Elsewhere, Guilmon and Dracomon's jungle showdown was also drawing to a close.
As Dracomon flapped his wings, tore away half the prey, and flew into the sky, the jungle training session came to an end.
In the end, this jungle training session had neither a winner nor a loser.
"Guilmon, how do you feel?"
Mo Yan raised his hand and cast a spell to soothe the mind, then turned Dracomon back into a DigiCore before asking Guilmon.
"Wizardmon, Guilmon feels great. Super great!"
Guilmon raised his arms and flexed, doing his best to express how he felt.
"Really?
Then step into this Magic Circle and pay close attention to the changes in yourself.
After that, tell me what you feel."
With a light tap of his Magic Wand against the ground, a Magic Circle appeared before Guilmon, and Mo Yan gestured for him to step inside.
"Huh? All I have to do is step inside?"
Guilmon looked at Mo Yan, then at the Magic Circle on the ground, and asked for confirmation.
"Yes, this Magic Circle will amplify your senses.
That way, you'll be able to tell what has changed in you."
That way, I can also find out how your data is arranged.
Of course, Mo Yan did not say that aloud.
Nearby, Impmon, who was compressing Dark Night Flame, naturally heard Mo Yan's words too.
But Impmon would rather not have heard them.
"Okay, Wizardmon."
With that, Guilmon stepped into the Magic Circle and stood at its center.
A glow flared, and a ring of light resembling a data scanner appeared, rapidly sweeping up and down.
The ring's movements produced waves of light, each carrying various pieces of information about Guilmon's current state.
The arrangement of Demon Dragon, flame, and other data...
Latent data that had yet to manifest...
The "Digital Hazard" that represented his status and privileges...
Data absorbed from other Digimon...
Guilmon received a stripped-down version of the scan results, while Mo Yan obtained far more detailed, deeper information.
It was worth mentioning that the moment Mo Yan began his comprehensive scan of Guilmon, Megidramon, still hidden in the Dark Area, turned his gaze upon him.
Mo Yan had been mentally prepared for that.
Megidramon wanted to leave the Dark Area, break his seal, and gain a measure of freedom.
To do so, he had to secure the support of Qinglongmon, the oldest among both the Four Holy Beasts and the Four Great Dragons.
As Mo Yan was Qinglongmon's apostle, Megidramon had no choice but to remain patient and watch him scan Guilmon's data, learning about Megidramon's own underlying data.
Megidramon did not know whether Mo Yan's earlier collection of some of his data, or this current scan, had been ordered by Qinglongmon.
Megidramon dared not gamble, nor did he want to.
He wanted to escape that lightless abyss of darkness.
He did not want to be sealed away again.
He did not want to face endless crusades against him again.
That was why Megidramon had entered into a contract with Qinglongmon and the others, and why he was willing to hand over some of his data for experiments.
All of it was for the sake of leaving the Dark Area.
If that was hard to understand, try locking yourself in a small, dark room for a day, and you would gain some inkling of how Megidramon felt.
Besides, hadn't you noticed that the rulers of the Dark Area all liked to "go out"?
Soon, the ring of light stopped sweeping up and down, and the Magic Circle's glow slowly faded.
"All done, Guilmon. Everything the scan found has been converted into data and sent to you. Take a good look."
After first storing the information he had obtained, Mo Yan spoke to Guilmon.
"Thank you, Wizardmon.
Um, Guilmon isn't tired yet. Guilmon can still train."
Thanks to Takato Matsuki's teaching, Guilmon first offered a polite word of thanks, then immediately declared that he could keep training.
"Guilmon, it's already very late. Let's train again tomorrow."
With a wave of his hand, Mo Yan first converted the training grounds he had built into a template and stored it away, then told Guilmon they would continue tomorrow.
Naturally delighted by Mo Yan's words, Guilmon happily ran off to rest in the cabin.
Watching Guilmon leave, Mo Yan smiled.
Now there's even more teaching data I can collect.
I wonder how much teaching data I need to collect to evolve into SageMon.
But I don't want to evolve into the same form as my teacher.
Shaking his head, Mo Yan reined in his wandering thoughts.
Still, what other data do I need to collect to evolve into that form?
Glancing at Impmon, Mo Yan began pondering another question.
Yellow earth,
Blue water,
Red fire,
Green wind.
As Mo Yan thought, the four elemental powers representing a Wizard's basic attributes manifested.
The four powers became spheres of energy that hovered and circled around Mo Yan.
With a single step, Mo Yan isolated himself from the space Impmon occupied.
At the same time, the other eleven DigiCores within Mo Yan flew out of his body one after another.
Arranged in a peculiar formation, these DigiCores enclosed Mo Yan, creating a suitable, sealed environment where he would not be easily disturbed.
Then Mo Yan held two fingers together like a sword and continuously wrote various digital characters with his magic power.
Under the higher-level commands of "magic," these digital characters formed all manner of spells.
At Mo Yan's will, these spells continually merged into the four elemental energy spheres.
As spell after spell poured into them, the four elemental spheres began to take solid form.
Once the four elemental spheres began to solidify, Mo Yan started writing compound spells.
Earth merged with fire.
Earth merged with water.
Earth merged with wind.
Using earth, the element best suited to bearing various powers, as the foundation, Mo Yan began guiding the elemental spheres to fuse.
Fire merged with wind.
Water merged with wind.
After earth, wind became the medium linking fire and water.
Fire merged with water.
The elements hardest to combine began to fuse, marking the final stage of Mo Yan's elemental fusion.
The four elements merged.
At last, the four elements completed their fusion.
A flawless, crystal-clear sphere appeared before Mo Yan.
At that moment, all the data Mo Yan had accumulated over so long was exhausted.
At the same time, the coupling of such vast amounts of data triggered alarms at the relevant agencies.
Mo Yan, however, did not care.
Mo Yan had heard about humanity's activities in cyberspace from both Qinglongmon and SageMon.
Their so-called "Annihilation Plan" and "Data Destruction" could only bully Digimon unable to control their own data.
Against a Digimon like Mo Yan, who could control his own data and was also an unconventional Digimon, they had no effect whatsoever.
No, it wasn't quite right to say they had no effect.
Humanity's so-called data attacks could still inflict physical damage on Mo Yan.
Though they couldn't penetrate his defenses.
But they were annoying!
Mo Yan reached out to take the crystal sphere and hefted it in his hand.
Looks like I've gained another means of physical attack.
Mo Yan was very satisfied with the crystal sphere's weight and hardness.
But in that case, do I need to keep improving my physique for this Wizardmon's further evolution?
How about adding some chivalry data?
Recalling a certain famous wizard from his previous life, Mo Yan felt that his line of thinking was quite sound.
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