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The quiet rustling of the grass, the light sea breeze and the pleasant glow of the sun came over the abnormal hollow as soon as he stepped onto the ground of the new world. With his eyes wide open and a little smile on his face, he was enjoying life in the almost human body. Just like this, just sitting on the ground and looking at the sky, he spent his time until sunset. - Heh... I think it's time to look for humans... If there's any of them here, of course. Slowly standing up, he closed his eyes and concentrated. Standing in one pose and not moving, he tried to feel a strong enough presence, but from what he felt, there was only some fish in the sea around him. - Really? Not a single soul that can grab my attention? He opened his eyes and began to think, staring out at the horizon and trying to see anything but water. Suddenly, his gaze locked on to a purple Portal in the air above the island he was actually on. - Looks like I'll have to trust another warp in space-time. He jumped into the portal, and the next second he was already stepping on the ground. - This world is quite beautiful. He walked in a straight line, looking around at the nature around him. Along the way, he came across some bouncing blobs that consisted of something strange and the masked creatures he came across not too long ago. Since they were all aggressive, their lives ended that day. In all the time the hollow walked, he still hadn't seen nor felt any humans. - Hopefully, there are some in this world after all... Oh, is it night already? He looked up at the night sky and continued on his way, even though his physical body would take even longer to heal than his spiritual body, which had lost its crazy regeneration after his evolution into an Arrancar, and the exhaustion that had already accumulated in his physical body, which needed sleep much more than his spiritual body. Walking through the green forest, he left behind him a trail of blood that had already soaked his cloak. - Looks like I'll have to heal at the people's place. If I can find them, of course.... He finally reached a mountain range that was very visible from his very first step on this continent, and decided to climb up: there would be a good view from there. Getting as close to it as possible, hollow took a deep breath, got ready, and... Jumped up the mountain. Since he was limited in his physical body and his soul was wounded, as well as his physical body, on which any soul wounds reflected too, it was not possible to jump to the very top at once, as he would easily do if he still was a spiritual being. So, with a glance picking the most steady looking rocks, he jumped, trying to be as careful as possible not to cause a snowfall. Moving this way took longer than initially planned, so hollow set foot on the peak of the mountain in the morning. - Phew, that's some great mountains they have here, indeed. Gazing at the horizon, he tried to find any human settlement. - Oh! There's a whole town over there! His gaze locked onto a supposedly, and preferably, human city that was on an island in the middle of some body of water; presumably a lake. - Oh, wait... Now I have to go downhill... He began a cautious descent down the mountain range. It was faster than the climb, but still took him several hours. The sun had already started to rise, and the hollow had only just stepped onto the normal ground. - Phew, this body is so weak: I just climbed the mountain, and my legs are already numb... After calming his breathing a bit, he jumped over the river that flowed at the foot of the mountain and followed the trodden path...Chapter 4
March 1, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Notes:
Here's your chapter. I thought it would be nice of me to release it earlier, just for it to be released at the 1st.
Also, we're almost there guys! Just a few chapters, and you'll have the good shit I've been hiding from you all this time...
Falling in interworld space, the abnormal hollow waited. Waited, waited... And just when he was getting bored, he felt something.
- Finally! I thought I'd get old before coming across another world.
Beneath him, at a relatively short distance, was a spatial "tunnel" with no end or beginning visible.
- Wow, so it's a wormhole! Whoever did this is pretty good.
A grin touched his lips.
- Yokubo: Ido.
He found himself inside the wormhole, and was immediately transported to some strange place: a huge stone room with no roof, connected to another one, which in turn... Anyway, an indefinite number of rooms. Jumping out on the wall, he looked around and realised that all these rooms were stone islands flying in the darkness of the void.
- Yeah, I love getting into strange places.
Quietly jumping down and kicking up dust, he went to the second room.
- What was this place anyway? Some kind of abandoned domain? Hmm, hopefully there will be something interesting here.
Slowly walking along the smooth stone with patterns carved into it, hollow heard some sounds and immediately tensed up, noticing the presence of some weird creatures. In each room was a group of beings whose presence was stronger the further away they were from the beginning, and the "smell" that it had was very reminiscent of the lower hollow: decay, rot, decomposition, and other unpleasant "odours" that the hollows, fortunately, lacked. However, despite the number of creatures, roughly equal to two or three hundred, the energy they emitted, even taken all together, was... Negligible. Seriously, all the energy in this reality combined was hundreds of times weaker than his current reatsu. He wouldn't even notice such "opponents".
- Eh~, should I kill everyone here?
He stood there for a moment, pondering, before nodding his thoughts and rushing towards the nearest enemies. The stone floor cracked and a vibration travelled through the entire island complex. Few minutes later, only the hollow was left alive, his body now covered not only by his wounds and his blood, but also by the blood of the strange masked creatures. He wouldn't even try it: their powers were so unpleasant and weak that being covered in them was already uncomfortable enough.
- Huh, that wasn't that bad after all. By the way, I almost forgot.
He walked over to the pile of corpses and concentrated.
- Ganbō: Katachi ni suru.
The corpses of the hollow's unlucky victims deformed, turning into a slurry of nasty colour, and it flowed into one place, forming a human form almost identical to the hollow in front of it. All that remained in place of the corpses was a large puddle of black liquid that reeked of rot. It seemed that this liquid was not suitable for creating a physical body for the hollow, who had been a spiritual entity without a physical body, just like the rest of his kind in the previous world.
- Hmm? I'm quite beautiful...
A smirk appeared on his face, and he entered the body, letting it create a strong connection with his soul. Quickly getting up from the floor, he put on the cape, which he got from one of the monsters, and walked towards the entrance to this reality.
- It sure is comfortable in the physical body, even despite the wounds that still haven't healed, and its weakness. I'm feeling limited…
Walking into the first room, he headed for the wormhole.
- But okay. What one wouldn't do to live as a human...
Stepping into the portal, he travelled to the world from which it was opened, as far as he could tell.
Notes:
Smol chapter. Yes. Yes, I am a poopoo head, and a bad, bad person.
I am proud of myself.