Chapter 297

"Light is my true enemy. Go find the eighth Chosen Child."

Vamdemon recovered his strength by draining the blood of human women, but he also discovered the Chosen Children who had pursued him from the Digital World.

The previous battle where he nearly died left him with a psychological shadow; he adopted a strategy of avoiding combat, bewitching humans on one hand while having his subordinates use copied Crests of Light to search for the eighth Chosen Child on the other.

Therefore, when Tai Yagami and the other Chosen Children arrived in Nerima Ward and learned from the Digimon subordinates they defeated that he was searching for the eighth Chosen Child, their expressions were a mix of bewilderment and the implication of "Is Vamdemon an idiot?"

"The eighth Chosen Child is still in the Digital World. You're searching for a non-existent eighth Chosen Child in the Real World. Are you idiots?"

"Huh?"

The Digimon subordinates Vamdemon sent out to search for the eighth Chosen Child were bewildered, and this scene was also observed by the bats Vamdemon had secretly dispatched; in other words, this was having their intelligence looked down upon to their faces.

So, when a Digimon subordinate escaped by a hair's breadth and ran over to report the situation, Vamdemon directly swung a demon blood whip at it.

Of course, he didn't actually want to kill his already few subordinates, but to give the other party a lesson and a denial: "You're truly an idiot. Do you believe whatever the Chosen Children say? Didn't it occur to you that they might be covering for the eighth Chosen Child?"

"Ah, is that how it is? My deepest apologies, Lord Vamdemon."

Bakemon covered his face, looking somewhat panicked, and began apologizing.

"Forget it. You go handle the matter of kidnapping humans for hypnosis."

Although he said that, Vamdemon still somewhat believed the Chosen Children's words. Although he still didn't give up on searching for the eighth Chosen Child in the Real World, his main focus shifted to achieving his own Ultimate Evolution.

Not only in the Nerima area, but missing persons began to appear in the surrounding areas as well. However, because the disappearances were of short duration, no major incident had been discovered yet; only a few women who had collapsed on the streets due to anemia of unknown cause were found.

At night, the Chosen Children needed to rest, and they also urgently wanted to return home to see their families. As it happened, no battles occurred.

Meanwhile, in the Digital World, nearly a year had passed. The sole Digimon King of the Server Continent now was Broly.

During this period, Perfect-level Digimon from the Nightmare Soldiers came over, intending to seize Vamdemon's territory, but they were enthusiastically dissuaded and sent back by Broly's forces. As Raremon predicted, they began to generate friction and conflict with the Old Forces.

However, no all-out war broke out. After repelling several waves of Nightmare Soldiers Digimon, a mature-stage Devimon came to deliver a message.

"I represent the Clown King, here to offer sincere congratulations to the new ruler of the Server Continent, Lord Gluttonmon. Your strength has been acknowledged by the Clown King. That lord sincerely invites you to join his Nightmare Soldiers, hoping you can become a member of the Dark Forces."

Devimon expressed his purpose.

"If I refuse to join, will you keep coming to cause trouble for me?"

Having received an invitation letter from the Clown King, Broly retorted to the Devimon before him.

"Cause trouble? No, this isn't causing trouble. The weak are meat, the strong eat — that is the Clown King's view of this world's true rightful form. You were able to defeat the other Digimon Kings here and thereby obtain the supreme ruling rights over the Server Continent. This is a manifestation of your strength.

However, there are many Perfect-level Digimon Kings under the Four Heavenly Kings. They may not necessarily acknowledge your strength. Should you refuse that lord's kind invitation, perhaps a continuous stream of Perfect-level Digimon will come to challenge you, wanting to wrest the ruling rights of the Server Continent from your hands."

Devimon's meaning was very clear: either agree to become one of their own, or be harassed by a large number of ambitious Digimon Kings. Although most of that harassment would turn into meals delivered to your door.

And it was precisely because of this that Broly's identity as Gluttonmon was recognized as ironclad by the Clown King's side. That was why the other party sent an invitation instead of treating him as an enemy of a different alignment to be eliminated.

"Raremon, what do you think?"

Broly thought the all-you-can-eat was delicious, but the Devimon before him was rather polite. Always eating other people's subordinates as an all-you-can-eat wasn't too good, so he asked for Raremon's opinion.

"I think you can agree. Because soon, we're going to go look for something."

Raremon pondered for a moment, then gave his advice.

Broly listened to Raremon's advice and informed the messenger Devimon that he accepted the Clown King's invitation.

"Good. Then, Lord Gluttonmon, will your force's designation remain as is, or be renamed to the Nightmare Soldiers' Sixth Regiment?"

"Keep it as is."

"Good. Then it is 'High Heaven'."

"Wait, what is that?"

Broly was somewhat puzzled.

"Isn't that your force's name?"

Devimon was even more puzzled than him.

"Since when was my force called that name?"

Devimon pointed at the Spaceship Fortress beneath his feet.

"Because your mount always floats in the High Heaven, Digimon of the Outside World all refer to your force by that name."

Compared to earlier names like Forest Camp and Gluttonmon Corps, Broly's force gained a new designation because of a main base Spaceship that always flew in the High Altitude.

However, this is currently just a designation and has not yet formed a self-adaptive domain determination like Virus Busters, Nightmare Soldiers, or the Steel Empire.

When Piccolomon learned that this side had joined the Dark Forces under the designation "High Heaven," he hurriedly came over to inquire about the situation.

"This is naturally to reduce the behavior of outside Digimon coming to cause trouble. Because we will be setting off for the Real World soon."

This was the reason Raremon advised Broly to agree. After they left the Server Continent, if they didn't have an identity as one of the Dark Forces' own, then the Server Continent side would definitely suffer invasion from other Dark Digimon forces.

Of course, if Raremon hadn't been so thoughtful and had raised this issue later instead, going by Broly's style, perhaps the Dark Four Heavenly Kings and their Dark Forces would have thoroughly become history.

But unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world. As of now, Raremon only knew his own King was extremely powerful, but exactly how strong, and whether he could beat Ultimate-level Digimon like the Dark Four Heavenly Kings, he knew nothing about.

"Wait, have you already repaired the Intertemporal Gate and cracked the Secret Key?"

Piccolomon was stunned, then reacted and pursued the question.

The reply he got was affirmative. Raremon even took Piccolomon to see that large stone gate he had repaired and installed at the front section of the Spaceship.

"The damage to this thing was severe, but I repaired it using another method, and used another power source to open the Time-Space Tunnel."

The Dark Space is the power source Raremon prepared for traversing worlds. After the Dark Space was detonated, it produced an extremely intense spatial distortion. The stone gate's function is to anchor that distorted spatial power at the front of the Spaceship.

"No, you mean you're planning to take this thing under your feet and go to the Real World all together?"

Piccolomon asked.

"Of course. Because I don't know which spatial frequency leads to the Real World, I might need to perform multiple transits."

Raremon explained.

"What? You don't even know the spatial frequency and you're preparing to transit?"

Piccolomon's eyes widened.

"Do you know doing this might teleport you to some other strange world?" "I know, but this level of risk falls within the acceptable range."

"I think you're crazy. No way, I have to go tell Broly and Dirumon and the others."

"Research always requires pioneers."

Moleculamon watched Fairymon's departing figure and muttered.

"Eh, crossing from the Digital World to another world, will there be danger?"

Broly was somewhat confused; he was a frequent transmigrator, but had never encountered any so-called danger, therefore he didn't know how to evaluate Fairymon's words.

"I must find the Crest of Light. The Vaccine-species data in my body has already accumulated to the limit, yet so far there isn't the slightest sign of evolving into Angewomon.

Wanting to break the evolution lock by absorbing data is really too difficult; right now, when I absorb a share of Vaccine-species data, less than one percent can be transformed into my own data."

Dirumon's attitude was firm; it was obsessed with evolving into Angewomon.

A research maniac, one who didn't think transmigration carried any risk, one willing to take risks for a new Super Evolution form.

Fairymon's warning of risk failed to achieve its due effect; after Moleculamon finished preparations on this side, the transmigration bringing the entire main base spaceship began.

"I must be crazy too, to go along with you all."

Fairymon boarded the spaceship in the end as well, really not at ease with Moleculamon presiding over the cross-spacetime transmigration.

The Dark Space was detonated, spacetime was twisted, and a tunnel opened.

The Secret Key inserted, and the spatial frequency underwent debugging.

"Propulsion Unit, activate"

As Moleculamon issued the order, the main base spaceship rushed into the twisted Time-Space Tunnel.

"Real World, we've arrived!"

Collective transmigration — this was still Broly's first time experiencing it.

As the surrounding spacetime shifted, the spaceship arrived in a stretch of Void Space.

"Is this the Real World?"

Arriving at the viewport, looking outside, Dirumon asked.

"How could it be the Real World? This is obviously a transmigration error; we've arrived at a strange world."

Fairymon denied it; it knew things would turn out like this.

"The environment can detect obvious data fluctuations; this should still be the Digital World, but it seems not to be the Digital World we previously existed in."

Moleculamon tapped the keyboard, explaining the current outside situation.

"What thing?"

Lucemon Falldown Mode, who had intended to deal a fatal blow to the Ten Legendary Warriors children summoned by Holy Angewomon, was actually startled by the suddenly appearing giant castle, but upon seeing Digimon activity on the castle, ceased to care.

"Digital World, LordKnightmon and Sovereignmon, did you miss this castle's data? Hmph, treating it as an appetizer before arriving in the Real World isn't bad either; life and death intertwined."

Lucemon Falldown Mode directly launched an attack at the castle below, and at the moment the attack appeared, Moleculamon also detected the assault; a large number of Ultimate Destruction Cannon launch devices immediately erected, firing toward Lucemon's intertwining light and darkness bombardment.

The attacks of two Perfect-level Digimon from different Digital Worlds collided together; however, although Lucemon Falldown Mode is Perfect-level, its strength is actually even more exaggerated than Ultimate-level.

Although there were many Ultimate Destruction Cannons, they were still submerged by the intertwining light and darkness; nevertheless, they still played an intercepting effect, giving the main base spaceship enough time to break free from the attack range of the intertwining light and darkness.

Koichi Kimura, who had evolved into Loweemon using the Spirits of Darkness, originally wanted to go block the light-and-dark attack for his brother Koji Minamoto and the others, but now actually stopped.

"Hey, who are you? Why attack us?"

People flew out from the Spaceship Fortress; Broly frowned and questioned the strange guy who suddenly attacked their spaceship.

And beside him followed Dirumon's evolved form Ranamon, as well as other Perfect-level Digimon; they all glared angrily at Lucemon who had suddenly assaulted their base.

"You don't recognize me?"

Lucemon raised an eyebrow.

"This is our first time coming to this place; we don't know any acquaintances."

Lucemon thought for a moment, then understood the meaning of these words.

"I see. You came from another Digital World?"

The Digital World is plural; some Digimon also know this matter; and after the data of this Digital World had been plundered empty by itself, a group of Digimon organizations unfamiliar with it suddenly appeared — there could only be this explanation.

Lucemon Falldown Mode's mouth corner curled slightly, and it said to Broly and the others: "Everything in the Digital World shall obey me. Since you've come to my world, then become my servants; only then will I permit you to survive in this world."

Lucemon destroyed the old Digital World to create the new order world in its heart; creating a world requires subordinates, and this group of foreign Digimon happened to look like they had very good quality.

"What?"

Hearing this demand, Broly and Ranamon beside him exchanged a glance; their expressions were somewhat subtle.

"Sorry, we're just passing through here and won't be staying long in this world."

Broly directly refused.

"But we need to rest a bit. If you're willing to provide a stopping place, the matter of you attacking us just now is forgotten; we won't quibble. Anyway, no loss was caused."

Broly could understand some Digimon launching attacks because of foreign Digimon intruding, so he proposed conditions both sides could accept.

However, Lucemon didn't think so; as the god about to create a new world, it would not tolerate anyone defying it.

"Since you're unwilling to obey me, then turn into data and become a part of me — Light and Darkness Intertwined!"

"Again?"

Broly backhanded an Energy Cannon blast; the Light and Darkness Intertwined was directly submerged by terrifying energy.

"What?"

Lucemon Falldown Mode hurriedly dodged and managed to avoid it, but the undiminished Energy Bullet struck the boundary of the Void Space and still blasted open a crack.

The supposed protagonist group — Shen Yuan Takuya and the others — suddenly became like bystanders, staring blankly at that side where the unfamiliar Digimon group was clashing with Lucemon.

(Chapter End)