In a stretch of wilderness far from any town, five thousand meters underground, lay the Infinity Castle, its spaces overlapping one another.
Inside an elegant room, Kaneda Yūichirō sat casually cross-legged on a cushion. Opposite him sat Muzan Kibutsuji, dressed like a refined gentleman.
Through their earnest cooperation, they had developed the Heavenly Path Palace into a massive power occupying a third of Japan, with nearly a hundred thousand Menos Grande under its command. It had all the makings of a three-way balance of power with Las Noches and the Demon Slayer Corps.
Muzan Kibutsuji frowned as he shared the intelligence he had just received. "Aizen has started making moves. Las Noches has been gathering its armies lately, and his reach has already extended to countries across the ocean. According to reports from my undercover agents, quite a few Western nations have already become his vassal states."
Kaneda Yūichirō's carefree expression immediately turned serious. He murmured, "That's bad news! Looks like he intends to move against us!"
"How is progress on the Hollow Demons?"
Muzan Kibutsuji took a sip of tea from his cup and said, "The Twelve Kizuki under my command have all successfully become Hollow Demons."
As the name suggested, a Hollow Demon was a fusion of a Hollow and a demon, possessing a Hollow's high-speed regeneration and terrifying strength alongside a demon's bizarre abilities. Muzan Kibutsuji had named this combination a "Hollow Demon."
The Blood Demon Arts used by demons came in many varieties: manipulating ice, splitting their bodies, controlling space, inducing hypnosis through dreams...
Their abilities differed, as did their strength. They were comparable to the True Name Release of a Zanpakutō in the Soul Society World, but these supernatural powers arose entirely from mutations in the genes within their blood, rather than being Zanpakutō abilities