Homunculus in the Flask Completes the Ritual

"Hahaha, it's finally about to be complete." Homunculus in the Flask laughed loudly.

To complete today's Alchemy Array, he had spent no small amount of time.

At this moment, he was closer to becoming a god than he had ever been.

He pressed both hands against the center of the Nation-Wide Transmutation Circle.

A fierce red light began flashing.

Homunculus in the Flask's body rapidly decomposed. He could no longer maintain Van Hohenheim's appearance, fully revealing his pitch-black body.

This was his true form.

During the first Nation-Wide Transmutation, he had not only gained a body made from a Philosopher's Stone and achieved immortality, but because of Van Hohenheim, he had also obtained a body identical to Van Hohenheim's.

The price for all of it had been the destruction of a nation.

And now, with the destruction of one more nation—

He could pull down the Gate of Truth completely.

And make himself that Truth.

"It's begun!!"

Outside the planet.

A massive gate slowly opened.

Within it appeared a gigantic eye—the Eye of Truth that governed everything across the entire planet.

Behind the Eye of Truth lay the place where the planet's Truth resided.

On the surface, a black gate opened at the same time, and countless black substances sprayed out from it.

"This time, you won't bind me again."

Homunculus in the Flask's body had become incomparably enormous. Following the black substance, he kept climbing upward.

Toward the Gate of Truth in the sky.

"I'll drag you down to the ground and make you part of my body!!"

His hand touched the Gate of Truth.

Boom!!

A violent explosion suddenly erupted, and the two gates swallowed each other whole.

At the center of the Nation-Wide Transmutation Circle.

Only then did the thick smoke slowly disperse.

"What happened? Is everyone