Chapter 560 Analysis
To be honest, Edward is really short. Although he eats a lot, most of the nutrients are given to Alphonse's body at the Gate of Truth. In this way, his brother's body will not become necrotic and cannot be used, but the poor brother will become a little bean sprout.
"Are you Dulan?" Edward has a very straightforward personality and likes to get straight to the point.
Dulan looks very strange now. The objects in the hotel room show signs of being rearranged. Everything has been pushed together, leaving only the space around the south-facing window. A chair is placed by the window, next to Dulan. Sit in front of the window and read a book quietly.
If he were a girl, this scene would definitely attract the pure hearts of cute boys, but since Dulan was a man, it just made people feel awkward.
"Alchemy is really a good thing." Dulan closed the book and said, "Eva, I have something to do. You and Haonan can do it by yourself. I will be back tomorrow morning." After saying that, Dulan stood up and started ready to go out.
"Wait a minute, Duran, tell me what the magic stone is? Does it have anything to do with the Philosopher's Stone?" Seeing that Duran was ignoring him, Edward quickly asked again, his voice much louder.
"So that's what happened." Duran looked at Brother Edward, and finally pointed at his younger brother, "This big man is coming with me. He might be able to help me. In return, I can answer the questions of your little man."
"Who are you calling the little guy??!!" Edward immediately turned into a firecracker that was lit. "Asshole, I'm going to make you look like me."
"Brother, don't be like this." Fortunately, Alphonse was used to his brother being violent from time to time, "Calm down, brother."
"Let me go, Al, I must teach this arrogant guy a lesson."
A random banter is also their daily routine as brothers. But in the end, he agreed to Duran's conditions, Alphonse went to help Duran, and Edward continued to investigate the secrets of Milos City.
"Mr. Duran, what are we going to do?" Since he agreed to help, Alphonse was not lazy and was full of energy and ready to do things as soon as he left the house.
"Let's go for a walk and talk."
"Yeah!" Alphonse's footsteps could be heard far away.
Duran kept walking, as if he was already an old resident of Milos City. He was familiar with every corner of the city. He walked through the streets and came to the edge of the cliff. "Let's build a bridge and walk in the canyon."
"Okay." Alphonse clapped his hands, lightning flashed across his arms, and then his palms simultaneously pressed on the ground on the edge of the cliff. The vertical cliff seemed to be activated by electric current, and surged and flew out.
A bridge appeared, and a huge concave surface appeared on the cliff due to the consumption of the bridge's stone.
"Understand, decompose, and reconstruct." Duran nodded, "Your alchemy is not inferior to that of your brother."
"Where." He is a child after all, so he is still shy when being praised.
"Energy, medium, effect."
"?" Dulan was talking about the steps of alchemy before, but what he said next was not the terminology of alchemy. "Sir, is this the principle of magic stone?"
"Actually, don't you think that equal exchange is actually not equal exchange?"
"How is that possible?" Alphonse couldn't believe what Duran said.
"But in the 1:1 exchange process, energy is needed. Whether it is alchemy or science, it is actually the study of energy in the end." Duran said, "General alchemists need to form a formation before they can activate it. Alchemy, so I think the role of the alchemy formation is not only to help alchemists understand matter, but also to extract energy. There are also different alchemy formations for refining the same thing. A powerful alchemist can simplify the refining formation. , which shows that alchemists can find the most energy-saving way of refining through different understandings.”
It seems reasonable, but I have never heard of this theory before. It was very strange. Could this be something related to the magic stone, so Alphonse listened carefully.
"And because you brothers used 'Human Body Refining', you don't need to refine the formation. So where does the energy for the formation come from?" Duran and the two have already reached the edge of another cliff. "Please continue to build a bridge. ”
Alphonse still moved quickly, but he was hearing the most critical part, so he moved a few seconds faster than before.
Sure enough, as soon as the bridge was ready, Duran spoke again, "The important thing is the source of the energy, that is, you don't need to make the secret of the formation." Duran paused briefly and looked at the armor.
"Door of truth!"
"Yes, it is the Gate of Truth. You have obtained energy from the Gate of Truth. Then according to the principle of equivalent exchange, if the Gate of Truth gives you energy, you must also give the Gate of Truth something of the same level."
"..." Alphonse lost his body, his brother lost an arm and a calf, and their master, a 'passing female alchemist', lost his internal organs. So to understand it in Duran’s words, it means losing the body and gaining energy? ?
Even though he is wearing iron armor, the doubts coming from his soul can still be conveyed from the iron armor's gleaming eyes. But what does this have to do with the magic stone?
“It’s the energy that matters, not the method.”
"The important thing is the energy, not the method?" Alphonse asked again. In fact, he and his brother have realized this now, so they are looking for the Philosopher's Stone, but the Philosopher's Stone is too vicious.
Duran led the way, and the two walked through the hills of the canyon at extremely fast pace, as if they were really walking. Only Alphonse, who was not afraid of getting tired, could keep up with Duran.
"Philosopher's Stone?!" Alphonse suddenly shouted. He finally figured it out. It was already dusk and it would be dark soon. A sage who could break the principle of equivalent exchange was not energy? And it was a powerful energy that could be materialized.
"Yes, it is the Philosopher's Stone. Now think about the relationship between the Philosopher's Stone and the Gate of Truth." Duran guided step by step, allowing Alphonse to peek into the secret of the Philosopher's Stone.
A fire suddenly appeared on the horizon. It was probably because the Black Bat Organization had started to act. Then the Alchemy Array of Milos City was about to be activated. The poor Philosopher's Stone with only two people's health should also appear.
There are many Alchemy Arrays for Alchemy Philosopher's Stone. Milos City's is a complex one. The national alchemy array that the little man in the bottle arranged in Amestlis is not even half as complex as Milos City, but it can turn tens of millions of people in the entire country into Philosopher's Stone. I don't know how much higher the realm is than Milos's ancestors.
Moreover, the main villain in the main storyline, the bottle man, can even turn people into the Philosopher's Stone with a wave of his hand. He is so powerful. However, Duran has no time to chat with the bottle man now, so let the bottle man live a few more days.
The explosion sound can no longer reach here, but the fire was seen by Alphonse, "It's Milos City, my brother is in danger."
"We can't go back yet, our work is not finished yet." Duran continued to move forward.
Al can only pray that his brother is okay and continue to work. In fact, he has already vaguely known that the Philosopher's Stone may not be a good thing.
With the help of Eva and Yong Haonan, the black bat is unstoppable, and Kreta can't stop it at all. But at this time, the plot turned around. It turned out that the man who escaped from the central prison was not the brother of the female man Julia, but the murderer of his father who took away his brother's face. And Kreta's commander is Julia's biological brother who has been sending synthetic beasts to secretly protect him. Because he has no face, he wears a metal silver mask.
The Philosopher's Stone was swallowed by Julia, turning her into a humanoid weapon. In order to build Milos in her memory, she chose strength.
The scene was extremely hot, and it was simply the best performance of the year. Everyone's acting skills were off the charts, and Edward seemed easy to understand in front of these people.
The brother's twisted ideal, in order to pass through the Gate of Truth to seize the new world and build his own country, even dared to attack his sister. And the sister chose her companions and tried to resist her brother.
As for their enemies, they were killed in seconds, and finally turned into a love-hate relationship between brothers and sisters. I thought it would become a battle of verbal cannons, but I didn't expect that it would be solved by strength in the end.
In the end, the twisted brother was pushed down by the female man, and the female man used the last Philosopher's Stone and a calf to save her brother.
Of course, this is not the "forbidden refining", because the brother did not die, but was dying, so Julia did not have the opportunity to see the Gate of Truth, nor did she get the ability of Edward's brothers.
It seems that the plot of the movie has ended, and now it's Duran's turn to perform.