Digital Hackers' Memories

The increasingly mad and out-of-control steel empire is already a huge "trouble," and I absolutely cannot let this "trouble" escalate any further.

"Should we sanction those 'evolutionists' to carry out the original plan?"

So, just as the agent was pondering, another agent dressed in a white robe entered the database hall at some point.

"Xuannei's proxy?"

Chapter Eleven Dragon Factor

As one of the most powerful forces in the history of the Digital World, the Steel Empire was an organization that no other organization could rival it during its time.

During the heyday of the steel empire, they were the undisputed rulers of the digital world.

Especially as a magnificent industrial city, the capital of a steel empire, it embodies a variety of cutting-edge technologies that surpass the imagination of later generations.

Even in the era when the Royal Knights emerged, a considerable portion of the Steel Empire's advanced technologies remained in a "black box" state.

A special digital alloy with biological characteristics, capable of evolving and growing alongside its host body—the Chrono Digizoid…

A device that allows Ancient Digimon to briefly evolve and gain power surpassing that of a typical Champion-level Digimon—the Digi-Armor…

A powerful program that mimics the structure of a digital core, capable of being mass-produced and implanted into ordinary machinery—an artificial digital core…

A war and killing machine that needs no evolution or growth, born superior to ordinary Digimon—Prototype Digimon…

And the form that has been accepted by the Digital World and is prevalent in most Digimon evolution routes—the cyborg Digimon…

It can be said that the Steel Empire at its peak is an era that the digital world can never bypass.

However, like all nations and organizations that rise to prominence and then decline, the end of the era of the steel empire was not caused by powerful external enemies, but by internal strife.

As the steel empire expanded unchecked, its agents gradually split into several factions.

Among them, the evolutionary faction, which "pursues the ultimate evolution and steps into the realm of gods," is the largest and most arrogant, and its power accounts for more than half of the military force within the Iron Empire.

After mastering the technology for mass production of fully-fledged organisms, these almost insane agents actually attempted to break the boundaries of evolution and venture into areas they had never encountered before.

In fact, this faction has existed since the birth of the Steel Empire.

In addition to the nine original data elements—courage, friendship, love, innocence, knowledge, honesty, gentleness, hope, and light—the derivative data system, including miracles, destiny, darkness, desire, perseverance, and pride, is their masterpiece.

There are even rumors within the Steel Empire that those madmen used the derived data system to create beings that surpass the level of the fully formed.

Gennai, who once belonged to the evolutionary school of thought, confirmed this.

In an era when even fully-fledged digital armor was scarce, those fanatical agents used a special type of gold ore to create a completely man-made digital armor.

That was a "golden armor" that far exceeded the limits of normal digital armor, and it was also the source of the ambition of those evolutionists who now wanted to step onto the "realm of gods" again.

Even though he had long since left the evolutionary school, Gennai still shuddered at the thought of that power that transcended limits.

If "He" hadn't intervened in time, the Digital World would probably have been destroyed by those lunatics.

"The current digital world... cannot withstand that level of power."

Gennai knew all too well how terrifying that power was, and therefore he was even more aware of the kind of disaster that power would bring to the digital world today.

"We must stop those lunatics' plan before they succeed!"

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Unaware that a "revolution" was about to erupt within the steel empire.

At this moment, Molecular Beast stared intently at Agumon, which was immersed in a petri dish.

Molecularmon doesn't care why this Digimon, which is very likely from the future, came to this world, nor does it want to know what its mission is.

Molecular Beast captured Agumon simply out of curiosity.

That unknown subspecies, that code from the future...

Molecular Beast was curious: if this Agumon were used as material, could it be modified into an even more powerful Ultimate form?

As far as Molecular Beast knows, the Steel Empire's current prosperity and strength stemmed from capturing the first successfully evolved Greymon.

So, by using the data from this Agumon from the future, will I be able to surpass my former creator?

In a sense, aside from uncovering the truth of the world, this is the only wish of the molecular beast, whose own identity is ambiguous.

Molecularmon doesn't care what the Digital World will become; it just keeps pursuing knowledge and pushing the limits it hasn't yet reached.

The appearance of Agumon gave Molemon a glimpse of its potential to surpass its agent.

"Hmm, the dragon factor concentration is still not high enough..."

After a brief moment of thought, Molecular Beast decided to continue manipulating the control panel and inject more viscous liquid into the culture dish where Agumon was located.

That was the "Dragon Factor" that the Steel Empire deliberately extracted from the data of the original Greymon in order to enhance the power of Dragon-type Digimon.

The Dragon Factor is a type of data, a violent and wild power, and the main reason why Dragon-type Digimon once ruled the entire Digital World.

If it weren't for the sudden emergence of the Steel Empire, this era would still be the era of Dragon-type Digimon, until it is replaced by even more superior Digimon.

Even so, the Steel Empire has never given up its research on dragon-type digital beasts, especially the dragon factor that contains the power of dragon beasts.

Theoretically speaking, every dragon-type Digimon contains dragon factors; the only difference is the amount.

Compared to the powerful dragon beasts of this era, this Agumon from the future, though a dinosaur, contains far less dragon genes than Molecular Beast had imagined.

So what Molecular Beast is doing now is injecting more dragon factors into Agumon's body, so that it can successfully revert to its ancestral form.

After all, the Iron Empire's most powerful series of modifications were all based on dragon-type digital beasts.

Despite its outstanding intelligence and talent, Molecular Beast was unable to recompile the other unknown data in Agumon's Digicore without any prior knowledge.

In this situation, only by injecting more dragon factors into Agumon's body can Molecular Beast complete the next stage of modification.

Gulu...

Just like the process of repairing the Steel Bean Beast before.

As more and more dragon factors were injected into the molecular beast, Agumon, immersed in the viscous liquid, seemed to be having its data refreshed, constantly changing and reorganizing its own structure.

Correspondingly, every time Agumon refreshes its own data, the viscous liquid decreases, while its body grows larger.

Gulu...

In just a few breaths, Agumon, which was originally only 1.6 meters tall, rapidly expanded to nearly 2 meters in height, and its weight increased exponentially.

Chapter Twelve: The Strongest Name

Gulu...

With the annotation and manipulation of the molecular beast, more and more dragon factors were injected into Agumon's body, and his size once broke through his own limits.

It should be noted that Chen Ze's evolved Agumon already had a larger size than other Agumon of its kind, and its massive muscles were something that ordinary Agumon could only envy.

In fact, apart from the Agumon in Hikari Hill, Chen Ze had never seen a Growth-stage monster that could rival him in physique and strength.

Unfortunately, ever since the Hikari Hill incident, Agumon's enemies have been either Invaders or Royal Knights, or at the very least, Champion or Ultimate level Digimon.

This directly resulted in Agumon, despite possessing great strength, often having to use the "alternate form" evolved from Piccolo – White Flamemon – due to the large level difference.

However, things are different now. As Agumon's size gradually surpasses that of the Agumon from Hikari-gaoka, the power within him is also increasing at an unprecedented rate.

Without a doubt, Agumon at this moment, just as Molemon predicted, is gradually reverting to its ancestral form and becoming a powerful Ancient Species Digimon.

For Ancient Digimon, size equates to power.

This is a trend that has emerged in ancient Digimon in order to continuously become stronger when their own evolution is limited.

"what?"

Just when Molecular Beast thought that Agumon's transformation had come to an end, it suddenly noticed that the other's claws were also starting to actively absorb the dragon factor.

Those claw-like claws were formed from the residual data of the previous Agumon, possessing a purer "Dragon Attribute" than Agumon.

Therefore, upon contact with such a high concentration of dragon factor, its power was inevitably activated, and it began to undergo further transformation.

"There are really some interesting changes..."

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In the heart of a magnificent industrial city, the base of a strategic squad.

[Metaldramon Third Squad, ready to activate. Proceed immediately to Sector 19 to capture the 'traitor' Molemon.]

When the leading metal dragon received the command from the internal network, it quickly switched from hibernation to combat readiness.

As the first MetalGreymon was awakened, the other two MetalGreymon behind it were also activated and followed closely behind it as they stepped out of the settlement.

During this process, hundreds of Gear Beasts and Guardian Beasts were also awakened, and they all installed the latest mechanical parts and combat weapons on the three Metal Dragon Beasts.

From its steel jawline to its completely metallic body, and its two mechanically armed arms...

After the three MetalGreymon completely left the base, their weaponry was replaced and upgraded to the latest version, and even their artificial digital cores were loaded with a VER.3.0 level combat program.

While MetalGreymon may not be able to compete with the specialized powerhouses within the Empire in terms of combat strength, its heavily armed state makes it one of the most cost-effective Complete forms in the Steel Empire.

Following Megadramon, the second Ultimate-level Digimon mass-produced by the Steel Empire, MetalGreymon is primarily a ground-attack type Digimon.

Theoretically speaking, MetalGreymon possesses combat power on the ground that is comparable to that of the original MetalGreymon.

Boom!

Thus, as the three Metal Dragon Beasts successively crawled into the Motor Beast's carriage, a strife against the Mole Beast began.

However, what the entire Steel Empire did not expect was that this operation to strangle the molecular beasts was only the beginning of a huge "transformation".

In the heart of the Steel Empire, in the First District, agents led by Gennai are heading towards the central research base, intending to stop the increasingly insane self-destructive behavior of the "Evolutionists".

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The core research base of the steel empire, the magnificent industrial city of District One.

Unlike the usual tranquility, the First District was now like a machine running at full capacity, with a huge roar coming from all directions—the sound of more than a hundred production lines operating at full capacity simultaneously.

You see, this magnificent industrial city has a huge factory.

The resources plundered by the Steel Empire from all over the Digital World are broken down and recombined here, and then turned into raw materials for manufacturing various mechanical and modified Digimon.

Unfortunately, since this industrial city was built, it has never truly been operating at full capacity.

Because in this era, no organization or Digimon has been able to withstand the sheer number of Perfect-level Digimon that the Steel Empire employs, let alone directly storm its lair.

Unfortunately, this record of this magnificent industrial city has been broken today.

Under the frenzied operation of those more than one hundred production lines, various precious resources were decomposed and recombined in a very short time, turning into huge mechanical objects with unknown functions.

Each of these enormous metal parts is as big as MetalGreymon, and their intricate design is unmatched by ordinary mechanized Digimon.

This is a component secretly designed by the Evolutionists behind the backs of the other agents. It is also a vision that the group of madmen, combining all the wisdom of the Steel Empire, tried to realize.

"Those guys... they really haven't given up on that crazy idea."

Looking at the overloaded production line with a face full of shock and anger, Gennai had never felt the madness of the evolutionists so deeply.

"What are those lunatics planning to build?"

"Wait, is that a man-made digital core? How could it be so huge?"

"Is that the head of an Andromon? Are they planning to mass-produce Andromon?"

"Wait, look there! Isn't that MetalGreymon's steel claw? Are they trying to replicate MetalGreymon?"

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Hearing the screams rising and falling behind him, Gennai realized that the other agents did not seem to have figured out the true purpose of the "Evolution Faction".

Are they... really planning to challenge the rules of the digital world?

As he pondered this, Gennei's gaze swept over the enormous parts one by one.

From those enormous parts, Gennai saw traces of all mechanical and modified Digimon since the birth of the Steel Empire.

Furthermore, compared to the original Digimon, these mechanized parts are significantly larger, so large that Gennai cannot even imagine what they would look like when assembled.

However, what Xuan Nei knew even better was that these huge parts might just be a smokescreen—he still hadn't found the core factory that actually assembled these giant parts.

"Using the concept of 'strongest' to create an existence comparable to a god?"

Chapter Thirteen: The Chosen Digimon?

Of course, when Agumon opened its eyes again, what came into view was an "ocean" made entirely of data.

0 and 1 are like the "waves" of this ocean. The code, fragments, or complete mappings made up of them are reflected in this "ocean," forming a magnificent and beautiful scene.

Without needing many words, Agumon knew the moment it saw this "ocean" that it was its Digicore.