"The Emperor has convened a meeting!"
" The Wandenreich! All Sternritter, assemble!"
The Sternritter is Yhwach's strongest army, composed of nearly thirty fighters who are either on par with or stronger than the captains of the Soul Reaper Captain-level.
It's important to understand that even the Soul Society, which has existed for millions of years, doesn't easily produce Captain-level powerhouses. Yet, the Wandenreich has existed for thousands of years, can produce so many powerful individuals at once. This can only mean that Yhwach has indeed put in a lot of effort in shaping his fighting force.
"Ha!?"
"Are we really going to have to gather?"
"Really..."
A member of the Sternritter, a beautiful young woman with a cap bearing the Wandenreich insignia, long, dark purple hair reaching her waist, wearing a short skirt, a heart-shaped badge on her chest, a heart-shaped belt, black stockings, and boots, upon hearing the news of the Sternritter's assembly, lazily stretched and shook her ample bosom as she walked towards Yhwach's palace.
"Yo! Bambietta!" Just as the beautiful woman with long, dark purple hair was walking on the road to the palace, she encountered a tall, large-breasted woman with medium-length, grass-green hair parted to the side, light green eyes, eyebrows and some of her hair ends shaped like lightning bolts, wearing a sleeveless top and shorts, a wide neckline, a military cap with an Wandenreich insignia, long gloves, and a belt with a heart-shaped box attached to her waist.
"Yo~ Candice ~" Bambietta greeted the newcomer in a seemingly cute and friendly manner.
"You're such an idol!" Candice raised an eyebrow, watching Bambietta's idol-like demeanor.
"Yo~ Bambietta!" A woman with waist-length black hair parted to the side with straight bangs, two cockroach-like ahoge on her head, a small military cap with an Wandenreich symbol on her head, a slender figure, wearing a wide-collared, long-sleeved, button-down coat, and a thin belt tied diagonally with a heart-shaped box attached?!
They walked towards Bambietta and Candice.
"Huh..." Candice shuddered as she looked at the newcomer.
"What's wrong~ Little Candice, don't you want to see me?" The person, who was neither male nor female, looked at Candice and couldn't help but lick their lips. "As expected, Candice, you're the cutest."
" Giselle..." Bambietta's eyes twitched as she looked at the newcomer.
"Everyone! Let's hurry inside!"
"We're going to get yelled at if we don't!"
Just as the three women of the Sternritter together, a beautiful woman with long, wavy pink hair, pink eyes, a military cap with an Wandenreich insignia worn to the side, a red bow tie with a star insignia in the center, a belt with a heart-shaped box attached, and a short-sleeved button-down jumpsuit with wavy edges on the collar, cuffs, wrist guards, skirt, and boot openings, wearing over-the-knee stockings, walked over and spoke very gently.
" Meninas McAllon, you've arrived..." Everyone looked at the beautiful woman with long, wavy pink hair and nodded slightly.
"Let's go in anyway!" Bambietta looked at the three people behind her, then walked to the front of the group alone, seemingly considering herself the leader of the others.
"You really are an idol." Candice said unhappily, looking at Bambietta who had taken the lead without permission.
"What's wrong with being an idol?" Bambietta pushed open the door, turned around confidently, and tossed her hair. "As long as you're strong, isn't that enough?"
"You four are late!" Just as the group was chattering, Haschwalth, the Grand Master of the Sternritter, walked over. "Get to the back and stand in line!"
"Alright!" Upon hearing this, Haschwalth immediately stood among the Sternritter members.
"Gentlemen! It's time to wage all-out war!" Yhwach, with his white hair, smiled slightly at the crowd and rose from his throne. "We will attack Soul Society! We will show those foolish Soul Reaper who the true masters of this world are!?"
"We have been waiting for a long time!" the members of the Sternritter shouted in unison.
"Avenge that idiot Pernida..." someone whispered in a low voice.
"Finally, we can fight!"
"Watch me conquer Soul Society all by myself!"
A dazzling burst of lightning flashed across Candice's body as she excitedly shouted.
"Don't be ridiculous! The Gotei 13 has a total of thirteen Captain-level fighters. If you went up alone, you'd be beaten to a pulp..." Bambietta said mercilessly to Candice.
"Huh!?" Candice's expression changed upon hearing this, but she eventually calmed down. "Aren't you all here? You'll always help, right?"
Let's all work together to defeat the Soul Reaper!
Giselle waved her arms and shouted loudly.
"Now is not the time to fight the Soul Reaper," Yhwach said softly to the crowd. "We need more help, so let's go hunting in Hueco Mundo! Let's make them our slaves, and then use them as the vanguard to Soul Society and launch the first wave of attacks against the Soul Reaper."
" Quilge! You lead the troops to Hueco Mundo Hueco Mundo and wipe it out!" Yhwach stood on a high, massive platform and issued the order to his team below. "Capture all Arrancar except those in Las Noches and use them as fighting force!"
"Yes, sir!" A man with a military cap, round-framed sunglasses with communication devices, and a Quincy white cloak over his uniform, a lean face, bushy eyebrows, and short hair with prominent lips, immediately stepped forward upon hearing the order. He knelt on one knee before the towering Yhwach, his eyes behind his glasses gleaming. "I will certainly complete the great Emperor's mission!"
"It's up to you." Yhwach nodded. "Gentlemen, we will surely win this battle!"
"We will surely win!" The Quincy all nodded and shouted.
Hueco Mundo...
Since Sōsuke Aizen and Sōgo Shihoin led their respective subordinates in a life-or-death struggle in Hueco Mundo, the number of Menos Grande in Hueco Mundo has been reduced to an extreme.
All the Menos Grande with even a little strength died in this battle. Even the number of the most ordinary Menos Grande, the Gillian, was halved. The balance of the entire Hueco Mundo was broken. If Sōgo Shihoin hadn't released Hueco Mundo Emperor Baraggan and allowed Baraggan to guard Las Noches once again, the balance of the three realms might have even collapsed.
On this day, Baraggan sat on his high throne as usual, resting with his eyes closed. Suddenly, Baraggan opened his eyes.
"Some little bugs have gotten in!" Baraggan felt the unique Spiritual Pressure that belonged neither to Soul Reaper nor a Hollow. His expression turned grim. "They really think Hueco Mundo is a marketplace! They don't take me seriously at all! Humph! Fine, as long as you don't bother me, I'll let you ants go."
"Too weak!"
Are these really just illusions?
"That's outrageous!"
After Quilge Arrancar an Adjuchas- level subordinate Arrancar with one hand, his expression turned somewhat awkward.
Are we to offer this garbage to our great king?
"Are you kidding me!"
"These people are not only unworthy of being called a prelude to the attack on Hueco Mundo, they are a disgrace to the word 'army'."
Quilge roared angrily.
"Tell me, you bunch of nobodies! Where is the strongest Hollow in the entire Hueco Mundo?"
Quilge asked the lowly Hollows in Hueco Mundo.
"The most powerful Hollow in Hueco Mundo?! That must be the king of Hueco Mundo! His Majesty Baraggan, who resides in Las Noches!"
After hearing this, Xu pondered for a while and then began to speak.
" Baraggan?" Quilge stroked his chin thoughtfully. "I think I've heard that name before. He does seem quite strong."
"Captain Quilge, His Yhwach has said we are not allowed to approach Las Noches." Quilge's team immediately objected vehemently upon hearing Quilge. "Isn't it inappropriate for us to go to Las Noches now? That would be tantamount to disobeying His Yhwach's orders."
"Idiot!" Quilge's face darkened with anger. "Are you expecting me to deliver these worthless trash? You may have no shame, but I do! Besides, His Yhwach's orders were to find Hollows that could be used as combat materials, but there isn't a single one here!"
"I don't care what kind of beings live in that Las Noches!"
"I only want him to submit to me! To submit to the great His Yhwach!"
"If he refuses, then kill him!"
Quilge shouted angrily.
"Yes, sir!" Upon seeing their captain's anger, the two lackeys immediately fell silent and followed Las Noches closely toward Quilge.
The group arrived at the palace of Las Noches and found it to be open. They pushed open the door and immediately went inside.
" Baraggan! Where are you Baraggan?" The group walked through the palace, looking around in complete darkness, and frowned. They kept shouting loudly, searching for Baraggan.
" Baraggan!" Quilge shouted the loudest, "Come out here!"
"Boom!" Just as everyone entered the pitch-black palace and kept shouting, the previously open door suddenly closed, and the next second, eerie blue flames suddenly ignited in the braziers all around.
"What's all the noise about?" the white-haired child sitting on the throne said dismissively. "It's not like I can't hear you."
" Baraggan!" Quilge pointed at Baraggan and said coldly, "Submit to His Yhwach! Become Quincy..."
Before Quilge could finish speaking, he suddenly felt a chill in his chest.
"..." Quilge was silent for a moment. He lowered his head and stared at the huge hole in his chest, and froze on the spot.
The next second, he lay on the ground, his eyes lifeless.
"So noisy." Baraggan sat on his throne, looking at Quilge with disdain. "Didn't your emperor tell you not to bother this old man? Fools!"
"Lori Evan, Menori Maria! Clean up this rubbish." Baraggan sat on his throne, pointing at the remaining two Quincy, and spoke coldly.
"Yes, Your Baraggan!" The next second, a girl with jet-black twin ponytails and a girl with short golden hair stepped out and ran towards the remaining two Quincy members.
"Captain!?" The two Quincy members were stunned by their captain's death. They couldn't believe that their captain, the man who was said to possess Soul Society equal to or even greater than the Soul Reaper of the Gotei 13, had died before their very eyes in an instant.
"Hahahaha..." Baraggan sat on the throne and sneered coldly, "What's so surprising? Death is our constant companion. Just because we're alive and well today doesn't mean we'll be alive and well tomorrow. Aren't we all subject to the possibility of death at any moment?"
"Monster! Monster!" The two team members kept walking towards the outside of the palace, but the door was already tightly closed, and no matter how hard they pounded on it, they could not escape.
"Ah!" As they roared and turned around, they were greeted by a bright red Cero.
"Call out!!"
"Boom!"
With a deafening roar, the two Quincy, who hadn't even bothered to activate their Blut, died here, their deaths shrouded in mystery.
Despite possessing the strength to defeat these two female Arrancar, they lost their lives here due to panic and fear.
"Throw these corpses out!" Baraggan looked at the dead Quincy with a cold smile, his eyes full of disdain.
"Yes, sir!" Upon hearing this, the two female Arrancar immediately threw away the corpses of the Quincy and cleaned up the ground.
Meanwhile, Yhwach, located in the Wandenreich of Soul Society, already knew about Quilge's situation. He knew that Quilge had offended an entity that Quilge could not defeat and had died forever in Soul Society.
"Foolish!" Yhwach's face was icy. He felt nothing for Quilge's death for his sake. In his eyes, Quilge was incredibly foolish. He didn't have to die, but he died because of his own stupidity. No one else could be blamed for this.
" Bambietta, you'll take over Quilge's job and collect Hueco Mundo from Hueco Mundo that can be used as an army." Yhwach immediately dispatched others to replace Quilge. "Remember, don't mess with that fool in Las Noches."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Bambietta knelt on one knee before Yhwach. "I will certainly complete Your Majesty's mission."
"Yes!" Yhwach nodded slightly. "Go down!"
At this moment, Yhwach was still accumulating power for his attack on Soul Society. He needed enough power to confront Sōgo Shihoin, so he absolutely could not afford to be distracted. Since he wasn't going to make a move, it would be difficult for the others to defeat Baraggan. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if some of these careless guys were instantly killed by that cunning old man Baraggan.
" Soul Society! Hueco Mundo!" Yhwach sat on his throne, lost in thought. "Soon you will all belong to me. I will inherit my father's position, with power and authority, to unify the three realms! To become the true Soul King!"
(End of this chapter)