Current EP: 4,400 / 1,000,000
Alright.
New day… or night… or whatever it was in Hueco Mundo.
I stood tall — six stories of hollow, bony badassery with a rapidly healing jaw and a single, glorious brain cell firing at maximum capacity.
Today's mission:
Earn more EP doing something so stupid it would make the System question its own existence.
Idea:
If Cero usually goes out, what happens if I try to fire it inward?
Yes. A Reverse Cero.
Now, before you say anything — yes, this is an objectively terrible idea.
Yes, there's a 99.9% chance it would explode in my face.
And yes, that's exactly why I was going to do it.
I gathered the red energy into my hand again.
It crackled, hissed, and hummed like an angry beehive made of doom.
Nearby Hollows scattered.
Again.
I pointed the charged Cero directly at my chest.
"GRROOOOOOH."
(Translation: "This is gonna be so dumb.")
And then — I fired.
BOOOM.
The blast hit me square in the chest.
The result?
I was sent flying backward like a comet made of poor decisions, smashing through two sand dunes, a small Hollow's nest (sorry about that), and landing halfway submerged in a canyon wall.
[SYSTEM NOTICE: Executed suicidal Reverse Cero — +600 EP]
[SYSTEM NOTICE: Survived against odds — +300 EP]
Current EP: 5,300 / 1,000,000
I groaned.
Or gurgled.
It was hard to tell at that point.
"Grhooohhh…"
(Translation: "Totally worth it.")
As I peeled myself out of the rock, I saw a couple of other Hollows peeking over the ridge, eyes wide.
One of them actually clapped.
I kid you not.
A scrawny, crow-faced Hollow gave me a slow clap before immediately running away when I made eye contact.
Legendary.
Alright, next idea.
Time to see if I could Cero a sandstorm.
I pointed my hand at a massive cloud of sand whipping in the distance and fired.
PEW.
The Cero exploded in the sand cloud.
Absolutely nothing happened.
But then a tumbleweed made of bones and debris slowly rolled toward me.
I watched it.
It watched me.
I nodded.
It kept rolling.
[SYSTEM NOTICE: Tried to duel with a tumbleweed — +400 EP]
Current EP: 5,700 / 1,000,000
Nice.
I was halfway through plotting how to wrestle the tumbleweed when another Hollow, a lizard-like one with razor-sharp teeth and a bad attitude, leapt at me.
This time, I was prepared.
I stepped to the side and let it faceplant into a rock.
[SYSTEM NOTICE: Dodged using pure luck — +500 EP]
Current EP: 6,200 / 1,000,000
I wasn't even trying anymore.
And that was the beauty of it.
And that's how a genius Gillian like me spends his days in Hueco Mundo — breaking the rules of Hollow physics, causing minor natural disasters, and earning EP through sheer idiocy.
I grinned under my mask.
Tomorrow, I was going to see if I could surf on a Cero.
Why?
Because I could.