The air above the Trost District was thick with smoke, dust, and the metallic stench of fresh blood. For humanity, it was the worst day in a century. The Colossal Titan had breached the outer gate, and now a horde of mindless Titans flooded the streets, devouring soldiers and civilians alike. The elite Survey Corps was away on an expedition. The Garrison was crumbling. And the 104th Training Corps—just boys and girls with sharpened blades and trembling hands—were all that stood between the remnants of the city and total annihilation.
And the weapon was about to fire. On the battlefield, chaos reigned. Armin, wracked with guilt over abandoning his friend, stood frozen. Mikasa Ackerman, the world’s deadliest soldier, had just carved through a dozen Titans with cold, suicidal fury after learning of Eren’s death. Her will to live had snapped like a dry twig.
It was born to destroy them all.
And as the surviving soldiers watched the impossible Titan raise its bloodied fist toward the heavens, a single, unified thought crossed every mind: The tide has turned.
Eren Yeager, inside the nape of that monstrous body, did not understand what he was doing. He was drowning in a red haze, a nightmare of falling ceilings and his mother’s screams. But his body—this new, terrible body—knew exactly what to do. eren first transformation
Without a conscious command, a blinding flash of yellow light and heat exploded from his body. The soldiers shielded their eyes. When they looked again, the human Eren was gone. In his place stood a Titan—fifteen meters tall, with long black hair whipping in the heat, a mouth full of razor teeth, and eyes that blazed with the same feral green as his own.
He had been swallowed whole. His leg, severed by a falling boulder, had left him helpless on a rooftop. With no other option, he had screamed at a 15-meter Titan to take him, buying his comrade Armin Arlert precious seconds to escape. The creature’s jaws closed around him. There was a sickening crack of bone, then darkness. The air above the Trost District was thick
It was born to fight.