Chapter 17: The Wanderer

Seven years ago, Margaret married Dr. Allen.

A year later, Margaret gave birth to twins.

The couple named their eldest daughter Kelly, and the second son inherited his father's name, also called Allen.

Margaret, who became a wife and mother, forced herself to change her overly defensive mentality.

She always appears in front of her husband and children as a slender and beautiful figure every day.

She didn't want her family to be ridiculed by outsiders because of her fat and bloated image.

Only when you go out on a combat mission, you will be full of magic and fat will swell.

"Mommy is back!" The little girl shouted for joy and opened the courtyard door.

"Kelly, my darling, how was your day?"

Margaret picked up her beloved daughter and kissed her little cheek again and again.

"I'm very well-behaved, but Alan is not well-behaved at all, I hate it to death!" Kelly pouted.

"Tell me, how is little Allen naughty again?"

"He hid and deliberately didn't let me find it!"

Kelly took her mother's hand and went to her grandfather's marble statue.

"Whoa! That's where Eren disappeared! ”

Kelly pointed to the shadow on the ground, and while observing her mother's face, she asked tentatively:

"Mom! I guess Eren must have gotten into the ground, can I turn into a golem and go down and pull him out? ”

In fact, she had long concluded that her brother was hiding deep in the ground.

The reason why I say this is just to get my mother's permission to start the atavistic transformation, in the form of a stone giant, burrow into the depths of the earth, and shuttle happily like a fish.

Margaret put away her smile and gave her daughter an angry look.

"You also said that your brother is naughty, and you yourself are a cunning and naughty little fox!"

"Alan! Allan! Don't play dumb, I know you can hear me! ”

"You come out for me right away! Otherwise, mom will spank you! ”

The voice fell, and the ground trembled slightly.

A stone giant, nearly four meters tall, emerges from behind the marble statue.

Under the angry glare of his mother, the boy quickly changed back to his original form and hung his head.

"How many times have I told you? Don't use this forbidden power, just disobey! ”

Margaret wiped the mud from her son's face with a handkerchief, babbling and counting them.

In the end, I inevitably told my children again and again not to show my superpowers as giants in front of outsiders.

For this power comes from a forbidden prophet.

Dr. Allen's research on the blood of the prophet was halted by his father-in-law seven years ago.

But all these years, Margaret used her privileges to fund and shelter her husband, and continued to study the blood of the prophets in private.

With the rapid expansion of the Church of the Titans, the Titan Apostles appeared all over the world, and the secrets of blood were solved.

This is a safer force than infecting Titan cells.

Dr. Allen self-injected, awakens the Titan bloodline.

Margaret gets along with him day and night, and her frequent married life makes her unconsciously acquire the same physique and can incarnate into a giant form!

This incident made the couple realize that the blood of the Prophet contained extraordinary powers, like a virus, can be transmitted not only through blood, but also through sexual activity.

At that time, Margaret was pregnant, and gave birth to twins, who were born with this extraordinary power.

This incident made her very uneasy, and as her children's bloodline became stronger and stronger, her worries gradually deepened.

Margaret's other concern comes from her father, who is becoming more and more strange.

Before returning home from work today, she and her husband had gone to visit Dr. Solomon, who had been reincarnated, and reported a very important piece of information by the way.

However, as soon as she arrived at the door of her father's office, Margaret heard the sound of men and women flirting in the room through the crack in the door.

Out of curiosity, she took her husband's hand, walked around to the window, and peeked in.

Through the window, I saw a pair of disheveled men and women, making love on the sofa.

The tall, sturdy bald naked man is Dr. Solomon's personal bodyguard.

Seeing this scene, Margaret couldn't bear it anymore and turned around in anger.

If her father had replaced a young male body, she would have barely been able to bear it, however...... The absurd scene she saw just now was beyond the limit of her tolerance.

Alan catches up with his wife and convinces her to want to drive a little.

As children, they have neither the power nor the need to dictate the private lives of their elders, just pretend not to see them.

Margaret wasn't ignorant of these things, but she really didn't want to see Dr. Solomon.

Otherwise, after meeting, she didn't know how to address each other, only embarrassed.

Alan saw that his wife was angry, and he was not reluctant.

Let her wait downstairs and go alone to visit Dr. Solomon and report on the information she has just received.

Margaret paced back and forth in the hall on the first floor, anxiously awaiting her husband's return.

It felt as if after a long time, Alan finally returned.

"I have reported to your father about the unusual movements of the Church of the Titan God, and it is likely that the false prophet discovered the whereabouts of the 'wanderer' before we did, and is preparing to hunt it down."

"What's she going to do?" Margaret asked her husband.

"Your father told us to wait first, don't rush to make a move, the time is not yet ripe."

"What does it mean to be unripe?" Margaret couldn't help but get angry, "If you delay any longer, the last Titans will fall into the hands of the cult gang in Free City, and the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry about it yet."

Alan took his wife's hand and calmed her down.

"Don't forget, your father is the contractor of the 'Know-Knower', and the judgment he makes is also the result of the deduction of the 'Know-it-all'."

"Since he said that the time is not yet ripe, it means that he is playing a big game of chess, and it is not yet time for a showdown."

"'Wanderer', it's okay to give it to the Liberty City gang first, and when the time comes, your father will take it back."

"Huh...... You have a lot of faith in her! Margaret stared at her husband warily, "She didn't do anything to you in the office just now, did she?" ”

"It's just a normal debriefing, what are you thinking about!" Alan couldn't help but laugh.

Margaret was still not at ease, hugged her husband, buried her head in his arms, and sniffed like a puppy.

I didn't smell the smell of a woman, so I felt a little relieved.

"Honey, what's next for you?"

"I have to go to the institute to work overtime, you go home first."

"I'll drive you to the institute and come back early in the evening, and I'll wait for you at home with the kids to eat."

The couple got into the car arm in arm.

On the way to drive her husband to the institute, Margaret couldn't help but complain about her father's frequent reincarnations in recent years.

Almost every time I visited him, I always saw an unfamiliar face.

Now, she has been reincarnated as a girl who is younger than her daughter!

Even her own father, Margaret thinks this is too perverted!

"I think your father's frequent reincarnation is probably not just to experience a different life, but to try to get rid of the shadow of death that is getting closer and closer." Allen said.

Margaret nodded slightly, agreeing with her husband's guess.

In fact, she has long discovered that her father's frequent reincarnation and replacement of young bodies reflect pathological anxiety.

Anxiety comes from the fear of death.

I am unwilling to accept that I am getting old, and I am unwilling to admit that I am dying.

However, the decay of the soul cannot be saved by replacing the younger body, and doing so will only deepen the anxiety.

"Dad pinned his last hope on fusing the Titans."

Margaret lowered her voice and whispered in her husband's ear.

"My father once told me that if a mortal fuses all five Titans, he can be promoted to the 'Dominant' who surpasses the 'Reincarnated One'!"

"If you are promoted to the Ruler, you can extend your life?" Alan asked his wife.

"I'm not sure...... But Dad was convinced of it. ”

Margaret sighed, her voice becoming unusually bitter.

"My dear, Daddy's attempt to fuse all five Titans means that the other Titans must be sacrificed, including you and me."

"How can a father bear to poison his only daughter? Don't be cranky. ”

"Huh...... In order to continue his life, I'm afraid I can do it! ”

Alan was speechless.

Margaret did not allow him to remain silent.

"My dear, if Father asks you to kill me, to dig out of my corpse, 'Missing, will you obey his orders, or will you disobey his orders to protect me?'

"Of course I will protect you, at all costs!" Alan said categorically.

Margaret felt a burst of sweetness.

The clouds that hung over my heart were also dispelled by happiness.

She shook her husband's hand vigorously, and with full of love, she solemnly promised:

"Honey, so do I!"

……

The night was silent.

The white sand dunes are bathed in moonlight, like a pile of snow, and like clouds in the sky.

This white desert formed by the weathering of gypsum was once a famous tourist destination.

After the cataclysm, the desert was restored to its desolate desolation.

Until the fifth Titan, the original "Wanderer", arrived.

Normally hidden deep in the desert, the Titanmon are governed by their spirits, crawling out of their nests and following the wanderers, roaming this snowy sand field bathed in moonlight.

The "wanderer" who leads the herd forward looks like a naked humanoid corpse.

The head was cut off to the neck.

The left arm was broken off from the elbow.

The chest was dissected and the heart was lost.

The wound showed no signs of decay, and the surface of the wound condensed into a crystal nucleus, like a translucent blood crust.

The wanderer's pace is unhurried, like a clockwork full of clockwork.

On the flat desert, the shadows cast by the clouds swim.

Suddenly, a large silvery glow appeared on the sand.

More than a dozen figures teleported out.

All wore golden hooded cloaks with the cuffs embroidered with the crest of the Church of the Titan insignia.

The twelve apostles lined up in front of the wanderer.

Behind them, Alan stood on a towering sand dune, calmly watching the wanderer.

The wanderer stopped, sending out a circle of mental fluctuations.

It had sensed that there were thirteen blockers on the other side, twelve of whom contained highly active Titan cells.

According to common sense, it can easily control this group of ill-intentioned infected, just like the group of Titanmon behind it.

The result was unexpected.

The Twelve Apostles all inherited the "blood of the prophets" and possessed great spiritual resistance.

The mind control of the wanderer did not take effect.

On the contrary, the group of Titanmons behind him broke away from its control, fell into panic, and fled in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, opposite the apostles, there was only a lone wanderer.

The loss of the wanderer's head does not prevent him from thinking.

Powerful spiritual power, which can replace the physical senses, clearly sense the wind and grass around you.

Just now, a wave containing the magic of fear swept through this desert.

The wanderer itself has legendary level of mental resistance and is immune to the wave of fear, but the group of Titanmon behind it are all scared away.

The source of fear came from the prophet Allen.

Open up the gluttonous realm, mount the "Transcendent Fear Technique", and quietly scare off the Titanmon that follow the wanderers.

Clear an undisturbed hunting ground for the next hunt.

Rumble!!

A burst of magic illuminates the pale desert.

The Twelve Apostles, all of whom are A-class superpowers, joined forces to besiege the Wanderer, but failed to penetrate the crystal nucleus armor covering its body.

The sound of explosions echoed in the night sky.

In the white sand flying in the sky, a figure is expanding.

The wanderer, who was originally only at the height of a normal human, showed his true battle form and turned into a hundred-foot giant!

In the next second, the figure of the gigantic wanderer disappeared and teleported directly to the apostles.

Kick hard, trample down!

Bang!!

The giant foot fell, and the earth shook.

Strong seismic waves push the sand to roll violently.

The desert seems to have turned into a sea, setting off stormy waves.

The destructive power unleashed by this kick is comparable to that of a legendary martial art.

Long before the wanderer teleported, the apostles received telepathy from Allen, and they didn't dare to take this kick.

Collectively turn on the "roaming" skill and thrillingly teleport out of the kilometer.

Even though he had escaped so far, he was still affected, falling on the sand, and rolling in embarrassment.

Swish!

The wanderer's figure flashed, and teleported and tracked.

Another foot, stepping on the ant-like tiny human.

This time, the apostles were prepared in advance.

The seven of them took the form of stone giants and escaped under the white sand, thousands of meters deep.

Annie, Cato and Weren teleported directly to the sky and turned into cloud giants who walked in the wind.

On the empty and flat desert, two sand bunkers with a depth of 1,000 feet and a radius of more than 1,000 meters are exposed to the moonlight side by side.

Looking down from the sky, it looks like a scar from a meteorite impact, which is particularly shocking.

Anne froze and raised her arms.

Thorn, sting, stingingβ€”

The arc flashes between the palms.

The five apostles led by her simultaneously blasted a "chain lightning" at the gigantic wanderer!

This is the strongest spell they have comprehended by awakening the warlock bloodline with the "Prophet's Blood" and practicing hard for many years.

It's so powerful that it's not inferior to S-class superpowers!

However, the six chain lightning bolts, the Flame Wanderer, still failed to penetrate his crystal nucleus armor.

What's worse is ......

The wanderer actually conducts the electricity that gathers in his body to the ground under his feet.

The seven apostles lurking in the sand under the wanderer's feet in the form of stone giants were electrocuted, paralyzed, and temporarily unable to move.

After some leverage, the wanderer teleported directly into the air, raised his right arm, and punched Annie and the others on the opposite side.

Boom!!

The air at the end of the fist explodes!

A white and massive sonic boom cloud rolled out.

The shockwave containing terrifying destructive power spread forward, encompassing Anne and the others, like a storm sweeping away leaves.

A punch scattered the five apostles, and the wanderer did not stay in the air.

Swish!

Flashed directly in front of the sand dunes where Eren was sitting.

A huge fist slammed straight into the top of the dune.

The power of this punch has been verified just now.

Anne and the other five apostles joined forces and couldn't resist it.

So, what about the prophets?

This question not only worries the apostles who have no time to rescue around, but also the people who are secretly observing.

……

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(End of chapter)