Hostilities: Quelled
Boom! A Blood Titan collapsed right in front of the Cart Titan.
The exhausted crowd stared in astonishment at the countless Blood Titan before them, who almost simultaneously lost their ability to move, thousands of Blood Titan swaying and collapsing to the ground, unable to get up.
Before anyone could react to what was happening, a weakened Reiner was the first to notice that the Colossal Fate Titan seemed to be in bad shape, and he managed to shout to the others, "Look! Look at Yago! Something's wrong!"
Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze immediately turned to the Colossal Fate Titan. Crack! Crack! Layers of crystalline Hardening suddenly appeared out of thin air on the ground, spreading and covering the Colossal Fate Titan's body. At this moment, the Colossal Fate Titan also let out a painful roar.
"Boss Yago!" Aili, whose body was still half-exposed from the nape of the Sea-Swimming Titan's neck, was stunned. She instinctively wanted to crawl back into the nape of the Sea-Swimming Titan's neck and rush forward, but the next second, a strange sense of repulsion arose in her heart. At the same time as Aili was surprised, she suddenly felt her feet lighten.
Thump! The massive body of the Sea-Swimming Titan suddenly knelt down without warning, then collapsed to the ground with a thud, and Aili was forced out of the back of its neck by the sudden repulsive force.
The same situation occurred with the Flying Claw Titan; Porco also scrambled out of the fallen Flying Claw Titan's body, and the sudden turn of events shocked everyone once again.
Aili stared wide-eyed in horror at the Colossal Fate Titan being devoured by countless Hardening. She seemed to have a terrible idea. Without hesitation, Aili used the Small Knife in her pocket to cut her palm.
The wound, which would normally be insignificant to the Titan Power, was now quietly bleeding, showing no sign of steam rising to repair itself.
"I... my Titan Power is gone!" Aili murmured in panic and confusion.
Ivanor looked down at his hands, his expression somewhat complicated.
"What? What's going on? Your Titan Power has disappeared? What about Yago?" Pieck, inside the Cart Titan's neck, was truly bewildered. She knew she needed to eat plenty of brain-boosting foods when she got back.
"I'm going to save Yago!" Seeing that the Hardening had already spread to the chest of the Colossal Fate Titan, A-Yi immediately installed the last remaining Thunder Spear onto his arm.
Just as A-Yi was about to leap into the air, *snap! A-Wu's hand gripped A-Yi's arm firmly like an iron clamp, startling A-Yi. Why was her brother stopping her?
A-Wu looked at the Colossal Fate Titan, still roaring in agony, with a complex expression. After a moment of hesitation, he resolutely said to the crowd, "Go! All of you, go! This is Yago's last order!"
"A-Wu! What are you saying? Are you going to abandon Boss Yago all by yourself?!" Aili looked at A-Wu in disbelief, but A-Wu did not answer. After releasing A-Yi, he rushed forward and, before Aili could react, used a thin rope he had taken out from somewhere to bind Aili's hands behind his back.
"What are you doing?! Let go of me! Are you crazy?" Ignoring Aili's shocked and angry shouts, A-Wu decisively tossed Aili onto the back of the Cart Titan, then turned to look at the weakened Reiner, Porco, and Ivanor beside them, "Do you want me to throw you all up there one by one?"
"Excuse me, excuse me, don't forget there's someone here..." Bazel called out weakly from the ground, lying like a dead dog, raising one hand tremblingly.
"Let me go! Let me go! You bastard! You bastards!" Amidst Aili's shouts, the Cart Titan carried everyone on its back and raced toward the exit of the Scarlet Base.
Crack! Crack! The Hardening had already spread to the neck of the Colossal Fate Titan, and the painful roar disappeared. When the Colossal Fate Titan's last crimson eyes were covered by the Hardening, the entire Scarlet Base experienced an unusually violent and terrifying tremor.
The originally crystal-clear Hardening also changed during the tremors. Its color gradually dimmed, and the clear Crystal lost its gorgeous appearance, turning into rough and heavy stones. Countless heavy stones covered the body of the Colossal Fate Titan, like a high wall, a seventy-meter-high wall.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Rumbling Army advanced step by step, and the entire Hera Province had become a hell for hundreds of thousands of the Far East Army.
Air Force units capable of effectively killing the Rumbling were rendered obsolete. Thousands of elite Far East pilots mysteriously exploded and died almost overnight. What terrified countless Far East Soldiers even more was that, as if it were a curse of the Eldians, every Far East Soldiers lived in constant fear during this period, because their Comrade, or even themselves, might suddenly and without warning explode into a pile of minced meat at any moment.
The Rumbling and the terrifying, eerie "curse" within the army completely shattered the psychological defenses of hundreds of thousands of the Far East Army. Before they could even properly cope with the Rumbling, the Far East Army in the Hera Province fell into chaos. Countless Soldiers preferred to desert rather than leave this hell, and the Far East politicians' carefully planned Hera defense line and offensive plans were completely ruined.
When the Rumbling Far East Army finally arrived, their paper-thin resistance was crushed almost instantly!
The Far East Supreme Joint Military Conference.
On the high platform, spittle flew as the greedy and arrogant politicians continued their eloquent pronouncements. They poured out their desires and outlined their blueprint for the Far East Empire that would rule the world. In their eyes, Marley and their other rivals were nothing but clowns, and no force in the world could stop the Far East steel torrent's advance.
Half the people in the meeting room were greedy politicians who didn't care about the situation of the troops at the front. They didn't believe the Far East Army would lose anyway; they only cared about the political gains behind the war.
The conference room door was opened a crack, and an anxious-looking military staff officer hurriedly walked to the side of a burly old general with a white beard, and whispered something in his ear.
Suddenly, the old general, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened them. His blue eyes were filled with a sharp light. A trace of regret flashed across his face, followed by a resolute look.
Clap clap clap! The sudden applause interrupted the politician's impassioned speech on the stage. "General Anthony! Do you have any objections? Why are you interrupting our serious military meeting?"
General Anthony glanced at the many excited Far East generals around him, raised his head, and said with a smile, "It's nothing, young sir. I just wanted to say that we should stop with the pointless chatter and let us old guys who do the work have a say."
Boom! The conference room door was suddenly kicked open violently, and countless fully armed Far East Soldiers surged into the conference room like a tide, pouncing on the politicians who were sitting comfortably on their high platforms like hungry tigers.
"Anthony! You old bastard! Are you trying to rebel? This is Coup! This is treason!" a politician shouted.
But General Anthony ignored them. Under the eager gazes of the other Far East generals, he walked to the high platform in the conference room, first glancing at the magnificent podium before him with a sigh, then calmly said, "The politicians are incompetent, dragging down the people. Their foolish command has resulted in the near annihilation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Hera Province. We were forced to launch Coup. Issue my order: in the name of the Far East Supreme Joint Military Conference, declare a ceasefire and negotiations to the Marley nations. Oh, and remember to invite the Eldians representatives!"