Roald glanced over the dozens of armored vehicles and the fortresses whose dozen-odd machine guns were spraying a rain of bullets. He spread his palms, reveling in the endless ammunition and shells pounding his body. Gunfire and smoke engulfed him in an instant.
When the smoke cleared, Roald appeared before the Marleyan soldiers completely unscathed.
The Marleyan border soldiers were horrified.
"What's going on? The machine guns and shells can't even break his skin?"
"Damn it, what the hell is happening?"
"Get Zeke here, now! Damn it, if only we had the Mid-East's Anti-Titan Cannons too!"
"Hahahahaha! Fighting feels so wonderful. Now let me savor the feeling of slaughter." Roald, in his Black Iron Titan form, uttered those terrifying words.
Roald pushed off with both legs and instantly appeared above a row of armored vehicles. He slammed his feet down, crushing one, then smashed another with a swipe of his claws. Standing on the shattered ground, he looked at the armored vehicles still firing at him and lashed out again. A claw-shaped blast of wind surged forth, tearing more than a dozen armored vehicles apart.
A chain of explosions rang out.
Roald charged up to those supposedly impregnable fortresses of permanent fortifications again and brought one crashing down with a single swipe. He thrust his enormous hand into a fortress and seized a Marleyan soldier in his palm.
"No! You monster! You Eldian devil! No!" The soldier was utterly terrified. Then Roald crushed him, and blood and splintered bone slipped through the gaps between his enormous claws onto the ground.
"This feels incredible! Incredible! Hahahahaha!" Roald roared. Waves of bestial sound forced the surviving soldiers to clamp their hands over their ears.
Watching Roald massacre the soldiers, Zeke and Reiner could no longer stand by.
Two thick bolts of yellow