"Little leopard, you better be careful."
After saying that, Ishida Ryuken actually charged straight at Grimmjow without hesitation, wanting to fight him at close range.
"Bastard, don't look down on me like that!"
Hearing Ishida Ryuken's careless words, Grimmjow was completely enraged and rushed at him with full strength, aiming to kill him.
"Tsk! Way too careless."
Watching from the side, Sung-Sun gently shook her head and hid her face behind her sleeve, letting out a series of soft laughs.
She had noticed just now that before Ishida Ryuken started his close combat attack, he had thrown something on the ground.
But since the ground was covered in blood, people couldn't see it clearly.
And since even she had noticed, needless to say, the others also had.
Still, since they were all just spectators, they tacitly chose not to mention it.
Even Kurosaki Masaki did not remind him this time.
In terms of close combat ability, Grimmjow, whose spiritual pressure was stronger, was still a level above Ishida Ryuken.
Although that weapon of his was strange and made Grimmjow unwilling to take it head-on with his body, he only needed to form a pair of claws with reishi.
Even if the claws got shattered, he could easily regenerate them.
"Is that all you can do?", Grimmjow couldn't help but mock him.
"That's about it."
Ishida Ryuken let out a light laugh and suddenly retreated from the fighting range.
"Accept this generous battle array! Holy Devour!"
As his chant fell, four silver beams shot into the sky, forming a rectangular light matrix.
And Grimmjow happened to be standing right in the center of that light formation.
"Holy Devour is a destructive formation created by four silver tubes forming a square. Reiryoku is released from the tubes to destroy spiritual bodies inside the formation. And during the fight just now, you didn't even notice the silver tubes I set down, so from the very beginning, you already lost."
Ishida Ryuken turned his head, not looking at the explosion behind him at all, instead turning toward Rosse, "Noble King of Hueco Mundo, is my strength to your satisfaction?"
As his words fell, the reishi light behind them flared up.
Grimmjow's body was washed away in that dazzling light, turning into nothingness.
This wasn't a difference in power. It was a gap in battle intelligence.
Compared to Ishida Ryuken, who constantly set up moves, Grimmjow was still far too naive.
"You bastard, I'm not convinced!"
But after just a short moment, Grimmjow's gritted voice sounded again.
Ishida Ryuken looked back in surprise and saw Grimmjow's body slowly taking shape again. A knowing look flashed in his eyes.
No wonder Rosse told them the match only ended when they killed the opponent, 'So there is a resurrection method?'
'So this special world made of blood is the special ability of the King of Hueco Mundo?'
Ishida Ryuken glanced at the slowly dissolving blood-red world around them and silently guessed in his heart.
He just didn't know whether this world allowed infinite rebirths or only one.
But none of that mattered. He wasn't interested in probing the King's power.
From his own assumptions, his enemies shouldn't be hollows but rather certain Quincies.
But until now, he still didn't know how to find them.
"Grimmjow, a bet is a bet. If you have the ability, win it back next time," Before Rosse could speak, Sung-Sun softly laughed and spoke.
As soon as her words fell, Grimmjow went silent. He clicked his tongue in frustration and went straight to where the Tenth Espada should stand.
Seeing this, Ishida Ryuken was a little surprised and looked at Sung-Sun unexpectedly.
In his perception, Sung-Sun and Grimmjow's spiritual pressure were not far apart. They should both only be Adjuchas-class Arrancar.
So why did Grimmjow listen to her so obediently?
"Newcomer, welcome to Las Noches. After Lord Rosse brands you, you will receive the treatment of the Sixth Espada in Hueco Mundo. Wherever you go, as long as you show the mark, you can command all hollows. If a hollow disobeys you, you can kill it freely," Sung-Sun said with a gentle laugh.
"So this is the benefit of becoming an Espada? Not bad."
Ishida Ryuken smiled cooperatively, but in truth felt the whole thing was rather surreal.
The conflict between Quincies and hollows was even more serious than the one between Soul Reapers and hollows.
A Quincy's power and a hollow's power were like water and fire that couldn't mix, and if they touched, they risked canceling each other out.
But now, he, a pure-blooded Quincy, was joining the upper ranks of Las Noches. No matter how he thought about it, it felt unreal.
Still, after hearing Sung-Sun's explanation, he roughly understood why Grimmjow didn't dare talk back to her.
This woman might only be an Adjuchas class Arrancar, but to be considered the strongest below Vasto Lorde, she probably relied on more than just combat strength.
Most likely she was the true administrator of Hueco Mundo, something like a company's general manager.
The higher Arrancar and the King of Hueco Mundo were more like shareholders and board members. They had decision-making rights but usually didn't handle daily affairs.
After understanding this, Ishida Ryuken quickly shifted his focus back to the main topic and corrected his address, "My King, please answer the question I asked just now."
He didn't accept the job of Sixth Espada just to serve Las Noches. At the core, he wanted the truth.
"How much do you know about the past of the Ishida family?", Rosse asked in return.
"You mean the ancestral land of the Quincies? My father told me some things, but mostly vaguely, and he told me not to ask too much," Ishida Ryuken narrowed his eyes slightly, immediately understanding what Rosse meant.
His wife's death probably had everything to do with that ancestral land.
"I don't know why your father left the Quincy empire. But the reason the Quincies suffered this disaster is that Yhwach awakened and used Auswahlen to take back the power of all mixed-blood Quincies. Of course, he can take back pure-blood Quincy powers too, but for him, those people are still useful."
Since Ishida Ryuken had already joined them, Rosse didn't hide anything and explained the general situation.
"So that means, if Yhwach wants us dead, he could do it at any time?", Ishida Ryuken narrowed his eyes again, a sharp light flickering inside them.
He wasn't interested in increasing his power, but that didn't mean he liked having someone holding a blade to his throat.
"There are three exceptions in this world right now. One of them is standing in front of you. The other two are also related to you and have been targeted by him," Rosse smiled lightly.
"One is Kurosaki Masaki, probably thanks to your help. Among the other two, one should be my son Ishida Uryu, right? What's special about him?", Ishida Ryuken immediately thought of who it must be, though he was confused.
According to Rosse, the power of all mixed-blood Quincies should have been taken back.
But his son Ishida Uryu had already awakened and still wasn't affected by Auswahlen. What was the reason for that?
As for the other person, he assumed it was someone from the Kurosaki family. Why they weren't affected had nothing to do with him, so he didn't care.
If something didn't concern him, he always stayed out of it.
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