The wounds on Ojog's body had began taking a toll on his ability to fight. Felixio appeared in front of Ojog and grabbed him by the neck and began to put pressure on it. A little further away, François was laying on his stomach, trying to grab his sword but he failed due to fatigue. He began to frantically look around his surroundings to find a solution until he laid his eyes on Felixio's right forearm, just beside him.
"Wait... Isn't that the prick's forearm? Gahhh no time, just take it."
François grabbed the forearm and forcefully placed it on his right arm. The forearm quickly stucked itself on François' arm and it began to twitch violently. He attempted to control it and was barely reached out and grab his sword but he's barely capable of standing up. The forearm starts to charge up the sword while his body is filled with enough reiatsu to keep his body going. He crouched down and extended out his left leg then dashed at an insane speed, causing the ground to quake and the trees to fracture as he passed by them and finally, was able decapitate Felixio before he could even react, releasing Ojog from his grip once again.
Suddenly, François accidentally drops his sword on the ground and his body began to twitch like crazy. The power that Felixio's arm withholds is too much for François to handle and his body is unable to handle it.
Ojog screamed out to François.
"Try and focus all that energy into the arm!"
François began to focus and tense up his right arm with every bit of his strength despite the tremendous pain he's facing, but his efforts were in vain as it was able to barely control it, his eyes wander around to find a solution and laid his eyes on his own sword.
"My blade! ERGHHH... It's durability is unmatched. It HAS to work!"
He immediately grabbed the blade and focused all of his spiritual power into the sword. The greatsword began to tank all of the energy François was holding onto and began to form very small cracks under its heavy pressure. But suddenly, the sword began change form. The handle and blade completely changed color and took the similar design of Felixio's forearm. François' condition became barely balanced and collapsed at the ground due to immense fatigue.
Everything goes black. François finds himself in a black void.
"Where the heck am I? Wasn't I just at the forest, fighting?"
He looked around in numerous directions, trying to find out where he is and what has happened. Aimlessly floating around with nothing to tend to, he scratches his head in confusion. But all of a sudden, he felt a shift in the air and kept his guard up. François hears a faint, eerie, muffled voice.
"I'm stuck with you now...."
"You took a part of me..."
"You're gonna pay for that..."
"I will get my revenge one day..."
"I will get stronger every single day..."
A gigantic hand manifests and grabs François before he could escape and it starts squeezing him to death. François struggled to free himself and his life began to flash before his eyes, until...
François suddenly opened his eyes and sat up instantly with sweat all over his face. He looks around and found himself in a modern looking hospital room with Ojog and Wilfred resting in their own respective bed. François saw that his body is covered in bandages and a metal device wrapped around his arm that seemingly stabilizes his energy levels. Guerra quietly opened the door then entered the room with Eusbio behind his back and began walking toward François' bed.
Guerra sat down and reassures François with a calm tone.
"Don't move too much, you'll reopen your wounds."
François immediately asked with a worried face.
"My comrades... Are they alright?"
"Their conditions are alright, they'll make a very quick recovery."
François sighed loudly and gave a visible look of relief.
Guerra leaned over with both of his hands interlaced while his elbows are placed on his knee neatly.
"Let me cut to the chase. What you did back there was nothing short of impressive. You three gave us one less big threat to deal with and saved numerous of our villagers and men from being wiped out. Bust most importantly, you have given us an incredibly strong source of energy."
"Source of energy?"
"Yes. Upon inspecting the dead body, Eusbio here has discovered that its right arm is so incredibly packed with spiritual energy that even small dense fragments of it can already contain enough energy to literally blow up one of our cities. With this new source of energy, we can innovate new technologies that could help us double if not quadruple our people's standard of living. I can't say my thanks enough, I truly am greatful, really."
"That may be true, but won't you also try to use it to produce weapons that may easily wipe out masses of hollows to expand the Empire's territory?"
Guerra remains unwavered despite François' question.
"I won't even lie. Yes, I would make such a weapon, but don't doubt my abilities and your other commandantes aswell, we're stronger than you think. Though, I'm worried if Barragan's army could tell us otherwise. But with this newfound source of energy alongside with your new arm, I think we have a chance at this."
With all that said, François slowly laid his back down and stated to Guerra.
"I still don't have quite alot of trust in you. The others only have faith in you because they finally found a place to live peacefully without slaughtering each other. I don't have a hint of idea of what you really want. Helping the people out here or just simply making your influence over Hueco Mundo bigger."
Guerra nods to François words of distrust.
"You're right, how can you possibly trust me in such a small amount of time. But let me make it clear. I don't have any motives of betraying my people."
Guerra slowly stood up and began walking out of the room witu Eusbio following him. As both Guerra and Eusbio began to walk in the dark barely lit hallway, the latter asks with uncertainty and worry.
"With that new arm of his. Won't it be dangerous to keep him around? He's like a walking giant bomb that could literally blowup everyone the second he lets that arm out of his concentration!"
Guerra continues to walk and remained unshaken despite knowing what would happen.
"François doesn't seem like the type of guy to let that happen. Despite his selfishness, he'll do his best to keep everyone else and himself in check, I probably shouldn't do this but I have complete trust in him."
Eusbio still shows hesitation and uncertainty in face.
Later that day...
In Eusbio's lab. He is completely alone, only tended by his own dark room and the lamp powered with spiritual energy. On Eusbio's desk lies Felixio's upper arm along with materials and more importantly, a very small orb that's the size of a gemstone. He places small fragments little by little using specialized tweezers into the orb. Eventually, with enough fragments stored in such a small container, it began to grow increasingly bright due to its high density of spiritual energy. Eusbio looks at the powerful orb in awe at what he created. He decided to place it at a machine and it began to analyze the orb's state. Then, the machine printed out results. Eusbio took the paper the machine had printed out and began reading it. Shock appeared on his face and he looked at the orb.
"I have never seen such a thing- No... Anomaly before. I have created something something so far out of this World. This anomaly.... Can break the boundaries between hollow and shinigami."