42 Who are you?

My brain raced as I thought of a way to fight Ivan. When I fought Hisagi I had options but now my back is really against the wall. Ichigo is still getting knocked around and I am the only one left standing. I really only have one option left.

"Jasmine, I want you to increase my potential." I said.

'You do not have the nessasary SP to unlock your potential again. You need 10,000 SP and you only have 1,000 SP.' Jasmine replied.

Dammit, I don't have enough soul points! Wait, why is the point needed to increase the potential doubled? I guess the price increaes every time you use it. After all it would be too overpowered if you could just keep unlocking your potential for a low price.

This may be the end of the road for me. I'm all out of cards and I got no cards left to play. I think this will be the end.

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Wait, I have an idea. I can still turn in weapons for SP right? What if I collect weapons from dead people and turn them in for SP? That could work but I have to collect weapons that are actually worth something. Meaning it has to be from Ivan's soldiers because they have good equipment.

I immediately rushed to the battlefield and grabbed anything I could. There were plenty of enemy soldiers who were dead and lying around. After all we killed many of them earlier. I grabbed the weapons like it was a sale day at a store.

I turned one in and found they were worth 500 SP per weapon. So I grabbed many of them until I had enough points. I looked over at Ichigo to see if beaten and battered. He was being held by the hair by Ivan who was laughing.

Thanks for stalling Ichigo, this should give us a chance. I opened my system menu and was about to press the increase Potential button when I thought of something.

"Jasmine, last time this took a hour. Is there any way to shorten that to a minute or so?"

'Host can shorten the time but the pain will be increased. Even with your pain reduction skill it will feel worse then death. There is a chance you will die from this if you can't bear the pain. Jasmine said.

"Hit me with it." I gritted my teeth.

I pressed the increase potential button and braced myself. Then the pain hit me. I felt like someone was stabbing me with needles all over my body. I screamed out in agony. The pain this time was nothing compared to what I felt now. If you took the pain from before and multiplied it then you might get a little closer to what I felt.

It hurts so much. My vision is going dark. Maybe if I close my eyes it'll all go away. Yeah, maybe that will fix this. I slowly started to close my eyes. It hurts, why does it hurt so much. It hurts.

It hurt so much. What was I doing again? I forgot, I feel like I'm forgetting something important. Oh yeah, there is someone I have to beat right? That's why I'm doing this, I have to defend my creation. It's just that it hurts so much.

"Wow, this is really pathetic, but what do you expect from such a low level of pain reduction. I really was hoping not to step in yet." A voice said.

I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in a black room with black walls, black ceiling, and black everything. I noticed that the pain had disappeared as well. What's going on?

"I hate having to do things myself." A voice sighed.

I looked over the direction of the voice to see a teenage girl with purple hair standing with her arms crossed.

However of all the thoughts I had at the moment it wasn't wondering why I didn't feel pain. It wasn't wondering where I was. It wasn't wondering who she was. I had one thought in mind.

Flat. I thought as I stared at her chest.

"How dare you! I still have room to grow!." She shouted in anger and punched me in the face.

Did she just read my mind?

"What the hell was that for?! And why the hell can you read my mind?!" I shouted at her.

"You have rude thoughts." She stated.

"Who the hell are you?" I said to her.

"Who don't need to know that right now. The only thing you need to know is that without me you would be dead right now. I negated the pain for this upgrade so you should be fine.

"Why are you helping me?" I narrowed my eyes in suspicion. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

"You're right, there's not. I will need your help eventually but for now all you need to do is get stronger. Also, please get stronger with your magic. You have made astonishingly low progress with your magic. You are still relying on the weak soul boost skill. You haven't even made a new spell yet. That's something that should be really simple. Even for someone like you." She said.

"Wait, how would I go about creating a new spell? I don't even know how to start with that."

She rolled her eyes. "Use the souls you have. Honestly, how are you still even alive with your intelligence."

"I still don't get why you are helping me." I said.

"You'll see eventually. I'll send you back now." She said.

She waved her hand and the next time I blinked I was back in the battlefield.

What the hell just happened?