A New Gacha Pull

Crazy Diamond!

Killer Queen!

King Crimson!

Four powerful close-range Stands appeared on the roof at once, swinging their fists toward the sky and forcibly shielding the car beneath the torrential rain of lava.

"The enemy isn't attacking precisely and is using widespread attacks instead. That means their real body can't see our situation!"

While King Crimson attacked, Qin Mo did not forget to use Epitaph's future vision to observe the surrounding area. Yet he still found no trace of the enemy. The enemy was merely using relentless lava bombardment to force them to keep moving.

"Stop the car, now! We need to find somewhere to take cover!"

"I can't! The tires are melting!"

Polnareff tried to slow down, only to find that the car was becoming difficult to control as it kept skidding across the ground.

"Mr. Polnareff, please keep stopping the car. Leave the repairs to me."

Raiden Mei immediately had Crazy Diamond turn back to repair the tires that had melted under the heat, saving the increasingly uncontrollable vehicle.

"Ahhh! Why is this Stand so powerful?"

Kiana kept using Killer Queen to erase the lava about to reach them, but the more she erased, the more alarmed she became. The sun's attacks felt as endless as the actual sun.

The sensations fed back by the Stands outside also told her that the temperature beyond the car was utterly different from the air-conditioned interior. It had reached an absurd level.

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

It was not easy to suddenly stop after racing along at two hundred kilometers per hour, especially with partially melted tires. Still, through everyone's combined efforts, they were finally about to succeed.

The main forces defending against the Sun's lava were Killer Queen and Star Platinum. One possessed outrageous punching speed and precision, while the other could erase a large area of space. Qin Mo, meanwhile, focused on repeatedly activating King Crimson's Epitaph to foresee the future, watching for anything that slipped through and for enemies who might reveal an opening at any moment.

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

"Watch out, Mei!"

Raiden Mei was controlling Crazy Diamond to ensure that the car would not break down while speeding through the intense heat. She failed to notice the strange face that had appeared behind her, grinning eerily as it pounced at her back.

At that moment, Qin Mo suddenly stepped in front of her. The strange creature's tough claws pierced through Qin Mo's chest.

"Ah! Qin Mo!"

Although he had become a Stand user, Qin Mo's real body was still only that of an ordinary human. After seeing High Priestess ambush Mei through Epitaph, Qin Mo had no way to save her safely.

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

What Epitaph foresaw was absolute. Fortunately, all it had shown was the instant High Priestess attacked, rather than Mei being struck.

"Heh... got you!"

Although his chest had been pierced through and even his windpipe had been torn, Qin Mo did not waver in the slightest as tremendous pain erupted from his chest.

But compared to the sensation of Honkai corroding his entire body, this pain was far too mild.

However, while a human body could grab a Stand, it could not harm one, nor could it compare to High Priestess in strength.

Qin Mo's actions only delayed High Priestess briefly. The result was that his arm and several fingers were severed, while High Priestess merged back into the car.

"Qin Mo!"

Raiden Mei, who had been shoved aside, stared wide-eyed at Qin Mo's terrible injuries. Without another word, she recalled Crazy Diamond to heal him.

"Damn it! Stop already!!!"

Seeing that the inside of the car was no longer safe, Polnareff no longer cared about the dangers of braking sharply at high speed. He even summoned Silver Chariot to help control the steering wheel.

With a screech of brakes, the car finally came to a stop.

"Everyone! Get out, now!"

The moment the car stopped, they kicked open the doors and rushed out.

Qin Mo, his body freshly restored, shielded Mei and Kiana as they ran from the car.

As if it knew they had left the vehicle, the Sun's lava rain became even denser.

"Everyone! I had Star Platinum punch out a hole! Get inside!"

As Jotaro Kujo neared the cliff face, he quickly had Star Platinum use its light-speed fists to blast a cave into the hard rock.

The group rushed inside. In only a few seconds, the car left without Stand protection was riddled full of holes by the lava rain.

"It's so hot."

The air conditioning had made things bearable inside the car, but the instant they left it, the unceasing heat scorched them. In just a few dozen seconds, everyone was drenched in sweat.

"The temperature outside has to be seventy degrees, right?"

Polnareff looked at the air warped by the heat outside. Even the sparse plants nearby had already wilted beneath the deadly sunlight.

Meanwhile, Kiana and Mei each grabbed one of Qin Mo's hands, examining them from every angle.

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

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

"Don't worry. I'll be fine. Even Honkai corrosion couldn't kill me, could it?" Qin Mo squeezed both their hands in return. His palms were slick with sweat from the outdoor heat, but the two girls' hands had barely changed.

Only then did Qin Mo remember that both of them were Herrschers. Although they could not use their Herrscher powers right now, their physiques were, in every practical sense, no longer human.

"I'm sorry... If it weren't for me... I can't do anyth—"

Before Mei could finish, Qin Mo covered her mouth. Oh god, even if I skipped story scenes when gaming, I still know that "I can't do anything" line. He hurriedly stopped her and said, "You don't need to apologize. You just need to believe in me."

Qin Mo said something that embarrassed even himself, completely ignoring the fact that others were standing nearby.

"Qin Mo, stop flirting over there. Hurry up and bring out your White Album. We're about to die from the heat."

Polnareff was the first to speak, interrupting the moment.

Once White Album appeared, the temperature inside the cave immediately fell, locking into a tug-of-war with the blistering heat outside.

At the same time, inside a black carriage.

"They actually hid in a cave and used a Stand to cool it down."

A beautiful woman in a long dress sat in the passenger seat, biting her thumb before turning toward a fat man in the back seat. "Hey, fatty! Can your Stand attack inside?"

"Ah, Lady Mithra, my Sun can't descend any lower, and I can't see what's happening over there. I can only bombard them blindly like before."

New Draws

The fat man in the back seat spoke timidly.

Beside him sat a muscular brute with a face full of flesh, bare upper body, and only a shawl draped over his shoulders. He was holding a baby in his arms.

As for the driver, Qin Mo's group would have recognized him if they had seen him. He was the real body of Wheel of Fate, whom they had defeated earlier.

"Tch. If only Enya and Steel Adam were still alive. I never expected that when we arrived, you'd be the only one left alive."

Mithra looked at the driver with disgust. He had a pair of powerful arms, but his actual body was horribly shriveled and he had an enormous beer belly.

"But you brat! Why didn't you kill them just now? Don't you care about Lord Dio's orders anymore?!"

After scolding the two men, Mithra turned her gaze to the muscular brute. No, to the child in his arms.

However, the eleven-month-old infant merely sat up, shot Mithra a cold glance, and turned his head away without answering.

Even a genius baby could not yet speak overly complicated words, so he might as well ignore her. If he had not used Death Thirteen to heal Wheel of Fate, she would never have been able to catch up to Joseph and the others. And now she was blaming him.

But... what was with those two women just now? They had actually been able to hurt Death Thirteen within the dream!?

The tough baby lay in his swaddling clothes, recalling what had happened.

He had clearly succeeded in dragging Joseph and the two young women into the dream. He had thought all that remained was to toy with them, but unexpectedly, the two girls who had initially been unable to harm him pulled out a sword and a gun. He had intended to mock them, only to be injured by those weapons instead.

Though he was a genius, the tough baby had far too little experience. He only knew how to confront opponents head-on and had no idea how to use his dream-world ability to do whatever he pleased and make anything he imagined come true.

As a result, Kiana and Mei beat him until he yelped. If not for his ability to fly freely within the dream world, he might have been finished off there.

However, because the two of them had not summoned their Stands, they did not retain the memories of that experience after the dream ended.

"Lady Mithra... are you asking me to do something...?"

The muscular brute pointed at himself with an awkward smile. Mithra glanced at him. "With that Stand of yours that can only make mud dolls, you're useless. Let's watch the situation first. They've gone into a cave."

Meanwhile, inside the cave, Qin Mo used White Album to create a relatively cool environment. He froze water scattered throughout the cave to maintain the humidity, but that only treated the symptoms, not the root cause.

"How is it, Kakyoin? Did you find the enemy?"

Everyone hid in the air-conditioned space created by White Album. The inside and outside of the cave had become two separate worlds, turning the situation into a pure stalemate. According to Kakyoin, the temperature outside had reached an outrageous eighty degrees.

He had secretly gone outside earlier to scout the area, but found nothing. Moreover, the moment he went out, the Sun began indiscriminate bombardment. Clearly, the enemy could tell what was happening on their side, but the Sun's real body could not see them.

So it attacked the instant Kakyoin went outside, yet could only carpet-bomb the area.

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

"From the looks of it, the enemy should be the Sun, Death Thirteen, and High Priestess."

They came to that conclusion, but aside from High Priestess, the others' Stands should not have had long ranges. They did not know how the enemy had remained near them without being discovered.

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

"And High Priestess might be right beneath our feet right now..."

High Priestess could merge with minerals and transform into any object made from minerals, so it would not be strange for her to have become the cave Qin Mo and the others were standing in.

Still, Qin Mo hoped that was the case, because then he and the others could smash every tooth in High Priestess's mouth in minutes.

Time passed second by second. A full two hours went by, but the enemy made no move.

"Are they planning to drag this out until we die?"

Everyone had remained alert, but the enemy did not launch another attack. It seemed they only intended to use the Sun outside to trap them here until they died.

White Album's ability could temporarily keep the cave cool, but unlike the Sun, a Stand that constantly produced heat simply by existing, White Album had to continuously activate its power. Furthermore, as the high temperature continuously evaporated the moisture in the air, the atmosphere became increasingly dry, making it difficult for White Album to condense ice.

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

Although they had not reached one hundred pulls, this was no longer the time to wait.

"It's here. Are we drawing that?"

Qin Mo nodded and took out his phone, once again overlaying the game screen over the phone's display.

After Kiana and Mei learned of his system, Qin Mo no longer needed to go through this unnecessary process. However, the others did not know. Whether to mislead them or conceal the existence of his system, there was still some meaning in doing so.

Still, this was Mei's first time seeing Qin Mo's system interface. She did not ask about it, since she knew there were outsiders present. Although Qin Mo did not hide it from the others, he had no intention of explaining. He simply had Kiana start drawing cards.

"We have enough for seventy draws. Go ahead."

"Okay!"

Kiana quickly performed seven ten-pulls with practiced ease, then handed the phone back to Qin Mo without even checking what she had obtained.

"Qin Mo, is this... also one of your abilities?"

Polnareff watched Kiana draw cards. The screen looked strange and unfamiliar to him, but he figured that anything they did in this situation had to be useful for their current predicament.

"Yes. I won't explain the details right now, so don't interrupt me."

After putting away the interface, Qin Mo began reviewing the results of this draw in his mind.

This time, Qin Mo had once again chosen the character card pool. Although he could not equip S-rank character cards, he felt that seventy draws probably would not produce an S-rank anyway.

As for the item pool, anything below S-rank was not especially useful.

The lower limit for A-rank items was incredibly high, and he did not think he could get something useful in their current situation.

A-rank character cards offered more possibilities. If what he had imagined was correct...

With seventy draws, the guaranteed minimum should have been seven A-rank character cards, but Qin Mo saw nine this time.

Of course, it could not compare to getting gold cards from fifty draws last time. It seemed the system's patch had indeed sealed off Qin Mo's greatest cheat.

The nine A-rank cards were respectively: