System Soul Coins and the Second Summoning

Leaving the academy.

Aizen took Ulquiorra to find an inn in Notting City.

The inn was not far from the academy, and its owner was a young woman.

She looked only fifteen or sixteen, dressed in a plain linen gown. She looked ordinary, but her expression was arrogant. When she saw customers enter, she did not even acknowledge them.

Aizen walked up to the counter, lightly tapped it, and said,

"Open a room by the hour."

The innkeeper lazily stretched and yawned, then looked blearily at Aizen and Ulquiorra, the two children.

"Heh heh, two little brats want to rent one room?"

"We don't rent by the hour. One room for one day costs one Silver Soul Coin, with one Gold Soul Coin as a deposit."

Since that was the price, Aizen could not be bothered to haggle.

After paying one gold and one silver Soul Coin, he followed the innkeeper to a room on the second floor.

She took out a ring of keys, searched through them, and picked one to try. When it did not work, she chose another.

It took three attempts before she finally opened the door.

She then removed the key and handed it to Aizen.

"Just return it before noon tomorrow. I'll exchange the Gold Soul Coin back to you then."

Aizen nodded and entered the room with Ulquiorra.

He looked over the simple room. The windows were tightly shut, so no one outside could see in.

There was only one key to the door as well. Very good.

After locking the door from the inside, Aizen finally felt at ease.

He had chosen to summon outside because it offered privacy.

If he summoned at the academy or in the dormitory,

it would be difficult to explain if someone happened to see it.

Aizen was also not sure whether this summoning would go as smoothly as when he had summoned Ulquiorra.

The Hogyoku's ability to alter reality depended on its user's power.

When he summoned Ulquiorra in Holy Soul Village, it only needed to alter the memories of the villagers there. The workload was not great.

But if he summoned at the academy, it would need to alter the memories of everyone in the entire academy.

That was far more work than in Holy Soul Village.

It would also have to resolve the new summon's identity, relationships, and other issues within the academy.

Adding one more student was far more troublesome than adding one more villager.

After considering all these factors, Aizen decided to find an empty place outside to summon.

Like this sparsely populated inn.

Once he summoned someone new, the Hogyoku would only need to tamper with the innkeeper's memories.

Perhaps it would not even need to do that.

The first summoned character and the first Character Template had been gifts when the system appeared.

But the second time was different.

To summon a second character and unlock a second Character Template, he had to consume Soul Coins!

These were the fresh souls Aizen had obtained while wandering through the surrounding cities during this time.

Every time he absorbed a soul, the trade currency shared by the Summoning System and the Role-Playing System increased by one.

Through Aizen's efforts, he had acquired three hundred and twelve Soul Coins during this period.

Yet Aizen had only witnessed two hundred and twenty-five people die.

After calculating it, Aizen concluded that the result was related to Soul Power.

When the system acquired the soul of someone without Soul Power, it forcibly granted one Soul Coin.

But when someone with Soul Power died, the number of Soul Coins gained depended on their Soul Power Level.

One level of Soul Power meant one Soul Coin; two levels of Soul Power meant two Soul Coins.

Ten levels of Soul Power meant ten Soul Coins.

That was why Aizen had obtained more than three hundred Soul Coins from over two hundred people.

With Soul Coins, he could initiate the second summoning and obtain the second template.

After the Soul Reaper Summoning System detected the Soul Coins, Aizen discovered that Soul Coin prices had been listed beneath every character.

And there was more than one price tier.

For example, Kurosaki Ichigo had several different price points.

The first tier: awakened Soul Reaper, ten thousand Soul Coins.

The second tier: Shikai Zangetsu, one hundred thousand Soul Coins.

The third tier: Tensa Zangetsu, ten million Soul Coins.

The fourth tier: Hollowfication, five billion Soul Coins.

The fifth tier: Final Getsuga Tenshō, twenty billion Soul Coins.

The sixth tier: Dual Zangetsu, ???? Soul Coins.

The strongest Ichigo was priceless!

Seeing these prices, Aizen understood.

Perhaps the Soul Coins gained after a Soul Master's death were calculated on a decimal scale.

From Level 0 to Level 10, each level was worth one to ten Soul Coins.

From Level 11 to Level 20, each level was worth ten to one hundred Soul Coins.

And so on.

A Level One Hundred god-level being would be worth exactly ten billion Soul Coins.

In other words, the Ichigo capable of using Final Getsuga Tenshō had surpassed god level.

And the Ichigo wielding Dual Zangetsu had transcended the Douluo world.

Yhwach's price, meanwhile, was simply ???? Soul Coins.

The Almighty was indeed powerful.

Aizen Sousuke's prices were also divided into stages.

The lowest price was five billion, followed by ten billion, fifteen billion, and twenty billion. Beyond that, there was also a ??? Soul Coin tier.

It seemed the system was uncertain of Aizen Sousuke's limits.

As for the other Soul Reaper characters, Captain-class figures were all priced in the hundreds of millions.

The Espada were the same.

Aizen could not afford any of them at all.

Therefore, there was only one other path.

One hundred Soul Coins for a random summon, then nurture them from scratch!

Only this way could he summon a character right now.

After summoning them, he could use Soul Coins to purchase levels.

And the price of levels was exactly as Aizen had calculated: from Level 10 to Level 20, it cost ten Soul Coins per level.

The pattern continued from there.

Looking at this soul-devouring system, Aizen could not help feeling a little afraid.

It was clearly urging him to kill more Soul Masters. The more he killed, the more Soul Coins he would gain; the stronger the characters he summoned, the stronger he himself would become.

As expected of a system created by the Hogyoku. To obtain power, one had to pay a price.

And the price he had to pay was the lives of Soul Masters!

Aizen shook his head and cast those thoughts aside.

Summon first. I'll deal with the rest later!

One summoning required one hundred Soul Coins, and obtaining a Character Template also cost one hundred Soul Coins each time.

To keep the summoned character from falling too far behind in level, Aizen chose to reserve one hundred Soul Coins to raise the character's level.

He spent one hundred Soul Coins and activated a random summon.

On the system panel, multicolored streams of light flowed over every character.

In the end, they stopped on Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, with his short light-blue hair, sky-blue eyes, several bangs hanging over his forehead, teal-green markings beneath his eyes, and strong, solid build.

The Sixth Espada!

The embodiment of destruction.

A complete battle maniac.

A watery-blue ball of light floated out from his body, hovered in the center of the room, and then condensed into form.

A seven-year-old blue-haired boy appeared before Aizen and Ulquiorra.

Ulquiorra was not surprised by any of it.

Grimmjow opened his sky-blue eyes, looked at Aizen, dropped to one knee, and said,

"Greetings, Lord Aizen."

Aizen nodded and approached Grimmjow.

"I will now baptize you."

As he spoke, he used the system to spend one hundred Soul Coins and infuse Grimmjow with Soul Power.

The next moment, a Hundred-Year Soul Ring rose beneath Grimmjow's feet, while his Soul Power steadily increased until it stopped at Level 20.

Ten Soul Coins helped Grimmjow break through to Level 11, while the remaining ninety Soul Coins raised him to Level 20.

Aizen's gaze shifted back and forth between Ulquiorra and Grimmjow.

At the moment, Grimmjow's Soul Power was one level higher than Ulquiorra's.

He did not know whether that would affect their relationship. After all, in their previous lives, their relationship had not been very good.

Aizen was soon relieved.

They did not start fighting in front of him.

Afterward, Aizen activated the Character Template summon.

Another hundred Soul Coins were gone.

At this moment, random light jumped across one template after another.

Looking at his nearly depleted Soul Coins, Aizen sighed.

"Do I really have to go kill Soul Masters?"

"Would Soul Beasts work?"

"I'll go take a look at the Soul Hunting Forest tomorrow."

As he thought this, the random light came to a stop.

Character Template acquired: Hitsugaya Toshiro!