After Allen returned to the guild with the others, Grame moved into Layla's house with Brandish. Brandish naturally became a member of Fairy Tail as well. Once the final Zodiac key had been recovered, Layla began preparing to open the Eclipse Gate on July 7. Compared to Anna, Allen was more interested in meeting those Dragon Slayer Mages.
Time passed quickly. It felt as though July had arrived in the blink of an eye. After returning from the Western Continent, Allen had been cultivating in seclusion. His battle with August had confirmed that he now had the strength to fight the Black Dragon. As for whether he could defeat it, Allen still felt uncertain. He did not currently have many ways to injure the Black Dragon. Dragon Slayer Magic could work, but only Dragon Slayer Secret Art or stronger magic would be effective. Ordinary Dragon Slayer Magic would merely tickle the Black Dragon. Thus, Allen conducted deeper research into the two preparations he had made, and after this period, he gained two results.
One was that Allen could extract juvenile Digimon data from Chaosdramon X's Digital Core. However, he had only extracted data for two juvenile Digimon: Black Ball Beast and Punimon. Allen guessed that these were fragments of Omegamon's data stored in Chaosdramon X's memories. He planned to materialize the two Digimon later and give them to Sorano and Yukino. The two Summoners still had no suitable Summoned Creatures, so now that they had Digimon, Allen would not let them choose other summons.
The other result came from the Dragon Slayer Magic Allen had sensed from the World Devouring Dragon Beast. Over the past two months, Allen had received the World Devouring Dragon Beast several times in an attempt to deepen his understanding of the finer details of using