The Dimensional Codex of Destruction

After becoming a Corpse-Human, Rabbaso hunted lone humans around Cairo. On one hand, he offered blood to Dio, and on the other, he used them to cultivate his Stand. Now, Yellow Temperance had grown to the size of over a dozen humans.

Therefore, he didn't care at all that Kiana had used Killer Queen to shave off a part of his Stand, because compared to Yellow Temperance's size, the small piece shaved off by that single hand was nothing.

"You want to suffocate me? This underwater is your burial ground, country bumpkin!"

Yellow Temperance had already broken through Killer Queen's blockade and enveloped Kiana's body. Pain, like burning, spread across the areas wrapped by Yellow Temperance.

Yellow Temperance was a Stand that consumed. The areas it touched would be slowly corroded and devoured as if falling into stomach acid. Once contaminated, there was no escape.

A vampire...

Killer Queen suddenly abandoned its attack on Yellow Temperance. That little bit of attack was like a drop in the bucket to Yellow Temperance. Before it could be killed, Kiana's main body would be eaten first.

Killer Queen waved towards the sky above the two of them.

Rabbaso felt the surrounding environment change as the two of them abruptly moved up several meters.

"Hey, hey, weren't you just trying to drag this lord into the water? Why do you want to leave now? I was enjoying myself!"

Although he said this, while controlling Yellow Temperance to continue pulling Kiana down, Rabbaso also silently used Yellow Temperance to wrap himself up.

After all, he was still a Corpse-Human who feared the sun.

Kiana ignored Rabbaso's mockery. Underwater, she couldn't speak, so she could only keep slicing space upwards, bringing the two of them closer to the water's surface.

When Kiana burst out of the water with Rabbaso, her body was almost completely enveloped by Yellow Temperance.

"Hahaha! So what if you escaped! You can't resist anymore!"

Rabbaso was connected to Kiana by Yellow Temperance. He didn't worry about Kiana escaping at all, because she could no longer break free.

"So what..."

Kiana's expression remained unchanged by the burning sensation all over her body. She took a deep breath.

"Huh?"

Before Rabbaso could react to the source of his bad premonition, a golden energy suddenly erupted from Kiana's body.

"Even if it's a Stand, it's still a living being!"

Kiana didn't understand Yellow Temperance's theory, nor did she understand its biological form.

But she knew that this Stand could be touched by ordinary people, could be blocked by ordinary things, and consumed real things. Therefore, it should be a living being!

And living beings were the best conductors of Ripple!

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

If the pain of Kiana being digested was like splashing hydrochloric acid on her skin, then Rabbaso's pain was like splashing lava.

He subconsciously lost control of Yellow Temperance. The connection of Yellow Temperance was severed, and he fell into the water. Yellow Temperance on Kiana's body also fell off.

No, it wasn't losing control! It was a deliberate act of cutting off a limb to survive!

Kiana floated in the river and saw a figure climbing onto the riverbank not far away.

His body was already incomplete, his left leg and left hand completely gone, a large hole in his abdomen, and even a third of his head was missing.

But even so, he was still alive!

"You're not allowed to run!"

Witnessing such terrifying vitality, Kiana knew she couldn't let this guy escape, otherwise, who knew how many people would be harmed.

Without a second thought, she swam towards the riverbank.

Chapter 30: Gatekeeper of Hell

"That place... as long as I reach that place..."

Although his body was nearly half gone, with even something like molten lava dripping from the severed ends, Rabbaso was still alive.

It had to be said that Corpse-Humans had truly strong vitality.

Rabbaso severed the connection of his Stand on Kiana's body immediately, saving his life.

However, this was also thanks to Kiana's Ripple not being strong. If it were someone else, he would have completely vaporized this guy on the spot.

Kiana, due to her lack of patience, had never practiced Ripple much. However, her physical fitness and legendary bloodline allowed her to successfully use Ripple and defeat Rabbaso even as a complete beginner.

"Don't run!"

Without needing Killer Queen for defense, Kiana could convert it entirely into mobility.

While rapidly pursuing, she continuously shaved away the space in front of her to achieve the effect of teleportation.

"Damn it! As long as I reach that place!"

Rabbaso used Yellow Temperance like a flexible rope, throwing it out to stick to the wall, and then pulling himself over.

Fortunately, the size of his Stand was large enough to support such usage and protect his body from being exposed to sunlight.

"Finally!"

Looking at the mansion getting closer and closer, ecstasy appeared in Rabbaso's eyes.

At this moment, Kiana was also only a few meters behind him.

"Ah! Don't come any closer!"

A large mass of Yellow Temperance's slime was flung in Kiana's direction, while he used the momentum from being pulled on the other side to fly towards the mansion's main gate.

Kiana hastily dodged a portion of the Stand that Rabbaso had thrown away as a sacrifice, and saw Rabbaso himself crash into the mansion's main gate with a loud bang.

"Aaaah! Finally! Lord Dio! Please eliminate these insignificant pests who have offended you!"

Rabbaso lay sprawled on the ground, a single leg and arm remaining. Without the help of his Stand, he couldn't even stand up.

As he spoke, a figure appeared above the gate. Sunlight shone from behind it, and a shadow completely obscured Rabbaso.

It was a peregrine falcon, but both Rabbaso and Kiana could see a chilling human-like quality in its eyes.

Petsha, a peregrine falcon that originally soared leisurely through the Nile Valley, had been used for hunting long ago. It possessed a speed of three hundred kilometers per hour, and the falcon's eyes could, at such high speeds, accurately pinpoint a prey's weakness and tear it apart.

This peregrine falcon was a gatekeeper, subdued by Dio and used to guard the mansion.

On Egyptian soil, no creature could pass through this gate of hell without being detected by it.

And as a gatekeeper, when facing a "traitor" who led enemies to the gate...

"Hey! Petsha! Quickly! Hurry and notify Lord Dio!"

Rabbaso saw the shadow blocking his view and recognized Dio's pet.

Although he knew this was Dio's appointed gatekeeper and also a Stand user, in his eyes, a beast was still a beast, incomparable to him.

"Forget it! I'll go report to Lord Dio, you block that little brat for me!"

Rabbaso, wrapped in Yellow Temperance, managed to prop himself up against the gate. However, because his attention was focused on standing up, he didn't notice Petsha's cold gaze.

Behind him, Kiana stopped in her tracks. Although she couldn't understand the look in a peregrine falcon's eyes, her intuition told her that the bird was dangerous.

But...

Rabbaso felt something was wrong.

The surrounding temperature seemed to have dropped?

That couldn't be right; he had already become a vampire, so why would he be afraid of the cold?

Before he could react, his Stand responded a step ahead of him.

Yellow Temperance suddenly became rigid, and then...

Squelch!

"Aaaah!"

Yellow Temperance, the Stand, changed in response to stimuli, a change Rabbaso himself couldn't control. When exposed to high temperatures, it would splash; when exposed to low temperatures, it would solidify and form spikes.

But no matter what, the total mass of Yellow Temperance would not change.

And now, the Yellow Temperance wrapped around Rabbaso was stimulated by the low temperature, forming numerous spikes and impaling Rabbaso like a hedgehog.

"Aaaah! What are you doing!!"

Rabbaso tried to look up, but the Yellow Temperance enveloping his entire body was immobile. He could only watch the ground as his shadow grew larger.

Kiana watched the scene before her in horror. Rabbaso was fixed in place, and a giant ice cone was slowly forming in the air, then... it fell.

Boom!

A massive cold air storm swept through the street, and Kiana instinctively raised her hand to shield her eyes.

When she could see again, all that remained was the remains of Rabbaso's corpse, gradually turning to ash in the sunlight.

"How could this be..."

Although she also wanted to kill those who had completely betrayed humanity, she had never imagined that Rabbaso would be killed by his own companion.

"Aren't you comrades..."

As if asking Petsha, or perhaps asking herself, Kiana stood there dumbfounded.

Petsha landed on a lamppost, looking down at Kiana.

Even though her gaze was fixed on a peregrine falcon, Kiana felt as if she were looking not at a bird, but at a person, a monster.

Although not a Honkai Beast, Kiana felt this thing was more terrifying than any Honkai Beast she had ever encountered.

She quickly drew her twin pistols.

Bang bang bang!!!

The sound of bullets colliding with ice cones exploded in the air.

Petsha let out a cry and shot up into the sky like a rocket from the lamppost.

The instantly created distance was beyond the range of even Ivory and Ebony. However, even if the range were sufficient, it would be difficult to hit such a high-speed moving falcon with bullets.

As a bird-type Stand user, its greatest advantage was its ability to fly, a feat humans had taken thousands of years to achieve, an advantage they possessed naturally.

Petsha's Stand could create low temperatures and ice cones, launching them like missiles. Attacking from above, they not only retained their kinetic energy despite the distance but also increased their lethality due to gravity.

The massive ice cones were too large for small bullets to destroy.

The gatekeeper of hell, Petsha, displayed absolute air superiority before Kiana.

Chapter 31: Kiana vs. Petsha

Killer Queen!

The massive ice cones couldn't be completely shattered even with bullets, so Kiana could only summon Killer Queen to instantly teleport herself out of their attack range.

The ice cones were simply too long; even with Killer Queen, she could only erase a small portion of their leading edge.

"This stinking bird! How dare it look down on me!"

Although she found the peregrine falcon, which was like a human, somewhat creepy, Kiana still couldn't accept the fact that she couldn't even defeat a bird. After all, she had defeated countless Honkai Beasts during her wanderings.

She spun her black and white dual pistols, and a barrage of bullets exploded the falling ice cones one by one.

Perhaps realizing that ordinary small ice cones couldn't harm Kiana, Petsha stopped attacking and began to circle above Kiana's head.

Bang!

Even the bullets from Ebony couldn't hit Petsha. With air superiority and the advantage of high speed, Petsha was in an invincible position when facing Kiana.

After clumsily dodging several ice cones that couldn't be completely destroyed even by a dense rain of bullets, Kiana realized that she might have no way to deal with this creature.

"I, your esteemed self, can't even beat a bird?!"

Although she was indignant, Kiana had to admit that, at this moment, this beast was stronger!

Fortunately, because the ice cones were dropped from a high altitude, their accuracy wasn't high, and Kiana's mobility had greatly increased with Killer Queen's teleportation.

"Just you wait until I find Qin Mo and the others, I'll make you pay!"

The wounds on her body, gnawed by Yellow Temperance, had long since clotted, but with this intense movement, they began to bleed again.

However!