As a mushroom cloud slowly rose, the battle came to an end.
You can see that the place where Allen was before, the place where the last shell exploded, is now just a big crater.
All around were charred or melted marks, and nothing else remained.
You mean Allen? Yeah, or maybe now he's everywhere, the kind that even a super-assembled kit can't put back together.
Moreover, objectively speaking, what happened here before was less a battle and more a one-sided violent demolition.
Allen fought Allen, Alice destroyed Alice, and the destruction caused by the Earth Devourer was not stopped at all.
The final metal storm can only be described as a bullet hell game. It's a pity that Allen doesn't have any ability to avoid taking damage if he's not hit by certain hit points, and he's not some kind of Touhou player who doesn't need an umbrella in the rain.
Allen: We're all trying to live.
Alice: I've tried so hard, how come you're still alive?
"It's all done. Let me take a look at the time it took to take down one city... It was pretty fast, less than ten minutes."
Inside the Titan, Alice took a pocket watch out of her pocket to check the time.
From the moment the Earth Devourer burst forth from the ground to the final ruins of the city, including the time spent playing games with Allen, it took exactly nine and a half minutes.
The situation here is so dire that repairing it would be no different from rebuilding a completely new city.
Only a few survivors were lucky, because their location was at the city gate furthest from where the Earth Devourer appeared, and they reacted quickly, not attempting to fight back, but running away.
They left, and Alice could have wiped out the remaining troops, but she didn't.
"The remaining men have lost their morale; their fighting spirit has been shattered by absolute power."
"Once they return, they won't be able to join the battle; in fact, they might spread fear to even more people."
As for whether these people will lead to intelligence leaks?
The Earth Devourer is a very simple and unpretentious Titan, with only three main moves: rampaging, rapid repair, and overwhelming firepower.
If such information were leaked, very few people could escape alive from Alice's sight.
"I thought it was some kind of speed bump. How could someone with that kind of power be a match for me?"
Now, it's time to meet the next target, the war king of that city, who is skilled with an axe?
I hope he can give me more surprises and doesn't die too soon.
The intelligence has been confirmed: one of the remaining two War Kings is an axe-wielder, and the other is a spearman.
His strength is comparable to that of the deceased Eren, so it's not a problem at all.
"Splash..."
The Earth Devourer's body lingered among the ruins for a few more moments, salvaging some valuable resources and collecting the gears that had been knocked away.
"Boom..."
Head down, body rotating, it digs a tunnel, going deeper and deeper underground.
This time, she's not going to smash the city walls; how about she just crawls out from the center of the city?
The Earth Devourer vanished without a trace in less than half a minute, and the ruins returned to silence.
Only the still-burning flames and the pervasive smell of blood in the air proved that something had happened here.
"Has that monster already left?"
"It seems, it appears, that we are safe, at least temporarily."
In the distant woods, several soldiers hid in the treetops, peering out in that direction.
Their eyes were filled with confusion; they didn't know what to do next.
After all, what had just happened was too outrageous for ordinary soldiers like them.
What does it mean when a giant steel monster attacks a city?
What does it mean that their attack failed to penetrate the enemy's armor?
What do you mean by "their War King A went up, and then the War King sent it"?
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