The universe! A real, vast expanse of space!
Before the feeling of weightlessness could even trouble him, his vision was filled with a vista so magnificent it was suffocating.
Two unimaginably massive fleets were engaged in a brutal exchange of fire! Energy cannons tore through deep space, as brilliant as the dying embers of an exploding galaxy. One of the fleets was clearly at a disadvantage, its ships constantly turning into cosmic fireworks.
Even more heart-pounding were the... behemoths weaving and roaring between the fleets! They were hideous giant beasts, seemingly formed from the cores of stars! Their bodies were unimaginably large, almost comparable to small warships! A single swipe of a claw, carrying a torrent of destructive energy, could easily tear through a steel dreadnought! A wave of destruction swept across the entire starry sky!
Hiss—
Even for Aizen, at this moment, the depths of his soul instinctively gasped in the icy vacuum of the universe!
He turned his head in horror, looking even closer ahead.
Boom! Crack!
A terrifying collision of energy accompanied by the loud sound of shattering matter occurred "not far" from him! Three monsters, equally massive but slightly different in form, were fighting desperately against people!
Two of them... were particularly brutal! One was a green and the other a black energy humanoid giant—strikingly similar to the giant forms he had seen Hiroki's guards transform into in Hueco Mundo! Right now, they were being pinned down by two even larger, more violent monsters, with massive fists and claws raining down on the giants like hammers!
Energy fragments scattered in all directions! It was a suppression of absolute power! The two giants were like dolls being rubbed into the ground by a naughty child, retreating step by step, their massive bodies covered in cracks, constantly emitting wails of being on the verge of collapse!
Those two... Fugaku! Shisui! They were actually being suppressed so miserably?! Aizen's shock was beyond measure; he could feel that the Spiritual Pressure of those two guards was definitely not weaker than a typical Captain-level, perhaps even stronger, yet they appeared so powerless before such opponents?
Slightly further away, there was a third monster, but its situation was the exact opposite. This monster was being relentlessly harassed by five figures! Although he couldn't precisely sense the power levels of those five, their combat techniques alone unleashed lethality that transcended the norm!
The massive monster was covered in wounds, being firmly suppressed by this five-person team; although it counterattacked fiercely, it was clearly at a disadvantage.
If it were me... facing such a monster... Aizen rapidly evaluated, reaching a not-so-optimistic preliminary conclusion: I could probably handle one?
His gaze continued to search, and soon, in a safe area slightly behind that chaotic battlefield, he saw Hiroki.
Hiroki's current image was different from any Aizen had seen before. He was no longer lazy or helpless, but carried a heavy composure that suggested he was in control of the battle. Around him, dozens of figures dressed in uniform black combat gear stood guard in a fan-shaped formation.
Scarlet! Aizen's attention was instantly drawn to those people's eyes! Dozens of pairs of pupils, every single one of them a blood-like scarlet, exactly the same as what he had seen when they first met in Las Noches! They scanned the battlefield coldly and sharply, always on guard against possible stray fire or surprise attacks! These... were all his guards?! There were so many?!
Aizen felt a powerful shock. He had always thought Hiroki only had those three top-tier guards and a woman; it turned out... the scale of the Uchiha Clan's power was far beyond imagination!
Lacking detailed intelligence, Aizen did not yet know the difference between the Mangekyo Sharingan and the ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Furthermore, most of the Onmitsukidō were masked, so Aizen still didn't know who was who among them.