Chapter 1798: with translation of chapter title

NO. 413: That day, many more people became sad.

NO. 413 That day, many more people became sad.

The puppet and the main body are mentally directly connected, sharing senses.

This not only causes adverse conditions, but even the illusion of being rootless duckweed is inherited, making the main body's side effects especially hard to endure.

It also passes on the connection achieved through the puppet's temporary state to the main body.

Simply put, it's call forwarding.

Actually, the coffee of Mio Umise gives the essence of Megabasa's food poisoning—which, in every sense, is a little monster—by mixing a digital soul that is hard for the inhabitants of the material world to accept.

Even Otto Linton (formerly) had drunk similar things before without such a strong reaction, because by then he had entered the data realm more than once and had learned to try using digital souls, which subtly changed his own 'information existence'.

But this Megabasa puppet has never undergone any data-related changes.

The first time entering any field, one faces resistance that others find hard to understand; yet when Megabasa was ambushed, it displayed a unique adaptability that the main body never had—while Otto Linton's ingestion of a digital soul resulted in nothing happening, Megabasa instead began the process of digimonization.

Although that process is neither smooth nor stable, it currently appears as being wrapped in countless data loops yet not truly stabilized in the Hawkmon form: like a poorly signalled electronic screen from the Middle Ages, it is filled with noise, black bars, and distortion, with its whole posture rapidly switching between the Megabasa and Hawkmon forms.

However, what truly matters is that this phenomenon does not overwrite Otto Linton's 'puppet line'.

Empathy remains intact, and the extremely unstable state appearing on the puppet also gives Constancy a chance to possess, giving Otto a more credible guess as to why Constancy is obsessed with finding little girls:

Maybe it's just too weak. jpg

Just like some nature deities that have no room for improvement, merely surviving on the edge of dissipation, they exist in every inch of space represented by their concept, yet their interference in any inch of that space is minuscule. Therefore they can always stand firm in information, always effortlessly win in intervention with a score of 3.0, and only within the domain represented by their own concept do they have any room to act—for example, giving someone a push in their evolution.

Honestly, being able to help someone evolve is already not bad.

Being able to help a perfect form, or even aid an ultimate form's fusion evolution, is undoubtedly a divine authority; roughly speaking, it's like being a big Ancient Beast.

【This is an Ancient Beast】

But as an existence of a divine concept, the power to grant rebirth should be a basic among basics—indeed, many myths of gods in reality tell of granting mortals a rebirth or ascension, emphasizing that even giving someone a bowl can change their life.

So if this Ancient Beast's behavior is its limit, it's no wonder Otto complains that it's weak, especially since many high-level Digimon, like the Seven Great Demon Lords, can themselves grant evolution to their subordinates, yet they are not usually so generous.

But this complaining is, of course, just kept to himself.

While the connection with the puppet remains, but now Constancy has been forced into the tight link to 'confront,' Otto naturally knows his task is to obtain the main line's key information, not to fill the public channel with trash talk.

Even if he has such awareness, he also notices that Megabasa's unstable state won't last long, and Constancy's crypticness has fully reached the standard level of a godly cliché.

Phrases like 'stop acting,' 'come to the tower,' 'when will it arrive'—this expressive ability has basically departed from normal conversation; did you used to talk to kids like that?

Setting aside the doubtful difficulty for now, in fact, the moment Otto realized this, he had already begun asking questions proactively.

It feels better to let oneself throw out questions to limit the speaking range, then piece together fragmented key information on one's own.

【Announcement:

The invasion target of the Holy Beast, Fallen Type, is the real world, but it does not intend to challenge the federal army, nor can it act against the Heart of Tera; this is good, showing that the power they have accumulated has not exceeded our expectations.

At least seven human factions cooperate with the Holy Beast, Fallen Type; detailed characteristics etc. will be tried as the new universe's connection takes effect, but for now we can tentatively consider the Beast's Sect as one of them.

Our current preparations are proceeding under the enemy's expectations, even being driven by them; fortunately, Constancy denies the possibility of an insider.

Then this must be related to thought induction; that is, our actions are being shaped by the information and atmosphere the opponent deliberately puts out, so we need to review the actions each side has already undertaken and inversely deduce what usable points those actions might give the opponent.

Whether to halt the current plan and re-discuss it is uncertain, as Constancy's response about whether there is an error in the preparations is ambiguous.

Moon Ring Snake posted at 613-5-27 16:21】

A sudden announcement caused the chat room, with fewer than 20 people, to easily exceed 99+ messages.

Humans, Digimon, and Ultramen all spoke up; even the horse girls, who originally had little involvement and were just there for fun, now showed greatly increased interest, raising their speaking frequency.

In a sense, this also eased Otto Linton considerably.

Although the previous preparations were dismissed by the opponent with overly vague riddles, which should have left him feeling profound emptiness and fatigue, Otto, who had harbored this suspicion from the start, instead felt a lingering anxiety finally settle into calm.

Rather than emptiness, reflecting and reviewing what came before is what he believes he should be doing now.

Moreover, because his recent gains sparked a thousand waves in the small group, even his girlfriend and the horse girls under him joined the discussion, making his current situation extremely leisurely.

Of course, this is merely the calm before the storm.

In this heated discussion, akin to a popular mobile game releasing an activity PV, as the uploader-producer of this 'PV,' he will soon become the center of the storm.

Online private chat windows, and face-to-face conversations that will soon arise in reality, will also be mixed with some girls' 'unyielding' intentions repackaged.

Do you really think she's interested in this matter?. jpg

However, amidst all these waves of various meanings here, on the other side of this silent standoff——

In the dark zone, Barbaromon. X is walking toward his main body's location in the Eternal Garden.

Beside it follows a little demon beast that seems superfluous, yet it appears as if it cannot see the screen unfolding before it.

It cannot see the chat window inside that screen, which refreshes rapidly like the comment list of a popular livestream, nor can it see the tiny human avatar on the other side of that chat window.

Even if such a window existed, and even if Bese advised against it, Barbaromon. X's behavior is indeed exactly as that little demon beast has been watching, with no difference.

On the contrary, in the Beast Sect's temporary base whose coordinates are about to change, Zeromaru is falling asleep in his personal quarters.

During that sleep, the single horn on his forehead manifested briefly, refracting countless brilliant golden lights as dual horns, and all electronic equipment in the base showed abnormal feedback, causing chaos.

However, even when a certain high priest is not present, the priest who personally anointed and modified Zeromaru could not immediately think of him.

He was simply staring at the screen of his document that had not yet finished auto-saving.

(End of Chapter)