"Who exactly are you?"
Barragan was extremely wary at that moment. Having just been thoroughly beaten by Su Feng, he regarded every Soul Reaper with immense suspicion.
"Your composure is completely gone." A voice came from the throne. "There is no trace left of the bearing a king should possess."
"Barragan, it seems you have been scared out of your wits by him."
The moment those words were spoken, Barragan's body jolted. After a brief silence came a violent rage, like an erupting volcano.
Massive amounts of black aura burst forth like a geyser. The ground beneath him was crazily corroded, countless rock foundations turning into dust and sand.
The display perfectly embodied the meaning of impotent fury.
The figure on the throne remained utterly unmoved. His expression was still calm, as if nothing in the world could stir his emotions.
"Anger unsupported by strength is just like this Zanpakuto's name."
The silver-white blade was slowly drawn from its sheath and displayed to the enraged Barragan with its tip pointed downward.
"Kyoka Suigetsu..."
The instant the words fell, black aura swept upward. Everything in its path turned into gray dust and vanished completely into the air, leaving no trace behind.
Yet just as the tide-like aura was about to reach the throne, it strangely changed direction and crashed down to the right.
A massive stone pillar hundreds of meters tall collapsed and shattered in an instant under the black aura's corrosion, scattering across the wasteland.
But in Barragan's eyes—
His supreme, unrivaled power, which he had always taken such pride in, was effortlessly erased by the figure on the throne. It was as though an endless abyss lay ahead, swallowing every bit of the Power of Senescence he poured into it.
His skeletal teeth clicked together, and unconcealed shock and