Chapter 7: Unending hunger vs. Limitless strength
For the first few moments Magi and the El orcusio stared each other down, while both of them were walking over the endless abyss below them, scanning each other to see who would make the first move or had any openings in their defense's as the two foes continue to circle each other.
Then as if an unheard single was called out to them, both the shinigami and hollow disappeared and unleashed a powerful shock wave that rattled the air upon fading out of sight.
A half an instant latter the two reappeared, but only as buzzing blurs as Magi and Orseoce lash at each other with their blades as they block, countered and dodge each other's blows, their movements so fast that they were impossible for the normal eye to even register them and their strikes so powerful that they literally ripe apart the air, creating fallbacks of guests and shockwaves across the sky each time their weapons clashed.
To tipped the standstill of the battle Magi then raised his zanpatoa Raijen and shoot a huge arch of lightning bolts at the Vasto lord, but Orcusio merely smirked as he twirled his double bladed staff at the electrical attack and absorbed the arch's of lighting into his blade, while then lunging at Magi in the same fluid motion.
Surprise, Ichnoise then flash stepped away from the hollow just before its attack landed on him. He then repapered several feet higher into the sky.
'This Vasto lord is defiantly more powerful then he looks' he mused as he stared at Orcusio.
'For him to fight evenly against me and his ability to absorb Raijens lighting so easily, he is diffidently a troublesome opponent, the first one I ever face against since the time I was still alive.'
He then raised his Zanpakto up to the midnight sky of Huedo mundo.
'Well then let's see how much energy he can absorb before he breaks' he thought as dark clouds then begin to form over the aera until they filled up the entire sky even covering the crescent moon, as strikes of lighting began to dance across them.
'Thunder Strike of the gods' he shouted the name of his technique, as five immense bolts of lightning that were roughly the size of skyscrapers, descended from the clouds struck El Orcusio all at once, with each of the bolts launching at five different directions and when they hit it unleashed an explosion that both push back the air, creating a huge torrent of wind that pass through Magi, unleashing a sonic boom so loud that very abyss below them shock and trembled.
When the push back of the torrent settled Magi saw the Vasto Lord screaming in pain as he was caught in a statuses field of lighting as the five lightning bolts continue to surge through him making his body a mere shilltoued against the static electricity that surround him.
Magi then closed his eyes believing that the next moment will be when the vasto lords body begin to disintegrate, as he continue to hear it scream…which suddenly became laughter.
Startled Ichioness wondered if Orcusio lost his saintly upon experiencing such pain from the attack, but to his shock and terror he realized it was more than that, for the laughter wasn't of one that lost his mind or even one that accepted his death.
No… it was a laugh that could best be describe as pleasure, the pleasure of something warm or cold flowing through one's body and taking in every moment of that feeling before it faded away, the same pleasure that Orcusio felt and clinging on to.
When Magi saw the impossible happen he winded his eyes, as the Vasto lorde was now absorbing the five lightning bolts that struck him into his body, the energy that once nearly fired him to ash a mere second ago was now swelling into his being, making him stronger and more powerful.
Overcoming his shock Ichioness then tried to strick the hollow down before it finish absorbing its attack, yet just when the shinigami was in cutting range Orcusio then snap his jaw shut and upon doing so the lightning bolts that surge through him instantly suck into his body.
Sensing danger Magi flash stepped away just before he could dice the hollow in half.
'What the hell was that!' he question the pheronma that the hollow just did.
all of the sudden the air around him gotten colder and the light that reflected off him diminished,
'Was it part of the effect of his reistsu!' magi thought.
He then looked down at his arm from which he then notice there was a frost burn within the inner layers of his skin.
'No, this damage his internal, its something much more then that' he question himself. 'But-
'What you may ask?' Orcusio answered the shinigami much to his irritation.
'I tell you what it is Shinigami, for it-'he said as he twirled his blade around him
'is a mere extension of my power Daria Kugo, for you see it is not an ability that is limited to just absorbing resitsu, for it absorbs all forms of energy, Life force, electricity, heat even the light of the crescent moon is not eluded from it power, for my hunger has no sense of taste' he said as the light continue to dim and the temperature steady dropping, even after the clouds already drifted from the sky and allowing the moon to shine once more, Magi still felt like an insivble frosty hand was hovering above him.
'That attack of yours' the hollow remarked 'was quit a mouth full, but still far from being a full course, But I know all too well that wasn't even a spick of your true power right?'
Magi grunted not please that the vasto lord was mockingly praising his power.
'I suggest you reconsider your words now hollow' he spoke threaten at him.
'For I'm not here to please your petty interest, but to rescue my son and if I have to fill you up with my power till you burst open in order to defeat you, I will!'
'…That would be if you can, I hope' the hollow said in a pleasant yet longing tone, before he and Magi clashed each once more this time with more force than ever, for as when their blades clash both released their spirtures pressures, Magis being bright green and El Orcueo white with a black flaming edge and as their pressures colluded it unleashed a white out exploitation that nearly filled the creavuus below them and the horizon above.
'It seems your plane work better then I anticipated Aizen sousoke' gin commented as he looked up at the fight between the vasto lord and the shinigami, while he Tousen and Aizen stood hidden within the white trees of the quirt forest.
'Indeed, gin' Aizen agreed.
'I always knew that the shinigami was possible even more powerful then the captain commander, but I never thought he would fight so evenly with el Oresio, even managing to wound him through seer raw power' he commented as he analyzed the battle far ahead, before narrowing his eyes in a stern expression.
'However this is merely a prologue of the real battle that has yet to come and we as of yet to see the full extent and power of both Magi and El Orcusio and hopefully the two would end up destroying one another before any of us has a chance to intervene'
Meanwhile back to the fight with the hollow and the shinigami, with neither gaining a foot hold on the other. Magi continually discharge blasts of lighting from his Zanpaukto at El Orcusio, but the vasto lord kept absorbing his attacks, yet in contrast each time the hollow abosbe the heat around Magi in order to freeze him, the shinigami countered by re supercharging the air with electricity from his sword to keep himself warm.
A moment later the two then cross swords, each one trying to push the other back, but the standstill remain even when the two put more strength on the other, as Magi continue to charge more lighting into his blade while El Orcsuiso just kept on absorbing its energies into his.
Then finally after what seem like an entirety, the two foe's back off from on another
Magi was exhausted as he continue to paint and heave as sweat leaked all over his wreaked face, added to the fact of the multiply bruises and scares he received in from the fight, it was taking most of his streagth just to maintain his stance.
Yet when he looked up at El Orsuiso, the vasto lord, barley seem fazed at all, despite the nearly half-hour long battle he fought through, even his spiritual pressure remain vertically the same, barley decreased from the time they first started their battle.
'Dame it…' Magi cursed as he stared coldly at the hollow.
'I thought that having absorb so much of Riajins lighting he would at least back away from my attacks and yet, no matter how much energy I unleash at him he just keeps absorbing like its nectar to him, while my body continues to grow weaker by channeling so much power from my Zanpakto'
He thought as he continue to stare down at the hollow.
'However, despite that we are still at a standstill and if worse comes to shove I still have an advantage over him' Magi said to himself as he straighten up his stance, while the hollow then nod its masked head in wonder.
'…So' he said quietly.
'You're still willing to carry on this battle, even though you haven't even begun to push me to my limit.' Ocusioa said as if he was disappointed.
'That is all fine and dandy to me, but this fight is completely pointless if I haven't even used my full extent of my power on you'
'What !' Magi stuttered not believing what he was hearing.
'I guess I should be sorry to you for not being honest to you first, in making you believe that I can absorb all forms of energy… for you see it goes far beyond even that' he proclaim as the hollows voice grew edger with each word he said.
'But why go all the way of explaining it when I can just show you!'
Deiblo uttered as he twirled his bladed staff straight up as a dark shadow darker then the very void below their feet cast over magi.
At first Magi couldn't reigter what was happing, until he felt a slight sucking sensation pulling on his body, instantly realizing the danger, the shinigami flash stepped repeatedly to get to the other side of the abyss and upon reaching the edges of the white forest, he felt a powerful vacuumed of air pulling him in, which was soon followed by a torrent that gush back out against him.
A second later the vasto lord was on top of him his blade just inches from his head, yet Magi was able to flash step out of the way before the double bladed weapon could cleave him in two, but when Ichoinies saw what the blade cut instead and its effect, just made him that much more afraid of the blow.
When El Oersuiso double bladed staff slash at the corner of the abyss, without even torching it, Magi saw the shadow of the blade extending from the edge of the cliff to over the white forest and in the next instant he saw everything from the trees to the earth itself that was covered by the shadow, turn pitch black and breaking down into particles from which then drifted towards the hollow's weapon before being sucked into its blades, all of which happen in a swift single motion.
To Magi it was like seeing a strip of land being burn away by an invisible fire and its ashes were suck by the hollow, his horror only increasing when realized that the strip continue on for miles across the desert woods as if a giant knife had cut right through the terrain itself.
'So that's is the true extent of his power' Magi thought as he continue stare at the disintegrating land as panic steadily begins to rise into his heart.
'The power to absorb…to devour all form of energy and mass, the light, the heat, the air and the earth' he pondered as he shifted his gaze at El Oersuiso Delbio.
'Everything that has form and feeling is subjected to his power, like a black hole taking in a solid form.' He concluded as the vasto lord then flash stepped away from his view and repapered behind him, his blade already swinging in at the back of his head.
'Fourtechnty thou the shinigami was able to flip over the slash and above the hollow and when he did he saw another piece of the forest, slash apart and disintegrating as its particles were devoured into El Oesuiso double sword weapon.
The Vasto lord then lunge at Magi while he flash stepped away to get as far away from him as possible further into the field of the white forest, while he struggle to dodge every swipe, thrust and stab aim at him, not once to counter or block his feo's attacks in fear that his own zapankto and arm would be rip apart into atoms and absorb into the blade and with each failed stick the hollow landed the more land air and land he suck away and further increasing his strength, speed and reflex.
Eventually Oesuiso was able to catch the shinigami off guard by laching a white cero with a black outline at Magi which force the shinigami to block the attack, leaving his back side vuranable as the hollow flash stepped behind him and slash the edge of his staff at him.
No time to dodge or even think, Ichionus instantly turn himself around to in a futile attempt to counter it and then at the very moment when the two blades clash at each other…
A massive exploitation of power erupted from Magi, catching the vasto lorde off guard as the force of the blast push him back several feet in the air. When he looked back at the shinigami whose was complete engulf in the blast, which rage up over the forest and through the midnight sky, taking in the form of a column of light as arches of lighting surge out of it, scorching the trees the ground and the air in a toxicant display of raw destructive power.
A feeling of shock seplt over Oesusio as he felt the immense blast of reistsu pressing against him, but was soon replace with satisfaction as he licked his lips under his skull mask.
'About time' he muttered with glee.
When the column of energy disbursed, Magi revealed himself, his shirt and coat were blown off, leaving his mucular chest and arms exposed. Sporting his hands were two gaulutes, while two greaves covered his feet, both of the pairs glowed with golden power and electricity, which ignited the air around them and lasty two metal arm bands wrap around his upper biceps while something reablimble a small crowned rested tightly around his forehead with a orb lay embedded in the middle of it.
When Magi turn his eyes which now glow bright green from the inflammable energy that surge through them, Deiblo then readied himself papering for a sudden stick.
…It was futile, unable sense him coming, unable to see him move, Orescio didn't even he was hit or even feel pain, until he looked down and saw Magi his fist already pummeled straight into his stomach and then right before he could doube over he was hit again…from behind the back of his head, even when his eyes were still locked on the shinigami that attack him at the front.
He skidded across the forest floor for several doziness feet, before looking back up at his newly change foe and righting his stance.
What he saw were two Magi's two twin doppabagans, standing side by side and so indistanble that they were impossible to apart, that is until one of them began to discharge with electricty, before phasing out into static and disappearing.
Just before Delbio could question what just happen, Magi reappered right in front of him his face only a few inches from his own, before the shinigami slam his metal clad fist into his skull, the impact creating a eltricflying explosion that created a half mile long crater into the ground before sending the vasto lord flying hundreds of feet into the air, that is until he was hit again from the back of his head by Magis armored foot and sent back pluming to the ground below and when he crash, it created another crater that was almost as twice wide and deep as the one made before.
Ichionose then stretch out his arms and summon another thunderstorm over the battered forest, however unlike the last one he summon this storm hand dark clouds that glowed bright with lighting and roared with thunder that sounded almost as if a man or monster was hollering through them.
Soon after, twin lightning bolt sucked his fists as the gaulets of his hand conducted and channeled the limitless engery through the rest of his body, while charging two ball of electricity into each of his hands, to the point in the which the orbs of energy grew three times the size of his head.
'Magi now ready two launch his attack thrust of his arms forward aiming at the site from which El Oersuio crash, a second later a massive blast of lighting shot out of his hands that spread out nearly a hundred feet in length as sparks of energy dance around it and when it hit its mark at the ground, the intire terrien was lighten up in a complete white out flash observing all form of view from eyesight.
When the flash faded away, there was a smoldering hole whole within the forest terrien, that rivled the previous abyss beside it, thou know were near as deep, as magi could see the scorched earth still burn and sparking with varies traces of static eltevtricty as a huge mushroom cloud roused over it, in the middle of the crater stood el Deilbo who despite being battered, looked seemily unscratched by the atomic blast, but he was also slightly panting and unsteady in his stance as he stared up at the shinigami.
Ichionose then smirked.
'Yes as I though he does have a limit a high one but still, for the first time in this battle his finally showing visible strain, if I continue to push I should be able to overwhelm him…NO I WILL OVERWHELM!'
He then shot down at EL Deibo, fist first as he tried to mush through his skull, but the menos block the attack with his double bladed staff, even when the blow was pushing him servable feet across the electrified crater.
What was soon followed after that was a blurring clash of fists and slashes as El Oercusio and Magi Ichionis went complete out at each other, the vasto lord slashing and stabbing his weapon at his feo, while absorbing large chucks of the land in the aftereffect of his blows, while the shinigami launch massive waves of lighting blasts at the hollow, yet the menos keep absorbing them into his double bladed weapon and sure enough El Oersusio was slowing gaining the upper hand in the battle as magi was steadily getting push back by his adversary.
Growling in frustration Magi used flash steps to create dozens of static like clones around El Oersuio before sending them all to attack all once upon him, But the vasto lord having already gotten used to the super speed of the clones, was beginning to narrowly dodge all of their attacks, when one launch a kick at his face, he duck to the side spun to the side behind and slash his sword at it and absorbed the clone into his blade, when two launch both their fist at his chest, he bend his back backwards and just when the two past over him he made a backflipe and kick the two clones over him by shooting both of his legs and absorbing the two static clones into his feet and this continued with each and every clone that came after El Oersuio as the vasto lord absorbed each and every one of them, one by one till none remain left.
'Dammit it all' Magi cursed as he then shot up at the sky and summing once more the glowing electric clouds above the desolated forest and as he raised his both his hands up to the lighten heavens, however instead of channeling electricity into them the clouds surrounded his body, before enlarging themselves in a swirling vortex, the vortex then later morph itself into a humouide form, creating two legs, two arms a torso a neck and a head attached to it.
The vapor body then began to shape other define features, such as pointed ears, robust muscles among the arms legs and torso, white fangs curling up at the ends of his mouth, hair made out of black vapor and burning glowing white energy balls for eyes, giving him the appearance of a furious god of storms, ready to deliver his judgment.
And it did just that as the divine figure lunge its fist at the vasto lorde, who just stood their paryized with fear and shock as the fist slammed into his body and when it did everything on the ground was uprooted as tones of bedrock and trees were ripe apart from the earth by the impact of the blow.
The strike while not being as explosive than the last attack magi unleashed was in turn far more consternated, plowing the its target through miles upon miles into earth till it reach to the bottom menos forest and continue to plow down even deeper.
Finally the attack ended as the electric god having spent all of its power, begin to faze in and out before dissipating into static as its body slowly drifted apart from sight
When it was fully gone magi Ichoinies, was shown floating in the air having once been in the center of the lighting god and in turn seem took a heavy cost in unleashing such a technique, for his body was covered in burns and looked stiff as he struggled to move himself gently to the ground.
As he landed he Saw El Oeriseo who's body laid scorch and still in the 50 foot crater in the ground and when Magi looked up through the burnt up hole In the bedrock he created, He saw that he and his fallen foe were nearly a half a mile below the menos forest and several dozens of miles from below the actual surface, even when the moon was shining brightly in the night sky from his low perceptive it looked like a small white stare though an endless tunnel.
He then looked down at the vasto lorde.
'Its over' he finally said.
'Its finally over I know it is, for I know that I push that hollow over his limit, I overwhelm him completely'
He then looked down at his burnt body.
'But not with a great cost, Radian, thou it besots me with limitless power, also greatly damages my body, because for every time I used him the eletrice energies of my zanpakto, it power channels through me like an conductor, but if my body isn't strong enough to contain that energy or too worn out then I would been overcharge and burn into oblivion by own power'
He then coughs up some blood as he looked down over his scared hands. 'And because of my advance age it took everything I had just to use that technique even once' he said as he continue to cough more blood'
'I don't know if I'm even able to make it out of hueco mundo alive…but even so I have to see if my son is still safe' he told himself as he steady rose up through the hole that lead to the menos forest and the upper one above that area that led to the surface, however unknown to him, the body of El Oersuio that laid in the crater was gone.
