Chapter 38

To your glee, there was a guy with some Chrome Digizoid in stock. The only problem was, even for just the meager pieces he was selling them in at the lowest, it was still three hundred thousand yen.

After buying the Accelerator skill, you were down to a mere seventy two thousand yen. You wished you'd done a few more jobs over the past few days.

Honestly, the guy wouldn't even show you it without you showing the cash up front. So you couldn't even copy it to use for yourself at least. Smart of him really, but still really frustrating.

At the very least, he promised to keep a piece in stock for you for a few days.

So, you took up a job. A pretty simple one. Some guy wanted a collection of five different Digi-Eggs. He was apparently turning his private server into some digimon kindergarten or something. Like one of the games where you raised the digimon from babies in groups. You never played it, so you couldn't tell exactly what he was going for.

He was paying seventy five thousand yen for them. Ten thousand a pop per egg, and a twenty five thousand bonus to get it done quickly. Apparently he was convinced you could do it well after he saw the video of your fight against Exveemon on your website that Devidramon uploaded last night.

"Boss," Devidramon piped up as you stepped into Kowloon level 1, "Do me a favour and keep me out of the fighting today okay? There's been a surplus of people visiting the website, and a ton of spam is hitting us because of that video, and a bunch of jobs are flooding in. I'm gonna need time to sort through this."

You rolled your eyes but nodded, "Sure buddy." you replied. You accessed the radar function of your newly upgraded digivice and to you're surprise, there were a bunch of digimon, around seven of them, all clustered together in a small spot of Kowloon level 1.

Very odd. You don't think you've seen that much digimon grouped up so closely before.

You have to admit, that this new radar and compass function installed in your digivice is a godsend for finding digimon. Especially because, these ones all clustered together are really out of the way, pretty much hidden out of the way by a bunch of platforms intersecting.

You would never have found this place if it weren't for this digivice and it made you wonder how long they'd actually been there? Was it like some kind of base these digimon made to run back to and hide after hunting other digimon?

As thanks for the epic functions, when whatever entity is behind giving you and Ruki digivices, you'll make sure to thank before totally blowing off whatever request they have for you. Or before deleting and loading their data. Depends on your mood you suppose.

You raised an eyebrow as you turned around the last corner and found what you were looking for. "Well now, isn't this an interesting development." you commented, looking over the massive dome of ice that was just sitting there hidden out of view.

Not very inconspicuous at all.

You debated whether or not just to break in yourself. With your gauntlets, you didn't really fear any of the chumps that would stick to the lower Kowloon floors like Level 1.

You want to kind of test out Black Greymon X's new power, but more importantly though, you have yet to see Xveemon is a fight, well except against you.

"Exveemon, reload!" you declared, holding your digivice up and releasing your newest digimon.

A grin appeared on his draconian face when he saw the massive ice dome, "Oh-ho! so we are storming an enemies base today my lord?" he asked eagerly.

"Something like that," you replied. You beckoned him to follow you and then walked over to the ice dome.

Winding up a punch when you were within range and smashing open a large hole that blew shards of ice everywhere.

"Wow, it's pretty big inside here." you whistled, stepping in.

"The villainous types do tend to like their grandeur bases." Exveemon agreed with a a sage nod.

As soon as you entered and adjusted to the lightning, you blinked. "Well, now that's new." you commented in surprise.

Because stuck in blocks of ice littering the floor inside the ice dome, were a variety of digimon.

A Snow Agumon was in the ice closest to you. Kind of amusing to see an ice based digimon frozen over. Ironic. there was also a Kudamon, a Keramon, a Solarmon and a Tentomon as far as rookies went.

And then at the end of the line of ice statues, there were a pair of towering Tyrannomon frozen over.

"Well if they're just there for the taking.." you trailed off with a grin, pulling out your digivice and swiping a card through it, "Exveemon, Digi-Modify - Power Activate!"

"Oooh I feel power welling up inside of me! ORAAAAAA!" Exveemon shouted, clenching his fists. He stepped forward, the X on his chest lighting up with an orange gold light, "Allow me to dispatch these ones my lord!" X-laser!" he crossed his arms over his chest, before jerking them back and firing a massive laser beam in the shape of an X.

The laser shot forth and the ice sculptures one by one were erased from existence as the laser tore through them, continued on and ploughed through the other end of the ice dome with ease.

All that was left of the frozen digimon was a literal ocean of different colored particals of data floating in the air.

Exveemon grinned and turned to you, opening his mouth to say something before being cut off. "..Well now, that was quite ruthless." a smooth voice cut in from above. "I'm quite impressed by your willingness to destroy even those helpless digimon I put up for show, tamer." weirdly its voice could be considered both male or female by the tone of it, that was how soft it was.

You weren't gonna lie, that was one nice voice.

Following the voice, you and Exveemon looked up to find a white mirror image of your Devimon. "Huh, an IceDevimon." you commented nonchalantly.

Ice Devimon floating at the roof of the ice dome grinned, showing off its razor sharp fangs, "Yes indeed, I am Ice Devimon," it swept one awkwardly long white arm over its chest and bowed to you, "I set those foolish digimon up to as a show for when I found a tamer I could be proud to call my own and show off the fruits of my strength."

Standing back up out of its bow, IceDevimon swept its arms out wide in an inviting gesture, "I have to admit, I'm impressed both by your Exveemon's strength and your own pragmatism," it continued, then pulled one arm back and held it out as if inviting you to take its hand, "What do you say tamer? Will you allow me to become your digimon and make me stronger?"