Full-Time Magister: Summoning Agumon at the Start

As they followed Lin Chen and Professor Gu Jing toward the temporary base, to everyone's surprise, they didn't encounter any large groups or powerful demons along the way. There were only a few scattered demons of the Lesser Warrior level who came out to hunt for food.

Thus, the journey was very smooth and quick, taking only a little over ten minutes to reach the temporary base that Professor Gu Jing had found.

Looking at the temporary base in front of them, everyone was very surprised. It perfectly matched the requirements that Li Yin had described earlier, and there was also a lake not far from the temporary base.

"It's impossible that this place isn't occupied by demons?!" Zu Yuntian looked at Professor Gu Jing with a puzzled expression, wanting to know how Professor Gu Jing had occupied it.

Professor Gu Jing had no intention of explaining and said directly, "Don't worry about what methods we use. These are secrets of our Pearl Academy. I can guarantee that this territory will be safe for the time being, and no other demons will compete with us for it."

Upon hearing this, the rest of the group decided not to investigate further. After all, it was quite normal for Mingzhu Academy, as one of the top universities in the country, to hide some special secrets.

After circling the temporary base, noting down the surrounding features, and confirming that there were indeed no traces of demons nearby, the group began to pitch their tents and rest.

As for continuing to explore the Fire Dragon Valley, they didn't have much energy left.

Although it was still some time before nightfall, they had encountered far too many demons in the past few hours. They no longer wanted to fight the demons and just wanted to rest for a while.

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The night was quiet and deep, the entire Fire Dragon Valley was shrouded in darkness, only the campfire in the center of the temporary stronghold was still flickering lightly, bringing a sliver of light to the silent night.

According to the previous arrangement, this was the time when Lin Chen and Jiang Shaoxu were supposed to keep watch.

Originally, since Jiang Shaoxu was the only girl in the team, everyone didn't plan to assign her the task of keeping watch at night.

However, Jiang Shaoxu herself disagreed, saying that she was not willing to be a mere decorative figurehead and strongly requested to be included in the night watch list as well.

Left with no other choice, the five high-level mages nodded in agreement. Just as the young mid-level mages were fantasizing about the wonderful time they would spend keeping watch with Jiang Shaoxu, Jiang Shaoxu made another request: she wanted to keep watch with Lin Chen.

These words struck the other young mages like a thunderbolt: Why Lin Chen again?

Aside from being a little handsome, a little talented, and a little strong, Lin Chen is practically useless.

Unlike them, who can simply go home and live a life of leisure and idleness as long as they don't want to work hard anymore.

Since Jiang Shaoxu herself had made a request, the five high-level mages did not refuse and directly arranged for her and Lin Chen to be together, choosing a time slot that was not too late for them.

"Lin Chen, why don't you summon your Garurumon? It would make our night watch much easier." Jiang Shaoxu leaned against the tree trunk, picked up a stick, and played with the flames with a bit of boredom.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen immediately summoned Garurumon and Greymon, sending them to rest at the edge of the camp and to keep watch for him.

Jiang Shaoxu, with an expression that suggested he was a promising student, turned and walked towards his tent.

Seeing this, Lin Chen's lips curled into a helpless smile. Everyone was against letting her keep watch at night, but she insisted on doing so. Now that it was her turn to keep watch, everyone thought they could have a heart-to-heart talk with her, but she wanted to slack off again. He really couldn't understand what this woman was thinking.

However, since he had already summoned both Digimon, Lin Chen had no intention of continuing to keep watch. He planned to take this opportunity to strengthen Guilmon and see how much power he could increase Guilmon's strength.

To prevent the noise generated during Guilmon's enhancement from waking others, Lin Chen deliberately left the camp and went to a relatively secluded spot not far from the camp to begin enhancing Guilmon.

A moonlit star trail was released by Lin Chen, and the figure of the Gil Beast appeared.

The moment it emerged, Guilmon cautiously scanned its surroundings, but found no danger.

"I didn't send you out to fight, I'm preparing you to improve your strength." Lin Chen smiled knowingly as he looked at Guilmon's appearance.

Guilmon was overjoyed when it heard that Lin Chen wanted to improve its strength. Its companions had already evolved into Champion-level Digimon with Commander-level strength, which it had always envied.

However, Guilmon does not have a corresponding crest power, making its evolution more difficult. It must meet growth requirements to evolve in order to adapt to stronger enemies and environments.

"I've collected so much dragon blood grass, plus the remaining pseudo-dragon essence blood from before. I wonder if this will be enough to help the Guilmon evolve successfully," Lin Chen muttered to himself.

Lin Chen took out all the remaining pseudo-dragon blood essence from the ring and handed it to the Gil Beast.

Guilmon took the pseudo-dragon's blood essence and, without the slightest hesitation, threw it directly into its mouth.

In Lin Chen's view, the Gil Beast that swallowed the pseudo-dragon's blood essence did not show any drastic changes. Even its body did not change. It just emitted a faint red light from various parts of its body.

"No effect?" A hint of doubt flashed in Lin Chen's eyes, and then he brought up Guilmon's panel.

Name: Guilmon

[Type: Dinosaur]

[Strength: Junior General Level]

[Evolution: 20%]

Looking at the panel in front of him, Lin Chen suddenly realized that it wasn't that there was no effect, but rather that the Little Warrior level was already the peak of the growth stage. If he wanted to improve his strength, he could only complete the evolution.

Although the evolution is still incomplete, as long as there is progress, that's a good thing. At worst, it's just a matter of piling up resources. Compared to the resources required for other summoned beasts and contracted beasts in this world to break through level limits, Digimon already require relatively little.

Staring at the progress of the evolution section on the panel, Lin Chen took out a Dragon Blood Grass from his ring and fed it to Guilmon.

The moment Guilmon swallowed the Dragon Blood Grass, its body began to ooze red blood. Looking at the blood flowing from its body, Guilmon's face showed a blank expression, as if it didn't know what was happening.

Soon the bleeding from Guilmon stopped, its body returned to normal, and the completion rate of the evolution section on the panel reached 21%.

"It must be because the blood in the body has been refined," Lin Chen guessed.

Since the dragon blood grass was useful to the Guilmon, Lin Chen took out all the dragon blood grass and put it on the ground, preparing to feed it to the Guilmon one by one.

But the silly Gilbeast, seeing Lin Chen take out all the Dragon Blood Grass, thought it was for him to eat all at once, so it grabbed all the Dragon Blood Grass on the ground and stuffed it into its mouth.

Before Lin Chen could stop it, the Gilmon had already swallowed it.

In an instant, a large amount of blood seeped out from Guilmon's body, and a look of pain appeared on Guilmon's face.

Seeing the scene before him, Lin Chen was very worried, but there was nothing he could do. He could only rely on Guilmon to get through it.

Because it had ingested too much dragon blood grass, the strengthening process took much longer than before. About ten minutes later, blood stopped seeping from the body of the Gilmon, and the pain on its face disappeared.

At this moment, Guilmon showed no signs of fatigue; on the contrary, he seemed to be full of energy, as if he wasn't the one who had been writhing on the ground in pain just moments before.

Lin Chen checked Guilmon's evolution completion rate again; it had reached 85%. As long as he could find another treasure in Fire Dragon Valley to strengthen Guilmon, Guilmon would definitely evolve successfully, and his strength would increase once again.

Although Guilmon looked to be in very good condition, it had indeed expended a lot of energy. Lin Chen then put Guilmon back into his Digital Space and returned to the camp alone.

Lin Chen returned to the camp, looked around, and noticed a problem.

Garurumon has disappeared!