For a long moment, Ichigo can only lay on the ground with his ca down in the dirt, he was supposed to be better than this, he was supposed to be stronger than this but ever since that monster attacked everything had gone wrong.
He felt his sister's hands as they helped him stand back up, and as he stands up again he makes eye contact with Rukia, Rukia doesn't wait for him to ask her what the woman wanted she just shows Ichigo the bottles.
She begins to tell them what the contents of the bottle do and what the woman told them about the other groups, and Ichigo wanted to throw the bottles away or at the very least take them from his sisters, but the voice from his help screen stopped him from doing so.
"Damm it!" Ichigo screams in frustration but he stops as both Rukia and Orihime make him regain control of himself.
Everyone falls silent as the sky above them turns a bright red, as mushroom clouds start to show up one after another, the group of friends can't help but fall silent as they're forced to stand perfectly still out of pure instinct.
Rukia being the most experienced of all of them is the first to break out of the shock and begins to lead the group in the direction that Asuna told them to go.
She begins to feel the power of her sword begin to flow through her again, its ice-cold presence is already strong enough that she can release her sword again.
Unfortunately, she knows that compared to the things that she had seen up until now, her sword's released form would be next to useless.
After walking for more than two hours their help screens announce that they have arrived at the training area, the land around them is filled with wild animals but they're not the kind of animals that a person expects to find just walking around.
The animals that they see are nothing more than chickens, goats, and cows.
"Mission one, Learn to kill and prepare the bodies of the animals that you kill." their help screens say to them.
"How is that supposed to help us?" Uryū angrily says his help screen.
"If you attack one animal, the rest will either run away or attack you all at once."
"If you manage to kill one, then the guard dogs, the predators, and the rest of the animals will attack you." his help screen answers him
'I get it." Chad says as he looks at the livestock.
"There are people that don't even know where their food comes from and by extent, they probably haven't ever fought a day in their lives." he says as he looks at a bull that has a pair of long wide horns eating grass.
"You mean that this place is to get us used to killing things?" Ichigo asks Chad who nods at him.
Uryū fires an arrow at a cow who just moves its head slightly to the left before it goes back to eating, the arrow flies back but before it can hurt the animal a bull blocks the arrow with its horns.
The bull lets out an angry breath but it doesn't attack it just glares at Uryū before stomping the ground twice and laying between the herd of animals and their group.
"Let's start with something easier." Rukia says to them as she draws her sword and walks towards a group of goats she begins to prepare herself to kill one of the animals when she feels something hit the back of her head.
She turns to see what just hit her when she notices that she's now looking at the sky, that's slowly losing its red color.
She widens her eyes as she sees the hoves of a horse about to crush her head and as she rolls out of the way and stands back up she finds herself surrounded by the animals.
As she looks around she remembers something important, there's a reason why these animals managed to survive here.
She mentally kikes herself as she remembers where she is, these aren't normal animals these things aren't to be taken lightly after all there's a reason why they're here acting as if nothing is wrong when there's a war being fought right now.
"Rukia!" she hears Orihime yell her name as the cows run toward her and her group.
"Survive and gain as many supplies as you can." her help screen says to her as the animals that surround he charges at her.