But just then, a figure suddenly appeared behind Jotaro, directly plunging his hand towards Jotaro's back. This move was swift, precise, and ruthless!
Jotaro turned around and punched, directly knocking the person's head askew, but he made a mistake in controlling the mist in the sky, and several concussion grenades fell.
At the same time, as he turned, a figure appeared to his left, holding a pistol to his temple and firing.
Fortunately, Higashikata Josuke stopped time just in time, punching that person into the ground.
But Higashikata Josuke was surprised to find that these two people looked exactly alike! The same blond hair and blue eyes, even their clothes were identical!
'Are they twins? How did they get here?'
As this thought flashed, Higashikata Josuke felt a pain in his chest. He looked down and saw a dagger had, at some unknown point, pierced his chest, but it too was now frozen in time.
He yanked the dagger out and flung it back, directly piercing the head of the person behind him, but that person also looked exactly like the other two!
"Triplets?! No, impossible. This is the enemy's Stand attack!"
Higashikata Josuke, having turned around, scanned everywhere but saw nothing; he couldn't find the enemy.
He could only gather the three enemies together and throw them out, thereby minimizing risk as much as possible.
However, when time flowed again, bang, bang, bang, three explosions occurred. The three figures simultaneously erupted in massive explosions, directly blowing away everyone who had just reacted.
It turned out that all three bodies were rigged with bombs, triggered by death and explosion!
Subsequently, there was a bombardment of concussion grenades, and hundreds of half-mechanical, half-flesh monstrous figures also rushed out as several armored vehicles arrived, attacking them.
It was then that President emerged from the cracks in the floor tiles. He casually brushed off the dust on his clothes, then looked at the priest who was already melted into the floor.
"Hmm, already dead? Never mind, it's not important. The corpse is still fresh. After converting him into a Corpse Man tonight, he should still retain his Stand."
President frowned, but his brows soon relaxed. The converted Corpse Men were more obedient than living people, which was not necessarily a bad thing, and four or five close bodyguards in security uniforms also emerged from behind him.
These individuals were all carefully selected elites, each a Stand User who had undergone the Arrow's trial, highly skilled in combat, and the top combat personnel selected nationwide. If the assault team of 100 artificial humans couldn't eliminate Jotaro and his companions, then these Stand Users would step in.
But looking at the lasers flying everywhere, President was still not worried. Each of these 100 elite soldiers carried an aja stone. Under the effect of the aja stone, even normal sunlight could be transformed into a laser, capable of instantly cutting through a ship.
He didn't think a mere four people could defeat his elite force.
His ability was replication, which, to be honest, wasn't suitable for direct combat, but it could greatly enhance his army, and surprise attacks were also very effective... Facing the tide of half-mechanical modified soldiers, the aja stone embedded in their bodies shimmered with an ominous light in the setting sun. Countless scorching laser beams, like a death god's web, enveloped Jotaro and the other three!
"Weather Forecast! Compress the surrounding air, change the air's refractive index!"
Jotaro's eyes were icy. Although he had lost the main body of Star Platinum, now controlling Weather Forecast allowed him to maintain absolute calm.
"Josuke, do you know? The principle of a mirage. By modifying the air's refractive index, just like how different temperatures cause different refractive indices, light can be bent around obstacles and directly shine to the other side, which is..."
As his low voice sounded, Weather Forecast pressed his hands forward, activating his ability at full power!
Centered around Jotaro and the other three, the surrounding atmospheric density and temperature began to change with extreme subtlety and speed. The air seemed to transform into countless tiny prisms and lenses.
The incoming laser beams, upon entering this meticulously controlled atmospheric region, underwent an incredible deflection in their trajectories, directly bypassing them and instead shooting towards their own allies.
Zzzzt—! Pfft—!
Hit by lasers refracted by their comrades, the modified soldiers in the front instantly erupted in bursts of electric sparks and charred flesh! Their mechanical parts short-circuited, biological tissues carbonized, and they fell in swathes instantly!
The terrifying lasers could easily penetrate anything, including their own hard metal bodies. The lasers pierced through them as easily as bullets through butter.
Their expressions were still bewildered; their collected intelligence did not include the fact that the opponent could modify lasers... "What?! They can control light?! No, that's not right, he only refracted the light."
President, observing from the rear, his pupils contracted, and for the first time, a look of shock appeared on his face. This Stand was different from the intelligence he had received.
"Nice work, Mr. Jotaro!"
Okuyasu shouted excitedly, simultaneously waving his hands repeatedly, "The Hand! Erase these metal lumps into pieces for me!"
Large sections of space were mercilessly erased. Several modified soldiers who had rushed too far forward instantly lost their lower bodies, including their mechanical limbs, screaming as they fell to the ground. Although he was gentle and unwilling to casually use The Hand's ability to erase people to death,
But at this moment, his anger flared, and for the sake of his father, he could only go all out.
"DORA DORA DORA DORA DORA DORA!"
Josuke's Crazy Diamond, like a paramedic and god of destruction on the battlefield, rapidly repaired his and his comrades' laser-grazed injuries while simultaneously stopping time and furiously striking outwards.
However, the tenacity of these modified soldiers far exceeded expectations!
Even when severely wounded by lasers, partially erased, or even smashed flat, their bodies, a combination of highly active flesh and precise machinery, displayed terrifying adaptability and regenerative capabilities.
"Warning! Hey, kid, you've got a lot of guts!"
A modified human directly grabbed Crazy Diamond's fist, making Higashikata Josuke's expression freeze, "You're a Stand User?!"
But the other party ignored him, instead opening his stomach, extending a cannon barrel, and firing a direct shot at Higashikata Josuke.
The next moment, the arms, shoulders, and even chests of the other modified humans suddenly split open, revealing high-speed rotating chainsaws, energy-glowing thermal blades, and even rapid-fire machine gun muzzles.
This was the real battle. After realizing lasers were ineffective, their other weapons were not to be underestimated.
Their leg mechanisms also changed, erupting with powerful thrust, pouncing like cheetahs. Their iron hands were like sharp claws, while the active flesh of their half-bodies also served to enhance their flexibility.
Suddenly, the battlefield shifted from long-range laser bombardment to brutal, bloody close-quarters combat. Higashikata Josuke was first almost blown to pieces by a cannon shot, narrowly escaping with his life by using Crazy Diamond: Star Platinum: The World to stop time.
He was then besieged by a large group of modified humans; enemies were everywhere. If not for the cooperation of his other teammates, he probably wouldn't have lasted three seconds.
"DORA DORA DORA!"
Josuke's Crazy Diamond clashed with a modified human wielding a thermal blade, smashing the blade and arm into a twisted mess, but another modified human's shoulder-mounted machine gun was already spitting fire!
"Okuyasu!" Josuke shouted.
"Coming!"
Okuyasu instantly erased a section of space in front of Josuke; the bullets seemed to enter nothingness and disappeared. At the same time, he slashed back, and half of the modified human who had fired the gun instantly vanished!
Koichi's Echoes ACT3 continuously released gravity suppression, slamming modified humans who tried to jump or rush forward onto the ground, creating attack opportunities for Jotaro and Josuke.
But his face grew paler and paler; frequent use of his ability was a significant burden on him, and he could only control one person at a time, forced to hide beside Josuke and be protected by him. The strength of this group of modified humans even surpassed his Echoes ACT3, whose power reached B.
Each one was more inhuman than the last... Jotaro, meanwhile, became the central controller of the battlefield. He utilized Weather Forecast's ability to its fullest, manipulating air currents to create whirlwinds to disrupt the modified humans' balance, while also generating dense fog to obscure everyone's vision, yet transmitting sound through the wind, creating an internal voice chat for his teammates.
He was like a calm conductor, manipulating the weather to form an invisible army, constantly supporting his teammates, while countless ice crystals formed in the air, shooting everywhere like bullets.
But when enemies got too close, he had no good options. Weather Forecast, as a Stand, was honestly not suitable for group combat. Once he unleashed its truly powerful moves, they would affect his teammates, so he couldn't use them freely.
Otherwise, Weather Forecast, as a Stand, could directly strike the entire Earth, but Jotaro couldn't do that...