Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto swept his left hand out, gathering immense spiritual pressure in his palm as he faced Driscoll's full-force attack head-on.
"Boom!"
An explosion of flame more than ten meters high erupted within the First Division's Captain's office, instantly destroying the entire room.
"Ha ha ha ha..."
Driscoll held his forehead and laughed wildly.
But his laughter soon stopped.
He did not feel his power increase!
With the ability The Overkill, Driscoll's strength would receive a certain boost whenever he killed a living being.
Yet now that his attack was over, Driscoll felt no increase in his power.
That meant that not only had he failed to kill Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto with his previous attack, even Chōjirō Sasakibe, whom he had already gravely wounded, had not died.
When the smoke and dust cleared, Driscoll saw that although the First Division's Captain's office had suffered considerable damage from his attack, the area one meter in front of Captain-Commander Yamamoto and everything behind him remained largely untouched.
Thin white mist rose from Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's palm, where several faint abrasions had appeared.
Driscoll's all-out attack had been blocked just like that by Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, leaving only a few superficial scrapes on his palm.
From that alone, it was clear just how vast the gap in strength between Driscoll and Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto was.
"You certainly took good care of this old man's Vice-Captain!"
"Is today the day the Wandenreich declares war on the Seireitei?"
Within the Fifth Division, Ailin stepped out of the Captain's office.
With both hands tucked into his wide sleeves, Ailin spread out his Reikaku.
Very quickly, Ailin sensed the spiritual pressure of every Quincy who had infiltrated the Seireitei this time.
Quincies from the Wandenreich had appeared throughout the entire Gotei 13.
Because these people