Chapter 399

The next morning, in a small town on the outskirts of Central City, Su Xiao was hiding in an abandoned house.

*Tap, tap. Tap... *

Footsteps approached from nearby. Su Xiao, wrapped in bandages, looked at the person coming.

"Did you fight Mustang yesterday?"

"Yes, in the forest in the suburbs. I was disposing of Riza Hawkeye's corpse when Mustang suddenly appeared."

"Is that so? Didn't you show him those photos?"

Envy walked up to Su Xiao, looking at him with a mocking smile.

"Where is the Philosopher's Stone I'm owed?"

"Here."

Envy tossed out a piece of Philosopher's Stone the size of a grain of rice; this piece was pitifully small.

Su Xiao didn't catch it, and the Philosopher's Stone fell to the ground.

"Only this much?"

"Every time you do something for us from now on, it will be this amount of Philosopher's Stone."

Envy chuckled, yawned, and wore a mocking smile, seemingly confident he had Su Xiao figured out.

"Is that so? Then forget it."

"Oh? You don't want to work for us anymore? Mustang's side is a bit difficult to deal with. He turned Central City upside down this morning just to find you."

Envy stood before Su Xiao, unafraid. He had seen the battle last night; it was intense, most of the forest was burned down, and the ground was full of craters.

Su Xiao took out a walkie-talkie and turned it on.

"Have you dealt with the nearby troops?"

*Sss~*, the signal on the walkie-talkie wasn't great, but fortunately, the voice inside could be heard clearly.

"Cleaned... up. Solving it within an hour... no problem."

"Good. I will leave Central City soon to find another ally of ours. I'll leave this place to you."

"No problem... thanks for... the intelligence... you provided."

Su Xiao turned off the walkie-talkie.

"Who are you talking to?"

Envy began to feel something was wrong.

"A 'new friend'."

Checking Zhan Long Shan appeared in Su Xiao's hand, and a bright blade light flashed.

*Puchi. *

Fresh blood splashed, forming a large spray of droplets in mid-air.

"Huh?"

After feeling the stinging pain in his arm, Envy turned his head to look at his left arm.

His left arm was gone, red electric sparks flashed at the wound, and the severed arm regenerated quickly.

"That hurts! You bastard!"

Envy stood alert not far from Su Xiao.

"Do you want to rebel against us? You mere human."

*Zzz~. *

The sound of wire tightening came.

"What is this? Hey, hey, stop!"

Su Xiao pulled the Jie Duan Xian and yanked hard. *Puchi! * Fine wounds appeared all over Envy's body, and he was sliced into a dozen pieces.

"Once."

Taking advantage of Envy's regeneration gap, Su Xiao rushed forward in a few steps.

"How dare you rebel against us..."

The long blade swept past, and Envy's head was severed.

"Twice."

Su Xiao kicked Envy's torso. Envy was only kicked a few meters away, and Su Xiao's lower leg felt a faint ache.

*Boom! *

Envy landed, creating a large crater in the floor of the house. The already dilapidated house began to collapse. Envy was very heavy, at least a thousand pounds.

Su Xiao flashed out of the house, dust and smoke rising behind him. Envy was buried alive in the house.

*Bang. *

A piece of rubble was kicked away, and Envy crawled out from the ruins.

"To actually betray us... humans are truly untrustworthy things."

Envy stood up and shook the blood off his hands.

"It's been a long time since I used that. Let me show you my true form; don't wet your pants in fear."

Red electric sparks flashed all over Envy's body; he seemed to want to use a certain move.

Su Xiao didn't rush forward. Envy's true form was about to appear; the teenage appearance seen now was just Envy's disguise.

Envy's body expanded rapidly. In an instant, Envy transformed from the thin teenager into a behemoth.

At this moment, Envy was four meters tall and at least ten meters long, looking somewhat like a canine, but with eight thick legs.

Envy's skin was dark green, and he had a lizard-like tail.

When Father created Envy, he added canine and lizard genes to increase Envy's combat power.

"How about it? My strongest form."

Envy's voice became hollow, as if many people were speaking at the same time.

Su Xiao sensed the Envy in front of him; this was no longer one aura, but thousands upon thousands of auras.

Countless souls were wailing inside Envy's body.

*"Save me, it's so painful."*

*"Let me out, I don't want to become energy."*

*"Let me die, I beg you."*

Ignoring the wailing of the souls inside Envy, Su Xiao's perception was too strong, even giving him a dizzying feeling.

He retracted his perception, and the wailing of the dead souls disappeared.

Su Xiao rushed forward with his blade, and Envy sneered.

"If you used a bomb, I would run away immediately. Now it seems your Philosopher's Stone is used up."

Envy raised his dark green claws and stomped toward Su Xiao.

Su Xiao dodged to the side, and Envy's stomp missed.

*Boom! *

A large crater appeared in the ground, and the vibration came from underfoot.

Holding the blade with both hands, Su Xiao slashed off Envy's claw.

*Slash*, Envy's thick claw was severed. The feeling of the slash had no resistance at all; it was very smooth.

Checking Zhan Long Shan was now exceptionally sharp. The +8 enhancement gave it high attack power, not to mention the sharpness added by the Supreme Blade.

Supreme Blade Effect 1 added 7 points of sharpness, +5 enhancement added armor penetration, and +8 enhancement added another 2 points of sharpness.

The 9-point sharpness bonus, plus armor penetration and the true damage of Qing Gang Ying, made Su Xiao's slashes terrifying to the extreme.

Not to mention that Checking Zhan Long Shan had gained another attribute that increased sharpness.

Equipment Effect: Shadow Dance Break (Passive): Each slash against an enemy will reduce the enemy's defense by 8%. The effect lasts for 20 seconds and can be stacked 3 times, reducing the enemy's defense by a total of 24%.

Hint: After the Shadow Dance Break (Passive) effect is stacked to 3 times, it will add the "Bleeding Profusely" effect. (Bleeding Profusely: The enemy loses 2 health points per second and reduces healing effects by 30%.)

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Shadow Dance Break (Passive) had already stacked three times on Envy, reducing Envy's defense by a total of 24%.

Although the attached "Bleeding Profusely" effect could not reduce Envy's recovery effect, it could accelerate the speed at which Envy consumed the Philosopher's Stone.

*Puchi, puchi, puchi... *

Checking Zhan Long Shan flew up and down, and Envy's claws were severed one after another; he couldn't withstand Su Xiao's slashes at all.

Su Xiao was cutting Envy like cutting vegetables.

"Impossible, what kind of blade is this? How can it be so sharp?"

Envy was a chatterbox during battle, constantly babbling.

Su Xiao slashed off Envy's lower jaw, and a large amount of blood sprayed onto him.

Among the seven homunculi, three posed a threat to Su Xiao: Wrath (Bradley), Pride (Selim), and Gluttony.

Gluttony had already been dealt with by Su Xiao, Wrath would not be fought for the time being, and he planned to deal with Pride in the near future.

As the earliest homunculus, Pride ranked second in strength among them, but he had a weakness—a very fatal weakness.