The world fell into complete silence. The only thing left were countless blood and flesh candles floating in the sky, burning.
"This is Ryosuke?!"
The adult Naruto stood there blankly, shock and disbelief mixed on his face. The impact in his heart was impossible to hide.
Even though he had not exchanged a single word with Ryosuke, just the fact that he stood alone in front of everyone, facing a powerful enemy, along with the force that crushed the enemy like rotten wood, was enough to earn the trust of everyone in this world.
Unlike the joy below, Dio, who sat on the throne, had eyes that turned cold again.
"Ryosuke, you damn..."
Before Dio could finish speaking, the crimson blade light crossed the distance between heaven and earth in an instant and slashed toward him. Along with it came Ryosuke and Star Platinum's fists.
"THE WORLD!"
Dio roared.
The World that had surpassed Heaven appeared behind him.
BOOM!!!
Fist collided with fist.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA!"
"MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!"
The shadows of Star Platinum's and The World's fists interwove. The aftershock of their power surged outward, cracking the surrounding world barrier with fine fractures.
For a moment, neither side had the upper hand.
This was a battle between Stands.
As for their main bodies...
Ripple crystals surrounded him. Listening to the wails of the dead, countless wronged souls who had died at Dio's hands rushed forward and wrapped around the Great Blade of Ruin.
Ryosuke raised the blade high. With no fancy move, he chopped straight down at Dio's head.
Dio threw a punch, trying to use Overwrite Reality to erase the power on the blade.
BOOM!!!
Fist and blade clashed for half a second.
With a sharp crack, the blade split Dio's fist, cut off one of his arms, and without slowing down, continued toward his head.
Dio's long hair flew wildly. Under the intense pain, he looked like a madman.
With his remaining hand, he tried to struggle against Ryosuke, but he could not resist at all. Forced down by the blade, he was driven back again and again until he slammed hard into the trunk of the Calamity Divine Tree.
The long blade pierced horizontally into Dio's chest, almost cutting him in two.
Scarlet blood flowed along the blade and dripped down.
At this moment, what Ryosuke showed was pure power.
Absolute suppressing power.
"This kind of power… this ability… you really also…"
Dio's face twisted. His teeth ground loudly. When Ryosuke had swung his blade earlier and killed all his subordinates, Dio had already sensed something wrong.
Only when they truly clashed, when he was suppressed so badly he could not even lift his head, did he have to admit...
"You have also mastered the power that surpasses Heaven!"
Ryosuke answered with a clenched fist.
He punched Dio in the face, smashing and knocking out two of his blood sucking fangs.
Both had surpassed Heaven. Ryosuke had reshaped his body with the Pure White Infant and fused with the nine pieces of the Saint's Corpse.
Ryosuke was the one anchored to the base world of the ninja world.
The Saint's Corpse was what anchored the base world of the JOJO world.
With the two combined, under the recognition of both worlds, Ryosuke had reached the height of surpassing Heaven.
Star Platinum and The World might be the same type and same level of Stand.
But Ryosuke and Dio were absolutely not on the same level in physical strength.
Ryosuke raised his fist again, about to smash Dio's head apart with this blow.
"Heh heh…"
A muddy laugh came from Dio's blood filled mouth. He slowly turned his head. Blood kept flowing from his broken gums, yet his eyes gradually became crazed.
"I don't know what kind of luck you had, to come back from the dead and even gain the power to surpass Heaven."
"What a pity…"
Dio stared straight at Ryosuke, letting Ryosuke's fists hit his face again and again until his head split and blood covered his face.
He fixed his gaze on Ryosuke and said word by word, "You came back too late."
"The current you cannot kill me!"
After one round of exchange, or rather suppression, Dio sharply sensed the composition of Ryosuke's power.
Surpassing Heaven.
The Pure White Infant fused with the Saint's Corpse.
A small portion of the JOJO world's power, this part formed Ryosuke's system.
And the world power from the ninja world.
Plus Ryosuke himself, a monster whose physical strength could tear apart the world barrier.
Any one of the above alone was extremely powerful. With all five combined, the Dio from the previous round who fought Ryosuke would have been killed within three moves, with no room to turn things around.
But that was against the previous Dio, who had not yet absorbed the ninja world's power.
Now the Calamity Divine Tree had pierced into the ninja world and absorbed power for fourteen full days.
Even countless stars in the universe were about to go dark. The universe had shifted from expansion into the process of withering and collapsing.
"The world power you can use is no longer what it was before. And besides..."
An endless force burst from Dio's body. Strange Stand abilities were released one after another, forcing Ryosuke back.
A black light flashed. Overwrite Reality activated. All of Dio's wounds recovered as if they had never existed. Behind him, one familiar and unfamiliar Stand after another appeared.
Dio crossed his arms and raised his chin.
"I can also absorb the world power of the eight time spaces."
With the Calamity Divine Tree in hand, Dio had long been able to absorb the world power inside the eight JOJO timelines. It was just that this was his starting capital.
So Dio had carefully preserved it, until the Calamity Divine Tree pierced through the ninja world and his investment finally paid off.
Dio clenched his fists and rushed toward Ryosuke.
He had not wanted to use the power of the JOJO timelines. This was his capital to continue expanding his territory. It was also his final trump card.
"But as long as I can kill Ryosuke, any cost is worth it!"
Countless Stands behind Dio gradually grew the same face.
Black light wrapped around them as they fused with each other. In the blink of an eye, they turned into a huge, hideous fused being covered with countless limbs.
Where the ugly fused Stand passed, the world collapsed and mist was dragged wildly into it.
And what they fused was not only flesh, but also their complex abilities.
The complicated abilities crossed, overlapped, clashed, and affected one another, finally forming one simple ability...
"Death upon touch."
Dio roared, "Die! Ryosuke!"
Ryosuke glanced at the ugly fused Stand, put away the Great Blade of Ruin, and took out an iron ball.
In the next moment, one summoned Stand after another appeared behind him.
Star Platinum, Killer Queen, Hermit Purple, Weather Report, Made in Heaven…
In number, they were definitely fewer than Dio's fusion.
But each one was an old partner who had fought side by side with Ryosuke.
At this moment, with the blessing of world power, they were no longer Ryosuke's summons. Each one had its own independent will.
The many Stands gently placed their hands on Ryosuke's shoulders. Threads of power flowed along his shoulders and into the spinning iron ball.
Buzz!
The iron ball entered infinite rotation.
Not enough.
Ryosuke raised his right hand. Ripple resonance activated.
An ant's step, a deer's heartbeat, the ninjas raising their fists, the breath of the wind, the pulse of the earth…
All forces, guided by the world, appeared as golden rectangles at this moment and were transmitted into Ryosuke's hand, finally pouring into one ordinary iron ball.
Buzz!!!
The rotation speed of the iron ball soared again.
As it spun, it rubbed against the world barrier. Fragments of the barrier trailed behind like a comet tail. From afar, it looked as if Ryosuke held a brilliant spear in his hand.
Ryosuke glanced at Dio and the fused Stand charging at him and waved his hand lightly.
The spear thrust out.