Chapter 95: Andilo Beast

Last night, he had merely defeated Mihiramon.

Among the twelve Deva Digimon, he had only beaten the third one. Behind Mihiramon, there were still nine more Deva Digimon waiting for him. So after entering the game and settling his state, One Beast immediately headed for the room next to Mihiramon’s.

The room beside Mihiramon’s belonged to Andiramon.

Andiramon, a holy-beast Data-type Perfect-level Digimon, had the signature technique Forest of Swordleaf Trees. It was one of the Twelve Deva Digimon, representing the Rabbit of the Chinese zodiac. Serving under Azulongmon, one of the Four Holy Beast Digimon, it possessed a refined heart, liked small things, and was a remarkably broad-minded Digimon.

Strictly speaking, this Andiramon should have been called Andiramon, Holy General. That was because, besides him, there was another Andiramon as well. The difference between the two was that Andiramon, Holy General, was Data-type, while the other Andiramon was Virus-type.

One Beast entered the room, only to find, to his surprise, that the place where he appeared was actually a vast sea of flowers. Beautiful blossoms spread everywhere, with small butterflies and bees flitting among them, like a fairyland on earth.

There was nowhere here to hide the view, but after a glance around, One Beast still failed to find Andiramon’s figure. Even so, he did not relax his guard.

This was Andiramon’s room, so Andiramon had to be here. Not finding him did not mean he did not exist. If this Andiramon was like the Mihiramon before him, hiding somewhere and waiting to ambush him, then that possibility was quite high.

Thus, One Beast moved cautiously through the surroundings. Yet just as one of his feet stepped onto a tiny flower, a fierce killing intent suddenly burst forth from not far away.

"You bastard trampling flowers and grass, die."

The instant that killing intent appeared, Andiramon swung the two arms that had already transformed into a giant battle axe and attacked One Beast.

[Burst Evolution!]

Seeing this, One Beast responded the moment Andiramon’s killing intent emerged. A single evolution matrix flashed over his body, and he instantly entered Burst Mode.

Just as he transformed into Burst Mode, Andiramon’s figure appeared as well. The giant axe in its hands came cleaving down at One Beast. At once, One Beast drew the Sword of Destruction and activated Demon King Possession to block Andiramon’s attack.

Boom!

That strike from Andiramon slammed One Beast’s feet straight into the earth, pinning him there. And with One Beast at the center, the vast flower sea around him was devastated in all directions.

Crack!

The next moment, the Sword of Destruction in One Beast’s hand was cut into several pieces by Andiramon’s giant axe. The axe was about to come down on One Beast’s body, but at that moment One Beast braced both hands and seized the blade of the axe, forcibly stopping the blow.

[Flame Breath]

At that moment, Megadramon appeared behind Andiramon and opened its mouth, unleashing a deep crimson flame attack at it.

Megadramon’s attack could not break through Andiramon’s defenses, but as had already been said, this was a matter of the system’s judgment. It was precisely at the instant of Megadramon’s attack that One Beast found his chance to counterattack. One foot suddenly ripped free from the ground, and he immediately drove a kick into Andiramon, forcibly sending its figure flying backward.

[Demon King Wave]

The next moment, One Beast gathered the energy of his entire body and fired a concentrated blast directly at Andiramon.

Boom!

Whether it had actually hit Andiramon or not was impossible to tell, but the attack obliterated a huge area around them.

"You bastard, you actually destroyed so many flowers and grasses. Why? Why? Why are flowers and grass so lovely, yet you have to destroy them? You bastard, die."

Andiramon’s furious voice rang out from within the blast radius. Then, a violent surge of power erupted from inside the explosion.

An evolution matrix appeared beneath Andiramon’s feet. In the blink of an eye, it had evolved from the Perfect-level Andiramon into the Ultimate-level Azulongmon. Before entering the game, One Beast had still been puzzling over what the hidden evolution conditions for these dungeon bosses might be, but he had never expected to encounter one now.

[Azure Thunder]

Azulongmon directly summoned a vast mass of thunderclouds and unleashed a barrage of lightning toward One Beast and the others.

Faced with an Ultimate-level attack, One Beast naturally had no strength to resist. At once, he exited Demon King Possession and transformed Demon King power into wings, using them to thread his body between bolts of lightning.

Boom!

But in the end, he was still not fast enough and was struck directly by a bolt of azure thunder. He crashed straight to the ground, smashing out a large crater. His remaining health had dropped to just half a point.

To put it bluntly, even if any ordinary Digimon came now and its attack could not break through One Beast’s defense, as long as the system forcibly deducted one point of life from him, One Beast would be dead for certain.

Hovering in midair, Azulongmon said loudly, "You who destroy flowers and grass, now I shall sentence you."

One Beast looked up at Azulongmon in the air and burst into wild laughter. "You accuse me of destroying flowers and grass, but you’ve destroyed far more than I have. Look around you. Look at all of this. The flowers and grass you claim to protect have already been ruined by you. Ridiculous. Truly ridiculous."

Azulongmon said viciously, "I am doing this to eliminate a scoundrel like you. Once the source of all this is dead, no more flowers and grass will be destroyed by you. I am doing this for their own good. Even if they were accidentally caught in my attack, I know they would not blame me."

"You are not them. How would you know whether they blame you? And you are not them either, so how would you know whether they blame me?" One Beast said with a mocking smile. "In the end, it just means only you get to destroy these flowers and grass, and no one else can."

"No, that's not it!" Azulongmon roared, its voice shaking the surroundings and utterly destroying the few flowers that had managed to avoid the battle between One Beast and Azulongmon.

Looking at the flowers he had destroyed, Azulongmon froze. Gradually, One Beast could feel that it was changing.