The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　It suddenly opened its arms wide, looking up at the sky as if to welcome a new life.

　The dark golden light that had illuminated the entire laboratory rapidly converged, surging wildly into the "Arrogance" emblem between its brows. Then, the light of evolution emanating from its body became even more intense.

　Its body began to expand at a speed visible to the naked eye.

　In the blink of an eye, it stretched from a sphere into a luminous object with a human-shaped outline.

　Long, powerful arms burst forth from the sides of the body, feet slightly apart, firmly planted on the ground, and wings on the back spread wildly under the glow.

　Judging from the outline of the light, it seems to have evolved into Devimon—or perhaps Angemon!

　The little devil's eyes were wide open.

　Its current feeling is like that of evolving into "Devimon" for the first time under the influence of "Pride 3". But within it surges an even more turbulent power, and an even greater chaos!

　The originally dark golden power of "arrogance" was split in two within his body.

　Black symbolizes darkness, gold symbolizes light.

　The two completely divergent attributes have completely split.

　A torrent of black and gold light surged and splashed wildly within him, merging before being crushed.

　The excruciating pain, as if it were tearing its entire body apart, caused its hunched form, which lay somewhere between evolved and unevolved.

　Gradually, the black energy gathered on the left, while the golden energy remained on the right.

　The left side of its body sprouted huge curved horns and tattered bat wings, as well as huge hook claws that hung down to below the knees like tubes!

　On the right side of the body, a helmet covering the eyes, three golden wings, and strong arms with prominent muscle contours emerge!

　Even though it's just a luminous object with its outline drawn, it already has a very high degree of recognizability.

　The demon is on the left.

　The one on the right is an angel.

　……

　Dark watched the changes in Little Devimon with bated breath.

　The last time a similar situation occurred was when Impmon first encountered Pride 3.

　The forces of light and darkness clashed within him, causing his body to evolve into a form that was half angel and half demon.

　To prevent it from evolving into a "Poop Beast" by mistake, Dark deliberately used a "Pride 1" card, disrupting the light-dark balance within its body.

　This caused the light within Devimon to be consumed by darkness, ultimately evolving into Devimon!

　Just as he has always understood.

　For Impmon, darkness is the root cause, while light is the corruptor.

　Therefore, when guiding Impmon to evolve, he chose darkness.

　But at this moment, the power of light seems to have become even more turbulent, even violent!

　Compared to "Pride 3", this "Pride 4" contains significantly more light elements, even overpowering the darkness!

　The left half of Impmon's body was gradually being eroded by the golden light on the right half.

　It is part of the angels, but occupies more of their bodies.

　Dak's thoughts sank slightly.

　From "Pride 1" to "Pride 4", the proportion of Light in the "Pride" cards has been increasing, and now it has finally become completely unbalanced.

　The symbol of "arrogance" is the sun, which brings light to the world. Its most fundamental attribute is light, and it is inherently incompatible with darkness.

　However, Devimon is a Dark-attribute Demon.

　Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.

　Therefore, the contradictions became apparent.

　Although the existence of "Bastimon" has proven that light and darkness are two sides of the same coin.

　However, for an individual, there is no capacity to encompass both "light" and "darkness".

　It is impossible for Devimon to directly evolve into Angemon or HolyAngemon.

　This situation will likely worsen as the "Arrogance" card continues to level up.

　In Pride 5, the light is very likely to completely overwhelm the darkness.

　And Impmon will no longer be able to evolve into its Ultimate form through Pride 5.

　……

　Dak shook his head sharply to clear his mind of those distracting thoughts.

　The present situation is not the time to think about long-term matters.

　The situation of Little Demon Beast is very complicated right now.

　The "Pride 4" in your hand may not necessarily be a finished product.

　This can be seen from the fact that the half-body of Devimon is presented as Devimon and Angemon, rather than Vamdemon and HolyAngemon.

　However, this incomplete "Pride 4" clearly possesses power far exceeding that of "Pride 3".

　This has put Little Demonmon in a state of extreme contradiction and awkward stagnation.

　Dark couldn't predict what would happen if things continued this way.

　Based on his past experience, he could only take out "Pride 1", "Pride 2" and "Pride 3" from his card pack and try to guide the light and dark power within Impmon.

　……

　[2-in-1 4000+]

Episode 535, Devimon, Error Evolution (4k)

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　Therefore, the only way to redirect the power within Impmon toward darkness is to use Pride 1 and Pride 2.

　Dark drew two "Pride 1" and three "Pride 2" from his card pack. After a brief moment of hesitation, he activated the two "Pride 1" cards first!

　As the two dark golden orbs of light successively entered the body of Impmon, the black light, which was about to be completely suppressed by the golden light, indeed showed some signs of counterattacking.

　But it was more like a last gasp of life, a struggle that was quickly suppressed after a brief, forceful movement, without causing a ripple.

　Dark frowned slightly, took out three "Pride 2" cards in his hand, and began summoning from the first one.

　The dark gold beam that shot out from the card instantly struck the little devil's forehead emblem, causing its radiance to ripple once more.

　The black light on the left finally fluctuated significantly, but the golden light on the right also increased slightly.

　After waiting only three seconds, Dark immediately began summoning the second "Pride 2", followed by the third "Pride 2", the one that had just been developed.

　With the infusion of all three "Pride 2" cards, the black light on Little Demon's body finally gained some strength to contend with the golden light.

　However, it can only be used to resist!

　Under Dark's tense gaze, the black light that had launched a counterattack was finally suppressed by the golden light, and then it swept over like a tsunami!

　A large area of ​​distortion instantly appeared on the glowing body of Impmon.

　Its consciousness became increasingly chaotic under the clash of light and darkness, yet its hunched body straightened up.

　"Roar!" A sharp, demonic roar was forced out of its throat.

　Dak's face suddenly froze.

　The difference between "Pride 2" and "Pride 4" is enormous.

　Even three copies of "Pride 2" cannot interfere with this "Pride 4" sufficiently.

　All he has left is a balanced "Pride 3" card.

　Using this "Pride 3" card can indeed shorten the ratio between light and dark, but it is impossible for darkness to suppress light.

　Dak suddenly realized that he had run out of ideas.

　……

　The left half of Impmon's body, which was covered by golden light, looked like it had countless exposed, glowing blood vessels writhing and twisting, revealing a ferocious aura that was incompatible with the attribute of light.

　If this continues, it will undoubtedly head down the wrong path of evolution.

　Although the magical spirit will eventually regress due to its inherent nature, the experience of incorrect evolution will inevitably leave a deep shadow on Impmon's mind.

　Neither evolving into a Poopmon nor a Snotmon by mistake is what Dark wants to see.

　Just as the body of the little demon beast was about to be completely covered by the distorted golden light, Dark gritted his teeth and drew four "Elysium 3" cards from his card pack!

　If we were to say which "Sin Card" has the most dark attributes, it would undoubtedly be "Elysium"!

　The four different versions of "Elysium 3" are sure to change the balance between light and darkness.

　Dark's mind raced, and he unconsciously began chanting the incantation for a normal summoning spell.

　Without much hesitation, he summoned four "Paradise 3" cards in one go.

　The golden-pink glow illuminated the entire room.

　However, the "Elysium" power that was forcibly inserted into Impmon's body did not unite with the dark power of "Pride" to resist the power of light as he had imagined.

　The power of "Elysium," which radiates a pink glow, has become a third-party force, mixed into the distortion.

　The crimson light emanating from Devimon's eyes grew even stronger.

　Three forces clashed within his body, causing the right half of his angelic form to twist and deform.

　Before Dark could take any further action, Devimon's endurance had reached its limit.

　"Roar!"

　With an extremely ferocious roar, Impmon's body had completely transformed into a mixture of twisted golden light.

　But when its stagnant evolution restarted, a jet-black beam of light shot out from beneath the golden light in an extremely unusual manner.

　As Impmon's body grew taller and larger at an extremely abrupt speed, the black light that should have been consumed by the golden light burst forth from its core. It not only tore through the surface of the golden light but also plunged the entire laboratory into a terrifying darkness!

　A sense of crisis suddenly flashed through Dak's mind.

　He seemed to have thought of something, his face immediately darkened, and he quickly retreated.

　By the time he stepped back to the laboratory doorway, the little devil's head was already touching the ceiling, its entire back hunched over again due to the cramped space, and sharp, long thorns were emerging from its body, which was bursting with black light.

　"This is……"

　Dark stared in astonishment at the form of Impmon. It wasn't a demon, nor an angel, nor even Poopmon or Numemon, but a Digimon he knew very well. It was a Digimon whose image was so vividly etched in his memory from watching the anime—"SkullGreymon!"

　As all the light on Impmon disappeared, its evolved form was fully revealed.

　That was none other than a terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex that had shed its demonic form and was now nothing but pale bones!

　"It's actually a Zombiemon!"

　Although Dark knew from the beginning that Devimon could evolve into many different Digimon, he still didn't expect it to have such an incorrect evolution path.

　SkullGreymon appeared in the first season of Digimon and was the product of Taichi's Agumon's erroneous evolution.

　Its flesh and skin were destroyed, leaving only its skeleton. Ghostly green flames burned in the eye sockets, and flesh and blood writhed between its spine and chest cavity.

　After transforming into a Zombiemon, it completely lost its rationality, leaving only the fighting instincts it retained from its previous life, making it an extremely dangerous species.

　“Little devil!”

　Dak cried out, clinging to his last shred of hope.

　But the Zombiemon responded with an unconscious roar.

　When its outstretched arms smashed the counter in the laboratory, Dark realized that Impmon had completely lost control after this evolution!

　But he quickly calmed down.

　This wasn't the first time he'd experienced something like this.

　Compared to the time when LadyDevimon was corrupted by the Moon Goddess and transformed into Angewomon, he now has enough trump cards and will not be in such a sorry state again.

　"The Impmon's erroneous evolution can only last for a maximum of fifteen minutes. Subduing it within those fifteen minutes isn't difficult; the difficulty lies in..."

　"Roar!"