Chapter 152: The Abandoned Blue Card

"There is some connection, I suppose, but it doesn't have much to do with you."

Hearing Zhao Jie's words, Angewomon withdrew her gaze and turned her attention back to the murals on the wall.

"The murals up here are so strange. Why are all the humanoid Digimon doing hard labor?"

Angewomon murmured softly as she stared at the mural.

The content of the mural was actually quite ordinary, depicting humanoid Digimon toiling away while beast-form Digimon looked on. The only striking feature was the towering tower depicted in the artwork.

"You should ask the master of that tower about this—Cherubimon!"

Zhao Jie said with a light chuckle.

"Cherubimon?"

Hearing this name, Angewomon knitted her brows tightly.

It was the first time she had heard the name Cherubimon, but the inclusion of "mon" indicated it was an angelic type of Digimon, the same category as herself.

"Cherubimon, along with Ophanimon and Seraphimon, are the Three Archangels of the Angel clan. But that must have been a very long time ago. Since you've never heard of Cherubimon even as a member of the Angel clan, I suppose you haven't heard of the other two either?"

Angewomon nodded silently.

Indeed, within her Digimon genetic sequence, there was no record of the Three Archangels whatsoever.

Had this person not been her Digimon partner, she would have suspected that Zhao Jie was just boasting to her!

"Since this Cherubimon is one of the Three Archangels of the Angel clan, why is it enslaving these humanoid Digimon? And it only has a single pair of wings."

Angewomon looked once more at the blackish-purple wings on the figure in the mural, which differed greatly from the angelic wings she knew.

Moreover, angelic Digimon usually had their strength distinguished by the number of wings they possessed—such as four wings, six wings, eight wings, or twelve wings.

Yet the Cherubimon mentioned by Zhao Jie possessed only a single pair of wings.

"Because Cherubimon is a beast-form angelic Digimon!"

"That explains it then. No wonder the beast-form Digimon in this mural hold a higher status than the humanoid ones."

Looking at the scene in the mural, Zhao Jie sighed with some emotion.

Although Cherubimon was one of the Three Archangels, it was a beast-form Digimon, and it frequently came into conflict with Seraphimon and Ophanimon.

In the anime, Cherubimon turned traitor against the Angel clan and initiated the Form War because it was corrupted by dark forces.

However, in this real world, what actually caused Cherubimon to spark the Form War—or even whether it had ever started a Form War at all—remained open to debate.

After all, this was merely a mural, and the recorded content was extremely limited.

"Cherubimon is a beast-form Digimon?"

A look of astonishment flashed across Angewomon's face. In her mind, all angels were humanoid.

A beast-form angel was something she was hearing about for the very first time.

"Forget it, let's not dwell on this. We should keep searching; who knows, there might still be some residual Solar Ores left around here."

Waving his hand, Zhao Jie lost interest in the mural.

Regardless of whether Cherubimon had ever started a Form War, it had no impact on him whatsoever.

Continuing to obsess over this matter served little purpose.

"Wait..."

Zhao Jie was about to turn and leave, but at that exact moment, his peripheral vision caught sight of something on the ground—to be precise, a dust-covered card lying on the floor.

"What is it?"

Angewomon looked at Zhao Jie with a puzzled expression.

Under her watchful gaze, Zhao Jie strode over quickly, bent down, and picked up the dust-laden card from the floor.

"This is..."

Angewomon looked at Zhao Jie, feeling somewhat perplexed.

It was merely an abandoned card; was there any need for her Digimon partner to make such a big fuss over it?

Swish!

Zhao Jie picked up the card and gently wiped his palm across its surface. To his astonishment, a single wipe completely brushed away all the dust.

Spotless!

A pure blue card appeared before the eyes of both Zhao Jie and Angewomon.

"A Blue Card?"

Zhao Jie stared intently at the blue card before him. It looked utterly ordinary, with not a trace of digital energy flowing within it.

Yet holding it in his hand imparted a subtle coolness, and the mere sweep of his hand had instantly banished every speck of dust.

This alone was enough to prove that the blue card was far from simple.

"Could this be the Blue Card from Digimon Tamers?"

In Digimon Tamers, the protagonists had to use a Blue Card whenever they wanted to evolve their Digimon to a higher level.

Yet here, within this abandoned Digital tribe, such a Blue Card actually existed. While it couldn't yet be confirmed whether the card in his hand shared the same function as the one in the anime, one had to admit that this blue card gave Zhao Jie a most extraordinary feeling.

"Shall we give it a try?"

Muttering inwardly, Zhao Jie turned his gaze toward Angewomon.

"What is it? Is this blue card special?"

Meeting Zhao Jie's gaze, Angewomon asked out of curiosity.

"We aren't sure yet, but we can test it out!"

Zhao Jie took a deep breath, clutching the blue card in his hand as he looked at Angewomon.

"How do we test it?"

Angewomon took a few steps forward and reached out her hand to take the blue card from Zhao Jie.

To her astonishment, however, her palm passed right through the blue card; she couldn't grasp it at all.

"Huh?"

Seeing this, both Angewomon and Zhao Jie wore looks of utter amazement.

"Let's try again!"

Zhao Jie held the blue card out toward her and said.

"Alright!"

Angewomon nodded, reaching out her hand once more to grab the blue card. Under the gaze of their four eyes, her hand passed right through the card yet again, failing completely to catch hold of it.

"Well now?"

Unconvinced, Angewomon reached back out and grabbed at it once more, but in the end, she grasped nothing.

"What kind of situation is this?"

Angewomon stared dumbfounded at the blue card in Zhao Jie's hand.

Zhao Jie could hold it in his hand, yet she couldn't even touch it—wasn't this far too bizarre?

Seeing that Angewomon couldn't even make physical contact with the blue card, a flash of sudden realization crossed Zhao Jie's eyes.

This explained why the card had been abandoned here. It wasn't that the Digimon of this settlement hadn't wanted to take it with them, but rather that they simply couldn't.

"This blue card might really be capable of allowing a Digimon to achieve Mega evolution!"

The moment this possibility crossed his mind, Zhao Jie's heart began to race with excitement.

Mega evolution!

In this world, not a single Digimon Tamer possessed a Digimon that had reached the Mega level.

If this blue card truly possessed the power to elevate a Digimon to the Mega level, he would become the very first Tamer in history to own a Mega-level Digimon!

The mere thought of it was enough to make his heart race.

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