"A Shinigami!" The pig-headed Menos reacted. They had encountered an enemy, an exceptionally powerful one who had dispatched an Adjuchas-class Menos in a single exchange.
The pig-headed Menos immediately began to form a Cero. As long as he fired it, the nearby Las Noches would instantly detect the commotion.
Splsh—
The long sword swung up, and the pig-headed Menos's vision spun wildly as his headless body spewed countless streams of blood.
"Such a fast sword!" A thought flashed through the pig-headed Menos's mind as the Cero forming in the air came to an abrupt halt.
The two Menos from Las Noches were slain in an instant. The Hollows in the escorted group were stunned, then immediately scattered and fled in terror.
"Pesche! Dondochakka!"
The familiar voice stopped the fleeing termite-headed and large-headed Hollows in their tracks.
"Why is Nelliel here!" The large-headed Hollow stomped his feet in anxiety.
"Run, there's a terrifying Shinigami here!" the termite-headed Hollow shouted.
"Don't be afraid. This is my professor. He came specifically to save you," Nelliel said with a smile.
"What?!"
The termite-headed and large-headed Hollows were incredulous. How could such a powerful Shinigami take a Hollow as a disciple?
"We're too close to Las Noches. We've been discovered," Katori Sora said, gazing at the sky above the palace.
"We've been discovered?!" Nelliel said anxiously. "Let's run! I heard there are many powerful Menos Grande in Las Noches!"
"They're coming," Sora shook his head. "Sōsuke, you take Nelliel and the others and leave this place first."
"Understood." Aizen Sōsuke also looked up at the sky above Las Noches, sensing an extremely terrifying spiritual pressure approaching. He said in a low voice, "I will follow the path we came from. Please be careful, Professor."
Sora nodded lightly.
Aizen Sōsuke quickly left with Nelliel, Pesche, and Dondochakka.
"Is it really okay to leave the Professor there alone?" Nelliel asked with concern.
"The Professor is very strong, it won't be a problem..." Aizen Sōsuke said, but he recalled a spiritual pressure he had just sensed that was no weaker than a captain-class Shinigami.
Meanwhile, Sora saw a cloud of "black mist" rapidly approaching.
That "black mist" was actually a dense swarm of Hollows!
A dozen breaths later, the "black mist" stopped in front of Katori Sora.
The leading Menos Grande wore a wide, purple robe and a golden crown. His entire body was that of a skeleton.
The Menos's very distinctive features immediately allowed Sora to identify him—the master of Las Noches, Baraggan Louisenbairn!
Baraggan sized up the Shinigami before him. Seeing how calm he was, he did not act rashly.
A cold voice emanated from the skeleton:
"Shinigami, you have trespassed on my domain and killed my subordinates!"
"You must be Baraggan. Quite the entourage," Sora said with a smile. "I heard you were assembling an army to wipe out the Shinigami outpost, so I came to have a look."
"Hueco Mundo is the domain of Hollows. No Shinigami shall trespass!" Seeing that the Shinigami knew of his army, Baraggan decided to act directly. "Take him down!"
The swarm of Hollows surged towards Katori Sora.
"Bankai, Shosō Kaijin!"
Sora's Zanpakutō dissolved into black shadow, spreading outwards at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, instantly enveloping Baraggan.
The next moment, Baraggan was pulled into the shadow space by Katori Sora.
The rest of the Menos were excluded from the shadow space.
"What did you do?!" Baraggan found that this black shadow was unstoppable, directly pulling him into a strange place.
And his subordinates were not here.
"I merely created an environment to avoid being outnumbered," Sora said with a smile, pulling a black blade from the shadow on the ground.
"Whatever it is, it cannot resist decay." Baraggan opened his arms, and a purplish-black mist was released from beneath his robe.
But when this purplish-black mist collided with the black boundary of the shadow space, there was no reaction.
"Shadows do not decay," Sora smiled.
He had stayed behind partly to test Baraggan's ability.
Among the future Espada, Baraggan's powerful, mechanism-based ability was one of the most troublesome.
The purplish-black mist released by Baraggan, known as 'Respira', had the ability to rapidly age anything it touched.
Even the reishi bodies of Shinigami could not withstand its erosion and would quickly turn to dust.
Sora wanted to test if shadows could be corroded by 'Respira'. The result was as he expected: 'Respira' had no effect on shadows.
The next moment, the shadow on the ground wrapped around Sora's body, making him look as if he were wearing a shadow cloak.
"Shinigami, you have angered me!" Baraggan waved his hand, and the purplish-black mist rapidly surged towards Katori Sora.
Sora raised his guard to the highest level. If the mist began to corrode his body, he would immediately use his speed to create distance.
The purplish-black mist quickly spread over Katori Sora's body but was blocked by the shadow cloak.
"Baraggan, shadows don't age," Sora chuckled.
Feeling that he was being toyed with, Baraggan flew into a rage. A green Cero began to form at his fingertip.
"Ye lord of hosts, ye walls of iron, dragon's march, lion's roar, tiger's howl, wolf's run, sever heaven and earth before the collapse, Hadō #81: Dankū." Sora raised his hand, completing the incantation before the Cero could hit.
A translucent reishi barrier appeared between him and the green Cero.
The Gran Rey Cero exploded against the barrier created by Dankū.
BOOM—
A terrifying spiritual pressure wave reverberated within the shadow space.
The reishi barrier could not completely block the Cero's power. After it shattered, the terrifying shockwave rushed towards Sora.
Sora quickly retreated, avoiding the direct impact of the shockwave.
Sora frowned slightly. A few more spiritual pressure shockwaves of this level could potentially break the shadow space.
Baraggan was a Menos from ancient times, and his spiritual pressure was slightly stronger than Katori Sora's.
Baraggan's 'Respira' could not corrode the shadow space, but he could use his spiritual pressure to forcibly break free, though it would take some time.
It was not easy to kill a Menos with stronger spiritual pressure than himself in that time frame.
However, Sora had no intention of fighting Baraggan to the death.
Once his strength increased further, or after he and Aizen Sōsuke developed the Hōgyoku, he would have the chance to take over all of Las Noches.
Moreover, Sora now knew about Hell. Killing powerful beings was tantamount to strengthening Hell.
"Shinigami, go to Hell and repent!" A green flash of light once again gathered at Baraggan's fingertip.
Just then, a bolt of lightning shot out from the fiery light, striking the green flash re-forming on Baraggan's finger.
The terrifying spiritual pressure instantly exploded at Baraggan's fingertip.
BOOM—
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