The fall

Leon directly decided to ignore the more powerful person and charged at tyrian with a rabid anger. clearly neither of the two enemies expected this as they both panicked when they saw this with tyrian immediately realizing he fucked up and trying to retreat while cinder chased after leon to stop him from killing tyrian. salem had sent tyrian out to distract leon while he was fighting cinder once she noticed that she was being suppressed but didn't expect leon to ignore cinder entirely to try and kill tyrian. it was only when she happened to remember tyrian's favorite targets were children that she understood her mistake in sending him out.

Salem knew that even by her standards that tyrian was scum of the earth since he took great joy in causing pain and death while salem merely saw them as a means to an end. in her case she took no joy from her actions but did them apathetically while tyrian was just an evil individual. leon rocketed towards tyrian with his weapon held sideways in it's scythe form posed to bisect tyrian. cinder was just a step too late to stop leon but just as the blade was about to slice into tyrian the flesh of monstra split and dragged him into it and out of harms way.

Leons blade cut through the flesh but on such a large grim such a wound was inconsequential leaving leon seeing red in rage. unfortunately there just so happened to be a target nearby he could vent his anger on in the form of cinder. leon shrugged off cinders attack and whipped around with his weapon to viciously cut her in half. cinder only just managed to cover herself in a barrier before the scythe blade and handle slammed into it with a screech of grinding metal.

She was launched by the sheer force behind the attack while the weapon itself groaned and began to develop cracks on it. this weapon was never designed to be wielded by someone at level five like leon who had maxed out each of his stats before leveling up. the material that comprised it just barely could handle his full strength at level four but now they simply couldn't handle it anymore. leon ignored this however as he was far too focused on cinder to realize the problem and chased after her through the air.

Meanwhile leon had totally forgotten that he was here to stop the destruction of atlas ,though ironwood didn't blame him at all since from his point of view leon was struggling to help at all. even when leon batted away cinder , ironwood simply assumed that since his opponent was a maiden that he simply couldn't afford to focus on the strange giant grim that was the biggest problem. more and more cracks started to form on the hard light shield and by now the evacuation was in full swing under ironwoods orders.

Ironwood was a seasoned veteran and knew a hopeless situation when he saw one and had made sure to focus on getting the people in the city to safety while he could. the schnee company was of great help in this regard with their many shipping transports that had very spacious interiors when emptied out. by the time the shield around the city had reached the point where there was only five minutes at most before it fell ironwood had already evacuated the citizens and gave the order for the soldiers and hunters to evac now. Salem noticed the people fleeing the city but commanded the grim to ignore them since her target was always the city itself.

When the shield broke leon snapped out of his rage fueled rampage against a very battered and tired cinder. moments later his instincts warned him and he fled at top speed with rakurai much to cinders and salem's confusion. cinders eyes widened however a split second later as she layered up her barrier while rushing towards monstra in horror. as a last ditch effort ironwood had forced the winter maiden to unlock the artifact beneath the city and used it's power to repurpose the entire floating land mass into a massive bomb.

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