87. Departure (Giant Volume Finale)
(5000 words big chapter, 2 in 1.) οΌ
When Mikasa and Ani led the people of their hometown to the walls of Rossy, they first found a large number of giant bones piled up on small hills, and they thought that there was a fierce battle, so they accelerated their march again in fear, and then after half an hour, they finally saw Thrall's figure in the distanceβ
At this moment, Thrall was pulling the mercury knife in his hand from the back of the neck of the last standing ape giant!
"Boom!"
The giant ape crashed to the ground, and Thrall immediately spotted the crowd coming.
"Sal!"
Seeing that he was fine, the second daughter was a little relieved, and immediately jumped off Zack's shoulder and rushed over.
"Sal, ...... this?"
Mikasa asked, and Ani looked at the corpses of the ape-giants everywhere, but he was shocked! The most burly ape-giant in the distance, she had seen it once! That's the guy who took the head when his hometown was conquered, and even Orbuda had to bow to it!
"Tiaz! You killed Tiaz! β
At this time, Zach and a group of hometown giants also rushed over, and saw Tiaz quietly falling to the ground in the distance, and couldn't help but ask in surprise.
Smiling at everyone, Sal nodded, "As you can see." β
Everyone's faces showed a burst of ecstasy! Even the hometown giants behind Zack, who had long been preparing to die with the enemy, showed a relieved expression on their faces, and then everyone cheered at the same time!
At this time, the only people who don't look good are Mikasa and Ani.
"Are you asking us to go back to our hometown to find someone to leave us behind?"
Ani said angrily, staring at Sal's eyes, she had been relying on herself all the way at this time for the first time to have a feeling of being regarded as a burden!
Mikasa also said a little lonely: "Sal, obviously said that I will stand by your side no matter what......"
Seeing the expressions of the two, Sal laughed and hugged them in his arms and said, "Haha, I'm not okay, am I fine?" Besides, who told you that it's useless to call Brother Zach over? β
"Oh? Now that the ape giants are all dead, and no one controls those brainless giants, this war ...... It's almost over! What else can we do? β
Hearing the conversation between the three of them, Zach in the back couldn't help but bend down and ask in a low voice.
Seeing him ask, Sal smiled lightly and pointed in the direction of Sheena's Wall.
Several people were stunned at the same time, and only after a while did they all exclaim in unison: "You want to attack the human world?? ββ¦β¦
At the head of the Wall of Sheena, nearly a thousand soldiers were looking at the giants below with blank expressions, unable to tell what they were feeling in their hearts.
I saw that the giants who were rushing towards the city like crazy seemed to have suddenly received some order, and they stopped in unison, standing in place in a trance, and the giants 'Luohan', who had been destroyed by strange yellow smoke and then stacked high again, also 'collapsed' at a very fast speed.
Then they saw that all the giants first looked up in the direction of the city, and then let out two low roars of unknown meaning from their mouths, and each turned and strolled in different directions, resuming their aimless wandering, as if the previous offensive that had lasted all night had not been present......
"It's ......"
At the head of the city, the veteran who had collapsed and looked at the sky looked at the scene in front of him and muttered a few words, and then as if he thought of something, a mist emerged from the corner of his cloudy eyes, and a burst of extreme excitement for the rest of his life surged into his heart!
"The giants have given up attacking!"
"The giants retreated !!"
Sheena saved!! We survived!! β
A series of loud shouts from the many soldiers who saw the situation below as clearly as he did, causing more panicked soldiers to poke their heads out, and then more cheers rang out, wave after wave, like an antidote to reviving the entire dying city, and rushed to every corner of the Sheena Wall!
The people who had lost the confidence to continue to live wept with joy one by one, a pair of family, lovers, and friends hugged each other after hearing the news and cried with joy, and the entire royal capital that was about to die instantly exuded vitality again, and at this time, the sun in the east just completely left the horizon, and it was able to rise, and almost everyone looked at the rising sun, and had a feeling that they seemed to be living again.
At the head of the city, when those soldiers watched the giants completely disperse and retreat, and finally lay on the ground like dead dogs, they had been fighting here for more than one night, the continuous physical exertion and mental torture, coupled with the sudden relaxation at this time, could no longer allow them to support their already exhausted bodies, and even a large part of them cried out as soon as they lay down!
It's just that none of them noticed at this time, under the dawn sun, on the horizon in the distance, there are more than two thousand tall figures slowly walking towards this side, maybe even if they do, they won't pay too much attention to it, because at this time, there are giants wandering around everywhere below, aren't they? β¦β¦
Somewhere ten miles away from Sheena's Wall, on a hillside surrounded by large woods, Mikasa and Ani stood on the trunk of a giant tree, looking in the direction of Sheena's city, looking at the Wall of Sheena, which had been invaded by the giants of their hometown under the leadership of Zack, with a cold face, and even a faint smile.
"Don't worry, they'll only kill the descendants of the Bloodline, and those I mentioned [***]**, don't you still believe in Zack's old fellow's character?"
At this time, Sal's voice came from below, and the second daughter heard the voice, only to see that he was holding something in his hand and looking at them with a smile.
"Why do you think we're worried?"
Ani smiled and jumped off the trunk of the tree with Mikasa, landing beside Sal.
"Here, put this clasp on your earlobe, and it will be put on for you automatically."
Smiling and handing them the things in his hand, Mikasa and Arnie realized that Sal was holding two shiny earrings!
"This ......"
The workmanship of these earrings is extremely exquisite, as if all of them are made of diamonds, although only the size of a little thumb belly, the second daughter can clearly see a phoenix pattern from above, and its whole body is flowing with a faint fluorescence, and every diamond on it seems to be rotating out of thin air, exuding dazzling brilliance under the rising sun!
The second girl took the earrings one by one, and couldn't put them down in her hands to check them, and after looking at them carefully for a long time, she put them on her right earlobe with some joy, which made Sal can't help but smile bitterly, even the surname Mikasa and Ani who are indifferent are this performance, it seems that women's love for diamonds is really indiscriminate!
But to be honest, Sal also thinks those two earrings are very good-looking, anyway, I have never seen such a beautiful diamond pendant in my previous life - isn't that nonsense! A pendant with a full three million energy points is still not good-looking!!???
"Huh?"
Mikasa and Ani, who had just put the small buckle above the earring on their earlobe, felt a slight pain in their earlobe at the same time, and the pendant actually automatically popped out a small nail and pierced it.
The two of them couldn't see that the nails that had been embedded in their earlobes had absorbed the blood that had just flowed out.
At the same time, the voice of the system also sounded in the ears of the three people at the same time: "The secondary authority has been successfully received!" Does the host determine the current candidate? β
"Sure."
Seeing that the second daughter was stunned by this sudden voice, Sal smiled and spoke without the slightest scruples.
"Confirm success, secondary authority: Mikasa. Ackerman, Ani. Leonard, you can enter the main space of Nirvana...... Bite! Detects that the host world mission has been completed, does it leave the plane immediately? Hint: The host may choose to stay in the current plane for forty-eight hours. β
It was only then that Mikasa Ani and the two girls reacted and looked at Sal suspiciously, but at this time they also roughly guessed the meaning from that voice.
"Sal, this voice ...... Say we can choose to stay for forty-eight hours? Does that mean we can go now? Go to the place you mentioned??? β
Ani, who was extremely eager for 'that place', immediately asked with a twinkle in his eyes, and then immediately reacted and exclaimed, "You have killed ten million giants?? β
Sal laughed, no longer reserved at the moment, and told his two women everything without reservation, and told it for half an hour, and the two daughters couldn't help but have a brain crash after listening to it, and their faces were full of incredulity!
ββ¦β¦ That's probably it, uh, not probably, that's it for details! Sal finally explained everything before he asked the second daughter, "So...... Is there anything you want to do right now? β
Hearing this, Ani immediately shook his head eagerly, saying that he would be able to leave immediately, and was just about to speak out excitedly, but suddenly remembered Mikasa on the side, and saw her thoughtful appearance, so he forced his eagerness to suppress it.
I saw Mikasa ask, "Sal, you...... Don't you want to say goodbye to the people of the Vanguard? And Allen, Elmin, and Levi, and everyone in the Training Corps......"
Hearing this, he shook his head, and Sal smiled a little lonely: "Sometimes...... It's better to say goodbye without saying goodbye than to watch your old friend go......"
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but think of those friends in the past, Anil, Mira, Thatch, Leighton, Miller, Thatcher, Levi, Helista, Alan, Elmin, Catherine, Sasha......
Especially Anil, Mira, and Helista, the three Nizi, especially gave him a headache, how could they not see their own intentions?
Mikasa and Ani seemed to be missing their old friend at this time, and after a long silence between the three of them, Mikasa raised his head and broke the silence: "In that case, let's leave immediately." β
Hearing this, Ani was shocked, and Sal smiled lightly: "Oh? I thought I'd want to go back and see Alan's little guy again. β
At the mention of that younger brother, Mikasa said with a warm smile on his face, "With everyone from the Survey Corps taking care of him, I believe he will be fine...... I've said a long time ago, where you are, I'll be there, and instead of falling in love here, it's better to get used to our new home as soon as possible! Moreover...... I think Ani can't wait a little too much. β
Speaking of this, I saw that Ani actually nodded at Mikasa in surprise to express his gratitude!
Seeing this, Sal put aside the other thoughts in his head, laughed and kissed each of the two daughters on the face: "Okay! Let's go to our new home now!! β
Immediately after, seeing him stretch out his hand on the void, the phoenix pendant on Sal's chest automatically floated up, and the space around the three of them was distorted, and in just a blink of an eye, a spatial vortex was formed, completely engulfing the figures of the three of them!
Finally, the phoenix pendant groaned softly and disappeared into thin air.
A fresh breeze blew through it, as if no one had ever stopped here......
Three weeks later.
After a series of chaos, the wall of Xina finally calmed down, since a large number of giants retreated, but there were another group of giants with a number of about two thousand directly 'turned' into the city wall with lightning speed, the hearts of people who had just put it back in their stomachs were immediately half cold, but they didn't expect that these giants did not cause the slightest harm to ordinary people and grassroots soldiers, and they just went to clean up some officials, officers and high-ranking church officials who were high in the sky, and they were able to speak human words and even change their human form! He also claimed to be a friend of the former hero Thrall, who came here to help humanity regain lost territory and obtain **!
Originally, people didn't believe these words, but they didn't dare to resist in the slightest due to the strong strength of the giants, so they had to hide at home in fear, but they didn't expect that just one day later, the members of the Survey Corps and the Vanguard who had reappeared in the world would stand up and prove what the giants said, and they also joined hands with those giants to begin to pacify the people, restore order, and form a corps of men to prepare to recover the Rossi Wall that had been breached!
Gradually, under the good social order, welfare, and the propaganda of some well-intentioned people, they finally believed that these later giants did not deceive them, and people's lives finally burst out again with vitality.
Today, it is the time for the famous vanguard to start anew.
Looking at the slowly opening door, Levi pulled the reins and shouted, "Vanguard! Let's go!! β
Behind him, Anil, Mira, Thatch, Leighton, and Miller glanced at each other, nodded to each other, a smile rose at the corner of their mouths, and their eyes waved the reins at the same time firmly, and rushed out, and then the vanguard soldiers with green cloaks and scarves followed closely, and Sasha, Connie, Elmin, Catherine and others were listed among them! ββ
In the eyes of many of them, at the front of the team, there seemed to be a faint shadow leading them forward, that shadow was **, with long black hair, and a dark red scarf blown up by the wind......
At the head of the city, Helista, who was dressed in a gorgeous costume, looked at the direction where everyone was leaving with tears in her eyes, and Yuniel, who was beside her, put one hand on her shoulder and smiled: "Didn't you say that you won't cry your nose?" My Archon? Anyway, as a dignified consul, you sneaked here when your official duties were busiest, and you didn't know what to think when others knew about it? β
"Now that the country has abolished the imperial system, and there are ten consuls, it's okay to sneak out for a while!"
Hearing this, he reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and Helista shook his head with a smile and said, "It's you, Yuniel, aren't you supposed to be on duty now?" Aren't you afraid that General Zach will punish you for standing with a bucket on your head for another night? β
I saw Euniel laugh and said, "In order to accompany me Hrlista, what kind of bullshit Zack old man does he care......"
Speaking of this, she only felt that her collar was tight, but she was pulled up by someone by the collar!
"Piercing...... General Zach!! β
"Did you just scold me for being happy? Kindness? Why don't we find another place to practice? β
"Bastard old man, didn't I tell you more than a hundred times, don't let me lose face so much in front of Helista!?"
"I'll take care of you! You damn same-name lover! ββ¦β¦
Helista covered her mouth and smiled, ignoring the conversation between the two beside her, and turned her head to fix her gaze on the distant horizon, where the vanguard were about to disappear, and at the front of that team, as if there was a figure galloping on horseback, flickered, remembering that person, the tears she had just wiped away, once again irrepressibly remained, across her delicate face......
At the same time, in a pitch-black dungeon, a brown-haired boy was helplessly leaning on the window and looking at the crowd frolicking outside the window, but after only looking at it for a while, his extremely weak body could no longer support it, and in desperation, he lay back to the sick **, muttering: "Why do I always have to be forgotten...... Kept me starving in that dungeon for a whole month......"
There was a knock on the door.
"Alan. Jayger, it's time to take your medicine~"......
Under the city wall, a large crowd watched the vanguard disappear from their field of vision, their eyes were full of admiration and yearning, at this time, a little girl in the crowd turned her head to look at the square behind her, where there was a humanoid statue more than ten meters high, only to see that the base of the statue was engraved: "Sal. Lancelot, 835~850, the first captain of the Pioneer Brigade of the Survey Corps, the strongest human in history, saved the Odin family, killed 10 million giants in the miracle, exterminated the leader of the ape clan, and exchanged his life for the last hope for the continuation of mankind, the only honorary king of Lancelot. (To be continued.) )