(T.L Note: The translation in some of the early chapters are a little rough. I hope you guys will give this fan-fic a chance and read through🙏. The translation gets better)
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In Hueco Mundo, there is no day or night, alternating hot and cold, no food, no water.
The moon is chilling pale, like the color of a dead man's face.
At first glance, it looks like a desert, this is a world with only sand.
From time to time, there were a few hollow roars in the air, which sounded like the wail of human beings before they died, full of depression and despair.
Since there is no food here in Hueco Mundo, the ghost full of strong desire to devour will wander the world in search of delicious souls.
So relatively speaking, almost all the hollows in Hueco Mundo are Menos Grande, and the weaker ones have all gone to the present world.
The Forest of Menos Grande, as the name suggests, is the forest where Menos Grande lives. It is located deep underground in Hueco Mundo. All Menos Grandes basically originate from this place.
It is said to be a forest, but the environment is no different from the surface of Hueco Mundo. There is still no food, no water, a vast expanse of yellow sand, and a dead silence. The only difference is that there are huge pale trees here. Straight into the sky, making it look like a forest.
That's why the name- Forest of Menos Grande came into being.
These trees are towering like clouds, reaching directly to the surface, and on top of them, there is a canopy made of infinite sand. Above the canopy, is where the Las Noches (literal meaning "Hollow Night Palace") is located, and it is also the deepest part of Hueco Mundo!
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*puff!*
Blood splashed out, and a tall figure fell to the ground fiercely. This figure was like a witch's black cloak with a white mask. There was a huge hole in his chest area.
In the forest of Menos Grande, there is another name for this kind of creature, Gillian, they are the lowest level of Menos Grande, who are produced by the fusion of reiatsu (meaning "Spiritual Pressure") when extremely hungry hollows devour each other.
They are also the most common Menos Grande in the Forest of Menos Grande.
Except that reiatsu is stronger than ordinary hollow, and it can fire Cero (meaning "Hollow Flash"), it has no other advantages, and its intelligence is extremely low, which makes it extremely easy to deal with.
At least, Kyo Mazuru (original name in the novel: Xia Xian) who beheaded this Gillian thinks so!
Holding a tattered sword, Mazuru walked up to Gillian's corpse, and before the corpse dissipated into reishi (meaning "Spirit Particles"), he stabbed the sword into the opponent's body.
Strands of tiny spirit particles flowed along the blade and gradually poured into Mazuru's body.
He closed his eyes and devoured these spiritual seeds, and the original hunger suddenly subsided a lot.
He pulled out the tattered sword, and immediately, Gillian's body collapsed, first turned into quicksand, and then disappeared completely, as if he had never existed in this world.
From the appearance, Mazuru is only seventeen or eighteen years old. In this world, he can be regarded as a high school student. His appearance is quite delicate, especially when he smiles, there are two small dimples at the corners of his mouth, looking extremely delicate.
But in fact, he has lived in the forest of Menos Grande for more than a hundred years.
He didn't know how he came to this world, but after he opened his eyes, all he saw was the vast yellow sand of Hueco Mundo, and... the group of people transformed from human souls who already can no longer be called human, it is almost like a beast!
When he first arrived, he encountered a Gillian.
He almost died, and he doesn't know if it was his luck as a traverser favored him, he met a Hueco Mundo expeditionary force. The Hueco Mundo expeditionary force were the sent by the Soul Society.
The Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force is an expeditionary force composed of some Shinigami who have made mistakes but have not reached the level of crime worthy of being sentenced. Their mission is to wipe out the hollows in Hueco Mundo, so that the number of hollows will be reduced, and the danger of Hueco Mundo to the present world will also be reduced. On one hand it is to maintain the order of balance, and on the other hand, it is to clear out the crimes with meritorious deeds in order to return to the Soul Society.
What Mazuru met was such a Shinigami.
For a wandering soul like Mazuru, after his death, he didn't wander around in the present world and became a hollow, he seemed very surprised, but then realized that this is Hueco Mundo, if Mazuru is allowed to stay like this, sooner or later he will become a hollow.
So, he pulled out the Zanpakutō and decided to give Mazuru a soul cleansing to prevent problems before they happen.
Unfortunately, before he could take action, after he beheaded the Gillian that attacked Mazuru, several more Gillians appeared.
The Shinigami fought it immediately.
Thanks to Shinigami's own reiatsu's attraction, Mazuru, the little ant, was immediately abandoned by the mentally retarded Gillians, allowing him to escape.
What happened after that, he is not very clear.
Several Gillians fought fiercely with the Shinigami who came to Menos Grande Forest. It was not until a long time after the battle that Mazuru had the courage to go back to the battlefield.
On the ground, several Gillian corpses were slowly dissipating, gradually turning into spirits, and in the middle, was a Shinigami corpse that had mostly dissipated, and... the zanpakuto that turned into a sealed state after the death of its owner.
As a newcomer who just came to this world and witnessed the cruelty of this world with his own eyes, Mazuru did not hesitate at all, and immediately went to hold the sealed state that lost its owner.
It was also after he held the sword that he realized a warm current poured into his body.
The hunger in the body gradually disappeared as the warm current poured in.
At first, he thought it was some ability left by the owner of the zanpakuto that was affecting him. It wasn't until he got close to the corpses of Gillian that he realized that was not the case.
He seems to have the ability to devour the souls of the dead.
The spiritual particles of the deceased around him would subconsciously rush into his body, and when he inserted the sealed state in his hand into Gillian's body, he found that he was absorbing the spiritual particles faster, as if there was an extra tube , the spiritual particles in Gillian's body rushed into his body along the tube like flowing water.
Mazuru knows a little about the fact that hollow can devour the same kind and fuse with the same kind of reiatsu to turn into Menos Grande.
After all, he had followed the Bleach animation for a while in his previous life, and it seemed that there would be a Millennium Blood War chapter after the animation, but because he was not interested in manga, he did not read the so-called Millennium Blood War chapter.
Even so, he knows a lot of things just based on the settings of the animation.
He fell into Hueco Mundo in the form of a human, but instead of turning into Hollow, he has the ability of Hollow to devour the same kind. He doesn't know whether this is good or bad, but it really makes him see hope in this desperate world.
Then, relying on this ability, he struggled all the way to the forest of Menos Grande.
The forest of Menos Grande is like a primeval forest, and the animals that live in it are like wild beasts. They only know how to kill each other and devour each other. However, Gillian is a species with low IQ, and sometimes they devour each other there will always be some wreckage left.
Mazuru relied on picking up the corpses that had not yet turned into spirit particles and dissipated in the air, and with the help of the sealed state he picked up in his hand, he swallowed hollow's spirit particles, thereby alleviating his body's hunger.
Mazuru was actually very helpless about this.
Since he is a soul but will be hungry, if he is placed in the Soul Society, there is no doubt that he has the potential of a Shinigami. However, this is Hueco Mundo, and there is no place for him to change his job. After changing his job, he becomes hollow, and before he does not become Menos Grande, he will be a beast that only knew how to devour. Who knows if he would be eaten and wiped clean by others before transforming into Menos Grande.
However, Mazuru soon discovered that devouring the spiritual seeds not only relieved his hunger, he found that he seemed to have become stronger.
Among other things, the strength has been significantly increased first, and then the body. If when he first came to Hueco Mundo, he was still a chicken waiting to be slaughtered, then after picking up the corpses for a period of time, he found that he had changed and became a lamb that can struggle.
(T.L Note: Not the best progress but progress nonetheless)
After gaining strength, his body will naturally recover. This kind of gain is not only reflected in his fast running, but also in his thickness of skin without making it rough, like an extra layer of empty shell. At the same time, accompanied with the increase in strength and physique, his perception ability also became extremely strong, and he was extremely sensitive to the spirit particles in the air. With this ability, he avoided many Gillian's pursuit in the early years.
Of course, in the forest of Menos Grande, and he doesn't know how to escape from Hueco Mundo, of course he can't just choose to run away blindly, even if he only meets Gillian, but in the forest of Menos Grande, there are not only Gillian, but also superiors Adjuchas and Vasto Lorde, they are not as mentally retarded as Gillian.
In order to survive, Mazuru avoids Gillian as much as possible while torturing himself hard, using the sword in his hand to protect his body!
He doesn't know how long he has been living in the forest of Menos Grande. One day, Mazuru felt that there was a Gillian who was almost alone, and finally chose to take the initiative to attack. He found a Gillian that had just fought with his companion. Although he killed his companion, he was not seriously injured. Without a second thought, he directly attacked.
After winning the battle, he devoured part of the Gillian's spirit.
It also assured him that he also has a certain amount of strength.
After that, he continued to pick up corpses, practice self-defense techniques and practice sword skills with Gillian.
Time passed quietly, there is no difference between day and night in Hueco Mundo, only a pale moon hangs in the sky all the time.
Now, Mazuru can easily kill a Gillian.
He wouldn't panic at all even if several Gillians went to him at the same time. During the years of tempering, he swallowed up countless. He felt that his reiatsu was very strong, which meant that his spiritual power was also very strong, but because he didn't know how to use it, most of the spiritual power could only be hidden deep in his body, continuing to strengthen his body.
Of course, it's not that he can't use the powerful spiritual power in his body at all, after seeing Gillian release Cero a lot, Mazuru has gradually figured out some ways to use spiritual power over the years.
It's just that this method is extremely crude compared to the Kidō performed by Shinigami of Soul Society.
After beheading another Gillian, Mazuru relieved his physical hunger, and was about to return to his shelter when another tall black figure appeared in front of him on the way.
There is no doubt that this is another Gillian.
Although the Forest of Menos Grande is a forest full of Menos Grandes, it has a large area, and it is not possible to encounter Menos Grande anytime and anywhere. In just a short while, he encountered two Gillians, which surprised Mazuru, but he did not think it was too weird.
Having stayed here for more than a hundred years, he has seen all kinds of weird things.
Holding the tattered sealed state, he tapped his toes lightly on the ground.
*Boom!*
The yellow sand splashed, his body made a small sound, and instantly came to the Gillian.
Sensing the smell of food, Gillian turned around slowly.
The crimson spiritual power filled the sealed state blade in Mazuru's hand, forming a extended and narrow sword pressure by the condensed spiritual power!
*Swish!*
A blade several meters long swept across, and Gillian's head was chopped off and it died on the spot.
Then, Mazuru devoured part of Gillian's spiritual son just like before, partially because he found he could only devour parts.
"I was still a little hungry, but since I met you, it's lucky."
Mazuru grumbled.
Then he continued to head towards his shelter, but he didn't know what happened to him today, Gillian appeared one after another on his way back.
After beheading a few of them one after another.
Mazuru also noticed something was wrong.
Something is wrong, something is wrong!
He tried to perceive it, and then found something different.
"there..."
Mazuru immediately quickened his pace and rushed towards that direction.
Soon, a Menos Grande similar to Gillian appeared in front of him. Although similar to Gillian, the reiatsu released from it was far better than ordinary Gillian.
"Adjuchas?"
Mazuru inevitably thought of Gillian's superior evolutionary form, but after careful observation, he found that it was not Adjuchas. First of all, Adjuchas was smaller than Gillian in appearance.
Second, the quirky Menos Grande in front of him doesn't seem to be getting much IQ improvement.
"Is it a Gillian who half-stepped into the threshold of Adjuchas?" He guessed like this, but since it met him, there was no reason to let it go. He held a sword and killed the weird Gillian.
In terms of strength alone, this weird Gillian is indeed very strong. The outer body shell alone is much stronger than the ordinary Gillian, but Gillian, as a miscellaneous soldier Menos Grande, even if it is upgraded, it is not much stronger.
Not long after, it was hacked by Mazuru, somewhere in the forest of Menos Grande, on a branch of a big white tree, a man with short brown hair and black-rimmed glasses, with an extremely elegant appearance, outlined his mouth, there was a surprised smile.
"Interesting, the test subject that was just thrown into the forest of Menos Grande...is dead?"
He doesn't know when he started to gain insight into some of the truth of the world, and realized that there is a limit to being a Shinigami, so in order to break through this limit and reach a new world, he began to try to do some experiments.
Due to his identity, in the Soul Society, his experiments can only be carried out in secret, fearing that it will cause some turmoil, but in Hueco Mundo, he can do whatever he wants.
That weird Gillian is just one of his experimental products. He was going to see how far this Gillian could go in the Menos Grande forest, but he hung up before he took the first step up.
"Encountered the superior Menos Grande Adjuchas? Or..."
Under the black-rimmed glasses, the man's eyes rolled, and then a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he quickly walked towards the direction where the experimental subject died.
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