Dream

[Some hours later]

Everything was really quiet, under the gaze of the moon in the dark sky, Solo was sleeping in his sleeping bag, and started dreaming.

He found himself in the familiar desert of Hueco Mundo, under the eternal night, but he couldn't find Las Noches.

So he started to walk, until at his second step on the white sand made of reish, a pillar of light appeared in front of him, Solo put an arm in front of him until the light became dimmer and revealed a figure.

The figure was a beautiful woman with blonde hair and had a pair of wings, she was looking at Solo with a suspicious look.

?: Who are you?

Solo: Tell me who are you first.

?: I asked first.

Solo: Whose dreamscape is this?

Illias: *Sigh* I am the goddess of this world, Illias, and don't talk me with that tone.

Solo: So you are the goddess here… I am Solo Virtuta, what do you want?

Illias: Why are you in my world?

Solo: I fell on it, I don't need to tell you everything.

Illias: Then you will face Divine Punishment…

Right now a thunder came from nowhere and was going towards Solo, who quickly used Sonido to dodge her, then he pointed a palm at her and charged his attack.

Solo: Cero.

When he said that word, a scarlet beam shot out from his palm towards Illias, who flew away from its trajectory and got a frown.

Illias: You dare to raise your hand against me…

Solo: Shut that mouth, Aizen is even stronger than you, and you think you can beat me? Don't joke.

Illias: Tsk… You are lucky that I can't go all out when I am inside your dream… I will give you a last chance for the next time we met each other once again just because you aren't like the other monsters...

Then Illias disappeared from Solo's dreamscape and he woke up, it was morning and Luka and Alice were still sleeping.

Solo: *Sigh* She thinks that just because she is a Goddess, then she is omnipotent… One day I'll show her who's stronger…

While he said that, he didn't noticed that the Hogyoku glowed a bit before stopping, as if it gave an answer to his will.

Suddenly, Luka abruptly woke up and shouted.

Luka: I… Illias!

Solo: 'Did he… Of course he did… Better not telling them anything for now…'

Then Alice slowly got up and rubbed her tired eyes.

Alice: Uhg, what's with all this noise so early in the morning… Whatever… Make me something to eat.

Solo: 'I think it will be funny following them…'

[later]

Right now Alice and Luka were talking about one of the commandments of Illias.

Alice: Besides, what's with her prohibition on relations with monsters? Most monsters can't breed if they don't mate with humans. So for as many monsters as there are in the world, there are just as many humans who have broken that law.

Luka: Ah! That's true…!

Solo: Don't worry about it, take it from me, I literally spawned from nowhere.

Alice: Spawned? So Arrancars don't breed?

Solo: Nope, we are an evolutions of beasts that were once souls, it's a long story so I don't want to talk about it.

Luka: Hey Solo, how many Arrancars like you exists out there?

Solo: In this world I am the only one, in Hueco Mundo there are around 100, give or take, but about Arrancars like me, there are only 6, me include.

Alice: Like you? What is so different about you than the others?

Solo: Well, sit here, it's story time…

There exists a species called Hollows, which are giant mindless beasts that have an hole where the heart should be and a white mask, which represent their heart, at the start they are extremely weak and feed themselves of living people's souls.

Alice/Luka: What?!

Solo: It's ok, I don't do that anymore. Where was I… Oh yeah, they mainly live in Hueco Mundo, the place I told you about, and there are only 4 things in the entire dimension: White sand, crystal trees, eternal night and Hollow, there isn't anything else.

There are 4 types of hollows, the lesser hollows, which are the ones I told you some dozens of seconds before, then there are the Menos Grande...

Luka: And how are the Menos Grande created?

Solo: I'll say only one thing, we all started from being lesser hollows, and there is only 1 method we can evolve. Can you guess what is that method in Hueco Mundo?

Luka didn't have any idea but Alice had a serious expression in her face.

Alice: ...Cannibalism…

Luka: EH?!

Solo: Correct, in Hueco Mundo there are only the four things I said before, and there isn't any living soul, so we eaten each other to grow stronger, until we evolve in Menos Grandes, which are divided in 2 categories:

The first is the one who lost his identity as an hollow and walk around like a zombie, then there are the ones who have enough willpower to retain their consciousness and continue to get stronger with the same method.

The next evolution is called Adjuchas, these are hollows that evolved from eating many Menos Grandes and are stronger by a really big margin, they can even control some Menos at their will.

And then there is the last evolution, the Vasto Lorde, not everyone could have the chance to be one for two reasons, the first is that if while you are an adjuchas, an hollow eats even the smallest part of you, then you can't evolve anymore.

The second reason is that there is a special condition for it that no one knows about, even the Vasto Lorde themselves doesn't know about it.

Their strength are immense, and their number in Hueco Mundo can be counted in two hands, I was one of them before being an Arrancar.

Luka: And how does one become Arrancar?

Solo: There are two methods, the first is being lucky and breaking your mask alone, either you die or you become an Arrancar, otherwise you need to use a certain artifact.

Arrancars are generally Hollows with a broken mask, mine is this white collar, and the boost this evolution grants is enormous, if an Adjuchas becomes an arrancar, he could easily beat a Vasto Lorde, which can take down a town in less than 1 hour.

But if a Vasto Lorde becomes an Arrancar, things changes…

Alice: So, how strong are you?

Solo: If I go all out I could probably be as strong as a god, even if there are people who can beat me even in that moment…

Luka: As strong… As a God… 'Does it mean he could be as strong as Illias? No, it's impossible…'

Solo: Well, let's go to Illiasburg, I don't want to sleep again outside again.