, Second Digimon – Guilmon

Bai Yang fell to the ground, his head flying off, his eyes wide open, his face filled with disbelief.

Bai Yang was actually very clever. When the Ghost Wolf Beast and the Black Beast Demon launched their attack, he had already hidden behind a car to avoid being attacked by other students.

But to his utter surprise, the Agumon that suddenly appeared was right in front of him, and he was killed before he could even react.

With Bai Yang's death, the Ghost Wolf returned to the summoning plane in everyone's sight, while the two Black Beasts turned into a pool of black, thick water within seconds, bubbling with disgusting bubbles and emitting a foul stench.

"On behalf of my students, I thank you. If it weren't for your help, Zhang Xiaohou and He Yu would probably be dead, and who knows how many of the rest would have died before we could take down Bai Yang." Xue Musheng walked out of the crowd to Lin Chen and said with a sigh of relief.

Zhang Xiaohou and He Yu also gathered around Lin Chen and expressed their gratitude to him.

"He Yu, why did you just now..." Zhang Xiaohou turned to look at He Yu beside him, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

"I..." He Yu's cheeks flushed slightly, and she lowered her head shyly: "I...I don't want you to get hurt."

"Why?" Zhang Xiaohou asked, somewhat slow to react and puzzled.

Looking at the two of them, Lin Chen recalled the tragedy of his original world and couldn't help but interject, "This is love!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaohou's mind flashed back to every little detail about He Yu. He immediately understood, reached out and took He Yu's hand, a tear welling up in his eye.

"He Yu, I must become stronger! I absolutely must become stronger, and I won't let what happened today happen again!"

Mo Fan, who was squatting down to carefully examine Ye Xinxia for any injuries, was stunned when he heard Zhang Xiaohou's unforgettable words. He realized that after this ordeal, his usually silly friend seemed to have grown up all at once.

"Thank you for saving Xiaohou and He Yu, and thank you for helping me bring Xinxia out of Bocheng." Mo Fan stood up and extended his right hand to Lin Chen to express his friendliness and gratitude.

"It's alright, we're all from Bo City, it's only right to help each other in times of danger." Lin Chen extended his right hand to shake hands with Mo Fan, and then introduced himself: "By the way, my name is Lin Chen, a summoning mage, and this is my partner, Agumon."

"Mo Fan, a dual-elemental mage of fire and lightning." Mo Fan introduced himself, "From today onwards, we are brothers, the kind who will live and die together."

"It would be my honor!" Lin Chen didn't refuse at all, after all, Mo Fan in the original work was a character he liked very much.

Lin Chen and Mo Fan exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Ye Xinxia also used healing magic to help everyone treat their injuries.

"Lin Chen, your summoned beast is quite powerful." Mo Fan praised Lin Chen's Agumon.

"That's right, this strength is much stronger than that of a typical advanced-stage servant."

Xue Musheng stood aside and echoed, he didn't expect that in the small city of Bocheng, besides a genius like Mo Fan, there was also a summoning mage genius. Lin Chen was really hiding his talent too well.

"It's just so-so," Lin Chen said with a modest smile.

"Brother Mo Fan, Lin Chen's strength is extraordinary. He even killed Yu Ang." Ye Xinxia smiled slightly.

"Yu Ang was just a defeated opponent of mine, his strength is not bad, it's only natural that Lin Chen could defeat him." Mo Fan smiled, but immediately realized something was wrong: "You killed him, not defeated him?!"

"Why did you kill Cousin Yu'ang?" Upon hearing this, Mu Bai stepped out from the crowd, his expression turning grim as he looked at Lin Chen.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xinxia realized that she had not explained herself clearly, so she immediately described her previous encounter with Yu Ang to everyone in detail.

After Ye Xinxia finished recounting the events, everyone looked at Lin Chen with a different gaze. They already knew that Lin Chen was very strong, having previously defeated Instructor Bai Yang in an instant.

Now that they discovered that Lin Chen had actually killed Yu Ang while fighting eleven opponents, and that he was still holding his own against the magical attacks of a mid-level mage, they were immediately struck by his incredible skill.

"Brother, you're really awesome, almost as good as me." Mo Fan patted Lin Chen on the shoulder, praising Lin Chen while also giving a shout-out to himself.

Upon hearing this news, Mu Bai's expression instantly turned grim. If his cousin Yu Ang was a member of the Black Church, how many other members of the Mu family in Bo City were connected to the Black Church? Or was the Mu family in Bo City a stronghold of the Black Church?

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After a brief rest, Lin Chen and his group continued their journey toward the safety barrier.

Soon, they encountered the magicians from the Magic Association guarding the safety barrier, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After arriving at the safe zone, Mo Fan was taken away by the military's magicians, while Lin Chen followed Xue Musheng and the others to the gathering place to rest.

Inside the settlement, Lin Chen found a secluded corner, sat cross-legged, and began to study how to make his Agumon stronger.

According to the system's previous instructions, essence and remnant essence can be used to enhance the strength of Digimon. Lin Chen poured his spirit into the ring on his hand.

At this moment, a slave-level essence and eight slave-level remnants are floating inside the ring.

Lin Chen first manipulated the servant-level remnant soul to move towards Agumon in the contract space, but soon a system notification sounded in his mind, telling Lin Chen that the servant-level remnant soul was too low-level to improve Agumon's strength at this moment.

So, Lin Chen tried to control the servant-level spirit to move towards the Agumon, at which point the system notification sounded again.

It told Lin Chen that consuming a servant-level essence would increase Agumon's progress in advancing to the warrior level by one-tenth, but losing the only essence at present would mean the ring would no longer provide a training speed bonus.

"A cultivation speed boost? This ring also has the effect of a Stardust Magic Artifact."

Lin Chen pondered for a while, and in the end, he did not choose to strengthen Agumon. Instead, he decided to temporarily increase his cultivation speed, since the advanced servant-level summoned beasts were far stronger than him compared to his initial level one summoning mage.

Since he couldn't improve Agumon's strength for the time being, Lin Chen chose to meditate to improve his magical cultivation.

During the journey to the safety barrier, through Lin Chen's subtle hints, he had already learned how to perform meditation.

Sure enough, not long after, Lin Chen entered a meditative state.

It's unclear whether the system had already raised Lin Chen's cultivation to the peak of the first level of the initial stage when it awakened his summoning ability, or whether the ring bestowed by the system provided an extremely powerful boost to his cultivation speed.

After just three days of meditation, Lin Chen discovered that the magical energy contained in the stardust of his spiritual world had reached its peak. With a "boom," the stardust in Lin Chen's spiritual world doubled in size, and his cultivation level successfully advanced to the first-stage level two summoner.

At the same time, a system notification sounded in Lin Chen's mind.

"Congratulations, host, your cultivation has broken through. You can now sign a contract with your second Digimon."

"The system is randomly selecting a Digimon for the host."

"Host's Digimon has been selected."

"The Digimon has hatched on its own."

As the system notification sounded, a sand beast appeared in front of Lin Chen.

Before Lin Chen could even check the information of the sand beast in front of him, the system notification sounded again.

"The host can consume remnants of souls to accelerate the evolution of baby Digimon."

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen immediately injected the remnant soul from the ring into the sand beast's body.

One, two, three.

Gravelmon evolves!

Gigimon!

"It has indeed evolved!" Lin Chen was overjoyed and continued to inject the remaining remnants of the soul into the body of the Qiqi Beast.

When all five fragments of soul were injected into the body of the Gigimon, the surface of the Gigimon once again emitted a glow of evolution.

Gigimon evolves!

Guilmon!