Surrounded by countless colossal giants, their footsteps left countless overlapping footprints. No creature or building could stop the hundred-meter-tall giants' pace, and once the rumbling of the earth began, it could not be stopped.
Each Colossus has a different face. They were once living humans. After transforming into Titans, they are surrounded by scorching steam. Even if there are gaps between Colossi, the high-temperature steam will melt all living things nearby. Some humans thought they could escape by hiding on the third basement level, but no basement can withstand a Colossus's kick.
The Rumbling, originating from the King's Heights and directed by Eren, spreads in all directions, aiming to completely destroy the world from all sides—this is part of the world-destroying plan.
The last survivors of Dressrosa gathered in front of a church, where elderly people, young couples, children, and newborn babies were all utterly overwhelmed by despair.
A drunken, bald man downed the last drop of liquor from his bottle, staring blankly at the colossal giant before him. He said nothing, simply standing there waiting for the giant's foot to fall.
"My child hasn't even been born yet, why has the world become like this?" The bride hugged her lover. The man could neither protect his lover nor see his unborn child. Countless enormous creatures were walking towards them, and they had nowhere to escape.
The clergy in the church knelt before the cross in prayer. The white-haired priest, with tears streaming down his face, bid a final farewell to his faith: "God, please send down your power to save your lamb. God, please answer me."
"My child, you are so unfortunate," a short woman said, lifting up the crying baby in the hope that he could find salvation from his misfortune.
The remaining survivors displayed their humanity in the final moments, passing the baby from hand to hand to a higher place. Amid the commotion of the crowd and the cries of the babies, the colossal horde finally drew near.
Each colossal face resembles a Buddha, devoid of joy or sorrow. Beneath their feet, all beings are equal, without distinction of rank or status. Humans, like other creatures, are but ants, just as Heaven is ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs.
The final church in Dressrosa was easily crushed by the Colossus. There were no miracles, no gods, no saviors, only scum trampled underfoot into bloody pulp. No one in this world can save anyone.
After the other colossal figures were launched into the sea, they propelled themselves forward using their own steam, remaining unaffected by the ocean currents and posing no risk of sinking. This scene left the audience outside the light screen dumbfounded.
No wonder the Rumbling was able to land on other islands in the flashback scene. With its super-massive steam propulsion speed, it wouldn't take long to completely destroy the world. The King of Men truly lives up to his reputation as one of the Ancient Weapons. This is absolutely terrible news.
The Human King's ability is global. Within five years, anyone who has drunk alcohol laced with Eren's spinal fluid will respond to the Founding Titan's call and become one of the Colossal Titans, no matter where they are.
In places like the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, Whole Cake Island, Oni Island, Fish-Man Island, and the new Marine Headquarters, humans are transforming into colossal giants. Each transformation is accompanied by an explosion comparable to a small nuclear bomb. This unexpected and sneaky attack leaves various factions scrambling to put out fires on their own territories.
The first priority was to disperse the main forces of various factions, laying the foundation for Eren's Founding Titan to destroy the world. By the time tens of thousands of Colossal Titans arrived at their doorstep, humanity would realize that it was all too late.
The muscular Berserker was carrying two women, one big and one small. He didn't choose to confront the colossus head-on. Even though men have more lives, he still had to consider Ilya. Going to the port and taking a boat out to sea was the best option.
Berserker's speed was several times that of ordinary humans, leaping back and forth between rooftops. Berserker didn't have time to look back, fearing that if he hesitated and stopped, the three of them would be caught up by the Super Giants.
Upon seeing the ships on the coastline, Belhill shouted, "Uncle B is a sailor! We have a ship! We're saved!"
The three rushed toward the naval warship. The navy, which always touted itself as righteous, became their lifeline. After all, there weren't many survivors left in Dexrotha, and survival was their primary concern.
The landing troops standing on the shore looked at the billowing dust in the distance, in which a skeletal monster ten thousand meters tall had gathered. They had never seen such a scene since they joined the army.
Colonel Gabi, the one-eyed girl, was the first to recover from the shock. "Dressrosa is finished. Where are these Titans going?" The devastating scene brought by Eren was somewhat familiar to the young soldier, as she had seen this scene in her distant memory.
The signal to retreat sounded on the warship, and the landing troops, as if granted a pardon, crowded together to the landing craft, preparing to return to the naval warship for safety. The faster the ship, the safer the soldiers felt.
Berserker landed next to the Navy with two women. Gabi saw that they looked panicked and were impressed by their strength and luck in managing to break through the massive group of giants.
The man placed Ilya and Belhill on the ground, and the girl pleaded with the female navy officer for help, "Sister navy officer, our home is gone, please let us on board, please, please..."
No one can refuse a white-haired, red-eyed little girl's plea for help. Gabi wonders why the two women in front of her are dangerous, but the Berserker hiding behind the little girl looks like a bad guy with a fierce face.
Belhill noticed that the female navy officer's gaze lingered hesitantly on Uncle B, so she quickly smoothed things over and explained, "Uncle B has some mental issues and can't communicate verbally, but he listens to Ilya the most. We wouldn't have gotten here without his protection."
“Yes, yes, Berserker just looks fierce and eats a lot, he’s not dangerous at all,” Ilya quickly explained for Berserker. If their protector couldn’t board the ship, there was no point in the two of them boarding the warship.
"Come on up together. After all, the navy's mission is to protect civilians." After much consideration, Colonel Jabi finally let the three of them board the small boat to return to the naval warship.
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The two naval battleships roared with gunfire, leaving billowing black smoke in the air. This time, the cannons didn't need special calibration; their massive array was so densely packed that they could hit the target with a direct shot.
High-yield shells are very effective against these carbon-based creatures. One shell can shatter a Colossus, but the place where it falls will be filled by another Colossus.
The bombardment was not exactly ineffective, but it was certainly futile. There were simply too many colossal giants, so densely packed that they stretched as far as the eye could see.
Even if this is the only result they can achieve, the two naval battleships are still loading shells and preparing for the next bombardment. Meanwhile, the massive battle group is getting closer and closer to the coastline, leaving the navy with only one more opportunity to fire.
Other older naval vessels also joined the bombardment, determined to intercept the colossal enemy. Without the admiral's order to retreat, no soldier was permitted to leave; anyone who deserted would be considered a deserter, and even if they survived, they would face a military court-martial. In the end, their families would also be implicated, making their military service pointless.
Chapter 154 Naval Destruction
There were simply too many colossal behemoths, each hundreds of meters tall. The navy's armament was close to World War I levels; without devastating weapons like ground-attack bombers, no matter how many high-yield shells battleships carried, it wouldn't be enough to keep up with the colossal behemoths' consumption.
When ordinary naval forces couldn't handle the situation, it was time for a naval admiral to step in, and Admiral Akin, the humanoid calamity, stepped forward.
"There are more giant weapons than I expected, but that won't stop me." With no living people on Dressrosa Island, it's perfect for General Blue Serpent to take action. He has no psychological burden in dealing with these painless monsters in front of him.
"Acid rain"
The sky over Dressrosa suddenly changed. Dark clouds gathered rapidly at an abnormal speed, and when they fell on the heads of these colossal giants, highly corrosive rain poured down from above, covering the entire island with a massive acid rain disaster.
"Look! Look! General Blue Serpent's ability is working!"
"Cease the shelling! General Akin will allow us to eliminate the enemy."
"Thankfully, this demonic rain didn't fall on humans."
The colossal giants were, after all, a group of flesh and blood without armor. Carbon-based life forms were exposed to highly corrosive acid rain, and one by one they suffered torn flesh and exposed white bones in a short time. Every raindrop that fell on the giants left its mark.
Although the white vapor emitted by the Colossus has self-healing capabilities, it cannot heal its wounds in time in the face of strong acid, and its skin and flesh peel off like a viscous liquid.
Steel or stone cannot withstand acid rain, let alone giant bones. They were quickly melted by the cascading acid rain and automatically collapsed into a lump of flesh due to gravity.
Admiral Akin's Logia-type Rain-Rain Fruit ability drew gasps of amazement both inside and outside the light screen; this terrifying Devil Fruit power was practically made for the destruction of an island.
The island's creatures will be painfully corroded by acid rain, and the land will become severely acidified after being irrigated by acid rain. It will be difficult for any grass to grow on the island in the future, and the coast will become a dead zone for fish. This is a completely suicidal plan.
When Gabi and the other naval personnel returned to their warship and witnessed the admiral's annihilation of the giant, they couldn't help but marvel at how fortunate this monster was to be on the side of justice. "Is this the end?"
As the navy celebrated the Blue Admiral's victory, a golden lightning bolt fell from the sky above a naval prison ship, shattering the illusions of these weaklings.
Smoker stared at the blinding lightning in the distance. He really hadn't expected his opponent to escape in this way. A white giant burst out of the prison ship. Its twenty-meter-tall body caused the ship holding him to explode on the spot, and all the navy personnel on board were killed.
The white giant was holding a human figure in his hand, none other than the evil scientist Caesar Clown. The giant's identity was self-evident: a damned naval spy.
"Vergo, you deserve to die!" Smoker's body turned into smoke and accelerated toward the white giant. It was his mistake to lock him up on the prison ship; he shouldn't have let him leave Punk Hazard alive.
Vergo was controlling the white giant, which was the power of the Warhammer Giant. With a wave of his hand, countless white needles shot out densely. The warship could not dodge this rain of needles at all.
The white spikes, nearly a meter long, easily pierced through the old-fashioned warships and wooden boats. The steel armor of the two battleships could barely withstand a dozen or so spikes; any more and they would be helpless. In an instant, all the warships on the coastline were riddled with holes.
The vast majority of the navy personnel were impaled on the ships. These flesh and blood bodies were reduced to blood gourds in the face of hardening abilities, and each of them died a very tragic death.
Two CP0 agents used Moonwalk to fly into the air, attempting to shatter the spikes aimed at the Celestial Dragons with their own strength. Government agents could shatter dozens of spikes with Armament Haki, but they were easily shot down from the air if they were not careful.
Armament Haki defense has its limits. The two Celestial Dragons' shields used their lives to fulfill their lifelong beliefs, serving as dogs for the Celestial Dragons until their deaths.
"It hurts so much, Father! I don't want to die!" Charles Saint's stomach was pierced by a sharp spike, and he was pinned to the deck. Even though his face was relatively resilient and he had a lot of blood, he could not escape death from the repeated attacks of the spikes.
However, he was still lucky. When the painful Saint Charlos looked at his family, he saw that the female master of the Charlos Palace had been pierced in the head by a needle and was now kneeling on the spot as a headless corpse.
The father, Roswald Saint, was impaled on a naval vessel. Because the wound was to the heart, he died on the spot without even making a sound. The two family members thus made their hasty exit from the scene.
The gods died right before his eyes, no different from the other marines. Despair filled Charlos's heart. In the face of violence, the Celestial Dragons' privileges were nothing but a fart.
Charles Saint wouldn't die anytime soon. He could only watch his internal organs spill out onto the ground, yet he dared not bite his tongue to commit suicide. He endured extreme torment before his death, and his distorted face was his last close-up.
"Why...why didn't you die?" Charlos Saint, on his deathbed, actually saw the Celestial Dragons, the last thing he wanted to see.
Donquixote Musgard Saint crawled out from a group of navy corpses. When the white giant launched his attack, these soldiers disregarded their own lives, and more than a dozen of them tackled him to the ground, protecting the Celestial Dragon with their bodies. Even if all the other navy soldiers died, they would protect his safety.
As the brother of a Celestial Dragon Admiral, the Marines were willing to risk their lives for him. Looking at these young faces, Saint Musgard felt a pang of sorrow. "Thank you, thank you so much."
This maverick Celestial Dragon, who didn't wear an oxygen mask, knelt before the light screen in front of those who had given their lives to save him. He didn't know how to thank them, and the only way he could think of was to kneel and kowtow.
"Save me...save me," Charles Saint, a Celestial Dragon with countless wives, still hoped his enemy would save him before he died.
Saint Musgard walked to the body and saw Saint Charlos's eyes unfocused and unclosed in death. As a fellow Celestial Dragon, he couldn't bear it and gently stroked his eyes to close them in death.
He looked up at Smoker and the white giant who were fighting. The poison attribute of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit was not enough to defeat Vergo for the time being, and the two were locked in a fierce battle before the spiked attacks stopped.
With only another naval admiral in sight, Saint Musgard shifted his gaze in another direction, where he witnessed a scene he would never forget. "How could this be? A black giant..."
Originally just a body of flesh and blood, the colossal giant was now covered in a layer of black Armament Haki. Admiral Akin's acid rain attack lost its effect, and the highly corrosive liquid that fell on the black giant was no different from ordinary rainwater.
Each Colossus is imbued with Armament Haki, maximizing its individual defensive and destructive power. The Rumbling embarks on a new journey within the light barrier.
Chapter 155 The world is shocked
The fact that three Celestial Dragons with names and identities died right in front of the camera shocked the audience on the high seas. It turns out that even the gods can die!
The ugliest of the three, Charles Saint, died the most painfully. Before his death, he experienced the treatment of a slave, watching his internal organs spill out onto the ground, and died in despair as time passed.
Although Charlia Palace and Roswald Saint, father and daughter, did not have a dignified death, the process of dying was only in an instant, and they were fortunate enough to die without experiencing any pain.
There are too many people who have a grudge against the God Clan. On the surface, the Navy has suppressed their demands with violence, but there is a lot of discontent brewing inside. This volcano will eventually erupt.
Once the Celestial Dragons lose their means of protection, it's perfectly normal for everyone to kick them while they're down. I bet any intelligent being would want to stomp on the corpse of the gods, spit on it, piss on it, and then leave.
The people of this world have suffered under the Celestial Dragons for far too long. They wish all the descendants of the Twenty Kings would die out. Without the Celestial Dragons and the oppression overhead, even if the common people are exploited by pirates, their lives would still be better than they are now.
The Celestial Dragons' gruesome deaths on the screen secretly pleased most people, including the Marines, ordinary civilians, pirates, World Government agents, and even Celestial Dragons' slaves. The more gruesome the deaths of the gods, the better; they eagerly awaited what would happen next on the screen.
The three Celestial Dragons who were responsible for the accident lived in the Sabaody Archipelago in the real world. They weren't very interested in the light screen that appeared in the sky. Playing with their slaves and engaging in frivolous acts of killing were what the Celestial Dragons loved to do most.
The light screen revealed that the three of them would die five years later, causing the noble Celestial Dragons to immediately break down their defenses. When did it become the turn of the gods to die in this messed-up world? What are the Navy and CP0 doing with these two dogs? Even if they feed them shit every day, they can at least bark a couple of times. They can't even protect the Celestial Dragons' safety. What use are they?
With the Celestial Dragons' wealth, they booked the most luxurious hotel in the Sabaody Archipelago. Other races were "politely" asked to leave by the Celestial Dragons' shield. As for any injuries or bruises that occurred during the process, unfortunately, they had to pay for their own medical expenses.
In the most luxurious suite, the three Celestial Dragons were left alone to talk. Charlos Saint, the most pathetic member of the God race, burst into tears inside the oxygen bubble, "Father, I don't want to die yet. Five years is too short. I don't want to die so soon."
Rozwald Saint looked at his good-for-nothing son, who did nothing but play with women all day long, and didn't even pick the strongest slaves. Now, his son's mournful appearance made him even angrier.
"All you do is cry and cry. What else can you do besides cry and have a runny nose? Even your sister doesn't react this strongly. Stop crying and don't let the slaves look down on you." Since he already knew about his death, he should just avoid it. He should stay near the Naval Headquarters and not go to Dressrosa. If things can go wrong here, then only the Holy Land Mary Geoise is safe in this world.
Charlia Palace recalled the scene of her head being blown off in the light screen. Her death was truly gruesome, leaving her a ridiculous headless female corpse. "It's all Doflamingo's fault. This former Celestial Dragon had given up his identity, yet the Five Elders deliberately indulged him, allowing him to retain some privileges. Ultimately, they bear an unshirkable responsibility for raising such a monster five years later. This Donquixote Family's Heavenly Demon has truly given our divine race a big surprise."
Vergo, this Marine spy, is Doflamingo's man. Three Celestial Dragons died at his hands. I really underestimated this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He slaughtered Marines and tortured Celestial Dragons in front of Marine Admirals. Who gave him the courage (Fish Leong)?
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