Hueco Mundo, Great Hollow Forest.
Ronan held a small centipede covered in dark golden patterns in his hand, and it opened its mouth and spat out a small, faintly glowing white light spot.
Ronan held the small light spot, and the corner of his mouth under the mask was almost reaching for the sky.
"Ginjo, that kid, is quite capable. He found the second spirit king fragment so quickly!"
"Soul Eater!"
With Soul Eater activated, this spirit king fragment, like the previous one, transformed into a pure white Reishi and was completely absorbed by him.
"Ah, this feeling is truly wonderful!"
Feeling the comfortable sensation flowing through his limbs, Ronan let out a moan of pleasure.
"With just two more, I will definitely succeed in becoming an Arrancar!"
After successfully absorbing the second spirit king fragment, Ronan's centipede clone automatically opened a Hueco Mundo and traveled to the Human World, returning to Ginjo's side.
Ronan, on the other hand, transformed into a brilliant bolt of lightning and rushed towards the Great Hollow Home he had personally created.
As he passed through what was once the New Territory, he sensed three spiritual pressures erupting dozens of miles to his front-left. One of these spiritual pressures belonged to a Hollow, and it was surprisingly on par with Halibel's.
The remaining two spiritual pressures were extremely violent and somewhat chaotic, just like the incomplete Arrancar Ito Makoto encountered during his Soul Burial examination!
"Another Vasto Lord! Could it be..."
Thinking of this, Ronan immediately changed direction, a flash of lightning heading towards the source of the spiritual pressure!
"Bang!"
A Vasto Lord in the form of a half-human goat, with a skull mask covering its face and two horns, holding a double-headed spear, was now miserably struck into a sand pit.
"Impossible! You are merely Adjuchas, how could you..."
Nelliel looked at the two Adjuchas, whose appearances had greatly changed, with a confused expression.
"Hahaha, Adjuchas? We are no longer such low-level beings. Now, we are existences that transcend the boundaries of Hollows—Arrancar!"
An incomplete Arrancar with a pig head and human body, wearing a broken mask, with its bloated belly, looked at the fallen Nelliel with a mocking expression.
Beside him, another incomplete Arrancar with a horse head and human body, wearing a tattered mask, revealed a mouth full of steel teeth, with streams of saliva dripping from its lips.
"Didn't expect it, did you! As a naturally born Vasto Lord, you're going to be killed by the Adjuchas you once defeated! Cry, wail, let me see what you look like when you beg for mercy!"
The incomplete Arrancar with the human body and horse head grew more and more excited as he spoke, even letting out strange cries!
"Arrancar..."
Nel, covered in wounds, lay in the sand pit, about to throw the bone spear in her hand, preparing for a desperate struggle.
The two Arrancar simultaneously extended their palms and began to charge a Cero at Nelliel.
Seeing this, Nel's lips unconsciously curled into a smile in the sand pit.
"Zzzzzzt!"
Two powerful Cero, accompanied by the sharp laughter of the two incomplete Arrancar, shot towards Nel below.
The next moment, something happened that left the two Arrancar dumbfounded: the Vasto Lord, who had seemingly been too weak to fight, suddenly opened her mouth and swallowed both Cero they had fired!
Immediately, the originally black and red Cero, mixed with a pink Cero, entwined together. The power of the Cero instantly surged threefold, blasting towards the two incomplete Arrancar.
"Cero Doble!"
"Boom!"
The horse-headed man among the two incomplete Arrancar, reacting quickly, used Sonido to dodge the Cero Doble. However, the pig-headed man, who was half a beat slower, was not so lucky. Half of his body was directly blown apart, leaving only a large lower half collapsing to the ground!
Ronan, hiding in the shadows, secretly clicked his tongue:
"Aizen's Arrancar experiment progress seems a bit slow. How is the Arrancar level still so low! Come on, Lord Aizen, I'm counting on you to make these Hollow under me undergo a complete transformation!"
With a single Hōgyoku, the ideal Arrancar state should be that an Adjuchas after becoming an Arrancar can easily defeat an un-Arrancarized Vasto Lord. As it is now, two Arrancar Adjuchas ganging up on an un-Arrancarized Nel, and one of them even getting counter-killed, clearly means there's still too much 'water' in this Arrancar process.
"This way, I don't even have a chance to play the hero and save the beauty!"
Seeing the pathetic performance of the two incomplete Arrancar, Ronan, in the shadows, shook his head anxiously.
In the arena, Nelliel, who had dealt with the pig-headed Arrancar with a Cero Doble, was now staggering, holding up her double-headed spear, about to throw it to kill the remaining horse-headed Arrancar.
This scared the horse-headed Arrancar into repeatedly using Sonido to dodge the attack.
"Bang!"
As soon as she stood up, before she could even raise her hand, Nel fell back into the sand pit.
The half-horse Arrancar, who had fled hundreds of feet away, seeing that Nel was now completely exhausted, immediately turned back, intending to kill her while she was vulnerable!
"I didn't expect to be the one to have the last laugh. The flesh and blood of a Vasto Lord will be mine to savor alone!"
"Damn it!"
Nel, watching the half-horse Arrancar slowly approaching her, could only let out a powerless roar.
"Zzzzzzt!"
In an instant, a dark golden pillar of lightning descended from the sky. The half-horse Arrancar, who had been secretly gloating, was directly struck by this dark golden lightning, leaving him charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
Nelliel struggled to open her eyelids but only saw a blurry humanoid figure before she directly fainted.
Ronan, on the other hand, stared at the two Arrancar corpses on the ground and immediately activated Soul Eater.
Soon, the two Arrancar were completely devoured by Ronan.
"Hmm? Is that all?"
Feeling the Reishi provided by the bodies of these two Adjuchas, Ronan immediately frowned.
The spiritual pressure provided by those two Arrancar was no different from that of ordinary Adjuchas, only with a tiny bit of special Reishi, a degraded version similar to the Spirit King's power. This meager amount was infinitely close to zero for Ronan!
Not long after, Nelliel, heavily injured and exhausted, slowly awoke. She found that her wounds had been simply treated, and the half-horse Arrancar that had originally intended to devour her had now vanished without a trace!
Looking at the humanoid Hollow with black eyes and black hair before her, Nel's two large eyes beneath her mask darted around. Her two front hooves gently pawed at the sand pit in front of her, and she meekly asked:
"Um, did you save me?"
Looking at Nel's shy and awkward appearance, Ronan immediately found it somewhat amusing. She was already this cute even before becoming humanoid. What would she be like after becoming an Arrancar?
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ronan. I am the leader of the Great Hollow Home, and I am currently looking for kind and powerful companions like yourself to join me!"
"Would you like to join us, unknown Vasto Lord?"
Nelliel was first stunned by Ronan's invitation, then she proudly puffed out her chest and circled Ronan. Although she had not yet become an Arrancar, the beginnings of her proud figure, the largest in the Three Realms, were already evident.
Then she slowly extended a hand to Ronan:
"Um, hello, my name is Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck. Please take good care of me from now on, partner!"
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