As Mo Yan changed his instructions, the wheel of light formed by the spell "Ten Directions Annihilation" changed as well.
The ten DigiCores within the wheel began shifting positions, forming a new circuit of power and taking on a new function.
The changes to the wheel directly affected the data that was slowly taking shape, causing it to change again.
At the same time, the appearance of the Holy Ring also shifted the attributes of that data.
Positive data associated with all things beautiful and uplifting-angels, light, hope, goodness, and more-gradually became the main component of this newborn data.
Hearing Mo Yan's words and seeing the changes in the data, Witchmon instinctively began backing away.
The moment she moved, Witchmon discovered that Mo Yan had cast "Draw the Earth as a Prison" on her at some point without her noticing.
Witchmon immediately began chanting an incantation, intending to leave through dimensional teleportation.
"Trying to leave now? Too late."
With a sinister grin, like an evil villain in a story, Mo Yan told Witchmon that it was already too late to think about leaving.
With that, the wheel of light floated above Witchmon's head under Mo Yan's control and began releasing streams of white data.
At Mo Yan's command, the data ribbons began connecting to Witchmon one by one, making her intensely uncomfortable.
Once all the data ribbons had connected to Witchmon, fragments of information from the mysterious data began inscribing themselves into her DigiCore.
Meanwhile, Mo Yan began recording new experimental data.
"The unknown data is actively matching itself to Witchmon's data. The underlying mechanism remains unknown. Further experiments are needed to understand it."
While "receiving" the unknown data, Witchmon fell unconscious as her data's self-protection function kicked in.
"Although the unknown data has actively adjusted its fluctuation frequency, it is still unfamiliar to Witchmon's DigiCore and is classified as foreign data.
Hmm, I need to record that."
Watching the progress of the unknown data being inscribed into Witchmon's DigiCore, Mo Yan added a note to his experimental journal.
"However, higher-level data is still overwriting lower-level data.
Even when the data being rewritten is part of the core data.
Wait..."
As he observed the condition of Witchmon's DigiCore, Mo Yan suddenly noticed something new.
"The DigiCore's core data is absorbing the foreign higher-level data to upgrade itself.
This looks a little familiar.
It seems somewhat similar to Digimon evolution.
No, that's not right.
Digimon evolution goes far beyond upgrading and replacing data.
Then what should this phenomenon be classified as?"
He watched as the core data within Witchmon's DigiCore continually searched the unknown data for higher-level data identical or similar to itself.
It then used that data to raise the level of its own data.
Upon noticing this, Mo Yan's first thought was Digimon evolution.
However, after carefully observing it and comparing it with past records, Mo Yan rejected that idea.
Digimon evolution was more akin to an elevation to a higher order of life, rather than a simple upgrade and replacement of data.
The most obvious evidence was that Digimon had different logical reasoning abilities at each stage.
In-Training and Rookie, Rookie and Champion, Champion and Ultimate.
Mega, meanwhile, represented another kind of change.
It held infinite possibilities.
The strongest evidence that evolution was an elevation to a higher order of life came from Digimon that had evolved, then later devolved for various reasons.
Digimon that had evolved and then devolved still retained some of the power of their evolved forms.
Evolving again also became much easier for these Digimon.
Although the loss of data left gaps in their reasoning abilities, making them truly behave like Digimon of their "current" stage,
they still had ideas that seemed to be "flashes of inspiration," but actually came from their former ways of thinking.
Their perspectives also differed from those of ordinary Digimon at the same stage.
The successor Digimon of the Three Great Angels had the most firsthand experience with this.
After all, the Three Great Angels always had various ways to make their successor Digimon devolve to Rookie, then undergo all kinds of trials.
After passing those trials, the successor Digimon would evolve to an even higher level.
If they failed, the Dark Area would gain another Fallen Angel-type dark Digimon.
Of course, a new Demon Lord-type dark Digimon might also emerge.
However, if those fallen angels could rekindle the flames of hope and light within the darkness, they could rise in one leap to become new high-ranking angels.
Viewed that way, the Dark Area's relentless struggle against the Realm of the Gods made sense.
Really, the Realm of the Gods knew how to play the game. So did the Three Great Angels.
Shaking his head, Mo Yan cast aside the strange thoughts in his mind and focused on observing the changes in Witchmon's DigiCore.
By then, having finished upgrading her data, Witchmon gradually regained consciousness through the power of her two DigiCores.
As her consciousness slowly returned, Witchmon did not rashly show any signs of waking. Instead, she first sorted through her own data.
While sorting through her data, Witchmon came to understand a few things from the changes within it.
Likewise, Witchmon gained some knowledge of the unknown data, along with a little understanding drawn from what she already knew.
Then, drawing on the data inscribed into her DigiCore and her own understanding of the unknown data,
Witchmon began channeling the power of her dark DigiCore.
She was going to strike back.
She would corrupt the unknown data with the power of darkness, making it turn against Mo Yan and rewrite some of his data.
During this process, the unknown data concealed her actions, and Mo Yan did not notice what Witchmon was doing.
Beneath the light, darkness was taking shape.
"Face the judgment of darkness!"
Her eyes snapped open, and Witchmon immediately shouted what was in her heart.
At that instant, the power attribute of the unknown data reversed.
It changed from light to darkness.
Under Witchmon's control, the data ribbons connected to Mo Yan in a flash.
Throughout this process, Mo Yan made no unnecessary movements, as though he had anticipated it all.
In an instant, Witchmon realized that her actions were still within Mo Yan's predictions.
As Witchmon's expression grew somewhat dispirited, Mo Yan quietly watched the data ribbons connect to him.
Fragments of unknown data representing darkness began inscribing themselves into Mo Yan's data.
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