Chapter 20 : Alchemist fight

A warm, slightly misty air current spread over the ground.

At the same moment Grand snapped his fingers and locked himself in a metal egg that materialized around him, Kimblee opened his palms and struck the ground as well. A red lightning bolt then rushed towards James, Crowley locked himself in the silver ball again.

*Bam*

A shock wave even more terrible than the previous one came and hit them hard, but the explosion caused by Kimblee came to oppose the shock wave diminishing its power considerably, but James didn't stop there, he hit his palms again against one another and struck the air in front of him with his fists.

The air around James' fists was as if boiling, then a powerful jet of hot air came across the void and hit Grand and Crowley's protection, followed by a concentrated shock wave that broke their protection and made them fly about ten meters away.

Kimblee snapped his fingers and two red flashes of lightning surrounded James followed by a thunderous explosion.

But a shock wave also exploded around James, sweeping away the explosion caused by Kimblee.

Meanwhile Grand and Crowley got up and ran towards James.

The ground around Crowley turned to liquid silver again as he ran towards James, he pointed at James with his right index finger and snapped his left fingers.

"Die!"

The liquefied silver turned into hundreds of sharp silver bullets firing at James from different angles.

Grand then stopped his run and enclosed himself in an ovoid mass of iron with several small cannons firing continuously at James.

James then ran at full speed dodging the incessant fire from Grand and Crowley who didn't even give him time to put his palms together.

*Bang* *Bang*

Red lightning surrounded him again.

"Don't underestimate me, you bastard!" James screamed as his Nen exploded out of his body.

A small circle of transmutation tattooed on James' left arm lit up, on this circle were inscribed the symbols of the sun, the libra, an omega-like symbol and the whole enclosed in a triangle (This means the perfection and sublimation of life or vital energy in an evolutionary system basically that transforms the energy of the philosopher's stone into physical energy).

"Canon Balls!"

James's Nen grew at a terrifying speed, more than six Nen balls with a diameter of more than 1 meter swirled out of James's body and attacked the three alchemists at extreme speed, striking the three alchemists in an instant, giving James time to put his palms together.

The next second a powerful explosion engulfing him before being dissipated by a shock wave. (An alchemical operation once started cannot be undone even if you hit the user).

"One more second and I'll be dead, Kimblee's alchemry is really powerful." James whispered as he walked towards the three alchemists.

Nen balls hit Kimblee hard, destroying one of her legs, but he still managed to create an explosion that deflected Nen's second bullet or his head would have been crushed.

Crowley was attacking James unprotected when James threw his nen balls, the nen balls were too fast for him to initiate transmutation, the entire right side of his body was swept away by two nen balls leaving him lying dead on the ground in a pool of blood.

Only Grand was intact, because the nen balls only succeeded in destroying his iron protection.

"Haha interesting really interesting I'm having the time of my life Haha." Kimblee laughed with joy as he stood up as his missing leg bled.

"Kimblee stop laughing and get Crowley's stone, let's kill fucking Ishval as soon as possible." Grand Shouted while bumping his fists.

Kimblee then snapped his fingers and a slight explosion burned his wound, stopping the bleeding instantly, then he stood on his legs in good condition and jumped up and down towards Cwroley's body a few yards away.

James didn't stand still, he ran towards them while joined his hands and slowly opened them, revealing two ball of nen that was spinning at full speed before he threw it towards them.

But a metal wall quickly materialized in front of Grand and Kimblee blocking Nen's balls.

"Burst!"

*Bang*

The ball exploded and blew down the iron wall instantly causing Grand to retreat but he created a second iron wall protecting Kimblee who managed to reach Crowley's body and retrieve the Philosopher's Stone in his hands.

Kim put the stone on his tongue with the one he already had and smiled.

"Hahaha we're gonna have fun!!!"

Red lightning bolts came out of his palms, but this time in exaggerated quantities, and then surrounded James.

James' nen suddenly became denser, he struck his palms together as the size of the two philosopher's stones in his hands diminished.

A blinding white light suddenly appeared.

*BOOM *

Two intense explosions shook the whole city, the soldiers of Amestris and Ishval fighting felt the shock several miles away, forcing them to stop the fight for a short while. The southern entrance to the city disappeared completely, as a ball of flame and dust rose into the sky.

"Delighted, isn't that where Boss is?" Maha aske as he bandaged Ravi's wounds.

"Yes but don't worry, The Boss won't get killed easily after all he managed to capture a city on his own." Said Ravi looking at the cloud of smoke ahead.

"The Boss is surely fighting with all his might, it's our turn to do the same."

Ravi then rose up and commanded his men towards the battlefield with Maha.