Digital Hackers' Memories

In the blink of an eye, the already towering white flame beast had transformed into a colossus, a magnificent colossus that almost touched the ceiling of the subway station.

boom!

With another punch thrown, the white flame beast, having chosen to push its power to the limit, went berserk once again, unsurprisingly!

"A foolish brute..."

Even when faced with a fist as big as itself, the Lilac Beast maintained its haughty and aloof demeanor.

"The gap between the fully evolved and mature stages cannot be bridged by willpower alone!"

"Moreover, I am not your average complete form."

Before he finished speaking, a faintly fragrant pollen gushed out from the sleeve of the Lilac Beast, and then spread along the flames of the White Flame Beast like a living thing, quickly enveloping his entire body.

puff!

In the next instant, the raging flames turned into a faint flame.

The White Flame Beast, the main target of the Lilac Beast's attack, was transformed into a lilac flower.

Yes, thanks to the "pollen" from the Lilac Beast, the White Flame Beast actually turned into a lilac flower that was no bigger than the palm of your hand.

If it weren't for the fact that the ground around them was still scorched by the flames, one would never have been able to imagine the white flame beast's incredible power, judging solely from the harmless appearance of the lilac flower.

"Battles are never just about head-on clashes, especially for 'mages'."

There was no joy in defeating a powerful enemy, because in the eyes of the Lilac Beast, the White Flame Beast was not even considered a strong one.

For creatures like these that only know how to increase their strength, the Lilac Beast has a million ways to teach them what "wisdom" is.

The sorcery of turning enemies into lilac flowers is merely the simplest and most convenient of them all.

Chapter 58 World Tree - Yggdrasil

"Mage?"

Just as Lilacmon was about to continue modifying Renamon X's Digicore, a voice filled with suppressed anger suddenly came from the lilac flower.

"If simply replacing the 'shell data' makes someone a mage..."

"Then all hackers in the world would be 'mages'!"

A sudden burst of flames ignited the lilac blossoms, and the figure of the white fire beast was "reborn" in the raging flames.

Using lilac flowers as fuel, and an overloaded flame as the carrier...

A tenth of a second later, the white flame beast that had disappeared reappeared in the flames.

As the fire spread, the white flame beast gradually returned to its original height.

—Hacking Skills: Backup and Restore!

The White Flame Beast was able to regenerate so quickly by restoring the disordered data to the state it was at the time of the last backup.

"He's a hacker?"

Seeing the white flame beast reappear, the lilac beast showed a rare expression of surprise.

Because breaking his own transformation technique was not as simple as the other party said; otherwise, Lilac Beast wouldn't have been able to disguise itself as a human for so long without being discovered.

However, this also makes it possible for Lilacmon to understand Renamon X's various "abnormalities".

If this white Flamemon is indeed an alternative Digimon like itself, skilled in magic (programming), then Renamon X's ability to access Digiwaves and even digitize is not difficult to understand.

Here, Lilacmon is unaware that Renamon X is the one who truly excels in magic. The reason she can so easily bewitch her is purely because she wins by taking things by surprise.

In contrast, Chen Ze used legitimate hacking software.

Although both involve manipulating data, they differ greatly in the details.

"So what if I'm a hacker? I am the true, complete version."

As he spoke, the Lilac Beast waved its sleeve once more, and the enormous Philosopher's Stone immediately emitted a dazzling light.

rumbling...

Under the illumination of this radiant light, the previously shattered barrier instantly reformed.

This time, the Lilac Beast's barrier is no longer a simple defensive barrier, but a special barrier that combines both defensive and offensive attributes.

Click...

It resembles a thousand-petaled lotus in full bloom, or a blood-red flower blooming in full glory on the other side of the river.

The moment the enormous barrier enveloped the white flame beast, its interior began to rapidly differentiate and reconstruct, evolving into almost infinite variables.

—Barrier Technique: Manjusaka!

Humans, hell, hungry ghosts, animals, celestial beings, asuras...

Multiple barriers, though of the same origin, are distinct in their own way, depicting a mysterious pattern formed by countless mandala designs.

It was a complex concentric circle, inlaid with mandala patterns of various shapes, seemingly evolving into a scene of the six realms of reincarnation, firmly locking the white flame beast within it.

"what?!"

Suddenly widening its eyes, the white flame beast, locked in layers of barriers, could only watch helplessly as the figures of Lilac Beast and Fox Beast X receded further and further away from it.

Or more precisely, the white flame beast itself is being compressed and banished by this complex barrier, which creates the illusion that the other party is gradually moving away.

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Where...is this place?

Unaware of the White Flame Beast's current predicament, the unconscious Rei-Fox Beast X felt as if it had only been a momentary lapse in consciousness before finding itself in endless darkness.

This is an endless darkness, and at the very bottom of this darkness stands a giant tree that also seems to have no end.

Its roots run deep into the abyss, its canopy supports the sky, and its branches spread in the darkness...

[Yuktrasil...]

In just a moment, the fox spirit X instinctively recognized "It" as its identity.

Yggdrasil, also known as the World Tree.

He is the true ruler of the Digimon...

He is the being that the royal knights protect...

At the same time, it is also the main unit that manages the digital world...

Theoretically speaking, the World Tree is the god of the Digital World. When the Digital World is about to enter a "mistake", it will actively intervene and adjust its future direction.

However, this does not mean that the World Tree is the sole ruler of the Digital World.

Beyond the Digital World ruled by the World Tree, there also exist Digital Worlds composed of other servers, each possessing a supreme being similar to the World Tree.

However, none of the above has much to do with Reijumon X right now.

Since the moment Yggdrasil appeared, Renamon X has felt that its Digicore has undergone some kind of mutation.

Having had a similar experience during her time at Mitsuoka, she immediately realized the positive change happening to her—digitalization!

It is not an imperfect "pseudo-protein program" like the Lilac Beast, but a truly digital system without any side effects, capable of arbitrarily converting between data, energy, and entities.

During the Hikari Hill incident, due to Mostimon's intervention, Renamon X "mistakenly" logged into the real human world.

What happened in between is beyond her current understanding.

The only thing Renamon X knew was that Mostimon must have had some unknown program implanted into its Digicore, which gave it the ability to "digitize".

In fact, before returning to this world, Renamon X always thought that "digitization" was a very simple thing.

After all, even a digital egg can be digitized, so it seems quite normal for someone with outstanding talent to complete this process "independently."

However, after returning to this world, Renamon X was shocked to discover that the reason she was able to Digivolve in Hikari Hill was entirely because Mostimon had tampered with her Digicore beforehand.

This truth certainly dealt a blow to Renamon X's confidence, but it also made her realize that there might be some unknown code hidden within her Digicore.

Although these codes may lose their original effect due to differences between worlds.

But as long as I can find those codes and rewrite them into a "protein-like program" suitable for this world, it will be a natural progression.

At the very least, compared to Chen Ze's unorthodox digitalization method of "turning oneself into a Digimon," Renamon X's approach is more suitable for her.

However, to Renamon X's utter surprise, before it could even find the code hidden within its own Digicore, Lilacmon suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

More importantly, it seems that the "pseudoprotein program" of the Lilac Beast has activated the record within its digital core?

So, what exactly does this 'World Tree' mean?

Half-asleep, half-awake, only one question occupied the mind of the fox spirit X.

Why is He in my digital core?

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PS: Monthly pass 37/200, blade 23/200.

Chapter 59 Dimensional Reduction Attack

When White Flamemon's body stopped shrinking, he had already been banished to an unknown "Digital Space" by Lilacmon.

This is not a real digital space, but a temporary barrier that Lilacmon temporarily built using its knowledge to imitate the real digital space.

Within this barrier, everything exists in its smallest form.

Here, even a speck of dust is as large as a planet, let alone the Digimon that Lilacmon banished here.

"Is this the power of a fully evolved being?"

Never before had the white flame beast felt the difference so clearly. It thought that even the stubborn beast's fleeting display of fire god power was probably nothing more than this.

Moreover, compared to pure power suppression, the magic barrier of the Lilac Beast is much more mysterious.

If it were an ordinary Digimon, let alone breaking through such a strange barrier, even simply understanding its current predicament would be extremely difficult.

Fortunately, this "ordinary Digimon" does not include White Flamemon, because in addition to being a Digimon, he is also a hacker proficient in network technology.

From the perspective of a professional hacker, the magical barrier of the Lilac Beast is indeed amazing, but if you ignore its "unscientific" elements, it is not difficult to understand.

"Algorithm compression? Or was a separate virtual environment created?"

Just like the compression software commonly used on the Internet, the Lilac Beast simply packages and compresses the data "White Flame Beast.sms" into a compressed file such as "White Flame Beast.zip".

Considering that the white flame beast did not seem to notice any damage to its data, this compression should be lossless.

Otherwise, the Digimon's Digicore would not allow such a program to run, allowing its own data to be deconstructed and compressed.

As for virtual environments?

That's even simpler. It's nothing more than the Lilac Beast using the power of the Philosopher's Stone to create an infinitely realistic "environmental system" around the White Flame Beast.

This is similar to a virtual machine on a computer. Computer software creates a virtual image by simulating the functions of a complete hardware system and generating an existing operating system.

Install and run software, save user data, have your own independent desktop...

Apart from the firmware, which has no physical form, this image system has the same functionality as the real system, and all operations can be performed within this completely new and independent virtual system.

Once you have a general understanding of these two concepts, you will have an "aha!" moment when you see the various magical spells of the Lilac Beast.

In a sense, human hackers who stand at a higher dimension can actually "cast" spells far more wondrous than those of the Lilac Beast.

After all, besides software programs stored in computers, another major advantage of humans is their ability to modify physical hardware in the real world.

This is something that most Digimon cannot do—dimensional ascension.

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"No, the Lilac Beast used both of these methods at the same time!"

After a brief simulation, the white flame beast realized that it was receiving "top-level" treatment.

While compressing White Flamemon's data, Lilacmon also banished itself to a fictional digital space...

In this way, even if White Flamemon intends to use the computing power of its own digital core to forcibly crack Lilacmon's compression algorithm, this fictional digital space will collapse and self-destruct due to the data overflow at that moment.

“I hate these meticulous ‘villains’.”

Suppressing his inner anxiety, the flames on the white fire beast involuntarily flickered.

In fact, even without the second layer of protection from the "Digital Space," White Flame Beast didn't think it could decipher Lilac Beast's compression algorithm.

Because the compression algorithm of the Lilac Beast... is actually dynamic!

Simply put, if the White Flame Beast wants to brute-force crack this compression algorithm, it must first establish a corresponding database in order to truly decipher its contents.