A different kind of digital world adventure

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"Yes, this must be what I sensed."

At this moment, everyone is under the roots of a large tree.

The reason for coming here was simple: she saw several mushroom beasts destroying the small village, so she intervened and stopped them. Just as she was about to leave, Sora felt a calling.

This sense of déjà vu naturally prompted Taiichi to urge Sora to go and take a look. Then, following Sora's senses, the group arrived at the location.

"Okay, then Suna, why don't you try receiving it?"

"Let me try."

Sora tried to raise the Divine Plan, and as soon as the screen was aligned with the Wind Warrior Spirit, the screen immediately lit up with white light, guiding the Wind Warrior Spirit into the screen. Immediately, an ancient word for wind appeared on Sora's Divine Plan.

"It seems I'm not an exception; this is exactly the same situation I've encountered before."

Taiyi nodded in agreement.

"Now that the Wind Warrior Spirit has been collected, Sora, you should be able to evolve now, right?"

"It should be possible." Although the idea that she could evolve felt a bit far-fetched, Sora closed her eyes and sensed for a moment before picking up the Digivice.

"I'll try."

As she spoke, Sora, following the connection the Wind Warrior's spirit gave her, raised her right hand, and a data ring emanating from the Wind Warrior's spirit appeared in her palm. Then, she traced the data across the Divine Plan.

"Arm up, evolve—Angewomon!"

In an instant, the armor fell off and covered Sora's entire body. A flash of light appeared, and in the blink of an eye, a graceful and ethereal fairy dressed in very little clothing appeared before everyone's eyes.

Angewomon, Hybrid

Seeing Angewomon's expression, Koushiro and Joe turned their heads away, but Tai remained focused on her. After a while, Tai nodded slightly and then praised her.

"Wow, Sora is amazing! You've really brought out the full power of the Wind Warrior's spirit."

"In that case, you should be able to summon the other half-beast form warrior spirit as well."

"Let me try."

She was initially embarrassed by her current attire, but when she met Tai's innocent gaze, her anger subsided by seven-tenths. After calming down, Angewomon nodded slightly to Tai, then closed her eyes and began to try to summon the other half of the Fighter Spirit.

After a while, Angewomon opened her eyes.

"It should be fine."

After waiting for about ten minutes, everyone saw a small black dot appear in the distance. It was obviously the figure of the Beast Form Warrior Spirit. However, everyone soon discovered that something else was following closely behind the black dot. When they got closer, Taiyi and the others realized that it was a Griffin Beast.

It seemed that the griffin wanted to intercept the warrior spirit, but the warrior spirit's speed was clearly beyond the griffin's capabilities. So, the griffin kept following closely behind the warrior spirit, but no matter what it did, it couldn't get close to it.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the warrior's spirit merged into the body of an unfamiliar fairy-type Digimon. Seeing this, Griffon was so enraged that he spread his wings wide.

"You little thief, give me back my fighting spirit!"

"You're treating people like thieves."

Upon hearing this, Tai immediately rolled up his sleeves, ready to teach this rascal a lesson. However, before Tai could even make a move, Angewomon suddenly raised her hand to block Tai.

"Wait a minute, Taiyi, let me try."

As she spoke, Angewomon looked up at the menacing Griffinmon, a glint of wildness flashing in her eyes. Then, Angewomon raised her Divine Plane.

"Angewomon, transfer evolution—Shuzumon!"

In an instant, Angewomon transformed from Fairy type into a more mature brown-skinned birdman named Shuzmon. After evolving, Shuzmon immediately looked at its entire body. Well, although it still had less cloth, it had at least more than Angewomon, and it was also wearing a mask. Overall, it was barely acceptable.

After feeling a little relieved, Shuzmon looked up at Griffinmon.

Having no time to waste on the Griffin, Shuzumon, determined never to evolve again, spread its wings. Instantly, several sharp feathers shot out with a gust of wind, stopping the Griffin mid-air. Seeing that the Griffin was temporarily incapacitated, Shuzumon reached out and poked it.

"Go back to where you came from."

"The wind of pain".

Whoosh! With a sudden flap of its wings, the griffin in front of it vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Having done all this, Shuzmon didn't hesitate at all and immediately turned around and withdrew from evolution.

"I will never evolve again," Sora said to everyone.

Everyone understood, but only Taichi and Agumon looked confused.

"Why? It's so strong, and its aerial maneuverability is so good. It can totally coordinate with the Phoenix Beast."

Sora didn't know what to say about this rabbit-headed person who controlled a big head.

"Anyway, let's hurry up and leave."

Sora said to Taichi with a stern face.

"Aren't we supposed to keep traveling?"

"By the way, there might be other fighting spirits that exist, so we should also check if there are any of those things."

"you're right."

Taiichi's attention was indeed diverted.

"Let's go, let's keep going!"

Chapter 278 Successive Evolutions

Sora finding the Warrior Spirit was just the beginning. In fact, after Sora found the Wind Warrior Spirit, Koushiro and Joe also found the Thunder Warrior Spirit and the Ice Warrior Spirit respectively during their journey. Of course, they initially looked for the humanoid Warrior Spirits. As for the beast-type Warrior Spirits, they came to them on their own during the summoning process.

Frankly speaking, this situation always gives people the feeling that it was deliberately arranged, as if someone specially set up this road with the purpose of gradually instilling a fighting spirit in those seeking help.

Given that the direction of the Beast Form Thunder Warrior's spirit that Koushiro tracked back was exactly the same as their direction of movement, it can be roughly determined that this was deliberately set up by the other side.

It's even possible that these fighting spirits were instilled by that Digimon; that's not out of the question.

In any case, everyone did indeed receive these fighting spirits and were able to evolve into Digimon, which provided greater security for everyone except Tai.

Furthermore, although it's unclear why this Fighter Spirit is controlled by humans, Digimon can actually use it as well. This was an experiment conducted by Koushiro. By evolving through Tentomon, it can also transform into Raimon and Dynamon. In fact, its normal power output is even stronger than Koushiro's transformed form. However, in terms of potential, it is indeed far inferior.

From this perspective, the mysterious person who sent them the distress signal may have been looking for a higher level of fighting spirit that they could unleash.

In other words, he believes that only when the spirit of a fighter can reach such a limit can it be possible to overcome the darkness of this world and successfully save it?

Koushiro's analysis came to this conclusion, and after careful consideration, everyone agreed that it made perfect sense.

However, everyone's fighting spirit remained high. Although they did not know what kind of opponent they would face next, they were no longer the same as before, and they even had the invincible Taiyi. No matter what kind of enemy they were, they would not have any option to fear.

It's over for being reckless!

"We are only 100 kilometers away from where the distress signal came from."

Koushiro looked at the control screen, then looked up at everyone and said,

"Based on what we've gathered along the way, that should be Seraphimon's castle, and I suspect the sender of the email is very likely Seraphimon himself."

"As the acting administrator of this world, we are forced to send out a distress signal to the outside world. It seems that there is indeed a big problem with this world."

Although they didn't stop much along the way, they still helped many Digimon in their fight against evil. Even though most of the Digimon were weak and didn't know much, their general description of the world was already a great help to Tai and his friends.

They learned that the three angels, namely Seraphimon, Angewomon, and Cherubimon, were the current rulers of the Digital World. For tens of thousands of years, they had been diligently managing the Digital World. However, one day, Cherubimon fell from grace for unknown reasons. After falling, Cherubimon ambushed Seraphimon, severely injuring him and forcing him to remain in the castle to recover. Angewomon was imprisoned by Cherubimon under the throne. Currently, Cherubimon holds absolute power over the entire world, and the rampaging Digimon are also a result of Cherubimon's evil influence.

Well... although the Digimon I asked were all just hearsay due to their limited strength, that's roughly how things are going. And more importantly, from these things, Taiichi also confirmed a crucial point: Cherubimon is very likely not the final boss. It is very likely that it was manipulated or corrupted. As for who corrupted it, I don't know. I'll just have to ask Cherubimon when the time comes.

In addition, they also learned about the legend of the Ten Warriors. In fact, the legend of the Ten Warriors is known to everyone in this world. Almost every Digimon can tell a few words about the legend of the Ten Warriors.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Digital World faced a world-ending crisis. It was only through the intervention of ten powerful Ultimate-level Digimon that the crisis was averted and the Digital World was successfully saved.

These ten Digimon who saved the Digital World are revered as the legendary Ten Warriors, or the original Ultimate Digimon.

Of course, this title might have been a bit exaggerated at first, since there are quite a few ancient Digimon that they have seen so far. But to be fair, being able to forcibly evolve into an Ultimate Digimon in an environment that was completely unsuitable for the birth of Ultimate Digimon in ancient times, at least these ten warriors are very strong. If they were alive today, they would at least be on par with the Four Holy Beasts.

Then it turns out that it takes ten of these guys to completely eliminate the crisis. With a slightly imprecise calculation, it doesn't seem unreasonable to directly compare it to the invasion crisis of the Emperor Li Demon.

Although everyone knows the legend of the Ten Warriors, unfortunately, none of the Digimon that Tai and the others encountered knew the names of these heroes who saved the world, or what they looked like. After all, it was a very long time ago; according to the timeline of the Digital World, it was probably tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Given such a long period of time, unless one is a scholar specializing in ancient texts, it is impossible to know the specifics of the situation.

However, this also demonstrates just how terrifying the influence of the Ten Warriors is in this world. Even after so much time has passed, this legend continues to circulate on the continent, and it seems likely that it will continue to spread for a long time to come.

This explains why Sora and her friends often encounter Digimon that bother them when they summon the Fighter Spirit.

Those who recognize Fighter Spirit will know that this is a genuinely good product. Although Fighter Spirit has a compatibility factor, before actually trying it, who dares to say that they are not the right match?

In this light, their act of directly summoning the Fighter Spirit seems a bit too high-profile. I'm afraid many discerning individuals have already recognized these things and will soon realize that the Fighter Spirit is within them.

Perhaps soon someone will come knocking and try to steal it? After all, not only does the Fighter Spirit contain powerful energy, but this is also something that Cherubimon has explicitly offered a bounty for. Even if it doesn't suit you, if you can get your hands on it, you can exchange it for a lot of good stuff from Cherubimon.

But since things have already been done, it doesn't really matter how things develop from here; we'll just have to deal with whatever comes our way.

"We now have a total of five fighter spirits at our disposal."

Ah-Zhu counted on his fingers.

"Then, regarding Cherubimon, there should be four types of Fighter Spirits now. That means there's still one Fighter Spirit we haven't found, which should be..." (The rest of the text appears to be random characters and symbols, possibly a corrupted or incomplete message.)

"The spirit of the warriors of light".

Suna added,

"And this fighting spirit has not yet been found."

"Yes, the spirit of the warriors of light."

Azhu nodded, then looked at everyone, and his expression immediately turned troubled.

"None of us seem to fit the spirit of the Warriors of Light."

While it's unclear what the Spirit of Light is, the Spirits they currently possess—the Flame Spirit, which clearly has a Dragon attribute and is a perfect match for Tai, the Ice Spirit, which is also part of the attribute of Gomamon's final evolution, and the Thunder Spirit, which can be simply seen as exclusive to Izzy—naturally show a certain similarity between these Spirits and the power that their crests can unleash. From this perspective, the so-called Spirit of Light should naturally be associated with light, that is, with angels. However, none of them possess such power.

The only ones who could be connected are Takeru and Kari, but we haven't found either of them yet.

Actually, BlackGatomon could be somewhat related. After all, although it's a Dark-type Digimon, it was once an angel, and its current mindset is positive. So, if BlackGatomon wanted to, it could easily follow the path of an angel again and become Angewomon or even Ophanimon.

Unfortunately, he didn't even finish saying those words to BlackGatomon. He only mentioned the word "light" to it, and BlackGatomon immediately started hissing, as if it would unleash a cat punch if he said another word.

There was no way around it. Although it had emerged from the darkness of depravity, it was still more used to its current form. BlackGatomon only reminisced about its previous form and had no desire to change back.

"It doesn't matter if we're not a good match, as long as we can find someone," Koushiro said calmly.

"Seraphimon should know the whereabouts of the Spirit of Light. Once we find Seraphimon, we'll at least understand some things."

“That’s right.” Sora nodded slightly, then stood up.

"Alright, let's continue on our way then."

Everyone naturally stood up to leave, but then they noticed that Taiyi was still sitting there, arms crossed, eyes closed in deep thought.

"Taiyi, why aren't you leaving yet?"

Sora found it strange.

"What are you thinking?"

"No... I wasn't thinking about anything."

Taiichi opened his eyes, looked at his hands, and said somewhat uncertainly,

"I feel... like I'm feeling a summoning sensation again?"

Everyone was immediately stunned.