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It was working! Eren was increasing in size, at a rate that had never been matched before. He stood still and smiled as he watched everything around him shrink lower and lower. Years of training have gone into these experiments, trying to discover if his titan form was capable of any alterations that would further improve the usability of his titan-ship. The primary focus of the training was to allow Eren to bear his human form within his titan, but every time Eren attempted this feat, there were some unexpected consequences. If the experiment works - Eren would have all the dexterity and agility he'd have as a human while still in his titan form.
The experiment started well. Eren was increasing in height, still bearing his humanoid appearance. This took place in a secluded area, quite far from his home city, so Eren wasn't too scared about accidentally crushing some unfortunate civilians on the other side of the wall. And as he stayed in the distant field, he felt his body quickly growing. He cheered as his height swiftly surpassed the nearby tree line. Everything inside the forest became more miniscule, just as he had anticipated, and it was no time before he stood ten times the height he bore in his human form. But the growth didn't cease, and Eren's height eventually matched the size of his titan form. All while still on two legs, a tall skinny boy just like he would appear outside his titan.
"This is amazing! I must have used the correct formula." The tall boy smiled, looking around at the beautiful scenery while the sun glowed brightly in his eyes. But his growth didn't stop. 50 meters, 60, 70, 80, Eren's height was now dwarfing the entire field. 100 meters, 110...Eren grinned as he realized he could look over the surrounding forest with ease. Some of the trees were shorter than his feet! Everything inside the forest that didn't fit in his colossal field-spanning shadow was bathed in blinding sunlight. But that was not it, as the rate of increase kept accelerating. Eren's legs were so tall, an eagle flew up from the tree top to make way for the giants feet, taking aim and roosting on his foot for shade. Eren's figure loomed higher and higher, until it surpassed 200 meters. Where was this increased growth coming from? An astounded Eren looked at his own body. He didn't expect the experiment to be THIS successful, to say the least...
But Eren wasn't scared, nor felt threatened by the potential of his continued growth. No, he felt exhilarated! 250 meters, 300...400! It was at 400 meters that the teenager realized the landscape was now dominated by his feet and toes. 500 meters, 600, 700.. 800. It was right then that Eren looked down to realize that it was no longer a forest surrounding his feet, just an eternal field. The forest has been COMPLETELY flattened under his large toe, lost beneath the insurmountable shadows of his gigantic soles. "holy shit...." 900...1000!
"IS THIS REAL?!" Eren could shout out in amazement from his towering 1,000 meter frame. Eren knew he was ridiculously, impossibly, impractically larger than any object or living thing around. At this size, he could flatten landscapes with his pinky, and destroy cities and mountaintops with a simple inhale. With a mere nod of his head, rivers could be re-routed and mighty oak trees could topple and crackle across the grass as branches and leaves of his feet. The weight of his feet alone would crush entire biomes beneath him just like stomping on an ant hill. A single stomp on the ground could change the level of the land, causing a landslide and possible ripple through the earth. His soles had the weight to pound a city into a crater with ease.
Towering at 1,000 meters and a few dozens, the teenager had never felt so powerful and dominating. The heat radiating off his immense form was incredible, creating a cloud of steam and fog around him. He was a mythical giant, the largest living being that the world had ever seen. And the best part - he didn't feel any change to his core abilities, with all the same energy and agility he always had in his human form. He thought the friction with the air would prevent him from moving around too easily, but he was mistaken, as his massive form's size made walking, jumping, and running even easier than usual. He lifted his hands and was astonished when he felt absolutely no difference in their movement or weight. All of his strength and force had been multiplied a thousandfold, but it didn't seem to make him any less agile.
And then Eren looked down. He noticed his home village from above. Originally, he was located about 10 kilometers away from the gates, but now - he noticed the village just a few meters ahead of his colossal toes, resting in his immediate vicinity. The entire village was the size of a pebble compared to him, and the walls only exceeded the height of his big toe by little. So small, a single stomp could demolish the entire thing. One tiny movement of his foot... 5,000 innocent and unsuspecting people would be slaughtered, crushed, and sent to a gruesome end under his sole. But Eren had no intent to cause any harm to his village, obviously.
Instead, he knew he knew it was time to head to the city in the outside world, and settle things with the enemy. The enemy, who was full with hatred towards Eren and his people. That's why he trained in the first place. And he moved... fast. What usually takes hours of marching, hours of roaming the barren fields, miles of walking - is now done in a singular step. The titan boy shifted his feet along the dirt and turf, effortlessly trudging along for tens of yards. People from across all lands could hear his footsteps, and they looked up at him with awe. After all, a giant moving across the plains is a sign of an apocalypse, an earthquake in a hundred years!
When the city became visible in the near horizon, Eren grew uneasy... he wasn't sure how this would go. What was he going to do? He couldn't slam the city with a stomp or crush it with a heel, or at least he didn't want to. There were too many innocent people inside, innocent people caught up in the fight. But then Eren was reminded of the people he had left at home, and knew he would have to fight. Fight? You call it fight. Eren just has to step on them. An easy battle.
It wasn't long before the city's population saw his body climbing up the horizon. They looked up in horror and witnessed the massive wave of dust and rock erupt from his path. His footsteps oafishly pounded on the ground, shaking the city with every step the closer he approached. And the people in the city were, mildly speaking, confused. Some of them were familiar with the usual shape of the titans: gorey beasts looking like fusions of a fat hippopotamus and a rabid wolf, with lack of a functional brain and a disgusting smile. But none of them have ever faced what they were facing now. A muscular human being, a teenager - it seemed, over 1,000 meters tall... taller than any of the city's skyscrapers, even when stacked together!
The city grew more and more noisy as the humongous titan man came closer. Screaming, shouting, crying, whatever. Before, he was just a spot in the horizon. Now, he was already about to reveal his full height in front of the walls of the city, his colossal soles brushing the rough textures of the surface. A powerful tremor shook the city, knocking the citizens into the walls and each other. Shortly, the enormous teenager came to a stop. His colossal frame froze in front of the wall, his toes firmly placed into the soil on which the city's walls were mounted. The walls barely reached the height of his toes. They were even shorter than the ones in his own home village!
Those in charge had panicked. Shouts and alarms could be heard bellowing throughout the crowd of scared people. Men and women ran into the streets, shouting at pedestrians to head indoors. Where could they hide? Nowhere. Houses could collapse under Eren's incoming footsteps. And should they hide in the shopping malls, casinos, pubs, or museums? Those would suffer the same fate. Though they didn't dare to panic, those in charge at the capitol acted quickly. Even though the army was nowhere close to as large and trained as the one in the other town, every able-bodied man in the city and across the state was sent out to fend off the boy.
"Hello there." Eren said. His voice was loud. Insanely loud, of course. Every person in the city could hear his words clearly, even without a megaphone or any similar gadgets. The sheer force of his powerful, booming voice shook the city as if it was spoken with the intensity of a massive PA system. Some of the guards on the walls had their eardrums instantly ruptured by the piercing noise. With his gentle words, the army launched dozens of gunshots against him, and clouds of bullets popped across his gigantic body. The bullets could definitely reach him, but none managed to penetrate his skin and body. Why would they? They're the same as rice grains compared to his body, which was already so large and tough that it could endure a full city's artillery.
Eren laughed at the measly effort. It was nice seeing the soldiers keep trying their best, but their best didn't do shit. He was amused at how easy this battle was. Simply, the tall teenager moved his big toe a little bit, what seemed like a centimeter for him, but in fact was 10 meters... and the city's gate, coming in contact with his toe nail, cracked and collapsed. His hot, dripping sweat splashed onto the broken walls, covering it with slick film that held the rubble together. The movement of his toe towards the wall caused a chain reaction of demolition as the stones the walls are made from were shattered into pebbles. Where he moved his toe, he had created a big hole in the city's door... a great entrance. The barrier that guarded the city had become nothing but crushed piles of stone mixed with his sweat.
His big toe could now smoothly enter the city. He slowly shoved it inside the newly-created doorway, until his toe was halfway inside the city's grounds. It appeared as a mountain of flesh to the civilians. His toe had the height of about 11 meters, excluding the toenail, and easily towered over the bustling parts of the busy city, and even some of the buildings. Hell, it crushed a few on its way. Under his toe, a building's foundation was cracking and crumbling, the marble and concrete turning into sawdust and powder under the toe's weight. In less than 2 seconds, the lives of about 150 people were snuffed out underneath the teenager's toe. Their homes, structures, roads, businesses... all of it flattened into a wide plain of dust and ruins. Houses were ripped from their foundations, electric cables had snapped, gas lines had ruptured and lights had flickered into darkness. A large plume of dust and dirt had been kicked up.
Eren couldn't help but chuckle. "My bad!" he laughed jovially, in a friendly tone, though not having any hints of care or empathy within his words. The fact that the slightest movement of his toe could instantly take out 150 lives was the kind of power to be cherished, as far as he was concerned.
Once his big toe was fully inside the city, he cinematically lifted the rest of his foot, letting only his big toe stay on the ground, letting the arch and heel of his foot be visible from behind. The titan foot, now at a 90 degree angle, casually entered the city, the teenager's big toe rubbing and grinding against the ground, flattening cars, demolishing houses and leveling trees with ease. It was like painting on a canvas, leaving a trail of destruction behind his toe.
Eren smirked as he playfully wrote his name "EREN" using the trail of wrecked homes. "Beautiful!" He laughed in an ear-splitting volume, his right foot still in the air, and his left foot outside the city's walls. It was clear he was enjoying this, immensely. The smile on his face, which could be vaguely seen by the tiny people, struck terror in the hearts of the populace.
The towering teenager peered around. He was almost surprised by the size of the city. Compared to the small towns and farms he had visited on his way here, the city was breathtakingly vast. It's time to begin!
Eren lifted his heel onto the ground, and instantly... CRASH! The weight of his heel easily shattered the buildings, causing a massive shockwave across the city, scattering everything like pebbles. Windows cracked, roads were flattened, people were flung and bashed onto walls. And under his heel, every living, breathing organism - plant, animal, person - instantly succumbed under his sole. But that was not all of it, as the teenager quickly lowered the rest of his sole into the city. His foot slammed onto the pavement like a meteor, completely enveloping any signs of life. The weight of his foot was enough to crush any object into a pulp, pulverize any heavy metal car like a wet sponge, and flatten all the people he stepped on... leaving an enormous crater, the size of his foot, within the city. At least 12,000 people have found their ends in his footprint. By simply taking a single, casual step inside, the satisfied teenager had left a lasting scar upon the city's urban area. The buildings surrounding his foot seemed to sink down further, like they were drowning or sinking into quicksand. Loud crackling was audible from miles away. He smoothly grinded his foot against the ground, back and forth, making sure anyone who might have survived taking shelter in the sweaty arch of his foot will also get a taste of his dirty sole and ultimately die.
Excited, the tall teen lifted his second foot from the city's entrance. As it glided over the city's landscape, his sweat rained onto the ground, like rain. Sweat trickled down from every inch of his gigantic feet, especially from his sweaty arches and soles, almost forming a huge puddle of sweat underneath. The heat emitted from the sweat alone would cause the roofs of buildings to melt. And again, repeating the same process, he found a neat location to place his foot on - the city's capitol. In a sharp instant, the skyscrapers and government buildings crumpled and split under his foot. 24,000 more, including important members of the government, lost their lives under his foot. Another large and bloody footprint had been left in the city. This time, he lifted his foot to have a look at his art. In the crater that has now been revealed, many sculptures and buildings, all symbols of the city's symbol of law and prosperity, were gone or crushed to dust, leaving a large, deep, impressive footprint and huge puddle of steaming-hot sweat behind. Eren couldn't be more pleased.
He could turn back. His mission has been fulfilled. Eren has effectively crushed the city's army into oblivion, and recovering would take ages to complete. But at his point, the teenager has had to admit - he enjoyed it! Flattening an entire city under his giant, beautiful and sweat soles... what a satisfying feeling! Every building that dared to oppose him, every machine gun they had set up to threaten him, only massaged his feet as he trodded on them!
And so, the colossal boy took another step inside the city. And then another. He happily walked through the streets and sloppy cesspool of his own sweat and puddled beneath him. Tiny little lights flashed from under his feet, as any form of machinery was destroyed, whether that be a trash can, a tank, or an automobile. The damage the teenager has done was beyond the imagination, as everything within a hundred-mile radius was being demolished and leveled under his tremendous weight. 80,000, 150,000, 300,000, one step of Eren's foot claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. Half of the city's population have found their unfortunate fate under the teenager's soles... his steamy arches, tough heels, and stinky, sweaty, filthy, salty and watery soles. And he didn’t stop.