The masked hollow walked forward slowly followed by Sojiro who also wore a mask on his face, which made him look no different from the hollow in front of him, but only they knew that the one behind was a shinigami, and the one in front is a hollow.
Originally, Sojiro suspected that the figure in front of him was the same as him, a shinigami wearing a mask and pretending to be a hollow.
After all, the figure in front of him knew Central 46, and even knew about what happened to him, but after seeing some behavior and techniques of the other party, he found that that was not the case.
This is a real hollow.
Finally, under the guidance of the hollow, Sojiro came to a forest.
"Here is?"
"The forest of Menos Grande." The hollow in front responded to Sojiro's doubts, "This is where Menos Grande lives."
"If you want to take revenge on Central 46, you can't do it alone with your current strength. Here, you can quickly become stronger. Of course, if you die in the hands of Menos Grande, it means that you are incompetent..."
The hollow's words were extremely cruel.
Sojiro's complexion changed behind the mask. But finally, he clenched Hyōrinmaru which had repaired himself tightly in his hands, and the hatred in his heart grew again. He must take revenge on Central 46 for his unfair execution.
While thinking about becoming stronger, he couldn't help but glance at the figure in front of him, guessing the identity of the other party.
Logically speaking, it was not long since what happened to him, so it was impossible for the other party to know about it, but it knew.
Or perhaps was he actually have been in a coma for many years? Is this hollow the one who woke him up?
...
In Soul Society, time passed slowly.
During this time, Mazuru and Gin, as the captain and vice-captain of the Third division, occasionally went to support other divisions. Of course, the Fifth Division was undoubtedly supported the most.
As a rescue team, the Fifth Division will rescue shinigami who are in danger from time to time. In the process, sometimes there will be some things that the Fifth Division cannot handle, so the Third Division is required to go to the rescue of the rescue team.
On the bright side, it seems that there is no problem, but in fact, Aizen took these opportunities to take Mazuru and Gin to the world of the living and Hueco Mundo to conduct various experiments.
The Arrancar experiment in the Hueco Mundo has been carried out on multiple occassions, Arrancars were born one after another, and the prototype of the Espada of the original book gradually formed.
The Primera (1st) Espada- Starrk, the Segunda (2nd) Espada- Baraggan, the Tres (3rd) Espada Nelliel, and the Cuatro (4th) Espada should belong to Ulquiorra, but because Harribel came to the Las Noches early, after her successful in arrancarization, the position of the Cuatro (4th) Espada was inherited by her.
It seems that because Mazuru brought Starrk, Nelliel and Harribel among the first prototype Espada, the power possessed by Espada's members is far superior to that of the ordinary Arrancars.
Aizen also began to recruit Menos Grande in Hueco Mundo.
Under his snare, the powerful hollows began to gather in Las Noches. These hollows were coming in pursuit for power after witnessing the power of Arrancars. After gathering in the Las Noches, Arrancars were born one after another. Espada, the organization started by Aizen, is also gradually transforming into a behemoth.
Of course, this is Hueco Mundo after all, a world where the rule of jungle prevails. The appointment style of Espada is also different from Gotei 13. Even if an Arrancar becomes an Espada, it is not a permanent position and it can be driven out by the latecomers who are stronger than it.
After the birth of the new Arrancars, there were several times when the personnel of Espada changed.
Among them, the most surprising one is probably the first member of Espada, Cero (0) Espada, Szayel Aporro. The other Espadas were squeezed out due to lack of strength, but he on the other hand used his own body for research. He split himself in two, splitting into a new individual, which caused him to degenerate into Adjuchas, and thus was expelled from Espada.
Although soon his body re-evolved and he joined the Espada again, becoming the Octava (8th) Espada, but his power was not as strong as before, and the position of the Cero (0) Espada was vacated because of this.
In Las Noches, another Arrancar experiment started.
Aizen, Gin, Mazuru, and Kaname who sneaked into Hueco Mundo looked at the hollow that was being arrancarized in front of them.
Aizen couldn't help but glance at Mazuru and say, "Mazuru-kun, what level do you think it can achieve?"
There is actually a reason for Aizen to ask this question.
Because this Arrancar is a bit special.
It was not born naturally, but was artificially created by Aizen with the help of Hōgyoku, combining the power of an unknown number of hollows.
When he was in the Soul Society, Mazuru once saw a hollow in Aizen's laboratory that was still in the embryonic state. According to Aizen, this hollow has the ability to swallow and fuse infinitely and there is no limit to his devouring and fusion, in other words, as long as it is given time, it can continue to evolve.
Earlier, Aizen was going to put it in the Soul Society, and wanted to see if it could devour and fuse the abilities of shinigami, so that it could possess the power of shinigami without going through arrancarization.
But after Mazuru's persuasion, he changed his mind and put it in the forest of Menos Grande.
After all, after a hollow arrancarizes, it can have the power of shinigami, so there is no need to conduct meaningless experiments when Mazuru gave a more interesting idea.
This kind of peculiar hollow, as long as it can devour and evolve smoothly, it will definitely become a powerful hollow. It is too wasteful to put it in the Soul Society, what if it is hacked to death by some powerful shinigami. Since the mission of chasing Tokinada, up to now, many arrancarization experiments have been carried out, and the success rate of arrancarization has been raised to an unprecedented height and after years of devouring in the forest of Menos Grande, this hollows level has also constantly risen.
It evolved from miscellaneous hollow to a Gillian, then to Adjuchas, and finally, to a Vasto-Lorde.
And it's not just any Vasto-Lorde.
After years of devouring, it has also devoured some mutants with special abilities. After merging the power of these hollows, its ability it out of the ordinary. Although it was a Vasto-Lorde, its strength can be compared to the Espada.
One must know that Espada are the strongest among the Menos Grande that became Arrancar, and each of them is comparable to a captain of the Soul Society.
After coming to Hueco Mundo this time, even Aizen took some effort to find this specific hollow that was thrown into the Menos Grande Forest and bring it back to Las Noches.
Mazuru glanced at the human figure which was in middle of transforming into an Arrancar, and said softly, "After Szayel Aporro split himself into two and degenerated, his original place became vacant. Although Szayel Aporro re-evolved and entered Espada again, but the position of Cero (0) Espada still remains vacant."
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