Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

"I'm so glad to hear you say that yourself," Violet smiled.

beep.

Isaac's walkie-talkie suddenly rang.

"Hello? What happened?" Isaac asked, judging from the situation, it should be the guards outside calling.

"Lieutenant General, according to the sky patrol team, a huge armored train is speeding toward Xianjin Station," the voice said over the radio.

"where is it?"

"The other side of our location."

The other side?

Isaac looked toward the gate in the distance, which was about to be lowered but seemed to have stopped for some reason.

Realizing something was wrong, Isaac immediately opened the walkie-talkie to all the soldiers and shouted, "Attention all personnel, Level 1 alert!"

boom!!!

The loud noise broke the silence of the night sky.

Chapter 419: The Kabane Enter the City

That evening, the samurai guarded the gate. They had received word that a magnificent carriage named 'Fusang Castle' would be arriving at Xianjin Station that night.

So they send people here at night to meet them, and lower the gate as soon as Juncheng passes by.

“Hey, look at those lights over there, it looks like Fusang City is coming,” a samurai said to his companion.

"Alright, lower the city gate now!"

As the steam engine turned and the chains rubbed back and forth, the city gate slowly lowered.

The Juncheng sped by with a whooshing sound, sparks flying from the rails from time to time. At that moment, the group of samurai realized something was wrong.

Why didn't the Juncheng slow down?

What happened?

The leading warrior looked closely and noticed tiny lights on the roof and around the Juncheng car in the darkness. He was startled when he got closer.

The Juncheng was covered with countless Kabane, and everyone in the Juncheng had died and turned into Kabane.

"Close the city gates! Now!!" he roared back.

The people behind also hurriedly pulled down the gate in a panic, but it was too late.

boom!!!!!

The massive, high-speed train crashed straight into the city gate, which was halfway up. The impact sent the train detached from the tracks and soaring into the sky.

A large hole appeared in the city wall, and the carriages filled with Kabane flew into Xianjin Station.

The Kabane have finally entered human territory.

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"Listen up, everyone! Level one alert!" Isaac shouted into the walkie-talkie. "The Kabane may have entered the city. All personnel report their current location. Assistants outside, go into the city to provide support."

Upon hearing the explosion, Isaac immediately contacted his unit.

At the same time, screams erupted from the crowd. Isaac looked up and saw a carriage of the Juncheng train flying towards them.

Lightning flashed, and a giant arm emerged from the ground, grabbing the massive carriage and preventing it from falling to the ground.

Everyone around Isaac, witnessing this astonishing scene, froze in place, forgetting to run away. They stared at Isaac as if he were a god.

A whooshing sound gradually rose in the sky as Black Hawk helicopters streaked across the heavens, one after another. These were some of the additional support equipment that had been sent from Amestori to Hinomoto over the past month.

Isaac knew these were people coming to rescue him.

"Lieutenant General! Where are you?" a voice came through the walkie-talkie, seemingly wanting to prioritize rescuing Isaac.

"You guys go ask the other soldiers first, don't worry about me here." Isaac said, putting the walkie-talkie back in his pocket and leading Violet through the crowd.

Looking at the crowds fleeing in terror, with occasional stampedes, neither Isaac nor Violet felt any tension.

They were all State Alchemists, and when they encountered Kabane, they were simply struck by their extraordinary physiques, without any other particular reaction. However, ordinary soldiers would still face considerable danger when confronted with hordes of Kabane without tanks nearby.

After all, the pistols and grenades you carry are not enough to deal with such a large number of enemies.

As the walls of Xianjin Post Station crumbled, a large number of Kabane poured into the walls. Kabane that had been inside the carriages also crawled out and began to bite pedestrians on the road.

Screams, cries, and roars mingled together, along with the stench of blood in the air, adding an apocalyptic feel to this already restless night.

The Black Hawk helicopter hovering in the sky slowly lowered its ladder, rescuing the soldiers who were originally in the city. After rescuing one person, they planned to return to their rear camp, drive their tanks over, and fight these bastards who had disturbed their leave to the death.

boom! boom! boom!

Isaac, who was casually slashing at the Kabane who lunged at him while pulling Violet's hand and walking towards the back, suddenly heard a gunshot.

Unlike the sound of a steam gun, this was the sound of the pistols that Isaac's troops were equipped with.

Rushing to the scene, a soldier was firing at the Kabane who was charging at him with a roar; his legs were already covered in blood.

Isaac recognized the soldier; he was the one who was eating with two women in the restaurant before.

After firing several shots, he seemed to have run out of ammunition, while dozens of Kabane were rushing towards him.

"Hey! What are you still doing here? I've already ordered a retreat, haven't I?"

Isaac ran over, put on white gloves, and snapped his fingers, blowing dozens of Kabane in front of him to smithereens.

"So you're a lieutenant general." The soldier smiled bitterly. "My old military region taught us that we can't retreat when facing the enemy."

"Back off my ass! We sent you back so you could pick up your weapons and keep fighting these bastards!" Isaac cursed, but then remembered what the soldier had said and it sounded familiar. "You're from Brix Fortress?"

"I was originally from there, but I only went there when the lieutenant general was transferred to Eastern City." The soldier smiled, but his body was very weak. "Lieutenant general... if you get bitten by a Kabane, does that mean you become one of their comrades?"

His leg bore the marks of being bitten by the Kabane, the purplish-black lines already beginning to spread.

"Yes."

"Then... could the lieutenant general... give me a ride?" The soldier smiled, his face showing no fear of death. "I don't want to end up like them... too ugly."

Isaac sighed and placed his hand on his injured leg.

"I won't offer you a ride. Just go back and write a 5,000-word self-criticism and hand it in to my adjutant," Isaac said. "And while you're at it, buy me a drink later."

A burst of azure lightning shot into the sky, and the lines on the soldier's leg slowly receded back into his wound, turning into a pool of black blood that splattered on the ground. The wound also healed under the influence of alchemy.

"Luckily, I had studied this virus beforehand, otherwise there really wouldn't have been anything we could have done." Isaac hoisted the soldier onto his shoulder and prepared to continue walking.

Click!

At that moment, several steam-powered guns were aimed at Isaac. Looking back, a group of warriors with fearful expressions were pointing their weapons at Isaac and his companions.

"What do you want to do?" Isaac asked calmly.

"That Amestris officer has been bitten! He'll turn into a Kabane soon!! We have to kill him now!" the warrior roared, his eyes filled with fear.

Because Isaac and Violet came to the city in civilian clothes, they didn't recognize them and just assumed they were a group of ordinary people.

"Get out of here! Or I'll kill you too!"

"Get out of my way!"

Upon hearing this, Isaac's lips curled up slightly.

Chapter 420: I am the Invader

"Violet, you take him and go first."

"Yes."

Violet hoisted the weakened soldier onto her shoulder and ran towards the back. Isaac turned back to the group of gun-wielding samurai and laughed:

"Did you know that the soldier who stayed behind to fight was the one who allowed the residents to evacuate this area as soon as possible?"

Isaac's words did not sway the warriors in the slightest; instead, they roared, "Who cares! If he gets bitten, he'll turn into a Kabane!"

"Shouldn't the Amestris people, who have the rights of our country, protect us?!"

"I've long disliked you officers in your blue uniforms!"

The warriors' faces showed fear and anger as they pulled the triggers.

Bang!

With a crisp sound, several round lead bullets were fired, and a red barrier rose in front of Isaac, turning the lead bullets into ashes.

The men were stunned to find their steam guns useless. While they were still in a daze, Isaac suddenly rushed forward, drew his knife, and swung it rapidly through the crowd.

Blood splattered everywhere, and in an instant, all the samurai who had been holding spears were reduced to mangled limbs flying through the air. Almost all the samurai were reduced to piles of flesh in a single moment.

“You will never understand your own position.” Isaac wiped the blood off his face and looked indifferently at the warriors who had become corpses.

"A monster!"

Then a faint voice came from the pile of corpses, and one of the warriors, covered in blood, struggled to crawl on the ground, trying to get away from Isaac. He wanted to escape this terrible monster.

He wasn't climbing fast; the blow had sent one of his hands and one of his legs flying, and now he could only drag his mutilated body as he continued to try to escape.

Isaac walked up to him, plunged the knife vertically into his back, and pinned him to the ground.

"Ah!!!" A sharp pain struck, and the samurai screamed once again.

“Are you truly oblivious or just pretending? Your power wasn’t something I obtained; it was something I seized. Eliminating the Kabane is merely a side effect.” Listening to the screams of the samurai beneath his feet, Isaac spoke slowly. “Amestoris has no obligation to protect you, the people of Japan, because this is territory we acquired with time and money. There’s no reason for us to colonize you and then have to work for you.”

Isaac pulled the knife out and gently wiped the blood off the blade with the tissue.

“The people of Japan have no right to question Amestris’s actions. All you have to do is obey,” Isaac said. “Disobeying is one thing, but pointing guns at Amestris’s soldiers is another. So, my method for dealing with you is…”

With another swift stroke, the samurai's head rolled to the side.

"They would treat us like animals."

Sheathing his knife, Isaac continued walking outside.

He has now carefully considered the issues that will arise after signing the contract with General Tenniao.

At that time, in order to create a landing site for the follow-up troops of Amestris, they frantically invaded and scoured the Kabane along the coast to make room for them, while also making the post stations along the Japanese coast rich to facilitate future supply issues.

However, this also led some people to believe that Isaac's actions were for the protection of the Japanese, and some fools to think that it was all justified.

“I am an invader, not someone you hired to work for.”