"Is that your last will?"
"What a pity!"
Yekawa saw dozens of Adjuchas charging up their Cero towards him, but there was no panic on his face beneath his mask; he remained calmly seated on his throne.
He just snapped his fingers lightly!
"Clatter!"
Instantly, eighty-one dark golden lightning pillars rose from the main hall of Las Noches, surrounding the dozens of Adjuchas, as a sky-covering sea of lightning spread outwards from the center of the main hall.
"Rumble!"
The Hollows, who had already charged their Cero, were all interrupted by the power of the lightning. The worst off was the bullfrog-like Hollow that had started charging its Cero first; it directly exploded under the influence of the lightning, and its powerful Cero detonated in its own mouth!
"Ah!"
"Roar!"
At this moment, Yekawa, like an artist admiring his work, spread his arms, reveling in the wails of the multitude of Hollows before him!
"Lightning Sea Domain!"
This was not the end. With a loud shout from Yekawa, the lightning power in the field surged again, until it enveloped the entire Las Noches.
"Rumble!"
After a series of loud bangs, Las Noches, built from massive stones, was instantly blasted into ruins. Even the two giant stone pillars closest to the throne were severely damaged, yet only the area around Yekawa's throne remained relatively intact.
This was a setup Yekawa had made in Las Noches beforehand. The Lightning Sea Domain was currently the most powerful and widest-ranging killing move Yekawa possessed.
The only drawback of this move was that it required prior setup, needing eighty-one lightning seeds to be buried in the target area.
Originally, Yekawa had planned to take advantage of Baraggan's absence, using Camo to infiltrate and defeat the Hollows one by one.
However, upon learning that Aizen was about to arrive at Las Noches, Yekawa had no choice but to take a risky approach, forcibly using this method to trap and kill a group of Adjuchas.
He wanted to advance to Adjuchas in the shortest possible time!
Evidently, his plan succeeded.
"Now!"
Sensing that the life force of the Adjuchas in the Lightning Sea Domain was rapidly dissipating, Yekawa seized the opportunity.
"Soul Eater!"
A giant dark golden vortex rose behind Yekawa, greedily absorbing the spiritual particles continuously gushing from the Lightning Sea Domain.
"Ah! So exhilarating!"
As many Adjuchas died in the sea of lightning, Yekawa absorbed a massive amount of spiritual particles through Soul Eater. That long-lost, comfortable sensation of a leap in life-level returned.
"More… I need more!"
No sooner had he spoken than the giant dark golden vortex behind Yekawa expanded once more, absorbing the vast amount of spiritual particles in the field even more frantically.
At this point, almost all of the Adjuchas-class Menos Grande in the field were dead, reduced to corpses awaiting Yekawa's consumption.
However, that bullfrog-like Adjuchas had not yet died! Each time its body was destroyed by the power of lightning, it would actively shed the damaged body, and then grow a new body from the remnants.
It was just that after each Speed Regeneration, the bullfrog-like Hollow's size would shrink a bit.
"I didn't expect you to also have Speed Regeneration? Too bad, it won't save you!"
Before long, all the other Adjuchas in the Lightning Sea Domain were killed by the lightning power, their bodies turning into nutrients absorbed by Yekawa. Only one bullfrog-like Hollow, whose size had shrunk to less than half of its original, was still struggling to hold on.
"Emperor Baraggan will avenge us!"
The bullfrog-like Hollow struggled in the sea of lightning, speaking with difficulty.
"Just the barking of a defeated dog."
Yekawa was completely unfazed by the bullfrog-like Hollow's threat. As long as he successfully advanced to Adjuchas, he was confident he could crush Baraggan.
Besides, Baraggan was already targeted by Aizen at this moment, like a clay Buddha crossing a river, unable to protect himself.
Finally, as a thick lightning arc struck its forehead, it could no longer regenerate, and its charred, headless corpse fell stiffly to the ground.
Ultimately, it also transformed into wisps of pure spiritual particles, completely absorbed by Yekawa.
As dozens of Adjuchas in the sea of lightning were completely devoured by Yekawa, he experienced a long-lost sense of fullness. He knew this meant he was about to evolve.
He immediately stopped suppressing and dispelled the sea of lightning before him.
With a long roar, Yekawa's spiritual pressure reached a new height. A dark golden pillar of spiritual pressure rose from the throne of Las Noches, directly piercing the sky.
Within the pillar of spiritual pressure, Yekawa felt his own life form changing, his body beginning to break down and then reform... On a hill at the southern end of Las Noches, the King of Hueco Mundo, Baraggan Louisenbairn, sat on his white bone throne, looking down from above. His pale skeletal right hand, clenched into a fist, rested against his equally skeletal jaw, appearing utterly nonchalant. Around him were a group of Adjuchas.
Below, a humanoid Hollow completely covered in white keratin, looked up at Baraggan.
This Hollow was very similar to a human, with short golden hair, the graceful curves of a human female, a large bone sword attached to her right arm, and a tail shaped like a shark.
Behind this Hollow were also a white snake-like Hollow, a golden lion Hollow, and a deer Hollow.
The humanoid Hollow looked at Baraggan on the hill and slowly spoke:
"You've come again. What for?"
Baraggan, on his white bone throne, replied nonchalantly:
"How many times do I have to tell you, Harribel, I don't want anyone causing trouble under my nose!"
"But to kill you, I still can't bear to, so today I give you two paths."
"The first, as I've said before, is to submit to me!"
"The second is to disappear from my sight. However, my eyes are spread throughout Hueco Mundo, so where could you possibly run? Hahahahaha!"
As he spoke, Baraggan suddenly burst into laughter. The Adjuchas around him also laughed along, their eyes filled with mockery for Harribel and her group.
At this moment, an Adjuchas with a gray-black body, a mouth full of jagged teeth, and hands shaped like fins, suddenly jumped out on its own accord. Its gray fin slapped Harribel's shoulder, and it said with a contemptuous tone:
"Harribel, you are a smart person. You should know there is only one path to take!"
Before it finished speaking, Harribel swung the giant bone sword in her hand, directly cleaving its forehead.
"Ah!"
With a cry of pain, the Adjuchas with gray-black fins fell to the ground.
"Hmph, what audacity, to dare harm my subordinate in front of me. You'd best not regret it!"
Baraggan snorted coldly and said indifferently.
However, regarding Harribel injuring his subordinate in front of Baraggan, Baraggan did not truly pursue the matter, instead lightly allowing them to leave. Yet, there was a strange glint in his skeletal eye sockets, hinting at some unknown calculation.
However, what neither side noticed was that on a distant hill, three figures wearing Captain's haori were silently observing the scene.
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