Until recently, Shinigami never understood why the disaster kept happening. Now they are a bit more aware of how the dimensions work, the similar planes of existence both Hueco Mundo and the Dangai exist in, and how both expand and shrink in seemingly random intervals. How large shifts can lead to spillover or incapability of travel between the planes.
They now knew why every so often over the course of hundreds of years Hueco Mundo would breach into the human world. The sky would be filled with the presence of a location deeper in Heuco Mundo than any have traveled before, a realm where unnaturally powerful hollows usually hid and waited for this particular event. Laying dormant until the roughly month long period of time when they were free to do as they pleased.
It wouldn't have been nearly as much of an issue if the timing for this particular event could be predicted, or better still the particular location could be determined for where this breach would occur. But unfortunately the nature of both the Dangai and the Hollow's realm was just too unstable to nail down any such precise calculations.
Even then it still wouldn't be as bad if the Dangai gates still worked while the breach occurred. It would take time sure to get the proper forces in place to guard the human world until the breach naturally closed on its own, an interval that usually took around a month. But it would still be a far better thing than being cut off entirely from the human world until the gates regained enough stability to allow passage.
Because of this, whenever the breach happened, it wasn't unusual to find any human settlement it had formed over to be completely wiped out, the Shinigami caught off guard by the occurrence and left completely unable to back up any forces in the area. Proper countermeasures just couldn't be made for an event they had no way to foresee and had no means to fight when it happened.
This time however, it appeared things were going to be far worse. Usually the breach formed over small settlements, or over the ocean or in the middle of nowhere. Since the last time it appeared however, Humanity had created much larger places of commerce than ever before. Worse still, the breach was larger than before, Hueco Mundo didn't just spill over into the human world this time, Soul Society itself was facing a crisis on its own turf now.
Then again, perhaps not everything was lost this time. Great minds were located on both sides of the breach this time that might prove much more capable of combating it, and it wasn't as if this particular city would find itself completely undefended. Right now it was firmly under the protection of a single substitute shinigami and his allies.
Perhaps Karakura would be the first place to survive All Hollow's Eve.
They now knew why every so often over the course of hundreds of years Hueco Mundo would breach into the human world. The sky would be filled with the presence of a location deeper in Heuco Mundo than any have traveled before, a realm where unnaturally powerful hollows usually hid and waited for this particular event. Laying dormant until the roughly month long period of time when they were free to do as they pleased.
It wouldn't have been nearly as much of an issue if the timing for this particular event could be predicted, or better still the particular location could be determined for where this breach would occur. But unfortunately the nature of both the Dangai and the Hollow's realm was just too unstable to nail down any such precise calculations.
Even then it still wouldn't be as bad if the Dangai gates still worked while the breach occurred. It would take time sure to get the proper forces in place to guard the human world until the breach naturally closed on its own, an interval that usually took around a month. But it would still be a far better thing than being cut off entirely from the human world until the gates regained enough stability to allow passage.
Because of this, whenever the breach happened, it wasn't unusual to find any human settlement it had formed over to be completely wiped out, the Shinigami caught off guard by the occurrence and left completely unable to back up any forces in the area. Proper countermeasures just couldn't be made for an event they had no way to foresee and had no means to fight when it happened.
This time however, it appeared things were going to be far worse. Usually the breach formed over small settlements, or over the ocean or in the middle of nowhere. Since the last time it appeared however, Humanity had created much larger places of commerce than ever before. Worse still, the breach was larger than before, Hueco Mundo didn't just spill over into the human world this time, Soul Society itself was facing a crisis on its own turf now.
Then again, perhaps not everything was lost this time. Great minds were located on both sides of the breach this time that might prove much more capable of combating it, and it wasn't as if this particular city would find itself completely undefended. Right now it was firmly under the protection of a single substitute shinigami and his allies.
Perhaps Karakura would be the first place to survive All Hollow's Eve.