Uplifting Journey

In the historical data recorded by human civilization, the earliest clear record of the mysterious thing like a substitute appeared in ancient civilizations hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Ripple Messenger, Practitioner, Witch Gu, Fortune Teller, Vampire... In that era where demons danced wildly, as a substitute for the source of many abnormal abilities, they were not very conspicuous.

Because the basic qualities and abilities of the stand-ins in that period were far from being as weird and powerful as they are now, with a variety of tricks.

There is even a gap visible to the naked eye between the substitute messengers who awakened ten years ago and the latest generation of substitute messengers. This gap is especially obvious in terms of overall quantity and ability diversity.

Relevant experts believe that the advancement of science and the initial information explosion are one of the major driving factors for the development of substitutes, and the mysterious arrows that have appeared in the world in recent years and can inspire substitutes also play a key role in this process.

But in fact, it is not the case.

From Requiem, the silver chariot known as the Dark Marshal of the Alliance, Polnareff, who was trying to synchronize with the double, obtained a lot of fragmentary information fragments, including a part of the "influence map" at the level of the double.

Polnareff could not clearly express the picture beyond the scope of human sensory understanding, but what is certain is that the rise of the substitute messenger in modern times is not because the substitute system has developed to this point along with the historical process. but because——

In this era, the main battlefield between the alliance and the world is not far away.

The stand-ins who are higher than the single world, most of their power is focused on a few key nodes on the time axis, and they have no time to focus on other places until the end of this huge and long war.

The closer the time is to the key node of the battlefield, the more active and influential the avatar will be in the world, but this is only a manifestation of the aftermath of the power of each main battlefield participant spreading along the time axis.

Worlds that are far away from key time nodes cannot even maintain their own reality, and cannot have a stable past and future. Most of them can only follow the trajectory of fate in a delicate balance.

In the smoky combat conference room, Jotaro Kujo, who had completely quit smoking after having his daughter, silently extinguished the cigarette butt between his fingers in the ashtray that was almost full on the table.

After closing his eyes and pressing his eye sockets a few times, Jotaro suppressed the fatigue around him. He raised his head, glanced at Polnareff and Cheng Bin who were whispering and conversing, and concentrated his gaze on the whiteboard wall opposite the table .

At this moment, the wall is covered with magnetic nails and documents. These are the information collected by the SPW Group through safe and secret channels in a short period of time, from neat medical files, to small newspapers in unknown corners, to handwriting There are all kinds of materials in the sketch notes comparable to a dog crawling.

All the information is collected around two people - two terrifying enemies worthy of anyone's careful treatment.

According to the feedback from the Dark Marshal, the two nails that must be removed from the world, one is a neutral person who is outside the alliance, and the other is an apostle who has not yet awakened as a stand-in "world".

The fragments of information obtained by Polnareff contained some past and future destiny trajectories of this world and other parallel worlds, which allowed him to act as a prophet to give spoilers to a certain extent, which greatly facilitated the group's intelligence on the enemy. investigative action.

Jotaro glanced over the information group on the wall on the right side, where key information such as names, faces, and locations were blacked out, and about "neutral people"—for some reason, Polnareff strongly emphasized that it is necessary to avoid Anyone directly involved in the operation knew too much of what these intelligence officers had gathered through careful indirect investigation, especially key information that had been blacked out.

Even all those who participated in the indirect investigation against neutrals were completely isolated and detained at this time, and they were forbidden to have any information exchange with the outside world.

This made Jotaro a little puzzled—although he knew that Polnareff's behavior was mostly due to the special ability of that unknown enemy, but what kind of ability required such a degree of prevention?

This made him feel a lot of pressure.

Compared with other bewildered people, Cheng Bin, who seems to know a little about fate, agrees with Polnareff's cautious decision.

Glancing at the two who were discussing something in whispers, Jotaro turned his gaze back to the wall, staring at the "Apostle" on the left, and silently took out a new cigarette and put it in his mouth.

The blue-purple phantom flashed in front of Jotaro's face, and the partially manifested hand of Platinum Star flicked its fingers at a frighteningly high speed, creating high temperatures through air friction in a small space, and ignited Jotaro's cigarette.

After taking a deep breath, Jotaro stared at the head of the target, and gradually became sharper in the rising smoke——

Enrique Pucci. A priest with a tortuous life experience.

Neat short white hair trimmed with weird lines, dark bronze skin close to black, slightly luxurious golden cross purple black robe. This priest who believes in Dior or the "world" has an appearance that is different from ordinary people. Under the seemingly ordinary life experience, there is a twisted heart and unknowing malice towards all living beings hidden.

"...surrender to Dior's evil charm, and willingly sacrifice all living beings and even himself for the Devourer"

Recalling the corner of fate revealed by Polnareff, Jotaro's slightly squinted eyes could not help revealing a dangerous look: "In the future of many worlds, the person who killed me and my daughter Xu Lun ."

A monster that wants to destroy and devour everything, actually still has a large number of believers and apostles in the vast world. I don't know whether Dior was able to subdue all the villains at the beginning. It was due to the influence of other substitutes under the world's opponents, or whether the person and the substitute were both. Possesses a similar, sinister and deadly charm.

The fighting spirit and aura emanating from Jotaro's body, the almost visible flame formed by the influence of soul energy on electromagnetic waves, made the other two in the room look sideways at him.

Looking back, Cheng Bin continued to ask Polnareff: "...Can't your silver chariot Requiem use its real ability to directly deal with them like it did when it dealt with the Crimson King last time? Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, but you seem to have instantly killed the Crimson King?"

"It's not that easy," Polnareff sighed. "At that time, it was the Crimson King who made troubles first and gave up most of the future, so that we could take advantage of it. Even so, we only came to the Alliance A little bit of power from the members prevented the Crimson King from extending further into the future

"Unless Diablo disappears directly from history and our memory, the alliance will not be able to reach a result with this powerful neutral for a while. The same is true for those people who were swallowed by Dio and the world. Ordinary people are simply I don't remember who became a victim around me

"Moreover, although the power of a substitute is strong, it is not unlimited. Using real power here means paying a price in other places, especially in the world where you have to directly contact the hostile faction.

"Now that the total war is going on, it is difficult for the stand-in alliance to spare strength to deal with those enemies in the non-core battlefield, so to clean up the nails in each time period of each world, we can only use the smallest effort to move the fate, and try our best to move between the worlds." It can be done internally or by a basic carrier like us without foreign aid."

After a pause, Polnareff explained: "Not all potential hostiles are qualified to be 'nails' to hinder the Alliance's actions, most of these nails are related to 'World Beyond Heaven' and 'Platinum Star' "Requiem" is related to that battle, so most of them have some characteristics of time-type abilities in the world."

"Oh? Did they inherit part of the world's power?" Cheng Bin nodded thoughtfully, and then continued to ask, "From this point of view, as a member of the hostile camp, the world's apostle Pucci should be hiding extremely powerful power Right? But judging by your arrangement, it seems that you don't pay much attention to it?"

After the preliminary intelligence collection and analysis, Polnareff plans to go with Jotaro to deal with the apostle of the world named Puqi, and the task of dealing with the neutral person is entrusted to Cheng Bin, and they will Come to support after solving the apostles according to the situation.

Although Platinum Star and Silver Chariot Requiem are very powerful, before the real power behind the stand-in descends, Cheng Bin still far exceeds the two of them in terms of the diversity and difficulty of their abilities—— Even if Cheng Bin killed himself first, he cut himself a knife.

And the most important thing is that Cheng Bin's immortality far exceeds that of Jotaro and the others—Polnareff believes that the danger of contacting neutral people far exceeds the battle with that world apostle.

"Because the apostles of the world are the same as us, they have extremely harsh conditions for the deployment of real power," Polnareff frowned, "Strictly speaking, the world we live in as a whole belongs to those who are outside the battlefield. of the strong neutral, like the Crimson King

"These guys have more power in this world, and unlike us, where most of the power is occupied by the main battlefield, they don't have so many restrictions on putting more power into the world at a specific time-this is also the reason for both sides of the war. They all want to take the time to solve their reasons."

The world naturally wants to swallow or bring under its command one by one those guys who have not joined the alliance and are fighting on their own, and the alliance will naturally not watch the world's junglers grow. Those who can be drawn in will naturally be drawn in, and those who cannot be drawn in I'm sorry, at least I have to spit out the territory and power I occupy. Whether I can survive or not depends on the situation.

Those stand-ins who are free and have independent consciousness, whether they are alone and do not want to participate in the war, or sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight and want to reap the benefits, are destined to be unable to escape this round of cleansing.

"Unawakened apostles are not terrible in the face of the stop of time, but the apostles themselves have a close connection with the world. The Platinum Star and the world can already be regarded as the same source, so this enemy must be faced by Jotaro and me. As for that a neutral."

After hesitating for a while, Polnareff said to Cheng Bin with a serious face: "From a higher perspective, that guy is relatively safe. absorbed, but"

The contradictions and conceptual conflicts between the stand-in's perspective and his own perspective in the world made Polnareff's emotions a little complicated, but the mind he had tempered for decades made him make a choice that conformed to his own insistence:

"... At least in this world, that guy is a real demon, be careful! If you have the chance... kill him!

"And as soon as possible!"

Tangled for a long time. No FK said.