Ever since we discovered, from you and Kari, how human Crests stimulate Digimon, we began analyzing your data. We were worried at first about the lack of energy, but the two of you carried tremendous power. We pretended to accept Millenniummon's demands while accelerating our analysis, hoping to find the reason—so we wouldn't have to rely on him. After all, we never trusted Millenniummon, and he never trusted us. To be honest, when we struck that bargain, neither side truly believed the other would honor it.
But after analyzing your data, we found a unique segment within you. We couldn't decipher it. Even after thorough analysis, we still didn't understand why that segment could wield such great power and catalyze Digimon evolution. With no way forward, we moved to retrieve that Greymon—but during the retrieval, Millenniummon intervened. Exploiting a vulnerability in the Firewall, he snatched Greymon away. We patched the hole in time, but we were still a step too late; Greymon was carried off by Millenniummon.
Using technology left behind by the Steel Empire, Millenniummon modified that Greymon into MetalGreymon, then, after infusing it with dark energy, rebuilt it again into Machinedramon—thus giving birth to the first Mega achieved through evolution. Before that, Megas like the Royal Knights or the Seven Great Demon Lords could only be catalyzed by inexhaustible energy. Machinedramon's appearance shattered that common sense and established the very concept of "naturally evolving to Mega," making it possible for Digimon to reach Mega by evolution.
So we thought to bring children from the human world to the Digital World and pair them with matching partner Digimon, so their presence could catalyze evolution and bolster our fighting strength. We scanned the children who were present and forged their Crest patterns into Crests that amplified those traits and transmitted that power to their Digimon more efficiently. But we feared that you might not always embody those virtues—or that, after obtaining Digimon, some might do harm. So we encoded the Crests with a lock: only when the required quality is detected will a Crest function.
We and the Agents poured all our focus into building the Digivice and the Crests, but the Digital World could not be left without stewards. Thus we chose five holy Digimon and, by means of the Holy Stones, elevated their power to Mega, granting them the legal order governed by the Holy Stones and asking them to stand in for us as administrators of the Digital World. With that set, we returned to our work, hoping to convert these Digimon into strength at the decisive moment against Millenniummon.
However, at that time the emperor Digimon who presides at the Digital World's center—Fanglongmon, ruler of the "Earth (world)"—the first Data-type Digimon, had been sealed in the deepest underground darkness by an Angel-type Digimon that descended in the distant past. With the throne empty, the Four Sovereigns began vying for hegemony. Though Fanglongmon was sealed, it being the first Data-type marked the dawn of Data-type Digimon in the Digital World.
The Sovereigns—Azulongmon, who guards the east and governs thunder; Ebonwumon, who guards the north and governs water; Zhuqiaomon, who guards the south and governs flame; and Baihumon, who guards the west and governs steel—together with their twelve Deva subordinates—Vikaralamon (Boar), Kumbhiramon (Rat), Vajramon (Ox), Mihiramon (Tiger), Antylamon (Rabbit), Majiramon (Dragon), Sandiramon (Snake), Indramon (Horse), Pajiramon (Sheep), Makuramon (Monkey), Sinduramon (Rooster), and Caturamon (Dog)—launched mutual campaigns. In this needless war, countless Digimon were dragged into the fray.
The Four Sovereigns' duty is to maintain the Digital World's balance and steady operation. Yet their struggle for power plunged it into chaos. In that war, innumerable innocents died. Their grudges drifted across the Digital World, refusing to dissipate. The human world's negative thoughts, the resentments of Digimon that perished because war prevented their evolution… Even when a Digimon vanishes mid-evolution, it can be reconstructed to reincarnate at Primary Village—but the bitterness of its disappearance, its thoughts and resentments, still linger.
A terrifying composite was thus born—from the accumulated grudges of Digimon lost in evolution, humanity's negativity, and data leeched from the Dark Ocean: Apocalymon. Its power was enough to wipe out parallel worlds. In opposition to "constancy," Apocalymon embodied the opposite principle: inside its colossal body churned the clinging resentments of countless Digimon, plus the information of every dark Digimon's evolutions and techniques.
Apocalymon sought to trigger a pre-primed cataclysm within itself to reset the world, then impose its own rules—to become a "god" that denies all change: evolution, growth, motion, every inconstant thing. True to its concept, it would enthrone a stagnant, deathly world. It battled the Four Sovereigns for control of the Digital World. The Sovereigns stopped their war and united against Apocalymon—but their clash sent fresh ripples of upheaval through the world.
In the end, borrowing the Digital World's power, the Four Sovereigns sealed Apocalymon outside the Firewall. But that war left the world's balance broken. The Firewall, no longer tight, could not fully fend off the Dark Area's corrosion, and the Dark Area resumed gnawing at the Digital World.
At that moment, Millenniummon exploited the opening and struck at the seal. We could only leave the Agents to complete the Digivice and the Crests—fortunately they were nearly done—while we went to the Dark Ocean to monitor Millenniummon's movements.
Then Millenniummon activated a failsafe Apocalymon had left behind. Piedmon led Machinedramon in an attack on the site where the Digivice was being built. The Agents were not strong enough to hold them off; Piedmon's forces seized the Crests. One Agent—Gennai, as he's known now—escaped with the DigiEgg and the Digivice.
When the Four Sovereigns learned of this, they rushed to intervene. But Millenniummon, meanwhile, spawned Puppetmon and refitted another into MetalSeadramon to oppose the Sovereigns. We clashed with Millenniummon again, leaving us no room to watch developments in the Digital World. By the time we barely managed to suppress Millenniummon once more, the Four Sovereigns were under the heel of the Dark Masters. We intended to aid the Sovereigns, but realized we couldn't directly intervene—at that stage the Dark Masters were still Apocalymon's pieces, and although Apocalymon was no normal DigiEgg, it was nevertheless born of the Digital World. Our charge is to safeguard the Digital World itself. By the time we recognized Millenniummon's scheme, it was too late; the outcome was fixed, and we were pinned down by Millenniummon.
As the Dark Masters moved to seal the Four Sovereigns, we decided to seize the moment and rapidly complete the Digital World's upgrade. Since the Digital World sprang from the human world, copying human-world rules was the fastest, most convenient path—hence the abundance of strange, familiar "human" mechanisms scattered through our world.
Millenniummon and we had agreed not to interfere in the Digital World—though neither of us took that promise seriously. We had deeper considerations: humanity bears both light and dark. If humans guided the Digital World's evolution, the upgrade could draw energy from both aspects; and human-derived rules, wielded by humans, would integrate more swiftly into the Digital World.
So after summoning you children to the Digital World, we left every piece of Steel Empire data in the Steel Factory. Once you arrived there, it would display itself. We hoped you could grow quickly and stand against the Dark Masters.
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