Chapter 39
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"Boom!"
A towering Hollow, fully fifty meters tall, its aura overwhelmingly domineering, its body cloaked in a dense, crushing spiritual pressure, suddenly flashed into view.
It appeared directly before Kuchiki Senya, and its enormous arm, like a massive hammer, tore through the air with a shrill, whistling gale.
It came crashing down toward Kuchiki Senya with devastating, frenzied force!
Adjuchas!
A combat strength only a single line below a Captain's!
Sonído!
Similar to Flash Step, it is a skill only high-level Hollows can use!
It allows instantaneous movement—appearing and vanishing unpredictably, impossible to guard against!
"Thud~"
Dust and debris exploded across the ground.
A colossal crater, fully ten meters deep, cracked open, laced with a fine, spiderweb pattern of fissures!
The next instant.
With a wet "Slice~"
The sound of flesh being severed rang out, and the Hollow's house-sized head soared into the sky.
A blade-light pierced through its body, and in the blink of an eye, its massive frame was carved into scattered, ragged chunks!
"Rumble rumble~"
Like a high-rise collapsing.
The once Gao Song, incomprehensibly enormous Hollow crumbled directly into a heap of fragments strewn across the ground.
The hide across its body, harder than steel, was like tofu before that blade-light.
Cut through without the slightest resistance!
"Whoosh~"
Kuchiki Senya's form flashed, vanishing without a trace.
And the spot where he had stood was instantly swallowed by the Hollow tide, erupting with a thunderous roar like a violent storm.
The ground was a shambles—everywhere, dense fist seals, spiritual-pressure shockwaves, and earth compressed into solid rock!
The Hollow's attack, and its Sonído, were originally weapons meant to reap lives.
But.
Before Kuchiki Senya, they were like a child waving a stick—absurdly slow; no matter how fierce the assault, they could not inflict the slightest wound upon him!
This was Shunpo pushed to its absolute limit!
A hundred steps in a single second!
A hundred meters in a single step!
In the span of one second, he could traverse ten thousand meters!
"Slice~" "Slice~"
Across the field, the sounds of blades piercing flesh and bodies being carved rang on without end, as Kuchiki Senya's figure flickered in a frenzy.
Like a Yama reaping lives, every swing of his blade sent another Hollow's head flying!
Numbly, gracefully, he harvested life after life!
Originally.
The dense, wave-like surge of several hundred Hollows now looked as though they were the ones surrounding Kuchiki Senya—alone!
034. One Man, Without Equal—Ascending Beyond Gods!
At the same time.
A Hollow suddenly materialized beside Kuchiki Senya.
Its massive frame blotted out the sky, its spiritual pressure overwhelming, radiating the spiritual-pressure fluctuations of a Gillian-class!
A pale, bone-exposed, chillingly sinister giant claw reached out, swiping straight for Kuchiki Senya!
"Bang!"
Kuchiki Senya cleaved a Hollow's head from its body with one slash, while his other hand clenched into a fist and slammed brutally into the Hollow's palm.
"Crack~"
"Crack~"
The sounds of bone and bodily tissue shattering rang out without pause; the Hollow's enormous palm crumbled and disintegrated beneath Kuchiki Senya's fist.
It dissolved into flakes of fine debris that scattered on the wind.
"Roar~"
A piercing wail tore from the Hollow's maw, and the next instant a flash of blade-light streaked past—its head flew high into the air, and its body was carved into powder!
Hand-to-hand combat at Captain level! Combined with Kuchiki Senya's spiritual pressure of a full 40 levels—even without relying on his Zanpakutō.
It was more than enough to defeat Captain-class combat power!
Kuchiki Senya, fist in his left hand, blade in his right, filled the field with the Hollows' death-rattle shrieks.
Countless blade-lights, dense as a galaxy, wove a canopy across the sky, radiating an incomparably keen aura.
No substance could bar their path, no Hollow could withstand them!
Reaping wildly across the battlefield!
One Man, Without Equal—Ascending Beyond Gods!
Even.
Above, it was composed of killing-intent stones.
It was said to block all reiatsu and spirit particles—a protective barrier.
As well as the formation meant to obstruct the leakage of aura, all of it was affected by that blade-light!
Like a cracking eggshell on the verge of collapse, the blade-light went in and out freely with soft "puchi~" "puchi~" sounds, meeting no resistance whatsoever.
The next moment.
A crisp shattering sound rang in their ears, and the protective barrier exploded into pieces with a roar!
Everything happening at Senya's Pavilion.
Could no longer be concealed!
At once.
Over a hundred streams of reiatsu shot up into the heavens!
The reiatsu of several dozen Hollows especially resembled the awesome might of the heavens themselves!
However.
Beneath one even more tyrannical, even more extreme reiatsu, even Gillian- and Adjuchas-class Hollows like Ren Ping paled into insignificance.
Like a host of stars circling the moon, only that single person's brilliance remained!
The entire Seireitei could sense the immense danger right at its doorstep!
At the same time.
One could also see, not far off on the horizon, those streaks of pure white—giant blade-lights that seemed about to cleave the very sky!
A sharpness that could not be withstood!
Seireitei.
The alarm sounded long and drawn-out, and the place instantly fell into tremendous upheaval!
Lamp after lamp was lit up—the Central Forty-Six Chambers, the Thirteen Court Guard Squads, the Four Great Noble Houses…
Even the Wang Gong turned their gaze toward Rukongai, toward that earth-shaking battle.
……
Huxindao.
Central Forty-Six Chambers.
"The reiatsu of several hundred Hollows, among them several dozen at the Gillian level! Dispatch the Kidō Corps, the Thirteen Court Guard Squads, and the Onmitsukidō at once to handle this!"
The forty sages and six judges sensed the reiatsu from outside, and their pupils contracted violently!
How many years.
How many years has it been!
This was still the largest-scale invasion the Soul Society had suffered in a hundred years!
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