Chapter 59: The Crowd Roared
The city of Barovik lay silent, a stark contrast to the chaos that had consumed it hours earlier.
The air still carried the acrid smell of burnt stone and the distant echo of screams, now replaced by the hesitant murmurs of a people beginning to regain their freedom.
The Order of the Burning Eye, with its fanatical rule over the city, had been destroyed.
Malrik, the apostle fused with an ancestral spirit, lay defeated, his essence scattered like ashes in the wind.
Hagan, the supreme leader of the order, was on his knees, humiliated, spared by the mercy of Eren Vale—a punishment more cruel than death, for it condemned him to live as a symbol of his own irrelevance.
Eren, the tamer who had once been considered weak, was at the center of it all. He felt the weight of victory, a burden that was not only one of glory, but of choices.
Every decision — every bond forged with his monsters, every blow struck against the Order — had transformed him.
The system, that invisible force that ruled the world, recognized his achievements:
[Final Boss Defeated: Malrik].
[Hagan – Mercy applied].
[New Evolution Route Unlocked: Tamer of the Lost Order].
The words still echoed in his mind, engraved like runes on his soul, but their meaning remained a mystery.