Blue lines slowly appeared within the golden pupil at the bottom of the lake.
These lines resembled the Quincy's Blut ability, and they quickly dyed the golden pupil blue.
A pillar of blue light floated out from the pupil.
Sora sensed that this Quincy power posed no threat to him, so he did not dodge.
The blue pillar of light landed on his body.
The next moment, Sora felt something and turned his thoughts inward, "looking" into his inner world. The scenery of the lake quickly blurred.
He didn't fully enter his inner world, but merely used a part of his attention to observe the activity within it.
In his inner world, a blue pillar of light descended from the black night sky.
The pillar landed on a certain spot in the black desert, where there was a giant cocoon made of blue threads.
That was the Quincy power gestating inside Sora's body.
The blue light from the sky fell upon the giant cocoon.
The blue threads of the cocoon were like dry wood meeting a blazing fire, and their glow became even brighter.
The number of blue threads also increased, and the cocoon grew larger and larger.
Just then, Sora noticed that the information on his panel was changing.
He glanced at it—
Quincy Power (Gestating 14%)
A percentage appeared after 'Gestating', and it was increasing rapidly.
14%... 20%... 90%...
After reaching 90%, the number began to slow down.
90.1%... 88.8%...
Soon, the percentage not only stopped increasing but began to decrease, and the cocoon in his inner world trembled violently.
"It seems there's been an accident?"
Sora frowned.
"My Lord... Yhwach's power has awakened... it is interfering with my intervention..."
The voice came from the giant eye.
"Yhwach..." Sora's eyes narrowed. "The Kurosaki bloodline is, as expected, still influenced by Yhwach."
He had been mentally prepared for this before using the 'Bloodline Extractor'.
It was very difficult to obtain Quincy power without it being tied to Yhwach's bloodline.
Among the existing Quincy, apart from the Soul King, all of them originated from Yhwach.
The Quincy power obtained from Yhwach would also be subject to his control.
Yhwach could reclaim Quincy power through 'Auswählen'.
However, when multiple types of power existed within a body, 'Auswählen' would not be effective.
Sora intended to walk the path of a transcendent being in the future and would inevitably acquire Hollow powers, so he did not refuse to obtain Yhwach's Quincy power.
"My Lord... I will use my Quincy power as bait to draw out Yhwach's will... you can take the opportunity to eliminate it..."
The blue pillar of light shooting from the giant eye's pupil grew several times thicker.
It was going to force out the will of Yhwach contained within the Quincy bloodline.
Sora did not refuse the chance to eliminate a future threat in advance and immediately entered his inner world.
As soon as he entered, a black-haired young woman slowly emerged from his shadow.
"Kagehime."
"The environment here is getting worse and worse. It looks like something nasty has grown on that cocoon!"
"I'll handle it right away."
Sora also saw what Kagehime was talking about.
A black mass was growing on the cocoon of blue threads.
That black mass was absorbing the cocoon to strengthen itself. The cocoon, which had already grown several times in size, quickly shrank back to its original state.
The eye's intervention had unexpectedly awakened the will of Yhwach hidden deep within the Quincy bloodline. That black substance was Yhwach's will.
"This cocoon has already shrunk quite a bit."
Sora frowned. He couldn't act yet; he had to wait for Yhwach's will to separate from the cocoon.
The black substance bathed in the blue light from the sky, grew rapidly, and gradually took on a human form. Its point of contact with the blue cocoon also became smaller and smaller.
The black substance was peeling away from the cocoon.
A moment later, the vaguely humanoid black mass detached from the blue cocoon and floated in the air.
At the same time, the blue light in the pupil of the giant eye outside gradually faded, turning back to gold.
Only, the gold in the pupil was a bit dimmer.
"My Lord... do it now..."
In the inner world, the last ray of blue light from the night sky was absorbed by the black substance.
The substance rapidly transformed—
Into a middle-aged, black-haired man.
This man looked different from the 'Old Man Zangetsu' in Sora's memory, closer to Yhwach's actual appearance.
"Is that Yhwach?" a black blade appeared in Kagehime's hand.
"Not quite... at most, a part of Yhwach," a sword also appeared in Sora's hand.
The "Yhwach" floating above the blue cocoon opened its eyes, revealing black, single-pupiled eyes.
Sora breathed a sigh of relief. He had been a bit worried about a "multi-pupiled Yhwach" appearing, which would have been difficult to handle.
"A Shinigami who has stolen the power of the Quincy King..."
Yhwach's voice was deep.
He slowly raised his arm, and a blue arrow of light, like a long spear, instantly formed in his palm.
"You shall be cut down."
Yhwach pushed forward, and the blue arrow shot towards Sora.
A Heilig Pfeil!
A flash of a blade, and the reishi arrow was instantly split down the middle. The two halves flew to either side.
Boom, boom—!
After the arrows exploded, Sora was completely unharmed.
At the same time, Kagehime appeared behind Yhwach.
By the time he turned his head, her blade had already fallen.
Squish—
Yhwach was split in two.
But he looked unusually calm, completely unconcerned about his injuries.
Not a single drop of blood flowed from the cut. The inside was not flesh and blood, but blue reishi.
The two halves of Yhwach's body rapidly changed, soon becoming two complete Yhwachs.
"It seems I'll have to completely annihilate him!" Sora frowned.
Although the giant eye had forced out Yhwach's will, that will had also merged with the Quincy power it had projected.
This "Yhwach" was not a spiritual body in the usual sense; his body was composed of the Quincy power projected by the eye.
Simple attacks had little effect on him.
However, this "Yhwach's" strength was not great, and this was Sora's home turf. Completely destroying him was possible.
But doing so pained Sora somewhat.
With a thought, the information on his panel appeared—
Quincy Power (Gestating 0.001%)
All the blue light sent by the giant eye had been absorbed by "Yhwach"!
Not only that, but even some of the original Quincy power from the cocoon had been drawn out by him.
"Yhwach" was one with this Quincy power. To destroy "Yhwach" meant erasing all of it.
"Eliminating the risk of Auswählen... it's not a total loss..." Sora consoled himself.
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