Szayel didn't lose his calm bearing and smile as he engulfed himself with his wings protecting him from every directional attack that crashed on his body...
The attacks kept going on and on and it was getting harder and harder to keep this up for both of them.
Suddenly 6 shadow clones appeared surrounding Szayel before they raised their swords with one hand and slashed down...
Ichigo: "Tenno Kiba Tsuki - Heavenly Moon Fang!!!"
BOOOOOOM!!!!!
A purple light pillar raised up as a column completely engulfing Szayel inside that extended upwards piercing the ceiling and continued to rise.
Ichigo appeared next to Ishida panting from the huge amount of Reiatsu he had to spent pulling all that...
They all noticed his shinigami attire especially the top to be missing his left side completely and before they asked him about it he answered their doubts...
Ichigo: "Damn it... Using a Bankai skill while in Shikai is quite tiring... I took the brunt of my own last attack..."
Everyone had half-opened eyes and looked at him like an idiot... However, how should they know that Ichigo thought hard of using this and barely achieved it by pushing his sped to his limits...
They all waited until the blast pillar from 6 different attacks dies down in order to see the results of it...
Soon enough the whole place started crumbling apart as the ceiling had been incinerated completely and the walls started cracking becoming an open space of some sort...
Finally, the blast died down and saw nothing but ripped clothes, wings parts and a hand laying there on the hot ground that burned in high temperature...
Ishida: "Did you do it??"
Ichigo: "Don't know wait and see..."
Ichigo was looking everywhere for where Szayel might have been hiding unknowing to him that he actually defeat him in this round...
His attack found a weak spot in his back between his wings, bypassing his defences and ripped him apart leaving only what they could see...
Ichigo, however, knew that he had a freaking ability that let him resurrect himself from what he had learned from Sora's memories and waited in high alert.
Soon enough his ripped clothes, wings parts and a hand laying there become particles after they glowed and sunk themselves into the ground before a bud came out and started growing and growing...
Many walls, pieces of furniture, plants that could be found there become particles as if he was absorbing them and grew to the size of a human egg with him sitting inside in his default form.
Ishida: "What the hell..."
Sado: "That's impossible..."
Ichigo: "There was a reason he was an Espada before..."
Tatsuki: "What are you waiting, attack him..."
Ichigo: "I can't, he will use this chance to absorb my attacks and hasten his recovery..."
Szayel: "Hoh... You figured it... I'm impressed by the sheer firepower you have..."
Szayel: "Never expected for you to be lucky and got my weak spot in my wings and reduce me to this state..."
Ichigo: "Like you said i got lucky..."
Ichigo: "But now you don't have enough to enter in your first form again right?? Much less the second..."
Szayel: "And neither you do... None of you can attack or else i'll power up even further and we will go back to where we started..."
Szayel: "Originally 'Gabriel' allows me to be reborn if i am injured beyond repair by "impregnating" an enemy. When i have physical contact with the victim, i can implant a portion of himself inside their body."
Szayel: "I then "devour" my way out of their body by absorbing all the fluids and chemicals of the victim, like an insect leaving a cocoon or husk."
Szayel: "However on my second form i can bypass all that and no harm can be brought to me inside this eggshell..."