Bleach: Watch Closely, This Is How You Use a Zanpakutō novel Chapter 176

Chapter 176 - 176: Vasto Lorde

As the Hōgyoku merged with the final soul, Masatsuki Aozaki tucked it into his arms.

His gaze swept slowly over the three women before him—Sung-Sun, Apacci, and Mila Rose. The corner of his mouth curled into an enigmatic smile.

"Do you want to live, or would you rather dissolve into Reishi like the others?"

His voice was calm and low, yet it carried an invisible weight, sending a chill through the air.

The three of them froze in disbelief.

A Shinigami encountering Hollows—shouldn't he have slaughtered them on sight?

Why was this man asking such a question, even offering them the choice between life and death?

After a brief moment of shock, Sung-Sun was the first to regain her composure.

She took a deep breath, forcing herself to stay calm, and raised a hand to stop Apacci and Mila Rose, who looked as if they were about to speak.

Lowering her head, she spoke in a tone of utmost humility.

"We want to live... Please spare us."

Never had she imagined that she would one day beg a Shinigami for mercy.

She was not someone who feared death.

But right now, there was someone more important to her than her own life—Harribel.

Harribel had stayed behind, facing Oswell and his forces alone to protect them.

If she recklessly threw away her life out of pride, how could she ever face Harribel's sacrifice?

So, even if it meant setting aside her dignity and pleading for survival, Sung-Sun did not hesitate.

...

Whoosh—

The desert winds roared like raging tides.

Harribel's bone armor was already battered and broken under the relentless assault of the surrounding Hollows.

Through her narrowed pupils, a figure slowly came into focus—Oswell, his long black hair flowing in the wind.

From a distance, he grinned at her, his expression chilling to the core.

Taking a step forward, Oswell raised his lance high.

In an instant, an orb of pure darkness rapidly coalesced at its tip, its dense energy visible to the naked eye.

Then, with a powerful swing of his arm, he hurled the sphere forward!

The jet-black mass shot through the air like an arrow.

First, it compressed. Then, it rapidly expanded, spinning violently as it streaked toward the ground.

In less than a second, the energy orb underwent a breathtaking transformation mid-flight.

By the time it struck, it had become an immense pillar of black light, piercing the sky.

The once-still desert erupted into chaos, a massive shockwave rippling outward as if heralding the apocalypse.

The explosion's energy fluctuations were beyond imagination, its devastating reach spanning tens of kilometers in every direction.

The raging winds carried towering waves of sand, tearing through the restless dunes like a rampaging beast, carving a bottomless crevasse into the earth itself.

From afar, one could see the terrifying air currents swirling wildly, twisting the gray clouds above into a vortex so massive it seemed to swallow the sky itself.

Like a crumbling white wall collapsing in slow motion, the vortex pressed downward, an oppressive force so overwhelming it was almost suffocating.

Faced with such an unimaginable storm, even the Adjuchas of Las Noches trembled in fear, feeling as if the very fabric of space around them had begun to warp.

"Is that also a Cero?" someone exclaimed in awe. "No wonder it's a Vasto Lorde-class attack!"

Another voice, filled with reverence, added,

"This is the true power of Hueco Mundo's overlord! Oswell-sama is simply unstoppable!!"

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