Aldia's Demon

(Soundtrack BGM: The Reluctant Heroes)

Twenty-two years ago, in 22, at the age of 828, he joined the Survey Corps after three years of training soldiers.

And 27 years ago, in 823, he lost his father and changed his life aspirations.

Originally determined to follow his father to become a scholar and teacher, he decided to join the investigative corps after that sudden change to find out the truth beyond the wall with his own hands.

So from that day on, he started exercising.After hearing the sad news of the teacher's accidental death, the classmates around him looked at him with sympathy, but he just stared ahead amidst the remorse, guilt and hatred...

It was the first thing he gave up—his own comfort.

Two years later, the time came to join the training corps.

The recruits lined up in uniform, and the strict instructors began to ask everyone about their birth and life experience, and "baptized" them into the army.

"My name is Anne Margaret..."

"My name is Borg Lek..."

"My name is Neil Decker..."

People all endured the persecution of the devil instructor in fear, and reported their names in a panic.After registering their names one by one, they noticed that a tall, handsome blond boy in the crowd was not asked.

Nair, who is good at observing words and expressions, also followed the whispers in the crowd and looked at the unique boy. He looked forward impartially, and his unique pair of blue eyes were not as restrained and flustered as others, but It reveals the coldness and perseverance that do not belong to this age.

Most noticeable, of course, are his striking, eyebrows...

Nair remembered the boy at this time, although he didn't even know his name.

In the evening, the enlisted trainees sat together for their first collective meal.A few well-meaning teenagers sat around Alvin and curiously asked him why he escaped the instructor's questioning:

"Hey, Golden Retriever. Why didn't the instructor ask about your life experience?"

"My name is not 'Golden Retriever', my name is Alvin Smith."

"Isn't it because everyone has registered their names, and you are the only one who is special. Well, but, your eyebrows are really special~"

"..."

Nel, who was sitting near them, was eating bread while turning his head to observe people "harassing" the blond teenagers one by one in order to satisfy their desire to explore. He noticed that one of them was a boy named Borg.

Why not be asked by the instructor? ...

It is rumored that the instructor's question at the founding ceremony of the training corps was to baptize the recruits who are about to enlist in the army, in order to make them abandon their past background, status and self, and become soldiers who can benefit mankind.It is said that soldiers who have undergone "baptism" do not need to perform this ceremony, and those who have undergone baptism will have different eyes from others...

Is it because he has undergone some kind of baptism, so he doesn't have to be asked...?

Reminiscing the look in Erwin's eyes that he saw in the morning, Neil speculated.And Borg and the others were still relentlessly questioning that person:

"Could it be that you are the heir of a nobleman, have you already decided to enter the gendarmerie through the back door?"

"What are you talking about, Borg, why did those noble men come to the Wall of Rose~"

It seems that his aura is different from ordinary people, and the "gossip" about his life experience has become more and more clamorous, but when they said this, they irritated the blond boy in front of them.

He put down the soup bowl sullenly, knocked harshly on the wooden table, and after pondering for a moment, he said something that shocked everyone at the table:

"I want to join the Survey Corps."

[! ? ...]

The boy's words made Neil pause with his hand holding the half-cut bread. He really felt that this person was different, but he didn't expect that he would want to join the weirdo army that is now "existing in name only"...

"Huh!? Join the Survey Corps!? Do you want to die in a hurry!?" Borg even mocked directly.

"...I'm not going to die, I want to prove a conjecture..." Seeing the other party's contemptuous expression, he also argued with him a little excitedly.

"What conjecture? What else is there besides the giant?" Borg folded his arms and looked at the strange guy in front of him with disdain.

"There are probably human beings outside the wall!" He glared at the man, expressing his father's conjecture that had been lingering in his mind...

"Human beings!? Hahahahahaha..." At this moment, the female soldier named Annie, who had been listening, couldn't hold back her laughter, and the surrounding people burst into laughter as well.

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Borg, who was standing and looking down at him, showed a disdainful expression, and said dully:

"Hey, I thought it was some kind of amazing guy, but I didn't expect it to be just a whimsical lunatic!"

After all, he walked away.

And Alvin kept staring at his leaving back, his right hand on the table clenched into a fist.Although he didn't make a direct counterattack because of people's ridicule, Nair could see that his blue eyes were burning with unwilling and stubborn anger...

On the second day, the recruits who had just joined the army ushered in a severe test - three-dimensional maneuvering device adaptability test.

Since craftsmen developed weapons capable of killing giants decades ago, the mastery of three-dimensional mobile devices has become the only way for every soldier.And those who fail the adaptability test will also be judged as having no talent to become soldiers and be exiled to the pioneering land...

"Huha..." Borg, who got up early and lined up, yawned and said absent-mindedly, "Why do people who want to join the Gendarmerie need to know this thing? There are no giants in the wall of Xena, leaving it to those who are in a hurry It’s okay to send the dead to learn~”

"Brother is right!... This thing is difficult at first glance, it has to be dangling on it..." a fat soldier named Lucille Chase beside him echoed, looking at the The test device that was gradually set up spoke tremblingly.

"Quiet—!" the officer ordered, and the soldiers stopped whispering, and lined up neatly, "Everyone line up—the three-dimensional mobility adaptability test will be conducted according to roll call and grouping!"

The test was in full swing. Alvin, Nair, Borg, Lucili, and Annie were divided into a group. Everyone began to put on the device carefully, waiting nervously to be hoisted.Nobody wants to be proven in front of everyone that they are incompetent...

But the fact is that people's talents are divided into grades, and the reality will always make people happy and worry...

Nair swayed a few times under the discomfort of the sudden feeling of soaring, but soon found the knack, slowly stabilized, and breathed a sigh of relief.Looking to the left, he found that Borg was almost motionless in mid-air, while Lucili and Anne both fell down after struggling.And suddenly, there were a few low-pitched sneers from the crowd, and he looked to the right...

Erwin, who was finally hoisted because of the careful wearing of the device, even though he had rehearsed it dozens of times in his mind, and even though he had made perfect preparations, his body still lost his balance uncontrollably at the moment he flew into the air...

Borg, who was standing still on the three-dimensional mobile device, looked at the man's funny appearance with some satisfaction, folded his arms and thought:

【Hmph~ Sure enough, desire and strength are two different things~】

That night, after dinner, Nair found Alvin at the training ground.The device racks set up during the day still stand in the night for the recruits to practice.But at this time, in the quiet venue, he was the only one sweating on the three-dimensional mobile device, and the bright moonlight cast a long reflection of him hanging in mid-air on the ground.

Nair gradually approached, and saw that although the man still fell down in a short time, it was also visible to the naked eye that he had improved compared to the day.He was so focused that he didn't realize it until Neil came to him, turned his head away in embarrassment, and continued to practice on his own without saying a word, until the other party asked first:

"Why are you working so hard? You want to join the Survey Corps, right? You don't need to be in the top ten to join the Survey Corps..."

"What are you talking about?... People who fail the adaptability test will be exiled to the frontier!" Nair was a little surprised that Alvin answered him in a rare anxious tone. Although he didn't say it, the embarrassment during the day was obvious It hurt his self-esteem, "not to mention...this is also a necessary survival skill outside the wall."

"Then there's no need to not even eat, right?" Nair still couldn't empathize with the boy's words. For him, the wall was too far away.At this moment, he looked helplessly at this person tossing himself on the three-dimensional mobile device.

"I can't eat..." But the boy stopped his movements at this moment.Neil, who was watching him, couldn't understand what kind of emotion was contained in this sentence.

It is the stubbornness of not wanting to eat under the contemptuous eyes of the people around, the anxiety of fear of being exiled, the chagrin of one's own incompetence, and the self-blame of consciously failing to live up to father's expectations...

"Nel...why is it that the more powerful a person is against giants, the more they can stay away from giants? What do you think?" Suddenly, the blond boy turned his head to look at him, his blue eyes showing a calmness under the moonlight with sharp.

"..." He looked at him, not knowing how to answer.This person's words and deeds are always so special that they are out of place.But Nair felt that it was becoming more and more impossible to ignore his existence, so he hesitated for a while and asked, "Can you tell me about your conjecture?"

Hearing this, Erwin was stunned for a moment, and then a relieved smile emerged.He got off the device, ready to tell Neil about his "childhood past".

"It's not my guess, it's my father's." Alvin walked with Nair, came to the back of the camp kitchen, and said.

"You mean you think your father was killed by the king's government? Then his hypothesis is that there are humans outside the walls, and our memories have been tampered with!?..." Nair repeated what he told himself in disbelief, without Thinking that what he said to Berg and others at the dinner table that day was just the tip of the iceberg...

"It's not what I think, it's for sure. Who would believe that my father died in an accident? He was removed by Wang Zheng just because he was close to the truth, because of my 'informant'..." The young man persistently said to the man, his eyes wide open. What I can't hide in my eyes is the pain engraved in my memory on that day two years ago...

"I said you...don't talk nonsense like this, or you and I will be in danger." He looked at him helplessly, not knowing where his determination came from.

"So please don't tell anyone else." And the man looked straight at him, his eyes flickering with hatred in the dark night and in the lights, his expression and words made him feel a little creepy, "Wang Zheng I thought that killing all those who were close to the truth would serve as a warning to others, and use terror to block people's desire to explore, but I think that is instead a kind of evidence for people's prying into the covered facts..."

"........."

Nair stared blankly at the boy's frightening expression, with cold sweat running down his forehead. He couldn't believe that the person in front of him was a boy of his own age...and it was also because he was not a dull person , Alvin will tell him these things, and he will be able to make analysis and rhetorical questions afterwards:

"Since you believe so much that Wang Zheng has covered up the facts, why don't you simply join the gendarmerie and get closer to the central authority to achieve your goals?...You actually don't want to work with the murderer who killed your father, right?"

"Perhaps you are right. But I doubt very much whether the Gendarmerie, which such people have access to, can give me the truth."

"..." Of course he knew what he was referring to, and he was referring to the group of Borg who talked about the comfort and enjoyment of the Gendarmerie Corps every day, "I also want to join the Gendarmerie Corps. Compared with those illusory Conspiracy theory, I want to shoulder the responsibility of being a son of man and not let my parents down."

As he spoke, he walked towards the dormitory.Talking to Erwin made him feel tired, as if nothing in this giant wall had ever made him feel so exhausted.At the same time, the boy's strange eyes and angry words were also reflected in his mind, making him feel dangerous.

When he took a step, he threw the last sentence to the boy to end the conversation:

"Maybe you are too tired, you should take a rest quickly, the final assessment of the adaptability test will be in a few days."

Alvin watched his leaving back, saying nothing in the dark night...

A few days later, on the day of the final assessment, Alvin achieved a balance through several days of hard work, and successfully passed the adaptability test.Then, waiting for those who stay will be the more rigorous six courses of the training corps, namely:

Equestrianism, logistical marching, fighting, art of war handouts, techniques for repairing three-dimensional mobile devices, and the most important three-dimensional mobile skills.

Although he is not good at three-dimensional maneuvering, but with his excellent performance in the Art of War class and his continuous overcoming of his weaknesses in three-dimensional maneuvering, his overall score has gradually ranked among the top ten.

However, the lingering shadow is also peeking at him. If people's jealousy and prejudice are left unchecked, they will ferment more and more...

One day, he was stopped by three people.At the head was Borg Lek, the fatter Lucille Chase, and a taller soldier, Kirk Lattes.

The three surrounded him in the open space behind the building, and Borg began to provoke him: "Hey, eyebrows, have you been doing quite well lately?"

"Eyebrow" was his nickname that had been spread among the training soldiers for some time, and the culprits were naturally Borg and the others.Since that day when everyone at the dinner table felt that they couldn't get along with him, people unconsciously began to reject others.

"I said you are just a lunatic who wants to investigate the death of the Corps—" Borg's words became more and more intense, and on the way to say this, Kerke punched him heavily in the face, making him almost unable to stand Wen, "Why do you still want to occupy the top ten position!?"

And when the dissidents who were originally despised climbed onto people's heads, this rejection would intensify amidst jealousy and resentment...

While Kerke was punching and kicking him, Borg continued to stand on the sidelines and uphold "justice" for his companions: "Do you know that Lucille was originally in the top ten just because you pushed him away? Did you live up to your parents’ expectations for him to join the Gendarmerie!?”

Under the beating like a storm, his neatly combed hair was scattered, but his eyes stared straight at the leader.

Seeing that he not only did not give in, but also glared at him viciously, Borg became more energetic: "Lucilly, you also punch me twice? To this disgusting guy who took your position..."

After hearing this, the chubby soldier hit Alvin as if he had obtained permission to do evil.And when their fists and kicks paused, he turned his head and looked directly at Borg and said, without a trace of panic or fear in his words:

"That only shows that he is not as good as me."

"..." The three of them were speechless for a while, looking at each other in blank dismay.

Borg looked at the young man who was staring at him. At this time, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and the corners of his mouth and nostrils were bloodshot... But the words in his mouth seemed to be those three people who were beaten, not himself. .

Borg laughed back angrily, and Kerke said: "Brother, look, this bastard is still stubborn! Do you want to do it yourself?"

As soon as this remark came out, he took over the conversation, folded his arms and sneered, and said, "Heh~ it's exactly what I want. But, he's too tall, so it's inconvenient to fight~"

Kerke and Lucili heard what he was implying, and looked at each other with a smirk.After the two exchanged glances, they moved behind Alvin and pressed his shoulders from left to right...

They tried to force him to his knees with brute force, but they met with resistance from him.The two found that they could not press him to the ground, and the scene was at a stalemate for a while.

"Hey, are you still stubbornly resisting?" Borg mocked, showing a cruel smile, "It seems that we need some means!"

The two of them received his signal, stepped on the inside of Erwin's knee, and stepped hard on his joints... He was finally unable to do so, and was forced to bend his knees in front of them.

The moment he knelt on the ground, he closed his eyes in pain, and the sense of humiliation in his heart made him grit his teeth in hatred, and when he opened his eyes again, resentful anger was ignited in his blue eyes, nailing the person in front of him.

Borg was immersed in the pleasure of forcing this guy who didn't show weakness to his knees, but he was turned back by the man's eyes full of anger.An uncontrollable fear of this gaze surged up in his heart, which made his desire to conquer be extinguished by a sense of shame before it could turn into pleasure.

He quickly stepped forward and kicked Erwin hard, so that he could no longer look at himself with that look.Then, as if vented, he said with a smirk:

"You know what I think is the most disgusting thing about you guy?... When we can only climb up in this stinky ditch, you always look at the distance beyond the wall; When you climbed out of here, you stood in front of the eyes, with a face of indifference... You never put us in your eyes, did you!?"

Excluding dissidents is a human self-protection mechanism.When the false illusion is punctured, only the sober ones can be eradicated to maintain their self-esteem and consciousness.It is always easier to solve the person who raised the problem than to solve the problem.

Borg punched him a few more times as he spoke, before finally giving up.

At this time Kerke said: "Speaking of brother, why did he not fight back after being beaten by us like this? - He obviously beat us badly in the fighting class."

"Who knows? But you have been resisted by him just now, haven't you? - Speaking of his fighting skills, he has a super high evaluation of 9 points, and he is really strong..." Borg said with a gloomy look on his lips. Laughing, looking at this thorn in his knees kneeling in front of him, he began to think about how to humiliate him, a sternness flashed in his eyes, "——take off his clothes."

Hearing this, Kerke and Lucili roughly took off the shirt of the person in front of them.Before Alvin could react, his torso was exposed in front of the three of them...

The three of them were shocked when they saw this scene.Not only did his torso have strong muscles, the marks of being kicked and beaten by them, but also a shocking red mark...

It was not a scar from being beaten by them, it was a strangle mark across the entire chest, with blood on the underarms on both sides... It was the mark caused by the long-term friction of the belt of the three-dimensional mobile device on the flesh.

The privacy was forcibly exposed in front of those who hated him, and Erwin closed his eyes in shame and reluctance, unwilling to look at the expressions of those three people.At this time, the expressions of the three people that he couldn't see were not relieved or secretly happy, but they were stuck in place in a daze.

What kind of hard training, day and night, would it take to leave such scars on the body? ...

At this time, they felt that the "trying to climb out of the stinky ditch" in their mouths turned into a joke and empty words in front of the facts presented by this prejudiced teenager.

"Hey! What are you doing!?"

Just when the few people were impacted by this person again, a suspicious shout pulled them out of their shocking thoughts, and made the person who was kneeling on the ground with closed eyes open his eyes to look at the person coming.

It was Nair who came, and it was time for the training soldiers to gather for dinner, but Erwin and the others were still absent.The officer asked Neil to look for it. As soon as he came here, he saw three people surrounding Erwin, and Erwin was kneeling on the ground, with the marks of being beaten, his upper body...

When he saw that it was Nair, he immediately turned his head away in embarrassment like that day, not wanting more people to see him in such a state of embarrassment...

And Nair was shocked by this amazing scene, and for some reason, excitedly stepped forward and grabbed Borg by the collar and scolded: "What are you three doing!? Are you bullying your companions!?"

Borg let go of Nell's hand angrily. Kerke and Lucili were too frightened to speak because of their deeds being revealed, while Erwin beside them stood up with some difficulty and picked up his clothes. Wear it back.

"Hmph, who is this lunatic's partner..." Borg continued to speak condescendingly, everything that happened today was terrible, as if he was the one being bullied...

And this kind of statement obviously made Neil feel unreasonable. He continued to question the three lawless people: "Is this the point!? You are violating military discipline! Do you know?"

Later, the five were called to the chief's office to report the situation.Borg, Krk and Lucili were fined for half a month for their malicious behavior and were not allowed to participate in training, and went to work as handymen for the Corps.And Erwin was not punished because he was the one who was raped unilaterally, as evidenced by the unharmedness of Nair and the three of them.

After the incident, Alvin lay in the infirmary for a day, and then went into training with bruises that had not completely subsided; the "handyman trio" received ridicule from the soldiers. The "prestige" was instantly wiped out; and Nair, as a witness of this incident, had a little more different thinking...

Why?The more people who can fight against giants, the more they can stay away from giants...

Why?In this stinky sewer-like world, anyone with a dream will be regarded as a different kind...

Why?Just being close to the truth will be erased; just being different will be brutalized...

In the past two years, Alvin talked about that conjecture with him many times during meals, but he didn't take it seriously every time; he used to think that the world outside the wall was too far away, as long as he became a gendarme to win glory for his parents, he would never be too far away. Ordinary life is fine.

But seeing this scene now, he couldn't help but think of the words that Alvin said to him that day under the light of the dark night:

【A gendarmerie that even those people can enter...】

Maybe... the world inside this huge wall is really a stinking ditch.A stinking ditch where dreams and looking up at the stars are not allowed.

Nair felt that something that had been stuck in his heart began to loosen, and the facts that were selectively ignored were constantly presented in front of him...

He also began to look forward to the world outside the wall...

The following day, he invited Alvin to drink at one of his favorite pubs, something he hadn't done in the previous two years.Alvin was a little surprised at his unsolicited invitation, but he still agreed.

After entering the tavern with Neil, he found that there were two male trainers waiting at the wine table, Olud Noel and Biga York.

The two also plan to join the Survey Corps, and now they are very pleased to see Nair change his mind and join them.

Since then, the four have often drank and chatted together in the bar, looking forward to the future of flying on the wings of freedom.

One day, the four of them got together in the bar as usual, when Neil was chatting with everyone, a soft female voice interrupted him:

"This is the wine you ordered..."

The visitor took four glasses of wine from the tray and put them on the table. She was a new maid named Mary, with long black hair and simple but clear eyes.

Nair was stunned for a moment, watching her walking away, and forgot to get the wine on the table for a moment, and it was not until Olud teased him that he came back to his senses:

"Hey, hey~ Someone's mouth is watering~"

Olud shoved Neil's shoulder while talking, Pika covered his mouth and laughed, and Erwin also smiled and looked at Neil, watching him with a slight blush on his face, looking at him. He drank and pretended to be calm under the ridicule of his companions.

She is indeed a beautiful girl, but she won't fall in love at first sight like her classmates do.Alvin thought so at that moment, but what happened next immediately changed his mind.

After drinking for a while, Neil planned to go out to sober up, also to "escape" the current embarrassing atmosphere, and Erwin accompanied him.

The two walked towards the creek behind the tavern. The bright moonlight reflected sparkling lights on the clear stream. The young girl sings the music of nature...

The two were stunned in place, the girl was humming a song from her hometown, forgetting to notice the arrival of the two behind her.

They fell in love with the same girl on the same day, for different reasons.

At night, lying on the bed in the dormitory of the Corps, the melody hummed by the girl lingered in the mind of the blond boy for a long time, and the lingering lingering sound continued... But he thought about this rhythm several times, and the lyrics that matched the rhythm involuntarily emerged in his heart:

[I've been extremely tired of the insignificance of human power...]

[Those weak people who are unwilling to sacrifice, how can there be any chance of victory? 】

【Finding the core fragment is the only hope for mankind...】

The sudden thought made him slightly surprised, it was the voice from the bottom of his heart...

Traveling all the way so far, I have experienced the despicable methods of the king's government, the cowardice of those who live in vain, and the despicability of those who seek fame and wealth.

He wanted to go outside the wall, and dedicate the song to that girl after finishing the song completely; he wanted to go outside the wall, but he didn't know if he could meet her again in the future...

What about Neil?He also likes her... But he is going to investigate the Corps now...

"Erwin, I plan not to investigate the Corps."

Later, on the eve of the Corps Selection Ceremony, Nair found him and said this, the lights around him were the same as the night he talked with Nair for the first time.

"Is it for Mary..."

The blond-haired boy paused for a moment, and then asked this question that is not a question... The decision made by the black-haired boy who is a friend in the same class but also a rival in love is not unexpected to him, but a sense of melancholy still comes from his own heart. He rises from the bottom of his heart...

"...Well. I chose to take responsibility for Mary and climb up this stinky ditch... And what about you?" Talking about his thoughts and decisions, the slightly excited person turned into The black-haired boy said, "You still can't stay in this stinky ditch, right? You still have to go far away..."

【Did you abandon the agreement with your companion for the sake of love...】

Alvin looked into the eyes of the person in front of him and thought, the voice of that person's questioning echoed in his heart, and suddenly he was engulfed by an indescribable pain, which split in his chest...

yes……

He who can give up nothing can gain nothing.

For a moment, the blond boy turned his back and said the final decision:

"That's right... I will continue to move forward, to realize my dream, to prove the hypothesis of my late father."

Neil watched his back under the firelight in the dark night, and he didn't know how he struggled to make this decision.But he knew that the young man was about to bear the wings of freedom, and he would also bear the shackles...

And the shackles of responsibility that he bears will also be freed.

What Nair failed to say to him that day was "I'm sorry";

And what he failed to say to Nair was "take care of her for me"...

On that day, he lost the friendship and love of his boyhood at the same time...

This is the second thing he gave up - his own feelings.

(Soundtrack BGM: Jinjist-hrn-gt-pf20130629)

Time is fleeting and does not stagnate due to people's emotions.In a blink of an eye, the members of the survey corps, which had taken in the recruits, were already wearing wings of freedom, all riding on horses, and lined up in front of the gate of the Wall of Maria.

This is Alvin Smith's first extramural investigation.

He was in a group with Olud Noel and Biga York, and after parting ways with Neil, the three of them still had to move on as they had agreed upon...

The huge bell rang, the city gate was raised, and under the gazes of the people on both sides, the investigation outside the wall began after the recruits joined.

Alvin and his companions rode forward, and after passing through the gate, they could go to the world outside the wall.This is the first time he has stepped outside the wall...

I thought that the longing for freedom has been exhausted after going through the hardships of abandonment and parting.But when the sunlight from the clear sky outside the wall hit the forehead of the blond boy, he looked into the sky from the bumpy horseback.

The eagle is circling, the white clouds are long, the forest is beautiful in the wind, and the sun is shining in the blue sky... Although this picture is almost the same as that inside the wall, the breath of the grass and trees blown by the breeze seems so fresh...

【You actually don’t want to work with the murderer who killed your own father, right? 】

For some reason, the boy on horseback remembered the words of his former classmate who had gone in a different direction with them... At that time, he did not give him an affirmative answer.But thinking about it now, maybe he pointed out what he really thought in his heart.

That's right.Inside the wall is a world like a stinky gutter, and the air under the huge wall is so dirty that it is hard to breathe.Going beyond the wall is not only to investigate the truth of what his father said, but also because he longs for freedom and wants to leave that decayed world behind.

But...the world outside the wall is never so beautiful.The soldiers are constantly reminded of this fact not only by the contents of the classroom, the teachings of their predecessors, but also the faint smell of blood in the air outside the wall at this time, and the sudden figure of a giant...

"Be careful! Enemy attacks have been spotted!!"

The herald in front saw a few giants over ten meters in front of the marching team, reported to the rear, and issued a red fire at the same time.

"Elite class - enter the three-dimensional maneuvering mode and deal with the giants!!"

The head of the survey corps gave an order, and at the command, the seniors of the survey corps in the front row jumped up from their horses at the same time, divided into twos and threes and flew towards the three giants in front of them.The team behind them will continue to move forward through this small battlefield, and the elite team will rush back to the front of the team after killing the giant.

This is a formation of all soldiers arrayed in a tight cone forward.The tip of the cone is the leader in charge of command and the starter who scouts out the enemy. The two wings are an elite squad composed of experienced seniors. They are the spears that sweep away the incoming giants, and guard the recruits and convoys of supplies behind them. shield.

But Erwin saw the disadvantages of this formation at a glance:

The ability to find and kill enemies is concentrated at the front of the team, but the giants outside the wall are not always at the front.Not only will there be giants attacking from the left, right, and rear, but also strange species whose actions can't be predicted.Concentrating the elite forces in the front seems to be able to break through the giant's siege well, but the three-dimensional mobile device cannot exert its full effect on flat ground.Not to mention the success rate of the elite class in killing giants, even if they kill giants, returning to the team will require setbacks, so the queue will often disperse after encountering a giant...

Sure enough, the disadvantages of this formation were quickly exposed. When the elite squad was restrained by giants in the rear, a strange species attacked the recruits in the back row... It was the left rear where Alvin, Olud and Pica were.

Seeing that the strange species crawling fast on the ground with four legs was about to attack, Olud and Pica both drew out their double blades and prepared to give the giant a good time.However, Alvin's hand holding the blade was placed in front of them, making a blocking gesture, and said:

"Don't fight hard."

And Olud didn't take it seriously, his eyes flashed with killing intent towards the giant who might become his first prey, and he said a little excitedly:

"The elite class hasn't come back yet, we can only solve it!"

"It's too fast, you have to lure it away, otherwise it will disrupt the formation!" Alvin said, and between their words, the strange species had already rushed towards him, opening its bloody mouth wide open. ——

Alvin quickly turned the horse around, dodging its flying blow, and then immediately rode the horse, leading it away from the team.He had already observed the terrain, combined with the action characteristics of this strange species, and came up with a tactic to defeat it without bloodshed.

Seeing the strange behavior, Olud and Pica ran after Erwin, and also rode their horses anxiously to chase after him.

"Regimental Commander, the recruits at the left rear were chased by the strange species and have left the team!"

Upon seeing this, the herald reported the situation to the head of the delegation.And at this time