The Dimensional Codex of Destruction Chapter 19

"Crazy Diamond!"

"Killer Queen!"

"King Crimson!"

Four powerful close-range Stands simultaneously appeared on the car roof. They swung their fists towards the sky, their punches hard enough to shield the car from the torrent of lava rain.

"The enemy isn't attacking precisely, but with wide-range strikes. That means their main body can't see our situation!"

While King Crimson was attacking, Qin Mo didn't forget to use Epitaph's future sight to observe their surroundings. However, he still couldn't find any trace of the enemy. The enemy was simply using continuous lava bombardment to prevent them from stopping the car.

"Stop the car quickly! We have to find a place to hide!"

"No! The car tires have melted!"

Polnareff tried to slow down, but found the car somewhat uncontrollable, skidding on the ground.

"Mr. Polnareff, please continue to stop the car. I'll repair it."

Raiden Mei immediately controlled Crazy Diamond to turn back and repair the car tires that had melted from the high temperature, saving the car that was already becoming uncontrollable.

"Ahhh! How can this Stand be so strong?"

Kiana continuously used Killer Queen to erase the lava that was about to hit them. But the more she erased, the more her heart sank. The attacks from this sun-like Stand felt as endless as the real sun.

Furthermore, from the feedback from the Stands outside, she knew that the external temperature was different from the air-conditioned car interior, and it had reached an exaggerated level.

"Almost there, everyone! We'll stop next to that cliff ahead!"

It wasn't easy to suddenly stop from a speed of two hundred kilometers per hour, especially with the tires partially melted. However, with everyone working together, they were finally about to succeed.

The main force defending against the sun's lava was Killer Queen and Star Platinum. One had exaggerated punching speed and precision, while the other possessed wide-range spatial erasure. Qin Mo's main focus was continuously activating King Crimson's Epitaph to foresee the future, observing for any stragglers or enemies that might reveal an opening at any moment.

Suddenly, Qin Mo's eyes narrowed, and he lunged to the right.

"Danger! Mei!"

Raiden Mei was controlling Crazy Diamond to ensure the car wouldn't malfunction under high-speed driving and high temperatures. She hadn't noticed a strange face appearing behind her, lunging towards her back with a bizarre smile.

At this moment, Qin Mo suddenly blocked in front of her. The strange entity's sharp claws pierced Qin Mo's chest.

"Ah! Qin Mo!"

Although he had become a Stand user, Qin Mo's physical body was still that of an ordinary human. After seeing High Priestess's Stand sneak attack Mei through Epitaph, Qin Mo couldn't save Mei safely.

The only thing he could do was to block High Priestess's attack with his own body.

The future predicted by Epitaph was absolute. Fortunately, Epitaph only saw the moment High Priestess attacked, not the moment Mei was hit.

"Heh heh... I've got you!"

Although his chest was pierced and his trachea was torn, Qin Mo didn't waver at all. Immense pain radiated from his chest.

However, this pain was far less severe than the feeling of Honkai eroding his entire body.

But while a human body could grab a Stand, it couldn't inflict damage on it, nor could it compare to High Priestess's power.

Qin Mo's action merely delayed High Priestess briefly. The result was that his arm and several fingers were severed, and High Priestess once again merged into the car.

"Qin Mo!"

Raiden Mei, who had been pushed away, stared wide-eyed at Qin Mo's horrific injuries. Without a word, she recalled Crazy Diamond to heal him.

"Damn it! Stop!!!"

Seeing that the car was no longer safe, Polnareff disregarded the danger of a high-speed emergency stop. He even summoned Silver Chariot to help control the steering wheel.

With a screech of tires, the car finally stopped.

"Everyone! Get out of the car quickly!"

As the car stopped, several people kicked open the doors and rushed out.

Qin Mo, using his just-recovered body, covered Mei and Kiana as they rushed out.

As if sensing that they had left the car, the sun's lava rain intensified.

"Everyone! I used Star Platinum to punch a hole! Quickly hide inside!"

As he approached the cliff face, Jotaro quickly had Star Platinum use its light-speed punches to create a hole in the hard cliff.

The group quickly rushed inside. The car, unprotected by Stands outside, was turned into a sieve by the lava rain in just a few seconds.

"It's so hot."

It was bearable inside the air-conditioned car, but once they left, the continuous high temperature outside relentlessly scorched everyone. In just a few dozen seconds, everyone was drenched in sweat.

"The outside temperature must be seventy degrees Celsius!"

Polnareff looked at the air warping outside due to the high temperature. Even the sparse surrounding vegetation had wilted under the deadly sunlight.

Kiana and Mei each held one of Qin Mo's hands, looking them over.

"Don't worry, I'm fine now. Mei has completely healed me."

Even so, Mei said with lingering fear, "Why were you so foolish? What if Mei hadn't healed you in time..."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Didn't the Honkai erosion not kill me?" He squeezed their hands. Qin Mo's hands were sweaty due to the high outdoor temperature, but the girls' hands showed no significant change.

Qin Mo finally remembered that both of them were Valkyries. Although they couldn't use their Valkyrie powers at the moment, their physiques were definitively no longer human.

"I'm sorry... If it weren't for me... I'd do anything..."

Mei's words were cut off by Qin Mo covering her mouth. Man, even though I skip cutscenes when I play games, I still know this 'I can't do anything' line is a death sentence. I need to stop Mei before she finishes speaking. He quickly stopped Mei's words and said, "No need to apologize. You just need to trust me."

Qin Mo spoke words that he himself felt embarrassed to say, completely disregarding the presence of others.

"Qin Mo, stop with the sweet talk. Quickly release your White Album, we're all about to die of heat."

Finally, Polnareff spoke up first, interrupting the scene.

As White Album was released, the temperature inside the cave instantly dropped, creating a tug-of-war with the scorching heat outside.

Meanwhile, inside a black carriage.

"They actually hid in a cave and are using their Stands to cool down."

A beautiful woman in a long dress bit her thumb, then looked at a fat man in the back seat. "Hey, fatty! Can your Stand attack them?"

"Ah, Lady Mithra, my Sun can't be lowered, and I can't see their situation, so I can only attack randomly like before."

Chapter 20: New Gacha Pulls

The fat man in the back seat said somewhat timidly.

Beside him was a muscular man with a face full of scars, bare-chested with only a shawl draped over him. In the big man's arms was an infant.

And in the driver's seat, if Qin Mo's group saw him, they would recognize him as the main body of Wheel of Fate, who had already been defeated.

"Tsk, it would have been great if Enya and Steel Adam were still alive. I didn't expect only you to be alive when we arrived."

After scolding two people, Mithra looked at the driver sitting in the driver's seat, who had a pair of strong arms but an extremely shrunken main body and a large beer belly, with some disgust.

"But you kid! Why didn't you kill those few just now? Don't you care about Lord Dio's orders!"

After scolding the two, Mithra shifted her gaze to the muscular man, or rather, to the baby in his arms.

However, the eleven-month-old infant simply sat up, glanced coldly at Mithra, and turned away without answering.

Even as a genius infant, he couldn't say very complex things yet, so it was better to just ignore her. If it weren't for him using Death Thirteen to heal Wheel of Fate, she wouldn't have been able to catch up to Joseph and the others. Now she was blaming him.

But... what was the situation with those two women just now? How could they injure Death Thirteen in a dream!?

The tough infant lay in his swaddling clothes, recalling the situation from earlier.

He had successfully pulled Joseph and the two young girls into the dream. He thought it was just a matter of toying with them, but he didn't expect that the two girls who couldn't harm him at first would take out swords and guns. He was about to mock them when he was injured by these weapons.

Although he was a genius, the tough infant lacked experience. He only knew how to confront opponents directly and didn't know how to utilize his ability to do whatever he wanted in the dream.

As a result, he was beaten badly by Kiana and Mei. If it weren't for the dream world's characteristic of allowing him to fly freely, he might have been killed in the dream.

However, since the other party didn't release their Stands, they didn't take the memories of that experience back with them after the dream ended.

"Lady Mithra... Look at me, do you need me to do anything..."

The muscular man pointed at himself with a fawning smile. Mithra glanced at him, "Your Stand can only create mud puppets, it's useless. Let's observe the situation first, they've hidden in the cave."

At this time, in the cave, Qin Mo used White Album to create a relatively cool environment. By sprinkling water inside the cave and freezing it, he ensured the humidity, but this was only a temporary solution.

"How is it, Kakyoin? Have you found any enemies?"

Everyone was hiding in the air-conditioned room created by White Album. The inside and outside of the cave were like two different worlds, creating a pure tug-of-war. According to Kakyoin, the temperature outside had reached an astonishing eighty degrees.

He had secretly sneaked out to explore the surroundings earlier and found nothing. Moreover, as soon as he went out, the Sun began indiscriminate bombing. It was obvious that the enemy knew their situation, but the main body of the Sun couldn't see them.

So, it attacked as soon as Kakyoin went out, but it could only carpet bomb.

Combined with the Stand that had injured Qin Mo earlier, it was likely that High Priestess's Stand was still nearby, monitoring them.

"Based on this, the enemies should be Sun, Death Thirteen, and High Priestess."

The group made their deductions, but except for High Priestess, the others' Stands likely had short ranges. They didn't know how the enemy had been near them without being discovered.

"What do we do? If this Sun stays here, we can't go anywhere."

"Moreover, High Priestess might be right beneath our feet now..."

High Priestess's Stand could merge with minerals and turn into any mineral product, so it wouldn't be strange if she had turned into the cave where Qin Mo and the others were.

However, Qin Mo actually hoped for that, because then he could shatter High Priestess's teeth in minutes.

Time ticked by. Two full hours passed, but the enemy made no move.

"Are they planning to just wear us down like this?"

Everyone remained vigilant of their surroundings, but the enemy didn't launch any attacks. They seemed to only plan to use the Sun outside to trap them here.

White Album's ability could temporarily maintain the temperature inside the cave, but unlike the Sun, a Stand that generated high temperatures just by existing, White Album needed to constantly activate its ability. Moreover, as the high temperature continued to evaporate the moisture in the air, the air became drier and drier, making it difficult for White Album to condense ice.

"It's time to take a gamble, Kiana."

Although they hadn't achieved a hundred consecutive pulls, it wasn't the time for that.

"Here it comes, are we going to pull that one?"

Qin Mo nodded and took out his phone, once again covering the game screen with his phone screen.

After Kiana and Mei knew about the existence of his System, Qin Mo no longer needed to do such a superfluous action. But others didn't know. Whether it was to mislead others or to conceal the existence of his System, this was somewhat meaningful.

Mei, however, was seeing Qin Mo's system interface for the first time. She didn't ask about it, though, as she knew there were outsiders present. While Qin Mo hadn't hidden it from others, he also didn't offer any explanation. Instead, he directly had Kiana start the gacha pulls.

"That's enough for seventy pulls, let's go."

"Oh!"

Kiana, familiar with the process, quickly performed seven ten-pulls. Without even looking at what she received, she handed them back to Qin Mo.

"Qin Mo, this... is this also your ability?"

Polnareff watched Kiana perform the gacha pulls. Although the interface was strange and unlike anything he'd seen, he figured that whatever was happening at this moment must be useful for their current situation.

"Yes, I won't explain the specifics. Please don't disturb me for now."

After closing the panel, Qin Mo began reviewing the results of his gacha pulls in his mind.

This time, Qin Mo had once again chosen to pull from the character card pool. Even though he couldn't equip S-rank character cards, he felt that seventy pulls were unlikely to yield any S-rank cards.

The items in the item pool, unless they were S-rank, weren't very useful.

A-rank items had an extremely exaggerated lower limit, and he didn't believe they would be of any use in the current situation.

As for A-rank character cards, there were more possibilities. If his assumptions were correct...

With seventy pulls, he should have at least seven A-rank character cards guaranteed, and this time Qin Mo saw nine.

Of course, it couldn't compare to the previous fifty pulls yielding a gold item. It seemed the system's patch had disabled Qin Mo's biggest cheat.

The nine A-rank cards were: