Holy Extermination

The Invasion was going smoothly so far. The Captain Commander had been broken, as well as much of the Seireitei itself. The Soul Society was in shambles, awaiting a purge that would restore the Quincy to their proper place in the universe. Everything was going smoothly, and though the Stern Ritter labelled G mourned the loss of research material and entertainment, the Shinigami did have to go. They had failed their job to balance out the Hollows, and they would be subject to the Emperor's wrath. So The Glass Castle simply watched the battlefield, directed his soldiers as necessary, but mostly kept his distance. Upon a broken building he watched and just meditated on the field, his Energy Sensory stretching a few miles of land. It was no surprise when a subordinate approached.

"Captain, a report. The training town is full of the poisonous Hollows again." Gilles scoffed, starting to laugh quite loudly and obnoxiously. "Well! I better go handle that then. Continue the Extermination." With a flourish of his Musketeer cape, he left the Soul Society battlefield to make his way back to the Land of the Living. The town was nestled in a small valley with cliffs on either side, an ocean on one end, and a grassy plain on the other. As he entered the village, he noticed that the Hollows were even weaker than before, as if they had been newly formed without too many souls. "Exterminatus time." The Glass Castle simply let loose his reiatsu, popping most of them like fleas and those that were driven to the ground he cut into pieces with his Seele Schneider that appeared like a saber. They were all gone in a matter of minutes. As he did that, he'd probably sense a powerful presence on the horizon, whether Myza appeared by Garganta or walking, due to his immensely strong Energy Sensory abilities. "Well, well. An actual match rather than these hollows arrives. The Musketeer will cut it down for the Glory of the Emperor!"

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➸ [Deadeye] {3}

➸ [Multitasking] {3}

➸ [Bleeding Tolerance] {3}

➸ [Pain Tolerance] {2}

➸ [Acrobatics] {1}

➸ [Illusion Resist] {2}
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The mystery ambusher arrived after a long way of walking from the Village Center. Every step was known to the Vandenreich Captain, who did absolutely nothing to prepare. That wouldn't be Honorable, now would it? The Musketeers wouldn't have done such a thing as prepare a trap for the more powerful enemy walking towards them, thus Gilles would do nothing to prepare. He sheathed his Seele Schneider, recapped his Spiritual Pressure, and waited with perfect posture. She arrived, the strikingly beautiful woman. From a distance she looked stunning, though as she neared closer it seemed that looks were deceiving. A mask covered the lower half of her face, and a hole was through her pelvic region. An abomination, a mix of Hollow and Shinigami, an Arrancar stood before him. "Another reason to Exterminate the Shinigami. Their failure to destroy hollows went farther than what can be considered 'ok'. They empowered the very force they were supposed to combat."

She appeared as a temptress, trying to woo the Glass Castle with her song. "My my. A Quincy. You're an oddity to see in the world these days, now aren't you?" You couldn't tempt something that was reviled by your existence. You also couldn't trick a Captain of the Vandenreich so easy into giving up important secrets, like the existence of a massive force of Quincy. "What do you care, she-witch? I am myself, and I am here." A small bow appeared in the Stern Ritter's hand, a one foot long shortbow that barely looked like it could harm a dog. The Arrancar's tone changed, sounding angry, offensive, and impatient all at the same time. "Your last words. Now. Then I will execute you so that your filth will no longer defile God's plan, and feast upon your flesh and spirit." Gilles just laughed, quite loudly, seemingly quite amused with the command. "Last words are for the dying. I'd rather hear more about this god you serve. Gods are even more fun to watch than Shinigami!"

Gilles raised his hand to his face, and threw it down toward the ground, releasing a chain from around his arm. This just revealed his Quincy cross, a silver piece with a ruby set into it. An arrow notched on the small bow, a teal colored projectile of reiatsu that wasn't too large. It was a Class 3 arrow, Gilles' attempt to match the initial estimate of the power of the Arrancar before him. As the arrow fired in just a split second after the Quincy had finished his "last words" the speed was doubled, a possible effect of the small bow. The arrow was aimed for Myza's chain rather than her body, seeking to go through it and use the wider back end to pull it out of her grasp or pull her along. With his mastery of Deadeye, Gilles had threaded needles at fifty paces without an issue, so hitting the chain wasn't a problem. If Myza moved it then there might be an issue, obviously.

Remaining Reiatsu: 2900/3000 (-50 Class 3 arrow, -50 2x speed)

Myza moved a top speed, closing the gap between the two of them in an instant while swinging her chain. The Arrancar wasn't particularly masterful at Energy Sensory, but with the level of it that she did possess, along with the Pesquis that she had activated, she'd realize that something was very, very wrong. What had been a weak human standing before her, that had half her strength of reiatsu had suddenly jumped in strength to become equal with her. Furthermore, his Spiritual Pressure, which had been already superior to her, increased to double what it was. The Physical Manifestation of Willpower, particularly the subset of Gate, had doubled both his reiatsu strength and his Spiritual pressure. Now that reiatsu strength of the two was equal, and that the spiritual pressure of the Quincy was vastly superior, he had the advantage.

Gilles was a multitasker. His brain worked so that he could do multiple things at the same time, micromanaging his body to do wondrous things. Some people could pat their heads and rub their stomachs at the same time. Gilles could do those while riding a unicycle and reciting poetry. He was just that good. While he was activating Gate, he was also doing two other things. He had exceptional Energy Sensory, as well as great Instincts, so he could tell that even with Gate he'd only break even with the Arrancar, thus he sharpened his reiatsu just a tiny bit in a mere fraction of an instant. That raised his reiatsu strength by a small two points while lowering his spiritual pressure by two points. That gave him superiority in both Reiatsu Strength and still in Spiritual Pressure.

While activating Gate and sharpening his reiatsu by a fraction, a second technique activated, one that even an Arrancar that was used to fighting Quincy wouldn't have seen before. Blut, the Blood Strength of the God-King, ran through The Glass Castle's veins, causing him to be immune to damage that wasn't stronger than he. Now that the Arrancar and the member of the Vandenreich were on just barely less than equal footing with Reiatsu Strength, neither of them could harm each other just yet. Myza's Hierro protected her from some damage, though Gilles' Blut prevented him from being damaged at all. Gilles had not had enough time to really increase his abilities to the point where he could cause cutback from the Arrancar's, and it was doubtful that he would be given the time due to Myza's superior speed.

Meanwhile, Myza's hand reached for the Quincy Cross while her chain attempted to sever the muscles in the leg of the Vandenreich Captain. The chain hook would be unable to cut into the skin of the Quincy, but would still be able to catch itself around the leg and pull. With the Arrancar's superior strength, Gilles would be put off balance by his leg coming out from under him, though no damage would be done to him. Coming off balance, his arm bearing the Cross would retract away from the Arrancar's grabby hand, causing it to be safely out of the way. Even if Myza did do something to adjust her grab to get the Cross, with Gilles now superior reiatsu strength, the Cross that was an extension of his soul would be safe from being able to be crushed so easily.

As soon as the Quincy began to lose balance from the leg going out from under him, he moved away from Myza ever so slightly. Movement was another Physical Manifestation technique that, though it wasn't superior to most any other stepping technique, was basically effective. Gilles would move backwards a foot with a x5 increase to his speed, further extending the distance between him and the Arrancar, but probably only for a moment. While moving backwards, flakes of ivory settled around half of Gilles' face, looking like a mask from the Phantom of the Opera when it settled. The Vandenreich offered no explanation for why the Arrancar couldn't cut him, or what the mask was, for the Holy Army did not sacrifice such details so easily.

The small bow that had been in Gilles' hand dissipated and a rumble of reiatsu heralded the coming of a greater power. Pouring from his soul, reiatsu became physical and settled into a large crossbow that occupied both hands. Since Myza had hunted Quincy before, she may recognize it as Letzt Stil. Final Silence. Gilles was serious about deposing the Arrancar who thought herself to be a servant of some god. "Speechless, eh? You refuse to tell me about this God of yours? You'd rather fight and die than share His teachings? What kind of servant does that make you..." Gilles aimed the crossbow at Myza, but he did not fire. He simply waited for her to tell him about her religion while drawing in reiatsu like Quincy do. Arrancars who believed in a higher power were rare, and he wanted the delicious morsel of information that she had to offer him. Sometimes, curiosity killed the cat, but rarely when the cat had power enough to protect itself.

Remaining Reiatsu: 2900/5980 (-100 Gate, -300 Blut, -100 Letzt Stil 1, -300 Spiritual Pressure Conversion +500 Quincy Cross, +300 Spirit Fragment)

New SpPr: 299 (x2 from Gate) 598
New RS: 301 (x2 from Gate) 602 [/color]

OOC: You're right, sorry 'bout that. Also, you had 1800 reiatsu in your post before the last one, and used 400 reiatsu in this latest post, meaning you should have 1400 instead of 1500 remaining reiatsu.

As Gilles released his Bow to the first level of Final Silence, Myza sharpened her reiatsu as he had previously done. This complicated things, as his reiatsu couldn't be sharpened repeatedly in quick succession to stay superior. With his superiority lost, he simply deactivated Blut since it wouldn't help him at all and would be a pure waste of energy to keep it active. He did, however, keep up Gate even though his arrows and step techniques would be doubled in cost to get up to the larger power level. As Gilles examined the charging Arrancar, she began to speak, explaining that he was a cockroach, an insect, someone of such inferiority that they were not allowed to exist. This provoked a chuckle from the Quincy. "You misunderstand Superiority. Superiority does not mean that you destroy those inferior and deny them the right to exist. No, it means that you laugh over their struggles to be something that they aren't - significant. You find entertainment and amusement in watching them run around, build their houses, amass wealth, only to have it wrenched away in the coming tide. Have you never seen an Ant Farm, a plaything of children?"

With a flick of her wrist, Myza's chain raised up and she was moving her foot forwards while gathering reiatsu to execute a step of extreme speed. As she used her Sonido, she might hear a small noise, a humming of reiatsu, coming from Gilles, but her less than athletic senses wouldn't be able to pick up exactly where it was, nor would she be able to react to it seeing as she had barely above-human reaction abilities and she was already in the process of using Sonido. Her eyes told her that there was no threat to her, and her abilities to sense energy wouldn't help her either as Pesquis only told her where Gilles was standing. At over 2300 stat speed she moved past Gilles, only to feel something slice into her stomach and feel her chain be wrenched to the side away from the Glass Castle. How had this been possible, for the Vandenreich to hurt her like this without even moving a muscle? It was Letzt Stil that had given him the edge in this exchange.

There was a reason why Gilles was known as the -Glass- Castle. Glass is used as a medium to see through, that doesn't obstruct light like stone walls do. The Quincy was capable of making arrows that were completely invisible to the eye and mostly invisible to all but the strongest energy sensory. He wasn't able to anticipate which side Myza would go to when she stepped past him, however he was able to prepare for both sides. He had placed an arrow to either side of him, pointed towards the original spot of the Arrancar, ready to fire off as he willed. As she stepped past she'd throw herself through either arrow depending on which side she went to, so whether or not Gilles was lucky for her to step to the correct side was irrelevant. There was also an arrow a good distance, a little less than a foot, in front of him that was sideways to stop the chain slightly. When the chain pressed into the arrow, the almost equal reiatsu strengths would cause neither to be broken so easily, which would allow the split second of time to cause the chain to be slightly curved.

Gilles stepped to the side away from Myza as this happened, which wasn't nearly fast enough to get away from the entire chain but was easily fast enough to create the distance required to deflect the chain without harming himself. As one end lagged behind the other, the middle of the side that was still attached to Myza's hand would be hit with an arrow that exploded with the force of a grenade as it hit, not being a big enough explosion to damage either Gilles or Myza, but large enough to exert force capable of redirecting the chain well outside the range that it was dangerous. Meanwhile, Myza would probably have finished the short sonido to find that her stomach had been torn into. It wasn't a terribly awful wound, however it would have sliced into blood vessels and maybe her intestines causing some internal bleeding. Her hierro had a tiny effect on the arrow, making the hole not as big as it could have been, but the real damage was internal rather than external. "Judge me on my inferiority -after- we've been through the hoops, ok?"

Remaining Reiatsu: 3300/5980 (-50 previous post Movement, -20 Class 7 arrow (chain delayer), -40 2x Class 7 arrows (Myza piercers), -40 Class 7 arrow + explosion, -50 Movement -100 Gate, -100 Letzt Stil 1, +300 Spirit Fragment, +500 Quincy Cross)