American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

Just as Alvin was about to intervene, several blinding police car lights pierced the darkness of the dock.

The GCPD patrol, led by Chief Gordon, roared in.

They received an anonymous call reporting supervillain-level violence in the area.

"Put down your weapons! GCPD!"

Chief Gordon, hiding behind the police car door, raised his pistol and shouted at Prometheus at the warehouse entrance.

Beside him, Joestar, the muscular hunk who had solemnly applied to become a representative of the police-citizen cooperation pilot unit today, became excited after seeing Prometheus's inhuman attire.

"I knew it!"

"Chief Gordon! This doesn't look like a local evil spirit! Leave it to me!"

Before Gordon could say anything, such as "We're police, not exorcists" or "Calm down," Joestar had already charged straight at Prometheus!

Gordon then ordered his officers to surround the scene and wait for the situation to develop.

"Evil spirit! Accept divine punishment!"

With Joestar's roar, a vast golden aura, as bright as the sun, erupted from his body!

Behind him, a translucent giant phantom, three meters tall, with muscles as if cast in gold and a majestic face, appeared out of thin air.

The giant phantom, its eyes blazing with divine light, moved in perfect sync with Joestar. As Joestar charged forward, it also swung its golden fist!

This is the embodiment of Joestar's awakened divine grace, which belongs to him alone.

substitute!

"Eurah—!!!"

Joestar's iron fist, combined with the golden fist behind him, blasted towards Prometheus's face!

"Oh? Psionic materialization projection? Interesting local specialty."

Prometheus can see Stands that normal people can't?

He gave a cold laugh.

Just as Joestar's fist was about to touch his face...

A disc-shaped device popped out from the armor on his wrist.

A high-intensity flash of light erupted!

"Ugh!"

Joestar felt a sharp pain in his eyes, and his charge suddenly stalled!

Immediately afterwards, Prometheus thrust out his high-tech spear.

His target is the ground beneath Joestar's feet!

A blue electric grid woven from high-voltage current spread out from the point where the spear had struck, trapping the unsuspecting Joestar in place!

An electric current surged through Joestar's muscles, which were as hard as steel.

"Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh!!!"

Joestar let out a painful growl, but his legs wouldn't budge an inch! The phantom behind him also roared amidst the lightning!

"Wonderful!"

Seeing this from high above, Xiu En clapped his hands excitedly!

"That was brilliant! Look at the timing! The flashbang broke through the protective electric fence! This guy knows his stuff!"

"His equipment is clearly designed specifically for superpowered individuals."

Ivy analyzed.

"High-intensity flashes are designed for opponents who rely on vision, while high-voltage electric grids can effectively paralyze most physical enhancement users. Joestar was countered from the very beginning."

"That's right! The most common mistake a brute force player makes when facing a skilled opponent is exploiting the information gap!"

Ivy's leaves point to another detail in the picture.

In the shadows of the warehouse.

Alvin watched all of this.

A similar avatar appeared behind him.

The phantom's hands were a pair of owl claws made of golden light!

【Saint Golden Claws】!

This is Alvin, the stand-in born from his faith!

Silently, it aimed its claws at Prometheus's back.

It is waiting.

Waiting for an opportunity to strike decisively.

"Are you the messengers of the Sun God Cult?"

Prometheus, with great interest, poked Joestar, who was still emitting angry growls within the electric grid, with the tip of his high-tech spear.

"It looks more interesting than I expected."

"roar!!!"

The phantom behind Joestar roared, its golden fist slamming futilely into the invisible electric net, sending up bursts of dazzling sparks.

The battle seemed to have reached a stalemate from the very beginning.

On the other side of the warehouse, in the deepest shadows, Alvin, who should have been the key to victory in this raid, also noticed something was wrong.

The level of sin that his ring fed back when it locked onto Prometheus kept fluctuating within a vague range!

[During the target behavior analysis, the target was previously attacking fugitive convict Joey, resulting in a favorable outcome for the GCPD.]

[During the target behavior analysis, the target used torture to extract a confession; the process was determined to be evil.]

[Based on comprehensive assessment, the decision is delayed.]

Alvin immediately realized that although Prometheus was ruthless, his targets were all fugitives in the GCPD files.

In hindsight, he was even helping the police catch criminals. This caused a delay in the application of the ring's ironclad rules of punishment!

The system is stuck!

This is also why Alvin, although prepared for a sneak attack, did not launch one; he was overthinking things.

"Oh no! It crashed?"

High in the sky, Shuen, who was preparing to cheer for Alvin's impending perfect backstab, also saw the red warning flashing in his back-end monitor, indicating a conflict.

"What's going on? Why isn't Alvin making a move?"

"Because your system of judging good and evil has encountered its first trolley problem."

Sunflower retrieved another set of data.

"The files show that Prometheus has hunted down seven people since infiltrating Gotham. While he may have killed many innocent people elsewhere, all seven of them in Gotham were wanted felons on the GCPD's blacklist, but whose arrests had been delayed due to insufficient evidence or their cunning."

"in other words."

Ivy's leaf pointed to the image on the screen of Prometheus adjusting the grid voltage with a spear.

"He's doing the work of a street cleaner now. In the end, he's even doing good."

"But look what he did to them!"

"Yes. That's why your system can't make that determination."

"It doesn't know whether it should be punished for its evil deeds or rewarded for its righteous results."

"Your system is thinking about a problem."

Which is more important, procedural justice or substantive justice?

Alvin, hidden in the shadows, knew he was in trouble.

The Stand's golden claws hovered in mid-air.

He could disembowel that arrogant helmeted man from behind whenever he wanted.

But the ring did not grant him permission to attack.

He was terrified if he forced his way in.

He may lose God's favor.

This is something he cannot accept.

But if he doesn't take action.

That idiot Joestar will be played to death by that helmeted guy sooner or later.

The mission will also fail.

"What? Aren't your companions coming to your rescue?"

At the warehouse entrance, Prometheus seemed to have gotten tired of playing around. He removed the electric fence and kicked Joestar, who was already paralyzed, to the ground.

He pressed the end of his spear against Joestar's forehead, preventing him from standing up again.

Then, he turned to look at the shadow where Alvin was hiding.

"How much longer are you going to stay there?"

"Or is it that your Sun God Cult's rule is to send a warrior to his death first, and then have a rat-like assassin wait behind to reap the benefits?"

"Stop hiding."

Prometheus's voice carried a snickering tone, like a cat playing with a mouse.

"I knew you were there. The life detector in my helmet marked you both the moment you appeared."

"One of them is a power-type ability user with a high-heat reaction."

"The other is the stalker who has a stable heart rate and extremely low body temperature and blends into the environment."

"bring it on."

Prometheus's spear slapped Joestar across the face.

"Let me see what you interesting sun messengers are all about."

"Or you could notify the so-called god behind you to descend in person."

High in the sky, Shuen couldn't stand seeing Prometheus actually starting to provoke him.

"Look at the smug look on his face! Ivy, I think we can't wait any longer!"

"What? Are you going to personally go and fix this bug?"

Ivy countered with a question.

"No!"

"I want to update the system online!"

[System Announcement (Beta V2.1): When a target's good and evil actions are highly conflicting and the system cannot make an immediate judgment, the divine messenger will be granted temporary discretionary power.]

[Permission Description: You can decide whether to attack the target based on your own sense of justice.]

[The final interpretation right rests with Chief Ethics Officer, Ivy.]

"Done!"

Xiu En pressed the publish button with satisfaction.

He rubbed his hands together, watching Alvin hidden in the shadows on the screen with great interest.

The moment I received the right to freely evaluate evidence.

"Follow my own sense of justice?"

Alvin looked at Joestar, the muscular idiot who was still struggling defiantly while being trampled on the ground, and then at the helmeted man who was scanning the entire scene with a mocking look.

"My justice is to fulfill God's test."

"And God's test is good deeds."

"Killing the criminal is a good deed. Saving the hostages is a good deed. But ensuring that God's other messenger doesn't die in vain here is also a good deed!"

Having figured this out, Alvin immediately changed his strategy.

He raised his hand from the shadows.

He began chanting a low incantation, and the cold white-gold ring shone brightly.

The light, like countless strong threads, spread to every corner of the entire dock.

It connected every steel bar, every rickety piece of sheet metal, and every container filled with garbage!

"Um?"

Prometheus seemed to have sensed something.

next second.

The whole world came alive!

To Prometheus's left, a three-story-high shipping container collapsed with a deafening roar! A massive shadow fell upon him!

He instinctively did a backflip to the right to dodge.

However, the moment he landed, three steel bars that were originally stuck in the ground suddenly emerged from the ground at an extremely tricky angle, piercing straight at his landing point!

Prometheus's pupils contracted, and a terrifying force erupted from his waist as he twisted his body in mid-air, narrowly avoiding the piercing blow!

Alvin manipulated the surrounding steel bars and containers, like a top architect, turning the entire battlefield into a steel cage under his control!

And this is just the beginning!

"Officers! Watch out!"

Gordon saw that the situation was not good and wanted to lead his men to rush in, but then he saw a whole row of iron breakwaters descend from the sky, like a shield wall, precisely landing between them and the battlefield, blocking all firing routes!

But at the same time, it also protected them from being drawn into the upcoming battle of the gods.

"Well done, you lurking in the shadows!"

Joestar, who had been pinned to the ground, finally got a chance to catch his breath!

Prometheus, preoccupied with dealing with the constant environmental attacks, relaxed his control over him.

Joestar's golden aura erupted once more, and the phantom behind him punched the ground, creating a shallow crater, before he stood up again!

"Euro!"

Taking advantage of the moment when Prometheus dodged a piece of engine hood that had fallen from above, Joestar's fist finally slammed solidly into his breastplate!

"Bang--!"

Prometheus's light armor dented in a large section!

The terrifying force blasted him back seven or eight steps before he could barely regain his balance!

"pretty!!"

Seeing this teamwork from high above, Xiu En was so excited that he almost crushed the cookie in his hand!

"Is this really Alvin?! Look at his control of the situation! His timing is impeccable!"

He kept switching back and forth between the two live stream feeds, clicking his tongue in amazement.

"Every attack is merely a means to restrict the opponent's movements, disrupt his tactical vision, and create opportunities for Joestar to strike!"

Xiu En pointed at the screen and excitedly explained to Ivy, "He forced an S-class tactical master into becoming a clumsy parkour player who could only passively move around! He didn't directly attack Prometheus, so he didn't lose a single point of credit! But the assist he gave to Joestar was counted as a good deed by the system!"

"He found the third way in the rules!"

"Beyond punishing evil and doing good, he created a completely new option: support!"

Sunflower nodded, full of admiration for Alvin.

"He transformed his role from an assassin into a wizard who controls the battlefield."

On the battlefield.

Prometheus felt a feeling called irritability.

That rat hiding in the shadows was far more troublesome than he had imagined!

His tactical goggles were constantly interfered with by flying metal and gravel, making it impossible for him to lock onto the target.

Every time he devised a counterattack plan, it would be abruptly interrupted by steel bars suddenly emerging from the ground or shipping containers falling from the sky!

And this muscle-bound idiot who only knew how to use brute force has become exceptionally difficult to deal with after receiving that off-field coach!

He learned to seize every tiny opening he made while dodging terrain traps and deliver a heavy blow!

For a time, this top criminal from Xingcheng was completely overwhelmed and could only defend himself, with no power to fight back!

The world created by Soul Valley can be found in "American Comics: Praise the Sun Starting from Gotham!"