CHAPTER 20: MAKING PLANS

After leaving the area I decided to leave the town because this was gonna become dangerous in a while after the soul reapers are found to have gone missing.

I thought I could go to hueco mundo when I wanted to but I decided not to yet. Not that I was scared or anything but I was a newly turned hollow with jackshit ideas about my abilities or limits and going to hueco mundo, home of some of the strongest and most dangerous hollows is just asking to be eaten.

I needed to be ready for what I was getting into and the least I could do was at least get to know about my abilities, so I headed for the forest I woke up in to do just that.

After running at a high speed for about 30 minutes I was deep in the forest and I would have been lost if not that I planned to get out of here with a portal to hueco mundo so I didn't really care about directions.

I found a clearing somewhere in the forest that looked ideal for practicing so I stopped there to make use of this graciously prepared spot, though I had to request from the original home dwellers who agreed to leave with a little bit of "persuading" from me.

After they had left I stood in the middle of the clearing and picking a big rock as my target, I tried to recreate the fire breath I used earlier as it was now pretty obvious that I was not an ordinary lizard-like hollow, maybe some type of distant dragon species or the actual dragon species. I wasn't sure especially since I didn't have a way to tell, they obviously didn't teach about dragons in the university I went to, that is if I even went to university.

I first tried to recreate the scene from before by trying to roar with everything I had. What I ended up with though was an extremely loud and ferocious roar but a roar and not a fire breath.

I obviously failed, do I look like a genius protagonist that gets everything right the first time? Well too bad I'm just as human as the rest of us or at least I was.

Anyway I kept trying different ways until I figured it out, it turns out that I have to use my spiritual energy in the roar and then visualize the fire breath gathering and voila. But then I discovered a few problems, while it could become quite powerful if given enough time to charge up it takes too much time to charge up and it strains me quite a bit as well.

With charging time like that the only time I could use it in a fight was if my enemy was a blithering blathering idiot who'd let me have enough time to charge up an attack to use against them without attacking me while I was charging it up and while I could move while charging it up, like I said it takes a lot out of me so there is almost no difference from just standing there and while this may or could be offset by training I don't have the time or patience for that at the moment so it looks like physical fighting will be my go-to for a quite a while and luckily for me I seem to be quite good at it.

I notice that I can lengthen my claws about 5cm longer and retract them at will.

That will be helpful in battle and then after preparing my self and my mindset I decide to try to open a garganta but lo and behold, nothing happened.

That was when I remembered one crucial factor that I wasn't even a gillian yet and I wanted to open a garganta that only adjuchas and above could use.

'Fuck!'

It's funny how I didn't think much about my situation, I am already a cannibalistic hollows since I was already eating other hollows but that is where the problem is as normally no hollow is born this far up the evolution tree as they are supposed to start with eating normal human souls so I'm either a bit of a special case or I'm so broken that the void in my soul can no longer be sustained by human souls.

The thing with cannibalistic hollows is they are supposed to get attracted to each other undergo a mass inter devouring and then this results in a gillian but this is where the problem is, as this is all supposed to happen in the forest of menos in hueco mundo where there are tons of hollows and not on earth where both hollows and spiritual energy is scarce(not that scarce, but you know what i mean).

This was going to be a major problem quickly because the reason why hollows become cannibalistic in the first place is because normal human souls can no longer sustain them and they have to eat other hollows to survive and I'd rather not have the hollow instincts in me going wild because of lack of sustenance, It's already happened once and I'd rather it did not happen again.

I have to find a way to get to hueco mundo and I need it fast as I don't know if there are any adverse effects from the lack of spiritual energy this early in my evolution path and I'd rather not block my evolution path this soon.

Okay the plan is find a source of sustenance and then try to look for an opportunity to begin the inter devouring and then become a gillian with my consciousness intact as I have no plans to stop there and become idiotic looking and an actual idiot.

I am not sure if I would be able to do the mass inter devouring on earth since it never happened in the canon but even if it was possible I'd probably need more evolution materials than what is normally required because of a lack of spiritual energy on earth that is more abundant in hueco mundo but the problem is how to attract that many hollows as I'd need even more than the original amount because not every hollow on earth are cannibalistic unlike in the forest of gillians.

But sustenance first as I'm already beginning to feel hungry again.

'Maybe I should go back to the town?'