The Witcher: The Journey to Transcendence from Marvel...

Chapter 518 Hollowing Out

Ichigo Kurosaki stood there, filled with shock and helplessness.

His gaze swept over everyone who appeared before him, whether it was Yhwach, who seemed to control everything, Aizen, who exuded an unfathomable aura, or Wes, whose strength was enough to make the world despair. The power they displayed far surpassed his own.

Just standing there, enduring the terrifying aftershocks of the battle, Ichigo Kurosaki felt all his strength being drained away bit by bit.

"You're still alive, Kurosaki Ichigo?"

"Elwin, what exactly is going on?"

Although he had not yet fully understood the cause and effect of this battle, judging from the current situation, Wes seemed to be the mastermind behind it all.

A beam of light carrying the aura of death shot towards Ichigo Kurosaki like lightning.

Ichigo Kurosaki didn't even have time to dodge before the beam pierced straight through his chest.

He subconsciously looked down at his chest, where a shockingly large, gaping hole appeared, with bright red blood gushing out like a burst dam.

Numerous white bubbles burst forth from his wounds, as if they were alive, and quickly enveloped his entire body.

Ichigo Kurosaki's body began to undergo extremely drastic changes.

His body continued to swell, his muscles bulging as if they were about to burst through his skin.

Sharp bull horns abruptly grew from the top of his head, and his face was covered with a hideous and terrifying mask, which in the blink of an eye transformed into a bull-headed phantom.

In his Hollow form, Kurosaki Ichigo let out a deafening roar as he looked up at the sky.

To everyone's surprise, he did not attack Wes as expected. Instead, after roaring, he turned and fled in panic into the distance.

At this moment, Ichigo Kurosaki was acting entirely on instinct, and deep within his chaotic consciousness, he seemed to have realized that he had no chance of winning.

However, when he tried his best to escape this terrible battlefield, he crashed into an invisible barrier and was bounced back heavily.

It condensed a powerful Cero, attempting to attack the barrier.

The Cero not only failed to break through the barrier as he had hoped, but was also bounced back the moment it touched the barrier, attacking him with even greater ferocity and sending him flying backward, injuring him in multiple places.

Fortunately, Minotaur possesses powerful super-fast regeneration capabilities.

Soon, the shocking wounds on his body healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But the crisis was not over.

Black flames rained down from the sky like dense raindrops, as if to burn everything in the world to ashes.

The bull-headed demon unleashed the Resounding Spin Technique, its figure flashing like a ghost as it tried to evade the deadly black flames.

His reaction was undeniably swift, and his movements undeniably agile; however, the "raindrops" were so dense that even with his utmost effort, he still inadvertently got a single drop on him.

The moment the black flames touched his arm, they spread rapidly like maggots clinging to his bone, covering half of his arm in the blink of an eye.

He immediately felt a piercing pain and tried every possible way to extinguish the flames, but no matter how hard he tried, the flames seemed to be cursed and could not be extinguished.

Bull-Headed Void severed his own arm, which was being eroded by flames.

His newly grown arm was still being scorched by the terrible flames, and the flames were spreading wildly to other parts of his body at an even faster rate.

Under the cruel torment of the black flames, Kurosaki Ichigo screamed in agony, his consciousness gradually fading.

An immense, suffocating spiritual pressure, like an invisible mountain, instantly pressed down on Ichigo Kurosaki.

He was unable to withstand the terrifying pressure and involuntarily knelt on one knee.

Yhwach walked slowly with a blank expression, his eyes as cold as a thousand-year-old icy pool, without a ripple.

He reached out and gently pressed his hand on Ichigo Kurosaki's head.

The fierce flames that had been raging on Ichigo Kurosaki seemed to have encountered their natural enemy and were quickly dispelled.

At the same time, his ethereal state was instantly dispelled.

"This is?"

Kurosaki Ichigo looked up with a puzzled expression, his eyes filled with deep incomprehension as he gazed at Yhwach before him.

"Experience it quietly."

During their brief encounter, Yhwach, with his keen senses, detected that Ichigo Kurosaki possessed Quincy blood, and that the purity of that bloodline was extremely high.

[A person possessing the combined traits of Quincy, Shinigami, Hollow, and Human would be a valuable pawn.]

Yhwach pondered to himself, a barely perceptible glint flashing in his eyes.

Kurosaki Ichigo felt a sudden dizziness, as if he were being swept into an endless vortex of darkness, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Uncle?"

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Then I entered the mental space.

"Where am I?" Kurosaki Ichigo slowly woke up, looking at the unfamiliar environment around him that was filled with a strange atmosphere.

Yhwach completely ignored his question, and a knife emitting a ghostly light quickly materialized in his right hand.

Without hesitation, he slashed at Ichigo Kurosaki's neck.

A look of astonishment flashed across Kurosaki Ichigo's face for a moment, and then a wave of intense pain washed over him.

"You won't truly die here; you'll only retain the sensation of pain," Yhwach said coldly.

No sooner had he finished speaking than Ichigo Kurosaki was revived once again.

Yhwach looked at Ichigo Kurosaki and said solemnly, "This is your mental space. No matter how time passes, only one second has passed in the outside world. You will stay here until you master Bankai."

Kurosaki Ichigo paused for a moment, and although he had many questions in his mind, he quickly recovered and said firmly, "I understand."

That seemingly brief second is anything but easy to win.

There is also the formidable and terrifying Wes, a powerful enemy, watching them with predatory eyes.

Wes, at this moment, also keenly realized that this was an excellent opportunity, so how could he let it slip by easily?

He was about to take action when Aizen flashed by and stopped him.

"You can't stop me."

Aizen was well aware of this as well. He knew that once Yhwach died, he would have no way to survive. They were now like grasshoppers on the same rope, sharing both prosperity and ruin.

Aizen, still sporting his signature smile, said unhurriedly, "How will you know if you don't try?"

Wes raised his staff high, and instantly, an extremely dazzling white light burst forth from the tip of the staff. Wherever it touched, the air was scorched and distorted, and everything was reduced to ashes by this terrifying power.

Upon seeing this, Aizen's expression instantly turned extremely solemn, and he hurriedly used "Danku" repeatedly in an attempt to block the terrifying white light.

However, faced with this unimaginably powerful white light, his "Severing the Void" technique was as fragile as paper, easily penetrated by the white light, and could not provide any effective resistance.

(End of this chapter)