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In the sky, a figure stepped out through the air, black hair, dressed in Shinigami robes, wearing glasses, smiling with a gentle, amiable expression.
Yet his appearance caused Akashi's pupils to contract.
"Aizen!"
The man who had suddenly appeared was none other than Aizen.
Stepping out from the void, he swiftly arrived before Akashi, a faint smile on his face as he looked into the distance at the Masked Legion, who were likewise disappearing in large numbers.
"It seems a rather horrifying battle just took place."
"So many Hollows… truly a rare sight. Have they completed some form of evolution?"
Adjusting his glasses, Aizen stared at the Arrancar in the sky for quite a while, inwardly astonished.
This was originally what he had intended to accomplish using the Hōgyoku, to gain control over all of Hueco Mundo. Yet someone had already achieved it ahead of him, which genuinely surprised him.
Narrowing his eyes slightly, Aizen looked toward Akashi before him, the corners of his mouth curling into a smile.
He found these people from other worlds incredibly interesting.
"Did you obtain the Hōgyoku, Commander Akashi?"
Akashi's gaze was wary. For some reason, facing this outwardly gentle Aizen always gave him a heart-pounding sense of danger, as though he were standing before a terrifying beast. This instinctive feeling of peril was even stronger than what he felt toward his own king.
"It's here."
Without hesitation, he took out the Hōgyoku and tossed it to Aizen.
"Well now, the people of the Nie Kingdom really do work efficiently."
Aizen smiled in praise as he calmly accepted the Hōgyoku.
"Then…"
Sweeping his gaze across the scene of Shinigami tending to the wounded and handling the dead, Aizen continued with his ever-present smile:
"Since Commander Akashi is occupied, I shall take my leave first."
"Alright."
Akashi nodded.
He was utterly unwilling to deal with this man. The stark contrast between that eerie aura and the smile on his face made him deeply uncomfortable.
Aizen turned and departed. As his robes fluttered in the wind, his figure gradually vanished.
At the same time, in Hueco Mundo.
Urahara Kisuke, Li Yuanli, and the others had already been brought back by the Arrancar.
"This is, ?!"
Before them, upon the desert, stretched an endless, terrifying army: orderly formations, countless ranks, all kinds of troops extending beyond the horizon. The sight shook them to their core.
"Qin Nation's army!"
After a short rest, Li Yuanli had recovered somewhat. Widening his eyes at the legion ahead, he could not help but exclaim.
"Xiao Lili, is this the Qin Kingdom army you spoke of?"
Urahara Kisuke asked in disbelief.
"That's right. This is precisely His Majesty's army. I didn't expect that he had prepared in advance and had already deployed the grand army into Hueco Mundo!"
Taking a deep breath, Li Yuanli replied.
He swept his gaze across the formations before him, more than a dozen legion formations, each separated by some distance, their ranks solemn and immaculate, emanating an overwhelming pressure that inspired terror.
"Kenpachi Chengdui has summoned his armies into the Shinigami Realm. His Majesty has likewise been amassing military strength."
"It seems this war has already begun!"
Li Yuanli said gravely.
The earlier battle over the Hōgyoku, where they had been surrounded and Qin Yi intervened to rescue them, had merely been a probing clash between two supreme Kings.
"More armies are still entering this world, and the forces under Kenpachi Chengdui will only continue to grow!"
"I truly wonder how this war will ultimately unfold."
Li Yuanli sighed.
He understood this very clearly: only when two Kings were evenly matched, and both had resolved to seize a target world at all costs, would such a war erupt. The outcome of such a war would inevitably be that one King would be devoured, their vast nation fused, absorbed, and claimed entirely by the victor.
The King's World operated under the law of the dark forest. When two unfamiliar Kings met, there were only two choices: submit… or die. There was no third option.
"The number of troops here is probably already in the millions, isn't it? Truly terrifying!"
"I can't even imagine what kind of existence the kingdom behind you truly is!"
Urahara Kisuke exclaimed in amazement.
At this moment, Hirako Shinji, Kenpachi Zaraki, and the others were all staring at the vast army before them in shock.
"This is only the vanguard force. If a true national war begins, army sizes would naturally start at tens of millions, even hundreds of millions!"
Li Yuanli said in a deep voice.
Tens of millions? Hundreds of millions?
Numbers like these left Urahara Kisuke and the others completely speechless.
"Where is His Majesty?"
Seeing everyone still trapped in shock, Li Yuanli turned and asked Ulquiorra beside him.
"The King has gone to Soul Society. You may wait in Las Noches."
Ulquiorra replied indifferently.
"Soul Society?"
Li Yuanli froze.
"What is he doing there? That's Kenpachi Chengdui's territory!"
Urahara Kisuke was equally puzzled, and inwardly began worrying about Qin Yi.
"The King mentioned something about seeking cooperation with the Wandenreich (Invisible Empire)."
Ulquiorra answered calmly, without any impatience.
"Wandenreich (Invisible Empire)?!"
Li Yuanli did not know what those words meant, but Urahara Kisuke and the others were utterly shaken.
"They still exist?!"
Within Soul Society.
"So this is the thing capable of transforming my countless armies into Shinigami?"
"It really doesn't look like much."
Kenpachi Chengdui coldly remarked as he watched Aizen fuse the two Hōgyoku into one.
"Captain Chengdui, don't you know? The more inconspicuous a thing is, the greater the power it often contains."
Aizen said with his usual smile, reaching out and grasping the Hōgyoku floating in the air, radiating a faint glow.
"I only care about my armies. Akashi is continuously mobilizing forces within the kingdom. Before long, the Human World will fall under the control of their Crimson Flow Army!"
"After that, the Azure Flow Army and Purple Flow Army will arrive as well. Soul Society must be seized by us!"
Kenpachi Chengdui snarled fiercely.
"Captain Chengdui, do you intend to oppose the Captains of Soul Society, and even the Captain-Commander himself?"
Aizen raised an eyebrow.
"Not oppose them. Make them submit!"
"Before my armies, they're as fragile as praying mantises trying to stop a chariot!"
Kenpachi Chengdui snorted coldly.
"That may be true. If Captain Chengdui deploys that enormous Shinigami legion entirely into Soul Society, the chances of success are indeed quite high."
Aizen narrowed his eyes.
It was hard to believe that the brainless madman before him actually possessed such an unimaginably vast army. More shocking still, their individual strength was far from weak, and after becoming Shinigami, their power had increased even further.
With such military might, forcibly taking control of Soul Society was highly possible.
"Among all this, Aizen, your contribution is the greatest. Once this King conquers this world, you shall naturally be rewarded." Kenpachi Chengdui declared.
"Then I thank Captain Chengdui in advance." Aizen replied with a smiling face.
Using overwhelming military force to control Soul Society and the Human World, then standing in opposition to the other King's Hueco Mundo and launching a war?
What a willful, brutal, simple-minded madman.
But… it seems you still haven't realized who will ultimately gain the greatest advantage.
Clenching the Hōgyoku in his hand and sensing the immense waves of power emanating from it, the corners of Aizen's lips curled upward into a delighted smile.
Soul Society, within the Seireitei.
A figure clad in Shinigami robes suddenly distorted into view.
"So… this is the place?"
"The legendary Ice Palace."
"The Wandenreich (Invisible Empire)."
A murmuring voice sounded out as a smile appeared on the figure's face.
"In that case, I would be more than happy to discuss cooperation with you."
(End of Chapter)