"Captain Ness! We can already see Wall Maria ahead!" Listening to a subordinate's report, Captain Ness, wearing a headscarf, narrowed his eyes.
"As expected, just like Yago predicted, there really are no Titans near Wall Maria!" Captain Ness thought to himself, then immediately issued orders: "All personnel, attention! Detour and spread out to both wings, concentrate all wagons in the center of the formation, charge forward five hundred meters, then abandon the wagons and retreat immediately!"
"Understood!" More than a hundred members of the Survey Corps responded in unison.
At once, the main force of the Survey Corps began to spread out in an orderly fashion into two linear formations.
At a point less than one kilometer from the wall, the Survey Corps soldiers pulled hard on their reins together and halted their advance.
"Fire!" With Ness's command, all the soldiers simultaneously drew their modified signal guns—bang! bang! bang!
In an instant, vast clouds of smoke enveloped the entire unit.
"Retreat!"
One fine horse after another burst out of the smoke, the cloaks emblazoned with the Wings of Freedom snapping loudly in the wind. Yet the Wings of Freedom were not heading toward the towering Wall Maria, but instead rapidly retreating in the opposite direction.
Along the way, the Survey Corps continued to withdraw, firing smoke rounds as they retreated.
"T-this… what's going on? This isn't the same as our plan? Did the captain leave any other instructions?" A Marleyan soldier on the wall asked his nearby comrade in alarm, but his teammate looked equally at a loss.
According to the plan, the island's devil soldiers would use some strange device to ascend the wall. At that time, the Marleyan soldiers on the wall would pour down their strongest firepower, while the Beast Titan lying in ambush outside would cooperate to encircle the devils.
But now?
"Wait for the Beast Titan's signal!"
...
At this moment, Zeke, hidden in the distance, also noticed the Survey Corps' strange behavior and frowned.
"What's going on? Did they anticipate an ambush?"
"Something's wrong. The Survey Corps shouldn't have only this much force. Very strange. Warrior Chief, are you sure the Founding power is here?" The Cart Titan, crouched low to the ground, spoke in a human voice. Pieck had once infiltrated the Survey Corps to rescue Reiner and Bertholdt and had also probed some of their intelligence.
Sunlight reflected off Zeke's glasses as he spoke calmly: "No matter what, we can't lose the initiative!"
A dagger sliced across his palm—boom!! Surging yellow lightning shot skyward, and a massive skeleton emerged from the steam, flesh and fur covering white bone.
The Beast Titan, its arms hanging past its knees, appeared—boom!! Its enormous body stomped onto the ground. The Beast Titan took a deep breath, opened its huge mouth, and let out a soul-shaking roar.
"ROAR!!"
"Watch out!!" Ness hurriedly shouted to stop the Survey Corps soldiers who were still galloping.
"Charrette, quiet, it's fine, relax." Ness soothed his beloved horse beneath him while staring solemnly at the roaring Beast Titan in the distance.
Accompanied by the Beast Titan's roar, arcs of golden light spread out in a semicircle, surrounding the entire outer perimeter of Wall Maria. One grotesquely shaped Titan after another appeared before the eyes of the Survey Corps soldiers.
"Open fire! Shoot!"
The Marleyan soldiers hidden on Wall Maria immediately raised their rifles and fired, bullets pouring continuously from their muzzles.
A burst of blood mist erupted within the Survey Corps formation. In an instant, more than a dozen Survey Corps soldiers wailed as they fell from their horses.
Ness turned his head in shock, staring at the unceasing tongues of fire spewing from the wall.
"Smoke rounds! Now!"
Fortunately, the Survey Corps under Ness's command were all elite veterans. They immediately carried out the order, firing smoke rounds to shroud the formation.
"Eren, watching your comrades be slaughtered, you should show yourself now!"
...
As if responding to Zeke's words, the next moment, beneath Wall Maria, a dazzling pillar of yellow lightning appeared, drawing everyone's attention.
The Marleyan soldiers on the wall were even more startled. "When did this happen?!"
"ROAR!!" Along with a terrifying roar, a pair of gigantic hands covered in white hardened claws tore through the steam and emerged. As the vapor gradually dispersed, beneath the white bone armor, a pair of crimson eyes appeared before the Marleyan soldiers.
"What kind of Titan is this?! A Titan of the devils from Paradis Island?!" The appearance of the Fate Titan threw the Marleyan soldiers into panic.
Crack! The hardened claws easily dug into Wall Maria, and the Fate Titan slowly began to climb up the wall.
"Stop him!"
All weapons opened fire on the Fate Titan at once. Unfortunately, ordinary bullets striking the Fate Titan could only produce a spray of sparks.
"Move aside! Use the new weapon!" A Marleyan soldier shouldered an iron tube and rushed forward, pulling the trigger as a shell shot straight toward the Fate Titan's face.
Bang! The violent explosion on its face made the Fate Titan stagger for a moment, as if stunned.
"The bazooka works!"
Just as the Marleyan soldiers cheered, the Fate Titan shook its head and continued climbing toward the top of Wall Maria. The weapon called a bazooka only left a black mark on the bone armor of the Fate Titan's face.
"Damn it, quick—send in the Armored Titan!"
Reiner opened his eyes, his gaze sharper than ever before. Before the messenger could even reach him, Reiner had already charged to the edge of the wall, looking down at the constantly climbing Fate Titan.
"Yago!"
Reiner leaped down from the wall. Brilliant yellow lightning wrapped around him, and in midair, flesh and bone continuously formed as Reiner descended.
The massive commotion drew the Fate Titan's attention. It looked up—what filled its vision was an ever-enlarging fist.
Crack! The tremendous impact directly shattered the heavy punch of the Armored Titan into the Fate Titan's facial bone armor, even caving in half of the Fate Titan's face.
The Armored Titan smashed heavily onto the Fate Titan. The two massive Titans fell together onto the ground—boom! Kicking up countless clouds of dust!
"All units, charge! Target: Wall Maria!" Ness suddenly drew his blade and led the charge toward Wall Maria. Under Ness's leadership, the other Survey Corps members followed closely behind.
"Eh? Was I just ignored?" The Beast Titan scratched his head, picked up a huge boulder from the ground—crack, crack—within the Beast Titan's massive palm, the boulder was crushed directly into chunks of rubble.
"Don't underestimate the power of Marley's spear!"
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