from Taiyi, the two sides began to collide fiercely again.

The two sides then engaged in fierce combat.

Then, as time went by, it became clear that the scales of victory were gradually tipping in Taiichi's favor.

The key lies with Yamato—because the gap between Yamato and Taichi is quite large now. So, in order not to hold Taichi back, Yamato is desperately trying to keep up with Taichi's actions. Then, under the crazy output of the Friendship Badge, Yamato's power began to expand dramatically, directly soaring from being several levels behind Taichi to being about the same level as Taichi.

Although the power surged so rapidly that even with the Badge of Friendship, Yamato struggled to control such immense strength, his current size still meant that even a Taiichi struggling to control his power was still just one Taiichi. And if one Taiichi could hold his own against these Royal Knights, then two Taiichi... would naturally send the Royal Knights flying!

Seeing the decline of the Royal Knights, World Tree did not hesitate to place a heavy bet on it.

Boom boom boom!

A large amount of crystals kept pouring out, making the World Tree itself seem to dim a degree. Then, countless crystals could be seen fusing inward, forming a humanoid mechanical body in the blink of an eye.

[Etrian Odyssey 7d6, Ultimate]

This is the World Tree's manifested body, its most powerful offensive weapon. The fact that it has displayed this means that the World Tree has unleashed its strongest power.

At the same time, they also put their last trump card on the table.

Click...

At the very moment World Tree 7d6 appeared, within the area sealed off by World Tree, in a corner that no one noticed.

The shadows cast by the reflected sunlight suddenly began to writhe as if they were alive.

Then, suddenly, a scarlet eye opened.

Now... is the opportunity.

The next moment, you can see this shadow silently approaching the battlefield.

Nobody noticed this thing.

Apart from...

"What is this stuff?"

Daimon noticed the shadow that looked like maggots moving around below. He couldn't figure out what it was, but he quickly made a judgment.

"This is clearly a trick by the World Tree!"

"RiseGreymon, fire a shot at it!"

"Okay, big brother!"

Chapter 318 Changing Fate

"Leap Destroyer Cannon!"

As if to say "give this thing a good beating," RiseGreymon unleashed its strongest attack to date at the shadowy figure. The shadowy figure hadn't expected to be discovered, especially since it was on a battlefield amidst the roar of artillery fire. It didn't realize that RiseGreymon's target was itself, which is why it was already hit by artillery fire by the time it realized something was wrong.

With a loud bang, the area was covered in sand and dust. When the dust settled, Daimon saw that there was nothing there. The dark figure had vanished without a trace, as if it had been directly blasted to pieces by Daimon.

That was what Daimon Masaru initially thought, but he intuitively felt that something was wrong. This made Daimon Masaru shift his attention, but not completely. He was still scanning the area out of the corner of his eye. After a few seconds, he indeed found that two dark figures had suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the ruins.

Now that Daimon Masaru was certain that the shadowy figure was indeed alright, and that the situation seemed even more serious than he had thought, he gave a wink to RisingGreymon. The two pretended not to notice what was happening and quietly approached the other side. Then, once again, when the other side was unaware, RisingGreymon fired a shot at the shadowy figure. Immediately afterward, Daimon Masaru leaped up to the shadowy figure and, regardless of whether it had a physical form or not, punched it hard.

Suddenly, Daimon felt as if his right hand had been smashed into a rice cake, but unlike the stuffy heat inside the rice cake, Daimon felt an extreme chill, so cold that even Daimon's constitution, which was not afraid of heat or cold, could not help but shiver twice.

He wasn't sure if the punch had any effect, but after the punch was thrown, Daimon Daiyin vaguely felt that the "mass" of the shadow seemed to have lightened a bit.

This undoubtedly proved that his punches were effective. However, before Daimon could put them into action, an irresistible force lifted Daimon up by the hand and himself. The next moment, Daimon was slammed to the ground. In addition, a large number of shadow tentacles could be seen wrapped around the body of the RisingGreymon. These things were like nooses, trying to strangle the RisingGreymon to death!

What's even more surprising is that none of the things happening on Daimon's side were noticed by anyone else.

It's like how Daimon Masaru and Taiichi are now on two different layers.