Deactivating his illusion camouflage, Eren fully revealed himself to the Boss. His body—bloody, broken, and trembling—stood tall beneath the Abyssal Reaper's gaze.
The Reaper's single, glowing eye locked onto him in an instant. Without hesitation, it dived down at a terrifying speed, raising its dark scythe to strike.
Eren's instincts kicked in, and he quickly jumped to the left, narrowly dodging the first slash. But the Boss wasn't done—it unleashed a rapid series of three follow-up slashes without mercy.
—Slash! —Slash! —Slash!
But the Eren the Boss had just shredded to pieces… was nothing more than an illusion.
In an instant, the fake body burst into a cloud of white mist, obscuring the Reaper's vision.
Far on the other side of the room, the real Eren was already in action. Gulping down the last of the elixir he had used earlier on his severed arm, he rapidly regenerated his wounds—the ones pierced by the Boss's earlier barrage of dark feathers.
