Multiple Fronts

Humanity had been barely surviving under the protection of the three great walls for over a hundred years. Though life could not be called wonderful, it had at least been peaceful.

Three majestic walls over fifty meters tall protected all the humans here, sealing all danger outside and keeping out the Titans, who knew only how to hunt and devour humans!

Near the entrances and exits, where the three great walls were at their weakest, U-shaped outer walls had been built to form walled towns protecting the gates.

There was such a town outside every gate.

Shiganshina

It was a guardian town at the southernmost point of the outermost Wall Maria. The entire town was largely hilly, and its residents mainly made a living by farming and gathering firewood.

"Although I'd heard the veterans mention it before, seeing this wall still leaves me shaken to the core. I really have no idea how it was built. It's even more magnificent than the wonders of the real world."

The Reincarnators had appeared in Shiganshina. Looking at the towering wall, everyone, including the corps members, wore expressions of shock.

Fifty meters high, its surface bore the marks of history, heavy with age and grandeur. The entire wall seemed to be a single seamless structure, making it impossible to tell how it had been made...

They were all Reincarnators on their third mission, so everyone quickly adjusted their mindsets. Once they had calmed the shock in their hearts and reached the entrance to the town streets, with townspeople beginning to pass by nearby, the masked man leading them, Mo Yan, spoke.

"According to the information from the veterans, the first town to fall is Shiganshina. Sure enough, following the usual nature of Reincarnation Space, we appeared here."

"Our top priority now is to find a way to slip inside the second wall, Wall Rose! Otherwise, on the day Shiganshina is breached by the Colossal Titan, the gate of Wall Maria will also be broken through by the Armored Titan."

There should have been members of Staff Sergeant rank within this squad who could learn some of the mission details in advance, so they had specifically crammed information about this world.

Just as he said, following them would indeed increase the survival rate of ordinary newcomers to some extent.

Unfortunately, Xu Yue was not included among them.

The Wood Clone quietly watched the crowd discussing things heatedly without offering any opinion.

Because a bloody smell was already drifting through the streets.

It was not that the Titans had entered the town. Rather, the Survey Corps members who had gone beyond the walls had returned, and the bloodstained scent came from their wounded.

If he remembered correctly, the wall would be breached today. The male and female leads should both be welcoming the Survey Corps' "triumphant return" nearby.

The timing was not bad.

While the Wood Clone continued following the small team, listening to their plans to infiltrate Wall Rose, Xu Yue's true body, who had been tailing them all along, parted ways with them alongside another Wood Clone disguised as a stone. They began searching for the protagonist Eren and the female lead Mikasa.

The two little ones carrying firewood should not be difficult to find.

At that moment, the whole street was permeated by the smell of blood. The Survey Corps entered the town in a grand procession, but the ranks were silent and dejected.

The lightly wounded supported one another, while the seriously injured were hauled along in carts. Yet even more noticeable were the figures missing from the loose formation!

Even for Survey Corps members, fighting Titans came with terrible sacrifices. Compared to those whose bodies had vanished without a trace, those who returned wounded were undoubtedly far luckier...

"My son... he must have contributed to humanity's counterattack, right? He must have contributed to mankind, right?!"

An old woman standing in the middle of the street clutched an arm wrapped in cloth and cried out in a shrill, tearful voice. She was the mother of a fallen Survey Corps member, seemingly trying to find meaning in her son's sacrifice.

The middle-aged man before her moved his lips, just about to offer some comfort, but suddenly stopped. Then he roared in a voice filled with overwhelming apology and grief.

"No! He didn't! This operation was just like all the previous ones. It accomplished nothing and obtained no valuable intelligence at all!"

The tragic sight of so many wounded, combined with his hysterical roar, made the atmosphere even more oppressive and bleak.

The Titans were like dark clouds hanging over everyone's heads. Even while hiding in the cage behind the walls, people could not shake off that fear. It became even worse after the Survey Corps' heavy losses stirred up their instinctive terror.

For that reason, many people began openly expressing dissatisfaction with the Survey Corps. They believed the Corps should never have gone outside the walls and that resources should not have been wasted on them.

"Found them."

Because of this incident, Eren's commotion after striking a rude passerby with a wooden stick was caught by Xu Yue's Sharingan. He immediately followed them without hesitation.

With Xu Yue's abilities, following Eren and Mikasa all the way home did not attract any attention.

After following them to Eren's home, Xu Yue passed by their window and saw Eren's father, Grisha Yeager, eating at the table with them. A faint smile appeared on Xu Yue's lips.

Grisha Yeager was one of the most crucial figures in Attack Titan. He had inherited the power of the Attack Titan, one of the Nine Titans. Today, he would set out for the inner walls under the pretense of making house calls. Not long afterward, he would kill the Eldian royal family member who had just inherited the Founding Titan, the leader of the Nine Titans, and had not yet fully mastered her power!

He would then devour her spinal fluid and seize the power of the Founding Titan!

Finally, because of the lifespan limit imposed on Titan inheritors, after returning and finding Eren, he would first use spinal fluid to turn Eren into an ordinary Pure Titan, then allow himself to be devoured by Eren, thereby letting Eren inherit the power of two Titans.

However, only those of royal blood could bring out the Founding Titan's greatest power. It was not until the final moments of the second season of the anime that Eren displayed the Coordinate's ability to command Titans.

The three great walls themselves had actually been created by the Founding Titan inheritor who had migrated here long ago. Using the Founding Titan's power, he had ordered Pure Titans to gather together and build them.

He had also used the Founding Titan's power to hypnotize and brainwash all the Eldians who had migrated with him, making them forget the outside world. He had established the Oath of Peace, retreating to this island far from the mainland to live out their final isolated days.

It was precisely because Xu Yue knew this part of the plot that he had his own ultimate plan. There was no need to deliberately complete missions at all. As long as he extracted the spinal fluid of the Nine Titans and sold it to the space, he could definitely earn back most of the cost of upgrading his Mangekyo!

And Grisha Yeager would be setting out today. It was absolutely worth following him...

"I need to make house calls inside the walls. I probably won't be back for two or three days. Eren, be good and listen."

After finishing breakfast, Grisha Yeager stood and prepared to leave. At the very end, he turned back and gestured toward the key hanging around his neck as he said to Eren,

"After I return from these house calls, I'll take you to see the basement you've always wanted to visit."

Without waiting for Eren's response, he left the house. Grisha Yeager did not notice the shadow concealed in the darkness that had been following him all along...

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