Crossing Over, Bankai Daiguren Hyorinmaru

Grand Line, a certain small island.

The sky was cloudless and the sun was bright.

A figure lay flat on his back on the beach, letting the waves lap against his feet.

Nearby were several pieces of broken wood and shattered canvas.

A mast over ten meters tall stood stabbed straight into the ground nearby.

At a glance, it was simply a shipwreck scene...

Cough, cough... Suddenly, the person lying flat on his back opened his eyes, then rolled over violently, propping himself up on all fours while coughing up large mouthfuls of seawater from his mouth...

"Huh? Where am I?" Ian coughed for a while before clutching his aching head and crawling up from the ground.

He looked around his surroundings, discovering that he was currently in the middle of a beach.

And he was the only one...

All around were shattered wood chips and planks, alongside other miscellaneous debris.

[Ding, host detected to have awakened, system starting fusion!]

[System generating!]

[Ding, Myriad Worlds Lottery System successfully fused!]

Before Ian could think any further, an electronic synthesized voice suddenly transmitted into his mind.

Huh? What is this, auditory hallucinations? Ian frowned. His head hurt so badly at the moment, as if something was hammering at it fiercely, making him somewhat dizzy and his focus somewhat scattered.

Yet the voice in his mind kept ringing relentlessly like a death warrant:

[Ding! Please have the host begin the newbie gift pack lottery!]

[Ding! Please have the host begin the newbie gift pack lottery!"]

[Ding! ...]

Newbie gift pack?

Open? Open what?

Although Ian was dizzy, he still subconsciously murmured out loud.

While thoughts flashed through Ian's mind, that synthesized voice also seemed to receive some kind of instruction and began to jump to the next option.

[Ding, system starting lottery!

Ding, obtained Soul-Cutting Sword -- Hyorinmaru!

Obtained Hadō #63: Raikōhō!

Obtained Flash Step!]

Huh? Not an illusion? Something is really ringing in my mind! After a period of rest, Ian recovered his stamina, his head was no longer throbbing so painfully, and his intelligence once again seized the high ground.

Soul-Cutting Sword? Kidō? Flash Step? This sounds somewhat familiar... Aren't these things from the anime Bleach? Ian looked around his surroundings once again, an incredible conjecture forming in his head -- could it be that he had transmigrated?

Ian, a youth from the twenty-first century, was no stranger to the concept of transmigration.

He had read no fewer than eighty novels, and the anime he had watched was countless!

Transmigrating to other worlds to rule as king, transmigrating back to ancient times to throw his weight around.

He had read all of these.

However, did I really transmigrate? Reason told Ian that such a thing was impossible, as it violated basic principles of physics.

Ian even doubted whether this was some people's prank, like The Truman Show, where cameras were filming him...

However, this thought was dismissed by him a few minutes later.

It also made him certain that he had indeed transmigrated...

If you were to ask what Ian's thoughts were at this moment, he actually had no thoughts at all.

Let's just survive first.

Then... figure out what world he was in.

This point was very important!

At this time, that electronic voice sounded once again:

[Do you wish to fuse the skills won in the lottery!]

The electronic synthesized voice rang in Ian's mind.

Start. Ian nodded internally.

And he pondered inwardly: It rang directly from my mind. Soul? Chip? Is it a system?

Ian concentrated wholeheartedly, intending to sense whether there were any changes to his body.

Fusion? How to fuse?

Regardless of whether there was danger, he had to give it a try.

[Ding! Fusion successful, the host can activate it autonomously!]

The system's voice fell.

Ian felt something awaken within his body, and a warm current flowed from the crown of his head toward his limbs and bones, instantly easing his fatigued body.

Countless memories even appeared in his mind.

They were about the incantations of Kidō and the release phrases of Bankai.

"Sit upon the frosted heavens, Hyorinmaru!"

Ian chanted along with the memory that appeared in his mind. Following a vaguely familiar feeling, he made a grasping motion with his right hand in empty space, and a long sword inexplicably appeared in his hand. The blade was single-edged with a chaotic grain pattern, iron chains sprouted from the pommel, and a crescent-shaped blade sat at the extreme end of the chains.

Ian looked it up and down; it was about the same as in his memories.

Moreover, Ian had never used any bladed weapons in his past life, but holding it in his palm right now felt just like a veteran who had studied swordsmanship for many years, without a trace of unfamiliarity.

"Next is..." Ian narrowed his eyes, placing the Soul-Cutting Sword in his hand horizontally in front of him, grabbing his right hand with his left, and shouted in a low voice: "Bankai -- Daiguren Hyorinmaru!"

Instantly, a terrifying aura swept across his surroundings, and wherever the aura passed, the animals within a radius of one kilometer were all stunned unconscious!

A chill instantly permeated the air, condensing the water vapor in the air into ice shards that were pulled by some force and floated in the air, trembling unceasingly around Ian!

Before long, the sky was covered with dark clouds and lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, with howling winds raging besides!

Ice condensed behind Ian, forming an ice dragon. The dragon's head bit down on the hilt of Hyorinmaru, and its huge ice wings enveloped Ron, looking like an ice ball!

"Hah!"

Ian shouted in a low voice again, and the ice dragon spread its wings, forcefully sending all the surrounding ice shards flying. Its wings flapped, and his entire body floated into the air as if losing gravity, with twelve ice flowers floating behind him, spinning unceasingly.

At this time, Ian was nearly two meters tall, and his handsome face was extremely stern at the moment. He wore the captain's uniform of the Bleach world, and his short hair had turned silver-white. A few strands of bangs hung down, his eyes were lowered, and three teardrop-shaped markings sat at his left eye, making him look filled with a sense of mystery.

"..."

Ian clenched his palm, feeling immense power surging from it!

It was completely different from the feeling of being an ordinary person in his previous life.

Floating in mid-air, Ian casually swung Hyorinmaru in his hand toward the ground.

Clack, clack

Immediately, a chill swept past, and all the trees on the ground froze into ice sculptures.

Ian swung again, and countless huge ice spikes surged straight into the sky from the ground, forming a massive mountain range composed of ice spikes.

After familiarizing himself with his body for a while, Ian descended from the air onto the battered ground.

All around were numerous towering ice mountains, falling snowflakes, and sharp ice spikes.

Viewing from high altitude, the entire island seemed to have transformed from its previous summer into the current winter.

Ian dismissed Daiguren Hyorinmaru, and the captain's haori vanished, though his hair color remained silver-white. At this moment, his energy consumption was somewhat excessive, and he sat on the ground panting slightly.

Lottery system, huh? A smile appeared at the corner of Ian's mouth. This sense of power truly fascinated him; this was something he could never experience as an ordinary person in his past life!

While Ian was familiarizing himself with his body just now, he also roughly understood the system's purpose --

Completing tasks would grant opportunities for the lottery.

And the lottery could yield items or skills from the myriad worlds.

What was the concept of the myriad worlds?

There was nothing you couldn't imagine, only what the system couldn't draw!

As for tasks, they were triggered randomly by the system with no regular pattern to speak of.

There was one right now, which had just refreshed --

[Task 1: Head to an island with people.]

[Task completion reward: One lottery draw.]