BOOM!!!
The red Cero blasted a large crater in the ground. The surrounding stone pillars were shattered by the shockwave, and countless rocks and sand rained down from above.
Whoosh—
The dust cloud was suddenly pierced, and Sora's figure appeared behind the Adjuchas.
A gash appeared on the Adjuchas's abdomen, but no blood flowed from it.
Sora lightly tapped a foothold condensed from reishi and vanished again.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
Sora's figure flashed rapidly, and many afterimages appeared around the Adjuchas.
Katori Style: Shihō Shungeki! (Four-Directional Flash Step Strike!)
Sora's "Shihō Shungeki" was no longer limited to just four afterimages. The number he could create was linked to his Shunpo speed.
In his 'Shunkō: Raikiri Form,' his speed was incredibly fast. He soon left dozens, even hundreds, of afterimages around the Adjuchas.
With each afterimage that appeared, another cut was added to the Adjuchas's body.
Some of the sliced-off pieces of flesh turned into smaller Hollows.
These divided offspring, like the main body, tried to catch up to Sora, but he was too fast. None of them could keep up, leaving him free to continue flashing around.
"Shinigami, your Shunpo is very fast. I don't even have time to block," the Adjuchas said, but it was not panicked at all. It sneered, "But your sword cannot kill me. Even if you slice me into threads, you won't reach my division limit! And you, you will slowly be worn down to death by me!"
As the Adjuchas spoke, another hundred wounds appeared on its body.
Just as it finished speaking, it sensed something was wrong. The狰狞 smile froze on its face.
It felt as if its mind had suddenly become clogged. Its thinking speed dropped rapidly.
Sora did not stop, continuing to inflict wounds on the Adjuchas's body.
The slowing of its thoughts filled the Adjuchas with fear. An endless terror gripped its mind. It didn't understand what was happening, but it knew that if it stayed here, something unbearable would happen next.
The Adjuchas wanted to escape, but it found its body's reactions had become sluggish, a disconnect between its mind and body.
It frantically tried to move, to get away, but its speed only grew slower and slower.
The feeling was like trying to power a train by pedaling a bicycle.
During this time, Sora had left another hundred cuts on its body.
"Shinigami! What... did... you... do..." The Adjuchas's eyes lost their focus. It felt as if its consciousness was being pulled from its body, its physical form becoming uncontrollable.
In its perception, everything around it was distorting, as if an insurmountable barrier was separating it from the outside world.
The Adjuchas lost its ability to hover and fell rapidly, crashing to the ground.
Then, it could no longer maintain its humanoid form and dissolved into an irregular pile of white sludge.
"'Stage of Thought'... it can affect the sensory perception of the mind, influencing mental activity," Sora said in a low voice.
Kana Azashiro's 'Shishoku' ability was very powerful, able to affect the senses, but its activation conditions were too strict.
Its effect on the senses was progressive, with a significant time limitation, affecting them very slowly.
The longer the time, the greater the effect. The number of successful hits also deepened the impact on the senses.
Sora could only exert fifty percent of 'Shishoku's' power, so he needed to stack its effect even more times.
Under normal circumstances, any spiritual being that let him land so many blows would have been long dead, with no need to wait for 'Shishoku's' ability to activate.
But this Adjuchas's division ability was very strong, allowing it to withstand nearly a thousand of Sora's slashes without dying. This gave him the opportunity to activate 'Stage of Thought.'
This was the greatest strength of Sora's Bankai. Many abilities had their counters. Sora could replicate others' abilities to prevent being countered, and could even use them to turn the tables on his enemies.
Sora looked at the white mass on the ground. A thought flickered. He had come to Hueco Mundo intending to capture a few Hollows as research material. This Adjuchas with its division ability was a very suitable subject.
Sora's figure flashed, and he gathered all of the Adjuchas's divided offspring from the vicinity.
After the main body's mind was cut off, the scattered offspring had also turned into immobile white masses, just much smaller in size.
Sora threw the offspring onto the main body and found that they would automatically merge. This was a neural instinct of the Adjuchas's body; it would happen even without conscious control.
Sora used his shadows to bind the Adjuchas. If it were to wake up, he would know immediately.
After dealing with the Adjuchas, Sora used his shadow space to check on the situation at the other battlefield.
The shadow space was filled with his 'shadow-sight.' The other battlefield was also within the space, so he could observe the situation there at any time. This was why he had felt at ease letting his disciples follow Ashido.
The battle over there was not yet over. There were still more than thirty 'Gillians' left.
Sora merged into the shadows and quickly rushed to the other battlefield.
The 'Gillians' summoned by the Adjuchas were the type that could not evolve and had little self-awareness. Their intelligence was low, they lacked logical thinking ability, and their actions were driven by instinct.
Without an Adjuchas to command them, although they were numerous, they had a hard time posing a fatal threat to Ashido and the others.
The six students from the academy and Akane Saitō had all mastered Shikai. They used their respective abilities to coordinate and interfere with the 'Gillians.'
These low-intelligence 'Gillians' would fire their Ceros without regard for their comrades' safety. The group used their small size and agility to lead the Ceros into other 'Gillians.'
This was how Shinji and the others guided the 'Gillians' to kill each other.
Several of them fell to the Ceros of their own kind.
Ashido's subordinates were using a similar method. The Shinigami who hadn't yet mastered Shikai were responsible for dealing with the normal Hollows.
Ashido, on the other hand, fought alone, constantly monitoring the battlefield. If anyone was in danger, he would intervene.
Just then, the Shinigami sensed a violent spiritual pressure fluctuation from the sky and all looked up.
A raging heatwave of air currents swept through the Forest of Menos.
The sand and rock rolling through the air quickly melted and then fused together.
The Shinigami on the ground stared in horror at the heat storm in the sky. They couldn't see what was inside, only that the spiritual pressure fluctuation there was abnormally terrifying.
An armored giant of golden flames took shape within the heat storm.
This flame-armored giant was exceptionally massive, standing a full hundred meters tall!
The golden flame giant crashed to the ground, stomping two 'Gillians' to pieces with one foot, kicking up a cloud of dust.
BOOM—
The Shinigami on the ground felt an earthquake-like tremor and were all knocked off their feet.
A giant golden flame hand burst through the dust cloud and pressed down on the head of a 'Gillian.'
SIZZLE SIZZLE SIZZLE—
The searing temperature rapidly carbonized the 'Gillian's' head, causing it to scream in agony.
Then, the golden flame hand clenched fiercely, and the screaming stopped abruptly.
The 'Gillian's' head, along with its mask, shattered into fragments. The blood that spilled out was instantly vaporized by the high temperature.
The heatwave blew away the dust cloud, revealing the full form of the golden flame-armored giant. Its terrifying presence made all the Shinigami hold their breath.
Dust-Binding Lightning-Flame Armor!
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