Offer a savior to the infinite world!

A pungent smell of grease diffused out from the shadows, and then the two shadows rubbed against each other violently, causing flames to spread.

"When the shadow materializes is determined by my will. Do you think it can only take effect by contact?"

"Also, in order to cope with this dark environment, I have long stored various things in the shadows for use."

"Alright, alright, this fight has gone on long enough, it's almost time to end it. I'm not like my other sisters, I'll give you a quick death."

With a low laugh, the shadow spikes squirmed in the flames and suddenly attacked Jotaro who was lying on the ground.

Faced with the situation before him, Jotaro just silently wiped the blood off the side of his cheek and stood up.

The next moment, the platinum star emerged from behind him, took a deep breath, and exhaled heavily forward.

call--

A violent gust of wind pressure suddenly hit the old woman the next moment, forcing her to materialize the shadow to support her body.

Just like when he used his Stand to inhale the bloody air during the previous battle with Neiltart, at this moment, Jotaro used the powerful lung capacity of Star Platinum to blow a large amount of air directly in the direction of the old man, creating a huge airflow in an instant, causing the flames burning on the grease that emerged from the shadow space to be blown crookedly and were about to be extinguished on the spot.

"Tsk, what an unpleasant fellow."

With a frown on his face, the old man showed no sign of panic. Instead, the wriggling shadow sped up and attacked Jotaro.

The shadow that just passed through Star Platinum's arm did not hurt my Stand at all, and only the part that touched my shoulder materialized. In other words, no matter what, the opponent's shadow ability can only materialize when it touches my body in a place with light. If the shadow has already pierced into my body, the part of the shadow inside the body that is not exposed to the light cannot be materialized. Only the shadow that has been materialized under external light can cause wounds to me or directly pierce my body.

Moreover, even if the shadows can move in the pure darkness, they cannot cause any harm to the outside world, nor can they use any means. In other words...

Jotaro quickly analyzed the situation and reached out to adjust his hat. Star Platinum behind him suddenly reached out and grabbed the shattered floor. With a strong "Oh" sound, he tore the floor apart. A whole piece of metal plate that was nearly ten meters long rose from the ground and was then grabbed by Star Platinum and blocked in front of Jotaro.

The shadow was looming, and the fire made by the old woman was not big, and the range it could illuminate was very limited, so Jotaro, who was standing in the corner, held the metal plate in front of himself, blocking all the light, and making himself behind the metal plate fall into complete darkness.

As expected, although the shadows squirmed in the firelight outside, they lost their outlines after extending into the darkness under the metal plate, and there was no way to contact themselves.

"Smart boy, but do you think this can stop me?"

With a low laugh, the old woman manipulated the shadow, and in the next moment made the shadow cover the metal plate carried by Star Platinum.

The sound of tearing continued as the shadow cut the metal plate layer by layer. It took only a few seconds to make the plate full of holes. Then he stabbed a notch with a sudden thrust, allowing the firelight to pass through the notch and illuminate Jotaro who was standing in it.

whoosh-

There was a slight sound, and the injured Cursed Arm rushed out from behind, throwing several daggers at the old woman, and then ran forward trying to close the distance and activate the treasure.

The shadow suddenly expanded at this moment, engulfing the old woman's body, causing the Curse Wrist to lose its target. Immediately afterwards, spikes pierced through, forcing the Curse Wrist to dodge continuously and retreat back into the shadow again.

"You are still alive even though your body was pierced. You don't seem to be an ordinary person. I have to cut you into pieces."

Amid the cold voice, the shadow beneath the old woman rioted again.

But before she could do anything, a voice forced her to turn her head. The huge metal plate that Jotaro had torn off suddenly flew up and flew straight towards her.

Without any hesitation, the shadow surged again, and with incredible speed, it completely cut the metal plate into pieces before it fell.

Then, Jotaro was running towards her surrounded by spikes. Star Platinum punched continuously, smashing the spikes from all directions as soon as they touched Jotaro's body. However, an attack from below at a tricky angle bypassed Star Platinum's defense and pierced Jotaro's left forearm, causing blood to flow.

"The attack range of your Shadow ability is only two meters. It seems that you won't be able to reach me in time."

The old woman with a smile on her face looked at Jotaro, who was about ten meters away from her. Although one of his arms was pierced, he still clenched his fist and pointed it towards him, and spoke slowly.

"The same goes for the strange guy wearing a skull mask. His ability to crush hearts is also limited in range. It may be difficult for ordinary people to detect, but it is too easy for me to judge such things."

Amid the calm words, searchlights and rechargeable desk lamps appeared one after another from the shadows around him, illuminating Jotaro with their rays.

"In order to deal with unexpected situations, I store various lamps and fuels in my shadow space, and I also carry various lighting equipment on my body."

"Although it may sound a bit unstylish, it is very useful for dealing with various traps set against me. Haha, of course, it is difficult for a human like you who has never experienced the feeling of being hunted to understand this kind of thing."

The old man said this while looking at Jotaro's blood-stained feet and arms, his brows slightly frowned.

Even though he had been injured so many times in a row, his movements did not seem to be slow at all, and his breathing was very smooth. It was hard to understand, who on earth was this guy?

No, I can't delay any longer. She has been attacked several times on the first floor. She has to deal with this as soon as possible, otherwise the other "self" might lose. Tsk, what on earth did that guy do? He trapped the enemy in the second floor, how could he still fall into a disadvantage?

The shadow squirmed, and was about to attack Jotaro again.

And at the moment when the old woman decided to launch an attack, Jotaro's left hand, which was pierced by the shadow, slowly extended its index finger and middle finger from its clenched fist and aimed at the old woman about ten meters ahead.

【Meteor Finger! Ola!!!】

The next moment, Star Platinum, who served as Jotaro's stand-in, stretched out two fingers from Jotaro's left hand, suddenly extended them, rushed in front of the old woman at an incredibly fast speed, and pierced one side of her chest in an instant.

"Ahem!"

The old woman, who had not expected Jotaro to have such a move, suddenly coughed up a large mouthful of blood. The difficulty in breathing and severe pain caused by the puncture of the lung cavity made her kneel on the ground, half of her body was stained with blood.

"You, you actually..."

"Eula!"

Star Platinum stomped the ground suddenly, and Jotaro leaped in front of the old woman the next moment, followed by a heavy punch from his Stand that hit the old woman directly in the face. With this fierce punch, Jotaro knocked out more than half of the old woman's teeth, who looked at least seventy years old, causing her to fly backwards with a bloody face and hit the broken ground.

Chapter 29: Dark Level?

Pure darkness completely enveloped Lin Yi, Gu Mingji Jue and Fujimaru Ritsuka.

There is no light coming in, only the purest darkness in the world. Naturally, there is no shadow.

However, this was not caused by this strange space where there was no light. On the contrary, the current situation of Lin Yi and others was actively created by Gu Mingdijue.

【Thinking of the Dark Boundary】

This seemed to be derived from the ability of someone that Gu Mingji Jue had read before. By creating a completely dark area where one could not see one's hand in front of one's face, all light around it was completely excluded. Even if a luminous object fell into this area, it would not be able to emit light that could be seen by people.

The reason for doing this was that the enemy, who seemed to be not in the same space area as them, began to throw some luminous objects such as desk lamps into the dark area after Lin Yi successfully found his position and hit him with a shot, creating light sources to attack them.

This kind of situation made Lin Yi a little unsure of how to deal with it for a moment, but Gu Mingdi Jue had anticipated it and quickly used his strength to completely cover the three of his people in the dark area, making it impossible for the enemy to launch any more attacks.

Then, Lin Yi observed and aimed through the coordinates of his teammates and continued to shoot at the enemy's location.

boom!

After the loud gunshot, Lin Yi squinted his eyes, adjusted his breathing, supported himself on the ground with one hand and held the gun with the other, and calmed down again.

Plop—Plop—

The heart was beating regularly at this moment.

Lin Yi is trying to analyze this strange dark space.

This unreasonable and abnormal space, whose exact nature is unknown, obviously possesses some special power.

Although he had not felt strong energy fluctuations before, considering that his strength was growing stronger and stronger, after some thought and hesitation, Lin Yi decided to try to analyze and crack this space to see if he could wrest control from the enemy.

This was not an easy task, and to put it bluntly, it was completely clueless. But in order to solve the current situation, Lin Yi had no choice but to try.

"call……"

Gu Ming Di Jue, who had just consumed some of his demonic power, let out a light breath and pulled the bath towel around his body with some discomfort.

Because of the injury, the bath towel was covered with blood. Even though the wound had healed successfully, the bloody bath towel still stuck to her body, making the monster girl feel very uncomfortable. If there wasn't a member of the opposite sex in front of her and it wasn't the right time, she might have considered taking off the bath towel and using her monster power to clean herself up.

boom!

Amid the gunfire, Lin Yi fired another shot.

In order to prevent the enemy from noticing what they were doing, Lin Yi and others kept moving slowly in the dark while continuing to aim at the enemy's position based on the coordinates analyzed by their teammates.

Shot after shot, in complete darkness, Lin Yi continued to attack.

And in a place he couldn't see, in a gray and white space where he could vaguely see the dim interior of a ship, which seemed to be exactly the same as the small square in the ship where the old woman stood in the real world, but in an illusory, phantom-like space, a young woman was covering the wound on her shoulder with an extremely hideous expression on her face.

“Damn man…Damn man…Damn damn damn!!!”

Amid the uncontrollable crazy sound, the woman's expression suddenly changed and she quickly dodged to the side, and then a bullet grazed past her.

How on earth did he find out about himself? How on earth did he do that?!

Incomprehensible.

There is no way to understand it anyway.

Being in the [Second Floor] where there was no light at all, there was no reason for him to discover his own trace!

The woman's name was Basheer, or rather, one of the "Basheers."

The woman has abandoned her original name. Even now that she has become powerful, she still does not want to experience the horrible memories contained in that name.

As for the extraordinary power that this woman possessed, the so-called ability to [control shadows], it was actually not like this. Her initial ability was only to be able to materialize shadows, and the strength of the shadow entity was at most several times that of an adult man, and could not reach the level it is now.

What truly enabled this Guiling woman to achieve a transformation in power was a bunch of small keys that looked very old that she had taken from her former "master" before awakening her power, killing the master and escaping from the mansion.

Later investigations showed that the key seemed to be an extremely ancient artifact, and it might even point to the ancient times when the Guiling tribe was still prosperous. However, the woman was not particularly concerned about such things. The most important thing to her was the thorough strengthening of her abilities that the key gave her.

The attack distance was extended from only about ten meters to more than fifty meters, and even beyond this range, less precise operations could be performed. The ability to simply materialize shadows was transformed into extremely powerful shadow spikes, and the shadows could be used to directly engulf an area, pulling enemies and some things into an independent space.

She called this space the Shadow Kingdom.

As far as the woman herself knew, this kingdom that existed only in the shadows should have a total of five different spaces.

Among them, the [first layer] is the most superficial space. In this space, you can vaguely see the corresponding environment in the real world, but you cannot touch it. It is just an illusion.

The woman placed some things she thought would be useful on this layer, such as flash bombs, lamps, searchlights and other light sources. In this layer, the shadows could not attack, because in the world of illusions, the shadows themselves could not appear independently, so under normal circumstances, the woman would not bring the enemy to this layer.

The second floor, where Lin Yi and the others were now, was a completely dark, nonexistent world. This was where the woman often fought against the enemy. People swallowed by shadows would often reach this floor directly. In fact, using the power of shadows in the real world could only send people to the first or second floor. Obviously, the dark environment of the second floor was very suitable for her to exert her abilities and torture the enemy to death easily.

As for the location of the [third floor], it can only be entered by re-transmitting through the second floor. But that is not important. What is important is that as the power of the shadow is strengthened, in a sense, the woman has also undergone some changes.

Her self was split, and unexpected alienation occurred both physically and cognitively.

The old woman who existed in the real world seemed to have taken away most of her rationality, so she was always able to think and act carefully.

The young woman, who can only exist in the shadow world and cannot go to the real world, is tortured by the memories of the past and falls into extreme madness. She must remind herself and hint herself all the time so as not to fall into a frenzy like Neil Tart.

In addition, there was a younger self in the third layer, who was very timid and could not really leave the third layer. As for the fourth and fifth layers, there might have been "selves" from other periods. But they must have died, because she could not survive those two layers.

No matter which level they are in, no matter which self they are, all of their consciousness can communicate with each other. However, the position of each of them will correspond to the position of the old woman in the real world, and the error between them will not exceed one meter. Even if she is unwilling to move with the old woman in the shadow space, her body will be forced to move. Moreover, in the levels that cannot be passed without the help of shadow power under normal circumstances, the position where the old woman stands, that is, the position where the three of them stand, can be touched by every level. When the enemy attacks the position where the old woman in the real world stands in the shadow space, no matter which level "they" are in the shadow space, they can be hit and will be hurt.

It's unreasonable and I can't understand how this could happen.

However, there was no way to change it. No matter how good it was, she could perform various operations on the second layer from the first layer, using the power of shadows to change the distance and sound propagation. But the problem was that the guys below somehow created a completely dark area, and light could not enter it, so the woman had no way to get rid of them for a while, and could only helplessly continue to dodge the bullets that would fly at any time.

She couldn't be hit by them. Although her body was stronger than humans, it was far from being as powerful as Niltart's regeneration. If she was hit in the head or heart, she would die on the spot. And these split individuals could not be resurrected after death. Once she died, she would disappear, and the remaining people among them would permanently lose some of their memories and emotions.

Therefore, we must find a way to get rid of them.

The woman, who had managed to calm down and think, looked at the various lighting tools on the first floor.

No, there is nothing that can cause direct attack damage. I have always relied on the power of shadows to attack, and I have never encountered a guy who actively creates darkness and acts like a turtle.

"Damn man, it's all because of that man, no, I must... I must..."

Amid the distorted voice, the woman was anxiously thinking of countermeasures.

And just as she was thinking like this, a soft sound suddenly rang around her.

click-

The gloomy phantom world suddenly collapsed at this moment.

Chapter 30: The Cold Zone~?

puff-

In this dark world, only your own heartbeat is so clear.

Plop—Plop—

At this moment it sounded like thunder, and at this moment it trembled regularly.

Plop—Plop—

Gradually, it seemed to reach the same frequency as something that could not be described in words, and was trembling gently at the same rhythm.

In that endless darkness, in this twisted space with no end.

It seemed that at this moment, I saw something, something that I could grasp.

Then, grab it.

And the dark world collapsed at this moment.

This strange space was annihilated and disappeared.

Next, will we return to the real world?