"Shhrrk, shhrrk..."
The sound of terrifying liquid vaporizing echoed violently across the battlefield, mixed with the faint, barely audible screams of a few Rock Ninja.
Centered on the spot where the green droplets had exploded, a scene of utter horror unfolded before everyone's eyes.
The once massive, solid rock was now riddled with pits and hollows, and thick, pale greenish-white smoke kept rising from it, as though it had been boiled and corroded by some substance.
A closer look would have revealed that the Rock Ninja who had been standing there had all vanished without a trace.
Amid the terrifying explosion, the brilliant-looking green droplet had contracted in an instant, then rapidly expanded into a vast, dreadful curtain of green.
A mass of blue-green gas shot outward at tremendous speed, quickly engulfing the Rock Ninja standing nearby.
Then the horrifying scene began.
The bodies of the Rock Ninja shrouded in the blue-green gas seemed to be corroded by something terrible!
Some of them melted into nothing before they could even scream. Their contorted faces, mixed with foul, pus-filled blood, soon dissolved into murky pools of crimson liquid.
Even then, the remnants of their blood continued to corrode everything around them, slowly eating into the massive rock beneath.
A few Rock Ninja who had been farther away were lucky enough to survive, but each of them watched what had happened with a deathly pale face.
In that moment, they forgot to flee. Even their breathing stopped.
Facing Aizen, whose casual strike had nearly wiped them all out, they had no idea whether anything they did would have the slightest effect against him.
"Y-Why... why would you... do this...?"
At that moment, Nanto, who had been standing beside Aizen, began to tremble violently. His legs gave way, and he fell to his