Chapter 33: Opening

Countless living examples in ancient and modern history tell us that arrogance is unacceptable.

Through his own experience, Pride has finally succeeded in becoming another vivid case.

Although he was very strong, Pride was quickly defeated by the combination of Roy Mastan, Alex Louis Armstrong, the Ellik brothers, and Scar, who could be called the top players of Amsteris.

In particular, after learning that the real Selim was dead, Scar angrily used the destructive power of his right hand to destroy his physical body, forcing him to manifest himself - a black shadow with a large number of eyes and mouth.

Roy and the others did not have the means to preserve Pride's true body, but fortunately, Zhang Shen came out of the study in time and used alchemy to seal the black shadow in a crystal ball.

"This disgusting thing, just destroy it!" Edward, who had previously had a good relationship with Selim, was furious at the black mass when he learned that a being who was only a few years younger than himself had been killed.

"There's no hurry. Destruction is meant to be destroyed, but before I can do it, I have to find a way to get some information out of its mouth. ”

"It's speechless. In terms of intelligence, you can't compare with the president and his gang at all. Regarding the idea of Roy and others collecting evidence to bring down the president, Zhang Shen could only hehe, but he didn't say much. After all, the whole of Amestories is such a cultural atmosphere.

Zhang Shen grabbed the crystal ball that sealed Pride and walked to the study, and found Edward behind him: "What are you doing with me?" ”

"I'd like to see your alchemy, can I?" Edward was admitted to the national alchemist at the age of 12, and after that, he ran around, and his mind was naturally not comparable to that of ordinary 16-year-old boys, and he looked like an adult. His expression was sincere, his tone was sincere, and his love for alchemy was palpable.

"Absolutely."

After Zhang Shencai finished speaking, he suddenly found that several people came out of Xiaodouding's side, looking at him with burning eyes. "Can we observe it too?"

"Whatever."

Although he created his own dragon vein alchemy, due to the limitations of Zhang Shen's soul realm, he is still unable to refine his soul too finely, let alone strip Pryde's memories and show it to others.

However, don't forget that there is something in this world called the Philosopher's Stone.

It just so happened that when Zhang Shen broke into the Central Prison to save people, he harvested a philosopher's stone generously gifted by the enemy.

Due to the large number of onlookers, Zhang Shen simply operated in the hall. He took out his pen and drew a refining array, adding extremely strange and twisted text symbols to it.

Roy and the others were confused.

Although it is strange and awkward, each text contains a profound truth, as if it is telling something.

They instinctively felt that the symbols written by Zhang Shen were also a kind of alchemical script, but ...... I don't know you at all!

This has to be said, although it is true that alchemy originated in this world, due to the low level of this world as a whole, there is no complete inheritance of alchemy involving the soul level at all! (There must be fragmentary cognition and research, such as the Great Grandmaster, such as Hohenheim, and the villain in the flask)

Their instincts told Edward that the words were very important, but as they stared intently, they felt dizzy and nauseous......

"Don't force it. After that, I will copy some basic soul alchemy texts to you, and it is better to do it step by step. After the drawing of the refining array was completed, I found that Edward and the others were staring at the refining formation with hideous faces, and a kind of joy of meeting the "same kind" suddenly arose, and I couldn't help but have a faint identification with this group of people.

Roy's eyes turned green: "Soul alchemy text? Alchemical texts that can affect the soul?! ”

Edward was even more excited, his younger brother Alphonse was now in a soul state, and if he could really get a complete set of soul alchemy texts, maybe he would be able to restore the latter's body without the Philosopher's Stone.

Fortunately, everyone is a top alchemist, knowing the taboo of alchemy, holding back the excitement in their hearts, and not interfering with Zhang Shen's next refining.

Put the philosopher's stone, which is not very good, and the crystal ball in the center of the refining array, Zhang Shen calmed his mind and calmed his emotions.

Perhaps sensing the end of the world, the black shadow rolled violently in the crystal ball.

Dragon Vein Alchemy, Activated!!

Real and illusory, the two sets of alchemy styles are arranged into a special three-dimensional structure, and the qi of heaven and earth flips and stirs, together with the mysterious power belonging to alchemy, emitting strange fluctuations that envelop the entire hall.

With the help of the power of the Philosopher's Stone, the black shadow took on a human form, with its hands and feet outstretched, bound to an invisible cross.

Several powers were combined into one, and finally broke Pryde's soul defense, and since then, everything about him has been naked in Zhang Shen's sight, and there is nothing to hide.

Knowing that the Sage's Stone had limited time, Zhang Shen didn't have the heart to look at the mess in Pryde's huge memory bank, and went straight to the memory he valued the most.

The speed of the soul operation is very fast, and in less than half a minute, Zhang Shen successfully found what he needed from the memory bank, and he could see it at a glance.

The Philosopher's Stone is almost "burning".

Zhang Shen withdrew his hands, the dragon vein refining was suspended, Pride's soul was severely damaged, and the black shadow gradually disintegrated and collapsed, and the ashes were annihilated.

As the head of the Seven Deadly Sins, Pride has been with the villain in the flask for the longest time, and has the most comprehensive understanding of the latter. This all-round understanding, after being stolen by Zhang Shen, almost knew the beginning and end of the matter.

"It's not him......" Although he learned of an amazing conspiracy from Pride's memory, what made Zhang Shen very disappointed was that the villain in the flask was not the mastermind behind the incident of Shangling in the Qing Kingdom and even the underground city in another world.

However, Zhang Shen has a feeling that as long as he continues to follow the current clues, he will definitely be able to get the information he wants.

Seeing that after Zhang Shen finished refining, he didn't speak, only his expression did not change, and a bad premonition arose spontaneously in the hearts of Roy and the others.

"Good news or bad news, which one do you listen to first?" Zhang Shen smiled strangely at Edward.

……………… Divide............ Cut............ Line..................

The fluctuations caused by the "collision" between dragon vein alchemy and lust before were like a depth charge, blowing up far more than just a small fish like Pride.

Two heavyweight deep-sea monsters from Amesh Storis have been blown out.

For example, the villain in the flask, such as the Ellik brothers' father, von Hohenheim.

Secondary, such as the level of the Ellik brothers' teacher.

Von Hohenheim, also known as Hohenheim of Light, is one of the earliest alchemists, and his alchemist is derived from the villain in the flask, and the relationship between the two is ...... Well, it's complicated.

After a long wandering career, he married Teresa Elric and gave birth to two Erric brothers. After that, in order not to let his beloved wife see that he was gradually decaying, he left the country and has not returned.

The villain in the flask wants to refine the territory, and it will definitely be helpful if he can win over Hohenheim with such a huge help, but the latter has no fixed place to live, and he deliberately dodges, so he has searched for it several times to no avail.

Therefore, Hohenheim had no idea of the former's crazy plans.

The fluctuations that Zhang Shen inadvertently created were transmitted to Hohenheim's perception, and it was already night.

He knew that the source of this strange fluctuation was Central City. Being in a foreign land, looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, inexplicably, the feelings of missing his wife and daughter can't be suppressed, and his heart is full.

Over the years, he has actually returned to his hometown several times, secretly watching Edward and Alphonse from a distance to comfort his longing. It's just that he still doesn't have the courage to get close.

He was the first to invent the method of body transfer, but after marrying Teresa, he vowed not to use it again, even if he died, ending his life for more than 400 years.

However, even with this awareness and determination, as an irresponsible father and husband, the deep guilt still made him unable to muster the courage to appear in front of the Elric brothers.

"Perhaps, it's time to see them one last time."

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The "appointed day" was originally scheduled for the day of the total solar eclipse, the third of the following month, which was just half a month away.

However, after perceiving this strange fluctuation, the villain in the flask became inexplicably a little uneasy.

The reason why he chose the day of the solar eclipse is because after his calculations, the "resistance" encountered at this time is the least, and the probability of success can be slightly improved.

However, the villain in the flask is confident that after hundreds of years of painstaking planning, the success rate of this plan is definitely more than 90%!

The choice of an eclipse day, however, can increase the odds by one or two percentage points.

In his opinion, it is actually dispensable.

"Or, in advance?"

The old treacherous and cunning, the old treacherous and cunning, is the so-called old man who becomes a good man. Having lived for hundreds of years, the villain in the flask is naturally not the kind of simple-minded existence. On Earth, the elderly are relatively more trusting in religious matters, and the little man in the flask, an old monster, trusts "intuition" and "inspiration" even more.

Of course, he certainly wouldn't believe it easily.

However, if he was still suspicious before, then the death of lust and arrogance one after another was a blow to the head, which made him panic a little.

A series of events led him to believe that the owner of this fluctuating path would bring variables to his plans, or even - failure!

He will not allow failure!!

The plan of the land refining is his hundreds of years of painstaking efforts, and it is absolutely impossible to fail!!

After thinking for a long time, the villain in the flask finally made up his mind.

"Plan ahead!"

"Except for anger, everyone else is recalled."