Chapter 67: The Chat Group is Quite Powerful

[Chen Mo: No need, just send me straight back.]

Somewhat unexpectedly, Chen Mo directly rejected Houraisan Kaguya's proposal.

[Chen Mo: There is nothing more I can do by staying there. The other Stand users won't arrive within a single day, and I can't fly to Cairo within a day to beat DIO up...]

Nothing significant could be accomplished in a single day—he couldn't reach DIO, couldn't acquire the Arrow, let alone reach Santana's body far away at the Washington headquarters or the Perfect Red Stone of Aja hidden God knows where.

Since his objectives could not be met and the task assigned by the quest was completed, Chen Mo had no desire to socialize with anyone else. Instead of wasting time here, he might as well go back and take another bite of dragon meat.

Besides, Chen Mo had a few things he wanted to verify...

[Chen Mo: There is no point in staying there like this. Just send me back. If they are going to fight DIO later and want to issue another quest, I can just go over then.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Alright. But don't you plan to chat more with Mr. Joseph? It's rare to meet him after all |ω・）]

[Chen Mo: I'm not really that close with him anyway, and it's not like we won't have a chance to meet again in the future. Forget it.]

[Houraisan Kaguya: Oh, so Mr. Chen Mo is that kind of personality... I understand. I'll send you back right now.]

[Chen Mo: Wait a second, what exactly do you take me for...]

Before Chen Mo could finish his sentence, the scenery around him shifted and transformed back into the familiar interior of the training room.

"...Never mind."

Chen Mo looked down at his right wrist.

When he went to Joseph's JoJo world, the Main God's wristwatch, which marked his identity as a Reincarnator, was worn on his wrist. Upon his return, this black watch was still on his wrist, without the slightest change.

The watch only displayed the remaining time left until his return to the Skyline world. The time on it should have continuously ticked down second by second, but when he went to the JoJo world, the time on the watch had completely frozen.

It wasn't until Chen Mo returned to Skyline that the time on the watch resumed its flow and continued to count down... Upon his return, no other extra text was displayed on the watch, and no prompt from the Main God sounded in his ears.

He looked at the clock in the room; only a few seconds had passed on it... The few seconds spent verifying the information on the Main God's wristwatch actually proved that, just as the chat group had stated, time in the world he inhabited was indeed paused.

"Bizarre..."

Chen Mo felt a bit baffled.

Earlier, when attempting to assassinate N'Doul, although Chen Mo had appeared relaxed and casual, he had actually been quite serious.

He did not hold back in that strike, using ten percent of his full power. The transcendent organs materialized from his own flesh and blood drastically amplified his physical strength, and combined with the mobilization of his entire body's Dragon-Elephant Internal Energy, he condensed a fatal blow and blasted it toward N'Doul, and he even... activated the Gene Lock as well.

Yes, the Gene Lock. In the JoJo world, he was actually still able to unlock the Gene Lock.

The Gene Lock was a specialty of the Infinite Multiverse. Even if individuals from other multiverses entered the Infinite Multiverse, as long as they acknowledged their identity as human beings, they could enjoy this privilege.

Yet this ability was restricted strictly to the Infinite Multiverse. Once one left the Infinite Multiverse, the power of the Gene Lock would lose its effect. Conversely, as long as one could activate the Gene Lock, it meant they were still within the Infinite Multiverse.

But this was extremely strange. If he was still inside the Infinite Multiverse, then what time was the chat group freezing? Was it solely the plane of Skyline? Was it Skyline plus the Main God Space, or was it the entire Infinite Multiverse outside of the JoJo plane where he currently resided...

Or perhaps, it wasn't as he imagined; rather, the chat group itself used some unknown means to completely preserve his power—including the Gene Lock—before teleporting him to another world?

In the past, Chen Mo had read many chat group novels, and the most common plot involved people from different worlds going to other people's worlds to stir up trouble.

However, Chen Mo had always harbored a question in his mind: When group members leave their own worlds and go to other worlds, can abilities that rely on their original world's rules and prerequisite conditions to function really be used in other worlds?

He wasn't sure, but Chen Mo was now truly experiencing this firsthand.

"...If I want to prove the exact reason, though, it's actually quite simple."

Chen Mo thought to himself.

For instance, in the future, when Emiya Shirou, Han Li, or others whose combat power depends heavily on their specific worldview travel across worlds—Emiya Shirou's magecraft abilities seem to rely on the Root to be cast, and Han Li finds it difficult to deploy his cultivation in planes devoid of spiritual Qi.

If they are also able to unleash their original combat prowess in other worlds, that would indeed prove whether the chat group is providing a series of "protections" to its members after they travel through time and space.

However, all of this would have to wait until others traveled through to be verified. After sorting out his thoughts, Chen Mo began to inspect the gains from this trip.

A parallel-tier quest evaluation was somewhat like a power-scaling title in Mugen; a single parallel-tier quest evaluation could be exchanged for ten ordinary quest evaluations.

A quick scan of the mall revealed that, apart from items that were practically worthless like scrap yet stubbornly required a quest completion count to redeem, or gag items, the rest were basically things like the *Blue Sky Transforming Dragon Manual* which he couldn't afford, or Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid which he could afford but was completely meaningless to him.

The meager gains earned by traveling through worlds to complete quests seemed hardly comparable to the boost in power brought by refining N'Doul instantly...

Chen Mo curled his lips in helpless resignation.

Forget it. It wasn't a major quest to begin with; it would actually be problematic if it offered any genuinely good rewards.

[Joseph Joestar: Thank you both so much, Chen Mo, Kurumi. If it weren't for your help, I'm afraid we would have been in grave danger.]

[Chen Mo: There's no need to dwell on it. Even without our intervention, your grandson most likely could have resolved this crisis safely.]

[Chen Mo: Remember to read the manga *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* that I sent you, Mr. Joseph. The timeline you are currently in is Part 3. It contains information regarding the abilities of the subsequent Stand users under DIO, as well as intelligence on DIO himself.]

[Joseph Joestar: Ahaha, I was actually attacked by that Stand user while reading the manga, and I hadn't managed to reach that part yet...]

[Joseph Joestar: Anyway, thank you all so much this time. If there is anything you ever need help with, I, Joseph Joestar, will certainly lend my utmost assistance!]

[Chen Mo: Oh my, you said it yourself.]

Looking at the contents of the chat group, Chen Mo wore a slight smile.

[Chen Mo: It just so happens I do have a favor to ask of you, old Joseph... But don't worry, it's nothing that will put you in a difficult position.]

[Chen Mo: Just make sure to call for me when you finally go to fight DIO.]