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Chapter 1830 No.447: The bondage of ambition and the ambition of freedom

"So this is what the dark area looks like. It's quite different from the photos I found online?"

"There are very few people who can take pictures of the Skeleton Arena. Perhaps the picture you saw is not from here."

While entertaining the second visitor who looked like a human, the light in DarkKnightmon's eyes showed no fluctuation at all, as if he had no dissatisfaction at all.

"Isn't this the place? Skeleton... I don't seem to have any impression of it." Mr. Bi has no chip in his brain, and the source energy he studies is all about magic development rather than the brain. His memory is not that superior.

In the eyes of DarkKnightmon, who had a considerable understanding of the common sense of the human world, this was nothing short of crude.

What kind of identity are you trying to hide with such poor acting skills?
It doesn't understand yet.

But is he recruiting two non-Digimon companions in human form in order to better fulfill his duty as a Demon Lord and invade the human world? Or is he planning to once again oppose the Demon Lords and cause trouble for the Demon Lords who are obviously planning something?

It doesn't understand either.

After all, the king of the past would neither associate with the other demon kings nor compromise himself to go through all these twists and turns, which made all the knowledge it had accumulated in the past meaningless. It could only look at what Barmon.X had done so far.

Of course, it's intermittent.

Although it has never forgotten to pay attention to the old leader, it is very difficult to ensure long-term surveillance in the dark area. The 'camera' is easy to be accidentally involved, and it is more likely to be regarded as a provocation by the old leader who is not slow to begin with. After the old leader is suspected of running away to the human world, it will be even more difficult to expect intelligence updates, so it is very hesitant about its inference options, and there is only one thing that can be confirmed.

Looking up at Impmon, who was trembling slightly and shrinking back because of his gaze, DarkKnightmon could at least be sure that the King had indeed changed a lot.

It is so big that it allows the existence of Megadrakumon's spies openly, which is basically declaring the friendly alliance between the King of Gluttony and the King of Vampires.

How weird.

This carries the risk of being seen as a subservient relationship. If it were the king of the past, he would have been furious just thinking about this risk, right?
Even though the backstage area of ​​the Skeleton Arena is the most deserted of the resting places of the Seven Demon King Temples and is filled with the souls of the dead, making it difficult for witnesses to leak information, there is still a minimum-scale building maintenance team that can play that role.

But whether it is spread or not, the rumor may be true.

"Support me to return here"... This is what Baelmon.X said about Great Drakumon. Although it does not believe that the King will greet him as an inferior, at this moment...

Wang is indeed ignoring the spread of similar rumors.

And he seemed busy, but I didn't know what he was busy with. He frequently went in and out of the arena, and now he was leaving again, leaving the two human-looking guests here, forcing me to regularly care for them for the sake of etiquette...

Honestly, it's terrible.

Dark Knightmon once saw such a sentence in human online information: What is more sad than an airborne leader is that the airborne leader also brings two children to take care of by himself - it didn't care about it at that time, but now it seems like some kind of bad prophecy.

But fortunately, compared to the abominations of the human cubs described later in that paragraph, these two human-looking guys were not that troublesome to receive.

A man of few words and very low demands, almost telling you to just mind your own business.

Although he is a chatterbox and curious about everything, he also seems to be deliberately keeping a distance as if he knows me.

Normally this wouldn't be a good thing, as the king's guests' wariness of themselves might be passed on to him, but in this case it was nothing.

After all, Wang had been looking forward to his move from the beginning, and the guests' vigilance was also reducing his workload at the moment, so he only needed to come and visit occasionally like this, respond to the more talkative one, and then prepare to leave.

But the situation this time is a little different because the king has returned again.

The timing of his return was just right. He stepped in just as it was about to leave and stopped it right where it was:

"DarkKnightmon, you don't have to receive guests from now on. I order you to prepare your own Enhancement Key while investigating the human forces that are cooperating with Barbamon and Lucemon. Fallen Type."

"?"

"Perhaps they chose the wrong ally..." Its king, who should have transformed into an Ultimate Form, still appeared as Balmon.X, and even patiently explained his intentions to it. Although this level of restraint may not seem like an explanation, the mere fact of speaking was enough to make it sigh in its heart again like a human that things have changed.

"Perhaps you can use this opportunity to achieve your goal in another way, don't you think?"

"what do you mean……"

"X-Antibody, do I have to explain it so clearly?" The red-covered book floating beside Balmon.X moved without wind, as if synchronizing with the knowledge he was reciting. "Digimon in the Dark Area will not be reincarnated as Digi-Eggs after death. The capable ones can devour everything of the defeated ones."

"But it does not include the Crown of Sin," DarkKnightmon denied solemnly, "Only Digimon of the same kind, or Digimon that are ready for horizontal transformation, can take on the Crown of Darkness."

"But that includes X-antibodies," said Baalmon.X.

"Dark Knightmon.X."

"That's also a place that your clan rarely reaches, isn't it?"

"But then..."

"I can give you the art of separating the power of X-evolution, allowing you to switch freely between the original form and the X-antibody form like other demon kings."

It has been said that DarkKnightmon is a special category in the Digimon community. As a Perfect Digimon that can reach the Ultimate Realm by fusing with a specific Digimon, its X-form is also the Ultimate Realm, and it is the Ultimate Realm that cannot be advanced any further.

But according to Balemon.X, even if it has stepped into the ultimate realm of the Ultimate Form in this way, it can still freely retreat to the form of a Perfect Form and once again impact the realm of DarkBagramon/DarkKnightmon (Darkness).

Such temptation will make it ask more calmly: "What do you want?"

Such an effort cannot be equaled by simply helping with the investigation. On the contrary, what kind of equivalent danger is behind the exchange condition for helping with the investigation?
"The defeat of the Seven Demon Lords, the defeat of the Dark Area, what I want is to maintain the status quo, DarkKnightmon."

"Eh? Baal..." Hearing this, Bize finally realized that Baalmon.X was making an unexpected decision. He was about to speak, but was interrupted:

"Be quiet, Bize."

A scarlet glow bloomed from his eyes, giving him the same feeling as when he was facing his best friend. "At this moment, I need your silence and trust."

"…Um."

After receiving the accurate response from the other party, Balmon.X looked at DarkKnightmon again: "What do you think?"

"I want to maintain the status quo, but you can replace any demon king, even all of us."

"I have a question, which will determine the decision I will make." Dark Knightmon said calmly.

"Just ask."

"Is this also the condition of your cooperation with Great Drakumon?"

"No. It helped me without any conditions, so I never trusted it. We both knew this. Rather than an ally, it was more like an enemy pretending to cooperate."

"...You should know that my ambitions extend far beyond the throne of the Demon King."

“I don’t hate overly ambitious things, because then everything will have nothing to do with me.”

"Do you still long for the so-called freedom?"

"Never-ending, just like your ambition, Dark Knight."

"In that case, let's make a contract, noble king."