"Boom!"
The Titan hit by artillery fire would need at least half an hour to stand up again.
But even so, the survivors in the Shiganshina district were becoming fewer and fewer. Either they were eaten by the Titans or had already retreated to the Maria area.
As a result, more and more Titans gathered at the city gate.
"Load the cannons, take aim."
The city gate guards were already sweating profusely, feeling urgent.
"We can't hold on any longer, we have to close the city gate."
The vice officer anxiously spoke as he saw the Titans getting closer, less than a hundred meters away from the city gate.
The city gate guard clenched his teeth. Currently, there were fewer survivors in the Maria area than in Shiganshina, even though many had already lost their lives to the Titans.
However, there were certainly many survivors from remote areas heading this way.
Closing the city gate would be no different from indirectly killing them.
"Roar!"
Just as he hesitated between guilt and righteousness, he was awakened by a Titan's furious roar. He then noticed that there was a small Titan about five meters tall, evading the artillery shells one after another, until it was finally hit about thirty meters away from the city gate.
The small Titan fell to the ground with a roar, but it was not dead yet.
The artillery shells hit its head but did not damage the back of its neck. The Titan with half its head remaining struggled on the ground, reaching out to touch the soldiers near the city gate.
"Close... close the city gate."
The city gate guard's sense of justice shattered instantly. He gave the order in a trembling voice; he was already scared stiff.
From a few dozen meters away, he could see the Titan's appearance clearly and could deeply feel the terror of such a colossal creature.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The soldiers, relieved after receiving the order, were about to retreat in an orderly manner when heavy footsteps caught their attention.
They saw a peculiar Titan.
Among the countless Titans, there were occasionally some strange ones that defied common sense, and they were referred to as Abnormal.
But this Titan was even more exceptional. Its heavy and rapid footsteps indicated it was running towards the city gate, but with such agility, it was hard to believe it was a Titan.
Moreover, its skin reflected a metallic luster when exposed to sunlight.
"Fire, fire quickly!"
This Armored Titan appeared too fast, and it was about to reach them within a hundred meters.
The city gate guard hurriedly gave the order, and the cannons fired one after another. Two shells hit the target, but to everyone's horror...
The Armored Titan simply waved its hand, causing the shells to be deflected and explode harmlessly around it. Not even its speed was affected.
"Ah! Run, we're going to be eaten by the Titan!"
"Close the city gate, close the city gate!"
"Help, I don't want to die!"
...
At this moment, the soldiers' fear was amplified to the extreme.
They lost all thoughts of resistance instantly and fled toward the city gate in a panic. The soldiers on the city wall were quicker to react and had already started closing the gate when the Armored Titan appeared.
They didn't even care if some soldiers hadn't made it inside the city yet.
The massive gate, twenty meters tall, slowly descended. It was made of Titan stones, half a meter thick.
"I haven't entered the city, let me in, let me in."
"Help, please help!"
The soldiers outside the gate pleaded tearfully.
At the moment when the gate was about to close, the soldiers who had made it inside the city breathed a sigh of relief, believing they were safe, even if that peculiar Titan was terrifying. They thought the Wall Maria would protect them as it had for nearly a century.
At least, that's what the soldiers believed.
"Boom!"
The next moment, a deafening blast erupted at the city gate. Like a bowling ball, the Armored Titan smashed through the half-meter-thick stone-made gate.
Many soldiers, with the joy of surviving still on their faces, were crushed into pulp by the flying debris or trampled under the Titan's feet.
"Maria... Maria has fallen..."
The officer in charge of guarding Maria dropped to his knees with a thud. From his perspective, countless Titans were flooding into the Maria area through the broken city gate.
Though the Shiganshina district had a population of only a few thousand, its fall was still within a controllable range for the city.
However, Maria housed over a third of the city's population.
Once it fell, it would be a catastrophe for tens of thousands of people.
As if experiencing the despair after the collapse of their beliefs, the officer's eyes lost their light. When a Titan approached him, he didn't even react.
Finally, the Titan picked him up by the head, and with screams, the officer was swallowed whole.
"At least I caught up in time."
Lin Yi stood high on the Maria Wall, looking down at the hellish scene in the Maria District. However, his gaze was fixed on that Armored Titan.
The fall of Shiganshina and Maria was no accident but part of Marley's plan against Eldians.
The Armored Titan before him was one of the Nine Titan Powers Lin Yi was looking for.
After breaking through Maria's gate, the Titan had completed its mission, but it did not immediately revert to its human form.
Titans do not distinguish between friend and foe. If it canceled its titan form, it might be attacked by other Titans.
Lin Yi found a relatively secluded spot and rushed there at high speed. Within a few breaths, he was far away from the city gate position.
At this moment, Maria was in chaos, and no one would pay attention to the Armored Titan that had gone there.
Only Lin Yi, leaping down from a fifty-meter-tall Titan wall, kept his eyes fixed on the Armored Titan.
He had equipped himself with a three-dimensional maneuvering device taken from a fallen soldier.
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