Digital Hackers' Memories

At the same time, Agumon, who was escaping through the sewers, felt a sudden tremor as the surrounding dome collapsed and crashed down.

Fortunately, Agumon dodged in time and avoided being crushed to death by the falling rocks.

tumultuous!

However, this "luck" did not last long, because at the very moment the sewer system collapsed, a white light hotter than the sun rushed into it.

Everything that came into contact with this white light was crystallized by the high temperature it contained.

Stone or steel...

Even the Digimon hiding in the sewers became victims of this white light.

[Nuclear explosion?!]

Surrounded by this white light, Agumon could feel his skin being burned.

Even with his current physique, he was powerless to resist this white light that could destroy everything, let alone those weak, filthy digital beasts.

With just a flash of white light, the digital beast had almost completely cleaned up the filth and debris in the sewer system.

Apart from the Digimon that were lucky enough to be on the edge of the white light, no creature could escape the sweep of this destructive white light, just as nothing can outrun sunlight.

The only saving grace is that Agumon, having been strengthened by the Dragon Factor and had its latent power activated, is now able to barely resist the erosion of this white light.

"This was actually a nuclear explosion?!"

Despite the excruciating pain of his body being burned, Agumon, though unable to see his current appearance, could understand his predicament.

If this is truly a nuclear explosion, then even if I am currently deep underground, some unknown depths, then...

The energy carrying such a massive amount of radiation was enough to kill him; it was just a matter of time.

"Does the Steel Empire even possess such weapons of mass destruction?"

Agumon wasn't sure if his guess was correct, but he knew that even if the explosion wasn't a nuclear bomb, it was probably very close.

"An abnormal individual has been detected. Prepare to initiate the arrest procedure..."

Just as Agumon was slowly getting up from the ground, a mechanical voice, seemingly disturbed by the white light, suddenly came from behind him.

"A lingering ghost..."

Agumon couldn't help but glance back at the collapsed tunnel and sighed helplessly.

Because the newcomer was none other than the same metal dragon beast from before.

The metal dragon beast, which had arrived in the sewers seemingly affected by the white light, appeared somewhat dazed and dull.

However, apart from that, the actual combat power of this metal dragon beast was not weakened too much.

While MetalGreymon's Giga Destroyer Cannon is indeed a "strategic" weapon of mass destruction, that's about all it can do.

After all, Agumon is currently in the "Digital World," which is based on data, rather than the "Material World," which is based on atoms.

In this world of data, nuclear-level bombs, aside from their immense scale and wide reach, cannot cause any real damage to a fully-fledged entity.

Especially the fully-formed ones that are not the targets of the attack, they are capable of surviving the blast wave of the Giga Destruction Cannon.

Just like the MetalGreymon in front of Agumon, its armor made of Chrono Digizoid completely shielded it from the aftershocks of the explosion.

Fortunately, while MetalGreymon was able to withstand the impact of the aftershocks, the other Guardian Beasts were unable to survive, which prevented Agumon from being surrounded.

"Well, actually it's not much better now."

Slowly turning around, Agumon muttered to himself, his skin still burning like fire.

Even without the guardian beasts chasing and blocking them, a Perfect-level MetalGreymon is not something that a mere Rookie-level Agumon can handle.

Perhaps Agumon could choose to do what it did before: split its data again to create a mini-Piccolo, and then use it to evolve into the White Flamemon form.

However, Agumon also knew that as long as he could not ignite the anger within him, even if he evolved into Whiteflamemon, he would have no chance of winning.

At this stage, the only one capable of dealing with MetalGreymon is Ashuramon, which is also at the Ultimate level.

"So here's the question! How do I get myself angry?"

In fact, Agumon's inner emotions are very complicated right now. There is resentment, annoyance, regret, and excitement, but not anger.

Or to be more precise, Agumon isn't without anger, but rather it lacks the feeling of being angry to the extreme.

The last anger was due to Renamon X's self-sacrifice, the oppression of Emperormon, and the extreme anger suppressed by Whiteflamemon itself.

However, since Renamon X was not present this time, Agumon felt more frustrated and helpless at the appearance of MetalGreymon.

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"The abnormal individual has been identified, and an arrest operation is underway."

It didn't take long for MetalGreymon to reconnect to the internal network and learn about everything that was happening on the ground.

However, MetalGreymon had no intention of returning to the ground to fight—because that was not its mission.

For the MetalGreymon, whose artificial digital core was branded with a thought imprint, Gennai's command was the supreme order that transcended everything.

Don't tell me you haven't received orders to return to the ground and participate in the war.

Even if it did receive such an order, as long as its priority does not exceed "capturing abnormal individuals", MetalGreymon will not waver in the slightest.

boom! boom! boom!

With almost no delay, the MetalGreymon, now back to normal, immediately launched its attack.

Amidst the relentless stomping that year, the already precarious sewer unsurprisingly became even more dangerous.

All sorts of random things fell from the dome, each falling item carrying a tremendous impact.

MetalGreymon itself was fine; its powerful dragon body and tough Digi-alloy shell meant it didn't need to worry about the giant stone blocks that could fall at any moment.

In any case, as long as the strength does not reach a certain level, MetalGreymon has an almost invincible attribute of being immune to all attacks.

In contrast, even though Agumon's size swelled to nearly three meters due to the injection of the Dragon Factor, he still couldn't ignore the giant boulders falling from the sky.

Not to mention that the previous white light had also severely injured Agumon, causing its body to constantly suffer intense burning pain.

In this situation, Agumon doesn't need to consider the possibility of a counterattack until he can figure out a way to protect himself.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Earth Tyrannosaurus Beast

"I just can't get angry!"

As MetalGreymon drew ever closer, Agumon knew his last-minute attempt to evolve back into Asuramon was doomed.

"Homeostasis, if you really summoned me here, you wouldn't just watch me die here, would you?!"

Unwilling to sit idly by and wait for death, Agumon roared and charged at MetalGreymon while enduring the excruciating pain in its body.

Of course, Agumon wasn't courting death.

Because, as he himself said, if it is indeed constancy that has drawn him into this world, then He must also be watching over him at all times.

Just as He appears in time to help the chosen children in every crisis.

In this world of data, constancy may seem to exist nowhere, but in reality, it is everywhere.

The only question now is whether I have truly been summoned by homeostasis.

"I hate gambling with my life! But I hate dying in this inexplicable place even more!"

Roaring at the top of his lungs, Agumon leaped from the ground, and a dazzling light suddenly burst forth from his body.

That was the evolutionary program at work, the "Light of Evolution" written by Agumon using Mimi's innocent data.

Just like when he evolved from Agumon into Agumon, he was on the verge of despair and had no choice but to risk evolving again.

Moreover, this time, since there was no Piccolo as a "buffer," the evolution process ran directly on Agumon's Digicore.

This also means that if Agumon exhibits more innocent and feminine evolutionary characteristics again, he will have no choice but to accept his fate of potentially evolving into Lilimon in the future.

After all, compared to life and death, the future direction of evolution can indeed be considered later.

In contrast, Agumon is now more worried about whether its evolved Champion form will possess greater power than Whiteflamemon.

Or perhaps, Agumon was betting that homeostasis was still watching him, betting that the "Dragonmon power" he had sensed from the Digcore was real.

That dragon factor from the original Greymon, that primal and ferocious wild power...

Agumon - Evolution...

With powerful "Dragon Data" at its core, the digital core within Agumon's body began to rapidly compile and reorganize.

Undoubtedly, Agumon, possessing a strong dragon gene, immediately grew the horns and skull characteristic of Greymon.

That's not just a simple defensive hardening of the skin, but an "aggressive" organ that evolved by incorporating data from beetle-type Digimon.

Just like real beetles, the pheromones secreted from the surface of its skin not only give Tyrannosaurus a hard exoskeleton, but also allow these exoskeletons to grow ferocious giant horns.

When necessary, even if Greymon loses all its means of attack, it can still launch a frenzied attack on the enemy with only its head remaining.

After its aggressive horns and carapace gradually took shape, Agumon's body began to expand rapidly, as if being filled with water.

The abundant dragon factor made Agumon, which was already very large, even larger, and in the blink of an eye, it broke through the size limit of a normal Greymon.

Four meters, five meters, six meters...

As Agumon's size expanded and grew to gigantic, his Digicore seemed unable to withstand such a massive data turnover, showing signs of instability.

However, just as Agumon had hoped, homeostasis finally made its move at this moment.

The fleeting light that had appeared earlier surged out once more from the depths of the Digicore, stabilizing Agumon's massive growth.

Moreover, after a brief pause, the light seemed to consciously travel throughout Agumon's body, helping him activate some data that had not yet appeared in this Digital World.

That's data about the earth and fire, and also the evolutionary path that Agumon inherited from its predecessors.

—GroundGreymon!

boom!

As soon as this unusual Tyrannosaurus appeared, it clasped its claws together with the MetalGiant, pushed off the ground with its hind legs, and assumed a "wrestling" posture that tested its strength the most.

This is not a regular Greymon, but a more aggressive form of EarthGreymon, a subspecies of Greymon that could only possibly appear in the "future".

Compared to the ordinary EarthGreymon, this EarthGreymon has one more obvious difference besides its larger and more robust body – the color of its skin and claws.

Both Greymon and EarthGreymon have normal pale yellow skin.

However, this EarthGreymon, which evolved from Agumon, inherited the unique blue and white skin color of its pre-evolution form.

Just like those albino tigers, the main body of the EarthGreymon is still white, with only occasional sky-blue stripes on other parts of its body.

Moreover, unlike the typical Gripen Gripen's claws, which are more decorative than functional, this Gripen Gripen's claws are emitting an unusual light, seemingly suppressing the power of MetalGreymon.

It was precisely because of the effect of these white claws that EarthGreymon was able to fight to a standstill against Ultimate MetalGreymon in a head-on confrontation, even in its Champion form.

"Dragon Factor Restraint Program detected. Requesting the use of 'Giga Destruction Cannon Type II'..."

As EarthGreymon's opponent, MetalGreymon immediately realized that its power was being weakened.

Or more precisely, it was the dragon beast power within his body that was being absorbed by those white claws, which caused him to be suppressed by a Champion-level Digimon.

In fact, if MetalGreymon hadn't already completed its mechanization and had most of its body structure metallized, it would probably be in a much worse situation than just being suppressed.

"Trying to flip the table? No way!"

With its muscles suddenly tensing and bulging, EarthGreymon, having heard MetalGreymon speak, had no intention of letting the other party have its way, and directly slammed a headbutt into the other party's head.

bump!

With a loud crash, the two enormous dragon beasts simultaneously released their grip, each shaking its head and taking a step back.

However, the Earth Tyrannomon, whose head was protected by a few layers of armor, recovered from its dizziness first and immediately gathered a highly concentrated pale white flame in its mouth.

—Overload Flame Super Blast!

The Overload Flame, powerful enough to destroy everything, is gathered and compressed in its mouth, unleashing a terrifying burst capable of destroying a Perfect-level form in an instant—this is the ultimate move of EarthGreymon after its evolution.

Boom!

As if awakened by the destructive white flames, the MetalGreymon, which had always acted like a machine, instinctively took a step back.

The next moment, its body was completely engulfed in the white flames of the EarthGreymon.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Potential to Become the "Strongest"

Silence!

Just as the overloaded flames completely destroyed the MetalGiantmon and continued to spread outwards.