Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

"Damn human! How dare you..."

Just as Envy was about to utter a curse, Raste was stabbed through the throat by Isaac.

"Save your energy, killing you will tire me out too. We're all working hard, so let's cooperate a little, okay?" Isaac said, picking at his ear.

Lust was resurrected once again. She felt that the Philosopher's Stone in her body was almost gone. In an instant, she stretched out her fingers and plunged them into the ground, using the reaction force to lift herself off the ground.

However, Isaac moved even faster in front of Rast, and with a flash of light, Rast died once again.

This time, Lust has used up all the Philosopher's Stone within her.

Slowly, her body began to collapse and turn into ashes, and a Philosopher's Stone fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The android Lass has been confirmed dead.

After killing a homunculus, Isaac turned his attention to Envy, who was buried in the ground. A large hole had appeared in the ground where he had been buried.

"Tsk, I wasn't paying attention to him because I was busy killing Rust." Isaac looked around and called out, "Hughes! Where did the other guy go!"

Hughes poked his head out of the bushes and said, "He just ran in the back."

"He ran away and you didn't even warn me."

"I don't want to get involved in your inhuman battles!" Hughes said this with righteous indignation.

Isaac didn't have time to pay attention to him and pulled Hughes up to run towards the back.

Then Isaac sensed an 'aura', an aura that didn't belong to humans and was undoubtedly emitted by the android named Envy.

Isaac followed the 'energy' to a park and stopped under a tree.

“Come out, I know you’re in there,” Isaac said.

There was no movement at all.

"If you don't come out, I'll come find you myself."

As Isaac spoke, he walked toward the tree, but before he had taken more than a few steps, a figure emerged from behind it.

"Brigadier General Isaac? What are you doing here so late?"

Violet emerged from behind the tree.

"Violet?" Isaac's pupils contracted when he saw Violet, and he slowly tightened his grip on the knife.

Chapter 143: The President Who Gets Scared Every Day

"Brigadier General Isaac, why aren't you saying anything?" The 'Violet' in front of him walked towards Isaac with a smile.

Hughes saw the person in front of him who looked exactly like Violet and quickly grabbed Isaac.

"Isaac! This person is a cyborg!"

Isaac didn't move. Looking at Violet in front of him, he slowly lowered the knife.

"As expected, you're still human. You can't bring yourself to harm those around you, even if they know my true identity," Violet mocked.

Upon hearing this, Isaac slowly closed his eyes.

"Giving up so quickly? I wanted to play a little longer."

Envy, now in Violet's form, slowly approached Isaac, the gun in her hand already pressed against Isaac's head.

"Let me tell you something before I die: I started the Ishvalan War that you participated in."

"What!?" Hughes's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

“Killing a little girl is a piece of cake once you transform into an officer,” Envy sneered. “Alright, experience what it’s like to be killed by your own lieutenant.”

Envy was about to pull the trigger when he realized he couldn't feel his hand. He looked down and saw that the hand holding the gun had fallen to the ground.

"When?"

Envi immediately began to transform back into his boyish form from Violet's appearance and started repairing his body.

However, while he was repairing, Isaac suddenly accelerated and rushed in front of him, his knife beginning to slash wildly at Envy.

"what!!"

In the blink of an eye, his entire body was reduced to pieces.

Damn it!

Envy, who had just been resurrected, was about to step forward when Isaac grabbed his head.

"I've observed you before; if you want to restore your body, you must cancel the transformation."

As Isaac spoke, electricity began to spread in his hands, and muffled thuds came from Envy's body as his internal organs exploded repeatedly, and blood spurted from his eyes, nose, and throat.

"You will experience firsthand the sin of deceiving people's hearts."

Envi was in immense pain, his internal organs constantly exploding, regenerating, exploding again, and regenerating again... His vision gradually began to collapse, and he cried out in pain, but his vocal cords were also being destroyed.

Finally, Envy could no longer bear it.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

He broke free from Isaac's control, his body twisted and began to swell, and a hideous green monster appeared before Isaac and Hughes.

Hughes stared at the enormous green monster, cold sweat pouring down his forehead: "What is that thing?!"

The green monster's body was covered with dense, wriggling humanoid creatures that looked like tumors and were extremely disgusting.

Isaac looked at the green monster, which was several people tall, and said indifferently, "So this is what you look like. You're so ugly, yet you try to imitate human appearances. You're trash, and you think you're worthy of imitating humans?"

Hearing Isaac's words, its eyes blazed with fury: "You lowly human, how dare you..."

boom!

The monster's enormous head exploded instantly.

"I don't want to hear you speak." Isaac casually lit a cigarette, his face expressionless as he looked at the monster lying on the ground.

boom!

Just as the monster regenerated its head, its body exploded again, and the shockwave from the explosion made Hughes, who was standing nearby, almost lose his balance.

The monster desperately wanted to smash Isaac into a pulp with one blow, but it never got a chance to strike. Every time it recovered, the next wave of attacks would come.

Explosions and screams echoed through the night sky.

After a while, Envy could no longer maintain his monster form, and a human-shaped figure resembling a boy wriggled out of the monster's mouth. Gradually, he could no longer maintain his human form either.

A crack appeared on his forehead, and a small green worm crawled out and fell to the ground.

"Don't...look down at me...you human!" The little insect lay on the ground, its voice weak.

"Okay."

Isaac exhaled the smoke from his mouth, which fell onto the green worm. The flames quickly engulfed it, and the worm screamed in agony as it was burned.

Gradually, the insects turned to ashes, and the Philosopher's Stone fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The android Envy was destroyed.

Looking at Envy, who had already turned to ashes, Isaac said, "Let's go, Hughes. You caused such a scene in the city today. I'll have to get the intelligence blocked tomorrow. I'll go talk to the boss and explain."

“Oh, okay.” Hughes paused for a moment, looked at the somewhat messy open space, and followed Isaac from behind.

The night sky remained silent, as if no battle had just taken place.

the next day.

Central Command Headquarters, inside the President's office.

“Boss, I think I need to apologize,” Isaac said.

"Oh? Why is Brigadier General Isaac apologizing for his hard work?" the President laughed, but remained wary.

“I took down two androids yesterday,” Isaac said.

These words gave the president a jolt.

The two androids are undoubtedly Lust and Envy, who remained in Central City. Could it be that they are already dead?

The news of killing two androids was already explosive enough, but what suddenly made him a little nervous was something else.

He said he wanted to apologize to himself.

Isaac is the kind of person who would apologize for nothing. He's apologizing because he killed two androids. Could it be... that this kid has already discovered his relationship with the androids?

This is a big problem. If he really discovers something, we'll have to get rid of him now.

The president will grip the hilt of the knife.

Although I lacked confidence in defeating this person, I had no choice but to proceed for the sake of the plan…

"I apologize. I originally intended to capture an android and hand him over to the boss for interrogation, but the last one was just too infuriating. I didn't handle it well in time, and he kicked the bucket," Isaac said, bowing his head.

After hearing this, the president breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his hand from the hilt of the knife.

This brat scares me all the time.

"Hughes and I were planning to give up the investigation, but those androids still didn't seem to be letting us go. They came out in the middle of the night and surrounded us."

After hearing this, the president cursed Envy and Rust inwardly, saying that he had told them not to contact Isaac, and that the two were clearly no match for him.

Now look what's happened, they're all dead.

The next steps will be very difficult.

"Brigadier General Isaac... have you really given up on the investigation?" the President asked.

"We gave up. Since you, Boss, have personally spoken, how could I disobey your orders? So Hughes and I discussed it and decided to leave it alone. But just as we were about to go home, those two androids showed up."

Isaac spoke with great emotion, gesturing wildly: "After a hard-fought battle, I finally defeated the two homunculus, but the last one, Envy, mocked me, and in a fit of anger, I went a little too far."

The president roughly understood the situation. He guessed that Rust and Envy initially only wanted to eliminate Lieutenant Colonel Hughes, but Isaac saw them and a battle broke out.

As for a 'bitter battle'...

The president looked at Isaac, who was completely unharmed, and knew that the other two had basically been beaten to death by one side.

Chapter 144: Next Steps

The president is furious. He has lost two men on his side, and the culprit is right in front of him, grinning.

But he couldn't let Isaac see it, so he kept a simple, honest smile on his face.