Hueco Mundo, the realm of the negative souls that become soul eating monsters. It was a giant desert that spanned pretty much everything one could see, with only some dead trees and sand dunes as decorations.
That wasn't where I was.
Sure I was in Hueco Mundo but I had no interest in the desert part of the world. What I truly wanted was under the desert.
Menos Forest. Calling it a forest was a bit generous since it was just a giant cave with some hardened wood made out of spirit particles keeping the 'ceiling' up. But it had a very nice little feature to it.
It was filled with hollows!
Not just normal hollows, there were those as well but the real feature of the place was the 'trees' which were Gillian class hollows slowly walking around with no direction. There were even a few odd Adjuchas levels around.
Just like the one that once looked like a giraffe that had it's remains in Rika's mouth.
The eldritch monster of mine was strong and I had the genius idea to make her eat hollows so that she could grow stronger. I wasn't sure whether a hollow that I had obtained could still evolve but they definitely could get stronger since her energy levels were increasing.
So the intent of my visit of this realm was having Rika eat Menos class hollows while killing some myself. I had already gotten seven Gillian's and Rika had eaten eight of them. I was exactly sure about letting her eat the giraffe Adjuchas as it was the strongest hollow we had seen since we came here as I could get myself another Adjuchas minion but it didn't have any impressive abilities so I decided letting Rika eat it might be a better decision. Not to mention the thing looked stupid and I would die from embarrassment if I brought it out for battle against anyone actually strong.
Like what kind of lame ass warrior would bring out a fucking giraffe in battle?! Not even Zaraki Kenpachi would fight against such an uncool guy!
Getting off point. I had thought about going up to the desert and try to find Nel and her dumbass friends but I didn't for two reasons.
Firstly, the desert was huge so searching for them could take weeks without a miracle and the only guy who could make them worked for the weird mustache Quincy king.
Secondly, I had no idea how to explain such a thing to the Visoreds or Urahara. The arrancars would probably get killed by Kensei or Hiyori before I could say anything.
So I decided that this trip would only be about killing hollows in the Menos Forest.
Speaking of killing hollows, a wild Adjuchas appears.
It looked like a snake, like a black mamba to be precise. It's head was completely covered by it's mask so it might as well have been a helmet with fangs.
It's energy levels weren't exactly impressive since they were barely higher than the Gillian's walking around so I lazily walked towards it, and then I was in it's jaw.
An interesting fact, black mambas are the second biggest snakes in the world after king cobras and they are also the fastest ones in the world.
This black mamba Adjuchas let me know that they were very fast as hollows too. If it wasn't for my reflexive application of Blut Vene and Hierro combination, I would have been snake food by now! Guess even the weak have a few tricks up in their sleeves. This one did too even though it had no arms.
Unfortunately for it, it was also far less sturdy then it's other Adjuchas brethren. I learned that when I blew it's head up with a simple release of my spiritual energy.
Whelp, I got myself another Adjuchas, even if it was pathetic compared to Rika. I think I will call it Orochi. A Name that required as much as thinking as the black mamba hollow deserved.
Whelp, that is two Adjuchas, fifteen Gillians and several dozen unranked hollows down and lots of more to go.
"Still can't believe that the kid pulled open a fucking Garganta and left to Hueco Mundo." Kensei grumbled at the actions of his favorite punching bag. He was really annoyed at Cain and unlike the past few days he couldn't use training as an excuse to beat the crap out of him.
So he decided to help the girl Cain brought along with him. Sure he didn't get to beat the crap out of her but watching her train with Lisa was pretty damn entertaining. Especially when the former lieutenant of the eighth squad would do spinning kicks while standing on her hands. The dragon girl would go bright red whenever the bespectacled Shinigami did that.
Probably because Lisa was wearing a skirt.
The girl would always get distracted whenever Lisa's panties came into her line of sight and her face would become a bright shade of pink that was noticeable even with all the scales covering her. Ahh to be young and naive again.
"Stop flashing me!"
"Never!" Oof, that kick to the head looked painful.
It was quite impressive, the Visoreds might be holding back quite a bit in their training but any one of them could beat a third seat while holding back, or even an average lieutenant. Those of them who had been Lieutenants could give a captain run for their money and those who had been captains knew that other than Aizen, Unohana, Kyoraku, Ukitake and the old man; none of the current captains could beat them.
The kick that Tatsuki had just shrugged could very well knock out a third seat but the schoolgirl was up in a moment like a champion. Her durability and strength was off the charts, she only needed to hone her technique and get some experience and boom, above average lieutenant level fighter.
And Cain was even more of a monster, the kid had more than once shrugged off punches that could have laid down a lieutenant while sending punches that could do the same when he had fought against Kensei. The only problem the kid had was that he had started too powerful due to his base stats and his hollow ability so there probably had never been any opponent that could make him work for it. So he had no experience in battle against enemies above lieutenant level and even against those he could get a win.
But this morning he had been training with Kensei in a battle where both of them were fighting as strong as a weak captain.
Honestly, the rate they were progressing kinda terrified Kensei and he hoped that Kisuke wouldn't do something stupid to alienate them. Especially if the kid he was training was also as monstrous as the ones they were dealing with.