Aizen didn't care about Mazuru's teasing words, he looked at Mazuru and said, "Well, it can't be helped, after all, the Soul Society sent four captains to help Kurosaki Ichigo."
"And these four captains were not idle after arriving in Hueco Mundo. In order to protect Las Noches, Beelzebub and Szayelaporro will have choose to take action, which is also a matter of course."
As expected of Aizen, he found an unassailable reason so quickly.
Even Mazuru couldn't refute this reason.
Aizen continued, "However, with these four captains trapped in Hueco Mundo, the combat power of the Soul Society has inevitably been weakened. Mazuru-kun, what do you think will happen if I launch the war against the Soul Society now?"
"Mr. Aizen has already made a decision in his heart, right?"
Aizen had indeed made his decision.
In the following period of time, two Espadas were dragged by Byakuya and Unohana, and Ichigo's team had another member with them, the Fourth Division's shinigami, Hanataro, who could treat their injuries.
Their group first encountered the Exequias. Facing Rudbornn and the members of his Exequias, Ichigo and others faced some trouble.
But Rudbornn had the same problem as most hollows, that is, arrogance. Although his strength was indeed top-notch among ordinary arrancars, it was not at an unsolvable-level after all.
Just when he was being arrogant and introducing his abilities, Rukia finally saw through an opening and killed him.
After killing Rudbornn, Ichigo and his party broke into the interior of the Las Noches without any hindrance.
After many years of transformation by Aizen, today's Las Noches was much larger than it was in the Baraggan's period.
Except for the palace in the central area belonging to the Espada, its periphery was like a maze.
Hundreds of arrancars lived in it.
There were both ordinary arrancars and Privaron Espada, arrancars that have been eliminated from the Espada and have three-digit numbers.
"Although Espada was previously prohibited from attacking them, since Kurosaki Ichigo and others have broken into Las Noches, then we cannot allow him to rescue people so easily."
Aizen was very interested in Ichigo, and had been watching Ichigo's every move since he came to Hueco Mundo.
At the same time, Ichigo's progress during this period had also been watched by him.
Unfortunately, he was a little disappointed.
Even though Ichigo had mastered his hollow powers, his current level of power was still too weak, and his growth rate was still a bit slow in Aizen's eyes.
Such power was not enough for him to put it in his eyes.
Therefore, he decided that Ichigo should not participate in this battle between Hueco Mundo and Soul Society, and just stay in Hueco Mundo.
Espada-level hollows were not preferable to send out against Ichigo.
Especially since Aizen had already decided to start the war against the Soul Society, it was even more necessary to preserve combat power.
But arrancars under Espada could be sent to attack him without any scruples.
Following Aizen's order, all the arrancars in the Las Noches except Espada were dispatched to search for the intruders.
As a result, Ichigo and others immediately felt the horror of Las Noches.
There were too many enemies.
Defeating one after another, he and all his friends were more or less injured, but fortunately Hanataro had joined their team, and he was healing them, otherwise they would never have survived this kind of one after another battle scenario.
On the other hand, this could be regarded as indirectly achieving another goal of Aizen, which was to make Ichigo stronger through fighting.
Unfortunately, he was destined to have no chance to witness whether Ichigo could rescue Orihime with his own eyes, because the decisive battle was about to begin, and only after the decisive battle, he would return to Hueco Mundo to verify Ichigo's strength.
Shortly after sending arrancars below Espada to attack the invaders, Aizen summoned the Espadas in the Las Noches.
Beelzebub and Szayelaporro just returned to the Las Noches, Szayelaporro was seriously injured, which was really an amazing scene for the others, previously Grimmjow was severely injured by Ichigo and now, Szayelaporro also became so miserable.
However, Beelzebub was still the same Cero (0) Espada, he brought Szayelaporro back while being unscathed himself in the face of the two Soul Society captains.
"The time for the decisive battle has come."
Looking at the gathered Espada, Aizen opened his mouth slightly.
Whether it's Gin next to Aizen, Tousen, or Espada, all of them looked serious. After Aizen came to Hueco Mundo and officially took the charge of Las Noches, they knew that this day would come sooner or later.
With Mazuru also returning to Las Noches, and Soul Society sending several captains to help Ichigo and others, the high-end combat power of Gotei 13 was greatly weakened.
After all, before Aizen, Gin and Tousen came to Hueco Mundo, the combat power of Gotei 13 was already weakened and now this.
If they don't take advantage of the weakening of Gotei 13's combat power to launch a decisive battle, then when will they fight, when the enemy is at their peak?
Thinking that they would be able to confront those shinigami really soon, many militants in Espada were gearing up.
Immediately afterwards, Aizen issued another order.
"Grimmjow and Szayelaporro are seriously injured, so they will stay in Las Noches temporarily to recuperate, and Ulquiorra will also temporarily stay back in Las Noches to prevent Kurosaki Ichigo and others from causing any substantial damage."
When Szayelaporro heard the order, he didn't say anything about Aizen's words, but Grimmjow was very unwilling, "Aizen-sama, I can continue to fight!"
He was one of the arrancars gearing up to fight Gotei 13 shinigami, but Aizen ruled him out.
"What? Do you want to disobey my words, Grimmjow?"
Aizen suddenly turned grim, looking at Grimmjow.
"If you want to fight the captains of Gotei 13, there are captains in Hueco Mundo right now. After you recover from your injuries, you can go to them at any time."
"Before that, you don't have to go to the decisive battle against Soul Society."
He didn't care whether Grimmjow was happy or not, and ignored him after giving the order.
Grimmjow's expression looked gloomy and uncertain. Although he was dissatisfied with Aizen's decision, he finally chose to submit.
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