Bab 169: Step By Step Preparations
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After Edward's clone returned to his home in Amestris, he immediately began to take action. Using the core engraving method, he created a small dimension with an enchantment inside, then linked it to the house.
As soon as he finished, a transparent shield surrounded the entire manor. Luckily for him, the shield was invisible to ordinary people, but not to Truth.
Inside a white space with just one gate inside, Truth looked in one direction. His eyes seemed to ignore the concept of distance as he watched the shield that surrounded the manor.
"Void Energy?" he said in his weird twisted voice before suddenly standing up.
"Why is this wizard playing with something so dangerous?"
As a person that has access to the Akashic Record, he knew how dangerous void energy was. Even the lowest of grades was not something that even he wanted to deal with.
Unless an individual is truly powerful beyond measures or evolves into a Void Lifeform, void energy was always a threat to any gods or unknown entities.
So, his first instinct was to warn Edward. However, he stopped his actions. He did not want to risk being infected by it. He wanted to peep inside the manor and even pull Edward's soul into his dimension so he could warn him, but he could not do so.
The void energy was blocking his vision and his ability to interfere in the material world. So, he began to observe.
Meanwhile, Edward waited inside his manor for three days, wanting to see if Truth would intervene or summon him. However, nothing happened.
"The first step is complete," he muttered. "Now, let's begin the second."
He used his mana to open the interdimensional ring on his finger and took out a cloak: it was one of the three Deathly Hallows, the Invisible Cloak.
As he observed the cloak, he could feel that the power inside was inactive or ineffective. He guessed that since this was an entirely different world, the power of [Authorithy] inside no longer applied here.
'Time to change this," he thought to himself. Then, countless runes and magic circles started to appear around him. Each magic circle had different colors and appearances.
Once they finished manifesting, they began to combine together into a complex geometrical shape before entering the cloak in Edward's hand. Immediately afterward, a dark light came out from the cloak before spreading out in all directions.
Fortunately, after hitting the shield that surrounded the house, it stopped. Edward quickly scanned the cloak and he realized that the [Death Authority] that Herpo placed on the cloak became active.
It slowly started to change to adapt to this world. To Edward, it seemed to be secretly stealing some of the powers that belong to this universe. And since Truth claimed that he is the universe, the cloak was stealing from him as well.
As Edward watched the final transformation of the cloak, he muttered: "Let's see if I can use your power to deal with you."
After the transformation was done, he immediately began to test it out. After placing it on and becoming invisible, he left the manor. He apparated to the nearest prison.
He quickly flipped through the files of the prison to acquire the list of the most heinous prisoners. After entering one of their cells, he placed his hand on the guy's chest sending a small shock. A few seconds later, the prisoner had a heart attack and died.
Edward did not do anything else but wait. Truth had warned him not to kill anyone in this world, and he has abided by this rule ever since he came to this world. Now, he was breaking it.
Edward waited for an entire day. He watched how the death of the prisoner was discovered and the process of his burial was arranged. However, nothing happened to him.
Despite this, he did not immediately come to any conclusion. He apparated to different prisons all over the world and killed a few heinous prisoners. Yet, nothing happened afterward.
"So, the second step is complete. The Invisible Cloak can hide me from the prying eyes of Truth," muttered Edward. "Next, let's begin with the third step."
He immediately returned home before taking out a vial full of black liquid. He looked at it for a moment as he thought to himself:
'Just in case, I should probably bless myself with some luck.'
From his interdimensional ring, he took out another potion: Felix Felicis or Luck Potion.
However, this was not an ordinary luck potion. Edward has always been intrigued by the concept of a protagonist's luck or plot armor. In most stories, due to luck or plot armor, most protagonists never actually die.
General, things go their favor–especially towards the end of their journey. So, he wondered whether he could create a luck potion that allowed him to steal or borrow the luck of the protagonist.
In order words, a potion that gave him some plot armor. After many years of studying Harry Potter's Fate with the help of Luna and Severus, he succeeded.
Unfortunately, overuse of this potion has some serious side effects.
After taking out the potion, Edward did not immediately drink it. Instead, he apparated away to a little town called Resembool. While being invisible, he walked inside a little house where a family was living.
It was Edward Elric's house where he lived with his wife, Winry, along with their children. By now, Ed was in his 30's and had already started a family; he was living a peaceful and fulfilling despite losing his Alchemy.
Without alerting them, Edward took a small sample of his blood. As the protagonist of this word, both Al and Ed have some sort of luck or plot armor. He was going to use it to increase the strength of his potion.
After that, he quickly left and apparated to Xing where he learned that Al was with his wife, May Chang.
After visiting them, Edward learned that after the death of the Emperor and ruling the Xing Empire into a prosperous one, the little girl gave up the immortality that Edward granted to her; she wanted to grow old and die with Al.
Without alerting them, Edward took a sample of their blood. As a side character that survived until the end, May Chang also has a large amount of luck.
To be on the safe side, Edward took the luck from people like Colonel Mustang who was now the Fuhrer, along with his assistance Riza Hawkeye. Even Izumi Curtis was also included.
After all, nothing will happen to these people besides being unlucky for a few days. The worse that will happen to them is that they constantly have some small accidents. With the skills of these people, they will be fine.
The only people Edward did not touch were Olivier and Hughes.
Once the blood samples were gathered, he added them to the potion and drank it.
Finally, he took the black potion and dump it on the ground. The black liquid seemed to come alive after that as it quickly burrow through the ground and mixed in with the Dragon Pulse that connects all living things on this planet.
Then, from the pulse, it started to spread widely like an unstoppable virus.
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Next Chapter Title: Plot Armor
Bab 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)
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