Roald stared at the Titan before him, now at eye level with him. An immense, terrifying aura radiated from its body, and its eyes, shining like the full moon, gazed straight into his.
"Where is Grotesque?" Chen Si's voice reached Roald's ears.
"Defeat me, and I'll tell you." Excitement blazed in Roald's eyes.
At those words, Chen Si flashed in front of Roald and drove a fist forward. Lightning gathered around the hurtling fist, as though he had hurled an entire planet into Roald. Roald's lower body exploded on impact, only to regenerate in an instant.
Chen Si punched into Roald's chest, lifted him bodily, and flew toward space at ten times the speed of sound...
City Hall, Doran, on Marley's northern border.
Zoe sat at a desk in an office, dipping her fountain pen in ink as she wrote in a notebook. Her emerald eyes were sometimes tender, sometimes clouded with sorrow.
"Special Commissioner Mogwin! Urgent news! Paradis Island has occupied Liberio, and Hizuru has occupied Cliff Harbor and is already advancing into Gniez! General Magath is currently in Galgada, ordering the northern army group to head south immediately to relieve the capital!" Doran City's secretary burst into Zoe's room without warning, panic written all over his face.
Zoe sprang to her feet in shock. Frantic with worry, she rushed to the secretary and seized his shoulders. "How is the battle going? What's happening to the capital?"
"The Paradis-Hizuru Allied Forces have stormed Cliff Harbor and are fighting the local garrison in the streets. Warrior Roald is fighting an unidentified Titan from Paradis Island in Gniez. They've been locked in fierce combat for several hours, and the residents are evacuating to Galgada!"
Zoe's pupils trembled. She snatched the notebook off the desk and rushed out of the office,