I Died and Became a Hollow, But I Get Stronger by Being an Idiot Chapter 12: Gillian Problems

Current EP: 760 / 1,000,000

I was still riding the high of firing my first Cero.

I an — imagine being a tiny, half-starved Hollow throwing pebbles at passing monsters, and then suddenly you're a six-story tall death machine with a laser cannon in your mouth. It's like going from a broken BB gun to a nuke overnight.

But then… reality hit.

One million EP.

And the fact that my system still only gave between 10 and 700 EP per action.

Usually closer to 10, if I'm being honest.

Even my epic first Cero only gave 700.

aning I'd have to do sothing really stupid — or really impressive — about 1,500 tis to get close.

And I couldn't even rely on luck for slapstick monts anymore. Those tiny Hollows were avoiding like I was a debt collector.

I sighed. Or… grumbled. It's hard to tell the difference when your voice sounds like an earthquake.

"GRUOOOOH…"

A nearby Hollow, one of those long snake-like ones with a weird crocodile mask, dared to get too close.

Probably hoping to gnaw on a piece of my ankle.

Big mistake.

I slowly turned my giant head down to glare at him.

The thing froze mid-wriggle.

Then I did the stupidest thing I could think of at that mont:

I gave him a thumbs up.

I don't even know how I managed it, considering my hand was the size of a house, but sohow I flexed one of those bone-clawed fingers upward.

The snake Hollow stared.

Then it fainted.

[SYSTEM NOTICE: Caused Hollow to faint through unexplained, non-hostile gesture — 150 EP]

Current EP: 910 / 1,000,000

Aha. Success.

Maybe I could weaponize sheer weirdness.

That gave ideas.

Dangerous ideas.

Stupid ideas.

I gathered up a few loose rocks, balanced them on my enormous palm, and tried juggling.

As expected, one imdiately smashed into my own mask.

BANG.

"GRUUUUH!!"

I stumbled, my foot crushing a small Hollow nest.

[SYSTEM NOTICE: Self-inflicted injury through idiocy — 200 EP]

[SYSTEM NOTICE: Accidentally demolished minor Hollow nest — 90 EP]

Current EP: 1,200 / 1,000,000

My mask cracked a little.

I gave myself a ntal thumbs up anyway.

Around , a few distant Hollows cautiously peeked from behind crumbling rocks, staring at the absolute circus act of a Gillian I was putting on.

They probably thought I'd lost my mind.

And maybe I had.

But hey — if being the dumbest thing in Hueco Mundo ant survival and evolution,

I was gonna be the biggest idiot this world had ever seen.

Current EP: 1,200 / 1,000,000

Objective: Evolve to Adjuchas

Requirent: 1,000,000 EP

And I wasn't stopping.

Not now.

Not ever.