The Nightmare vs The Flame Reaper.

The Nightmare's figure was nonetheless, unwavered regarding the current circumstances he is in. Unable to feel fear, he became the inducement of fear itself, and this fire knuckhead is nowhere in the league of actually being able to feel fear itself, and this is what Sou liked about this fighter, someone who can put up a good fight even if he had to go as far as to face one of the raw strength fighters, a human, a monster that reaches the realm of the two, the mortal and the immortal. For spiritual beings, semi-immortality is possible for one to live through hundreds and thousands of years while retaining their younger-appearance of themselves regardless of the age they are reaching, just like a 800 years old female that still appears like a child, while mortals are beings that will wither and die away with age and diseases just like any other beings that have no supernatural abilities or an ability that keeps them alive for almost eternity, as long as their important organs are kept safe. In Sou's case, he stands between these two facts of immortals and mortals. Sou is a mortal human, as a simple fact, but at the other time, he has a power beyond any other human beings do, or mortals do, strength that surpasses the limitations of one's physical capability and the boundaries that holds away the superstrength that humans cannot achieve, an awakening that not even the Nightmare himself understands the concept behind it, unknowing whether that he is a human or just a typical monster that not even science itself can explain.

It is easy to underestimate a human like him, given how an ability that a human holds and the appearance they give off but nonetheless, even a human like the Nightmare can make sure his victims can lose an eye or two to never see the daylights again. But to be honest, Sou never felt as surprised as he is before, to suddenly feel a spike of energy suddenly rising from the likes of Poliro and he wouldn't let all the spotlight taken by a vizard, otherwise, all the action would be gone to that one fiery guy right before his eyes. Maybe he would go a little bit out from here, but just not yet to give Poliro what he truly needs, a fight to the death with each other's heads butting against each other like dragons attempting to slaughter each other with all of its power. His lips were visibly smirking, his hands were in his pockets and the pressure around him also begin to spike, and to do so, all he needs was to gather a little portion of his natural energy into the core of his body and compress it into the size of an orb, and in its compressed size, the pressure it gives off is incredibly heavy and powerful, since even a small portion of natural energy from the Nightmare is enough for him to split a path before him with only a drop of sweat, and he uses it to rival itself against Poliro's beginning of release into shikai with an even greater pressure, and the pressure he gives off are simply earth-crushing, trees were visibly breaking apart from the pressure and fires would extinguish away from the face of the earth.

His eyes were sharply looking towards the two zanpakutos and the metal gauntlets equipped to his hands, whilst switching his eyes toward the pillar of flames that erupted fiercely around them, covering the area around them like a prepared battlefield awaiting for destruction and drawing any unwanted attention from the authorities, but Sou is fine with that, since he was typically used to these kind of situations in drawing attentions, it was nothing but a piece of cake to handle the situation and escape as soon as possible wihout getting caught. Chuckling lightly, his laughter became clear and loud, a tone of a sinister murderer, a demon of the battlefield itself, before his hands widened outwards, mocking the Flame Reaper before him with nothing but a smile on his face, "A NEW TOY FOR ME, EH!?"

Flame drills charged itself with spiritual energy, gathering up into a single point and toughening its shape to produce a piercing power that can make a beautiful hole on his body if it ever came in contact with him, though it seems that things were easily figured out soon enough by the knowledge of the Nightmare. The flames drills were soon shot forth and came by against the likes of the Nightmare himself, but it was nothing than a futile way of saying his greetings under the claps of his hands when such fire are so hot yet to Sou, they are powerful attacks covered in glass. It may sound like an underestimation, but there were no such thing as underestimation to him anymore. He may be hot-blooded, impatient and rushes to the extreme so that one may go at their full power against him, but his head definitely knows what he was doing, each and every step, each and every word and every mockery to the Flame Reaper that he could throw at his face with a football. "Now, question time."

Gripping his left fist tightly, it quickly went loose as his left hand swung fiercefully across the air, and that mere swing of his hand, created a swirling tornado across his body, so strong that it may be one of the strongest tornado that was naturally created under natural means of human power, than just to rely on technology itself to create such power. It swirls across his body in a circular formation, the flame drills would simply be blown apart to nothing but air under the fierce power of the tornado itself with the strength of The Nightmare itself. Truly, this is THE monster, and one will induce you the true fear that even the mightiest of warriors will never feel before. Despite being a mortal human himself, he is nowhere within the realm of mortal or the immortals. To be more specific, he is a human between the two realms itself under the incomprehendable strength he wields, a place where even a being with chaotic strength to destroy a city with a stomp is nowhere in the level of the Nightmare, the Infinite Strength, where he can access to it at his own will and use as much as he wants wihout hesitation. It was like the mind, the body, the conciousness, everything inside of him is his and the Nightmare's alone, unlike most humans, he can control it as freely as he wants wihout restriction. The tornado was created under the disturbance against the air particles, shaking up the air pressure and making use of the wind's direction. Making a calculation and rearrange these calculations into a proper equation to create an actual tornado by his strength alone, this was nothing but an easy feat for Sou to perform.

For his flame drills, they are just an embodiment of flames, to him, they are just stronger and modified version of the nature's flames by supernatural means when wield by a supernatural user of fire. Indeed, fire is the nature's natural disaster that has caused forest fires, an energy of explosions and used by our everyday lives in cooking and such, and if one were to create a supernatural, stronger, modified, even Bankai, these flames will never stray from the 'original', a fire's origins, its beginning, when fire became the natural disaster and the nature's law on Earth. Since he took Poliro's flames head-on with one of his hands previously, all he had to do was to take his previous calculations, split up the equation, rearrange the heated particles he once calculated and makes the 'original' concept of fire in his mind. These calculations are then being recalculated again using the 'original' concept of fire, take its boiling point and freezing point, the temperature, intensity, light, electromagnetic radiation and the core of the fire that 'fuels' its heat, an energy that the supernatural user creates the fire in order for it to float and to be shot at its opponent. The fire may be a clump of 'energy', but it will always have a center that allows the energy to be made in a floating 'clump', being manipulated freely into many shapes and controlled to be moved at a specific direction under the user's commands. Using mathematical calculations about the 'fire', and breaking it down into the 'original' concept of fire, rearranging its equations to make a 'new equation', then its origins would be found with mathematical calculation and scientific investigation. All he had to do is to create a tornado using a specific frequency, tune his calculations into the tornado to release a spiralling tornado that is enough to simply extinguish the 'core' or the 'energy' with using an even greater power, something that surpasses the energy and blows away its heated particles across and within the flame drills. To Sou, it was nothing but a child's play to solve such easy puzzle, all thanks to his photographic memory that allows him to remember exactly everything he could see, smell, taste, touch, feel and acknowledge. His brain is somewhat a part of genius and a part of a short-tempered bastard.

In the tornado's case, it was rather simple to create if one holds a sufficient amount of strength and could unleash them specifically for such course. Wind can be naturally manipulated wihout any wind manipulation abilities, although it is more limited than the novice wind manipulator itself since more calculations would need to be done with either machine or an enhanced intelligence, something that surpasses a computer that running in a Terrabyte speed or at least, Gigabyte speed. Since he has a machine that runs most of the calculations and a brain that 'keep' the information like a hard drive. When his hand swings, with all the calculations of his surroundings that is done about the air pressure, direction of the wind, protons, air particles and dusts on the air , all he needs to do was to output a specific amount of strength. His brains transmits an impulse to the nerves in his brain, shooting throughout his body in a spark and to his brain, which would release an electromagnetic waves that carries information to trigger his muscles to begin acting under the command of the host, himself and the brain that releases the information through electromagnetic waves. It travels and bounces from the unnecessary areas of his body, only to absorb itself into a certain muscle of his body that is required to do its work, commanding it to expand to allow a clump of natural energy to flow through the large gaps given way by the expansion of his muscles. Compressing the natural energy into a smaller size of an orb within his left hand, the second he swings his hand, the compressed energy that uses his body's natural stamina or energy would explode, just like a nuclear explosion, it quickly unleashes a tremendous amount of explosive natural energy from his hand and disturbs the air particles across the atmosphere around the Nightmare's vicnicity, and the disturbed air particles would be blown off would collide against each other, to a path where the wind's direction would be heading toward, and each collision would grow into a bigger and bigger wind energy as the air particles crashes into each other, bits of energy exploding little by little as the wind would grow stronger, eventually, these collisions became so great when its force picks up from each collision, following with the wind's direction, including the opposing momentum caused by the wind's friction when his hand swung, would create a fierce tornado around him that swirls like a raging storm itself.

A minute after the spawn of the tornado, the time limit would hit its mark and soon enough, it would be visibly growing weaker before the tornado explodes into a strong gust of wind outwards, enough to blow off the earth beneath him into pieces and send hundreds of trees flying off to the distance under the strong force that his tornado was able to produce under the explosion of the strong wind when its summoning period went out. The Nightmare's smile was wide, and for one to describe his current smile, to him, a fight wouldn't be able to be called a 'fight' for the ability that a strength user like Sou holds, though it may not be an absolute ability, but even for a human, this is a certainly something to be reckoned with, even if it is just 'strength' wihout any superpowers held behind that mortal body of his that seemingly produced nothing but natural energy, although for a man with sharp senses, his chi energy seems to be extremely weak, only to be a drop of it left within his body and mostly consumed with natural energy that normal human uses in their everyday lives. Grinning widely, Sou would speak in a rather sarcastic tone with mocking-like attitude behind that grin of his, "What was I, the Nightmare, doing exactly?"

"You may think that your fire is some sort of an unbeatable superpower crap as long as you enhance it with an even more spiritual power, ascending to shikai and dealing against me? Ah, no way, that won't help you at all. If you're going to fight me with your so-called 'cards' and drawing them one by one, THEN FIGHT ME AT YOUR BEST OR YOU MIGHT END UP AS A SHEEP THAT IS WAITING TO BE DEVOURED BY THE DARKNESS! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"


"DON'T GET TOO AHEAD OF YOURSELF TOO MUCH, THUG!"

Stomping his foot, there was no utter crushing of the earth or a vibration-cannon coming through. Instead, he had a good idea of manipulating the wind with just his strength since calculating his surroundings won't be much of a work and manipulating the wind would be just an extra slice of a meal. His feet can send out a strong soundwaves, vibrating throughout the course of the battlefield and surprisingly, with these small changes, Poliro can realise that the entire area around them was visibly turning into a foggy area within seconds before the winds began to gather up within a single area across Sou's body, becoming stronger every second that passes by. Scratching the surfaces of the air molecules using the vibration he sends off with a stomp, it would heat up the molecules of the air and creates a fog because of the intensive amount of water vapour that became heated from the friction between the vibration and the surface of the air molecules, if you think about boiling water in an electric kettle, that is the way he does it if he uses friction rather than electricity.

Gathering the winds into one point is the use of air pressure, by increasing the air pressure around him through the compression of energy within each points of his limbs, from arms to legs, the normal air pressure across his surroundings would also be affected altogether and forces the natural wind to be clumping up into a single direction under the compression of the natural energy within each and every of his limbs, swirling across his body like a naturally-made armor through the manipulation of the wind. When his left fist pummels foward against the direction where the Flame Reaper is standing, the Nightmare would unleash a strong blast of wind, shooting off in a wide-area blast and transporting the fierce winds of nature with an orb of vibration where he shoots off when his fist collides against the opposing momentum before the knuckles of his fist, he uses the pressure created by the opposing momentum and blasts off the compressed natural energy within his left arm, which would turn into a projectile and causes a wide-area blast when the vibration breaks apart by its friction with the wind during its sonic-speed travel after its initial launch from the Nightmare's fist, and thus, creating a strong blast of wind that affects in a wide-area of 300 meters and simply ripping apart the earth beneath and turning the trees of the forest into dusts. Of course, he had an extra precaution to put it there if the Flame Reaper tried flashstepping away. Once Poliro moves away from the position, the remaining vibrations that was disassembled by the friction would explode into an explosive natural energy, into multiple bullet-like blasts of wind, enough piercing ability to simply shoot past through a mountain, unscathed.

He wasn't done yet with his counterattack, and this time, say hello to the Annihilator. Held under his right shoulder, it was shining in dark-gray color than white, rather different than the ones you see in hospitals and the materials used are steel than plastics, modified under comfortable use of the Nightmare during combat and has proven quite useful in many combat situations, and the first victim of the month, was definitely Poliro. Smashing his weapon downwards, Sou first commands his muscles to expand for a way for the energy to start rushing through his arm. Electromagnetic waves was deployed and rang throughout his body, and each of these tiny bits of waves holds the information to command his body to respond to his will, where the muscles would tighten up, giving more space as his natural energy quickly streamed through his right arm and towards his hand, where he is holding the Annihilator directly. Gathering the natural energy into a single point of his left hand, all it was left was to force the energy to 'explode' into clusters, which would end up into a explosive energy in a form of vibration, absorbed by the muscles of his hand and transporting the vibration to the underarm crutch within a matter of seconds.

"TIME TO REWARD YOU WITH A ONE-DAY ROUND TRIP TO HEAVEN. THOUGH YOU MIGHT ENJOY IT SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULDN'T EVEN WANT TO RETURN, YE' BASTARD!"

Clicking his tongue, before the launch of the vibration, it first compresses the air at the end of the crutch, where the vibration bullet would be shot forth against the likes of Poliro, and the second it was shot off, it was fast enough and almost invisible, even for an enhanced vision and reaction to keep up with the speed of sound that flashes through the battlefield before one can even have the time to blink. Its destructive force can allow him to leave a crater large enough to wipe out a good portion of the forest using a compressed air pressure launched like a bullet from his crutch. It was the third time he has ever done so, and it was more devastating than before with all the analysis and the hardships he has been through for all of these battles between two beasts. A man that strives to be the strongest of all in the world and fight Mana to extinguish the darkness that has been creeping behind him, devouring him slowly before he becomes one of the so-called 'demons'.

Standing there, and before the eyes of the Flame Reaper, Sou seems to stand there, smiling ever so sinisterly as the pressure around him slowly grew, the darkness hidden under the eyes of the Nightmare slowly engulfing him within the shadows, the excitement and the blood inside of him was boiling, wanting to jump for joy with all the fun and entertainment that was given to him and the Nightmare had the urge to repay the favour by turning him into a corpse as one of his collections. No one knew who's the strongest, the true monster and the true fear of this battlefield. The pressure around both individuals grew stronger, and the colliding energy of the two forces are enough to even make a captain-level shinigami to be shrouded in fear under the monstrosity of these two fighters if their spiritual power is not enough to stay on par with the two colliding forces in power. A Flame Reaper and The Nightmare, A Vizard and A Human, The Supernatural and The Natural. They are, indeed, the opposition of forces that were destined to collide against each other, to prove whether the supernatural will always stand above the natural powers of this world, or will it be the opposite of the fact. The battle unfolds the demonic excitement of the two.