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Chapter 301 Kars's Stand

At that very moment, due to this unknown super virus originating from a meteorite, Kars's evolutionary path, which had been dormant for 100,000 years, was forcibly pried open by an external force, creating a tiny crack.

Change begins at the most basic physical level.

Every cell in his body was emitting a sharp, silent wail.

It is not pain, but a deeper, instinctive resistance to the violation of one's perfect structure.

The virus army bypassed his immune system, which was capable of instantly breaking down any pathogen on Earth, and acted directly on the root of his genetic information in a way he could not comprehend.

Kars could clearly "see" that his rock-solid double helix structure was being forcibly twisted and reorganized by an alien force.

This change, both violent and subtle, carries a will that transcends life itself.

Immediately afterwards, this storm began to seep from the body into the mind.

Sex and destiny, namely spirit and body, are two sides of the same coin, influencing each other and forming the basis of one another.

This is the fundamental theory of all cultivation systems in the world of Under One Person.

The so-called cultivation is to strengthen the "spirit" by training the "life" (physical body), and then use the powerful spirit to control and temper the physical body.

The body is the hardware that supports everything, while techniques and abilities are the software that run on it.

Only by continuously upgrading the hardware can we support the smooth operation of increasingly powerful software.

This is why the same technique can exhibit vastly different power in the hands of different people.

However, the principle of the "arrow" is completely different.

It's more like a forced installation program, completely ignoring the hardware configuration and its capacity, and brutally writing a software called "Substitute" directly into the host's life system.

The end result is polarization: those that the hardware can barely support have awakened abilities beyond reason.

When hardware fails on the spot, death is the only outcome.

Now, this forced procedure has encountered Katz's ultimate "supercomputer".

As the internal battle intensified, a completely new sensation emerged in his perception.

It was a strange resonance, as if his spirit had cast a corresponding shadow outside the material world.

The soft lighting in the hotel room seemed to dim for a moment without warning.

Then, a huge humanoid phantom stood silently behind him.

It maintains a distance that is both close and distant from Katz's body, as if it were an extension of his soul, or an independent guardian deity with its own will.

"So this is... a [Substitute]...?"

Kars looked the Stand up and down. It was a rather strange feeling. They were connected to each other, yet they were also like independent individuals.

If I had to make a comparison, it might be similar to the Shadow Clone Technique in the Naruto world...

This "stand" is about three meters tall, even taller and more imposing than Kars' original body.

Its entire body was covered with a layer of dark blue-black biological scales that seemed to be made of living matter, with the edges of the scales gleaming with a cold, metallic sheen.

Between the gaps in these scales, there are countless golden patterns that resemble biological blood vessels.

These patterns are not static decorations, but shimmer with alternating light and shadow in a slow and rhythmic manner, as if pure life energy flows within them.

Its limb joints, such as the elbows, knees, and shoulders, have armor that exhibits an extremely precise and complex double helix structure, which is DNA.

"interesting……"

Katz's lips curled into a slight smile, revealing a hint of interest. He began testing the performance of this new "tool."

With a thought, the enormous dark blue [stand-in] vanished from its original spot.

The next moment, a muffled, extremely loud bang exploded at the other end of the room.

It was not the propagation of sound, but the impact itself that tore through the air.

The expensive decorative painting on the wall, along with the wall behind it, has a huge hole with edges as smooth as if it were laser-cut, leading directly to the suite next door.

The Stand's fist remained still in the center of the hole, the air around the fist visibly distorted due to extreme compression.

The whole process was so fast that even Katz's dynamic vision could only capture a blurry afterimage.

That speed...that power...

Kaz's eyes sharpened. He could clearly tell that the destructive power and speed displayed by that attack alone completely surpassed the physical properties of his body.

In fact, based solely on these two basic stats, it probably surpasses the "invincible" [Platinum Star].

Then Kars controlled his Stand to fly out the window.

ten meters...

Twenty meters... Thirty meters...

It finally reached its limit at fifty meters...

A close-range power-type Stand that surpasses Star Platinum in strength and speed, yet also possesses an astonishing range of over fifty meters.

Katz's eyes lit up; the result was unexpected, yet also reasonable.

The gorilla in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 has a Stand and a power that merges with a cargo ship, making it powerful enough to easily suppress the early-stage Star Platinum and still be visible to ordinary people.

As a vampire, DIO's close-range power-type Stand, The World, has a range of nine meters, far exceeding that of other Stands of the same type.

The conclusion is self-evident.

The strength of a [stand] is directly linked to the life energy of its original body.

The stronger the host's vitality, the more powerful the basic panel data of the [Substitute].

As the ultimate life form, how could the level and total amount of his life energy be compared to that of a gorilla or a vampire?
"Then, what about special abilities?"

Kaz's gaze fell on the sparrow he was keeping alive, which lay quietly on the ground.

He controlled the enormous, dark blue [stand-in], causing it to slowly extend its massive, scale-covered hand toward the sparrow.

Just as the Stand's fingers were about to touch the sparrow's body, Kars activated its power through thought.

Within Kars's perception, the Stand's ability acted like the most precise probe, instantly intervening in the sparrow's life system.

He could "see" that the information structure of the unknown virus originating from the first arrow, which was entrenched in the sparrow's body, was being forcibly covered, deleted, and rewritten by a higher force.

The next second, Sparrow, who was on the verge of death and was only kept alive by Kaz's life energy, suddenly trembled.

Its dull feathers regained their luster, and its listless spirit instantly lifted.

It flapped its wings, looked around somewhat blankly, then lightly flapped its wings and flew out through the hole in the wall, disappearing into the night of Morioh.

At this moment, Kars fully understood the power of his Stand.

That is to interfere with both the "physical" and "spiritual" aspects of a living organism.

The former, he is already capable of doing so with his own abilities as a Pillar Man, such as controlling cells and modifying organisms.

But now, through this [stand-in] whose precision has been rated A, the precision of this interference has been elevated to an unbelievable level.

He can directly edit DNA strands and modify genetic information.

This means that genetic engineering, which would require the most advanced biological laboratories and countless sophisticated instruments in other worlds, can now be accomplished with just a thought through his [stand-in].

The latter, the power to interfere with "spirit," is a new ability he evolved to combat the virus in the scarab arrow.

Because the power of that virus has not only affected the material world, but has also reached the realm of the spirit and soul.

Therefore, his body, this ultimate physique that forever strives for adaptation and perfection, specifically evolved a power capable of resisting and surpassing it.

He now possesses the power to interfere with the spirit of living beings.

Absolute domination on the physical level, interference on the mental level.

When these two abilities are combined, they trigger a new power.

Katz couldn't help but smile, a smile born of the excitement of encountering an unknown research topic.

He slowly raised his hand, and the huge, dark blue [stand-in] made the same movement in sync.

An invisible wave, transcending all known physical laws, began to brew around Katz.

His voice, at that moment, seemed to become the law of the world.

"【THE world】!"

The moment the words were spoken, an invisible wave began to spread.

The whole world has lost its color.

The warm yellow lights in the hotel room, the dazzling neon lights of the city outside the window, and the cool moonlight in the night sky—everything lost its saturation, turning into a monotonous, grayish-white, like an old photograph.

The sound disappeared.

The ticking of the clock's second hand, the faint distant clamor, the gentle breeze—all returned to eternal stillness.

The exercise has stopped.

The sparrow that had just flown out of the hole in the wall froze in mid-air, its wings still pointing upwards.
In the distance, on the street, the car tires stopped turning, and the exhaust fumes from the exhaust pipes solidified into gray-white sculptures.
The second hand of the clock on the wall was frozen on the mark, unable to advance even an inch further.

In this completely still, gray world, as if abandoned by the gods, the only thing with color is Kars...

(End of this chapter)