As Ashisogi Jizo laid flat on the ground, unmoving its face was implanted into the ground as the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva returned back to its idle position with its arms retracted behind its back. "Tch How annoying. But still, this will only make the moment I dissect you more interesting." Although Mayuri said, all of this out loud Shen was too far away to hear him.
Looking down at Ashisogi Jizo for a moment, Shen suddenly saw its body twitch. 'So that wasn't enough to finish it.' Preparing himself, Ashisogi Jizo's upper body shot up towards Shen rapidly without any warning. As it charged at Shen, retractable blades shot out of its chest, making the fact it planned to impale Shen more obvious. "Your way to slow to hit me with that kind of attack."
Quickly extending his hand, Shen made a sweeping movement to the right as Ashisogi Jizo entered the final stretch closing in even more. However also in that instant with only a slight delay, the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva copied Shen's actions as it copied his hand movement, sending a strike perfectly timed with Ashisogi Jizo's movements.
The sound of slap could be heard as the Ashisogi Jizo's face rippled from the impact. The force from this strike alone caused the entire front portion of the centipede-like body to move to cause the ground to shake. However, even with that, Shen didn't stop there as he called upon another hand and sent it straight at Ashisogi Jizo's chin.
The palm shattered the retractable blades plowing straight into their chin, sending Ashisogi Jizo's upper body to rise in the air revealing the underside of its body entirely to Shen. In this quick combination, Shen had ultimately canceled out any method for Ashisogi Jizo to attack back. Of course, Shen didn't pass this opportunity up, having a weak point revealed in front of him he planned to abuse it.
The idle arms surrounding the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva began to change as their standard golden red color disappeared as black Haki coated them entirely. Watching this scene from afar, the captains started to use this outburst from Mayuri as a chance to study Shen. Showing a look of impatience, Soi Fon thought to herself. 'He just got this power from Renji's Zanpakuto, but he can already merge it with another.'
"Muda!" Starting with one strong palm strike straight to the underside of Ashisogi Jizo, Shen slowly began releasing more and more strikes from a few to dozens to hundreds within only a couple of seconds. Each blow caused more and more of Ashisogi Jizo's body to be lifted off the floor as more of their feet lost their grip. This assault continued to for an entire minute, with only the farthest portion of Ashisogi Jizo's body being on the ground at this point.
'Now for the finale.' Changing the shape of the hands not in use, Shen began to coat that hand in Ki, forming a drill-like shape. The speed of this hand was at least two times the other, also increasing its force as it flew towards the dazed Ashisogi Jizo. Piercing straight through the baby like head, all sounds coming from Ashisogi Jizo stopped as its long body fell to the ground with only the hand of 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva holding the head up.
After staying like that for a moment, Shen retracted the hand of 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva as he allowed it to fade away, disappearing from view. Seeing how fluently his Bankai was defeated, Mayuri was frozen in place. Turning his attention to the captains, Shen spoke. "After capturing Byakuya and Toshiro, I thought you would have learned by now."
Listening to Shen mention the two captains he captured, it was an obvious taunt, and none of the captains reacted to it in any way as Shunsui spoke up. "Well, it was worth a shot." Shrugging his shoulders, Shunsui chuckled for a moment before grabbing both of his Zanpakuto's that were still in their sheaths.
After a slight pause, the other captains did the same, drawing their Zanpakuto. As they each stood their the clouds above them could be seen twisting as their spiritual pressure rose.
All at once, they spoke each one calling on their Zanapkuto's names, each one activating their Shikai. It was like a rave as all the different colored Reiatsu shot into the sky, each one giving off the pressure of a captain. Watching this from afar, Shen could only sigh as spoke. "Still only going to use your Shikai's, huh? Fine, then don't blame me for not taking this seriously." 'Besides, I have time Rukia should be dealing with any annoyances.
As the captains came out of their Shikai transformations, Shen reactivated the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva, however, this time, he kept Haki off. "Let me show you a new combination I have been working on." Opening the hands behind the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva Shen created orbs of Ki in front of each before closing each hand, making them grip a sphere each. "Ninety-Ninth Hand: Energy Volley."
Moving his hands, Shen made the sign of a ninety-nine with his fingers as one by one the arms of the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva began rocketing forward, and the moment they fully extended, they released the Ki Blast they were holding on to. Using the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva as propulsion, Shen fired the Ki Blast faster than he could ever do by himself and what they lacked in quality they made up for in quantity.
The 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva was like a revolver ever time a hand came back Shen would create another Ki blast for it to grab hold of and push forward. The end result was a barrage of hundreds of Ki blast raining down on the area in front of Shen and, of course, the area the captains were standing.
Facing this barrage, the captains quickly used Flash Step disappearing and reappearing maneuvering between the gaps of the hundreds of Ki Blast. As the volley continued, it began to affect the Soul Reapers who had been ignored in the fight as the ones fast enough to avoid a blast were lucky, and the ones that were too slow could only hope one didn't fly their way.
All in all, it was utter chaos as the blast continued to rain down, causing mini explosions to erupt like fireworks on the ground. It was only until Shen lost sight of the captains through the smoke did he finally stop dismissing the 100 Type Guanyin Bodhisattva. Standing in the air, Shen closed his eyes for a moment as he spoke to seemingly no one. "You know I think I should rephrase what I said last time."
Turning his head slightly, Shen's eyes looked behind his back, and like a prediction, Komamura appeared behind Shen with his Zanpakuto raised straight in the air. Next to Komamura was a phantom of sorts, an arm covered in black armor wielding a massive sword that looked as though it cleaves a hill in two. "HYA!" Yelling through his mask, Komamura waved his Zanpakuto down at Shen as the phantom hand did the same copying his actions.
However, when the phantom-like blade made contact with Shen, it went straight through him as the person Komamura thought was Shen disappeared. Losing sight of Shen completely, Komamura began looking around only to freeze when heard a whisper interrupt his search. "Without your Bankai's, you can't even touch me."
Trying to turn around, an intense pain spiked through Komamura's body as Shen sent a kick straight into his side. "GAH!" The sound of cracking could be heard from Kamamura's body as he was sent flying down to the ground with a shockwave following him as he crashed into a multitude of walls.
"Your all just too weak without them."
I would have posted this chapter hours ago, but Inkstone sadly doesn't autosave, so when my chrome crashed had to rewrite the entire chapter. (Really my fault for being stupid and not using google docs.)
Anyway, Shen's battle against all the captains has officially begun. I wonder what he did with Rukia is she hiding away or did Shen give her something special to do.
I hope you liked this chapter.