"I really almost got killed just now, and you're telling me this!"
"His Schrift ability seems to make his body abnormally tough. Neither my Haiburi nor the captain's Bankai could break through his defenses."
Although she knew Yoru Machi was extremely powerful, Rangiku also knew that the Yoru Machi before her was not the real one. She could only provide him with as much information as she knew.
As they spoke, Cangdu, whom Yoru Machi had sent flying with a single punch earlier, got back to his feet. The punch that had blasted him hundreds of meters away with Shunkō appeared to have caused him no substantial damage at all.
Schrift I: Iron, combined with a Quincy's Blut Vene, made Cangdu the most defensively powerful member of the Sternritter.
Even after taking Yoru Machi's point-blank Shunkō, he had not suffered any serious injuries. With a casual sweep of his hand, enormous ice spikes instantly condensed in the air and shot toward Yoru Machi and the others.
The ability Cangdu was using now was clearly one of Tōshirō's signature techniques—Ice Pillars of Flock.
Faced with several incoming ice spikes, Yoru Machi did not bother dodging. He merely thrust one hand forward, and an enlarged, empowered Crimson Fire Cannon burst from his palm, instantly vaporizing the ice pillars Cangdu had fired.
As the ice pillars evaporated under the intense heat, the battlefield was instantly flooded with vast amounts of steam.
In that instant, Cangdu, standing within the white mist, quickly sensed the danger. He immediately used the moisture in the air to create rows of ice spikes that burst through the ground.
Crack, crack—!
Within a hundred-meter radius centered on Cangdu, a freezing wave erupted, and enormous icicles instantly pierced out of the ground.
Yet the facts proved that although his judgment