Reiner's fractured skull was instantly reconnected by a glowing, monstrous egg-ship, and the three great walls of the island collapsed. Enormous skeletons surged skyward, leading tens of thousands of colossal titans towards the world.
Gabi hadn't expected her shot to unleash such a terrifying entity.
Seeing the activation of the Rumbling, Armin grew excited. This meant Eren had mastered the Founding Titan's power, not Zeke. The Rumbling was undoubtedly an expression of Eren's will.
Armin concluded that Eren intended for the titans to eliminate the United Front gathered on Paradis Island.
At this, Armin became certain: Eren had not betrayed them; he was acting on their behalf.
But the next second, Armin realized something was wrong. The other walls had also crumbled. If the goal was merely to eliminate the United Army, such an extent was unnecessary; the hundreds of titans on the outer wall of Wall Sina alone would have been sufficient.
At this moment, Eren's voice suddenly echoed in their ears.
Naturally, Eren's voice also reached Eldians in the Marleyan internment zone, shocking and terrifying everyone. The titans from the island were about to flatten the entire continent.
Concurrently, Gabi and Reiner were searching for Falco, and Reiner realized Falco had likely been taken. His memory would be fragmented after his first transformation, and he wouldn't be able to move immediately.
Reiner surmised that Jean and Connie had taken Falco. After all, as an inheritor of one of the Nine Titans, they couldn't simply abandon him.
Reiner was completely depleted, his titan's strength utterly exhausted. As the walls crumbled, his armor peeled away, and he was struck by debris. Reiner collapsed to his knees, his eyes filled with unprecedented despair.
He hadn't imagined Eren would go this far, actually intending to destroy the entire world. Gabi quickly tended to the heavily injured Reiner in a nearby building.
Reiner urged Gabi to find Pieck and the other Marleyan soldiers and escape south by airship immediately. But Gabi understood that escape would be futile. Their families in Liberio would all perish due to the Rumbling.
There was only one path left: kill Eren and stop the Rumbling.
Reiner could only feel a sense of helplessness. Just as Eren could shed his armor, the Founding Titan could arbitrarily control all titans and Ymir's Subjects.
Now, no one could stop Eren. They could only flee like rats. After settling Reiner, Gabi styled her hair like Paradis's male idol, vowing to find Falco.
Meanwhile, the Marleyan soldiers, including Gabi, were also powerless in the face of Eren's actions. The four of them hadn't expected Eren to actually kill all the humans outside the walls, fulfilling Eren's wishes.
With the disappearance of humanity outside the walls, the chains of hatred would be broken. What the overseas people feared most had happened, simply because they had presumptuously labeled the people of Paradis as devils and attempted their complete extermination.
In other words, all of this was the overseas humans reaping what they had sown.
However, Armin felt it was too much. This was an unprecedented slaughter. One couldn't help but wonder if the saintly Armin would try to stop Eren.
Eren had rejected Zeke's euthanasia plan, and also rejected sacrificing Historia to maintain the Founding Titan's power. This meant Eren had embarked on this path of no return to protect everyone, at the cost of the lives of those outside the walls.
Undoubtedly, the ultimate beneficiary of this massacre was Zeke.
At this moment, the Pure Titans summoned by Zeke continued their rampage. If Eren could control the Founding Titan, he should also be able to control all titans. Why hadn't he controlled these Pure Titans?
However, a more pressing issue was what to do with Falco. Someone suggested turning him into a titan and having him eaten, perhaps by Commander Pixis.
But Connie, with a grave expression, declared that his mother should eat Falco.
This was immediately opposed by Armin. But Connie's resolve was firm. Seizing an opportunity amidst the titan attack on the four, Connie snatched Falco and headed for Ragako Village.
The three were clearly unable to attend to Connie's matter for the moment. The most important thing now was to eradicate these titans, as there were no longer any walls on the island. The flames of war still raged on the Wall Sina front.
What further developments would unfold in the titan saga? We shall wait and see.