Chapter 426: The Colossal Titan Dies!

"Ki sensing."

A light shone between Jiraiya's brows, and a golden-orange Sage's Eye quickly discovered the Marleyan duo who had arrived in the company of the now-slain Armored Giant.

He leaped high, chakra adhering to the soles of his feet, allowing him to traverse the rooftops as if walking on flat ground.

"It's the murderer who killed Reiner!"

Watching her indecisive companion, Ani sensed the danger, opened her eyes, and, forcing her exhausted body to hold up, transformed into the Female Titan.

White smoke dispersed with the wind.

The Female Titan, into which Ani had transformed, scattered the crowd in the civilian gathering area, tilted her head back, and let out a massive howl.

Muku were drawn over by the Female Titan's howl.

They appeared in droves before Jiraiya, unconsciously blocking his approach.

Their massive bodies meant the Muku only needed to reach out their hands to grab Jiraiya as he leaped across the rooftops.

Fire Release: Sea of Fire.

Jiraiya leaped high, dodging the grab of a Muku, formed hand seals, and his throat swelled up.

A wave of flames, resembling a red ocean, swept across several city blocks.

The scorching high temperature ignited everything, then rapidly burned it into charred ash.

Over a dozen Muku were swallowed by the flames; their burning bodies emitted white steam as they attempted natural recovery, but after the flames burned through the skin of their napes and incinerated the entire nape muscle until it lost all activity, they crashed down heavily, never to rise again.

However, taking advantage of the Muku's struggle, the Female Titan had already picked up her companion and was sprinting wildly toward the direction of Wall Rose.

Since she had already been exposed, there was no point in continuing the meaningless concealment.

The black giant that had suddenly appeared was clearly hostile toward the middle-aged man capable of manipulating fire.

As long as she could shake off the opponent and the black giant that had beaten the toad to death, it could intercept the opponent for her.

The Female Titan glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw the black giant's fists continuously smashing into the blade of the giant toad, forcing the opponent to retreat step by step.

The gap in strength was very obvious.

All she had to do was charge into Wall Rose and finally enter Wall Sina; capturing the royal family would complete the mission.

Chaos was a crisis, but also an opportunity.

It was all that idiot Reiner's fault.

If they had just returned the way they came when they first landed on the island, they wouldn't have had to bear such great blame.

But now, the bloodlines of two intelligent giants were lost; if they didn't obtain the Founding Titan's bloodline, they would be executed even if they returned to the Marley Empire.

"Jiraiya, hurry up, I can't hold on!"

Gamabunta swung his blade, striking the black giant's neck with precision.

Clang.

It was like striking steel; the blade chipped.

The black giant didn't even adopt a defensive stance; it simply swung its fist, striking Gamabunta's body, causing the Disaster Armor summoned by Jiraiya to have light spots continuously shatter.

They fell with a rustle.

Lacking any flashy abilities, the black giant relied on the purest physical capabilities; its strength, physique, and defense had all reached the limit of 【Tier 1】.

Even if Senju Hashirama were resurrected and unleashed the Thousand Armed Kanzeon, it would be difficult to break through the black giant's defense.

"I understand."

Jiraiya's expression was solemn; his ankles rotated, and his figure flickered continuously—just appearing on a rooftop ridge, he would flash dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.

He was not very skilled at Taijutsu, and continuous use of the Body Flicker Technique put great pressure on his body.

But he could still quickly catch up to the two giants.

Swish.

His white hair hardened and grew wildly, whipping out like a long lash with bursts of air-piercing sounds, lashing toward the Female Titan ahead.

The Female Titan's ankles were struck by the Needle Jizo, and she stumbled, crawling onto the ground.

The howling continued incessantly.

Immediately, a large number of Muku rushed over, surrounding her and clinging to the Female Titan's body like a Tank.

"Can the howl summon mindless giants?"

Jiraiya didn't even blink, his hands forming seals.

Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet! The flames, vaguely converging into the shape of a dragon's head, represented the pinnacle of chakra shape transformation, burning the Muku while the scorching temperature transferred onto the Female Titan.

The Female Titan twisted her body, threw off the burning Muku on her, jumped up, and stomped toward Jiraiya.

Rasengan! Jiraiya held his right arm high, his palm gathering a concentrated ball of blue chakra, piercing through the sole of the Female Titan's foot and straight through the instep.

This was the gap in absolute strength.

Although both the Giant world and the Ninja World were 【Tier 1】 worlds, their levels of development were different.

The Ninja World, with 【Natural Energy】 as its Foundation Stone, had undergone thousands of years of development and, catalyzed by the alien 【Six Paths bloodline】, had already touched the threshold of a Second-tier World.

Whereas in the Juren Shijie, the World Cornerstone containing the 【Giant】 attribute was clearly just getting started.

Even if Jiraiya had not become a player in the Samsara Game, he could have easily killed the Female Titan with his Shadow-level strength.

Let alone now.

"Ani!"

Beitehuoerde let out a roar; a large amount of white steam erupted around his body, scarlet muscles continuously surged out, covering and growing, his bones extending, and in just two seconds, he transformed into the Colossal Titan.

High-temperature white steam exploded, acting like a corrosive concentrated sulfuric acid area-of-effect attack.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

The surrounding buildings and the earth were all scorched into depressions and collapsed by the white steam.

Wind Style: Pressure Damage.

Jiraiya leaped high into the air, looking down from above, and fired a high-density wind sphere that exploded, blowing away all the high-temperature steam like a storm cannon.

Without hesitation, he plummeted with the force of gravity and pressed a Rasengan onto the nape of the Colossal Giant.

【Killed the Colossal Giant, seal released by 20%...】

Notification: The destruction level of the Juren Shijie has increased.

"Roar..."

The Female Giant that Ani had transformed into let out a painful wail.

It was not only because the death of her companion meant she was the only undercover agent of the Marley Empire remaining, but also because of the death she was about to face.

Bang! Just as Jiraiya was about to kill the Female Giant, a loud noise came from behind him.

Gamabunta was kicked heavily by the black Giant and sent flying, plowing a deep furrow into the ground until he barely stopped after crashing into the moat of Wall Rose.

Gamabunta, who had originally been able to hold his own against the black Giant, was knocked unconscious by a single blow.

"Jiraiya, if you lose, don't come back to see me!"

The dying Gamabunta voluntarily canceled the Summoning Jutsu.

Jiraiya's expression was grave as he looked at the black Giant that was growing in size.

The black Giant, which had originally been close in size to a normal Giant, began a sort of fusion state as if it were reclaiming the Titan Bloodline that had been drifting between heaven and earth after the Colossal Giant was killed.

Colossal black Giant.

The game text notification actually faintly hinted at an evolution toward a Dark Gold luster.

Jiraiya felt a headache coming on and muttered, "If I kill a Giant, I can unseal my abilities, but can the Titan World Consciousness also reclaim the power of the dead Giant and feed it back to the black Giant?"

The city walls were destroyed and civilians were trampled by Muku, yet the Titan World Consciousness provided not the slightest feedback.

Yet when a Shifter Giant was killed, it triggered a backlash from the Titan World Consciousness.

"In other words, has the Juren Shijie completely abandoned humanity?"

Looking at the soldiers of the regiment fighting to the death despite being in a desperate situation with a chasm of difference in strength, and the civilians in whose eyes burned a desire for survival.

Jiraiya showed a pained expression and murmured, "How pathetic."

"Eren, watch me closely!"

"I was once like you, easily submitting to the arrangements of fate, without even a single thought of resistance."

"But the me of now no longer believes in fate."

"If the destruction of humanity is the fate of this world, then I shall break it with my own hands."

Regardless of whether Eren, who had transformed into the black Giant, could hear him,

Jiraiya let out an extremely heroic laugh, his body shrouded in the Disaster Armor, and he met the black Giant's fist with a punch of his own in a clash of brute force.

(End of chapter)