Facing the deadly poison dart frog rain that descended from the sky and covered the entire area, Funny Valentine's expression changed drastically.
As a President with a military background, he was familiar with many dangerous creatures.
He knew that the neurotoxin contained within these colorful small amphibians was enough to instantly paralyze or even kill any creature that came into contact with them.
Even his enhanced vampire physique dared not directly confront it.
"Slit Walker!" the President shouted sternly, calling out to a thin, inconspicuous guard behind him.
The guard immediately stepped forward.
His Stand was a bizarre, flat, shadow-like humanoid woven from threads, completely dark and as unremarkable and silent as its Stand User.
The Stand placed its hands on the ground, and a previously insignificant crack in the ground, like a passage, gave them a sense of spaciousness under the guard's manipulation.
This was one of Slit Walker's abilities: to make any tiny corner or crevice wide, even capable of transporting an army, and using it as a passage.
"Get in!" the President ordered without hesitation, being the first to dive into the ground crack.
His other personal guards followed closely behind.
The moment their figures disappeared, the crack in the ground quickly closed, as if it had never appeared, and with further manipulation, this gap completely vanished.
Countless poison dart frogs splattered onto the spot where they had just stood, their venom splashing and covering the ground with sticky poison, yet failing to harm them in the slightest.
Jotaro, using air refraction and Higashikata Josuke's Crazy Diamond, created a periscope.
He watched the ground where the President and others had disappeared, his brows slightly furrowed.
At the same time, he keenly noticed that the precisely targeted poison dart frog rain had skillfully avoided Father Pucci, who was embedded in the floor and barely alive.
Not a single frog landed on him, as if an invisible barrier was protecting him, with every frog bouncing off beside him.
"He's not dead yet? Is this a Stand ability... or is it just luck?"
A flicker of doubt crossed Jotaro's mind, but now was not the time to delve deeper.
He saw clearly that the other party indeed showed no signs of breathing; he should be dead.
Now, dealing with that blond man was more important.
"Watch out for underground!" Jotaro immediately warned his companions, especially Josuke, whose time-stop and healing abilities were invaluable in combat.
"There's a Stand User nearby who can control the earth!"
Before he could finish his sentence—
Boom!
The earthen wall beside them suddenly exploded, and the President reappeared, not from where he had vanished earlier, but from an unexpected angle within their underground tunnel!
The guard with Slit Walker burst out from underground like a phantom, holding a pair of specially made, gleaming short blades, still stained with poison dart frog venom, aiming directly for Okuyasu's back, who was closest to him.
His movements were silent and incredibly fast.
"Okuyasu! Behind you!" Josuke exclaimed, trying to stop time, but the opponent's surprise attack was too sudden and bizarre!
Just as the short blades were about to pierce Okuyasu's body—
Bang!
A dull thud sounded.
It wasn't Okuyasu who was stabbed, but the Slit Walker's Stand User, as if hit by an invisible truck, suddenly plummeted.
The guard was slammed directly to the ground, but then he drilled into a crack in the soil.
It was Koichi!
His Echoes ACT3 had, at some unknown moment, predicted the opponent's attack trajectory, and a precise and heavy sound pressure was already waiting there the instant that Stand User burst out.
"Koichi! Well done!" Okuyasu shouted, still shaken, his eyes darting around, searching for other potential dangers.
Koichi didn't speak, only breathed slightly, his gaze still complex, but his action to protect his companion was real.
However, this was just the beginning.
The President's elite Stand Users clearly had more than just this one ability.
Hum—!
A strange fluctuation spread, and everyone felt the surrounding scenery begin to twist and overlap, as if space itself was being folded.
Another guard's Stand ability activated, and the ground cracked open again in several places, but not for a surprise attack, but from which a large amount of viscous, pitch-black shadows surged out!
These shadows were like a living swamp, spreading rapidly, trying to entangle and bind the ankles of Jotaro and the other three.
The shadows had no physical form, yet they were fast and tough, difficult to destroy.
Like a cluster of poisonous snakes, they hid and ambushed from the cracks in the ground, biting everywhere.
"Tsk... troublesome ability."
Jotaro manipulated Weather Forecast, trying to disperse these shadows with strong winds, but the shadows seemed to have no physical form; the wind passed through without any effect, and it would only make the snake-like shadows more excited in their search for enemies.
"DORA-RA-RA-RA!"
Josuke's Crazy Diamond slammed the ground, shattering it directly, and then, with Crazy Diamond's effort, it was reassembled into a single, flat surface.
But this action, attempting to repair the areas covered by shadows, only made the shadows temporarily retreat, only for them to surge out again from other cracks shortly after.
Okuyasu tried to erase an entire section of the crack but was directly stopped by Jotaro.
Facing such an attack when they still didn't understand the situation, it was better to be cautious.
At the same time, purple smoke seeped from the earthen walls, and there was no doubt it carried potent poison.
The battle once again fell into a stalemate, and this time they faced an elite Stand User team with bizarre abilities and seamless coordination.
Jotaro and the other three had their vision obscured by the poisonous smoke, their movement restricted by the shadowy mire, and had to guard against surprise attacks from underground.
The situation instantly became critical.
Meanwhile, the President, hidden in a safe ground crack, calmly observed the battle, looking for an opportunity to strike a decisive blow.
In his hand, at some point, appeared a small, pocket watch-like device, its hands slowly moving.
"Time is almost up... It's almost C-Moon.
I must achieve victory before then.
Only then can I complete the Heaven Plan and ensure America's eternal happiness!" he muttered to himself, his gaze once again falling upon Pucci, who was embedded in the floor, seemingly protected by an invisible fate.
It was clear that with so many poison dart frogs, not a single one touched him; this was obviously abnormal.
It seems he's not dead.
A Stand evolving towards Heaven is indeed extraordinary.
He ordered his guards to infiltrate the ground crack and slowly dismantle the priest from the floor tiles, pulling him into the crack...
Meanwhile, Jotaro in the underground tunnel, while dealing with an endless stream of bizarre attacks, was also thinking rapidly.
He had to quickly find a way to break through this multi-layered interference and restraint, and since these were military personnel, they absolutely could not delay.
Otherwise, there would be a continuous stream of reinforcements, and when a truly large army arrived, the four of them wouldn't even be enough to fill their teeth.
They had to finish this quickly.