Taking Envy's assertion that this space is a false Gate of Truth, Edward posits that performing a Human Transmutation - albeit a theoretically safe one in which he breaks down his own body and soul and reconstructs them back into an unaltered form - he can open the path to the true Gate, from which returning to the proper dimension should be possible. Edward notes that, though he had originally thought the mural was similar to the Five-Point Circle he had encountered in Lab 5, seeing the missing pieces here convinces him that it is something very different - a Human Transmutation Circle. Inside Gluttony's stomach, Envy, Ed and Ling cooperate to collect all the pieces of the Xerxes mural in one place so as to analyze them. He, the twelfth, survived the ordeal intact (save for the loss of his human left eye as well as the surety that the single soul he now possessed was his own) and was given the name 'King Bradley' by the research team. When the time came to choose which one would become Führer, he was injected with a Philosopher's Stone that Father called his 'Wrath,' in a process which - due to the Philosopher's Stone's violent attempts to take over, deconstruct and reconstruct any human body it inhabited - had already claimed the lives of eleven test subjects. In his office, Führer Bradley explains to Mustang that he had been instituted as a experimental subject in a secret project since his very infancy, having been spartanically trained in philosophy, politics and martial arts with several other children for the express purpose of becoming Führer of Amestris. As Gluttony and Al approach, the mysterious Father of the Homunculi senses the nearing presences. Descending in after their quarry, May and Scar are met by a seemingly endless horde of chimeras charged with guarding the Homunculi's stronghold, and fight them off desperately with the help of their powers, but May confirms that the presence she feels is even further down. Scar and May tail them carefully, but May notes that the underground passage gives off an ominous aura like that of countless people crawling around beneath their feet. Above ground, May and Scar's inquiries into Xiao-Mei's whereabouts lead them to discover Alphonse Elric (With Xiao-Mei on his shoulder) following Gluttony into an underground facility. During the battle, however, Edward notices that some of the wreckage inside Gluttony's stomach are the missing parts of the ruins of Xerxes and realizes that with the Philosopher's Stone that exists at Envy's core, there may be a way for them all to escape this dimension if they work together. Envy continues his onslaught against the struggling Ling and Edward, who is distracted by the piteous cries of the souls bulging from the Homunculus' true form, particularly one that innocently chants 'Wanna play?', reminding him of Nina.

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