Yhwach's eerie double pupils stared fixedly at the Black-Haired Demon King who had dragged the entire world to the brink of destruction with his own hands.
His voice was icy, filled with endless killing intent.
"You have finally forced me to come out."
"What remarkable 'power.'"
An appreciative smile appeared on Yhwach's face.
"To think you could force me to absorb the incomplete 'Soul King' ahead of time."
"And thereby..."
A strange set of "nine pupils" flashed in his eyes.
"Forcibly usher in this entirely new era, created by my own hands."
Yhwach slowly spread his arms, as though embracing this New World he had personally reshaped.
"From this moment onward..."
His voice was not loud, yet it reached the ears of every surviving life across the Three Worlds with perfect clarity.
"There will no longer be a 'Soul Society.'"
"Nor will there be a 'Present World' or 'Hueco Mundo.'"
"There will only be an absolute 'paradise,' without the boundary between 'life' and 'death.'"
"An eternal 'empire'..."
"Ruled by me, Yhwach!"
As his words fell!
He unleashed the ultimate secret technique of the "progenitor of the Quincy"!
"Auswählen!"
In an instant, several sacred pillars of light descended from the sky!
They enveloped every member of the Sternritter who had survived the earlier battle!
Their power, their existence, and even their "lives" were mercilessly stripped away and absorbed under this absolute "Auswählen," ultimately gathering in Yhwach's hands!
Then, like a blessing, he bestowed this immense power upon the strongest of his subordinates, his "elite guard"!
"Ooooooh!!!!"
"I feel it! I feel it! His Majesty's supreme 'grace'!!!"
An immensely tall, burly man with long blond hair and a winged helmet resembling that of Thor, the thunder god of Norse mythology, let out a fanatical roar after bathing in the holy light!
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