Chapter 2567 Offline
The giants originated from the accidental fusion of a bug and a slave girl. Back then, the Eldians were still a wild tribe and had no power to sweep across the continent.
A slave girl named Ymir offended the chief of the tribe, the king of Eldia, because of a trivial matter. After being tortured, the slave girl was put into the forest as prey for people to shoot.
While escaping, Ymir accidentally fell into a tree hole and a deep pit, fused with the bugs underground, and gained the power of the giant. From then on, she became the weapon of the King of Eldia, expanding the territory until someone assassinated the tyrant of Eldia, and the slave girl served as a spear for him and ended her life.
After that, the tyrant let his three children eat the body of the slave girl and inherited the power of the giant. The ability of the ancestor giant gave birth to three more intelligent giants, and finally to the combination of the ancestor giant and nine intelligent giants.
The ancestor giant is above the nine wisdoms, above the pure giants, and even above all Eldians. With the power of the ancestor giant, the genes of the Eldians can be changed at will.
If you want to know why the Founding Titan is so powerful, it is because the host of the Founding Titan can enter the channel and give orders to the slave girl.
Yes, although the slave girl Ymir died physically, her soul has been in the channel, working for generations of Eldian kings to meet their needs. As long as you have the power of the Founding Titan, you can enter the channel and give orders to Ymir directly.
And in the past two thousand years, Ymir has been working tirelessly, regardless of good or evil, as long as the host of the Founding Titan makes a request, she will complete it. Whether it is sterilization or launching the rumbling, it can even improve the genes of the Eldians and make them immune to diseases.
In short, Ymir can do it.
So what if there is no Ymir, but just a simple bug?
If it is just a bug, then the bug will release a gas that can turn the Eldians into giants. Here is a question. After the bug is out of Ymir's control, why is it still only effective against the Eldians? Instead of turning everyone into a giant indiscriminately?
Are bugs ineffective against people of other nationalities? So can bugs merge with people of other nationalities? What is the fusion mechanism?
I am afraid that even Ymir herself cannot answer these questions, because she is just a slave girl, just responding to other people's requests, and no one has ever met her needs.
In the original work, Allen satisfied Ymir and showed her a big drama of Mikasa beheading. Then Ymir was temporarily satisfied and separated from the bugs.
After that, the bugs may have been killed or returned to the underground. In short, the Eldians have changed from giants to ordinary people. Ymir may have ascended to heaven.
Ymir is like a person who watches soap operas. She likes to watch the hero and heroine parting by life and death, and the lovers cannot be together.
Allen saw this future, so he had to turn against Mikasa, then launch the rumbling, and then let Mikasa kill himself to end the two thousand years of "dominance".
Duran thought of a line "I used to be called Little Sweetie, now I am called Mrs. Cow". How proud the Eldians were of the power of the giants, expanding their territory, invincible, dominating the continent, and having infinite scenery.
As time goes by, the power of the giant has become synonymous with domination, slavery, and tragedy, and I just want to sweep the power of the giant into the trash can of history.
In fact, for Duran, the power of the giant is a very advanced power. It is not only a perpetual motion machine, but also can optimize genes. Even if the giant is not changed, there are still many things that Ymir can do through the channel. The grandmother can even connect the hearts of all the Eldians through the channel and have a spiritual dialogue.
Allen hid away, curled up in a corner in the dead of night, crying silently. Mikasa died, Armin became an enemy, Erwin and Hanji both defected to Duran, and the companions of the 104th period did not support him. In the end, he took it all by himself.
Obviously, the future he saw was that Mikasa cut off his head, and then the curse of the giant ended. Why did it become like this? Obviously, as long as the other side of the continent paid the price, the Eldians would be free. Why are they unwilling to support themselves?
Allen felt very wronged because he was also for everyone's good. Obviously, the rumbling can solve the problem, why don't they understand?
Can the rumbling solve the problem? No, because Duran has analyzed the biggest flaw in Allen's plan, that is, Allen himself cannot complete the cut with Eldia, and cannot bear all the hatred as a great demon. If he launches the rumbling and cannot exterminate life on the continent, then what awaits the Eldians is a ruthless counterattack.
Perhaps the people of the continent will be silent first, but silence is not forgiveness, but patience.
As for the power of the giant, Duran believes that it should be preserved, and not only should it be preserved, but also its influence should be expanded so that people all over the world can benefit. This requires the slave girl Ymir to abandon the narrow nationalism that has lasted for two thousand years and embrace the community of human destiny.
Because only in this way can the benefits of the power of the giant come to everyone on the planet.
However, Ymir is not so easy to be persuaded, otherwise he would not have remained unchanged for two thousand years. Ymir and Allen have very similar personalities, both of them are stubborn and do not listen to others' advice. And their brain circuits are very strange. In order to launch the rumbling to realize the "bright future" he saw, Allen did not hesitate to sacrifice his old mother.
Ymir was abused thousands of times, but she still treated the Eldian royal family like her first love. But when she saw Mikasa cut off Eren's head, she was suddenly satisfied.
This kind of brain circuit is difficult for ordinary people to understand. It can be said that neurotic people have broad ideas and mentally retarded children have a lot of fun.
Even Duran, a battle-hardened life mentor, found it very challenging. How can Ymir get out of the shackles, get out of self-touching, and work hard for all mankind?
To embark on a path of liberating all mankind first and then liberating herself is the only way for Ymir to sublimate herself.
It's just not easy. Duran thought, should I use a friendship punch? This is the simplest way to correct it, but when I think of Ymir as a slave girl, she was cut off her tongue, dug out her eyes, and suffered all kinds of torture. I'm afraid that the power of the friendship punch is not enough, and she won't change because of the pain.
She loves the first Eldian king in her heart. Of course, she doesn't love the mortal king, but the image of the supreme king in her heart who can order her to do things and give her direction.
It's like many Honorary Marleyans love Marley, not because they really love the real Marley, which is full of discrimination and contradictions, but because of a beautiful vision, a spiritual pure land Marley, which is powerful and represents the beacon of human civilization.
The gap between reality and desire, immersed in one's own fantasy, it is easy to ignore the shortcomings in reality, or even deliberately avoid the defects and not mention them, just avoid blindly, paralyze, hypnotize oneself, tell oneself that Marley is the beacon of mankind, and the first king is the direction of life.
In fact, Marley is a country that exists in fact, with various problems, and the first king is a scumbag. But some people are selectively blind, because their hearts need a harbor, even if this harbor is fictional.