Demon Lord

Ed was stumped for a while. He could have been given a month to guess what monster he would get, and Agumon would be his last. In fact, he might not have made it into the list. Ed was hit by a wave of nostalgia and immediately crushed the two cards. Information about the use of Telekinesis flooded his brain. Pain took over his senses. After a while, His eyes, that were clouded by the pain cleared up. In front of him stood a yellow dinosaur-like lizard that was less than one meter tall. His feet and hands had three claws each, and his eyes shone in green brilliance

"Yo!" Agumon raised his arm and waved at Ed. 'His attitude is not any different from the series' Ed thought to himself. "Do you have something to eat?" Agumon's hands caressed his stomach as it grumbled. Ed laughed at the sight and started cooking some food. Everyone ate together as usual, but now a lively addition was added to their ranks.

'How come his rarity is Legendary?' Ed asked the system. He knew that Agumon who is a Digimon, or digital monster, has many evolutions which could be accessed. But, they needed specific conditions.

[The conditions are not in place since you got the card thanks to me.] The system's words helped Ed relax. [But, he can only evolve three times. Any more and you would need to unlock it by Upgrade cards] the system explained further.

'Three times. That means only at the Mega form.' Since Agumon is a Digimon, he was ranked according to his evolution stage. It was divided to rookie, champion, ultimate, and mega. Other evolutions or de-evolutions existed, such as baby forms or super mega forms. Agumon being a Legendary monster meant that he had the ability to access his Mega form directly. Ed felt relieved, as this meant a powerful addition to his team. His twenty Gacha tickets were not a waste.

"It's time to train," Ed announced as he stood up. Thanks to his system, he found out that his dimension could be kept for a total of one normal day. This gave Ed the ability to stay inside for two days. Now, with the eight of them, everyone had their own training partner. Agumon faced off against Ed, who asked him to transform into his champion form. As the light that surrounded Agumon grew bigger and bigger, so did his aura. A gigantic dinosaur emerged, with orange skin that had slash-like blue patches. A brown armored head, and two horns that sprouted out of the side of his head and pointed upwards. Another horn sprouted on top of his nose.

This was Agumon's champion form, called Greymon, and in this state, he was over 6 meters tall. When fighting many weak opponents, his size would definitely give him an advantage. However, that wasn't the case with Ed who was an expert at fighting. Greymon's signature abilities are called Mega Flame, and Great Antler. The first one consisted of spewing out high-temperature flames that rendered everything into ash. The second move was a charge that served to impale the opponent with his front horn. Both of these moves did not work on Ed.

Seeing that the battle was one-sided, Ed asked Greymon to evolve once more. Or since he's a Digimon, it would be more accurate to call a digivolution. Agumon's Ultimate form is MetalGreymon. As the name suggests, it is Greymon with a mechanized body. But, not all of its body is turned into metal. Instead, its head, chest, and left arm are made into a machine by a metal called Chrome Digizoid. MetalGreymon's head looks like a metal helmet thanks to this digivolution. He also gains three pairs of dragonfly-like purple wings. Of course, its battle prowess increases tremendously.

MetalGreymon had the ability to fly and use long range attack other than flames. His metal arm could extend and slash, or, the opponent. As it was made from an extremely rare metal, it was very sharp. Ed clashed with MetalGreymon a couple of times and deduced that his armor was very tough. Ed would need to use Haki and Nen in order to break through it. MetalGreymon's strongest ability was the Tera Destroyer. He releases two missiles from his metal chest. The explosion that resulted was incredibly powerful, that it made everyone stop to look at it. 'They did say that is was comparable to a nuclear blast…' Ed thought with a wry face.

"We'll stop here for today." Ed stopped the training before Agumon could undergo his digivolution to Mega form. After the training, all of them took a bath and ate once more. Ed cooked up two different dishes, one camel, and one boar. He was thinking about whether or not to use the bison meat he had but decided on another day.

Morning came, and as Ed was preparing to enter the mountain, he was surprised by Raikou and Gobuta's requests. Both of them asked Ed if they could remain here. Apparently, the shadows and darkness were beneficial to both of them. Ed could understand Raikou's case since he is a Shadow Wolf, but he didn't know about Gobuta. Thanks to the system's explanation, he knew that Gobuta's race title (Demon Lord) gave him an affinity with darkness. Absorbing it in this barren land where light can't reach would definitely improve his abilities.

Ed also asked the system about the significance of the title.

[What you will hear next will shock you.]Indeed Ed was shocked. By the system's words that sounded like a cheap advertisement.

[As a Demon Lord, he has the ability to command other monsters. Currently, the number is set to five monsters, but it will increase if he evolves. Also, the monsters will be turned into cards, but won't be counted into the maximum amount which is now ten. This is only if Gobuta is summoned, if he is not they will count.] Ed was indeed shocked. He didn't notice it when he summoned Agumon, but the number of monsters he could summon t once had increased. Still, Ed didn't forget to ask the important question. "How does he get these followers?"

[Either monsters choose to follow him on their own, or he simply kills them. He killed many monsters before, but his ability didn't activate as both of you didn't know about it]. Ed always wanted to ask about his title but didn't have the chance. It wasn't exactly a loss since not a single monster, other than Mehen, impressed Ed.