Mei Terumi went to notify everyone to enter combat readiness mode.
Lin Qing stood where he was, taking several deep breaths before gradually calming the despair he had felt earlier. Then he looked at this trial mission.
Saint's Trial Mission.
Trial Difficulty: Medium. Trial Description: Travel alone to North America in 1980, defeat Funny Valentine, and seize the Saint's Corpse. Upon death, the challenge will be deemed a failure, and the Dimensional Ascension Star Core will disappear.
It was a very simple description, and also the first "medium" difficulty stage Lin Qing had seen since obtaining the Dimensional Ascension Star Core and undertaking trial challenges.
"Every previous trial mission was either high or extremely high difficulty. I thought they were all high-difficulty ones."
Unlike Stand trial missions, where new forms were unlocked only after clearing them.
Judging by the Kars Trial, technique-based abilities such as Ripple and Golden Spin were more likely to improve through combat as the trial progressed.
If he could improve, he would clear the trial.
If his comprehension was insufficient and he could not improve his technique during the brief trial... then everyone had to rely on their own methods, like Lin Qing's Projection of the Past.
Returning to this trial mission.
Steel Ball Run was a completely different world from the plots of the previous JoJo installments, something akin to a parallel timeline.
This world also had JoJo, Dio, and Zeppeli, but they were different from the characters readers knew from the first six parts. They were more like the popular gaming concept of "counterparts."
Golden Spin came from the "Zeppeli" counterpart: Gyro Zeppeli.
Lin Qing recalled the plot of Steel Ball Run:
"Since Steel Ball Run has not yet been animated, here is a brief summary for the convenience of readers unfamiliar