MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 103 Only a Stand can fight another Stand
Inside a phone booth next to a seaside hotel.

Joseph was standing among them, his hand gripping the phone, dialing the Speedwagon Group's contact number.

"I am Joseph..."

After a while, a shocked voice came from the other end of the phone: "Mr. Joseph, you've really regained your youth? This is simply unbelievable!"

If the code hadn't matched, the other party simply wouldn't have believed what they were seeing.

Joseph laughed loudly, his fingers tapping lightly on the telephone receiver. His hearty laughter echoed in the phone booth, completely drowning out the faint tapping.

His tone was full of confidence: "Dio the vampire is nothing more than a small cake to me now that I've regained my youth."

"Even the Pillar Men and Kars, the Ultimate Life Form, would be no match for me now that I've regained my youth and possess Ripple and Stand powers!"

However, a worried voice came from the other end of the phone again: "But Mr. Joseph, are you really going to arrange a private jet for you?"

"The plane you were on before was already attacked by the Stand user Gray Tower. If you are attacked again while on a plane, the danger is too great."

"Stand abilities are all unreasonable. If you are attacked while traveling by vehicle, you might be able to escape. But if you are traveling by plane, once the plane is shot down, your chances of survival are extremely slim!"

“No problem! No problem!” Joseph turned to look at the pixelated wings on his shoulders and said casually, “We can fly now. Even if we’re shot down in mid-air, we have a good chance of escaping if we use a private plane.”

"On land, the long distance would actually make us more vulnerable to attack. If we fly to Egypt in one go, the assassins Dio has arranged won't have time to attack us due to the time difference."

With a click, the phone call ended.

Joseph's smile gradually faded, and a hint of seriousness flashed in his eyes.

Dior, your intelligence network is truly terrifying, having located us so accurately so many times!

Is it because your intelligence network is too powerful, or are the Stands under your command able to gather intelligence just like my Hermit Purple?
Let's test it out!

Perhaps it was because he had regained his youth, but Joseph's mind became sharper. He kept recalling the battles of the past few days and thinking about his next move.

He couldn't be sure what exactly was the reason Dior was able to consistently find them so accurately.

Is it a mole within the Speedwagon Foundation, or is it being monitored by some underground or even official intelligence network, or is it the most unreasonable Stand ability?
Using coded messages interspersed in conversations and Morse code, he had already planned three different routes to make the call.

But he won't go any of those routes!

Meanwhile, in the same seaside hotel, Jotaro Kujo and his companions had just contacted the parents of the little girl on the boat and safely escorted her away.

The Stand users breathed a sigh of relief, as protecting a child while facing battle at any moment was extremely difficult.

Several people gathered in a room and talked to each other.

Switching from spectator mode to creative mode, Fang Zheng's figure appeared in the room.

Because the appearance of the blocky pixels was so terrifying, in order not to cause a commotion or scare any passersby to the ground, Fang Zheng remained in observer mode after coming ashore.

At that moment, he entered the room and asked in confusion, "By the way, Jotaro, weren't you in a hurry to save your mother? You could have just flown there. You don't look tired at all. You could have just flown there using your elytra. It shouldn't have taken long."

Jotaro Kujo adjusted his hat brim, shook his head slightly, and said seriously, "No, although I also want to resolve my mother's danger as soon as possible, at least for now, proceeding slowly is the most advantageous for us."

"Why?" Fang Zheng continued to ask.

Kakyoin Noriaki reached out and touched his forehead, where the flesh bud that Dio had planted once controlled. Even though the scar had disappeared, he still felt a faint phantom pain due to psychological effects.

He chimed in, "I've seen Dio myself. I once fled because of him. He's an evil, arrogant villain who enjoys the thrill of the hunt."

"At least until now, he still doesn't see us as real opponents, but merely as prey to be toyed with. Although we have defeated the several assassins we have encountered so far, Dio's power is far greater than that!"

Polnareff chimed in, "Like Kakyoin, that bastard Dio also used flesh buds to control me."

"The feeling of being controlled by the flesh buds, of being unable to control my body and mind, and of wanting to serve Dio with all my heart, still sends chills down my spine to this day!"

"Even without a double, just by relying on his ability to cultivate flesh buds, he is absolutely capable of completely controlling a country, either secretly or openly, after a period of time!"

"Over the years, while investigating the murderer of my sister, I have heard legends about Dior in the underground kingdoms of various countries."

"Among those controlled by this bastard's flesh buds, there are quite a few, whether they are Stand users with various abilities or ordinary people who are rich and powerful."

"I suspect that many famous and powerful Stand users in the underworld have become his subordinates."

Fang Zheng understood what he meant. "Oh, you mean to say that this vampire may have already ruled the country, and could even wage war if he wanted to?"

Jotaro Kujo calmly analyzed, "He enjoys the cat-and-mouse game, either by ordering his subordinates or by hiring Stand users with money to kill us."

"The journey to Cairo, Egypt is long. As long as we keep switching modes of transportation and changing our route, no matter how powerful the intelligence network is, it will be difficult for all the assassins to gather together to hunt us down."

"They would have to split into multiple groups and guard the intersections we might pass through to have any chance of intercepting us en route." "And if we didn't travel to Cairo by land, but instead spent several days flying there..."

He glanced at the pixelated prop called elytra.

“Fang Zheng, the elytra and fireworks you gave us do allow us to fly quickly, but the use of fireworks, whether during the day or at night, leaves too obvious traces.”

“Our route will become extremely straightforward. Dio’s men can abandon blocking different intersections and instead gather together to snipe us.”

Fang Zheng continued, "Wouldn't it be simpler to just kill them all?"

"If they gather together, wouldn't it be simple if I just killed them all at once?"

"Whether it's 1000 people, 100 people, or 1 million people, as long as they gather together, killing each other is very easy."

“This…” Jotaro Kujo looked at Fang Zheng’s face with some difficulty and said helplessly, “Cairo, Egypt has a very dense population. If you really have any ability to cause mass destruction, it will definitely hurt a lot of people. It’s best not to do it.”

"Furthermore, even if your ability can cause massive damage, it doesn't mean you can kill a Stand user."

“That’s right.” Avdol nodded as well. “Over the years, I’ve seen quite a few Stand users. Many Stand abilities are very troublesome. There are just too many strange and unusual abilities. No matter how powerful they are, they can all be countered by some unknown Stand user.”

"From what I've seen and heard, there are Stand users who can absorb kinetic energy, turn into steel, turn into gas, and there's even a legend about a Stand user who, like a curse, is killed and then reborn in the body of the person they've parasitized."

"Flying can indeed greatly shorten the journey time, but it makes us extremely vulnerable to being targeted by Stand users. We were too careless at first and tried to fly directly there, which led to an attack by the Stand user Gray Tower, causing the plane to crash."

"Even if we don't encounter any attacks along the way and fly directly to Cairo, Egypt, we will still be in great danger if Dio, lying in wait, summons a large number of his men to launch an attack on us."

"The abilities of Stand users are too dangerous. No one knows what kind of abilities a stranger Stand user possesses until they actually encounter one."

"And the army!" With a "snap," the door to the room opened, and Joseph walked in.

He calmly stated, "My father, George Joestar II, was killed when I was still an infant because the corpses left behind by Dio held high positions in the army."

"Although I killed many vampires when I was young, including the Pillar Man who created vampires and the ultimate creature Kars, vampires are still terrifying."

"Dio is no ordinary vampire. After he was pulled out of the sea after sleeping for a hundred years, even if he awakened his Stand ability, he would never let go of such a convenient ability as a vampire."

"The power he controls is far greater than we can see. Even if we are Stand users, it will be very troublesome for us."

There's a common saying among Stand users: only Stands can fight Stands.

Stands are composed of life energy and spiritual power, possessing bizarre and almost physical abilities, immense strength, and forms that are invisible and intangible to ordinary people.

Even the weakest Stand is a terrifying being, like a nightmare, when it targets ordinary people.

Even for regular armies, without sufficient accurate intelligence and prior identification of the Stand user's true form, even the weakest Stand user can be a nightmare to face.

Like Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum, despite lacking any special abilities, its immense strength, speed, and control precision are terrifying enough. A handful of sand can unleash the power of a shotgun.

A casual punch or a random stone thrown can have the power of a tank shell.

Its terrifying power and speed are so great that it can even penetrate rock layers like tofu, rapidly excavating tunnels underground.

In complex terrain, if he really wanted to kill, Jotaro Kujo, with Star Platinum, would be fully capable of wantonly slaughtering an army.

The same applies to Kakyoin Noriaki's Green Emperor. Although its destructive power is relatively weak, equivalent to a mobile heavy machine gun, it is extremely flexible and can even infiltrate the human body to control it.

If he so desired, conventional armies could easily slaughter them unless they launched a direct beyond-visual-range attack.

Avdol's Stand, the Red Magician, possesses the most astonishing destructive power.

It can create and manipulate flames at will, using extremely high-temperature flames for defense, so that incoming steel bullets are instantly vaporized by the extreme heat before they can even touch the body.

It can also create massive flames and ignite fires at will. If it so desires, it can set a skyscraper ablaze in an instant, and burn hundreds or thousands of people to death with a single thought.

Polnareff's silver chariot, though lacking special abilities and having a short range, possesses a terrifyingly fast speed.

He can carve marble into exquisite statues with his sword in the blink of an eye, almost imperceptible to the human eye.

Even when facing ordinary people, he could cut through all bullets with his sword, and use the tip of his sword to flick stones, and he could also snipe a group of ordinary people with extremely accurate accuracy.

Joseph Joestar's Stand, Hermit Purple, may have the weakest direct destructive power, but it can still cause terrifying destruction if desired.

The purple vine-like Stand can freely spread and move through hard rocks, destroying solid buildings.

If he were to unleash his destructive power, even a skyscraper like the Empire State Building would be nothing more than a fragile toy in his hands, collapsing within seconds.

However, although it is theoretically possible to confront the army head-on, no substitute would actually be willing to confront the army.

(End of this chapter)