Defying time!

[An acceleration of time has been detected.

It's currently affecting only the user body.

Within a second, the user's body will quickly start to deteriorate in a similar way to natural aging.]

[It's recommended to purge the source of the distortion.]

Upon hearing this, I immediately ran towards the enemy.

But he suddenly disappeared from his location, appearing several meters away.

-Just accept your end. Within a minute, you are going to age hundreds of years. Within an hour there isn't even going to be dust left.

Since he can seemingly avoid single attacks… How about an area attack?

/Inhale/

-Few…

Fast currents of air started to form around me, within a second the air went from still to raging.

-Nice try. But this trick is also useless…

[Stone shredder]

The wind started to cut the ground around us, engulfing the entire street around us.

After a few seconds, I looked around to see the broken rubble. But the man was nowhere to be seen.

For not even a moment I believed he had died.

-Impressive. You truly are something. To achieve this level of destruction with a mortal body…

-You talk as if you weren't a mortal.

-Kuku… Not anymore. You see…

He took something out of his pocket.

-There was never only one Perfect Aja stone.

So he was the source…

This idiot, is he just lucky, or am I the unlucky one?

-You must be thinking, how did I find another? Even though you searched for one for many years to no avail… I also have been looking for one, or should I say, a way for me to topple time, for centuries I have done so.

-Centuries? Don't fuck with me, a human…

-Can only live for around 100 years. Isn't that right? Who told you I actually "lived" all that time?

-You aren't making any sense…

-I will explain it to you since it's your last moment...

[WARNING

User has aged 25 years, calculating remaining life expectancy...]

My body didn't feel any different, perhaps my lifespan is really long… I hope so.

-800 years ago, a long time left behind. On a sunny day, I was born.

-Jump 20 years later, hungry and desperate, I fought my assailers for the last bit of food me and my father had. So that we could live just a tiny bit longer...

-That was the day I awakened my… What did those researchers say? Stand, yeah that's the name.

-After trial and error, I learned to control its time manipulation abilities. The exact same thing I am using on you. By this point, I am fascinated that you are actually still standing! You are truly a mutant among Humans. I can't feel that distinct energy from using the mask. Meaning you can just live this long…

[Remaining time has been calculated. 400 years till biological functions cease to work… 410...408… Recalculating...]

What was happening? Why was my Life expectancy increasing instead of decreasing?

The aging of the body is nothing but the degradation of biological functions. If they can actually continue and replicate forever as long as they have energy... That's actually a form of immortality.

Is my body trying to extend my time left?

All of these thoughts were done in a second under the effect of the mind power.

-...No matter how long you can live. As long as you haven't used the mask, you are eventually going to die.

-But finishing what I was saying, long story short. I used it to travel across time, looking for the perfect moment to act and take over the world!

-Wait. How did you go from a starving boy to someone that wanted to dominate the world?

-It's elementary. Since I have this power, shouldn't I? Across the ages, I set up many organizations that persist to this day, only waiting for me to give the order. Within a few days, I would gain political and military supremacy. Leading the world into my own vision of prosperity. But I can't leave unstable factors such as you laying around. That's why I wanted to deal with Kars.

-I was planning to send him several thousand years into the future. Even if he came back, I will just send him to the far future one again.

-Then I ask you. Why don't you do the same to me?

-I am doing that right now! I just wanted to talk a bit first. The aging you are experiencing is nothing but a side effect of being sent to the future. If you travel 100 years into the future, you will age that same amount of years. Even I cannot escape this rule. I am just slightly more resistant, suffering its backlash at a rate of about 10:1.

-This means that if I travel 800 years, I will age 80 years. But that doesn't matter to me anymore. Since I am immortal, I can do things I never once thought possible before!

-Behold!

He pointed towards a rock.

Within a few seconds, the rock went through many different "seasons". Moss grew and died, it was drenched and frozen, hot and dry.

-Kukuku! Such a useless use of my ability! Before, I would do my utmost to preserve whatever time I had left, but now… I don't need to care!

[Warning… User has aged 45 years...]

Find a solution! Fucking hell!

Is it really impossible to fight against stands like this?! No… It's just that this guy has an incredible combination.

A perfect being, Immortal, tireless, in possession of a Stand capable of accelerating time without side effects… How am I supposed to fight this without a similarly strong stand?

Unless I can surpass his Stand reactions time and blow his head. But after using the mask, he should be Immortal to even such levels of damage.

Although he dont seem to have Kars body manipulation. He still has immense strength.

Is this the difference between humans and Pillar man? I need more data.

...I will use it then!

-Your eyes suddenly changed. Are you planning something…

/BOOM!/

Let's go back a second…

I only have one option left.

I opened the storage and looked at a ring glowing in a faint green light.

...The moment I use this, my days here in this world will come to a short end.

But my life comes first. Sigh, let's do this!

Mechanical planet!

…

Inside the man's head

What is he planning? Not that it matters.

Within a few more seconds he will die. No matter how much of a mutant he is, he can't last 200 years. That would be too much of a stretch.

Even if he can, what of it? I can just extend it further!

Even if it tires me a little to use this ability on humans for extended periods of time, I don't feel tired at all even after using this for almost an entire minute! By the time I get tired, he would've already become a fossil!

Furthermore, there are still a considerable number of abilities I have yet to use, created over my decades of training.

One of them being what I call "Distant Mirage".

I can see the very far future! That was one of the reasons why I managed to create my secret forces. I can't see the close future, which sucked, but I can see how the world would be several decades later.

The future is constantly changing, every time I use my ability, this causes a small chain of events that greatly change the future I saw. So I have to use my ability again. The problem is that it greatly tires me. To the point that I had to stay in bed for several days before.

(It implies that the side effects decreased greatly due to him using the mask.)

I am not too keen on using it now. But considering that the situation is under control, I can give it a try.

-Final countdown.

His vision suddenly changed to a high in the sky POV.

(His Stand had a humanoid shape. With a large disk in place for a head and a large protrusion in his back similar to a Jet engine. Every time he uses his power the engine lights up. As if he is going to "take off".)

Like a replay, the world started to quickly accelerate, seasons passed, years passed, all in the blink of an eye.

Soon his eyes were somehow attracted to Egypt, Cairo to be specific.

-What is happening here? My vision isn't going to be attracted to anything!

Indeed, another ability of Final countdown. He can see the "end" of any major battle and event that is greatly going to influence the future!

He saw the end of World war 1 and 2, the end of tyrants and kings alike!

…

-A dog? I didn't imagine that animals could hold Stands… Such a novelty, this world is indeed worthy of me exploring and conquering!

-That Stand… It completely erased all matter that it touched, it seems I am not completely invincible yet. I need to keep an eye open for Stands such as this one.

(Vanilla Ice's Stand if you're wondering.)

…

-Is that a vampire? To think one of that trash would survive this long. I will make sure to properly clean these failures…

But everything went dark during the final confrontation.

-Humm? I haven't reached my limit yet… Is it my Stand limit? I will need to properly figure this out later.

His vision went black.

-What is happening?! Thi-This dread… What is this darkness?!

But nobody answered him.

-Final Countdown!

His Stand appeared in the dark void and opened a small fissure, he entered it, and soon enough his vision had returned to his own body.

But he couldn't comprehend what he was seeing.