Sickly green fog churned across the battlefield like a living thing. Wherever it passed, even the Reishi in the air corroded with sizzling cries.
The Schrift Virus-poison fog. Victor Brandt of the Sternritter merely stood there, and the breath he exhaled became a reaper's scythe harvesting lives.
From the moment the battle broke out, this poison fog had become the Gotei 13's nightmare. Seated Officers below the 30th Seat and ordinary Squad Members often needed to inhale only half a breath before their throats rotted and they died bleeding from every orifice; even higher-ranking Seated Officers above the 30th Seat could not last a quarter of an hour in the fog before their Reiatsu became unstable and their limbs went numb.
Even Captain-Class figures inevitably suffered delays in their vision and perception after prolonged exposure to this highly concentrated toxic miasma.
Had the Twelfth Division not urgently prepared large quantities of general-purpose antidote pills and distributed them to the front, this battle line would probably have collapsed long ago.
But the general-purpose antidote pills could only treat the symptoms. Only after Kisuke Urahara, the man who usually looked half-asleep, personally risked sneaking to the edge of the battlefield to collect firsthand poison fog samples had he reverse-engineered a targeted antidote in an extremely short time.
"What a bunch of irritating insects..." Standing at the center of the fog, Victor's eyes were sinister. He soon noticed the Soul Reapers' increased resistance to his poison. With a sneer, he slightly adjusted the Reiatsu inside him, and the fog instantly turned from sickly green to deep purple.
The targeted antidote pills' effectiveness plummeted! Victor could actually alter the fog's formula and toxic structure at any time.
Fortunately, Kisuke Urahara had kept a trick up his sleeve during development. He had incorporated a