"Cough, cough, just one shot completely drained me?"
Yoru Chikao weakly looked at the large pit blasted out by his Cero, a satisfied smile on his face. Its power was about half that of the mutated Gillian's Cero.
As the signature skill of a Menos Grande, Cero, Yoru Chikao had actually learned it at the Strong Hollow stage.
"Am I a genius?"
Yoru Chikao scratched his mask-covered head with his pale large hand, speaking with a hint of pride.
"It seems I'm not very durable! And the charging time is a bit long. It looks like at this stage, this move can only be used as a trump card."
Feeling his spiritual pressure almost depleted, Yoru Chikao spun his tail against the desert and burrowed directly beneath the sand. Immediately after, Yoru Chikao's entire body entered the sand.
As is well known, the entire Hueco Mundo is composed of high-density spiritual particles. Therefore, Yoru Chikao only needed to stay in Hueco Mundo to recover his spiritual pressure. However, to prevent attacks from other Hollows when his spiritual pressure was low, he activated Concealing Presence and hid beneath the sand, waiting for his spiritual pressure to recover.
Several hours later, Yoru Chikao felt that his spiritual pressure had mostly recovered, and only then did he emerge from the sand.
After half a month of exploration, he had already become clear about the distribution of Hollows of various ranks in the desert. Further penetration would easily lead to encountering Gillian groups and Adjuchas. Therefore, Yoru Chikao chose to return the way he came. He planned to first devour a large number of Freshman Hollows in the outer regions. Once he advanced to become a Giant Hollow, he would gradually explore further.
Yoru Chikao moved stealthily through the sand. Although he was nearly eight meters tall, with the enhancement of Concealing Presence, he was remarkably silent.
"Boom"
"Boom"
"Rumble!"
On his way back, Yoru Chikao suddenly noticed that the sand in the nearby area was shaking to varying degrees, and loud noises continuously came from ahead.
"There are Hollows fighting ahead, and the battle is extremely fierce!"
Relying on Concealing Presence, Yoru Chikao bravely swam towards the source of the loud noises.
And then he witnessed a scene that greatly shocked him.
"This is? Hundred Hollow Cannibalism!"
So-called Hundred Hollow Cannibalism is when more than one hundred Giant Hollows, due to some special circumstance, become entangled and devour each other. The ultimate victor will evolve into a Gillian.
"I didn't expect such an unexpected gain!"
Seeing this, Yoru Chikao, still beneath the sand, immediately pushed Concealing Presence to its limit, hiding beneath the sand, waiting for an opportune moment.
Each of the Hollows in the chaotic battle before him was a Giant Hollow, one rank higher than Yoru Chikao. Using Concealing Presence, he moved freely through the battlefield, and not a single Giant Hollow detected his presence.
"This Concealing Presence is indeed useful!"
Yoru Chikao, hidden in the shallow sand, stared intently at the Giant Hollows fighting in the arena, hoping to pick up some scraps.
Suddenly, Yoru Chikao noticed an octopus-shaped Giant Hollow to his front-left, retreating steadily under the assault of two extremely similar-looking, entirely black, hyena-like Giant Hollows.
The two hyenas looked extremely similar, the only difference being the length of their teeth. It seemed their intelligence was not very low, as they understood how to cooperate to kill their prey.
The short-toothed hyena Hollow attracted the octopus Hollow's attention from the front, tangling with its eight massive octopus tentacles. Then, the long-toothed hyena Hollow was responsible for ambushing from the rear.
"Pfft!"
Two sharp fangs, like steel knives, pierced the back of the Giant Octopus Hollow's head.
The octopus Hollow instantly felt pain, its eight tentacles flailing wildly in the air. At the same time, countless bubbles spewed from its giant mouth. These bubbles, upon contact with the two hyena Hollows, immediately burst, along with the caster, the octopus Hollow, causing a miserable explosion.
"It seems this big octopus has some brains, but not much. It would rather injure itself than break free from the entanglement of these two hyenas. In this Hundred Hollow Cannibalism, even if it escapes the entanglement of these two dogs, blowing itself half to pieces like this will prevent its complete retreat!"
Yoru Chikao, from beneath the sand, commented with interest.
"Awooo!"
The long-toothed hyena in the rear, affected by the explosion, was covered in cracks, and crimson blood flowed from its hill-sized body like red waterfalls.
After a furious howl, the long-toothed hyena raised its right paw. The paw suddenly became incredibly thick, its four sharp, stout claws like four sharp steel knives, fiercely clawing at the Giant Octopus Hollow.
"Splash!"
Four hideous wounds were directly slashed across the Giant Octopus Hollow's back, and dark green blood gushed out like a fountain. Along with it, the bone mask on the octopus Hollow's head was also shattered.
A half-shattered giant mask plummeted rapidly and crashed onto a sand dune. The short-toothed hyena Hollow, freed from the octopus tentacles, showed excitement as it rushed towards the half-broken mask. Just as it was about to pick up the mask, the sand vibrated violently.
A Hollow, with a humanoid upper body and a centipede-like lower body, suddenly burst out, snatched the half-broken mask, which was as large as its own body, and then burrowed back into the sand.
"Awooo!"
Seeing this, the short-toothed hyena Hollow paused for a moment, then let out a defiant howl towards the sky!
Because it could no longer sense the spiritual pressure of the small insect that had stolen its prey.
The long-toothed hyena Hollow, entangled with the octopus Hollow nearby, also noticed this situation, but due to the octopus Hollow's desperate counterattack, the two hyena Hollows had no time to spare and could only work together to deal with the half-crippled octopus Hollow first.
"Phew, nothing ventured, nothing gained!"
Several miles away from the Hundred Hollow Cannibalism site, beneath the sand, Yoru Chikao looked at the large, deep white mask, almost half his size, with a satisfied smile.
"This wave was a huge profit!"
Without time to admire his spoils, to prevent the two hyena Giant Hollows from catching up, Yoru Chikao swam in the opposite direction for another two hours before finally relaxing. Although under Concealing Presence, the possibility of those two hyenas, with their limited intelligence, tracking him was minuscule. But caution is the parent of safety!
Yoru Chikao slowly surfaced from the sand, repeatedly confirming that there were no other Hollows within a few kilometers, and only then did he re-enter the sand. He swam to a depth of about ten meters beneath the sand and began to devour the half-mask from the octopus Hollow.
"Crunch, crunch."
"Tastes good, a bit like seaweed-flavored soda crackers!"
Yoru Chikao took a bite and discovered that this half-mask contained spiritual particles far exceeding those of the previous Giant Earthworm Hollow's severed limb. Although both were body materials from Giant Hollows, their spiritual particle content was not on the same level, as one was a core mask, and the other was a severed limb that a mutated Gillian had discarded as worthless.