Return Of The King 6

While you'd personally prefer to cover all his bases with a strong physical form, you didn't mind much, "It's your choice Wizardmon," you said, "It's not like I'm forcing you to follow me, you're only here because of our friendship and loyalty. If you want to stay Wizardmon, then I have no problem making you an item to digivolve again into your current form."

Wizardmon let loose a sigh of relief, his shoulders slumping a bit, "..Thank you my lord," he bowed his wizard hat wearing head, "I'm glad to know my faith and loyalty in you isn't at all misplaced."

You smiled and quirked an eyebrow, "Did my choice here really factor in that massively?" you asked in bemusement.

Wizardmon shook his head, "Not much no, you've already done so much for me that it would be a minor gripe all things considered," he replied, "But it's little things like this, your consideration for us that follow you, that reinforces that following you to help you rebuild your kingdom is the correct choice."

You laughed and waved him off, "With how hard you worked to train yourself physically over the last few years and make up for your weak physical abilities initially, it really isn't a major boon to give," you replied, "Wizardmon are generally not much stronger than a Bakemon physically, yet you are well capable of picking up and throwing a Monochromon."

"..That wasn't quite all because of my effort remember, my lord," Wizardmon chuckled lightly, "It was you who trained me after all and helped me increase my strength to this level."

"True," you agreed, "But it doesn't change the fact that you put in a great deal of effort to get as strong as you are, take pride in that."

Wizardmon looked away from you embarrassedly at your praise and you laughed louder.

It took just a few minutes from there to reach the dark tower. But to your surprise, and bafflement, there was no guard.

"I suppose this Digimon Emperor thought he wouldn't need another guard with Ogremon around?" Wizardmon mused as you circled the tower, examining it.

"Meaning he's an ignorant moron," you shook your head, "Ogremon was very strong for a champion, probably on the level of low-level ultimates of this age, but, ultimates aren't that rare."

"It's been five years since I was in the digital world, but from what I remember, ultimates are actually quite rare." Wizardmon replied, matter of factly.

You stopped your circling of the dark tower, "Eh?" you blinked, "I'm sorry what? Ultimates are rare? Back when I was first in the digital world, ultimates were everywhere."

"the more a digimon fights and trains, the stronger we get and the faster we digivolve," Wizardmon pointed out, "You know this better than anybody these days. Back then, you saved the digital world when the vast majority of digimon were feral and constantly fighting for years, even decades on end, it's no wonder they were much stronger on average and there were much more ultimates around."

Wizardmon tapped his chin, "Honestly, when I served Myotismon, digimon reaching the ultimate level was a big new worthy thing," the champion continued, "Honestly, there was maybe ten known in total at the time, and quite a few of them served Myotismon. With his group alone there was Myotismon himself, Phantomon, Mammathmon and Skull Meramon."

You raised an eyebrow in interest, "What about the others?" you asked.

"Well, there was Pixiemon, the legendary trainer digimon," he replied, "and of course, Myotismon's only real rival at the time was Etemon. There were a few on File Island as well, like Monzaemon and Andromon, and I heard rumours of a Whamon, but that's generally all the ultimates that were about back then before I came to the human world."

Dear lord, the digital world had gotten even weaker than you thought! No wonder the Digidestined managed to win in the end despite how generally incompetent and bumbling they were.

Wizardmon listed nine ultimates in total. And the strongest group was Myotismon's, which had four of them. There were eight digidestined, so once they got their crests they would be a group with eight ultimates. A miniscule amount for the time you led the charge in the digital world, but that was twice the fighting strength of Myotismon's group who basically ruled more or less uncontested at that point.

"How bizarre." you mused. To think groups so weak could rule over the digital world. You supposed it just meant it would be much easier to establish your kingdom once again in the end.

Either way, you'd had enough time to examine the outer shell of the tower. "Let's see now." you hummed, unlocking your digivice and swiping through the apps on it. There was one specific app you had created for the time you returned to the digital world.

You opened it up, and with a few presses of the buttons on it, a holographic keyboard phased into view above the screen, before they solidified. 'Yes, it worked!' you grinned. There was a specific piece of coding to draw on digital information and solidify when used. Impossible in the real world, but the digital world that was made up of physical data, it was very much more possible.

"That's an interesting keyboard, but what's with the letters on it?" Wizardmon asked.

"You don't recognise the language?" you asked in interest.

"Should I?" your subordinate asked in puzzlement.

"Well, your 'magic' abilities are based on this language," you replied and Wizardmon blinked in confusion, "It's the High Coding language of the digital world, it's basically coding commands that allows one to interact and change the digital world itself."

Once upon a time, you did not understand a lick of this. But you gained a basic understanding of it thanks to Andromon and Giromon passing on their knowledge and skills to you. From there, you had expounded on your knowledge through a lot of trial and effort, and not to mention, many, many failures.

"Technically, you should be able to pull up something like this without a terminal like me," you said to Wizardmon as you began typing, using the High Coding functions to establish a scan function that began scanning and going through the data that made up the dark tower, "Honestly, if I had your abilities to use the High Coding language without one, things would be a lot simpler."

"Maybe you can make a way based on me?" Wizardmon mused, "Like, those are like those runes in mythology from your world right? Can't you tattoo them on you like in that one anime I watched?"

You were about to comment on how silly that was, when it occurred to you, that it wasn't really. Of course the sheer amount of High Coding based runes would be massive, and be insanely hard to condense, it should be possible, theoretically, to link some to your brain and command through your thought process. While you still wouldn't have natural born power like a digimon, since humans were incompatible with it. The runes themselves would hold the power...maybe?

But, they;d only function in the digital world without a natural power source. And you didn't really like the idea of a limited ability like that, that only worked in one place. What could you use to give the runes a power source of their own?

An alert noise coming from your High Coding keyboard brought you back to attention. 'I'll think on it later.' you decided, and looked brought up a screen through the High Coding to check the results.

'Hmm, these are quite well put together, though basic in function,' you mused, but when you looked over the amount of data packed into its creation you whistled, "That's quite a lot of data."

You could use this. That amount of data could be used to make any numbers of things, and fill quite a few digivolution items. But, you had a better idea in mind.

First things first, you needed to make sure this guy didn't know about anything happening to this tower. So you quickly hacked into it, bypassing the defences easily thanks to High Coding, it was a version of coding far beyond the human one in use through this tower.

You went right down to where it was connected, and established a pseudo connection in its place, to make it seem like it was still there, and then, you broke the tower down. It wasn't a natural formation like other parts of the digital world like the ground and grass, so breaking it apart and down into raw data, was incredibly easy.

"Woah!" Wizardmon yelped when the tower buckled in on itself and then glowed brightly, going from physical, to almost liquid like in appearance as it turned into a massive river of dark flakes of data.

"Now then, let's go!" You grinned, and established a connection between the data and your digivice. You held your digivice up in the air, and the mass of data was sucked towards you like your digivice was a vacuum.

Moments later, the mass of data disappeared into your digivice, and was absorbed straight into your partners digi-egg.

The best of it was to, that because they were connected to the central system of the digital world, filled with massive wires that transferred vast amounts of data throughout the entire digital world, it brought some of the excess along with it.