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"Boom!"
The single strike was like a spring thunderclap, which was why Yoru Chikao named this move Thunderclap Slash.
As this strike was unleashed, Yoru Chikao's spiritual pressure instantly depleted by about seventy percent. A thick, dark golden lightning, carrying an unstoppable blade aura, slashed towards Hubert Allen!
"What a fast blade!"
Feeling Yoru Chikao's earth-shattering strike, Hubert Allen immediately used his innate ability, opening his mouth to spew out a large amount of black mist poison. These black mist poisons then intertwined to form a giant poisonous snake, which collided with Yoru Chikao's Thunderclap Slash.
At the same time, the Cero from the mouths of many of Hubert Allen's Gillians had finished charging. Hundreds of black-purple beams aimed at Yoru Chikao and fired simultaneously.
"Bang!"
The dragon-like Thunderclap Slash and the giant poisonous snake collided, producing an earth-shattering roar.
The Thunderclap Slash split the giant snake in two, including Hubert Allen who was hiding behind the giant snake.
However, at the same moment, hundreds of Cero also simultaneously blasted towards Yoru Chikao!
Immediately, sand and stones flew, and dust filled the sky.
"This... impossible, I'm not willing!!!"
With a final terrified scream, Hubert Allen's body exploded from the middle.
"Ptooey!"
As the dust slowly dissipated, Yoru Chikao stood in the giant crater, slowly spitting out a mouthful of blood. At the same time, his entire shoulder had been blasted out of existence.
"Fortunately, I dodged quickly, otherwise I would have been completely blown apart!"
Looking at the messy surroundings, Yoru Chikao said with lingering fear.
After unleashing his strongest strike, Yoru Chikao, facing the critical moment of being blasted by hundreds of Cero, used Cero to blast a hole in the ground and hid inside to avoid a large amount of damage from the Cero.
Even so, his entire shoulder was still blown off.
However, he fortunately protected his head and internal organs tightly, and soon, the flesh at his grotesque wound began to squirm. In a short while, Yoru Chikao, who was originally severely injured and on the verge of death, recovered completely.
Although he recovered, Yoru Chikao's aura was extremely weak. His spiritual pressure was almost completely depleted.
But Yoru Chikao knew it was not yet time to relax. So, he forced himself to raise his spirits, used Sonido, and stumbled to Hubert Allen's remains, activating Soul Eater to devour him.
Without time to digest it carefully, he raised his blade and charged towards the hundreds of Gillians around him.
These Gillians had no intelligence and were slow-moving due to being controlled by snake venom. Without a leader, they were even dumber than ordinary Gillians, which allowed Yoru Chikao to go on a rampage in such a weakened state, devouring each and every one of them.
When Yoru Chikao had killed half of them and had not yet carefully digested, a feeling of fullness came over him. Yoru Chikao could only temporarily suppress it and continue the slaughter.
Only after killing all the Gillians present did Yoru Chikao fly up to what was originally Hubert Allen's lair. Only then did he stop suppressing his impending promotion and carefully digest the spiritual particles he had previously devoured with Soul Eater.
Yoru Chikao's entire body curled up, and waves of dark golden spiritual pressure surged out from his body like a tide, one after another.
Immediately, a dark golden pillar of light, like a sky-reaching pillar, extended upwards to the heavens and downwards to the netherworld.
At this moment, within several hundred miles centered on Yoru Chikao, everyone sensed this vast aura.
A hundred miles north of Yoru Chikao, a lone Centaur-shaped Adjuchas suddenly looked towards Yoru Chikao's direction with a feeling of dread, his eyes filled with terror.
"Is an Adjuchas evolving into a Vasto Lorde?"
"What a wonderful feeling, is this the leap of life?!"
At this moment, right in the center of the light pillar, Yoru Chikao cried out in comfort. He felt as if he was being enveloped by warm hands, a feeling as pleasant as a spring breeze, beyond words.
Immediately after, the pillar of light dissipated, revealing Yoru Chikao's hundred-meter-tall figure.
After advancing to Gillian, Yoru Chikao did not transform into the common body shape like ninety-nine percent of other Hollows. Instead, he became more human-like.
His entire body was as black as ink, covered in dark golden lightning patterns. His original centipede tail had transformed into an armor-like existence and grown together with his helmet-like mask, wrapping around Yoru Chikao's back.
The Hollow hole, originally located at his waist and the center of his tail, had moved to the position of his heart.
Feeling the surging spiritual pressure within him, Yoru Chikao had no doubt that the Adjuchas who had previously given him a tough fight would now probably not even be able to withstand his ordinary strike!
"Thump, thump, thump!"
Yoru Chikao, over a hundred meters tall, looked at his skeleton-like feet and excitedly jumped, causing the ground to shake three times!
Yoru Chikao surveyed himself. Of his entire body, only his feet most resembled a Gillian. However, Yoru Chikao was already very satisfied with this, as he could previously only move around by his tail. Now, having regrown his feet, he was very happy.
"You've gotten bigger too?"
Yoru Chikao looked at the Asauchi in his hand, which had transformed into a forty-meter-long blade, and smiled knowingly. This blade had scaled up proportionally with Yoru Chikao.
"Hehe, but then again..."
With a strange laugh from Yoru Chikao, his body rapidly shrunk, surprisingly transforming from a hundred-meter size to only about two meters tall, extremely similar to a normal human. The giant Asauchi also shrunk back to the size of a normal sword as Yoru Chikao condensed his spiritual pressure.
This was a new ability Yoru Chikao awakened after advancing to Gillian—As You Wish.
The only function of As You Wish was to control the enlargement and reduction of his body within a certain proportion. After Yoru Chikao used As You Wish and shrunk his body to its smallest, he became his current appearance.
With Yoru Chikao's current humanoid appearance and human-like physique, combined with his immense spiritual pressure, anyone who saw him would probably shout "Vasto Lorde!"
Yoru Chikao decided that he would use this smallest form as his regular state from now on. After all, the Gillian's true body was too large; even with Concealing Presence, he could only hide his spiritual pressure, not his mountain-like physique.
Yoru Chikao casually swung his blade, and a powerful blade light surged out, causing more than a dozen towering trees to fall.
"Not bad, not bad! The power is more than ten times stronger than before my advancement."
Yoru Chikao's eyes immediately lit up.
"I wonder if I can defeat Ito Kaito now?"
Currently, having just advanced, he was full of fighting spirit. Although he had only advanced to a lower-level Menos Grande, a Gillian, his Gillian was clearly not to be judged by common sense. After all, in the original work, no Gillian was seen slaughtering Adjuchas like dogs.
And while Ito Kaito was known as the former Third Seat of the Eleventh Division, his actual combat ability was among the best of all Vice-Captains, making him perfectly suited to test his current strength.
Therefore, Yoru Chikao no longer hesitated and immediately mimicked his previous method, injecting his spiritual pressure into his Zanpakuto, and at the same time, communicating with the inner world hidden within the blade with his consciousness.
With a familiar sensation of the world spinning, the scenery around Yoru Chikao began to blur. Then, the towering trees of the Great Hollow Forest surprisingly transformed into low, earthen houses. It was the Rukongai from Ito Kaito's memories.
"It really works!"