These Familiars Are Strange

The limb that burst was soon replaced by another limb, but this time it seemed like the heart turtle was being much smarter about this. It seemed like it knew to directly avoid the jet of flames that I shot at it. It seemed to realize that it wasn't able to actually resist the power of this jet of flames, so it had to dodge out of the way to avoid being injured by it. But that didn't mean that it was able to reach me. Even though there was a jet of flames that was being shot out, that didn't mean that I wasn't able to do anything as the limb approached me. There was this barrier of flames and lightning that appeared around me. The moment that the limb slammed into the flames and lightning, it was immediately burned. At the same time, the force of the limb's strike wasn't strong enough that it was able to penetrate this barrier. It was bounced back by the barrier when it slammed into it. There really didn't seem to be anything that the heart turtle could do to break through. However, before it could even think about breaking through this barrier…what it had to care about more was the jet of flames that were coming at it. What the heart turtle chose to do in the end was send another one of its limbs to block this jet of flames. It seemed that it was using this as a temporary shield while it tried to destroy my barrier. It was desperation at this point. After all, if it couldn't break through, then there was nothing that the heart turtle could do against the flames that I was shooting at it. Eventually the limb that it was using to block the jet of flames also burst apart like the first one. It seemed like the heart turtle was just running out of time and options. In the end, the heart turtle did something that no one expected from it. The heart turtle actually moved its entire self out of the way. No one had expected the heart turtle that had remained stationary the entire time to suddenly move out of the way like this, but it really had no other choice since it couldn't block the attack that was coming at it. If it didn't do this, then it would have taken a bath of flames. It was just that the moment that the heart turtle moved, it revealed something. At the very top of the heart turtle, where its shell would have been, there seemed to be something that was connected to the back of the heart turtle. Looking closely, it seemed like a mass of flesh and veins. This heart turtle itself was a mass of flesh and veins, but people forgot about that with how hard it was. When this connection showed itself, everyone immediately figured out something. It wasn't that the heart turtle didn't move, it was that the heart turtle couldn't move that much in the first place. In the end, this heart turtle was the heart of the giant floating turtle that the dungeon was built on. In a human, a heart was a very weak thing that would cause a human to die if it was even injured slightly. Everyone had forgotten that the heart was the weakness of a living creature with how hard to destroy this heart turtle was. But if the heart turtle moved too much, the blood that it pumped through the entire giant turtle would be disrupted. So it just couldn't move that much in the first place. Seeing this, I knew what to target and changed up my plans. The jet of flames suddenly stopped and it was replaced with blades of wind. There were small balls of fire that accompanied each of these blades of wind, which were used to ignite them when the time came. With a flick of my finger, they all flew out in different directions. However, that didn't mean that they were aimed at different targets. All of them were aimed at a single target, the mass of flesh that was connected to the back of the heart turtle. It was just that they went off in different directions because I wanted to attack the heart turtle from all different directions. The heart turtle could also see these blades of winds coming at it and it knew the danger that these blades of wind posed to it. So the heart turtle used its final two remaining limbs as whips to destroy the blades of wind coming at it. It was as if the heart turtle was just sacrificing these two remaining limbs to protect itself. But it wasn't as if these two limbs were enough to completely stop all of these blades of wind that were coming at it. There were just too many of them coming at the same time. Even if the heart turtle was to cover itself with these limbs, it wouldn't be able to stop all of them. So eventually, there were some blades of wind that hit the connection on its back. Though when it did hit, they suddenly turned into blades of flames. The problem was that these blades of flames were just too weak to cause serious damage. These blades of flames were different from the jet of flames that I released before. The jet of flames was a concentrated mass of flames while these blades of flames were nothing more than small blades that contained a bit of elemental energy. It just wasn't strong enough to completely cut through this thing, though it was able to burn the surface. At this rate, it seemed like it would take a while for the heart turtle to be cut down. But I wasn't satisfied with this. After all, giving the heart turtle the chance to recover wasn't a good idea. There was also the chance that it might have some kind of final phase if I allowed it to gather itself power. So I took out a red orb and said, "You can eat this."