MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 136 Battle (3)

Joseph's vision was quickly enveloped in darkness, his consciousness began to fade, and his severed head and body fell downwards.

However, the powerful ripple energy continued to propel his head, maintaining a brief period of life.

This allowed him to barely maintain his thinking in this life-threatening moment.

Time stopped? Time stopped!
Dio's ability is to stop time! How can we counter this?

How exactly should we deal with this invincible ability?
That's right! It's time!

The activation of abilities is not arbitrary; there must be a cooldown period between activations!

Otherwise, Dio would never have stood up to us for so long; he could have wiped us all out in an instant!
"Hermit Purple!"

With a roar in his mind, the rapidly receding consciousness began to force the Stand to move.

The Hermit's Purple, which had already begun to dissipate, suddenly surged forth. The humanoid figure made of vines, with its severed head, suddenly contracted and condensed inward, like a spring compressed to its limit.

Bang...

boom!
In an instant, the vines, compressed to their limit, gathered power and then released it wildly outward. The spring-loaded fist, radiating a small sun, was launched and blasted towards Dio, who had just appeared out of thin air more than ten meters away!

boom!
Amidst the deafening roar, Dio's figure shot off into the distance like a shooting star.

No! Something's wrong!
Joseph's fading consciousness sensed something was wrong; the feel of his attack was off!

The impact felt incredibly hard, almost unbelievably hard—harder than diamond, titanium, or anything Joseph knew. It wasn't a strike to Dio himself, nor was it a strike to his Stand!

That bastard Dio escaped with the power of that attack! We must tell them immediately that we must not let our guard down!

The Hermit's Purple dissipated in the air, making a hand gesture to alert Jotaro and Polnareff. Overwhelmed with grief and anger, they glanced at the rapidly approaching green figure in the distance and immediately, without hesitation, chased after the direction in which Dio had been knocked away.

Because they understood that they still had a chance to fully recover, and chasing Dio was the most important thing.

"Mr. Joseph! Avdol!" Kakyoin, who had just recovered from the brink of death, rushed over, and the Green Emperor's tentacles swelled out, binding Joseph and Avdol's falling, shattered bodies together.

Unlike Joseph, who retained a moment of consciousness after his head was severed, Avdol, whose entire body was vertically severed, had already fallen into darkness due to brain damage.

Fortunately, his soul had not yet left his body.

As the healing potion in Joseph's arms was shattered, a red spiral of smoke rose up, enveloping the two who were not yet completely dead in the smoke. Their broken bodies immediately reconnected and began to heal.

"Kakyoin, I have a plan!" Joseph grabbed Kakyoin's hand and roared as soon as he opened his eyes.

……

"asshole!"

Star Platinum and Silver Chariot sped through the sky, Jotaro Kujo's face was extremely ugly.

His inhuman senses had been amplified to the maximum. Even hundreds of meters away, the traces of panicked heartbeats of pedestrians hidden in buildings gradually emerged in his consciousness, yet Jotaro was completely unaware of Dio's whereabouts.

Just seconds after Jotaro and Polnareff began their pursuit, Dio suddenly vanished into thin air.

He seemed to have activated time stop again, using it to hide his figure.

"If time stops, how do we deal with it?"

Recalling the moment before when his companions were so easily defeated, Jotaro grew increasingly furious.

What exactly is the process by which time stops?
How long can Dior stop the flow of time? Is it a second or two, or more?

How exactly does the motion occur during a time-stopped process?
What exactly is its form?
Jotaro's mind raced as he desperately tried to guess the effects of the ability and how to counter it. Surrounded by several tall buildings, Jotaro's eyes flashed rapidly.

He understood that if Dio could temporarily escape by stopping time, it would inevitably mean that it was consuming some kind of energy. Whether it needed a cooldown period or was severely depleted of stamina, he had to take a break.

His decision to run away inevitably meant that, in Dio's view, if he didn't run away during this time to recover, he would be at risk of being defeated!
"That damn bastard, there's absolutely no way he could stop time indefinitely!"

"As long as I spot him the next time time stops, I'll use my fastest speed to throw a punch! To smash his head before he can escape the next time time stops!"

So he immediately relaxed his body, and even his stand-in relaxed, but this was by no means a slackening; rather, it was a gathering of strength!
Jotaro waited, waiting for Dio to attack him.

Joseph, who could still launch an attack even after his head had been severed, reminded Jotaro.

They are Stand users; the shattering or even death of their bodies does not mean that their Stands will immediately dissipate as well.

If Dio chooses to attack him, then at that very moment, the instant he is killed, Star Platinum will unleash its strongest power and shatter Dio's head! After all, he still has a chance to be resurrected.

……

Polunarev was also waiting, or rather, he was observing.

Not long after shattering that demonic sword, Polnareff noticed a strange change occurring within himself.

The sword techniques he had painstakingly practiced for many years kept flashing through his mind in those few short minutes: the distance and timing of the sword strike, the movements of the body exerting force, and all sorts of sword-wielding techniques by a stand-in who was completely unrestricted by the human body...

The sword technique he was once so proud of seemed to have gained some kind of life force, taking root in his mind, wriggling, drawing nourishment from everything he had witnessed in his life, and beginning to grow continuously.

At this moment, the silver chariot enveloped his entire body, and the slender rapier felt the movement of the air.

Extremely subtle air currents, like mouths, tell their stories to the blade in exquisite detail.

A rapidly dissipating trajectory appeared in my mind.

That was the trajectory of Dio's body as his Stand flew through the air while time was stopped.

Polnareff "saw" Dio, who was hiding in a corner of a building not far away, watching him and Jotaro from the shadows.

Given Dior's flight speed, how long did this trajectory remain stationary from start to finish?

It's eight seconds! Or rather, at least eight seconds!
A sense of despair welled up inside Polnareff. He couldn't fathom how his own people could possibly defeat someone with such terrifying abilities.

But Polnareff gritted his teeth and roared inwardly, "Damn it! Don't give up! No matter what, I have to kill this guy! No matter how unbeatable his abilities are, I have to kill him!"

"If he can stop time, then do it before he activates his ability! Do it the instant his time stop ends!"

The arm hidden behind his back subtly gestured to Jotaro, conveying the current information. Jotaro was startled. "What? Eight seconds!"

If Dior could really stop time for 8 seconds, that would be absolutely terrifying!

In other words, they had just narrowly escaped death.

With Dio's vampire strength and speed, plus the power of his Stand, he could easily walk over during the eight-second time stop when they first met, kill all five of them, and then return to his original spot.

Why weren't they killed immediately?
Is there some limitation to Dio's abilities, or is he simply trying to play us for fools?
"Jotaro! Go back and meet up with Mr. Joseph and the others right now! Tell them they must keep as much distance as possible!"

Polnareff suddenly said in a low voice.

"Dio's time-stopping ability is too terrifying. We must not get too close, or he will kill us all at once. We must maintain a relatively safe distance!"

"Now that I've located Dio, immediately distance yourself from me. I'm going to test the interval between Dio's ability activations, so watch carefully!"

(End of this chapter)