Leonel might have reached the Superior Stage in his Metal Body, but he wasn't infallible. He was under no delusions that he would survive such an onslaught. And, even if by some miracle he did, he doubted that he would still be in position to fight.

However, he didn't intend to allow such a thing to happen.

His mind was on a completely different level. He could see everything before it happened.

Joseph's order to fire. The spinning gears as the final tweaks were made to their aim. The slight scent of gun powder. The touch of heat that graced the barrels.

Leonel felt it all as if he was right there in the cockpit with them all. Which tanks were firing, where they were in relation to him, exactly when their shells would exit the nozzles… He saw through it all.

And that, exactly that… would be their downfall.

Leonel's raised hand trembled slightly. It was only the slightest flick, yet seven foot-long needles shot forward at impossible speeds.

They tore through the air, leaving a streak of smoke in their wake. Then…

The sound barrier shattered.

In one blink the needles were floating by Leonel's side. In a second blink they had appeared before the nozzles of the seven firing tanks. In a third…

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Joseph's heart trembled.

"No… No…"

exactly what

Leonel's attack was so perfect that the

his chair, staring at

high rank, he only had a healing ability. Even if he wanted to fight it out with

could even react, his younger brother had exploded through

reacted just as

He didn't have time to

defeated him. Back then, Leonel was nowhere near the monster he was now. How could there even be a

had once been in the past. His

Could his improvement match

envelop Leonel completely. And,

sun was completely blotted out. All Leonel saw was a wave of earth and the man

He used his flow

spread out his hands, facing his palm

"[Earthen Shackle]."

earth he had always been able to control at a whim suddenly became like a steel behemoth unwilling to

to his forward momentum, but that was when he suddenly

came to a grinding halt before he could even get close. Though he was the one in the air now, shackled by earth that had once been under his control, he still felt as though it was

to a stop within the city, the rumbling tanks never even made it to the gates and even the Invalids that

section of the wall. Heavy breaths heaved his chest as he sat slumped to the

slight clue he had was Leonel's familiar voice roaring through the city. But, he had yet to confirm if that voice that haunted his nightmares was

this moment, he simply didn't care. He had managed to survive

that he had managed to crawl back up to a section of the wall where the white wolf Variant

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