'How sad...' Cein taunted Royd as he struggled to get up. 'You could hold off fighting multiple of my clones at once, and with your disappointment, you even managed to slaughter them all...' he chucked as he squeezed one of the fake organs in his left hand, making the brunette squirm in pain. 'But once you touched just one of my tentacles and fell under the power of my Teatro de Titere, you became as harmless as a newborn baby.'

Cein then crushed another of the fake organs, and Royd immediately coughed up blood and clutched his stomach in agony. 'It's honestly quite adorable,' He then eyed Lille Barrow, who was fuming. 'Primarily, since your worthless friend there can't protect you anymore.'

Taking offense, Lille Barrow raised all six wings and from all twenty-four holes. Light began to charge in all of them.

The Alchemist then laughed at the display. 'Have you already done mad?' I already said, showing that your Schrift won't work on me!' He boasted fearlessly as he stretched out both of his arms dramatically. 'But if you want to perform such a desperate display, then, by all means, let us have it!'

Lille remained silent as the light within the holes of his wings fully charged and then fired them, but right before they could hit Cein. They suddenly disappeared into several portals, and before the Alchemist could realize it, the beams shot right below the floor under his feet and engulfed him in a brilliant light beam.

But even then, Cein remained unharmed before regaining his composure.

'A clever plan, but unfortunately, I made my body passively adapt to any ability that I have analyzed, regardless if I-

SWIP!

Royd's Sword then sliced Cein's left hand off as he lunged into the blast unharmed, much to the scientist's disbelief, and then grabbed the voodoo doll and toy organs before they all fell to the blasted hole in the floor and jumped back.

'You are also unharmed by the X-Axis as well!?' The scientist questioned, and Lille gave him a sneered look of contempt.

'Unlike you, my x-axis only harms those that I deem an enemy,' The imperial guard explained, and then, as Royd gave him the doll and organ, he entrapped them in an actual orb seal. 'And as far as I can tell, you are all out but one of your tricks left.'

Cein then frowned as he looked at Quincy. 'You honestly don't mean my Segunda Etapa, do you?'

Lille then frowns. 'Isn't it obvious? As a commander of Barragan's army, you should have one just like the rest of the Espada. So either you can waste time toying with us on the risk of getting killed, or you can try finishing this battle by unleashing your second release. ' Lille then folded his arms. 'Either way, this battle will end your defeat'

The Alchemist then looked at Lilli Barrow and then smiled cruelly. 'Well, you seemed quite confident in killing regardless if I went all out, and I would even call it arrogant...if neither of you didn't have your second form to counter it?'

Lille Barrow then narrowed his eyes. 'And you believe you have the power to stand up to it?'

Cein's grin then widens. 'It would be something that I would always dream of.' His smile then faded, and he tipped up his glasses. 'But unfortunately, neither of you has pushed me far enough to make me go all out yet, and not only that...' He then stretched out his severed arm, and the tentacles wrapped around the stump and formed a bladed sword. Cein then licked along its blade as his face darkened into a twisted smile, and his eyes popped in excitement and glee. 'I'd rather prolong this battle as much as possible'

He then flashed in front of Lille Barrow and tried to cut him into a bladed grand ray cero, but Royd immediately blocked the strike with his blade and pushed the Espada back. However, Cein was barely deterred as he began charging several Ceroes from the eyes of his wings, each greater than that of a Grand Ray and In a way that looked like he was mimicking Lille's attacks right back, as they all fired at Royd who then conjured several Roman numerical cylinders from each of his fingers and deployed a massive shield of reshi in the form of the Quincy cross and when the Ceroes impacted the protection. It unleashed an enormous explosion that shook the entire fortress.

Then, as the dust cleared, Royd and Lille remained unharmed, yet the reshi shield that protected them was brittle and cracked.

'This is bad...' Royd thought as he looked over the grinning Cein. 'Both of us are already pushing our limits while this madman doesn't seem winded.' He then began to conjure several more Roman inscribed reshi bars from his hand. 'I had thought after we dealt with all of his techniques. Cein would be easier to take out or at least make him use his Segunda Etapa and then have Lille use the nail to finish him off. He then fused the bares. 'But it seems I must go all out to take this monster down'

Royd stretched out the hand that fused the bars together, and from the form, a great sword of Reshi with its guard in the shape of the Quincy cross, while its blade shining bright blue with Spiritual power.

Cein then looked at the Sword in amusement. 'So this is one of your special Quincy techniques, I presume?' He questions sarcastically. 'Well, I hope it would provide more of a challenge than your-!?'

The Alchemist then stopped himself when he realized the parts of the building he was standing on. Including those around, were being broken down into reshi and absorbed into the great sword, much to his astonishment.

'You can use Sklaverei without going into your holy form!?' Cein asked in amazement. 'I thought only your king could do that!'

Royd then smirked. 'Oh, any Quincy with the potential could do it; it's just that very few trains that hard and long enough to attain it, and by the time I attained it, the Vollstange was no longer needed.' He then swiped his sword across the air, which cut several groups of towers in the distance in half. 'And now you will feel the full brute force of my power!'

Royd dashed towards Cein at blazing speed with his great sword while Cein countered with his own, and soon, both Quincy and Arrancar were engaged in a savage duel of blades. The battle unleashed such destructive force that the building they stood on collapsed beneath their feet, and as they continued their onslaught across the fortress, entire hallways, living quarters, and palaces were demolished into rubble or leveled flat into the ground. All the while, the Alchemists laughed with murderous joy and excitement. Even as more wounds began to pile on top of his body and his bladed arm began to chip and crack before Royd's superior weapon.

'Marvelous, absolutely marvelous!' Cein screamed out in bliss while stretching out his hands. 'Never once in a millennia have I felt such a rush in battle, to be back up in a corner and be wounded so severely!' He then stared in murderous glee at Royd. 'If I didn't know any better, I would say you would better fit the role of an Imperial Guard guard than that self-proclaimed trash!'

Royd then remained silent for a moment and then shook his head. 'I am sorry, but I only wanted to be a noble Sternritter to serve the common people. As far more qualified Quincy are needed to serve his majesty,' Royd explained.

Cein then closed his eyes and then chucked. 'I see...well, whatever.' He began to glow a dark violet-pink. Because both of you are going to see my true elegance!'

The Alchemist's body began to glow with dark violet Spiritual energy, making the air area extremely dense. It started shaking not only the entire fortress of Las Noches but Hueco Mundo itself..and far beyond it.

'Segunda Etapa...'

Cein was then engulfed in a misty pink Spiritual energy as it formed around his being, and when the aura faded, his body had completely transformed.

He was utterly shirtless, with dark violet straps of cloth-like flesh flayed from his shoulders and waist, while his legs and groan were covered in white fur and shaped like a Canine. His feet were like the talons of a bird, while pink peacock wings stretched out from his lower back, along with a black liquid-like tail with a tip that burned and glowed with pink Spiritual energy. In contrast, the fingernails of his hands stretched out into crimson razor-sharp claws. His hair became dark pink, with the long strands having solid, bright pink tears. While the corona of his eyes became yellow, and his pupils silted like a feline.

'Now then...' Cein spoke lowly as he lowered himself to the floor. 'Let's see if you can continue to entertain!' Cein then rushed at Royd with so much speed that he could barely follow the man's movements, and when he blocked the man's strike with his Sword, the Alchemist's razor-sharp fingers managed to crack the blade's edge, much to Royd's distress.

'Don't try to lose hope now, Quincy!' Cein shouted out in anticipation. 'The fun has just now begun!'

The crazed man then launched a left talon foot at Royd, who dodged it at the last minute and used a flying step to give himself some distance. Only to then sense that Cein was right behind him and his hand already raised to slice his skull in two.

Thinking Quickly, Royd then summoned another Reshi shield to block the strike, but the force from it was so great that it shattered it on impact and pushed the Quincy several feet away. Then, upon chuckling at his opponent's struggle, Cein mentally commanded his flesh strips to attack the Sternritter, yet while the star knight could deflect the rapidly weaving pieces of flesh, he wasn't, to his frustration, able to cut through them.

'Now come noble Sternritter,' Cein mocked while continuing to assault his foe with his straps of flesh. 'Surly that is not all the spells you can use in your arsenal? Otherwise, I went all out for nothing!'

Royd grunted as he conjured another Roman bar and transformed it into a ball of reshi.

'Radiate strike!' He uttered loudly and then slammed it into the tentacles, pushing them back and giving him breathing room to perform his next spell.

'Qualkreis!' Royd announced, and immediately, Cein was surrounded by bolts of blue reshi lighting. Which then formed bows that shot dozens of arrows into the nearby slabs of rubble, which all pinned down the Commander in a massive pile.

But not even a second later, Cein burst out of the stone prison with nothing more than a flex of his Spiritual power and giggled at the fact that his enemy thought he could imprison him so easily. Before rushing at Royd once more, who then proceeded to use blunt Arterai to shield himself.

Only for Cein to break through it and grab Royd by the throat. 'First, you send rocks at me and then mere force field a; surely you don't believe such simple methods can bring me down!?'

Royd then managed a knowing smirk. 'Why don't you take a better look at your arm?'

Cein then did just that and was shocked by his arm being consumed by the blunt, and before he knew it spread across his face, chest, and eventually his entire body. Then, to the Alchemist's horror, the blunt consumed his whole form, as skin, flesh, organs, and bones were broken down and assimilated into the technique as if the Arrancar was a digested meal.

Until eventually, nothing of the Alchmist remained.

Royd sighed and rubbed his throat, relieved that his enemy was finally defeated before he suffocated.

But then he suddenly felt a massive pain in his chest and stomach.

'A fantastic technique, Quincy...' Cein's voice echoed from within Royd, much to his disbelief, confusion, and terror.

'Now let me show you mine...'

What Lille saw next almost made him scream in terror and throw up everything that was held inside his stomach.

From Ryoud's mouth came the Alchemist's hands, as the Arrancar slowly claws himself out from the Quincy's jaws with unnatural flexibility and grace. At the same time, every moisture and nutrient in the knight's body has been absorbed. Leaving the man's body a withered husk and the enemy's fully restored as if he were an insect emerging from a human-shaped cocoon.

'I am ever so grateful that you enabled me to use one of my most valued techniques. As it could only be used by those who managed to actually kill me' Cein then looked at the withers form of his foe, now crawling to the ground. 'Though it does come at the cost of leaving those who killed me completely helpless,' he said with mocked pity. But Royd only growled in defiance.

Then, seeing his comrade in trouble, Lille Barrow teleported to his aid.

'How cute...' Cein taunted; the disappointment is here to save his fallen ally, though I suppose it only makes sense to die right next to your superior!'

Royd then glared at the Alchemist, 'Don't...make such ludicrous statements!' The brunette struggled to speak and then conjured several Roman bars from his fingers and stabbed them to the ground.

'Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger!' The wreathed man uttered as several towers of reshi in the shape of the Quincy cross surround Ryod and Lille.

Bemused at the sight, Cein tried to step into the circle only to immediately dodge out of the way when a beam of light went to strike him down.

'Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger...' Royd whispered in a raspy voice to Cien. 'The ultimate protective Quincy spell of both offense and defense. For anyone who steps inside the circle will be rent asunder by the light of god!'

The Alchemist stared at the light long, baring his teeth at the challenge.

'If the light of god protects you...' Cein then raised his black tail out his chest. 'Then the darkness of the devil will devour you!' The bottom of the tail then stabbed him in the heart, which caused dark pink spiritual energy to travel through his body and flesh straps, and from its tips, a massive tear of black Spiritual power dropped from them and fell into his hands.

He then rosed up into the sky.

'Lágrimas Negras De Los Lujuriosos (Black Tears of The Lustful' Cein said seductively, and then the core of the black tear of his hands shone a dark velvet pink before launching itself at the Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger and when it reached the circle, several beams of light struck the attack at once. But they managed to slow the attack down to a crawl.

'Lille...' Royd...muttered to the imperial guard who listened closely. 'Neither that spell... nor I am going to last much longer,' He explained, and when he did, one of the columns of Reshi shattered. 'So please, while we still have time...use the nail and ascend to your divine form; otherwise, both of us will die'

Lille then looked at Royd...and then to himself as he struggled to decide.