Chapter 165: The Abyssal Beast's Last Resort?

"What a pity, I still failed..." Abyssmon looked at the part of his body pierced by Dorbickmon's attack, at the edges of which tiny bits of data were already dissolving. He knew he had entered an irreversible process of collapse. Unless he could evolve once more, no one could save him.

"He who commits many injustices is bound to self-destruct!" Dorbickmon looked silently at Abyssmon, saying with a calm expression, "Actually, I admire you. No Digimon can resist the temptation of becoming stronger and evolving to a higher stage. Especially when you have reached the very end of the Perfect level, just half a step away from becoming an Ultimate. Come to think of it, if I were in your place, I might very well have made the same choice. Unfortunately, of all things you should or should not have done, you should never have made a move against my master."

"Who knows..." Abyssmon's gaze slowly drifted toward the high sky, one hand reaching up toward the vault of the heavens, a bitter smile on his face. "You know what? Beyond this Digital World of ours, there are many other Digital Worlds. Oh, wait, I should say, beyond this place we inhabit, there is an even vaster world."

"And then?" Dorbickmon looked at Abyssmon without making any other move. In truth, although he looked completely normal at the moment, maintaining this state had cost him a tremendous amount of energy.

To begin with, in order to defeat Abyssmon, he had consumed at least ninety percent of the ten full parts of digital energy within his body. If he were to encounter WarGreymon, known as the bane of the Dragonkin species, right at this moment, he would likely be killed in a single strike.

Moreover, Dorbickmon already knew to some extent that there was a broader world beyond this world. Among the higher echelons of the Digimon side, this was hardly a secret. Even many at the lowest levels of the Digimon hierarchy were well aware of it. Consequently, quite a few humans on this side knew about it as well.

It was just that they did not know the details. What they knew was limited to the fact that there was a bigger world out there. But where this world was located, or how to reach it, no one knew. Even whether this world truly existed or was merely a legend remained unknown to them.

"If you believe me, this is the coordinate of that world." After saying this, Abyssmon tossed a stone toward Dorbickmon and told him, "Inside this, there are not only the coordinates of that world, but also some other information. Consider it your spoils of war."

As soon as Abyssmon finished speaking, his figure completely dissolved into data and vanished. Of course, due to the unique nature of this world, the vast majority of the data remaining after Abyssmon's death would be absorbed by Dorbickmon. However, the most core piece of data would transform into a Digi-Egg for rebirth.

Dorbickmon silently looked at the stone in his hand. He knew what this was—an aggregation of data, merely manifested in the shape of a stone. In other words, data had existed inside it from the very beginning. Yet, what kind of data this actually was remained impossible to tell.

Dorbickmon pondered quietly for a moment, intending to crush the stone and read the information contained within, when a tiny figure burrowed out from the ground below. Dorbickmon followed the sound and looked over, only to discover that it was none other than Dorumon.

However, Dorumon was not accompanied by Beastmon and Angewomon, and Dorumon's physical state appeared quite battered. Seeing this, Dorbickmon felt a jolt in his heart, fearing that something might have happened to Beastmon and Angewomon.

At that moment, however, Dorumon kept pointing frantically at the spot from which he had emerged, a look of extreme urgency on his face, as if trying to make Dorbickmon do something. Instantly, he understood Dorumon's intent. It seemed Beastmon and Angewomon had met with trouble, though they were not dead; most likely, they were simply buried underneath.

Following that, Dorbickmon placed the stone in his hand to the side, instructing Dorumon to watch it carefully and make sure it wasn't lost. Then, Dorbickmon extended one hand, reached directly into the spot where Dorumon had burrowed out, and began to dig.

It must be said that Dorbickmon was, after all, an Ultimate-level Digimon with formidable combat power. Before long, he had dug out a large pit. From within that pit, Beastmon and Angewomon could be seen lying side by side, though both of them were still unconscious.

Afterward, Dorbickmon hoisted Beastmon and Angewomon onto his shoulders, intending to return and deal with the stone. But to his surprise, when he turned back to look at Dorumon and the stone, he saw that the stone had already been bitten into pieces by Dorumon.

Dorbickmon was terrified at that instant. After all, if Abyssmon had left any contingency plan inside it, he himself wouldn't be afraid—being an Ultimate Digimon, even a virus could be quickly dealt with as long as it didn't invade the Digicore in the first moment.

Yet Dorumon was merely at the Rookie level. If Abyssmon had truly left behind some hidden scheme, Dorumon would likely be unable to withstand it at all. No matter how weak the power of such a contingency might be, it was not something a mere Rookie could resist. After all, not every Rookie-level Digimon was Lucemon.

Fearing that something might happen to Dorumon, Dorbickmon did not rush to inspect the information within the stone. Instead, he placed Dorumon in the palm of his hand, channeled his own digital energy into Dorumon's body, and checked him thoroughly.

Ultimately, Dorbickmon found nothing amiss within Dorumon's body. Such a situation left only two possibilities.

First, Abyssmon truly had not left any contingency plan, and Dorbickmon had simply been overthinking things.

Second, Abyssmon had indeed left a contingency plan, and this so-called contingency had already invaded Dorumon's Digicore before Dorbickmon could detect it.

These two possibilities were worlds apart, yet Dorbickmon could not discern at the moment which one was true. However, looking at Dorumon's current condition, everything seemed fine, which suggested the first possibility was more likely. Regardless, once Beastmon awoke, this matter would likely need to be reported to him for handling.

Following that, Dorbickmon began to examine the data information given to him by Abyssmon. At his very first glance at it, his expression instantly turned grave.