"They have a way for ordinary soldiers to increase their spiritual pressure to the Seated Officer level in a short period of time, and they also have Soul Art who is comparable to Shikai. The most important thing is," Lin Nan came to stand next to Yota, "There are more than six hundred such elite soldiers."
Yota's shocked eyes turned back to Lin Nan's face again. "How much? How much did you say?"
"Six hundred and eighty-three." Lin Nan's expression was extremely serious, "This is the number of stolen Zanpakuto - now we have found where the stolen knives are."
Yota's brows knit together tightly. "This... our troops to protect Seireitei are far from enough!"
"I suggest you immediately shrink your troops and concentrate your defense forces on the most important places Seireitei - such as the place where the nobles are meeting."
Lin Nan said as he pulled out Zanpakuto and calmly observed the battle ahead, "Now before their reinforcements arrive, we can hold them off for you for a while and buy time for you to withdraw your troops."
"But, what about Noble Street?"
"Give up. When the war situation is critical, you can only give up secondary targets and protect the most important areas." Lin Nan did not hesitate.
"You guys... can you do it?" Yota asked with some worry, "I know you guys have your wits about you, but the enemy is also very ferocious."
"Have you forgotten that I fought with them?" Lin Nan said, "Don't worry. The time we can buy should be enough for you to withdraw your team."
Yota gritted his teeth. "It will get dark soon, you must be more careful. When we complete the retreat, don't be reluctant to fight, and retreat to the vicinity of Central Council Tower immediately!"
Lin Nan glanced at the setting sun. "An Xin, I am a master of night fighting. Last time I worked with Ukitake, we killed fifteen people at once. What's more, I have another helper this time."
Kyoraku was standing next to him, flipping the curly hair on his forehead with some pride and smiling at Yota:
"It's better when it's dark. Don't you know? Darkness is my friend!"
The entire neighborhood of Noble Street has turned into a bloody battlefield. Among the corpses on the ground, those of Soul Reaper account for the vast majority.
When the spiritual pressure is raised to the Seated Officer level, the gap with ordinary team members is completely different. According to the Rei-Power classification, a Soul Reaper team member will be ranked at the 20th level Rei-Power, and the upper level will be the 13th level Rei-Power. The gap is quite huge.
Converted from the perspective of Seated Officer, the Seated Officer system implemented in Court Guard Squad starts from the second 10th Seat and ends at Third Seat. Among these dozen people, Rei-Power spans seven realms from twelfth to sixth level.
It can be said that every time Rei-Power improves by one level, it may leave many people behind in terms of combat power.
Lin Nan has now reached the sixth level Rei-Power, which in theory has reached the level of Third Seat. Together with the other three people, this four-person team has become the most feared hunting team among the rebel warriors in the night.
Lin Nan is responsible for output, Ukitake is responsible for defensive counterattack, Kyoraku is responsible for helping teammates dodge attacks and sneak attacks with Kageoni, and Amamiya Keiji is responsible for checking whether the enemy is dead and performing last-ditch attacks.
Several people cooperated in an orderly manner, and Lin Nan was also able to play well. With the help of several people, he could rely on simple Shunpo and Zanjutsu to win, without having to use the somewhat expensive "Compressed Spiritual Pressure Sword".
Being able to preserve one's own spiritual pressure as much as possible will undoubtedly leave an extra trump card for the unknown battles that will follow.
In just forty minutes, they had cleared three of the four intersections around the Noble Street area. This efficiency is enough to attract attention.
Taking advantage of this time, Shihoin Yota also completed the retreat in time.
However, when a few people ended the battle at the third intersection and prepared to march towards the final intersection of Noble Street in one go, a problem arose on Kyoraku's side.
Several people were walking through the shadows. Suddenly, their vision blurred. Four people were neatly "squeezed" out of the shadows and fell onto the stone road of Noble Street.
"I'm going!" Lin Nan rolled over from the ground and sat up, rubbing his sore nose, "I almost got a nosebleed. I just fought for so long without seeing any blood, and you almost saw blood. Kyoraku, what did you do?"
Ukitake had just sat up, and reached out to pull up Amamiya Keiji, who was already rolling his eyes under him, saying, "I'm sorry. Thank you for giving me some cushion."
Amamiya Keiji took a few long breaths and glanced at Ukitake: "You are really much heavier than you look."
Ukitake smiled sheepishly and helped Amemiya beat the dirt on his body, "After joining Spirit Arts Academy, I eat better and my body recovers well..."
Kyoraku was thrown to the corner and fell upside down. He finally turned himself over, leaned against the wall and shook his head violently, and then regained his consciousness. "What happened?"
The other three people all looked at him. "We still want to ask you!"
Lin Nan looked at Kyoraku with some concern. "Your spiritual pressure fluctuated a little. Did you consume too much spiritual pressure just now?"
Ukitake also looked at Kyoraku with some worry.
He and Kyoraku had exchanged experiences on the use of Zanpakuto, and they both understood the situation relatively well. His Sōgyo no Kotowari, as Zanpakuto, was a bit unusually "docile", and it did not consume a lot of spiritual pressure when used. This was completely different from Kyoraku's Zanpakuto.
Kyoraku's "Flower Heaven" can be described as unruly and rebellious. Not only does it consume a lot of spiritual pressure, but it is also extremely difficult to tame.
Kyoraku scratched his hair in embarrassment and looked down at the Shikai state Zanpakuto in his hand. "She is having trouble with me."
The other three people all widened their eyes in surprise, especially Amamiya Keiji. Zanpakuto, who had not yet obtained Shikai, would have trouble with his master? This teacher had never said that.
All his knowledge of Zanpakuto came from textbooks. His actual observation of Shikai came only from his classmates Kyoraku and Ukitake.
Lin Nan was just surprised for a moment before he figured out what was going on. Zanpakuto of Kyoraku Shunsui is the most arrogant knife in the original work. No matter how difficult it is to take care of, he will believe it.
"Are you having trouble? What's going on?"
Kyoraku looked at Lin Nan with a confused look on his face. After organizing the conversation for a long time, he finally made up his mind and said, "She said that she is tired of playing the same games all the time. She wants to play something else and exciting, otherwise she won't let me use it..."
As soon as these words came out, Ukitake was speechless, Amemiya was confused, and even Lin Nan couldn't hold himself any longer.
"How long has it been and you still want to play around?"
Kyoraku smiled shyly and nodded to the three of them to apologize, "Sorry, sorry. I also know it's not the right time..."
Lin Nan looked around, as well as the night sky that was still lit up by small Kido explosions from time to time, and pursed his lips. "The area here is too dangerous, and I really can't leave time for you to communicate with her.
Forget it, we are still half way from the last intersection, we will walk there immediately! Kyoraku, if she still loses her temper, if a fight breaks out later, you should retreat, and use Kido to cover us with Amemiya."
With that said, he pulled Kyoraku up from the ground. The four of them rushed towards the last intersection on foot.
Amamiya Keiji asked Ukitake in a low and suspicious voice as he ran, "Am I understanding correctly? Just now, Kyoraku has been talking about the knife, right?"
The four people ran all the way, and before they reached the fourth intersection, they were shocked by the nearly ten rebel corpses neatly stacked at the intersection. Not only were each corpse neatly arranged, but they were all wrapped in dense white cloth.
The most important thing is that there are very few corpses of Death God Fang on the ground here, only a few here and there.
Not far away, Shutara Senjumaru was taking advantage of the darkness to wrap up another corpse carefully with his skeletal hands.
Seeing Lin Nan, she was a little surprised. "Didn't you say you went to the Spirit Arts Academy? Why did you come here??"
"The results are very rich, squad leader!" Lin Nan looked at the corpses on the ground and said with a smile, "It's a long story. Spirit Arts Academy should be the enemy's base camp now, so it's not advisable to stay for a long time. In addition, I have to clear out the enemy soldiers at Noble Street's intersections to help Yota buy time to retreat, so I came here."
Senjumaru looked at Lin Nan with some suspicion. "Are you hiding something from me again? Spirit Arts Academy is so far here, did the four of you just fight all the way to Noble Street?"
"His knife can help us travel through the shadows! We followed the shadows all the way here." Lin Nan patted Kyoraku on the shoulder.
Senjumaru made a sound, "I don't believe you. You guys just came here running. If you really have this ability, why don't you use it?"
Kyoraku said with a grimace, "This is a long story. Darkness is my friend, but my knife is not now..."