"At this point... I have no choice but to use that move..."
Seeing that her attacks were ineffective against Toshiro, Harribel decided to use her strongest technique.
Then, Harribel's figure flew upwards into the sky. After reaching a certain height, Harribel looked down at Toshiro from above, pointed her shark-gill patterned greatsword at him below, and shouted: "Cascada!"
Whoosh!!!
A tremendously massive column of water erupted from the patterns on Harribel's shark-gill patterned greatsword, then cascaded down from the heavens like the waters of the Milky Way, carrying an unstoppable force as it fell upon Toshiro.
Seeing this spectacular and astonishing scene, Toshiro put away his relaxed and casual expression, becoming slightly more serious. He then held his Zanpakuto horizontally in front of him, seemingly intending to directly confront Harribel's attack head-on.
Boom!
The vast and heavy current, combined with the kinetic energy of falling from the sky, slammed into Toshiro and knocked him out of the air instantly.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
After the massive torrent of water hit the ground, it almost submerged the replica of Karakura Town like a once-in-a-century great flood. Its powerful kinetic energy, like a roaring debris flow, washed away one high-rise building after another.
After the raging floodwaters subsided, Harribel looked out and saw a cubic ice crystal space standing on a flat area below, with Toshiro's figure inside, looking up at her in the sky.
Earlier, at the moment the massive torrent of water made contact with Toshiro, as he fell toward the ground, he had immediately used ice to create a cubic ice crystal space, protecting himself inside.
Seeing Toshiro safe and sound, showing no signs of injury, Harribel showed no surprise, clearly having anticipated this.
"It's not over yet..."
Harribel murmured to herself, raising her shark-gill patterned greatsword again and aiming it at the cubic ice crystal space below where Toshiro was.
Then, another massive torrent of water erupted from the patterns on her shark-gill patterned greatsword, forming an enormous column of water cascading downwards.
Seeing Harribel repeat her tactic, Toshiro frowned slightly. Although this still wouldn't hurt him, it would be somewhat unsightly.
Bang!
Toshiro casually slashed open the cubic ice crystal space from the inside with a single stroke of his sword.
"It's time to end this battle..."
Then, Toshiro pointed his sword at the void and chanted softly: "Sit Upon the Frozen Heavens, Hyorinmaru!"
Boom!
A wave of terrifying Reiatsu erupted from Toshiro's body.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Then, pillar after pillar of ice-blue Reiatsu shot up into the sky. The previously clear, cloudless sky suddenly grew dark, giving a feeling of ominous clouds pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled within the dark clouds, silver serpents dancing wildly, as if heralding a world-ending divine punishment.
"Roar!"
With a heaven-shaking dragon's roar, an ice-frost dragon dozens of meters in length materialized and actively met the massive water column cascading down from the heavens.
Crack, crack, crack...
The instant it made contact with the ice-frost dragon's body, the massive water column falling from the sky, carrying immense kinetic energy, began to freeze, becoming part of the ice-frost dragon's body. Then, the ice-frost dragon followed the massive water column upward, charging towards Harribel in the sky.
"Oh no!" Seeing the ice-frost dragon freezing her water column and charging up towards her, Harribel knew this was bad and tried to retreat and dodge.
Crack—!
The ice-frost dragon suddenly accelerated. Harribel couldn't dodge in time and was frozen on the spot.
Whoosh!
Toshiro's figure flashed, appearing in the sky, and walked calmly towards the frozen Harribel.
Crack, crack, crack...
A series of faint cracking sounds came from the ice. Toshiro paused in his steps. He saw cracks appearing on the surface of the ice freezing Harribel, and at the same time, a powerful Beyond Captain-level Reiatsu faintly leaked out from within the ice.
"Still not giving up, still trying to struggle?" Toshiro frowned.
"Very well, I will completely crush you..."
Toshiro murmured softly, standing proudly in the air with a lofty expression. Then, he casually swung his Zanpakuto and commanded like an emperor: "Go, Hyorinmaru!"
Then, a scene that shocked everyone on the entire battlefield occurred.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
In the sky, beneath the dark clouds, the abundant moisture condensed into ice-frost dragons dozens of meters in length, one after another.
On the ground, scattered in various corners of the replica of Karakura Town, torrents of water shot up into the sky, evolving under Toshiro's Reiatsu into lifelike ice dragons.
In total, there were ninety-nine ice-frost dragons, each dozens of meters long, in the sky and on the ground combined.
Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!
In the sky and on the ground, each massive ice-frost dragon roared fiercely, spiraling and dancing. Their might shook the sky, their momentum was astonishing. Everyone on the entire battlefield was moved.
Bang!!!
A fan-shaped yellow Cero blasted out from within the ice freezing Harribel, completely shattering it.
Harribel, having exhausted immense amounts of Reiatsu in her desperate effort, finally broke free and walked out of the ice.
But before she could even catch her breath after her difficult escape, Harribel's pupils suddenly contracted as she saw the astonishing sight of countless ice-frost dragons spiraling and dancing all across the sky.
"Remember this well... engrave today's lesson upon your heart, Harribel. My Zanpakuto is the Strongest Ice-type Zanpakuto. As long as it is water, it can become my weapon, even if that weapon is yours... there's no exception!" Toshiro said calmly.
Having said that, Toshiro gently swung the Zanpakuto in his hand.
"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!"
The ice-frost dragons spiraling and dancing all across the sky, like soldiers receiving orders from their king, roared and charged at Harribel with unstoppable force.
Then, from the sky and the ground, a total of ninety-nine ice-frost dragons, each dozens of meters long, attacked Harribel from three hundred and sixty degrees without a blind spot: east, south, west, north, up, down, left, right.
For a moment, the massive, numerous ice-frost dragons blotted out the entire sky, and even the daylight grew dark. Harribel, suspended mid-air and having just broken free, had no room to dodge. She could only hold her Zanpakuto horizontally in front of her and face the ice-frost dragons' attack head-on.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One after another, the ice-frost dragons charged fearlessly at Harribel and exploded violently.
Finally, after the deafening sounds faded and everything calmed down, everyone on the battlefield saw that the ninety-nine ice-frost dragons, each dozens of meters long, had transformed into a colossal iceberg rising straight from the ground, piercing the sky, firmly freezing Harribel inside, unable to break free again.