I Died and Became a Hollow, But I Get Stronger by Being an Idiot Chapter 11: Big, Dumb, and Dangerous

Current EP: 0 / 1,000,000

I don't know how to explain it.

One minute, I was a small, scrappy Hollow flailing a rock mic at bull-headed monsters — and the next, I woke up staring down at the endless white sands of Hueco Mundo from so high up, I thought soone put on a building.

But no.

I was the building.

Six stories tall.

Bone-white armor thicker than steel.

A long, tattered cloak trailing off my massive back.

And a mask that looked like soone combined a warlord and a skeleton lizard.

I… had beco a Gillian.

"GRUUUUOOOOH…"

The guttural voice that rumbled from my throat sounded like a landslide made of doom.

I half expected the ground to split in half.

[SYSTEM NOTICE: Evolution Complete — Hollow → Gillian]

[New Signature Skills Unlocked: Cero, Kūmon, Negación]

[Current EP: 0 / 1,000,000]

Wait. Wait. WHAT?!

One million?!

One million Evolution Points?!

I wanted to cry, but instead, my new colossal face let out a deep, echoing wail that scared a flock of bat-Hollows clean out of the sky.

"GRUOOOOOOOH!!!"

At least I wasn't so basic snack anymore. I was huge.

I could probably crush a small forest if we had trees here.

I took a careful step forward, feeling the sand sink beneath my gigantic foot.

A group of tiny Hollows scattered in terror.

One tripped and fell.

[SYSTEM NOTICE: Accidentally caused environntal panic — 50 EP]

Current EP: 50 / 1,000,000

…Better than nothing.

Okay, okay — new skills.

I couldn't help it. I had to test at least one.

Cero.

I didn't even know how to activate it properly, but instinct kind of nudged .

So I aid my head at a nearby cliff wall.

Focus. Build up spiritual pressure. Release.

A red light gathered at the tip of my mouth.

It felt… tingly. Like all the static from a thousand socks rubbed together in a sandstorm.

The pressure built until my brain practically scread "FIRE!"

And so I did.

"GRUUUUUUAAAH!!"

A huge beam of crimson energy blasted from my mouth, lighting up the eternal night sky like a second sun.

It struck the cliff, vaporizing half the wall in an explosion of dust and shattered stone.

[SYSTEM NOTICE: First successful use of Cero — 700 EP]

Current EP: 750 / 1,000,000

HAH! Now we're talkin'!

I felt stupidly proud, even as a wave of smaller Hollows scattered like cockroaches from the blast radius.

One even tripped and hit its face in the sand.

[SYSTEM NOTICE: Witnessed slapstick mont — 10 EP]

Current EP: 760 / 1,000,000

Honestly, I could get used to this.

Sure, the EP grind was gonna be insane now — but I was bigger, louder, and more dangerous.

The next ti so bull-headed Hollow ca complaining about my noise,

I had a Cero with his na on it.

I grinned behind my mask, letting out a long, satisfied, building-rattling roar.

The dumbest Hollow in Hueco Mundo just leveled up.

And it was only the beginning.