Whoosh!
Yekawa directly activated Sonido, flashing forward a hundred zhang and appearing instantly behind the Gillian.
Compared to the Gillian's nearly hundred meter tall body, Yekawa's twenty meter long form looked almost insignificant.
His centipede like tail shot forward and tightly wrapped around the Gillian's leg.
The pale bone like giant foot was instantly bound, and Yekawa immediately activated Flash Lightning.
Zzzzt!
Violent arcs of lightning erupted from Yekawa's tail, surging straight into the Gillian's leg.
It was nothing less than a brutal lightning baptism.
Roar!
Wracked by overwhelming pain, the Gillian roared toward the sky. Only then did it realize that Yekawa was behind it. Its massive head twisted violently, its enormous mouth opening wide as black red spiritual pressure gathered.
A Cero formed, aimed directly at Yekawa.
Yekawa exerted force through his tail and pulled hard, tearing the Gillian's leg clean off.
Roar!
The Gillian screamed again as it lost balance and collapsed heavily onto the ground.
Rumble!
Its colossal body smashed through rows of towering trees, flattening the forest beneath it.
The half charged Cero detonated inside its own mouth.
Yekawa did not miss the opening. A lightning whip snapped forward, cleaving the Gillian cleanly in half from head to torso.
Just like that, the lone Gillian was decisively eliminated.
Yekawa stepped forward and carefully examined the sharp bone spines encircling the Gillian's neck. Only now did he fully confirm that the two bone spines he had taken from the Chameleon Hollow earlier had indeed originated from a Gillian.
Originally, he had planned to use those two bone spines as dual blades after advancing into a Giant Hollow. However, after his evolution, Yekawa's defenses had increased to the point where the bone spines could no longer easily pierce his body. As a result, he had simply absorbed them using Soul Eater.
Yekawa raised his tail high once more and activated Soul Eater again. Dark golden spiritual pressure erupted from the spike at the end of his tail, forming a massive vortex of spiritons. In only a short time, the Gillian's severed body was completely absorbed.
As the immense spiritual pressure poured into him, Yekawa spread his arms wide, his posture filled with satisfaction.
Comfortable!
He had not expected that devouring a single lone Gillian would increase his overall spiritual pressure by sixty to seventy percent.
Feeling the surging power within his body, Yekawa stretched lazily.
At this point, Yekawa was confident that if he were to face this Gillian again, he could easily crush it even in a direct Cero clash.
But how would I fare against that mutated Gillian from before?
Although Yekawa was still classified as a Giant Hollow and had not yet advanced into a Gillian, ordinary mindless Gillians were no longer a threat to him.
With his current strength, as long as he did not encounter Adjuchas commanding groups of unintelligent Gillians, he was no longer in real danger.
As for Vasto Lorde, their numbers in all of Hueco Mundo were so few they could be counted on one hand. Yekawa did not believe his luck was that terrible.
Moreover, he possessed the divine ability Camo. Yekawa estimated that if he activated Camo now, ordinary Adjuchas would not even be able to detect his presence.
With his confidence rising, Yekawa activated Camo and continued deeper into the Great Hollow Forest.
Unlike the desert above, the Great Hollow Forest had no white sand to conceal him beneath. And while Camo could hide spiritual pressure, it could not erase his physical form. As a result, Yekawa advanced cautiously, moving slowly and carefully concealing his trail.
During this period, Yekawa encountered many solitary Giant Hollows. One by one, he hunted and devoured them. The Great Hollow Forest truly was a treasure trove for someone like Yekawa who possessed Soul Eater.
Using Soul Eater to absorb Hollows was incomparably more efficient than devouring them directly.
Most Hollows relied on physically consuming their prey, a slow and dangerous process. As time passed, the corpses would naturally dissolve into spiritons and disperse into Hueco Mundo. Worse still, Hollows had to remain vigilant during consumption. A single lapse could result in being ambushed, turning both hunter and prey into someone else's meal.
It's wonderful not having middlemen skimming profits.
Yekawa locked onto a Giant Hollow shaped like an electric eel. Faint blue voltage constantly shimmered around its body. Yekawa instinctively sensed that devouring this Hollow would enhance his Flash Lightning, and immediately began the hunt.
Among Giant Hollows, this electric eel was exceptionally fast. Yekawa had to use Sonido repeatedly just to close the distance.
A lightning whip streaked across the sky, crashing down toward the electric eel Hollow swimming through the air. The eel surged forward nearly a hundred meters in a flash of blue electricity, but Yekawa's lightning whip was faster. It struck cleanly, knocking the eel out of the air.
Yekawa flashed forward and appeared directly in front of it. The segmented limbs of his centipede tail slashed horizontally, cutting the electric eel cleanly in half at the waist. Soul Eater activated immediately, absorbing it completely.
Moments later, Yekawa slowly opened his eyes. He raised his hand, and a lightning whip glowing with dark golden light formed once more.
As expected.
Wild joy flickered beneath his pale mask.
Devouring the electric eel had not significantly increased his spiritual pressure, but his comprehension of Flash Lightning had leaped forward.
The lightning whip, once a condensed manifestation of Flash Lightning, had previously felt like a solid external weapon.
Now, it felt like an extension of his own body.
It moved exactly as he willed it to. It could lengthen or shorten, soften or harden, responding perfectly to his intent.
Just as Yekawa was immersed in this exhilaration, he suddenly sensed something strange.
A peculiar spiritual pressure.
It was faint and unstable, flickering like a candle in the wind, as if it could vanish at any moment.
Yet Yekawa instantly recognized that it was not Hollow spiritual pressure.
If Hollow spiritual pressure was like raging fire, then this presence felt like solid ice.
Could it be… a Shinigami?
Yekawa carefully traced the source of the faint spiritual pressure and moved toward it. Under his current perception, this presence was extremely weak and posed no threat to him, allowing him to approach without hesitation.
According to the spiritual pressure, it should be here.
Following the trail, Yekawa arrived among a dense cluster of towering trees, but saw nothing at first glance.
After searching carefully, he finally discovered that the faint spiritual pressure was emanating from a narrow hollow at the base of a tree.
Given Yekawa's massive size, this made sense. His full length exceeded twenty meters, and even his upper body alone stood over ten meters tall. Naturally, something half a person's height at the base of a tree would escape his immediate notice.
Unable to fit inside, Yekawa extended his tail into the hollow and pulled out two objects.
"It's actually"