Looking ahead she would witness the Captain Commander unleash a massive amount of energy of highly destructive proportions. It was unlike any ability she had seen until then, and it peeked her curiosity tremendously. How did it worked, how did he achieved it, how could she replicate it. The thoughts were recurrent and they were likely to be a topic she would revisit as the battle and the training progressed and likely even beyond the spectrum of the battle. For the time being however, she would need to concentrate as she could not afford the luxury of goofing off in a battle with him. She had to remain focused. His attack had disintegrated hers nearly effortlessly, but still, Crystal did not show signs of panic or distress. Sure, it was a shame her attack had not been successful, but like with nearly every move of hers, she had tailored follow up strategies assuming the attack would have indeed failed. As soon as he raised his hand, it was almost as if a strange chill ran down her body. Perhaps it was sheer anticipation but she knew he was not pointing at her to speak or say something meaningless. In a life or death situation, every action could potentially have a very strong reaction, and for the sake of the battle, she treated as such.
Having been somewhat ready for perhaps a kido, or at most two, she was surprised at the arsenal that was unleashed on her, even if some were devoid of incantation. However, it was foolish to think she would fare just with the graceful speed she possessed. She had more. Rushing as far as she could, the holographic screens traveled with her. Where she once stood, a chain from one of his kido had encircled and trapped the structure she had hovering just a few feet from her which had been moved and configured into a cylindrical shape akin to a torso nearly before she had begun moving. At the same time, a set of structures rose from underground. Before she knew it she was hit by six rods of another kido coming from the Commander's location but not before she had set the rest of the events in motion. There were two thick and large structures at the front while three even thicker structures had risen just behind those. However, Crystal had no material outside. Whether the Commander had figured it or not, either before or if he had just done so now, it mattered little. She was able to accomplish what she had set out to do from the very beginning. The drill, the attack, the reconfigured drill into strands, it had all been a ruse to hide the real motive and intent. Now, it was a bit too late. Though his power was great, even if he had noticed the real notion and motive of her actions, it was nearly impossible to target and eliminate the effects she had cast upon the field as even destroying a large portion would still see it so that some was available and able to be replicated. Every action that Crystal had made from the very beginning had been purposely tailored. There was no wasted move, no silly change of pace...it all had a purpose. She could only hope, regardless of the way the battle turned out, that the Commander would at least look well upon her, for, though still capable of much more and having a long way to go, she showed definite and near unlimited potential...and that, was something he would have likely been happy to know. the large and thick set of structures served as a barrier which took the hit of the of the black holes, and thus sparing Crystal the need to deal with them.
Still, there was a problem. Trapped by the six rods, the Commander had cast a very powerful Hadō and the options of escape were limited. Clenching her hands in fists, she spoke, "Despierta, Princesa." With that, a large and nearly blinding light followed by an enormous release in reiatsu allowed her to break free of the bakudo. Though the cuffs had regulated her, her abnormally mastered use of her speed and her flash steps in combination with her released shikai enabled her to escape just barely out of the way of the Hadō while raising a small structure to be caught within the the attack. The attack had been a mighty one. All in all, she was far from disappointed. Though the Commander had made no compelling attempt yet to harm her to the full extent of his capabilities, she was glad she had been able to stand up against him, even if he was still holding back, while largely remaining in her most basic of states, with her sealed Zanpakutō. It had become clear that the field was on her side, and would likely be so for the majority of the fight regardless of the attempts of her Commander. Holographic screens still hovering to her side though significantly brighter, her outfit looked strikingly different than it was moments earlier, and her reiatsu and her abilities had intensified to nearly abnormal levels.
She wasn't specifically acquainted with the battle style of the Commander, but judging by the way he stood, the way he held his sword and the strength of his kido, even without an incantation, she was able to make a few observations. Smiling, mostly to herself, her large crimson red sword in one hand with an equally colored shield fixed to one of her arms, she readied for battle as she rushed in his general direction. Once again, he would have been mistaken to underestimate her. She had a point to prove. And she would do so.
Focusing a dangerously large amount of blue reiatsu on her blade after it had spiraled around her she shot it at extremely fast speeds at her opponent. Using her flash steps she was nearly on him as the attack drew closer. Almost in unison an enormous amount of reiatsu encircled her as gruesome chains erupted from her back. Spreading and extending they wrapped tightly against the intense flow of reiatsu. Accelerating her advance she would allow five chains to fire off in his direction while still maintaining a large portion of the chains wrapped against her dense reiatsu. The chains traveled at nearly abnormal speeds that would have likely been incredibly fast even for the Commander as the speed at which they traveled were comparable to a bala, one of the fastest attacks. The shrieking noise of the chains were quickly heard as they resonated all over the battlefield. Even if he had nearly perfect vision or better, the chains would look to be rather blurry and linear. With five chains continually being fed enormous amounts of energy and a full powered energy blast from her crescent strike attack, the Commander would surely face a peril. Because of the quality and nature of the chains there was an extremely good chance that they would hit as the chances of it missing were abysmal, and even fewer were the chances they could be destroyed as they were continuously being kept alive by the reiatsu emanating from the fully combat-capable Captain.