BOOM!!
Dark, oppressive clouds completely choked the sky. Accompanied by an ear-splitting roar that shattered the heavens, a bolt of golden lightning violently detonated against the earth, unleashing a blinding, incandescent radiance along the horizon.
Every single soul across Paradis Island witnessed the cosmic descent.
Throughout the world, the global Eldian population collapsed to their knees in absolute despair. It's over... The Rumbling has been unleashed!
Rumble... rumble... rumble!
A continuous, earth-shattering sequence of detonations echoed across the land. The three concentric stone walls that had isolated their remaining civilization for over a century violently fractured and burst apart. Masonry and structural debris flew outward like shrapnel as an astronomical, countless horde of Colossus Titans emerged before the horrified onlookers, taking their first, lumbering steps forward with crushing weight.
The colossally massive vanguard of giants marched forward, kicking up a dense, suffocating tidal wave of rolling dust.
The sheer kinetic force of their movement generated a deafening roar so absolute that anyone in the immediate perimeter was stripped of their baseline hearing.
ROAR!
The single most terrifying and mesmerizing entity within the vanguard was the grotesque, misshapen behemoth leading the march—Eren Yeager's Founding Titan. Its sheer structural scale was large enough to blot out the sun, standing hundreds of meters high and stretching over a kilometer in length. Aside from its massive head, its entire physical frame was composed of pristine white bone, utilizing countless elongated ribs as frantic, centipede-like "legs" to manipulate its spatial movement.
It unleashed a gut-wrenching, soul-tearing roar that was profoundly deafening—serving as a testament to its unyielding defiance against destiny, and a manifestation of pure fury directed at Roy.
Had Roy not materialized out of nowhere and systematically shattered his timeline, Eren wouldn't have been forced to trigger The Rumbling ahead of schedule.
Within the metaphysical reality of the Paths, the consciousness of every single Eldian had been forcefully locked together. Eren systematically broadcast the absolute reality of existence directly into their neural pathways.
The true history spanning two millennia, the underlying origins of the three concentric stone walls erected a century prior, the unyielding, murderous malice the outside world harbored toward the Eldian lineage, and the absolute reality that global military alliances would eventually deploy resources to completely annihilate them...
Countless faces turned deathly pale.
Through the uninhibited neural link of the coordinate, they felt Eren's raw fury and profound helplessness resonate directly within their own souls, experiencing his despair as their own.
Furthermore, within that massive cascade of broadcast intelligence, a recurring variable was explicitly detailed—a mysterious, ruthlessly brutal hunter named Roy!
"It's him!" Armin Arlert and Mikasa Ackerman's consciousness shuddered violently. They vividly recalled that precise historical intersection a year prior—the exact day Wall Maria collapsed, when they had briefly crossed paths with that enigmatic youth outside a refugee dining hall.
Deep within the military reinforcement lines, Reiner Braun and Bertholdt Hoover felt a cold, paralyzing dread grip their hearts. The monster who executed Annie...
Erwin Smith and Levi Ackerman wore exceptionally grim expressions. They had ultimately danced straight into a pre-orchestrated tactical trap; the adversary's strategic baseline was entirely too insidious.
"So this... this was your absolute objective from the very beginning?!" Hange Zoë glared at Roy, cold sweat continuous rolling down her forehead. It was utterly terrifying—with a mere handful of calculated words, this youth had manipulated the entire military high command to act precisely according to his blueprint.
"Did you people not harbor a burning desire to uncover the absolute truth of this world?" Roy countered, his expression entirely innocent. The exact millisecond Hange's gaze had turned completely vacant, he knew her consciousness had been forcefully dragged into the Paths. Her instantaneous, volatile shift in demeanor merely confirmed the deduction.
The Survey Corps had secured their answers, and Eren had successfully triggered The Rumbling without any of the convoluted delays present in the original timeline. Roy was on the verge of claiming his premium rewards. It was a thoroughly harmonious outcome for all parties involved!
"No! This is entirely wrong!" Hange bellowed in pure fury, her eyes filling with rage. They had desperately craved the truth, yes, but fundamentally not at the cost of global annihilation.
Roy refrained from offering Hange any further cognitive energy. Now that The Rumbling had been successfully flushed into the open, the Survey Corps had officially exhausted its utility on his tactical board.
The absolute capability governing the Attack Titan was the capacity to glimpse the future—or more precisely, the consciousness of the final host could transcend linear time to systematically send memories back to past inheritors.
Through this metaphysical mechanism, the holder could systematically manipulate historical parameters to ensure the world unfolded precisely according to their sovereign will.
Aside from himself, Tione, and Tiona—the three cross-dimensional anomalies—every single soul on Paradis Island had been calculated within Eren's grand design.
Roy understood completely that the exact fraction of a heartbeat he harbored true, unmitigated intent to kill, the future incarnation of Eren Yeager would inevitably execute a localized counter-maneuver. True to form, the adversary had calibrated his survival vector flawlessly.
The newly manifested Female Titan was none other than Dina Fritz—Grisha's former wife and a direct scion of the royal bloodline. She had been operating entirely under the cover of anonymity directly alongside Eren. The exact millisecond their physical flesh established direct contact, the supreme authority of the Founding Titan was unlocked.
Consequently, wasting immense operational energy to painstakingly hunt down her location within the inner walls would have been entirely meaningless. It was infinitely superior to strike directly from a macro-level perspective, forcefully altering the narrative parameters.
If Eren harbored any desire to survive, his solitary option was to activate The Rumbling and deploy every single resource at his disposal to wage an all-out war against them.
Hum.
A fresh system notification interface materialized directly before his vision, confirming that the instance difficulty parameters had scaled up to the pinnacle of Level 7, backed by a revised completion bonus of 2,000 Attribute Points.
Beholding the parameters, Roy's brows furrowed slightly. Back when he was operating at Level 3, executing a Level 6 mutated Monster Rex had yielded a massive 4,800 Attribute Points. Now, operating at Level 4 against a Level 7 target that sat precisely one tier higher, the reward had dwindled to a mere 2,000.
The numerical scaling was glaringly disproportionate.
However, as Roy's gaze shifted further down the interface, he realized that the baseline attribute points were lower simply because the accompanying primary reward carried an astronomical amount of system weight.
Item Reward: World Tree Seed
Quality Tier: Legendary
Item Description: Used specifically to cultivate and grow a World Tree. By systematically nourishing the sapling with premium-grade spiritual elixirs, its growth trajectory can be accelerated. The resulting branches can be utilized to forge peak-tier armaments, and the organism will periodically yield mystical fruits possessing various high-tier enhancement effects. A fully matured World Tree will automatically ascend to the Divine quality tier!
[Operational Parameter: This item can be fused with Divine Blood. Adventurers who do not belong to the corresponding deity's Familia will be structurally incapable of utilizing the resulting weapons or consuming the fruits.]
The exact millisecond Roy parsed the detailed description of the World Tree Seed, his pupils contracted into absolute pinpricks. A singular phrase locked onto his consciousness like a massive industrial magnet—Divine Quality Tier!
Gulp.
Roy swallowed hard, his throat tightening. Within the cosmic laws of the Lower World, any item that managed to establish a conceptual correlation to "Divinity" or a "God" was destined to be a monumental, paradigm-shifting asset.
Setting aside the fact that his cross-dimensional excursion was launched specifically to secure high-tier rewards, merely laying his eyes upon a confirmed Divine-grade item sealed his resolve. This high-profile gamble was an absolute must-win!
He might lack the baseline parameter scaling to contend with an entity like the Sage of Six Paths, but against a mere Founding Titan, Roy fully believed he possessed the necessary capabilities to forcefully break through its defenses.
"It's absolutely colossally massive!" Tiona gasped.
"Captain... is that colossal monstrosity our primary target?!" Tione asked, her gaze fixed rigidly onto the bone-chilling skeleton of the Founding Titan. Its massive, skeletal frame completely monopolized their field of vision. It was their very first time encountering a monster of this terrifying architectural scale.
Roy offered a calm, confident smile. "How about it? Do you two harbor any trace of fear?"
"Captain, just what kind of joke are you trying to crack?!"
A wave of pure, uninhibited martial fanaticism flared across Tione and Tiona's pretty faces. They had spent their entire childhood navigating brutal, life-or-death gladiatorial slaughter; the more terrifying and powerful an adversary appeared, the more ecstatic their battle instincts became.
Beholding the unyielding composure of Roy's trio, Hange and the surrounding Survey Corps veterans stood completely paralyzed in utter bewilderment.
This was absolute, unmitigated madness.
Faced with that apocalyptic, skeletal nightmare that Eren Yeager had transformed into, these three individuals were actually preparing to launch a physical assault? Could their eyes honestly fail to perceive the astronomical discrepancy in raw scale? That entity was fundamentally beyond the capacity of human martial prowess to overcome!
The Survey Corps had always been perceived by the civilian populace as a gathering of unhinged lunatics for daring to explore the outside world, but looking upon Roy's trio, they realized their own strategic metrics were laughably conservative. Those three are the genuine death-defying monsters.
Suddenly, the skeletal behemoth mobilized its massive frame.
Countless microscopic black silhouettes materialized along its bone structure before launching upward into the sky, carving perfect mathematical parabolas through the clouds before raining down directly toward Roy's coordinates like a localized meteorological bombardment. Upon closer inspection, the projectiles were revealed to be an absolute army of high-tier Titans, forcefully hurled through the air.
A colossally wide shadow completely blanketed their perimeter.
"Evasive maneuvers!!" Hange's voice cracked in pure panic.
Tione and Tiona immediately shifted into high-alert combat stances, yet their expressions betrayed zero panic. They turned their gazes simultaneously toward their captain.
Roy merely offered a serene, completely detached smile as he began a rapid, fluid vocal chant. "Dance forth, O spirits of the atmosphere, masters of pristine radiance. I hereby forge an absolute covenant with the guardian deity of the ancient forest; let the anthem of the earth resonate to shield our physical frames! Guard us—I beg of you, manifest as a monolithic barrier of forest light to safeguard our souls—My name is Alfr!"
[Activate High-Tier Magic: Via Silvis (次元·遮断 / Dimension Occlusion)]
The moment his high-verse incantation reached completion, Roy's potent spiritual capacity materialized as raw mana, creating an impregnable, hemispherical barrier of emerald light that completely encased their position.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
An incalculable multitude of Titans dropped through the high heavens, violently colliding with the earth. The sheer kinetic impact caused the terrain to buckle and heave as if experiencing a catastrophic earthquake, throwing up a dense, suffocating plume of dirt and pulverized stone.
Yet, when the atmospheric grime settled, the emerald shroud remained perfectly intact.
The barrier appeared as thin as a sheet of paper, looking as though a casual touch could fracture its structure. Yet, despite thousands of tons of flesh and bone crashing violently against its surface—backed by the roaring, incinerating thermal heatwaves unleashed by neighboring Colossus Titans—it failed to ripple by even a fraction of a millimeter.
The inner and outer sectors of the barrier had effectively been split into two entirely separate dimensions.
Beyond the emerald masonry, an absolute nightmare of snarling, feral titans was aggressively launching savage assaults; within the perimeter, the atmosphere remained completely serene, tranquil, and entirely untouched by the chaos.
Hange and the remaining Survey Corps operatives who had been caught within the safety radius collapsed onto the cobblestones like paralyzed husks, staring blankly at the youth standing before them. Have we... have we literally managed to cross paths with a living god?
A slight smirk curved the corners of Roy's lips. Via Silvis—the absolute pinnacle of Riveria's defensive magic catalog—possessed a tier of conceptual protection that defied conventional logic. Unleashed through his advanced spiritual parameters, it was more than sufficient to systematically negate every single offensive vector below Level 6 scaling!
If he chose to trigger his Synchro-Blood Covenant, stacking Ryuu's basic attributes directly onto his active pool, Roy harbored absolute confidence that he could forcefully withstand a long-verse offensive spell launched by a genuine Level 6 adventurer!
The spell's defensive capacity was maxed out to its absolute threshold; its solitary operational limitation was the reality that he was forced to remain completely stationary throughout its maintenance.
Consequently, Roy preferred to utilize an alternative defensive spell for high-mobility engagements. "—Gather forth, O respiration of the great earth—My name is Alfr! Livis Curative (寄命幻梦 / Assigned Dream)!"
A shimmering, multi-colored shroud of protective light materialized across the physical frames of Roy, Tione, and Tiona. While its raw defensive threshold was lower than Via Silvis, it granted them total freedom of movement, ensuring their absolute battlefield flexibility remained uninhibited.
The hemispherical emerald barrier dissolved, and the roaring thermal heatwaves unleashed by the marching Colossus Titans rushed inward to reclaim the space, yet the three youths failed to register the slightest discomfort.
Roy raised his voice, shouting a direct command into the open sky. "To me!!"
BOOM!
A bolt of silver lightning tore through the dark clouds, materializing the exact vehicles Roy had brought into the instance—the Thunder-Hoofed Bull and the Divine Majesty Chariot.
The Thunder-Hoofed Bull systematically occupied two companion slots within his active system party.
Roy, Tione, and Tiona leaped cleanly into the air, landing flawlessly atop the platform of the divine war chariot. The celestial beast unleashed a deafening bellow, its thunder-wreathed hooves stamping against the thin air as it accelerated violently, soaring straight into the high heavens.
Gazing up at the departing silhouettes of Roy's vanguard team, the minds of Hange and her fellow soldiers were thoroughly shattered. Their vacant stares and fractured thoughts couldn't be quantified through mortal language; over the span of a mere few days, their entire understanding of reality had been completely overturned.
Pulled by the divine celestial beast, the war chariot stabilized its flight trajectory at an altitude of over a thousand meters. From this elevated celestial perspective, Roy's group gained an uninhibited, macro-level view of the horrific skeletal behemoth Eren Yeager had transformed into.
An incalculable multitude of Colossus Titans and ancient Intelligent Titans surrounded the Founding Titan like a sea of stars orbiting a sovereign moon, safeguarding its movement with absolute force.
Tione and Tiona's pretty faces filled with genuine awe as they evaluated the landscape.
Whish! Whish! Whish!
At the apex of the skeletal behemoth's massive bone structure, Eren's facial contours appeared remarkably young, yet his colossally wide eye sockets burned with an eerie, supernatural green flame that radiated an intense wave of existential danger.
Those glowing green eyes locked firmly onto Roy's aerial chariot.
In a literal flash, an infinite barrage of long-range projectile attacks ascended through the sky—adamantine lances manufactured by the War Hammer Titan, dense clusters of hardened structural crystal shrapnel, and massive stone artillery.
"...Via Silvis!"
Roy had been systematically monitoring the beast's kinetic indicators, concluding his short-verse incantation ahead of schedule to trigger the magic once more. A spherical emerald barrier instantly encased the celestial bull and the platform of the war chariot, flawlessly negating every incoming offensive vector.
The torrential downpour of crystalline shrapnel and adamantine lances detonated aggressively against the emerald shroud, yet failed to compromise its structural integrity by even a fraction of a millimeter.
ROAR!
The glowing green eyes of the Founding Titan burned with a far more feral, blood-maddened intensity. It systematically channeled its absolute sovereign authority, forcing a larger wave of ancient Titans to manifest along its bone structure to unleash a continuous offensive.
"Tsk, tsk. Captain, just how are we supposed to execute a subjugation protocol on a monster of this scale? Is its absolute weakness still located on the nape of its neck?" Tione asked, her fingers coiling tightly around her twin crescent blades.
Roy evaluated the towering, kilometer-long skeletal behemoth, falling into a brief moment of calculating silence before delivering a calm, ruthless command. "It's difficult to determine with absolute certainty. Let's just dismantle the entire thing bone by bone!"
The three walls had shattered, releasing hundreds of thousands of Colossus Titans, backed by Eren's capacity to continuously resurrect and manifest every single Intelligent Titan variant from the past two millennia of Eldian history. The resulting vanguard was a sweeping, apocalyptic sea numbering no less than five to six thousand active high-tier Titans.
Given that the War Hammer Titan possessed the capacity to transfer its host's primary consciousness to remote structural coordinates along its crystal filaments, Roy utterly refused to believe the Founding Titan lacked a superior variation of that exact capability.
In the original timeline, when Eren Yeager engaged the Alliance, he had effectively held back a massive ocean of his true offensive potential to engineer their survival. Otherwise, backed by the unmitigated authority of the Founding Titan, he was a conceptually invincible entity within the structural boundaries of this world!
Now, they were staring down an Eren Yeager operating at absolute maximum capacity—a threat the system had formally evaluated at Level 7 difficulty scaling. It was a genuinely terrifying, apocalyptic engagement.
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