Nuclear explosion

The moon hung overhead, and the entire city rang with battle cries and desperate screams.

As time passed, every slave master in the city had their estates ransacked and their entire families slaughtered. Many Dothraki cavalrymen directly ordered slaves to haul these slave masters' possessions out of the city, cartload after cartload.

Finally, they forced all the city's residents to withdraw outside the walls, leaving only Eren in the city.

With all of Meereen now an empty city, its residents and the army having withdrawn to the camp, Eren planned to test the Colossal Titan's nuclear explosion there. After spending so long in this world, he finally had somewhere to test its power.

Eren reached the top of the tallest pyramid. With a flash of yellow lightning, the troops outside the city first heard an explosive crash in the distance.

First came a violent shaking of the ground, followed by an intense flash of light in the distance that lit up the night as brightly as day.

Seen from afar, a horrifying mushroom cloud rose into the sky!

Boom!!

The earth shuddered. Under the violent seismic waves, even some of the small hills outside the city began collapsing over large areas.

The power of a nuclear explosion was terrifying. Meereen's pyramids bore the brunt of it, followed by the entire city, which was annihilated in an instant. Beneath the spectacle of the rising mushroom cloud, even the soldiers and captives outside the city felt an inexplicable pang of dread.

Many horses, cattle, and sheep were frightened, crying out and trembling. Fortunately, the cavalrymen soothed them, or the animals would certainly have panicked and scattered.

The people taken captive from Meereen watched their city vanish, then looked at the ruins that remained and the distant figure of the Colossal Titan amid a scene like an inferno.

At that moment, they profoundly understood the terror of being ruled by Titans. The fear this Titan brought them would stay with them for the rest of their lives and even pass down to the next generation.

This would also make it very easy for Eren to rule them in the future. No normal person would pick a fight with a Titan like this, laying a solid foundation for his future rule. Those who witnessed this scene might even change their faith on the spot. After all, this power already seemed godlike to them.

At that moment, Eren's upper body emerged from the Titan's nape. Watching all of Meereen submerged in charred debris and lava, he murmured to himself:

"Bertolt, Armin, is this the sight you saw?"

"This destructive power really lives up to the Colossal Titan's title of god of destruction. The feeling this kind of power gives me is such an incredible high."

With that, this city-state, which had endured for a thousand years on the continent of Essos, officially met its end in Essos.

After destroying all of Meereen, Eren also held all its gold, grain, slaves, and commoners in his hands. As for the Harpy cult that caused trouble in the screen adaptation, Eren was not worried. He confiscated every weapon in Meereen and gave the captives one meal a day, ensuring they would not starve to death.

Even if members of the Harpy cult were hiding among them, it was useless. How could they rebel when they were starving every day? Besides, they had no weapons, so they could not riot even if they wanted to.

As the saying went, a full belly and warm clothes bred lust. Only when people were well fed and warmly dressed did they start entertaining wayward thoughts. Those without enough food or clothing had no energy left to cause trouble.

Moreover, Eren divided these captives from Meereen into groups of ten and shackled them all together. If one wanted to escape, they would have to break free of the other nine. This borrowed from the collective punishment practiced during China's ancient Qin dynasty.

Collective punishment meant that if one person escaped, all ten would be executed, making them watch their own people. After all, in this world, those cruelest to their own people were always their own people.

After returning to camp, Eren ordered each unit to sort and tally their spoils. The haul was substantial, with countless gold dragons and quantities of gold. Even statues made of gold, such as the Harpy statues atop the pyramids,

were simply toppled and carried away. Even the doors and toilets in some slave masters' homes were made of gold, and those were dismantled and taken too. Anything valuable in Meereen was packed up and carried off. The grain plundered this time was enough to feed the army and captives for almost a year. If the captives received less food each day, it could last even longer.

They had also plundered many rare and exotic objects. Among the valuable items were weapons made of Valyrian steel. Valyrian steel weapons, which were almost impossible to buy even for a fortune in Westeros, were relatively plentiful in Essos. The reason was that the Valyrians had left quite a few behind when they once dominated the entire continent of Essos.

There were also things resembling Dragon Eggs. They looked like Dragon Eggs, but there was no guarantee they were real. After all, apart from the people of Old Valyria and the future Daenerys Targaryen, no one knew how to hatch them. And because Dragon Eggs fetched high prices, people had always made counterfeits. For now, these Dragon Eggs could only be kept until they found Daenerys Targaryen in the future and saw whether she could sense anything from them.

Once the spoils had been tallied, some of Eren's little peculiarities surfaced next. He wanted to pick out some captive women with appealing figures and faces. After all, his wish was to put together a dance troupe and a band, and throw parties every day when he had nothing to do.

Eren summoned Modun and the others and told them to find all the captive women between fifteen and forty that night. No one was allowed to touch these women without his orders. They were to wash the grime off their bodies that night, and first thing the next morning, he would select his consorts.

After giving all his instructions, Eren found a bed, flopped backward onto it, and called all his women over.

The women came at his call. Those who massaged his legs got to work, while those assigned to feed him focused on feeding him.

Eren immersed himself in this indescribable experience. This was all the result of his training over the past six months. Now, with a wave of his hand, these women would find their own stations. Their duties rotated daily: for example, Sally fed him today, Lydia would do it tomorrow, and Sally would massage his legs instead. Looking at the scene before him, Eren could not help saying, "With such pleasures here, I have no thoughts of my past life."