31 Watch Out! (1/2)

The tortoise had enough of this shenanigans and released a cry of pain while the other head scoffed at the other heads reaction and puffed up its cheeks.

Dean had begun to run away from the tortoise, turning back to see how it was coping, he was instead greeted by a generous laser of rocks.

One head was slowly accepting the pain while the other coughed up rocks one after another.

The boulders launched itself towards Dean without a moment of hesitation.

Leonard saw the struggle and instantly made his own move.

Stopping the assault of water bullets, Leonard positioned himself behind the tortoise as the head was too busy crying to notice his presence.

His Longsword wasn't as effective as Dean's polearm in severing a leg.

If Leonard cleaved the tortoise's leg then it would take minutes, allowing the tortoise to kill Leonard whenever it wanted.

Understanding that his strike had to be effective to make sure he wasn't dead weight to Dean, Leonard stabbed the tortoise by penetrating the leg.

*SNAP*

This sound originated from two things.

The bone of the tortoise popped and was instantly fractured causing the beast to be in immense pain that made one wince and stop its barrage of attacks, and another cry in excruciating pain.

Unfortunately for Leonard he took back his blade only to see that the top half was completely shattered with specks of metals stuck inside the structure of the tortoise

It was a despairing moment for Leonard as he had used this blade for the whole duration of the Hundred Thousand Beast Forest trip.

This was the weapon that helped him lead himself all the way to this point. Without it would make everything more troubling.

But this was the exact respect for blades that allowed Leonard to be skilled as a swordsman.

Sighing at the unexpected loss, it was still a success.

”Watch out!”

To the side Leonard had heard a distant scream and saw Dean running towards him.

Confused, Leonard looked around to see that a beam of water struck his temple.

'How can it shoot water?'

Accepting his fate, he brought his broken blade in front of him to attempt to block any water he could but the sheer power instantly made him fly into a tree.

Dean saw this sight before him and the words started to resound within his ear.

”Just... one attempt”

The tone vaguely resembled Ivan's voice and altogether turned into a sound that slowly became inaudible.

Leonard was still in danger as his body was striking through multiple trees, one after another, collapsing without their foundations.

Dean challenged the Earth Endowing Tortoise and stared at it with green eyes.

A burst of Battle Intent followed the trace of Dean as he started his assault on the tortoise's heads.

The right head was too distraught by the pain and couldn't think properly, promptly ignoring Dean's cleaver that had just beheaded him.