“There is no need to worry.”
Lord smiled slightly.
“You will soon become just like them.”
As his voice fell,
Morisan suddenly froze all over, looking down at the Chain of Karma on his chest.
The chain was writhing!
The chain, which should have been lifeless, seemed to have life at this moment!
Crunch, crunch.
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The chain seemed to suddenly come alive, growing countless small mouths filled with sharp teeth, greedily and frantically chewing on the chain, making a teeth-gritting sound!
The final erosion!
It came more violently than any previous time!
“Ahahahaha——”
“No, no!”
“Stop quickly! Stop for me right now, ahhh!”
Morisan’s expression became exceptionally terrified, screaming hysterically!
The chains originating from his chest had now all turned into greedy evil ghosts, frantically devouring the chain that symbolized his life!
Over the past few days, Morisan had witnessed countless times with his own eyes how his subordinates turned into monsters covered with a white mask and having a huge hollow in their chests after the chains on their chests were completely eroded!
“Save me! I beg you, save me!”
“Ahhh—— You demon!”
Morisan screamed and wailed in pain, his eyes filled with deep resentment!
“Ugh, ahhh—”
Morisan’s body was hunched and curled up from pain, and a black hole was abruptly torn open at the position of the lock on his chest.
Following closely, gushes of white liquid spewed out from his ears, nose, throat, mouth, and eyes, covering his face like a mask!
“Oh?”
Seeing this situation, instead of stopping it, Lord said with a face of pleasant surprise: “He has clearly begun to fall, yet his Soul can still remain intact!”
According to common sense, when a whole Soul falls into a Hollow, the process should be that the Soul is scattered, then reorganizes somewhere, and finally a white mask symbolizing the Hollow forms on the face, and a hollow appears in the chest!
But Morisan was different!
The process of his fall was the exact opposite; first, the white mask and hollow symbolizing the Hollow appeared, but the Soul still remained intact!
This meant that Morisan was still resisting!
He still had a glimmer of hope, which was to find his own Zanpakuto in his inner World, and then transform into a Shinigami to reverse the Hollowfication process!
“Not bad.”
Lord nodded with satisfaction, thinking to himself that an ‘upper-grade experimental subject’ had finally appeared.
Why didn’t he stop him?
“Ahhh—”
Morisan was still screaming in pain, his Soul had been covered by the vast majority of the white liquid, and the white mask symbolizing the Hollow on his face was becoming clearer and clearer!
Boom——
A violent sound echoed from the bottom of the pit, stirring up howling gales!
Lord stood quietly in place, then gazed at the smoke-filled area ahead: “Let me see what you have actually turned into.”
Hum!!!
The reishi distributed throughout the atmosphere suddenly began to boil, becoming as violent as boiling water!
Swish swish~
The explosive reishi blew away the smoke and dust, revealing Morisan wearing the same shihakusho as Lord, and holding a standard Zanpakuto in his hand.
Lord raised his eyelids slightly, revealing a smile: “He actually turned into a Shinigami?”
shihakusho, Zanpakuto!
These two items marking the identity of a Shinigami undoubtedly proved that Morisan had successfully survived Hollowfication and become a true Shinigami!
“This is the feeling of power!”
After experiencing a brief trance, Morisan felt the power surging from within his body, and immediately roared angrily: “I’m going to kill you!”
Bang!
With just a light stomp of his foot, the ground suddenly shattered, and Morisan rushed forward like a cannonball.
“Go to hell! You demon!”
Morisan slashed towards Lord with his blade, his mind filled with the pleasure of revenge!
The blade slashed down!
But what it hit was not Lord, but a fluttering outer garment.
Shunpo – Utsusemi!
A high-level movement technique of the Shinigami, discarding an outer garment on one’s body to escape an attack, somewhat similar to a ninja’s ‘Body Replacement Technique’.
“Disappeared?”
Morisan was startled, discovering that Lord was already standing behind him at some unknown time.
“Go to hell!”
Morisan suddenly turned around, using all his strength to swing a blade at Lord!
Clang~
The sharp blade was casually pinched between two slender fingers by Lord!
“This is impossible!”
Morisan completely could not believe that even with all his strength, he was unable to move the blade even a fraction!
“There is no need to be surprised.”
Holding the blade between two fingers, Lord still wore a smile on his face, saying unhurriedly: “Because the gap between you and me is far greater than you imagine.”
You must know that a battle between Gods of Death is actually a battle of Spiritual Pressure!
Morisan was just a rookie who had just become a Shinigami, his Spiritual Pressure barely reaching the tenth class.
How could he possibly contend with him, a Shinigami with sixth-class Spiritual Pressure?
“I don’t believe it!”
Morisan’s eyes were bloodshot as he roared: “The gap can’t be this big! It’s absolutely impossible!”
Veins bulging all over his body, Morisan used all his strength to barely pull the knife out of Lord’s hand, and then slashed out in a completely chaotic manner!
“Go to hell! Go to hell!”
However,
Morisan, who had never experienced actual combat, had swordsmanship that was not only disorganized but even worse than a street hooligan.
Having completely lost his sanity, how could he possibly hit Lord?
“End this.”
Lord felt a slight sense of boredom.
He had originally thought Morisan could at least release his Zanpakuto a bit, but he didn’t expect it to be only to this extent.
“Scatter, Senbonzakura!”
Holding the Zanpakuto upside down, Lord slowly released his hand.
The falling Zanpakuto blade turned into fluttering cherry blossom petals, swirling around him like a pink ocean.
“What is this?”
Morisan’s gaze was somewhat dazed, captivated by the cherry blossoms dancing all over the sky, and he subconsciously muttered: “So beautiful…”
But he didn’t know that beautiful things are often accompanied by huge dangers!
Although Senbonzakura looked very beautiful, in reality, those cherry blossom petals were all composed of tens of thousands of blades!
“Fall!”
Lord extended his slender fingers, then slowly closed them.
Whoosh!
The pink sea of cherry blossoms came howling, instantly submerging Morisan!
The cherry blossoms formed by millions of blades acted like a meat grinder, shredding Morisan’s skin, flesh, and bones into pieces!
Moments later, the scattered cherry blossoms returned, condensing into a single blade.
Meanwhile, Morisan’s entire body was covered in dense cuts, standing there like a bloody figure.
“Morisan, I want to thank you.”
Lord quietly looked at Morisan, who was about to disappear, and said faintly: “Precisely because you became a Shinigami, you were able to provide me with a medium-quality Soul.”
“So all of this was arranged by you!”
Morisan, on the verge of death, had his gaze gradually scatter as he spoke weakly.
Indeed, all of this was arranged!
Regardless of whether Morisan’s ultimate outcome of falling was a Hollow or a Shinigami, it made no difference to Lord.
Before it even began, the ending was already destined!
In Lord’s eyes, Morisan’s efforts and struggles were nothing more than a side show.
“Tell me!!!”
Sustaining his last breath, Morisan let out a roar toward the man who was still smiling: “What on earth am I?!”
“A prop.”
Lord’s eyes were indifferent: “As a ‘prop’, you passed.”