Nemu stood quietly atop the stone pillar.
The shredded flesh from her exploded left arm lay scattered across the ground, staining the once relatively clean stone platform dark red.
"Who gave you permission to act on your own?"
Mayuri Kurotsuchi slapped Nemu across the cheek with the back of his hand.
The slap struck with tremendous force. Nemu swayed, but quickly straightened again.
"My deepest apologies, Lord Mayuri."
There was not a trace of pain in her flat voice.
"Shut up, you hopeless defective product."
Mayuri Kurotsuchi stared at her mangled shoulder, his eyes nearly bulging with rage. "Do you know how many experiments I canceled during those meetings with that bunch of useless captains just to calibrate the parameters of your body?"
Just then, a teeth-grating scraping sound came from the ground below.
Pernida's enormous, pale left hand had completely assimilated the foundations of the ruins below.
The two eyeballs in its palm darted about, then rolled upward together, showing their whites.
A mass of highly concentrated, high-purity Reishi erupted from the left hand.
The dazzling glow gathered in midair, forming an enormous, pure-blue pentagram halo.
The halo was so vast that it blocked the view across several surrounding blocks, hovering directly above the pale left hand.
The ultimate form of a Quincy.
Pernida had activated Vollständig.
The air suddenly filled with pressure so intense it was difficult to breathe, and the already precarious ruined walls around them crumbled straight into powder.
Under the halo's light, strange blue markings grew across Pernida's pale skin.
The nerve strands already covered in barbs underwent an explosive evolution.
They tangled together in swarms, merging with one another and swelling into dozens of thick tentacles more than two meters in diameter.
This mode of limitless, expanding mutation was practically cheating.
Like living pythons,