People are fickle, and the same goes for Yamamoto.
Before when Mazuru had opened up the barrier, he thought that he could destroy the barrier without Zaraki's Bankai.
However, after the Kyokujitsujin was fruitless, he realized that the barrier was much more stable than he had imagined, so he decisively changed his plan of action, and formulated that he would keep killing Mazuru at a speed at which his speed of devouring spiritual power could not keep up.
If the speed of Mazuru's resurrection could not be increased, he would soon be unable to maintain the barrier, and the barrier would disintegrate at its own without any attack.
But now, he found that he was wrong in this matter too.
The purpose of Mazuru opening up the barrier was not for the ability of resurrection that he had been continuously using from the beginning, nor was it to defeat him with the advantage brought to him by his resurrections.
It was to bury the entire army of the Soul Society then and there!
In order to defeat this Hueco Mundo expeditionary force, he didn't even plan to let go of those arrancars of Hueco Mundo.
Mazuru's figure disappeared without a trace, and the whole inner world of the barrier changed. In there, shinigami, hollows, bounts and reiatsu were being swallowed by the crimson world, and that feeling of swallowing gave them a sense of inevitability. If things went on like that, it was certain that all the living creatures inside the entire barrier would absorbed cleanly.
Yamamoto doesn't care about the Hueco Mundo side's life or death, but he had to care about shinigamis' lives.
After all, he was the one who brought these shinigami there, so he was obliged to take them back.
So, everything went back to the beginning.
There was only one way to break Mazuru's move of absorbing all the living beings inside the barrier, and that was to break the barrier itself.
Mazuru's figure had disappeared, and seemed to have merged into the vast crimson world, but the barrier was still there.
After Yamamoto released his Bankai, he still had the strongest attack yet to use, but he didn't rush to use it.
It's not that he was unsure of breaking the barrier by using it.
Rather it was for stability.
That was the last and strongest blow, which he would use to secure the victory in one fell swoop.
So, his eyes fell on Zaraki.
Zaraki also responded quickly.
Although the crimson world had changed drastically, and Zaraki's body also had many blood-red silk threads climbing onto him, and absorbing his reiatsu, but his reiatsu was far stronger than others.
Although he felt that his reiatsu was being absorbed, he felt that it would take a long time before he would feel weakened due to it.
So, after hearing the Yamamoto's words, though Zaraki was perplexed as he didn't understand why the Yamamoto asked him to release his Bankai suddenly, he still did it.
Granted, Zaraki didn't like the feeling after releasing his Bankai.
"Bankai —"
Even though his reiatsu was continuously being sucked, after he released his Bankai, a tremendously powerful reiatsu still burst out from his body.
Seemingly aware of the high-intensity reiatsu reaction, the blood mist surged and gradually condensed into a cocoon, intending to wrap Zaraki heavily, and continue to devour his reiatsu, but...
*Thump*
*Boom!!*
A burly figure broke through the blood mist, it was Zaraki, who had turned into a beast once again. He was in a state of confusion, but even so, he still remembered the last words of the head-captain, his figure jumped out once again, and in an instant, he had come to the barrier's inner wall.
The huge Zanpakuto in his hand waved, intending to imitate the move that he used during the battle of Las Noches last time and break the barrier.
*Bang!*
Zaraki swung a blow containing all his strength, and a thunderous sound echoed.
Even though many shinigamis' consciousness had begun to blur because of their spiritual power being swallowed up, many of them were still struggling. Shinigami with relatively high spiritual power levels still couldn't help but glance at the direction of Zaraki's attack.
Unfortunately, it had failed.
The barrier that Zaraki tried his best to break like the last time seemed to be stronger this time.
Even though Zaraki went all out, he still couldn't break the barrier.
"Is this it? Is everything going to end like this?"
Byakuya was not reconciled.
He never thought that Zaraki would not be able to break Mazuru's barrier even after releasing his monstrous Bankai.
In the end, even Mazuru had disappeared from their sight completely.
After the Soul Society sent a huge army to fight him, would they end like this even without able to do anything?
"We came to Hueco Mundo to crusade against evil, how could the curtain be drawn like this!"
Yamamoto's strong voice sounded.
In the crimson world, there was once again a burning feeling. He poured more reiatsu in the Zanjitsu Gokui that he was already wearing, and flew past everyone. In an instant, he came to Zaraki's side and swung his sword at the exact same spot where Zaraki's attack was made, stacking up the damage.
"Zanka no Tachi, Kita: Tenchi Kaijin (Longsword of the Remnant Flame, North: Heaven and Earth End in Ashes)!"
A brutally destructive and fast attack was released by Yamamoto.
The barrier that Zaraki had tried his best to strike and break but was unable to do so, now with this attack, had a large of its area disappear directly.
With such a huge gap appeared.
The entire barrier finally collapsed.
*Crack*
*Crash*
It was as if Kyōka Suigetsu's hypnosis was undone, a figure emerged quietly, it was Mazuru, whose complexion was extremely pale at that moment.
Before many shinigami realized what had happened, they realized one fact, that the crimson world had disappeared. Although the feeling of weakness still existed, the spiritual power in their bodies did not get absorbed any longer.
"We are saved!"
The shinigami wiped their foreheads, only to find that there was not a single drop of sweat.
After Yamamoto had released his Bankai, all the moisture in the atmosphere had evaporated, and they didn't even have saliva, let alone sweat.
Previously, they felt that the environment after his Bankai was simply not suitable for human beings, but after experiencing the feelings brought about by Mazuru's barrier's inner changes, they felt that the environment after their head-captain's Bankai was relatively much comfortable.
Although they were physically uncomfortable, looking at Yamamoto's Bankai gave them a sense of psychological security.
"Old man Yama is as dependable as always!"
Shunsui also couldn't help but comment.
Then, after seeing Mazuru's appearance clearly, his eyes became sharp.
"Mazuru..."
Looking at Mazuru's appearance, Nanao couldn't help but speak softly.
At this moment, Mazuru's complexion was pale, and he looked as if he had suffered a serious injury. What's worth mentioning was that the Zanpakuto in his hand was broken, leaving only half of it.
"In the state of Bankai, the damage a Zanpakuto receives cannot be recovered. Now, you probably have lost the power of your Zanpakuto!"
Yamamoto looked at Mazuru's Zanpakuto which was obviously damaged, and spoke with an indifferent voice.
Mazuru's Bankai turned his Zanpakuto into a barrier, while his "Tenchi Kaijin" completely wiped out the things he slashed, making it impossible to regenerate them.
He used Tenchi Kaijin to slash the barrier before, and the barrier suffered irreversible damage, and when it reverted back to Zanpakuto, it became what was now in Mazuru's hand.
As the head-captain of Gotei 13, Yamamoto knows a lot of common sense which are not very common about shinigami.
This was one of them, the damage a Zanpakuto had suffered while in Bankai is irreversible and cannot be recovered.
Of course, there were exceptions, such as Komamura Sajin's Bankai.
But Yamamoto didn't believe that Mazuru's sword was a special case like it.
Mazuru's expression was a bit ugly, and he didn't respond to Yamamoto's words.
It seemed like he was hit at a sore spot by Yamamoto.
Seeing this, Yamamoto concluded that his inference was true, and was ready to attack Mazuru again.
But suddenlt at that moment, a red-haired figure appeared beside Mazuru.
It was Beelzebub, the leader of the Espada!
After he appeared next to Mazuru, several tentacles suddenly shot out from his back, and then entangled him.
This was something no one expected.
Soon, the some of arrancars recognized the trick.
"It's Szayelaporro's Gabriel!"
Beelzebub had performed Gabriel on Mazuru, and simultaneously a thought arose.
'Beelzebub betrayed Mazuru?'
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