The palace, once silent.
Ever since injecting the serum, Emperor Barragan had sunk into stillness within that mass of pitch-black Senescencia.
The smooth, gleaming bricks and pillars around him also seemed to slowly lose their luster in the presence of Senescencia.
After this state persisted for some time, it was finally broken by a strange, hoarse murmur that sounded like bones knocking together.
"I, Emperor Barragan, have returned!"
As that strange voice echoed through the hall, the pitch-black, ominous Senescencia slowly began to disperse.
As though welcoming a noble king, the black mist spread across the floor like a carpet.
Wherever it lightly covered, whether floor tiles or stone seats, everything seemed to instantly pass through countless weathered years and turned into gray-white dust.
Amid this horrifying scene, as the black mist slowly unfurled, a burly, chilling figure gradually floated in the air above the palace.
Barragan had somehow already entered his Resurrección state.
In his Resurrección form, Barragan had completely lost his human shape and become a pale skeletal frame.
Yet his body was wrapped in a heavy carapace formed from Senescencia, brimming with a dense and ominous aura.
That carapace of Senescencia alone could block nearly all attacks.
Whether energy attacks or sword strikes, before they could even touch his body against Senescencia's defense, they would crumble into ash, becoming powerless dust.
After his Resurrección, Barragan, who could command Senescencia pouring forth like a waterfall, possessed a power ordinary people could scarcely comprehend.
This was the ability bestowed upon him by the authority of aging.
Earlier, the reason Aizen had said that Ulquiorra's third form operated on the same principle as Barragan's power—
was because Ulquiorra's authority of nothingness likewise granted the armor around his body such an ability.
A mere touch would turn something into nothingness, just