Having absorbed the power of the world through the Calamity God Tree, Dio had evolved once again and gained absolute dominance over the battlefield.
"If the Katsuyu Sage hadn't intervened, I'd already be dead, but..."
Lin Qing looked at the boundless void before him.
"What's the difference between me like this and being dead?"
He floated in the form of a soul.
His body, tempered through countless trials, had been erased. He could no longer sense even the slightest trace of Ripple, natural energy, ghost god power, or Dragon Vein power.
The system had said Dio could not erase it, but under the effects of Overwrite Reality, the distance between Lin Qing and the system had become unimaginably vast.
Just like the eight JoJo timelines—because they were too far apart, the karmic connections between them had been severed.
Lin Qing, the system, and his many Stands could no longer sense one another.
No body.
No system.
No Stands.
Only his soul remained...
What could Lin Qing still do?
It was foreseeable that he would drift forever through this old universe, a place without the concepts of time or space, without anything at all.
Only at the end of eternity, when the Ninja World was destroyed by Dio and the old universe perished along with it, would Lin Qing, living within it, finally be freed.
This was the calamity the Great Toad Sage had seen.
Lin Qing, who had once possessed everything, had lost everything—including his freedom and dignity—and could only wait bitterly for death.
How tragic.
How sorrowful.
The Great Toad Sage had not seen this ending, but it had sensed the grief and compassion from the future. Unable to see the details and powerless to do anything, it could not even figure out how to warn him.
Having understood