"Auswählen?"
Aizen also paid attention to Soken's story. He was also a little curious, about the secret thing Mazuru and Soken were discussing. Although he is more curious about the power of the pure-blood quincies, he is a curious person by nature who likes to collect knowledge and discover the unknown. As Soken is willing to confide the secret in his heart, Aizen doesn't mind listening to it.
Feeling the eyes of Mazuru and Aizen, Soken sighed faintly. After Mazuru said the word "Auswählen", he thought a lot, and in the end, he understood something. If it weren't for these two evil shinigamis manipulating the Adjuchas, he might have died under the siege of the five Gillians. Of course, he is still a curious about how did shinigamis manipulated an Adjuchas, but right now, he is not privileged enough to investigate this matter.
At that time, he thought a lot about death. Apart from the sadness of parting with his grandson Uryuu, the most important feeling in his heart was probably guilt. Guilt for not telling Ryuken about those things earlier, which resulted in the death of Kanae, no, not only Kanae, but also Masaki, she also died because of him. If he had told Ryuken about those things earlier, with Ryuken's wit and talent far superior to his own, he might be able to find a way to avoid the Auswählen, and would have not caused Ryuken to hate him to the bone. Subsequently, it could have prevented the gap formed between Ryuken and Uryuu.
At first he thought that as long as he died, he would no longer feel guilty.
But after walking on the edge of death, he realized the thing that he didn't want to admit all this time, since that man had already activated the Auswählen and regained his strength, the quincy masters headed by him would definitely not continue to endure it much longer.
When they start their attack, the three realms: the Soul Society, the world of living and Hueco Mundo will face a huge catastrophe.
Therefore, instead of hiding the secret in his heart until his death, it is better to speak it out. Even though these two shinigami seem to have different intentions and don't seem like good people, telling them might bring some kind of changes. With that person's awakening and regaining his strength, a big war is inevitable, so it can't be any worse even Soken speaks out.
"When speaking of Auswählen, we must first mention a particular person." Soken sorted out his words and said, "That person is the ancestor of all quincy masters——Yhwach."
When Soken mentioned the name, Mazuru didn't show any change in expression, because from the moment he came to this world, he already knew that the real villain of this world is not Aizen next to him, but Yhwach.
Aizen, on the other hand, was a little surprised when he heard the name, "If I remember correctly, he was defeated by our head-captain thousands of years ago and died."
Aizen actually knew about Yhwach. But it's not surprising, Aizen felt the limit of shinigami many years ago, and thus became curious about the mysterious soul king and gradually learned about many things including Yhwach.
Thousands of years ago, Yhwach, the ancestor and king of all quincies, led the Quincy Division to attack the Soul Society, and finally lost to Gotei 13 headed by the head-captain Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni.
Many young shinigami think that the enmity between quincy and shinigami started two hundred years ago when shinigamis killed all the quincies because they were destroying the balance of souls. Little did they know that the enmity between the two had already been forged thousands of years ago.
Soken was a little surprised that Aizen knew about the past from thousand years ago, but this way, he didn't have to tell too much about who Yhwach was and what he did back then.
He continued, "Yhwach is the ancestor of the quincies, and all the power of the quincies comes from him. Thousands of years ago, he led the Quincy Division to fight the Soul Society, and was defeated by the Soul Society's head-captain Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, but in fact, he did not die, but lost his heartbeat, consciousness and strength. Realizing this, the remaining quincies took him away from the battlefield and hid 'there'."
"Then, it took Yhwach 900 years to recover his heartbeat, and another 90 years to recover his consciousness. Nine years after he regained his consciousness, he activated a large-scale technique in order to restore his strength— the Auswählen!"
"Auswählen is a technique to absorb the power of all the mix-blooded quincies and return it to him. All the mix-blooded quincy masters who lost their powers due to it died one after another."
"So that's how it is." Aizen gradually understood why all the mix-blooded quincies died within the same period of time, "Your power is so weak, is it also due to the Auswählen?"
He looked at Soken.
Soken sighed, "I am a pure-blooded quincy, originally I shouldn't have been affected by Auswählen, but in addition to being a pure-blooded quincy, I also have another identity, that is, fromer member of the Star-Cross Knights under Yhwach's command. As I was a member of the Star-Cross Knights, I had received the holy text bestowed by him. Yhwach can absorb the power of those members of the Quincy Division who are not needed by him, perhaps because I left them and quit the Star-Cross Knights without permission, he also took away my power. However, because of my pure-blood, I didn't die like the mix-blooded quincies."
(T.L Note: Do you guys like Star-Cross Knights or should I refer them as Sternritters?)
When he said this, he didn't have the slightest sense of complacency, on the contrary, he was somewhat self-deprecating. If possible, he would like to die instead of Kanae and Masaki. After all, he is old and will not live for long.
"It's really amazing information." Aizen couldn't help but sigh, the ancestor of the quincies, Yhwach, didn't die, on the contrary, after a thousand years, he has recovered his strength
From Yhwach's brazen attack on the Soul Society back then, it is quite clear that now that he has regained his strength, he is probably preparing to take revenge on the Soul Society. However, over the years, the Soul Society has never found out that Yhwach is still alive. It must be said that Yhwach really hid well.
Mazuru at the side noticed a detail in Soken's words.
"You said 'there' earlier."
Aizen also stared at Soken.
Soken was silent for a while, and gave the answer, "Their plan was to use the abundant reishi that was only to be found in Soul Society as the source of their power so the quincies built a spirit space there, and its name is Wandenreich (Invisible Empire)."
"For thousands of years, Yhwach and the quincy masters under his command have been hiding in the shadows of Seireitei!"
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