Chapter 1800

NO. 415：The Attendant Says Yes

When Baal Beast. X stepped into the garden that had been ownerless for several days, all that could be seen were withered flowers and weeds running rampant.

Even those annoying wind chimes are inaudible, which counts as a rare peaceful spot in the Hei'an Area.

But deep inside, there still lurks that pair of Digimon that the locals consider impossible to evade.

Of course, it's not Lilith Beast. X, but Baal Beast.

Although the Noble King does not enjoy killing, even if he evolves into Beelzebub Beast, at most he gains a belligerent title, and he has no interest whatsoever in the weak.

But in fact, the Digital World exhibits a long‑standing phenomenon of missing branches in the evolution tree: namely, certain Digimon lack one or more of the standard stages—Child, Growth, Adult, Perfect, Ultimate.

The most well‑known example of this is Lucemon/Light Beast.

As the highest‑ranked true follower of the Three Great Ultimate Angels, Light Beast is merely a Child‑stage Digimon.

Moreover, there is no transition between the Adult and Ultimate stages; once fallen into Light Beast. Fallen Form, it becomes Perfect.

To be frank, this is not a defect but rather an authoritative proof that transcends the usual framework.

But precisely for this reason, although the evolution line Little Angel Beast → Cupid Beast → Light Beast is widely known, and there is even a lateral substitute between Little Angel Beast and Cupid Beast, the existence of Light Beast is extremely rare.

So rare that people once thought Light Beast and Light Beast. Fallen Form were unique.

In fact, that's not the case; it's simply that the evolution threshold is too high.

Evolving from Cupid Beast to Light Beast is naturally like a leap to heaven, but precisely because of that, the conditions for achieving this evolution are themselves very stringent.

— It requires data accumulation comparable to evolving to Ultimate, and also passing the corresponding trials in the Angel rank; the whole process resembles some astonishing ascetic practices recorded in religious texts.

For those who succeed as Light Beast, all this naturally has meaning, but many more Digimon will shift to other evolutionary paths in this process, after all Digimon evolution never follows a single road; if the vertical path cannot be achieved, exploring other branches laterally is a more common choice.

However, to be frank, although all are types with large blanks in the evolution tree, Light Beast remains a particularly special existence among them.

Because its blank is a powerful manifestation, a natural status benchmark, whereas most other Digimon are not like that.

They simply haven't found the right path, or perhaps the entire category has only recently come into existence.

In other words, they ought to have complete stage lines, they just haven't been discovered yet.

But before being discovered, most of these Digimon consider themselves a sufficiently special faction, able to rival Light Beast.

They further believe that if they just concentrate on accumulating data, they can easily leap from Child to Growth stage in one bound.

For a time, the Beelzebub Beast individuals also firmly believed in this notion.

They firmly believe that the evolution line Little Monster Beast (Growth) → Beelzebub Beast/Fallen Heaven Hell Beast (Ultimate) is their path, since this lineage already has several successful routes.

This was enough for many Little Monster Beasts to compare themselves to Light Beast in greatness and strength, until human technology intervened in Digimon evolution routes and, after achieving outstanding results in exploration and refinement——the Little Monster Beasts' dream of matching Cupid Beast was shattered.

Beelzebub Beast is not limited to direct evolution from Little Monster Beast; it also has a devolution path Baal Beast → Wizard Beast → Candle Beast/Little Monster Beast, and thus also the option to re‑evolve upward.

This is indeed a good thing, because the path from arduous training in the Growth stage to leap to Ultimate is overly long and hard to endure, and more likely to end in mid‑failure; now that a relatively stable direct ascent exists, there is an additional better option, yet this does not hinder the fact that the road for Wizard Beast to evolve into Baal Beast remains especially arduous.

So difficult that most Wizard Beasts get stuck there, either becoming subspecies like Ice Wizard Beast, or attempting to advance toward the equally hard‑to‑raise Mystic Beast.

Although the Magic Swordsman is hard to cultivate, it is still more substantive than the path of the Noble King like Baal Beast.

And in the Hei'an Area, elite‑level Digimon like Baal Beast are exceedingly rare—so rare that people usually think only of a certain figure who, amid conflicting rumors, abdicated as the Gluttony Demon King.

Although it's unclear why it would voluntarily abdicate, the rumor that it degenerated into Baal Beast is one of the few reliable topics of conversation in the Hei'an Area, and there are many versions of it.

These versions are also mixed with countless investigations by Digimon bearing grudges against Beelzebub Beast. X, making it hard for the whole Hei'an Area to find a second Baal Beast. X and Baal Beast.

Well, of course there are two; after all, rumors only get more distorted, and in the end the only thing that can be pinned down is the concept of "Baal Beast"—whether it has the. X suffix is another matter.

Thus, in the Hei'an Area, most Digimon, upon seeing Baal Beast, choose to flee; whether the latter is belligerent is not important—what matters is that its appearance is invariably followed by countless skirmishes.

Especially another female‑shaped Digimon that has long been a topic of talk in the Hei'an Area, Belstata Beast. X.

Although they are all itinerant, where Digimon gather there can also be a jianghu, and this jianghu indeed has some legends that endure.

What the Gluttony King who defies doctrine, what the Heavenly Maiden Beast trained by Lilith Beast in the Eternal Garden, what humans building skyscrapers in the Hei'an Area—if you give them work, there will be stable data and safety guarantees……

Rather than calling them legends, they are more like outdated news unique to the Hei'an Area where information flow is poor.

And now, those two items of news are about to merge.

Simply because Baal Beast. X and Baal Beast are gazing at each other from afar, and in that shared silence they raise their palms, under the watch of the sole friend onscreen and the so‑called assistant at their side—who is in fact the Little Devil Beast keeping an eye on them—carrying out the data fusion that had long been decided.

The Beelzebub Beast. X of former times is about to return, and the Beelzebub Beast. X that, in the eyes of most Digimon in the Hei'an Area, is still the Gluttony King has already become the pattern that makes the new sin crown of the Gate of Cardinal Sins shine.

——

Moreover, at the same time, Aomo Lindun had already had leisure to turn his attention back to Puppet MKII earlier, and he immediately noticed the commotion outside as soon as the puppetry technique was functioning normally.

However, compared to that gang lacking crucial information and having not the slightest suspicion toward this side, the members of the Beast Cult who had undergone the GBN simulation of the complete version of Demon God Zero immediately associated this puppet with the unique information fragment it bears.

The various anomalous phenomena manifested by the black hole itself are no longer considered unknown secrets; while the cultists might find it hard to imagine a black hole at the scene, Aomo can't help but think of the card he just acquired and the material of that extraordinary monster.

If it weren't that the work here is also important, he would have long swapped the puppet back and shoved his whole self into the card‑drawing machine.

Although the amount of material is small, the concept is pure!

If luck is good, one could directly draw the perfect version—just in case. jpg

Unfortunately, one must still endure and be patient!

Then, in that patience, via empathy he sensed that the puppet indeed possesses a similar feeling.

A feeling that, if one merely thinks of it, one can directly slip into another dimension—a cognition that creeps out unnoticed, so natural it feels like an instinct; clearly one is controlling the puppet, yet it almost makes the true body attempt it.

Fortunately, a priest who suddenly burst into his field of view suppressed that impulse to try the Dragon Emperor Another Dimension.

"What are you doing?"

"Organizing the duty roster, Priest‑in‑Chief."

"…No need to organize, just tidy up; a distinguished guest will come later, you remember to stay out of the way."

"Huh?"

Oh, no, you remember to come together! Suddenly I realized I didn't need to treat this unlucky fellow's priest with the same hostility as the high priest, and I also recalled the old colleague pointing at him to join the dirty work.

It just so happens it might need an attendant.

?? Correction tips:

? Fixed the bug where the Light Beast's Degenerate Form was mistakenly recorded as the Ultimate Form. Although it's hard to believe for outsiders, it is indeed just the Perfect Form, no mistake.

? (End of chapter)