Chapter 1736: Expansion
"His ultimate goal was to use all of Amestris as the price of exchange and fuse with Truth."
"Or, more bluntly, he wanted to become a god, a perfect being."
"The reason he kept stopping you from approaching the truth without killing you was because you were one of the Human Pillars who had touched Truth. That included your younger brother, who also took part in the taboo, your father, your teacher, that useless colonel, Doctor Marco, me, and our master. Any of us could serve as Human Pillars, but he had to choose five of them to complete his alchemy."
Aili laid out the rough outline of that "great plan," explaining it to the two Human Pillars. Lust was immediately shocked and enraged.
But when she saw Envy climbing out of the pit, her anger swiftly cooled and she regained her composure. Turning back to Jiaren and the others, who were ecstatically soaking up the free intelligence, she said with great displeasure,
"And where is your sincerity?"
Her words jolted Jiaren and the others out of their shock. Cruel smiles appeared on their faces.
"You'll soon witness our sincerity."
None of them had expected the mastermind's scheme to be this grand—absurdly grand!
Using an entire country as the price to launch an alchemical transmutation was simply an unimaginable idea, a genius design.
Compared to that, their own Alchemy Array was way too low-end!
They had paid such a massive price for so little, while these people could directly use the natives' power to become gods?
Just listen to that—touching Truth. How grand and lofty!
If they could make use of this Alchemy Array, what great undertaking could they possibly fail to achieve?
"Your Highness, Penguin has already gained the upper hand. They used some unknown method