Bankai—I Am in Everything!

After mastering Bankai, Lod’s Zanpakuto, Kansomei exhibits a form unlike any other conventional Zanpakuto’s Bankai.

It is a type of continuous, permanent, and infinitely persistent existence.

In other words...

It remains forever in its final release form, and its form and power can no longer be sealed.

While other Zanpakuto can revert from Bankai to their sealed or initial release forms, Lod cannot do this.

In a way...

It’s somewhat similar to the always-released state of Zanpakuto, like Kenpachi and Ichigo’s, except one is always in its initial release state, and the other is always in its Bankai state.

This has its pros and cons.

The advantage is that the wielder is always at its peak combat effectiveness; however, the disadvantage is also clear, the reiatsu consumption rate is tremendously high.

Typically, a Zanpakuto’s Bankai is used as a trump card, significantly boosting combat effectiveness and increasing reiatsu consumption. Once activated, the wielder must quickly conclude the battle, or they will face the embarrassment of running out of reiatsu and possibly dying.

Therefore, Soul Reapers generally do not use Bankai unless the battle is decisively dangerous or requires a desperate effort, and they only resort to it as a last-ditch effort.

Here comes the problem...

What happens to Soul Reapers if they run out of reiatsu while Bankai remains active?

The answer is simple: death.

The wielder’s spirit body will be gradually drained and disintegrated into elemental spirit particles, ultimately completely absorbed and vanishing with the Zanpakuto, returning to the universe.

The basis of a Soul Reaper’s spirit body is also the spirit particles that float in the atmosphere. Soul Reapers absorb and store these particles in their bodies, transforming them into reiatsu for daily needs and combat.

Suppose these spirit particles are no longer absorbed and stored or are completely exhausted all at once. In that case, the Soul Reaper will face death, and their spirit body will collapse and disintegrate back into free-floating spirit particles.

Usually, this situation would never occur because the will of the Zanpakuto is closely linked to the Soul Reaper.

So even if a Soul Reaper loses consciousness and lacks spiritual pressure, the Bankai will automatically disengage and revert to its sealed form.

But the issue is that he is a special case.

Lod cannot seal his Zanpakuto, which means he must continuously expend reiatsu to sustain his life.

Even now, his reiatsu far exceeds that of a regular captain.

Even with the backgrounds of both the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo as reserves of spiritual energy, he can barely maintain balance, and that is without engaging in combat.

Once he starts fighting, the rate of reiatsu consumption can be likened to floodgates opening, making him a veritable gold-consuming behemoth of the new era.

To give an example for clarity.

In Soul Society, the standard measurement unit is the reiatsu of Ichigo Kurosaki for simplicity. Just imagine that the equivalent of ’one Kurosaki’ worth of reiatsu could be consumed in tens of seconds.

Just tens of seconds could lead to Kurosaki’s demise on the spot, illustrating the immense rate of reiatsu consumption.

Despite the severe drawbacks of Bankai, which can endanger life if not careful, it offers an almost ’invincible’ ability in return.

Kansomei’s ability effect allows for selecting any time segment within the past thirty days and summoning that version of Lod as a projection into the present, perfectly replicating his actions from the past.

In its initial release state, Kansomei has two limitations.

First, only one past projection can be summoned at a time, without the ability to resummon, requiring about three days’ interval.

Second, the selected time segment can only be within the past thirty days; beyond this limit, it cannot be chosen.

But... that was in the past.

’I Am in Everything’ allows the selection of time segments from both past and future, as long as it’s within his reach, and summons the actual Lod of that moment to the wielder’s current space and time.

Yes, the actual body, not just a projection.

The summoned body is unaffected by the laws of time, cannot retain memories, and faces no diminished strength.

Moreover.

Lod can ignore any limits, repeatedly summoning anything closely related to himself from a single time segment or deploying it to other time points.

This is... I Am in Everything!

From the moment he mastered Bankai, the Lod transcended all things, existing simultaneously in the past and future, branching from the present point into an infinite timeline of possibilities.

Just as previously when he defeated Enlil.

Selecting the same time segment, then repeatedly summoning thousands of Lods from different timelines, executing the same move.

...

The divergent thoughts gradually converged back, Lod’s eyes slightly lower, his gaze cold and detached, as if seated upon clouds, sovereign over life and death.

With things having reached this point, there is no possibility of turning back.

All he can do now, for the once-glorious Akkadian, is offer the greatest sincerity he can.

Thunder roars!

Winds swirl up waves thousands of meters high, and the sea of clouds seems to boil tumultuously.

An indescribable, vast spiritual pressure fills the world like mountains shifting across boundless voids. The violent collisions stir up roaring gusts, with hundreds of Lods in white descending from the past or future upon the flowing river of time.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Feeling the pressure, Enlil’s eyes shoot a tangible light, praising thrice.

The sound is like thunder, and a rich golden glow radiates from him, covering thousands of kilometers, pushing the seawater up hundreds of meters in a monumental tsunami, crashing against the void with booming sounds.

Hush—

Lod exhales lightly, yet it stirs the heavens and earth.

A thought falls, and hundreds of thoughts arise.

Hundreds of Lods in white drawn their swords from their sheaths.

Clang—!!!

The clear, high clang of swords echoes across the world.

It’s one sword, yet it’s hundreds, the wild sword light occupying the entire sky.

A brilliant light blooms like a lotus, stirring thunderous roars, pulling up ten-thousand-meter winds and dragons. The void ripples and all tangible and intangible things shatter under the crisscrossing sword wind pressure!

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