The Universal Villain

As the barrier around Shen shook and morphed itself around him, Shen had to admit it gave off a pretty weird ambiance. 'Well, every second wasted is 5 seconds, so I best get down to business.' Sitting on the barriers floor, Shen closed his eyes and entered Image Training.

[Image Training Activated. Constructing Training Area...]

[Image Training Area Construction Complete.]

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Going through all the different mechanisms, Shen watched as the training area around him was created. At the moment, Shen had so many different options when it came to who to fight, although only a couple of them were good ones. 'So far, the strongest person I have fought is Yamamoto without a doubt. Should I start with him?'

Hesitating for a moment, Shen didn't see the harm in trying. He had plenty of time, after all. After using Image Training for so long before heading to the Soul Society for the first time, the time limit had gone up by another 2 hours, making it a total of 6 hours.

[Training Timer has started 6 Hours.]

The terrain around Shen was quickly generated as the blank empty space was soon filled, creating a mountain-like terrain. All Shen were mountains of different shapes and sizes. And in the middle of all of them was flat rocky plains he was standing on. 'This place should work.' Standing not too far in front of Shen was Yamamoto with his Zanpakuto already drawn.

Inside Image Training, all opponents are basically under the effects of blood l.u.s.t, meaning they go all out and don't show mercy. Looking at Yamamoto, Shen prepared until he suddenly froze due to Yamamoto's words. In an instant, Shen felt like crying. "Bankai Zanka no Tachi." Those words were basically a death sentence for Shen as the entire mountain was engulfed with an ungodly heat.

"Hey, Yamamoto, no hard feelings about that whole killing you thing, right?" Although Shen knew that this wasn't the original Yamamoto and he wouldn't speak, he couldn't help by hope. However, the moment he saw Yamamoto take a step forward as the world around him began to melt, Shen started taking steps back.

"Can you at least give me a handicap!" It was this exact situation that Shen wanted to avoid back in the Soul Society. If he genuinely gave Yamamoto the chance to go into his Bankai, there would be nothing he could do. In his Bankai Yamamoto's sword reached fifteen million degrees, and he was pretty much wearing the sun itself as a suit of armor. All that plus the ability to burn things out of existence was just too much, especially at his current level.

It was at this moment that Yamamoto disappeared, reappearing not too far from Shen with his Zanpakuto raised in the air. Seeing this, Shen's voice went from calm to panic. "System. Cancel the training… Cancel! Cancel!" Screaming at the System as Yamamoto lowered his Zanpakuto, Shen found himself out of the battle in one piece.

Taking a deep breath, Shen had a smile on his face as thought to himself. 'Ok, so I won't be doing that again.' If Shen had known Yamamoto was going to go straight into his Bankai from the beginning, he would have given up the idea of even testing him out. After taking a few more deep breaths, Shen began thinking to himself again. 'Alright, let me think who else have I fought that was strong?'

After thinking for a moment, Shen realized other than Yamamoto all his battles had been pretty easy to win. It was after thinking that did Shen come to a realization. 'Wait, I almost forgot about them. Soul Reapers and hollows aren't the only things I have been fighting.' Selecting a different opponent Shen decided to create ten of them. "This should be fine."

As the world around Shen began to generate this time, Shen chose an empty white gridded training room similar to the ones you would find in games. It wasn't the most obvious, but it allowed him to have plenty of space to do whatever he needed to win. With the roof being so high that not even Shen could see it and the walls being almost infinitely spaced apart, it was perfect. Standing a couple of hundred meters away from Shen was the Spirit Senbonzakura, or to be more precise, the Spirits of Senbonzakura.

The ten Senbonzakura Spirits stood next to one another as the training began. They spoke in unison, each of their voices overlapping with one another. Turning their swords upside down, they let them each fall into the ground as the floor rippled like water.

"Bankai. Scatter Senbonzakura Kageyoshi." Unlike in their inner world, there were no cherry trees around, so instead, ten separate rows of the sword began to rise out of the ground as ripples expanded outwards from the swords rising from the ground.

Bracing himself, Shen was greeted to a similar sight as the sky above was blocked out by cherry blossoms. "Hehe, I almost forgot about the best part about Image Training." Raising his right hand, Shen snapped his fingers as his Mangekyou Sharingan activated itself. "I can use my abilities without having to worry about being blinded!" Because it was within the System, him using his power in the Training area did not count towards him using it in the real world.

In mere moments hundreds to thousands of portals opened up behind Shen revealing the tips of spears. 'Gilgamesh got nothing on me.' Seeing about how similar he can make his power to Giglamesh's Shen couldn't help but think that to himself as he pointed his hand towards the cl.u.s.ter of Cherry Blossoms descending on top of him.

Reacting to his commands, the void spears fired forward. Each Spear was connected to the Void, just like the sword he used previously in Senbonzakura's inner world. Due to that, the moment one of the spears came in contact with a cherry blossom, it was devoured meeting zero resistance.

In an instant, the intimidating attack launched by the Senbonzakura Spirits was full of holes as it was forced to disperse. Looking at the effects of his attack Shen prepared his next attack as he dreamed about his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

At this point, Shen had so many personal goals he was begging to lose count of them all, but either way he knew this fantasy was going to be a reality one of these days. And knowing that was exciting enough as he rushed forward.