Wonderweiss was the first to make a move as he lunged his right fist at Meninas McAllen, and even though she blocked it, the force of the blow was still enough to push her back across the street even as she dug her heels into the pavement and ripped it off from the earth.

'Feeling overwhelmed girly?' the blond boy mocked his foe with glee. 'To be stripped of your God-given strength and rendered utterly powerless before me?' he then raised his other arm. 'You must be regretting fighting an opponent like me!' The Espada then stuck his left fist at Meninas's face...

Only for her to casually block with a Blunt Vene enchantment right arm, and when Wonderweiss shot her a look of confusion, the Sternritter took the opportunity to strike him in the face and send him flying into a nearby demolished building.

'The only thing I regret is how much of a disappointment you are,' The woman responded evenly while cracking her knuckles. In contrast, Wonderweiss struggled to get himself back up. 'After all, you would think that after fighting Cang and Liltotto, you would be wise to learn that not all Sternritter overly rely on their Schrifts' she then narrowed her eyes. 'Or did you think you would get lucky if I weren't one of them?'

Wonderweiss didn't say a word aside from uttering an annoyed growl, signifying that the opponent he switched with wouldn't be any easier after all.

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Meanwhile, Luppi was busy trying to overwhelm Littbaro with a constant barrage of Bala's from his eight arms. While the former nimbly dodges out of the way and returns fire by shooting him with her holy arrows.

Though the Seventh, Espada was soon ready to change tactics.

'I will admit you are harder to hit than that other muscle-bound chick I had to deal with,' Luppi commented cheekily. 'But that just means you are easier to destroy!' He then raised all eight of his tentacle arms, sharped them into spears, and began to charge a Grand Ray Cero in each of them. 'Now die!'

However, before launching his combined attack, Liltotto used the flying step to appear right behind him and, with the power of the gluttoned, open and widen her jaw to an almost cartoonish size. However, while Luppi was aware she was behind him, but he didn't care.

'Hmph, so you think you can just gobble me up before I fired my cero huh? He thought as he turn his head to face her. 'Well, go ahead if you want to be poisoned to death!'

The Espada then launched his combined Grand Ray Cero at Liltotto, hoping that the hollow spiritual energy within the blast would infect her soul and annihilate her from existence, and just as he predicted Liltotto further open her already enormous mouth, gulp the massive combined Cero whole and then shallowing it within an instance.

However, instead of undergoing the aftereffects of soul suicide, such as sweating, weariness, and a hollow hole appearing on her chest. The blond merely gave out a resounding burp—much to Luppi's frustration and confusion.

'What how you...' he began to stutter in rage. 'How can you devour that amount of hollow Reiastu and still be fine!'

Littbaro then gave him a blank look. 'The power of the Gluntteny allows me to eat and digest anything even if it is hollow nature, though it still gives me somewhat bad indigestion and not only that...' She then raised her finger and aimed it at Luppi, and from it, the Esapda saw a familiar pink cracking orb of spiritual energy forming on the tip of the index. 'But I can use any attack or ability that have eaten.'

She then fired the Grand Ray Cero at Luppi, which resulted in a massive explosion that could be seen anywhere in the city.

Meanwhile, near the command center.

Orhime was being pressed down by Ulquirroa's sword, as the pale Espada tried to break through her shield. But then he eased up his attack when he sense the spiritual signatures of several of his comrades dwindling.

'It would seem that your comrades are in trouble Ulquirroa, ' Orhime commented making the Espada frown. 'Meaning that even after you dived our forces in half, our friends are still more than powerful enough to hold their own'

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The pale Esapda then narrowed his eyes in contempt. 'Is that what you believe in?' he questioned sarcastically before pushing the woman away from him. 'The only reason your friends stand even a chance of matching the Espada is that most of them have yet to reveal their true power'

Suddenly Orhime felt several spikes of dark spiritual rising all across the city, much to his dread.

'As you are about to experience.'

Later with Meninas and Wonderweiss. The Espada breathed in heavily as he then on a broken wall of a nearby building while groaning in pain.

His armor was demented or shattered in various pieces while half of the masked helmet was broken apart and blood bleed through all the wounds from his arms, chest, and stomach. While Melania stood above passively.

'It is over Espada...' she spoke plainly. 'As you should know. Even when you sealed away my ability I am still much more powerful than you'

'Heh...that is because I haven't released my Segunda Etapa yet lady' Wonderweiss said with a laugh only for his face to immediately darkened. 'But thankfully I managed to get cover enough distance to use it' his spiritual power began to rise. 'Want to see it?'

Meninas responded by clicking her tongue and immediately rushing in to stop Wonderwiess from unleashing that form of his but it was too late. As the blond man was then engulfed in a dark purple explosion of spiritual pressure that was potent enough to push back the Knight of Power and shake the surrounding environment. Then when the explosion dissipated. Wonderwiess revealed his new transformation.

His chest armor was gone leaving him bare-chested, yet his skin turn into a dark pale shade of purple. While his pants were replaced with a black tattered loincloth with short pants underneath. His helmet was now completely fused with his head while the horns themselves got much larger and crooked. While his yellow eyes glowed brightly from the dark eye holes of his skull mask.

Yet most disturbing of all was the fact that the entire environment as far as the eye can see was engulfed in a dark atmosphere that suck up seemingly all the light and warmth within it. Leaving the area, dark, cold, and lifeless. Aside from the massive torrent of spiritual pressure radiating from the Sixth Espada's body.

In many ways, Wonderweiess looked less like a Hollow or an Arrancar and more like a ghoulish Imp from the most bottomless pits of the Netherworld.

'For you see Quincy the main reason why I wasn't able to use my Segunda Etapa is that whenever I transformed it unleashes a twelve-mile boundary field around me that seals away any unique abilities...including those of my allies. So you can't imagine how relieved I felt when I finally managed to get everyone else out of range' he then snickered. 'Aside from you of course'

Meninas however stood silent to the Arrancar's prattling and then raise her left fist that held her Sanrei Glove.

'Vollstandig God's Might!'

Merinas was then engulfed in a pillar of light as all the reishi in the area gathered around it and when the pillar shattered. She had two wings in the shape of three Heart segments and a spiky halo above her head.

Then she began to activate Blut Arterie

'Given that I was able to overpower his rescission in just my base form. My Volstandig should at least be able to match his Segunda Etapa in power' She reasoned before lunging at Wonderweiss and striking out with her right fist and when her blow landed, the entire city-block behind the Espada and the ground beneath them were blown away into dust by the sheer aftershock of the blow. Along with leaving behind a deep trench that stretched over hundreds of feet across.

Yet when the dust settled. Instead of expecting Wonderweiss to be injured or at least block the fist with one of his arms. She instead saw him blocking her blow...

With his left index finger.

Merninas mind then froze in absolute bafflement and terror at what she had just wittiness.

'T-That...she stuttered. 'Shouldn't be-SMACK!'

Before she could even finish her sentence Wonderweiss punched right into her left cheek and sent her flying across the sky before tumbling crashing into the ruined street below. While chuckling at his beaten foe.

'Possible is what you are going to say?' He taunted the woman and then began to slowly walk up to her. 'I bet you also thought that, well if I could outmatch his Resurreccion in my base I should be able to match his Segunda Etapa no problem!' the Arrancar laughed.

'Well, I am afraid to tell you that the power granted by a Resurreccion and one granted by a Segunda Etapa is as different as night and day and most definitely much more than what your Holy forms could ever give you!'

Merninas then steadily got herself back up and for the first time since this battle started, she began to back away from the imp in fear.

'It's also why the setback of my second release sucks so much. If I wasn't constantly near allies or assign to teams I would have been able to kill that Iron guy and chick with no problem' his mouth then winded onto a toothy sadistic grin.

'But lucky for me...I finally get the chance to let it lose on someone!'

Merninas now seeing that this may be her last stand stood up and held her ground and daring not to think what Liltotto or the other Sternritter was up against

Meanwhile, throughout the Silver City, each of the Espada began to make counterattacks on their respected foes.

For Liltotto she saw eight massive serpents rising out from the dark cavity created by her Grand Ray Cero.

For BG9 he saw Roka transform and used an extra pair of threads to restrain B8.

For Moe, he found himself being pressed on a shattered stone slab by Grimmjow's right clawed foot. While the latter grabs his throat.

And as for Jackie Tristan, she suddenly found out that her right arm and left leg were cut off in an instant by an enemy that by all rights shouldn't be able to move.