"Oh? Has it already come to this?"
Within the Fifth Division, Ailin looked at the document in his hand in surprise.
In recent years, Ailin had often gone to Hueco Mundo to raise this body's spiritual pressure, and had somewhat neglected the progress on the Soul Society side.
The document in Ailin's hands stated that the latest group of sixth-year students from True Zero Spirit Arts Academy would be undergoing their graduation assessment. The Fifth Division was to assist the Thirteenth Division members stationed in the Human World in protecting the examinees and grading each student's performance.
Since Hueco Mundo had come under Ailin's control, there had been no need for him to use Hollows as Aizen had, creating additional "casualty slots" among the Seireitei's Soul Reapers for experiments. Furthermore, Las Noches had gathered nearly all Menos-class Hollows at Gillian level or above that possessed independent consciousness. Thus, in recent decades, no Gillian-level or higher Menos had attacked the Human World or Soul Society.
Now, let alone students of True Zero Spirit Arts Academy, even few Soul Reapers who had joined the Gotei 13 within the past century had ever seen a Menos.
To them, the enemies Soul Reapers needed to deal with were merely small and medium-sized Hollows.
Those Menos at Gillian level and above were the responsibility of the Royal Guard, the "Royal Special Forces."
With fewer Hollows attacking the Human World and entering Soul Society, the number of Soul Reaper casualties within the Seireitei naturally plummeted.
As a result, the requirements for joining the Gotei 13 had steadily risen over the past several decades.
After all, the Gotei 13 only had so many positions. Without casualties, the amount of fresh blood they needed to recruit each year was naturally far lower.
Thus, the graduation assessment at True