Chapter 170: Plot Armor
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After the black liquid fused with the Dragon Pulse, it used the life energy that connects everybody to spread to all human beings; not to anyone or anything that has a consciousness.
It acted like a virus in the way it spread. However, it did not have any effect on people after entering their bodies. Truth be told, it was very hard to be discovered as it blended with people's life force like it was a part of them.
While this virus was quickly spreading from the Central Area of Amestris, Edward had a map in front of him to monitor the spread; he could control the speed of the virus spreading.
However, he did not rush. At this stage, everything was a test; he wanted to see whether Truth will discover him and intervene. Anyway, he was nothing but a clone at present, so he did not care if he was killed.
Worst case scenario, he was discovered and he was forced to flee.
While Edward was slowly testing the water and waiting for his opponent to respond, Truth was quite busy.
Although it was surprised at Edward's use of void energy, it thought that the wizard was being paranoid and wanted some privacy. So, after leaving a clone to keep watch on the house, Truth started to deal with his own plans.
It entered the Knowledge Dimension where the Eye of God resided. The eye is a form of artificial intelligence created by Truth to oversee the dimension; it is similar's to Edward's Morgana.
The only difference is that the "eye" does not have any emotions or thoughts; it only followed Truth's orders. The reason that both Father and Edward were able to learn the "Knowledge of God" was because Truth allowed it.
After entering the dimension, Truth soon came in front of a Gate. Despite its non-existent feature, a solemn and respectful atmosphere came from it. A few minutes later, the Gate opened and a large single eye appeared.
This eye looked eerily similar to the one that appeared every time an alchemist performed Human Transmutation and open the Gate of Truth. The only difference was the fact that this one was golden in color and exuded a breath of mystery.
It was as if all the answers to all existing mysteries could be found from this eye.
The meaning of existence, the origin of magic, the secrets of dimension, the purpose of Gods, and the mystery of the universe. Any question one might want to ask, this eye seemed to know the answer.
After the gate opened and the golden eye appeared, countless golden tentacles that looked like arms pierced Truth's head, attaching themselves to his souls.
The tentacles soon found a large amount of alchemy knowledge from Truth's soul, then a question appeared in its mind:
"Law of Equivalent Exchange. Do you want to exchange these pieces of knowledge for other ones?" asked a cold and indifferent voice.
"Yes," replied Truth humbly.
"Pick your category."
Truth–who was used to this process already–quickly chose a category. Then, an orb was left inside his mind; he knew that this orb contained the knowledge that he wanted.
While Truth was checking the orbs in his mind, the Gate closed itself and everything returned to normal. Truth grinned as he muttered: "This time, I exchange enough knowledge enough for me to study for a few hundred years.
"All my efforts of creating that homunculus were not in vain."
Truth is aware of the need for a large population to develop science and technology. In his case, alchemy. So, he spread alchemy to humans as a way to create more knowledge for him to exchange with the Akashic Record. Basically, he took a similar path as Edward.
However, it was not satisfied as to how things were developing; it was too slow. So, Truth concerted another plan.
It created a homunculus from his dimension with the knowledge of alchemy beyond human alchemists. Then, through a human alchemist of Xerxes, he sent that homunculus to the material world.
That homunculus was the Dwarf in the Flask who would later become Father.
Truth placed the homunculus in an environment where he could observe humans every day, yet could not experience the joy and happiness of being humans. This led to the twisted nature of Father of wanting to become a perfect being, a being better than humans.
Truth be told, Father's entire life was calculated and predicted by Truth. His desire to become "perfect" led to him pushing the boundaries of alchemy to the extreme through cruel experiments–which in turn benefited Truth.
Finally came the confrontation of Father and the Elric brothers. After they defeated the homunculi, the two of them started traveling the world and learning other countries' alchemy, and spreading their own as well.
This led to the rapid development of the field because of the exchange of knowledge and the clash of ideals. Which in turn also benefitted Truth as he managed to acquire more knowledge.
You could say that the entire story of Full Metal Alchemist is a plot of Truth to push the further development of Alchemy forward.
Of course, it's also a game for him. Truth wanted to see whether the homunculus could get rid of his calculation, learn from his mistake, and grow as a species.
It also wanted to see whether human Alchemists could learn the concepts of humility and sacrifice. The entire story is also a game for him to see which of the two species–humans and homunculi–could learn and grow.
At the end, when Edward Elric decided to sacrifice his Gate for his brother, he won the game and proved that humans were the better species. Well, at least, to Truth's standard.
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Truth started to study the knowledge in his mind, completely ignoring everything else that was going on. As for its clone, it was only in charge of monitoring Edward's manor and nothing else.
If Edward was here, he would immediately understand what was going on: plot armor.
Why is it that Truth would choose this time to have an exchange, making him unavailable to pay attention to anything else? Why is it that his clone was so weak that it could not even notice the spreading virus he released?
It was luck or plot armor. The Luck Potion he drank was working and ensuring that he was a protagonist; everything was working in his favor.
A few days later, the virus had spread to all of the Central Area. Every single individual was infected. Edward stopped and waited for Truth's response. After a month of no reaction, he began the fourth phase of the plan.
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Next Chapter Title: Final Confrontation (I)
Chapter 171: Final Confrontation (I)
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For the Fourth Phase of the plan, Edward could have used the virus, but decided to be more cautious and used another method. He took out a small orb from his interdimensional ring; this orb contained a small pocket dimension inside.
And inside that pocket dimension were many clones sleeping in a pod that looked like a coffin. They were at least a hundred of them. On the forehead of these clones was a small red crystal.
The clone entered the pocket dimension to look at the clones. After pressing a button, the red crystal in their foreheads activated and the clones opened their eyes.
After they stood up, they lined up like they were a well-trained army. However, their eyes were cold and indifferent as if they were machines instead of people.
Well, they were indeed machines. The red crystal in their forehead allowed the clone to remotely control these people if necessary.
"Do you all know your missions?"
"Yes," replied all the clones in unison, their voices echoing in the large room.
"Then, let's begin."
More than a hundred cloaks suddenly appeared in the hands of these droid clones; the cloak looked exactly like the Invisible Cloak. The main clone that was in charge of this operation took out the real cloak and activate it.
A black light flew from the Deathly Hallow before entering the cloak of these droid clones, blessing them with the [Death Authority]. Once the droid clones put on the cloak, they also became invisible.
Edward then ordered two of them to secretly exit the manor and go kill a few prisoners to test the water. Three days later, the two droid clones returned intact, without suffering any repercussions.
However, Edward realized that the power in their cloak could not last long. According to his calculation, every seven days, they need to receive the blessing again to continue functioning. And after three months, the cloak will become waste and destroy itself.
Edward did not care about this. Although the material for these cloaks is very precious, he was rich so it did not matter to him. He was prepared to pay more to accomplish his plan.
After checking the power of the Substitute Cloak, Edward released all these clones into the world. While continuing to monitor the spread of the virus, he begin to enchant the manor he was.
This manor will play a great role in the future.
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Amestris, eastern area, in a small town.
A middle-aged man was slowly walking with a sack on his back. His eyes were listless, full of sadness. As he was heading home, he met a passing old man.
The old man paused and said, "Thomas, I'm sorry about your wife. You have to be strong and live your life to the fullest. This is the only way for the living to honor the dead."
Thomas nodded his head in thanks before continuing home; the sorrow enveloping him did not diminish the slightest. When the old man saw this, he shook his head.
On his way home, Thomas encountered a few villagers, and they all said some words of encouragement.
After entering his house, Thomas placed the sack on the floor before heading to his study. Inside the room were rows of alchemy books, but Thomas ignored all of them.
He walked straight to a picture frame showing him and his wife. He caressed her beautiful face while reminiscing about all the happy memories they had together.
She always wanted children, but he was always busy with his work, so he always delay, thinking that he would always have time later on.
While Thomas was lost in his memory, an idea suddenly entered his mind:
'Why don't I try using Human Transmutation to revive my wife?'
Thomas quickly shook his head as he knew that Human Transmutation was impossible. He once attended am Alchemy Conference held by the Elric Brothers. They publicly explained to all the alchemists there their experience with messing with human lives, then provided evidence as to why Human Transmutation was impossible to bring the dead back to life.
Despite knowing this, Thomas could not remove that idea from his head. According to him, just because the Elric brothers did not succeed does not mean he could not.
That night, Thomas did not sleep at all; he dedicated all his time thinking about possible ways to accomplish Human Transmutation.
Countless formulas appeared in his mind; his brain has never been more clear in his entire life. Thomas felt like he was a true genius the more he complete the formula inside his mind.
Once everything was done, he begin to prepare to try.
What Thomas did not see or realize was that one of the droid clones was next to him, feeding him the idea of Human Transmutation and the formulas to succeed.
Three days later, Thomas stood in front of a transmutation circle. He activated it. Unfortunately, he did not succeed as he expected, instead, he experienced backlash.
The Gate of Truth was opened and he was captured inside and received some knowledge after paying a price.
Inside the Knowledge Dimension, Truth was immediately aware of Thomas opening the Gate of Truth, and he was a little surprised.
After the Elric brother's tour, it has become a known fact that Human Transmutation was impossible by the majority if not all alchemists. Additionally, not just anyone could perform Human Transmutation.
It requires both talent and the right formula.
Right now, Truth was busy studying the vast knowledge he exchanged from the Akashic Record, so he did not have the time or mind to pay attention to this kind of thing.
So, he created another clone to punish Thomas for breaking the Law of Equivalent Exchange.
Three months later, another alchemist from the Southern Area who lost his loved one also performed Human Transmutation under the guidance of the droid clones.
Truth once again punished this guy, however, they became annoyed and decided to just leave a clone to deal with this kind of situation and not interrupt it.
This clone was a mindless one, similar to a programmed robot. All it did was punish people who broke the taboo of Alchemy.
This was another manifestation of Edward's plot armor. Once again, fate was in his favor.
Just like, Alchemists all over the world would perform Human Transmutation after a certain time interval. These people were from Amestris, Drachma, Creta, Aerugo, Xing, and even the newly created Ishvalan Empire located in the Desert.
This Empire was the result of Edward. The Ishvalans that accompanied him to learn from the Xerxes Empire put what they learned to use and created their own Empire in the desert.
After more than 20 years, their population has reached a certain number, so they began to prosper.
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