Chapter 448: Conditions for Reaching Heaven
Although Dio and Darwin escaped, their situation was very bad.
"Darwin, this doesn't match what you told me about the Dark Night Nobility."
Dio gritted his teeth and squeezed out those words. It was unclear whether it was because he was angry at the false information given by his companions, or because most of his head was smashed.
At this time, Dio's brain was slowly recovering, but judging from the speed, it would take some time.
The physical injury was not the most important thing; the most important thing was his newfound power, which he called the "world".
The head of the world was also mostly blown up by the dark purple figure. Dio could feel that before he fully recovered, the [World] would be unusable.
"My dear Viscount Dio Joestar, please remember what I told you at that time."
Darwin was not much better than Dio. His condition was not as simple as just losing an arm. In order to buy them time to escape, he overloaded his ability [Evolution] in a short period of time.
He made his own cells evolve for several generations in a short period of time in order to resist Mo Cheng.
But the price was equally heavy. Darwin was a whole. When he used the Theory of Evolution on himself, it was definitely not just his arm that was affected, but his entire body.
Not only is Darwin's body now missing a large amount of mass, but his body cells have also begun to [evolve], an [evolution] that is no longer under Darwin's control.
Evolution in the biological sense does not mean becoming faster, bigger, or stronger, but rather becoming more adaptable to the environment.
The more complex an organism is, the more its state and life essence are fixed. Unless there are enough samples and drastic environmental changes, it is almost impossible for an individual to evolve.
Darwin's ability [Theory of Evolution] can enable individual organisms to break the genetic shackles that have long adapted to the environment, open up the limitations of the genes of individual organisms, and compress [evolution] that would take several generations to achieve into a short period of time.
At this time, the genetic shackles in Darwin's body were broken, but this was by no means a good thing, because [evolution] is not fixed, even Darwin could not fix the end point of [evolution].
All he could do was to open the shackles of [Evolution], interfere with evolution, or even his own evolution, something he had absolutely no experience with.
The only thing Darwin could do at this time was to suppress it.
Continuously and madly suppressing, after the internal frame of the body was broken, the genes were running wildly in an unknown direction, trying their best to maintain themselves in human form.
Otherwise, based on the fleeting glimpse of the final form of his left hand before escaping, Darwin suspected that his form after [evolution] would be a ball of slime.
"Since the transformation method of the Dark Night Nobles was obtained from a relic , I also warned you about the relevant matters before I helped you transform them. The power of the Dark Night Nobles comes from their bloodline and their hatred for light and order."
"So I sacrificed all my family members." Dio narrowed his eyes and counted on his fingers one by one, "My father, other members of my family, my territory, and even the old dog my father raised."
He casually mentioned the absolutely intolerable crimes he had committed.
After his crime of patricide was discovered by the old butler, Dio, knowing that he could not escape, joined forces with Darwin to openly reduce the Joestar family's territory to ashes.
But in reality, the name and bloodline of "Jostar" were sacrificed and transformed through a certain ritual.
"The power of the Dark Night Nobles is not as strong as the information you gave me describes."
"If I remember correctly, there happens to be such a person in this city, who seems to be your half-sister."
"So I am here to complete the last step of the ritual."
Darwin's face looked very ugly. He was angry with Dio. Lilia was attacked before because Dio tried to complete the last part of the ritual and sacrifice the last bloodline of Joestar.
The reason why Darwin was angry was that Dio took action directly. Originally, they had a chance to succeed. As long as they took advantage of Lilia not being with Mo Cheng, they could complete the ritual.
Then the teammates next to him started a team fight on their own, but they were still defeated after the fight. If he hadn't decisively given up one of his arms, he would have been killed twice.
Judging from the current situation, there is almost no possibility that Dio's ritual will be completed.
"Why are you so angry, my friend?"
Dio suddenly changed from anger to laughter, "I have never blamed you for giving me a ritual that was full of flaws and loopholes, just like you deliberately leaked the information to my father's old butler."
Dio's patricide was indeed flawless, but if Darwin, as a helper, deliberately leaked information and clues, it would not be difficult for the old butler to investigate. It was because his patricide was discovered that he was forced to sacrifice everything for Joestar.
"Oh, have we been discovered?"
Darwin smiled, not seeming to care that Dio had discovered this, even though he was in a very troublesome situation. "Want to avenge your territory?"
"No, I was just wondering when you were going to betray me, [Father]?"
"Let's not think about that for now, until we reach Heaven."
The ritual of [Noble of the Dark Night] was specially given to Dio by Darwin, and the clues and evidence were also leaked by Darwin on purpose. The reason was to allow Dio, a candidate who fully met his requirements, to take the first step towards reaching [Heaven].
The two men stared at each other silently, but neither of them took the first step. Finally, Dio took a step back, continued to cover his half-blasted head and asked, "What should we do next? The Dragon Tomb is about to open, and we can't complete the mission in our current state."
"Go and contact the Dragon Worship Cult. Their leader almost became one of us, but unfortunately he values the ancient overlord who has passed away more."
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At the same time, Erica, who received the news from the head of the cult, was walking secretly in the underground sewers of Rothal City.
Erica used her spatial ability to avoid the gazes of many explorers and reached the deepest part of the underground sewer, avoiding everyone.
There was a well-concealed hole. She moved away the debris that was blocking it and jumped down. Erica felt as if she was back in her mother's womb.
"Erica, you're here."
