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Chapter 7: A Perfect Being

The Master was happy.

He was happy for three reasons: One, he had his beloved suit on, Two, he was listening to the sweet melody of agonized screams and Three, his time was almost at hand.

He paced his chamber like a caged animal, excitement flooding his nerves and anticipation buzzing through his mind, He stopped pacing and crossed the room, his boots thudding against the tile, he stepped up to his mirror and examined himself: He was tall, gaunt to the point of being skeletal, his eyes were purple, his nose little more that two slits on his face, his gums were black and he had pulled out his teeth and replaced them with needles long, long ago; he had also removed his finger and toenails as well.

All just steps to achieving true perfection.

For him true perfection meant being all-powerful, all-knowing and terrible to behold, beauty was a shallow facade, a facade which he had all but destroyed decades ago, his new appearance would make men and women, young and old alike tremble in terror at his coming; he would be a boogeyman, a demon, the thing in the shadows that haunted the nightmares of all.

His reverie is broken when the screaming reached a painful crescendo and then went silent, The Lieutenant seems to be having fun with our first prisoner, he hasn't been able to torture something in a long time, I just hope he doesn't kill this... Envy before I can extract the stone from his blood.

He returned to admiring himself in the mirror, this time focusing on his suit: it was made from leather and alchemically-enhanced steel, his spine was traced by small bottles filled with red liquid and every inch of the suit was covered in very ancient and powerful Alchemic schematics that very few of the humans would even know about, much less use; it was this suit that allowed him to transmute without a circle and with the red water being injected directly into his core he could make his transmutations more powerful than any alchemist in the world.

He smiled to himself: now all that was left to do was kill the alchemists Dante and Van Hohenheim.

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