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Chapter 159 Alliance Wars and Exclusion

"An alliance..." As Hayato Kawajiri left, Jotaro Kujo unknowingly arrived at the same spot.

His gaze was somewhat complicated as he murmured the word to himself, then clenched his fist. Now that the Stand had faded, Star Platinum appeared on him.

Jotaro Kujo, or rather Star Platinum, calmly looked at Fang Zheng in front of him and said, "Fang Zheng, the Stand Alliance is very grateful for your help, but you probably won't be here for long."

"Oh, what do you mean?" Fang Zheng asked.

Star Platinum calmly recounted: "Do you remember the Stand 'World Beyond Heaven,' or rather, the Beyond Heaven Ritual, that you saw in the previous parallel universe?"

Fang Zheng tilted his head: "Of course I remember, but you never asked me what happened in the previous parallel universe, yet you do."

"In other words, Jotaro shouldn't know, but Star Platinum does. Or rather, Stands can remember things that happen in different parallel universes."

Star Platinum nodded and said again, "As you know, in this universe, Jotaro Kujo and the others, caught in endless cycles, have tried countless times to transcend the Heaven Ritual and attempt to break the cycle through the evolution of their Stands."

"But you should also know that without exception, all attempts have failed."

"Whether it was using special insect arrows, the Beyond Heaven ritual, or experiments to gather Stand power, they all failed without exception."

"Do you know why?"

Fang Zheng shook his head. "Of course I don't know."

The Star of Platinum calmly stated the answer: "Because we were unwilling, we did not respond to the ritual."

"Because the alliance was unwilling to break this stalemate on the front lines."

"The evolution of a Stand, whether it's a surge of spirit, a special insect arrow, or even the seemingly most logical ritual to transcend Heaven..."

"Whether they seem reasonable or not, they are rituals, and so-called rituals are essentially codes, they are language."

"Communication is conducted through agreed-upon codes and language."

"Or rather, it's making a phone call."

"Only through two-way communication can the ceremony function properly and guide our power."

Fang Zheng tilted his head and said with some curiosity, "Oh, so you don't want to break the cycle, is that right?"

"Or are you deliberately keeping the cycle running?"

“That’s right.” Platinum Star nodded, looking at the distant starry sky, at the various celestial bodies arranged in an extremely regular pattern, and at the alliance of various civilizations that were thriving and developing vigorously.

His gaze was complex, and he sighed softly: "When a fish walks onto land, is it still a fish?"

"When humanity ventures into the stars and completes a completely new evolution, will humanity still be humanity?"

With her hand pressed against her chest, Star Platinum's gaze drifted into memories. "Once upon a time, I was also Jotaro Kujo, and I was also human."

"But when the spirit transcends for the first time, and the Stand truly evolves for the first time, am I still the Jotaro I once was?"

"I can rewrite the entire universe with a single thought, and change everything in it. I have become a 'god' in a certain sense."

"I no longer need anything, because I can create everything in the blink of an eye."

"I no longer need my family, because to me, my family is nothing more than an illusion that can be created in an instant."

"I no longer need Jotaro Kujo as my so-called original body, because I can change it at will, or I don't need it at all."

"So, when a human becomes a god, is the god still a human?"

Before Fang Zheng could answer, Platinum Star continued, "It can be, or it can not be."

"The power behind Stands is so terrifying that anyone who masters even a little bit of the power of a Stand can be almost omnipotent."

"He can retain his former humanity, or he can completely transcend it and become a being that is completely beyond humanity."

"If only one person controls this power, then of course there's no need to worry. But what if there's more than one?"

In the very beginning, in some parallel universe, a force appeared at some unknown time.

This power is what is called the soul, what is called a substitute.

Ordinary humans, or rather all intelligent life forms, began to awaken to a power known as Stands.

This force, which defies the laws of physics—it's like throwing physical rules into dog poop and stepping on them—created immense chaos.

As Stand users began to explore its power, using its incredible, lawless physical strength to develop technology and various techniques, they gained terrifying power, and thus a mad war began.

Gradually, people began to explore this entirely new concept of the soul and try to evolve the power of the Stand.

Until a certain moment, a man named Dio Brando completed his first transcendent evolution.

His almost omnipotent power allowed him to rule the universe in an instant.

He monopolized the soul power of the entire universe, endlessly evolving towards entirely new levels.

Until one day, when Dio realized the existence of parallel universes, his power began to extend to even more distant parallel universes, attempting to rule everything.

Although Dio was the first to complete the evolution in that parallel universe, countless transcendent beings already existed in the much larger parallel universe.

The war began.

Some transcendent beings believe that Stands, awakened through the power of the soul, possess a power that is almost beyond everything. This power is the broken corpse of some omniscient and omnipotent 'god', and they, all their Stand users, are part of that god. The will of all people is merely a fragment of that 'god'.

They believed that by devouring all the corpses and merging all the other Stand users, they could be "resurrected" and become an omniscient and omnipotent "god".

Let's call these guys the merger faction.

They devoured each other, erased each other's will, and seized each other's power. The ultimate victor was Dio Brando, or rather, the Stand 'The World'.

Similarly, if one were to devour all souls, even if one could truly awaken into the so-called omniscient and omnipotent 'God,' the will of one's former family and friends, and all other intelligent beings besides oneself, would also be erased. Therefore, a large number of those who transcend are unwilling to undertake such an act.

Of course, in theory, if one becomes an omniscient and omnipotent 'god,' one can naturally revive all the erased wills and swallowed souls in an instant.

However, after monkeys evolved into humans, would they still yearn to live with female monkeys?

After evolving from humans to gods, will they still regard their former family, friends, and fellow humans as fellow humans?

It's not that I look down on my former peers; it's simply that my mindset has changed.

Such phenomena are not uncommon among those who transcend; they can reshape the universe and revive everything in the blink of an eye. How then can they regard those illusory, dreamlike things as precious?
This question will have different answers for different people.

Some transcendent beings don't care and only want to become stronger. Others still want to maintain their former humanity, but they must face those who have completely abandoned their humanity, tampered with their spirit, and made themselves become stronger in an almost endless way.

Just like involution, once the first person starts involution, everyone else must start involution as well.

Otherwise, if we continue to control the Stand's power with the mindset of humans, we will only be easily devoured by those utterly inhuman beings, like cutting melons and vegetables.

So, what methods are available to fight against those guys while preserving humanity and one's original mindset?

Yes, yes!
There is never just one form of will.

At a certain point, some transcendent beings began to unite and form an alliance, and a completely new ideology was born.

A collective will, a form of will similar to that of a hive, or rather, a civilization.

A spontaneous, ever-evolving grand consciousness, a kind of 'civilization'.

Based on all intelligent life and all souls in every parallel universe, with all Stand users as extensions of interference force, and all transcendent beings as organs...

It is unclear when it began, but a grand consciousness arose that even the transcendent beings themselves found difficult to suppress in its growth.

A vast entity that spontaneously and endlessly grows and evolves, constantly spreading between different parallel universes.

That is, the so-called 'fate'

Those who once surpassed others either chose to constantly escape, or joined the ranks of conquerors in a battle royale-like system to grow stronger, or directly tampered with and transformed their own ideologies, or joined the Stand Alliance and 'Destiny'...

The endless war, which started at some unknown time, has never stopped.

Whether they are conquerors, alliances, or other scattered entities, they endlessly fight, conquer, and grow stronger on a grand scale.

The original members of the Stand Alliance have long since lost control of the endless progress of this bizarre and vast entity.

Progress! Progress! Progress...

Endless progress...

As long as it's for the collective good, as long as it's for the alliance, everything can be sacrificed, everything can be abandoned, all sacrifices can be tolerated, and all tragedies can be allowed to happen...

It's hard to say whether such a vast existence is good or bad for ordinary intelligent life.

It's hard to say whether, at some point, the 'Alliance' might instantly transform into a annexer, erasing all other intelligent beings and completely evolving into a new entity, when it deems the existence of ordinary intelligent life unnecessary.

"I see." Hearing this, Fang Zheng roughly understood. "You mean, this endlessly looping world is a historical backup of the Alliance?"

With a deep sigh, Platinum Star's words carried a certain indescribable bitterness: "That's right. Among the many different ideologies, the Killer Queen, or rather, some of the transcendents behind the Killer Queen, are escapists. They try to escape the war, try to stay in the past, and therefore, they choose to stagnate."

"For the league, this is an obstacle, an unnecessary stumbling block."

"But for us, for Star Platinum, for Jotaro Kujo, for all the intelligent life I once knew, this is a backup, a peaceful corner where we can rest for a while..."

“And now, the peace has been broken, hasn’t it?” Fang Zheng said quietly.

“Yes…” Platinum Star sighed deeply again and said, “The stalemate area of ​​the battlefield is very large. The previous universe you were in was a universe where, although it was in a stalemate, the ‘world’ had the advantage.”

"As an outsider, you shattered the stagnant universe and transformed it into Eden, which was then occupied by the 'Alliance.' But before your own power was completely expelled, the 'World' also played a dirty trick and threw you here."

"Now, the peace on this corner of the battlefield has been broken once again, and the endless war is about to begin again."

"So?" Fang Zheng tilted his head.

"I'm so sorry..." Platinum Star bowed deeply with an apologetic expression.

"As an individual, as a human being, and as Jotaro Kujo, I am grateful for your past help, but whether we like it or not, the grand ideology of the Alliance itself will not tolerate threats like yours."

"Whether it's the alliance, the conquerors, or some scattered individuals on the battlefield, none of them would want outsiders to exist before the true outcome is decided."

"Whether we like it or not, we already know that behind the so-called soul is something left behind by a grand existence that once died or was broken."

"All our struggles may just be the process of that being, that 'god', reviving."

"Even if it is dead or broken, that 'god' still possesses some kind of instinct."

"Over the years, there have been many outsiders like you, but in the end, all sorts of unexpected things happen, and they are either completely absorbed or excluded."

"Now, the time is almost up, and the rejection has already begun."

Finally, I can only apologize again.

Platinum Star waved his hand, and a familiar device appeared in front of Fang Zheng.

That was the Ender Pearl teleportation device that Fang Zheng left behind in the previous parallel universe.

"If, in the distant future, the war ends completely, perhaps we will invite you to visit us again..."

The next moment, Fang Zheng was repelled by something and stood in a void.

(End of this chapter)