A nondescript private car drove into the small town of Lisenburg without attracting anyone's attention.

It was Roy Mastan who drove the car, with the title of [Alchemist of Flame], although the war of annihilation of Ishvar in this time and space ended with the defeat of Amestories, but the war was lost, and the national alchemists did not.

They have not only made great contributions to the country's science and technology, but also have a strategic-level existence on the battlefield, and no matter how much they shake the pot, they can't be shaken off.

At this time, Mastan had been promoted to colonel.

However, because of his special status as a national alchemist and his own political ambitions, Mastan was installed in Central City by the Supreme Commander of the Eastern Army [Lieutenant General Gulaman], and asked for political status.

Today, Mastan took a leave of absence from his busy schedule and returned to the eastern region with his right-hand man, Lieutenant Lisa Hawke, and came to the small town of Lisenburg, just because he received a letter from an "acquaintance" who could not be ignored some time ago.

On the outskirts of Lisenburg, the Colonel quickly found the small mechanical workshop mentioned in the letter, and after being led in by a little girl, Colonel Mastan met the long-lost acquaintance.

At this time, Wang Shui was adjusting Alphons' armor, and on the sofa not far away, Edward was reading a hard book, Wang Shui was concentrating on debugging, and Edward had already stood up politely.

"Mr. Hill Via, is this the talent you recommended to me? Looks a little younger. ”

Mastan got straight to the point, and he didn't make the wrong person, and although Edward was short, he was the only one in the room who matched the description in Wang Shuixin.

"Oh, it's Mastan, wait a minute, Al you go to the backyard to try the new armor, if 70% of the counterweight can fight, you only need to lose half of the weight to live normally."

"Yes, Mr. Via."

Alphonse's childish voice came from the porcelain white and holy armor of unknown material, and he easily stood up and walked towards the backyard, each step making the room tremble slightly, the heavy and mysterious armor could not help but make Mastan curious.

"Sit, Lieutenant Hawk Ai."

Wang Pingping greeted lightly, and at the same time said directly:

"My friends say you've been short of people lately? It should be very idle in the central government, isn't there enough team brought from the east? ”

"Yes, it's too much of a stretch, I would have liked to be involved in managing things, but they were quite ...... Xenophobia, and even directly and openly show their distrust of me.

I had hoped to have your help, but you gave up your military position after the war, and I received a letter from you the other day, and I learned from others that you have been concerned about the situation, and as for this ......"

Mastan's words were a little too cautious and polite, he did not hide his ambitions, but he was very careful when he spoke to Wang Shui, and as his military and political knowledge improved, he also learned about Wang Shui's terrifying economic power, at least he thought he saw it all.

"Edward Elric, currently in the care of Mr. Via."

Edward took the initiative to introduce himself, Wang Shui told him that there would be an officer coming today, but he didn't expect it to be a colonel.

"Colonel, I can't help or be interested in your political ambitions, and as for the means of [Political Donations] and [Public Opinion Offensive], I am interested in investing in you, but it is still early for you.

I have called you here today to recommend to you Edward, who has the talent to become the alchemist of the country, and I think you should need such a helper. ”

Mastan didn't show any signs of joy or anything like that, he was still serious, but nodded to Edward in approval.

"Since it was entrusted by Mr. Via, I will definitely take care of him."

"It's not for you to take care of it, it's just for you to give him a qualification, to eliminate some complicated formalities, as for the work, no matter what dirty work can be handed over to him, if he wants to get more resources and knowledge, he has to pay the corresponding labor."

Wang Shui patted Edward's shoulder as he spoke, to be honest, Edward and Al's intelligence, maturity, and sensibility left a very good impression on him, but he really didn't want to waste his time taking care of the children.

And there are many lessons that cannot be taught in words and words, and the Elric brothers need to travel around the country to see the darkness that is rarely written in books, so that they can grow quickly.

"Isn't Edward your disciple?"

"No, they are my teacher's sons, and I was too lazy to take the child, so I lost it to you."

Confirming that Mastan was not particularly embarrassed, Wang Shui also relaxed his tone, he didn't deliberately complicate this kind of communication, but Mastan was too restrained.

"Then I'm going to get paid." Mastein also smiled a little, communication was natural, and Mr. Hill Via was very patient and kind to him, which was a good sign.

"Speaking of which, I have something I want to show you, and it has something to do with your master, the father of Lieutenant Hawk Ai."

After Wang Shui finished speaking, he immediately went to the desk drawer next to him and took out a notebook, turned around and handed it to the colonel and lieutenant who looked at each other.

"This is the knowledge that extends from the alchemy of flames that old Hawk Ai studied, it was my idea when I was engaged in all kinds of munitions, I have seen your flames from afar, I think this thing should be helpful to you."

Mastan opened the notebook directly and looked at it, and Lieutenant Lisa next to her couldn't help but lean over, and then found that she couldn't understand the dense calculation formulas at all, but some patterns made her look familiar.

In fact, Mastan, who is a national alchemist, was also stunned for a moment, obviously it was the flame alchemy he was most familiar with, he knew almost every word and pattern on it, but it was combined to form a new formula, extended a new graphic and solution, and added many inexplicable parameters, and the complex changes made him dizzy.

"Via...... Senior, what is [Dead Fire]? ”

"Huh? Did I write it in? Oh, don't worry about that, you have to pay attention to the fact that the future of flame alchemy lies not in the quantitative change of flames, but in the qualitative change.

No matter how much you compress it, no matter how much you raise the temperature, it will only reduce the efficiency of flame generation. Changing the nature of the flame is the simplest and most direct direction, and it is also the right direction. ”

Smack-

As he spoke, Wang Shui snapped his fingers, and a fist-sized flame erupted above his index finger, and then quickly entered a state of quiet burning, and he unleashed his alchemy so fast that no one present could see the blue lightning, and no one noticed the flow of energy.

The flame was silvery-white, with a distinct black outline at the edges, and the black and white colors maintained a dynamic balance in the constant invasion of each other.

"This is [Dead Fire], a special flame, but this is not something I invented or discovered, nor is it the research of Old Hawk Ai, it is a special flame that already exists in the world, or in other words, the form of energy existence, which I temporarily call [the flame form of energy].

You can understand that matter has [solid], [liquid], [gaseous], and [flame form] is a state of existence of energy...... The amount will actually be consumed, but very slowly. ”

When Wang Shui said this, both Mastan and Edward fell silent, and they were both thinking about what Wang Shui had just said.

"Don't be in a hurry to figure it out immediately, I've already written it clearly in my notes, go back and study it slowly. This is my investment in you, Edward is only incidental. Protect your own life, and when you gain power, I will take it back with interest. ”

Such unkind words, but Mastan nodded very gratefully, as a national alchemist with a title, he naturally loved and was obsessed with alchemy.

"Okay, it's a waste of so much time on me, let's talk about it next, the phone number on this card can directly contact me, no matter when and where, if you need help, call me, of course, the fee will not be very low."

Wang Shui said a bland goodbye and quickly left here.

He also had a meeting with the people of the National Alchemy Institute of Ishvar in the afternoon, and it was the stage of the explosion of scientific knowledge and technology, and he didn't want to waste time on the plot.

After he left, Colonel Mastan communicated with Edward for a long time, and as for Edward and Al's physical problems, Wang Shui had already mentioned them in the letter, and Mastan did not ask much.

He now needs a strong helper with no background, and if Edward can become a national alchemist through his own abilities, then for Mastan, it will be tantamount to breaking the deadlock in his career.

That night, Colonel Mastan left, and a week later, Wen Li and Granny Binak said goodbye to the Ellik brothers at the town train station, and Wang Shui was too lazy to see them off.

At this point, the human body refining incident subsided, Wang Shui returned to his daily life, and his sensitivity to the passage of time decreased again.

The next time he recovers from his busy life, the countdown to the plot has begun.

……

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In the spring of 1914, Wang Shui began to reside in Central City.

This is the base camp of the androids, and the final boss, the villain in a bottle, is underground in the presidential palace.

Since their defeat on the battlefield of Ishvar and the shock of Sylvia's force value, the androids have been quite muted in recent years, and their persecution of the whole of Amestories has been much lighter.

The androids don't dare to wander outside now, for fear of accidentally encountering the masked Sylvia and being chopped into pieces by her for no reason.

Because this kind of thing really happened......

The androids are becoming more and more low-key, but Wang Shui has always maintained a high-intensity surveillance of the enemy, and within a kilometer of the Presidential Palace, all insects, birds, beasts, and even flowers and trees, at least more than sixty percent of everything is a structural machine.

Because of Wang Shui's interference, the android who was already operating in the dark completed the blood seal with extreme caution.

They sent a large number of prisoners to the embassy in the core city of Ishwar, and then secretly staged a massacre, perhaps mixed with innocent people, but Wang Shui chose to ignore it.

As for the Blood Seal in the North, it was supposed to be completed very later in the plot, but now they have secretly completed it in advance.

There are still two years to go before the total solar eclipse, but the preparations for the androids are almost complete.

In fact, before the villain in the bottle devoured the "god", Wang Shui had the ability to kill him, but Wang Shui wanted to see the "god" who was pulled into reality, and he didn't want to open this door himself.

But this time Wang Shui came to Central City, not because of the final battle, he was just passing by at first, and wanted to see if there were any new books in the National Library.

At this time, Edward's phone call made him realize that the time was almost up.

Wang Shui's car stopped in front of a small villa, and when he got out of the car, he happened to see Alphonse sitting on the steps of the door, his armor bowed his head, and Al just muttered in a low voice, "Long time no see, Mr. Via".

Edward, who was standing next to him, was a little more mature than he had been two years ago, but he hadn't grown much taller, and he was now looking down and grief, acting like a helpless child when he saw Wang Shui coming over - oh no, he was a child now.

"What's the trouble again? Just tell me about it. ”

Wang Shui touched Al's steel head, and Al just pointed to the main entrance of the villa that was open behind him.

Wang Shui didn't continue to ask the two brothers, he walked in directly, and then saw a middle-aged man with a round head and round glasses, and a big dog beside him.

The middle-aged man, with a blue nose and swollen face, was leaning against the corner of the wall and stroking the silver pocket watch representing the national alchemist.

Wang Shui suddenly remembered that he had actually forgotten such a famous event.

【Alchemist of Embellishedness】——Xiu Tucker.

Using his wife as a material, he made a talking synth beast with a certain amount of intelligence, and through this technique, Shutak earned the title of national alchemist.

Although the synth would only repeat - "I want to die".

Now, because of the biennial certification assessment, Shutak's research has not progressed, so he fused his daughter Nina with her dog Alexander, turning her into a human-dog synthetic beast.

Shutak, who was leaning against the wall, seemed to be blinded by the Edward brothers, and did not react to the arrival of Wang Shui.

Wang Shui reached out and touched the head of the synthetic beast, and after carefully perceiving her state with alchemy, he immediately took out a small box from the space of the awakened, took out a pill and stuffed it into her mouth, making her fall asleep.

"You! What are you going to do to my daughter! She's everything to me! ”

Seeing the synthesizer faint, Shutak suddenly became anxious, and he quickly pounced on the regia from the wall.

But Wang Shui only hooked his fingers, and a large number of vines quickly grew from the wooden products in all directions of the room, binding Xiutak layer by layer, and even blocking his mouth.

The two brothers outside the door immediately rushed in when they heard the voice, and when they saw Shutak being hoisted into the air, they immediately said:

"Mr. Via! Don't kill him...... No, I mean...... Let's leave it to the military to judge him. ”

"Alas, the military is not as naïve as you."

Wang Shui sighed, looked at the big dog on the ground, and continued:

"Fortunately, I happened to be in Central City, and if it was about 20 hours late, the little girl's soul would merge with the dog's soul in a distorted way, and then it would be completely hopeless."

"You! You can save her! Al shouted, jumping in excitement.

Edward's mouth opened wide in shock, he had been reading about synths for days, but he was completely helpless about the situation of the little girl Nina, because there was no recovery option for synthmons themselves.

But now, Mr. Via says yes, then surely!

(End of chapter)