Because there was simply no way to control Roger Eikam, the global allied forces kept up appearances, loudly claiming they were still actively fortifying their defenses—yet in reality, they were fortifying their own coastlines, right in front of their homes.
Elite core troops were pulled back by every nation under all kinds of excuses, recalled to their homelands to oversee domestic military construction.
The leadership of each country saw it clearly: the world had united because of Roger Eikam, yes—but that unity existed only because they shared a common enemy. Under the surface, contradictions still piled up, and true peace was impossible.
The alliance would eventually dissolve.
Spending all your nation's money on this would be a blessing for other countries—basically helping your rivals grow stronger.
And on the day the alliance dissolved, everyone already knew it:
Sooner or later, the nations would go to war.
They understood it in their bones.
"Crusading against Titans" was just a slogan. Between countries, even without Titans, they would still fight for countless reasons.
Maybe resources.
Maybe territory.
But no matter what, they would inevitably start wars again—until the dead covered the ground.
And when that time came, everyone would find all kinds of excuses to absolve themselves.
Titans were only a turning point.
Even without Titans, they would still conquer, still burn the world with war, never growing tired.
Roger Eikam—now the thousand-meter Founding Titan—stood between heaven and earth, unmoving, for a long, long time.
Under his will, every Titan fell into dormancy.
They hardened into walls and, like Roger Eikam, did not move at all.
At first, some Marleyans tried to climb the walls—
But Roger Eikam glared them back down.
Being stared at by a thousand-meter monster—no matter how brave you were—there was no courage in the world that could sustain you.
Forced to abandon that idea, the Marleyans turned their attention to the Eldians in the internment zone again, trying to use them to dig tunnels and build airships.
But it didn't work.
The Eldians inside the walls resisted furiously. No matter how the Marleyans threatened them, they refused to submit.
"We are not slaves!!"
they shouted.
Envoys went from the internment zone into Marley, trying to tell them that Roger Eikam hadn't started slaughtering because he wanted Marley to recognize its mistakes, confess and repent—so that he would let them out.
But Marleyans saw those words as the ultimate insult.
Mistakes?
We're the victims!
What mistakes could there possibly be?!
They raged, chopped the envoy's head off, and put on a show of absolute determination to force the Eldians into obedience.
That became the fuse for total war.
Inside the internment zone, the determined formed the "Post-Eldian Empire," preparing to fight Marley to the death.
In an instant, street battles and alley warfare erupted.
Two races swore to erase each other.
But their weapons and equipment were inferior. The Eldians had no way to truly resist—they could only retreat step by step.
And then they saw Roger Eikam's thousand-meter silhouette and understood:
Only by begging this true god could they truly defeat the Marleyans and reclaim freedom.
So they knelt devoutly before Roger Eikam, pleading for him to grant them greater power.
This scene was painfully familiar to Roger Eikam.
Back when humans signed a contract with the Demon of the Earth, humans had knelt like this too—reverent, sincere.
Roger Eikam knew that with a body this large, he would only ever be seen as a monster, as a demon.
So he decided to be the villain to the end.
"Then so be it, as you wish."
Roger Eikam's voice fell like a divine decree.
The moment his words ended, he altered the genes of every Eldian, changing them into a type that could transform into a Titan at any time—triggered by emotion.
In other words, he connected every one of them to the Paths, allowing them to transform into Titans at will, while still retaining their own will.
Roger Eikam wanted to see whether Marley would still dare to be so arrogant and tyrannical when facing Eldians who could become Titans.
He only wanted Marley to understand that they were not "right," that they had always been oppressing others—and that others were not necessarily easy to bully.
Because these Eldians, once pushed too far, would bring down endless catastrophe.
He thought that once Marley understood this, they would stop oppressing Eldians forever.
But he had thought too little.
He had imagined the Marleyans far too kindly.
Even after he gave Eldians the ability to transform freely, the Marleyans still didn't repent.
They still took up their weapons and invaded the internment zone in force, slaughtering the residents inside.
Watching their wives, children, elders—everyone—get butchered by shameless Marleyans, the Eldians couldn't endure it anymore.
They transformed one after another, flashes of light blooming in succession.
On the first day, Roger Eikam observed that throughout the daylight alone, there were thousands upon thousands of Eldians who transformed into Titans.
And they made the overconfident Marleyans pay a heavy price.
After the emotion of revenge passed, the Titan power would be withdrawn, and they would revert to ordinary Eldians again.
But the moment the Marleyans saw them turn back, remembering the humiliation they'd suffered, they became arrogant again.
Not only did they not shrink back—they continued to squat on Eldians' faces and defecate there, provoking them again and again.
At first, the Eldians restrained themselves. They limited their use of Titan power, carrying a cruel psychological shadow about eating people. They didn't want to become devils again, so they forced themselves to clamp down on their emotions.
But the Marleyans escalated even further, until the Eldians could no longer bear it.
In the end, they almost all transformed into man-eating Titans.
The first one—an Eldian whose entire family had been slaughtered—felt utterly alone. The only reason he still wanted to live was to kill every last Marleyan.
So he no longer wanted to turn back into a human.
And he became the first to walk out of the internment zone.
The counterattack began.
He massacred Marleyans, pouring his rage into them without mercy—exactly as Marleyans had once done to them.
He chose to become a true devil.
When the other Eldians saw their comrade like that, they responded immediately. More and more people were driven into rebellion by Marley.
Inside the walls Roger Eikam built, it became a paradise for Titans.
Countless Titans appeared on Marleyan land and devoured them all.
Screams and wails rose in waves.
And not a single Titan turned back into a human.
When the last Marleyan soldier was brutally eaten—his head bitten off—every Eldian began to cry.
In Titan form, they knelt before their true god, Roger Eikam.
Now they understood: they, too, had become true devils.
But Roger Eikam told them:
"Just like the Marleyans, you slaughtered Marley's women, children, the elderly, the young—driving the Marleyan race into extinction. This is not justice.
"But it is absolute self-interest.
"It is a choice made by you—and by the Marleyans who were exterminated.
"Whether this choice was right or wrong, your descendants will inherit the fruit you planted. And when that day comes, I hope no one will feel the kind of heart-rending regret that tears the soul apart."
After he finished speaking, the walls dissolved, and all Titans had their power stripped away.
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