Growing Stronger

[Normal Hollow Killed. Reward: 38 XP and 3 SP]

[Normal Hollow Killed. Reward: 27 XP and 2 SP]

[Normal Hollow Killed. Reward: 34 XP and 2 SP]

[Normal Hollow Killed. Reward: 19 XP and 0 SP]

[Normal Hollow Killed. Reward: 23 XP and 1 SP]

[Level Up!]

Multiple hollows around Shen slowly disappeared into black fog as read the notifications. "As fun as killing hollows is it's getting harder and harder to level up."

-Stats-

Name: Shen

Race Bonus's: Human, Saiyan

Level: 8

SP: 89

Strength: 34

Agility: 56

Endurance: 74

Power: 67

-Abilities-

Zenkai Boost [Passive]: Every time the user recovers from a near-death experience they will gain a 10% stat increase.

Super Saiyan [Lv 1]: Locked

Super Saiyan God [Lv 1]: Locked

-Techniques-

After Image[Lv 1]: User raises their speed to the limit leaving an afterimage when they move making them appear to have vanished.

"Open the shop I wanna see all techniques related to Goku."

-Shop-

{Categories: Clothing, Weapons, [Techniques], Abilities, Transformations, Enhancements}

Kamehameha[Cost: 55 SP, Requires: Power 70]

After Image[Cost: 20 SP, Requires: Agility 40]

Spirit Bomb[Cost: 700 SP, Requires: Power 480]

Kaio-ken[Cost: 240 SP, Requires: Strength 320]

...

Looking over the different techniques Shen saw he still couldn't afford any of the stronger techniques. "Just a little more and I can finally learn the Kamehameha." Just the idea of being to shoot a giant beam from his palms made Shen excited.

Shen's current goal was simply to kill hollows, level up and finally learn the Kamehameha and of course, kill even more hollows. While killing hollows Shen was making sure to keep track of the time and also made sure to check up on the 'Main Characters' every now and again and making mental notes of the timeline.

Currently, Shen didn't have a base or anything like that mostly because he found it to be needed after all with his current stats and his Saiyan Race bonus he barely needed to rest even after killing dozens of hollows.

The days passed smoothly with nothing of much interest happening until finally, the day arrived. Shen had been waiting for this part of the story patiently. He considered this part of the story an event due to the fact it was abnormal, to say the least.

This was the day Ichigo ran into the Grand Fisher the hollow that killed his mother. As for Orihime's brother Shen basically ignored him at the end of the day he was just a normal hollow nothing special.

And of course, Grand Fisher was a better opportunity for Shen. Not only would it allow him to gain tons of XP and SP it would allow him to finally solidify his character in front of Ichigo.

Currently, he was wearing a black cape covering most of his body and a greyish mask on his face. Even though he was rather strong as he was he knew for a fact Aizen would be watching this encounter and revealing his face to him might as well be suicide.

"Alrighty, then it should be around the right time." Dashing off to the location Ichigo should be fighting Grand Fisher. When he arrived indeed there they were. Ichigo was staring at the Grand Fisher down with Rukia and Kon nearby him.

"Ichigo be careful!" Rukia warns Ichigo about the Grand Fisher and how it uses its lure to disguise itself as human and then devours its victims. Hearing that Ichigo remembered the moment 6 years ago where he once tried to save a girl and the result ended up getting his mother killed.

Anger instantly started boiling in Ichigo as he prepare to attack the Grand Fisher but suddenly he halted his attack. "Huh?" Ichigo saw a person appear in between him and the Grand Fisher.

The person wore a flowing black cloak that fluttered the moment he appeared giving him a mysterious aura. Ichigo immediately backed away feeling something was wrong. His face was covered with a mask making it impossible to see his face.

"Rukia who is this guy is he a soul reaper?" Asking Rukia who was standing behind him she shook her head. "No I don't recognize any soul reaper who dresses like that but he doesn't seem to be a hollow either." Rukia was confused about this Mysterious Person who just appeared she didn't even sense him or see when he appeared.

As for Grand Fisher, he honestly couldn't care less, after all, he was planning to eat everyone here anyway one extra person wouldn't change anything or so he thought. Ignoring Ichigo Shen only passed a gaze over him before turning the Grand Fisher.

"I've been looking for you for quite a while now but now that I've found you... I no longer have any interest." Shen began speaking fluently reading from the script he had prepared in his head.

Grand Fisher, of course, would have no idea what he was talking about but hearing someone say they lost interest in them would piss anyone off no excluding himself.

He growled and said. "I don't know who you are but it doesn't matter now!" Slashing towards the Mysterious Person with his claw he could already see him being cleaved in two. But the moment his claw touched the Mysterious Person's body it went straight through hitting the ground behind him leaving claw imprints.

Ichigo, Rukia, Kon and especially the Grand Fisher were shocked. Suddenly they all heard a light chuckle as the Mysterious Person who was standing there faded. Of course, this was Shen's after image. Appearing above the Grand Fisher Shen grabbed out towards his lure without him even being aware of his existence.

The moment he grabbed he yanked on it while the airlifting the Grand Fisher up with his arm. The Grand Fisher still wasn't aware of what was happening as he felt himself being flung. "Gruh!" Crashing into the ground with a loud bang.

"You wanted to attack me with an attack that weak?" Landing on the ground lightly his arms returned under the cloak making everything he just did seem effortless. "So fast..." Ichigo said staring shocked at this point all his anger from before had disappeared.

The Grand Fisher who was groaning slowly stood back up and then yelled in anger. "YOU BASTARD! ILL KILL YOU!" He was the Grand Fisher he had escaped the soul society attempts for over 50 years yet he was caught off guard by this person who appeared out of nowhere how could he accept this.

With that said he turned around as his fur began to wiggle and shoot out at the Mysterious Person who standing there still as calm as before. While this was happening Ichigo had thought about helping this person but before he could come to a conclusion the same miraculous thing happened

No matter how many attacks he launched the Mysterious Person continued to phase through them. With Shen's speed only being his 3rd highest stat it was still more than enough to deal with someone at the Grand Fisher's level.

He walked forward slowly as dozens of afterimages appeared and disappeared as he got closer.

Panicking the Grand Fisher released his tentacles that flowed from his mask to attack along with his fur but even then it was ineffective.

"Who are you!" The Grand Fisher screamed as he realized the Mysterious Person was now right in front of him. Only to hear him reply coldly. "Your Executioner..." And that was all it took to have the Grand Fisher finally crack and begin to run.

Planning on escaping to Hueco Mundo he suddenly felt a huge pressure pouncing on him as he turned his head saw the Mysterious Person sending an incredibly strong kick towards his mask "Lor-Lord Ai-!" Before he could finish screaming into the void his mask was crushed with extreme silencing him permanently.

[Grand Fisher Killed. Reward: 820 XP and 23 SP]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

With the System notifications, Shen felt extremely happy at this moment. His acting was spot on and in the end, he even leveled up 3 times.

Meanwhile elsewhere.

"Well, that was unexpected." A man wearing a white cloak and glasses was staring at a monitor seems to have observed the entire battle that happened. This person was, of course, no other then Aizen. "I wonder who is under that mask neither soul reaper nor hollow..." With a slight grin on his face, he seemed unfazed by this turn of events.