Chapter 427: Coordinate World, Ymir's Giant

Everything settled into dust.

Eren, his whole body in excruciating pain, slowly regained consciousness, feeling as though he had just had a dream.

In the dream, he transformed into a black Giant and fought a bitter battle with Uncle Jiraiya, ranging from Shiganshina District all the way outside the city walls.

Ninjutsu, Sage Art.

Flames and toads, every method exhausted, Jiraiya, having overdrawn his physical shell, defeated the black Giant.

"Are you awake?"

Jiraiya extended a broad palm and pulled Eren up in one motion.

Eren asked blankly: "Am I still alive? Was it you, Uncle Jiraiya, who saved me?"

"I failed."

Jiraiya's voice was low.

He had still underestimated the intensity of the resistance in the Juren Shijie; the final black Giant, a second before being killed, had actually used the Coordinate Power to gather all the Giant power together and then self-destructed.

It even caused the three Giant city walls to be blown to pieces.

The world was on the verge of destruction.

Countless commoners and Noble, all looking at the sky in unison, their faces filled with despair.

The sun seemed to be covered by a thin mist, losing its warmth and color.

The sky looked like a glass Barrier covered in cracks, with fine specks of light falling constantly, giving the feeling that it was about to shatter.

As far as the eye could see, the earth was peeling and crumbling away bit by bit, like foam.

The entire Juren Shijie,

having lost the support of its source power and with its World Cornerstone destroyed, began to enter the collapse phase.

Mission failed.

Jiraiya frowned deeply, not knowing how to face the boy before him.

Clearly, all of this had nothing to do with him.

He was a Konoha ninja, a player in the Samsara Game, merely executing a mission by the book; even if the mission failed, it was just a lack of ability.

Having the heart to save the world was enough to make these commoners of the Juren Shijie feel grateful.

However,

it was just very painful.

It was like when he first learned that Orochimaru had defected due to human experimentation, like learning that Tsunade had left Konoha suffering from hemophobia, like seeing his most prized disciple Namikaze Minato die in battle...

Fate is truly an unfathomable thing.

He had clearly already become a player in the Samsara Game, and had clearly shouted that he would help Eren break his fate.

Yet the result was disappointing.

It shouldn't be like this...

At this moment, Jiraiya truly understood what the game merchant had once said: the ultimate goal of Samsara Game players is to save worlds invaded by pollution.

"Is the world... going to be destroyed?"

Eren's pupils trembled, and the prophecy of the apocalypse he had seen after becoming the black Giant surfaced in his mind.

As expected, everything was in vain.

Even such a powerful otherworldly player had failed; how could he possibly save the world?

"Armin, don't fall."

Mikasa, with her short black hair, supported Armin as they walked on the fragmented earth, trying to find a trace of Eren.

Countless commoners, like a scattered flock of sheep, wandered this land, trying to find a corner where they could survive.

The world is ending,

no life can be spared; this is the price of being invaded by pollution.

Perhaps a few scattered lives with potential will be chosen by the pollution forces and, after being infused with Pollution Energy, become monsters, but most life will vanish along with the world.

"Captain Levi, stop, the world is about to be destroyed!"

The Survey Corps Commander, Erwin, sat slumped on the ground, his face full of despair.

Behind him,

the Survey Corps, always hailed as having the firmest will within the walls, had scattered and fled, losing their usual tenacity and courage in the face of Giants.

Some even began to indulge in pleasure, giving in to their desires and committing evil acts at the final moment of the apocalypse.

However, they were all beheaded by the short, cold-faced Levi.

"Is the world destined to be destroyed?"

Levi's gaze was cold; he did not stop just because there was no one left behind him. He said in a calm tone: "Is humanity destined to be locked inside the city walls? Just like now, haven't we already broken free from the shackles of the walls and stepped onto the land outside?"

He had mysophobia, but now he was covered in blood, clearly having killed many Giants.

He had no ambition to save the world.

However, Levi always felt he couldn't stop his steps; he had to try to do something, otherwise, he would feel regret.

One thing after another, scene after scene.

The apocalyptic scene was fully taken in by Jiraiya. After a long silence, he asked: "Eren, are you willing to sacrifice yourself to save this world?" Eren nodded without hesitation: "I am willing."

Hearing this, Jiraiya used his fingers like a blade to cut open Eren's chest. Blood flowed out, but instead of falling to the ground, it condensed in mid-air, vaguely forming the shape of a Giant.

Eren's face turned deathly pale,

and Jiraiya's hair also began to turn white. If his previous white hair had been full of vigorous vitality, now it was the pale white of an elderly man.

Prophet, a very rare ability that most people are unwilling to upgrade.

Because the price of capturing fate is very high; if one is not careful, it is one's own vitality that is overdrawn.

"Head east."

Jiraiya led Eren, moving forward toward the east; beneath his feet were fire-elemental toads created from Qi, and their movement speed was extremely fast.

After about half a day, they had already reached the edge of the island.

Gazing at the boundless sea, Jiraiya jumped into the water without hesitation; following the collapse of the Juren Shijie, his unsealed strength had already recovered by more than half.

"Roar..."

Soon, a deformed black Giant was knocked out from the seabed.

This black Giant was covered in thick fur, possessing the stamina of the Cart Titan, the bite force of the Jaw Titan, and arms in the weaponized state of the War Hammer Titan.

"So it was hiding here?"

Jiraiya broke through the surface of the sea, formed hand seals with both hands, and spat out a sea of fire like mist.

Fire Style: Toad Oil Flame Bullet! The sky-filling sea of fire engulfed the deformed black Giant; its fur burned rapidly, and the weapons on its arms also melted under the high temperature.

The opponent let out a roar of fear and anger,

and with its entire body aflame, it lunged at Jiraiya, who was unable to move in mid-air.

Sage Art: Flame Rasengan! A continuously churning and rotating tornado of fire reached from the sea surface to the clouds, finally converging into a Rasengan as blinding as the scorching sun.

The deformed black Giant was shredded into ashes by the fire tornado in a single encounter.

Under Eren's shocked gaze, Jiraiya stepped onto the land as if he had just done a trivial little thing.

Having regained his Tier 2 strength, Jiraiya was already an invincible existence in the Juren Shijie.

Even the super-strong Giants deliberately created by the Juren Shijie were nothing more than mere cannon fodder.

Jiraiya had sought out the black Giant because his precognition ability sensed that the opportunity to reverse the destruction of the world lay within these black Giants.

【Kill 【Polluted Giant】, obtain the key to the Coordinate World, proceed?】

"Proceed!"

A space-time tunnel appeared on the spot, shrinking at a slow speed; it was estimated that it would disappear in two minutes.

Jiraiya lifted his feet and passed through the space-time tunnel.

Before his eyes was a boundless land, with a giant tree that looked like a convergence of a sea of light at its center.

Above his head was a boundless sea of stars.

"Is this the origin of the Juren Shijie?"

Jiraiya turned his head and saw a Giant with a massive body after merging with Pollution Energy.

It was also the source of the Juren Shijie, the First Giant, Ymir.

She was an imprisoned slave, the earliest Giant, the King's wife, and the source of flesh and blood that was eaten to create the Nine Titans.

"Another fierce battle."

Jiraiya sighed, his expression grave.

The Ymir Titan, having merged with Pollution Energy, had broken free from the world's shackles and grown into a Lv. 40 Golden Monster.

His momentary soft-heartedness in coming to this Coordinate World at the core of the Giants might very well lead to his death here.

But he did not regret it.

Since he had chosen the mission to save the world, he had to walk firmly to the end.

Suddenly,

the Ymir Titan shrank abruptly, turning into the appearance of a young girl, her body constantly flickering with afterimages.

Jiraiya muttered in confusion: "An unstable state?"

Before he could strike first, the girl-like Ymir had already walked toward him; arriving before him, she opened her tightly clenched hands and said, "Originally, I wanted to wait for Eren to come; I didn't expect there to be an outsider."

Behind him, Eren also arrived at the Coordinate World, most of his chaotic memories rippling back and forth in his mind.

"The world is left to you, Eren."

After Ymir handed over the item in her hands, her body completely turned into sand.

She was the source of the Giants and the core of this world.

Ymir was a slave during her lifetime and a slave after becoming a Giant, but in the end, she did not want to be a slave to the Polluted World; she wanted to find true freedom.

This was also the river of fate of the Juren Shijie, the thing that ran through it from beginning to end.

Just like Eren, 【Broken World Cornerstone Giant】: The core origin of the Juren Shijie; after turning it in, it can be exchanged for two million Reward Points.

Hint: After turning it in and forfeiting the Reward Points, the Juren Shijie will merge into the Lunhui Youxi Bantu.

(End of chapter)