Chapter 389 - 388: The Domain That Died
The Gift Bereich had once been Askin’s masterpiece—an airless cage filled with lethal gas so concentrated that every breath became a countdown. Within it, each step was agony; every second spent inside brought one closer to collapse and death.
He had even made the atmosphere around his enemy denser—thicker, sharper, merciless—so that Ulquiorra, his chosen target, would perish faster than any ordinary being.
But in the end, what was it really?
A chamber of gas. A science experiment. A glass flask in the shape of a battlefield.
And now, that flask had shattered.
For when Mazuru’s enchantment spread, the question became meaningless. Was the Gift Bereich still useful?
The answer was no.
In Mazuru’s barrier, all rules bent to his will. The very fabric of the domain—its air, its spirit, its physics—obeyed him. Even life and death could be reversed if he chose it so.
The "lethal gas" was merely reishi—spirit particles converted into toxins through Askin’s manipulation. But reishi was reishi all the same, and within Mazuru’s enchantment, those particles were nothing but material to be rewritten.
He reached through the barrier’s structure and commanded it to devour Askin’s reishi seeds. The poison had no mind, no soul—it couldn’t resist. The field collapsed in on itself, devoured by a greater law.
The Gift Bereich self-destructed in silence.
When Askin realized it, his face drained of color.