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Chapter 550 The History of the Digital World

The enormous demon beast's body disintegrated in the light, and the terrifying will that had once enveloped the entire island of Failu was now transforming into billions of points of light, like fireflies on a summer night, brilliant but fleeting.

Koushiro stood on Kabuterimon's back, watching the data fragments flying everywhere.

Instead of cheering like his companions, he took out his laptop and disk from his backpack and collected the data.

After that, it's time for the cleanup work.

Although Devimon fell, the remaining Dark Gears did not disappear.

The next day, a special meeting was being held at the former Andromon factory.

Koushiro stood in front of the control panel, behind him on a huge screen displaying a real-time map of the entire Failoo Island, with each area marked as it needed to be addressed.

The participants in the conference were the true "strong" and "leaders" from various regions of the island.

Leomon, the righteous one; Centaur, the silent and reliable one; Flamemon, whose body is engulfed in flames; and so on.

He assigned tasks in an orderly manner.

With the aftermath properly arranged, Koushiro finally had time to deal with the spoils of war that he was most interested in.

He rode his beast to the mountaintop, to the black castle that was now deserted.

The castle's interior was gloomy and empty; without the support of its owner's magic, the eerie runes on the stone walls had faded.

They quickly found a laboratory in a secret room.

This place is less like a laboratory and more like a cruel prison cell, with even something resembling an autopsy table inside.

Koushiro shook his head. No wonder Devimon could develop Dark Gear, a tool that can directly affect Digimon's Digicore. It was indeed a product of human experimentation.

Ignoring all that, Koushiro looked to the other side.

On the central experimental table, there are stacks of data recording boards made of special crystal.

These records fully document Devimon's research and development process for the Dark Gear, as well as his obsessive exploration of the mysteries of Digimon evolution.

Everything was almost exactly as he had predicted. The technological prototype of the Dark Gear was indeed derived from the reverse analysis and imitation of the [Divine Plan].

Devimon attempted to replicate the power of that "miracle," but due to its inability to comprehend the nature of its "mind," it could only create a half-finished product like the Dark Gear.

That's why Devimon didn't attack them directly at the beginning, because he wanted to understand what this power really was.

That's why the chosen children were given the opportunity, but they ended up messing things up.

"Koushiro, come quick! Here... here's a really big study!"

Just as Koushiro was engrossed in analyzing Devimon's technical data, Tentomon's excited shouts came from the next room.

Koushiro carefully put away the experimental records, then followed the sound of the beetle beast to another room.

This is a huge circular library with bookshelves extending from the ground to a dome tens of meters high.

It was piled high with all sorts of books...

Koushiro's breathing quickened slightly.

He walked to the nearest bookshelf and picked up a book at random.

The pages contain digital text that records the ecology, habits, and evolutionary paths of some of the Digimon.

There is also a map of the digital world, as well as introductions to each region.

In addition to the File Island and Server Continent that appear in the original work, there are also places like the Forest of Gods and the Dark Area.

Failou Island is on top, but it's just a drop in the ocean.

Then, his gaze was finally drawn to the thickest book in the center of the bookshelf, whose cover was inscribed with the words "Chronicles of the World" in ancient digital script.

"what?"

A strong sense of curiosity welled up in Koushiro's heart.

He held the heavy crystal book in his hands and turned to the first page.

In the distant, primordial era, the Digital World was a chaotic, primordial ocean, devoid of order and form, where only the purest, most fundamental data churned. The first Digimon were simple, primitive life forms that were accidentally born in this ocean.

[At some point, a "door" was opened.]

This world has become linked to a "network" created by an intelligent race called "humans".

A massive amount of information from the human network world flooded into this desolate world.

Thoughts, emotions, knowledge, procedures... these information elements impact and reorganize the original data, giving it "meaning".

Thus, the first "attributes" were born—the [Data Species] representing program and order, the [Vaccine Species] representing protection and correction, and the [Virus Species] representing destruction and erosion.

The more frequent the information exchange in the human world, the more prosperous the ecosystem of the digital world becomes, and the variety and number of Digimon begin to grow explosively.

Finally, in the distant prehistoric era, a crisis descended.

The excessive proliferation of Digimon has caused an unprecedented expansion of the total amount of data in the world, bringing the system to the brink of collapse.

The world itself is about to undergo an inevitable "formatting".

Ultimately, the supreme will that sustains the operation of the entire world—"God"—decided to intervene.

He will purge this old, bloated, and near-destruction world...

"The World Tree (Yggdrasil)?"

Upon seeing this, Koushiro muttered to himself.

This logic is not difficult to understand.

Just like when a computer's hard drive is full, you naturally need to clean up useless files or even reinstall the system.

He continued to look down.

However, for some unknown reason, "God" ultimately abandoned the plan to completely delete the world.

He simply erected an unbreakable "firewall" between the digital world and the human network, greatly restricting direct information exchange between the two worlds.

At the same time, He migrated a portion of the selected Digimon to a completely new, independent server space—the world we are in now.

In this new world, freed from the direct influence of the human information deluge, the Digimon began their own evolution.

Gradually, they split into two camps: humanoid Digimon that valued wisdom, order, and sociality, and beast-type Digimon that believed in instinct, power, and primal savagery.

Humanoid Digimon have an absolute advantage in numbers, but in terms of top-tier combat power, they have never been able to compete with those naturally powerful Beast-type Digimon.

Over the long years, the two sides maintained a delicate and tense balance.

Unfortunately, fighting and evolving are instincts etched deep within the Digimon's data.

The conflict has never truly ceased.

In order to combat the beast-type Digimon with overwhelming individual power, the wise men in the humanoid Digimon camp began to seek technological breakthroughs.

They turned their attention to machinery, trying to compensate for the shortcomings of the human body with cold steel.

Thus, modified Digimon like Andromon were born.

The balance of power was completely shattered at this moment.

What followed was a war that swept across the entire digital world.

Humanoids and beasts, modified and primitive—the two factions poured all their resources into a brutal battle.

Countless Digimon died in the war, their data turned into fragments;

Many more Digimon failed to evolve in the brutal battles, and the distorted data was filled with resentment and unwillingness.

This massive, filthy, and negatively charged "abandoned data" was rejected by the world system and ultimately flowed into the world's "recycle bin"—the Dark Zone.

There, they converged and fermented, ultimately giving birth to a brand new, great power capable of rivaling "God"...

(End of this chapter)