As purple magic power rose from Impmon's body, the blessing of demon lord power descended upon him once again.
At this point, Impmon still did not understand what kind of power it was. He simply assumed it was a power he had awakened through training.
In a sense, it really was Impmon's latent power.
However, although Impmon knew he possessed this mysterious power, he had never been able to control it.
Impmon had also asked Mo Yan about it, only to receive the same answer: "It's fine. It's nothing serious."
That answer left Impmon both relieved and somewhat annoyed.
After all, in Impmon's opinion, this power was quite strong.
With the blessing of demon lord power, Impmon's attacks grew increasingly simple and efficient.
At the same time, as demon lord power seeped into him, the data within Impmon began stirring yet again.
Seeing this, Mo Yan knew that with Wizardmon's DigiCore absent, the Angel Digicore would only provoke the opposite effect.
So Mo Yan used the Dark Digicore of the same attribute.
However, Mo Yan had yet to decide what kind of Digimon he should have his Dark Digicore form.
After all, dark Digimon in the Digital World were almost always on the receiving end of a beating.
More than half of the Seven Great Demon Lords were fallen Angel-type Digimon, and they were essentially confined to the Dark Area, unable to leave.
Apocalymon was a Digimon born from the resentment left behind when Digimon failed to evolve and dissipated because of human actions, as well as from the concept of "not evolving." Although Apocalymon possessed terrifying power, he had spent years sealed away.
The worst blow Apocalymon had suffered was a sword thrust from Omnimon of the Royal Knights, who served under Yggdrasill, using the authority skill All Delete.
However, rumor had it that Apocalymon had not been completely deleted. Instead, he had discarded part of his data through some unknown method, transformed into a new kind of Digimon, and escaped.
Omnimon of the Royal Knights was currently hunting him down.
Likewise, Millenniummon-a Digimon born from an unknown error-had also suffered all manner of brutal treatment.
Although the circumstances of Millenniummon's birth granted him what could be called infinite resurrection, along with the power to disrupt space and time, various factions still used him to train their forces.
The first to start this trend were the Three Great Angels, who had received shares of Lucemon's authority.
The Three Great Angels used Moon=Millenniummon to establish their might, cementing the standing of Angel-type Digimon in the Digital World. They then successfully founded one of the Digital World's foremost powers-the Realm of the Gods.
After that battle, Millenniummon was sealed away, his fearsome reputation in tatters.
Afterward, the demon lords of the Dark Area also went after Millenniummon.
Having observed that Millenniummon could not be effectively destroyed, only sealed, they sought to investigate the secret of his immortality.
From one of the Four Holy Beasts' meetings, Mo Yan learned that they wanted to use Millenniummon's innate ability to disrupt space and time to accomplish certain things.
And according to what Mo Yan knew from his previous life, Homeostasis seemed to have some designs on Millenniummon as well.
After all, someone like Ryo Akiyama really did not seem like a normal human.
If Homeostasis, the Four Holy Beasts, and the angels had intervened, then Ryo Akiyama's legendary life became somewhat easier to explain.
The makings of a protagonist were not something just anyone could possess.
So, even after thinking it over at length, Mo Yan still had not decided what kind of dark Digimon to form.
But that did not mean Mo Yan would give up data within easy reach.
The DigiCore representing darkness slipped beneath the firing range and began working on Impmon through the Mechanical Dummy network established by the plant digicore.
The data multiplying within Impmon because of the surging demon lord power was extracted and copied by the dark digicore, then refined and purified before being returned to Impmon's body.
After several rounds of this, Impmon's evolution was interrupted once again, while his foundational data expanded further.
Of course, Mo Yan did not neglect one in favor of the other. The dark digicore also sorted through and copied Guilmon's data.
After all, a demon dragon belonged to the dark attribute too.
Mo Yan made little effort to conceal these actions.
Naturally, the Wicked Demon Dragon, who kept Guilmon under constant observation, noticed what Mo Yan was doing.
However, the Wicked Demon Dragon did not express any further displeasure. He merely gave Mo Yan an indifferent glance before paying little more attention to his actions.
As long as Mo Yan did not cross the line, the Wicked Demon Dragon had no intention of displaying his power.
However, Mo Yan's actions attracted the Gluttony Demon Lord's attention.
The Gluttony Demon Lord greatly approved of what Mo Yan was doing and considered him well suited to the Dark Area.
He even extended an invitation to Mo Yan, asking him to join the Dark Area and accept the power of darkness.
Especially once the Gluttony Demon Lord discovered that Mo Yan actually possessed the Twelve Digicores, one of which was an exceptionally rare Angel Digicore that had formed a Holy Ring.
The Gluttony Demon Lord's invitation became all the more sincere and tempting.
However, Mo Yan would not believe a single word of the Gluttony Demon Lord's spiel.
If he really joined the Dark Area...
Never mind how SageMon would react-even Mo Yan's immediate superior would punish him.
Not to mention the angels, who hated evil with a passion and upheld the justice of good.
Mo Yan flatly refused the invitation and promptly produced the Angel Proof granted to him by the Realm of the Gods, along with the mark of Qinglongmon's apostle.
Seeing this, the Gluttony Demon Lord immediately gave up on Impmon as a seed.
After all, with an angel from the Realm of the Gods who was also Qinglongmon's apostle present, that seed would be unlikely to grow as intended.
It might even grow in the wrong direction and endanger him.
However, the Gluttony Demon Lord had no intention of attacking Mo Yan either.
After all, life in the Dark Area was difficult enough already. There was no need to antagonize a Digimon with such a complicated web of affiliations.
Besides, the Gluttony Demon Lord did not need such methods to demonstrate his standing as a demon lord.
He might as well make a clean break and leave behind some goodwill and a favorable impression.
As the saying went, one less problem was always better, and one more friend meant one more way forward.
Their long lives had endowed these ancient Digimon with a capacity for calculation and broad-mindedness that ordinary Digimon struggled to understand or learn.
The Digital World was not just about evolution. There was also wisdom in communicating and getting along with others.
In the end, the Gluttony Demon Lord gave Mo Yan a set of essential data for Demon Lord-type Digimon.
Faced with this simple yet effective temptation from the Gluttony Demon Lord, Mo Yan accepted it quite naturally, paying no heed to the meaningful look in the demon lord's eyes.
As for this sort of devilish temptation that fell into his lap, Mo Yan would gladly encounter it a few more times.
That way, he could bring his vision to fruition sooner.
Time flew as Mo Yan enjoyed training Impmon and Guilmon.
During this period, Mo Yan also assimilated the data the Gluttony Demon Lord had given him, deepening his understanding of the dark attribute.
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