In front of the fortress that was burned by fire, in the courtyard, Kuchiki Ginling and Qilin Temple looked at the houses that were burned into pitch black. There were some corpses in the courtyard that looked like grooms or guards.
And the murderer may be the most trustworthy person among them...
This is not the first time I have seen such a scene...
Ever since Ozma released the blood curse, this demon called the 'Pretender' has appeared.
"It's a pity that the monk is no longer here." Qilin Temple sighed.
Yin Ling also agreed, "If the 'Eye Monk' is still there, then he must be able to see through who is the pretender after being given the power of eyes by Lord Spirit King."
"Ozma's power is too terrifying, and the monk seems to have fallen into a predicament of being unable to reincarnate as if he was attacked by the 'Futai Sha Ling'." Kirinji sighed.
"Normally, just calling the name 'Hongzhubu Ichibei' would be enough to revive him."
"Maybe it's because of insufficient spiritual power. Old Man Shan, who had the highest spiritual pressure, was seriously injured, and Liang Yue also fell into a coma." Thinking of this, Qilin Temple couldn't help but become more anxious.
"Report, the identity and spiritual pressure of the deceased have been determined."
At this time, a divine soldier who came down from the Soul King's Palace came over and reported the identity of the burned person in the fortress.
Because the Gotei 13 were the ones closest to Ozma at the beginning, no one knew how many of them had turned into demons in human skin.
Before a thorough investigation, all the Shinigami were imprisoned. Only Team Zero could be sure that they were not infected because they had the King Key in their bodies.
Therefore, the troops currently responsible for maintaining order in Soul Society are the divine soldiers who came down from the Soul King Palace, as well as some Shinigami who have been eliminated.
Among the captains of the Thirteenth Team, Kuchiki Ginryu has a high probability of not being infected, because as the object of Kuchiki Hibiki's hatred, he wants his former 'father' to feel the pain of betrayal and separation.
Therefore, out of consideration of combat effectiveness, Team Zero decided to select Yin Ling from among the quarantined personnel to go on missions together.
At present, the area they control is only the Pure Soul Palace, which is nothing compared to the entire Soul Society. It is a fantasy to have people close to the Soul King Palace to extinguish the ubiquitous pretenders.
"It's these nobles again. It seems that Ozma's hatred for the nobles is really surprising."
After knowing that the fortress was full of nobles, Qilin Temple's mood immediately improved a lot.
"Then...just kill everyone nearby who is related to these nobles."
Regardless of the Thirteenth Team or the Soul King Palace, they are not good people, but purely violent organizations. Especially in this situation, they would rather kill the wrong person than let them go.
After giving the order, the divine soldiers spread out in all directions. At this moment, Qilin Temple suddenly seemed to have thought of something.
"Yes, if it's him...if it's them..."
"What's wrong?" Looking at Qilin Temple who suddenly became suspicious, Yin Ling asked subconsciously.
"Hueco Mundo!" Kirinji replied immediately, with a strange look in his eyes, and then he turned around
"If there is any place that is the savior of this world now, it is the Tower of Despair."
"Tower of Despair?" Yin Ling frowned, he had no idea where this place was.
The information about the Tower of Despair is top secret. Only the first-generation Team Thirteen and the Forty-sixth Chamber who have personal contact know it. In this era, even Gin Ling, as the head of the Kuchiki family among the five nobles, has no idea about these four words.
Already.
"Let's go back to Jinglingting!"
Qilin Temple didn't want to explain too much here and went back to Jinglingting. But not long after leaving, the two of them discovered a woman.
"Alice? Why are you here?"
The woman was dressed luxuriously and had purple hair falling down. She held the magic harp and played it gently.
The melody is mixed with a touch of sadness, but it makes people feel cool when it enters people's hearts, as if she drew out all the sadness in people's hearts and then used it to play this piece of music.
Under the beautiful sound of the piano, it seemed that I didn't even care about this disaster, and infinite power surged in my heart.
Why is she here?
"I heard that you went to Hueco Mundo to look for the Sky Tower. Why are you back now?"
Qilin Temple's heart moved and he ran forward and said
"Any clues about the Sky Tower?"
Alice turned her head, looked at Kirin Temple and Kuchiki Ginling with some surprise, and then shook her head.
"No, Hueco Mundo has encountered great changes, and wars are being waged everywhere."
"So I returned to Soul Society. I didn't expect that Soul Society would also..."
"...It turns out that Hueco Mundo is also controlled by Ozma." Kirinji was stunned.
Soul Society has no connection with Hueco Mundo, and they are also enemies. It is normal for the Shinigami not to be very aware of each other's situation.
"By the way Alice, do you have a way to tell the pretenders apart?" Kirin Temple asked again.
Currently in the Soul Society, only Ichibei and Liang Yue, the chief monks of the military, are suspected of having the ability to see through the true form of the pretender.
But now one of them is 'dead' and the other is in a near-death coma, leaving the Soul Interface helpless in the face of Ozma's blood curse.
But Alice is a member of the demon world after all, and may have different magical means to identify pretenders than those in the Soul Society.
"...The aura I extracted from the pretender's body."
Alice opened her hand, and a stream of dirty air flowed out of her white hand.
Only then did Qilin Temple notice that there were two bodies of people behind her, one of whom was an old man, and the other was a disguiser with a red and dark body.
It seemed that the pretender killed the old man by surprise, and then killed the pretender again after Alice arrived.
Judging from the clothes these two people were wearing, they must be nobles, or maybe they were the pretenders who set fire to the fortress before.
"Can you tell the pretender by this breath?" Yin Ling stood up and asked.
"No." Alice shook her head, and then said something shocking
"Because this is a breath that far exceeds my magical power in terms of essential specifications, and is a breath similar to that of the apostle!"
"Apostle?!" Qilin Temple's eyes suddenly widened.
"You said he was an apostle?!"
"That's right..." Alice said in a deep voice, "I don't know why, but Ozma's aura is indeed very similar to the power of the apostle."
"A power of this magnitude is beyond the power of my magical power to intervene before he is exposed."
"So..." Qilin Temple recalled the previous battle between Liang Yue's incarnation as the Spirit King and Ozma's right arm, and felt a little confused.
"In that battle, the powers of Ozma and Lord Soul King were indeed similar..."