Killing, blood, conquest.
Those were the missions Dio gave to the vampire army.
The matching reward was... eternal life.
For vampires, this was a dream job.
Maybe ordinary people would find it hard to understand.
Living forever, but having to keep killing people, what's so good about that?
After a long time, wouldn't a person go crazy?
But that is for humans.
For vampires, those three "jobs" above were pure enjoyment.
To "translate" it into words ordinary people can understand...
The boss lets you drive luxury cars, live in villas, marry a beautiful woman, and the price you pay is playing games every day, drinking, eating barbecue, and traveling around different worlds when you feel like it.
That is basically how it is.
So the vampire army burst out with unimaginable fanatic fighting spirit. They howled loudly, with no tactics or formation, like a group of wild beasts that had lost their minds, eyes red, pouring out of the world rift in a dark mass.
The members of the main universe had long prepared backup plans for Dio's invasion. They stood ready, with reinforcements being continuously sent from the rear.
As for the adult Naruto, adult Sasuke, and Boruto, adult Shikamaru and the other ninjas from the sub universe standing behind them, they were more or less panicked and at a loss.
The adult Naruto's lips were dry as he said in a low voice, "An enemy of this scale… it hasn't appeared for more than ten years since the Fourth Great Ninja War."
No, even during the Fourth Great Ninja War, the Allied Shinobi Forces only had eighty thousand people, and that included medical ninjas, reconnaissance ninjas, and advisory units.
The ones truly fighting on the front lines were probably only forty to fifty thousand.
Their opponent had been one hundred thousand White Zetsu.
Even so, when the war ended, the casualties were still severe.
And now...
they were facing tens of millions of undead soldiers, and every single one had been enhanced by Dio's black light.
Hearing the adult Naruto's words, Sasuke raised his eyebrows slightly. "More than ten years of peace? Your world is really comfortable."
"Isn't this world the same?"
Sasuke thought of the five years he had followed Ryosuke, battle after battle.
"We've always wanted to change some things."
If you want to change things, you will hurt the interests of some who already benefit. That means fighting. That means bloodshed.
The adult Naruto's eyes suddenly became deep.
He was no longer the hot blooded boy from before. After becoming Hokage, even if he was still simple at heart, he had understood many rules about how the world worked.
He heard the meaning behind that sentence. Looking at this similar yet completely different Ninja World, and at this young but not immature Sasuke in front of him, whose eyes were full of responsibility and duty, the adult Naruto felt many emotions at once. He took a deep breath and formed hand seals with both hands.
"I don't really understand what's going on, but since it was that guy called 'Dio' who caused all this, as long as we defeat his army and then kill him, it will be over, right!"
There were indeed tens of millions of enemies.
But when it comes to using numbers...
Uzumaki Naruto had never been afraid.
Just as he was about to use the Shadow Clone Technique, dozens of beams suddenly appeared from the end of the sky and slammed down into the rushing vampire army.
A violent explosion rang out, and a scorching, foul smelling gale swept in from the distance.
When the wind dispersed and they looked at the previous position, a large section of the vampire army formation had been cleared out. Roughly estimating, that single round of fire had killed or injured one to two million enemies.
The adult Naruto, adult Sasuke, Boruto, Sarada and the others from the sub universe all stared at the scene in shock.
Buzz! Buzz!
Hearing the roaring sound from high in the sky, they snapped back to their senses and looked up.
Eleven space carriers.
Thirty eight sky battleships.
One hundred sixty one escort aircraft.
They flew in from the distant horizon at incredible speed. One second they were still at the edge of the skyline, and in the blink of an eye, they were already overhead.
"This is…"
The adult Naruto's memory suddenly returned to his teenage years more than ten years ago.
"Shinno's Sky Fortress?!"
"That outdated relic was eliminated long ago. It's now just sitting in the Kyoto Museum."
Along with beams descending from the sky battleships, a space teleportation gate opened, and a voice that the adult Naruto knew extremely well appeared.
His pupils suddenly shrank as he looked toward the source of the voice.
Jiraiya stepped out from the pillar of light and raised his chin slightly at the adult Naruto.
"Yo, not bad. Grown up Naruto really does look much more reliable than when you were little. And..."
Jiraiya tilted his head and glanced at the Hokage cloak Naruto was wearing.
"Seventh Hokage…"
Jiraiya's nose felt a little sour. There was surprise, but even more relief and pride.
"Naruto, you brat, you really became Hokage after all!"
At that moment, a childish voice appeared.
"I became Hokage?! Where! Where!"
The Naruto of this world had also just been teleported over. He ran over and was about to look at the adult Naruto's Hokage cloak.
Fortunately, Jiraiya grabbed him by the collar in time and lifted him up.
"Do you have a death wish!"
Jiraiya scolded, "Before departure, Oda Ieyasu told everyone to pay attention to the rules of spacetime annihilation. You absolutely must not touch your counterpart from another world."
Naruto scratched his head awkwardly. "I got too excited and forgot."
The scene in front of him gradually became blurry in the adult Naruto's eyes. He sniffed and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. His son Boruto was still beside him. He was long past the age of crying.
The only thought in his heart was, 'This world really… is very different.'
Along with Jiraiya coming through the teleportation gate were boxes of supplies. After opening them, dozens of small metal rings could be seen inside.
Jiraiya handed one to the adult Naruto.
"What is this?"
The one who asked was the bearded adult Shikamaru.
As the Hokage's advisor, even if the person in front of him was Jiraiya, he was still a Jiraiya from another world.
The situation was unclear. There had to be some caution.
'What if it exploded the moment you put it on?'
"Isotope isolation device."
Jiraiya saw Shikamaru's vigilance. He first put one on himself and one on young Naruto, then explained, "It was originally a device developed by the research institute to distinguish experimental subjects injected with Hidan's cells. The parameters have been temporarily adjusted."
"After putting it on, it will pierce the skin, draw blood to read the DNA. As long as two people with the same gene sequence come within ten meters of each other, it will trigger an alarm."
"It avoids, as much as possible, counterparts from two worlds accidentally getting too close and causing spacetime annihilation."
The tragedy that had happened between cities was still vivid in their minds. With a powerful enemy right in front of them, the adult Naruto, Sasuke and the others were not the type to hesitate. Click, click, they put the isolation devices on their wrists.
Sky battleships, teleportation devices, isotope isolators, and what the hell were Hidan's cells…
A series of technological products had clearly surpassed the understanding of the people from the sub universe. Compared to these, the scientific ninja tools they had only recently started researching were like children's toys.
They looked at each other, each with many questions in their hearts.
But everyone knew that now was not the time to ask.
The enemy was about to arrive.
With the undead nature of the vampires, only those at the very center of the bombardment truly died. The rest, even if they lost both legs and arms, as long as they were still alive, could recover by sucking the blood from their companions' corpses.
The adult Naruto took a deep breath and entered Sage Fox Mode.
The adult Sasuke drew his sword, his Sharingan slowly spinning.
The Sasuke of this world recovered as well. Waves of rippling flames burned across his skin. Although the Ten Tails vessel had been destroyed, there was still some of Otsutsuki Isshiki's divine power left in his body.
The adult Sakura, who had just changed into her ninja uniform, hurried over.
Along with her appeared Rei holding a longsword.
The two Kakashis looked at each other and stood to the side.
———
Many familiar comrades came to the front lines and launched a fearless charge toward the vampire army.
At the same time, the hatch of a sky battleship floating above opened. Amber, wearing heavy black armor and holding a greatsword, stood at the door, looking down at the densely packed enemies below.
Standing behind him were hundreds of members of the Annihilation Army.
They held greatswords, chainsaws, and war hammers. After putting on their armor, each of them stood three meters tall.
"There are really quite a lot of them. This time it counts as…"
Mayuri's gentle voice came from behind Amber.
"…as being able to kill to our heart's content."
Amber grinned, picked up his helmet and put it on. The helmet locked into the armor with a soft click.
"Annihilation Army."
"Move out!"
From hundreds of meters in the air, Amber jumped straight down. Thrusters even appeared behind him, accelerating his fall. In just three to four seconds, he smashed into the ground like a meteor.
The massive impact crushed hundreds of vampires before he even made a move, kicking up endless dust.
Such a savage and brutal scene stunned not only the vampire army, but even the adult Naruto and the others as allies.
'What is this supposed to be?'
'Surely it isn't a human bomb?'
Just as that thought appeared...
Buzz!
A streak of crimson flame appeared at the center of the smoke, igniting the tiny dust particles and vampire flesh floating in the air.
A greatsword swung. Amber, like a black ferocious beast, charged out from the dust. He plunged into the vampire ranks.
With every swing of his blade, hundreds of vampires were cut in half, their heads rolling to the ground, only to be crushed under his foot.
His movements were simple, precise, and forceful.
The extremely brutal killing posture even made the vampire army feel fear.
———
[Sea of Mist]
Due to the difference in the flow of time, the merging of the main and sub universes in the Ninja World and the full scale war between ninjas and the vampire army had only been a few minutes in the Sea of Mist.
The original Dio clone search team.
Giorno had taken the cold cut Dio rib to the core battlefield to assist Ryosuke.
The remaining two, Higashikata Josuke and Joseph, came to support the battle at the core of the Calamity Divine Tree.
"Is this the place?" Josuke asked.
Joseph nodded. "This is it… wait, wasn't that way too fast?"
They had rushed over the whole way, but before they could even help, the battle was already over.
Joseph licked his dry lips and summoned Hermit Purple to perform spirit photography with Hamon. Soon, they learned the general situation...
Dio had won.
War had broken out in the Ninja World.
Ryosuke and the others were either dead or injured, and only Giorno remained, once again being controlled by Dio.
After looking through all the spirit images, Higashikata Josuke scratched his head irritably.
"T-This is just a total defeat, isn't it?!"
Even Jotaro… well, now he was an uncle. Giorno, Ryosuke, so many people working together still could not defeat that opponent. Now only Josuke and Joseph were left.
The former's ability was healing, the latter's ability was reconnaissance. Neither was a pure combat Stand.
How were they supposed to fight this?
Joseph did not know how to answer either. He repeatedly looked over the spirit images. Suddenly, his gaze froze...
Deep in the Sea of Mist, in an almost pitch black area, Hot Pants was using Cream Starter to perform emergency treatment on the unconscious Josuke.
"Let's go save them."
Joseph's lips curved into a smile. "Then, that's our chance to turn things around."
"A chance?"
Joseph pointed at a corner of Josuke's clothes in the spirit image. On it was a fingernail sized scrap of paper, the torn fragment of the Tear Town train ticket that Kars had shredded earlier.
Higashikata Josuke suddenly understood, his eyes lighting up.
"As long as we find them, with Crazy Diamond's repair ability, I can restore this torn ticket and gain the protection of luck again."
Not only that, in order to crash into the Ninja World, the Divine Tree had left the position of the Calamity Spring.
It had stopped growing in a half matured state.
Wonder of U also no longer had the Calamity Spring to draw power from. Facing the Tear Town train ticket, it would be completely crushed.
Joseph nodded hard.
"As long as we take advantage of Dio not being there and rush up in one go to destroy this broken tree, Dio's plan will be declared a failure."
"Of course, the premise for all of this is..."
"Ryosuke is still alive."
Higashikata Josuke's smile froze on his face.
Yes. Only if Ryosuke was alive would the Tear Town train ticket function again after being repaired. Otherwise, it would just be an ordinary paper ticket.
Even if they destroyed the Divine Tree, without Ryosuke, there would be no one to deal with Dio.
Destroy the Calamity Divine Tree, and there could still be a Calamity oil pump, a Calamity water pump… With enough time and absolute violence, the enemy would have countless ways to devour the world.
At this moment.
Whether it was Dio sitting on his throne, holding a wine glass and drinking alone, or Sasuke and Terumi Mei fighting on the battlefield, both enemies and allies were thinking about one question...
"Can Ryosuke really come back alive?"
———
Ryosuke stared at the iron ball that had appeared out of thin air.
It was the iron ball he had thrown with his own hands, using the power of a planet's explosion to perform Infinite Rotation, combined with the Dragon Vein and the power of ghosts and gods, sealing Otsutsuki Kaguya inside the iron ball.
The old universe had no concept of time or space, naturally no concept of distance. So the moment Ryosuke thought of it, it appeared before him.
If no one interfered, that iron ball would rotate forever, until the end of the world.
The path to redemption lay within it.
Dio had made the connection between Ryosuke and the System extremely distant, almost cutting off cause and effect, preventing Ryosuke from summoning the System and Stands. But there was still one ability in this world that could bring an infinitely distant gap closer.
Ryosuke's Infinite Fold.
Under repeated folds, no matter how far the distance, it would return to the origin.
"Come here."
As if hearing Ryosuke's call, the iron ball changed direction.
It streaked through the empty universe, drawing a straight, brilliant, star like light, like a spear... and pierced through Ryosuke's chest.