546. GENERAL UNIVERSE

Alexander had ended the war with Creta and the transfer of power was butter smooth. Due to the fruition of Alexander's efforts by spreading facts in the form of rumors, the Central was forced to promote him to the rank of General because his feats were public now.

Now, he was invited to the central to receive his promotion. The news had already reached all the people, much to the frustration of the central command. They were still unable to understand how their meetings were getting leaked. Unknown to them, one of the higher-ups had a habit of talking to his dog about his work. The dog then tells everything to an elf Seraph.

He was on his way back and the moment he entered Central City, there were already people standing on both sides of the road and waving at him. He felt like some kind of king or something coming around to meet people. He wondered if even the fuhrer received such treatment. Alexander also had big banners behind his car. They had 'Zero Deaths' written on it.

"Dobby, find out where that little rascal is. He got into a fight and got injured, he didn't even tell me." Alexander told his elf friend.

...

God knows how Ajax found out that his grandpa had returned to the city. He knew he was going to get a beating. He was not a man/child to run away due to fear or from conflicts but Grandpa, his grandma, and his mom were an exception.

He barged into the private hospital room of Edward. "Ed, wherever do you want to go. I will sponsor. Just tell me."

But he stopped as he saw that Edward, Alphonse, Hughes, and Armstrong were standing there like a stone, and in front of them was a man with an eyepatch.

"Oh, who is this man?" He asked.

"Haha, I am Fuhrer King Bradley, nice to meet you, young man. You must be the grandson of General Universe, he is a remarkable man that I feel honored for him to be born in our country." Bradley said with a smile.

"Are you really a King or King is a part of your name?" Ajax inquired.

"It's just in the name," Bradly replied.

"Why are you wearing an eyepatch?" Ajax asked further.

"Because just like you right now, I was also very adventurous when I was small. Okay, see you all later. My personal time is over. Take care, you four. Remember my words and be ready." Bradley reminded them and jumped out of the window.

"How can you be so relaxed in front of him? Don't you feel nervous?" Alphonse asked him.

"Why should I be nervous? He's just a man and any man can be brought down with enough force. He just has a very high rank, that's it."Ajax nonchalantly replied.

"Very nice, I like your confidence, "Hughes walked to him and patted his shoulder.

But Hats quickly meowed and brought them out of their thinking, "Let's go. Where do you want to go now, little one?"

"Dublith. We need to meet our teacher there." Edward revealed. Then Winry also came and showed them the tickets.

"Cool, let's go. Quick quick." Ajax helped them pack their bags and didn't stop until they had sat on the train and it started moving.

"Hey, Ajax, why are you in such a hurry?" Winry asked.

"You won't get it, Winry, I am running from pain," Ajax replied and closed his eyes.

...

Alexander went straight to the Central Command Headquarters where he was involved in a ceremony. Surprisingly, the uppermost tier of the Amestrian Military was there.

In a private yet big ceremony, Fuhrer came to put the three stars on his shoulders each. He was now a full General. Higher than Lieutinet General and just one rank lower than Fuhrer. He was going to be the only Full General in the Amestris Military. The last one was the patriarch of Armstrong family but he had retired.

By the information in the official records, Alexander was at the moment, 69 years olds. This age was considered very old. There were rumors that Alexander was still very strong, but they were just rumors, everyone thought that he had godly negotiation skills, that is why he won all the time.

But, a few knew the truth that he was far from weak and old. Now, that he was the second-highest-ranking man in the Military. He could go anywhere, do anything, and order mostly anyone. Many wanted to suck up to him now to further their careers.

Bradley put the stars on his shoulder and spoke calmly. Loud enough that only he would hear it. "I heard that you were attacked in Creta by a strange creature."

"Oh, your intelligence unit is fast. Yes, I was indeed attacked by a weird creature with a tattoo of ouroboros on the tongue. Their powers were weird too." Alexander replied while looking at Bradley's face and then just looking at Bradley's eyepatch.

~Hmm... what caused such an injury to his eye? He seems pretty strong.~

Meanwhile, Bradley thought that Alexander was on to something and was now having some kind of doubts.

"And what did you do to that creature," Bradley inquired.

"What we do to our enemies. I killed it, destroyed it to smithereens, not even ashes remained. However, there was also a female with him. I couldn't kill her but I did put a scar on her face. I will quickly put wanted posters of her." Alexander replied with a smile. Bradley was not smiling much. It seemed their plan was under a threat now.

But Bradley couldn't say no to Alexander. "Of course, we must catch them."

Then Bradley gave promotions to Iroh and Ragnarok who now became Major General. Dobby was made Lieutenant General and Leonidas was made Brigadier General. All of them received a double promotion.

Alexander then took the mic. "This old boy finally got promoted again. Well, I will be holding a party. Do come with your family."

After that, the ceremony came to an end and the party started in the adjacent great hall. All the high-level military officials were there with their families.

Alexander was having fun showing magic tricks to lots of kids who were grandkids of old military men. All these old men were impartial and didn't take any sides because they knew they were going to retire soon.

But, after seeing Alexander, they also felt like supporting him because he represented their generation and he was pretty strong too with an impeccable track record.

...

While this happened, a crisis fell on Lt. Colonel Hughes. He found out about the secret plot of whoever was responsible for the instability of the country.

All these mass killings happening. In Ishval, Lior, the fact that the ingredient for philosopher's stone was human sacrifice.

"This is terrible. Who could have planned all this? I must tell Fuhrer." He muttered in the archive room.

But, Lust came to the room. She had a big cross-shaped scar on her face now. Even the power of the philosopher's stone couldn't heal her. Ironically enough, she was supposed to be the embodiment of lust and induce lust in others, but she was now not pretty enough for people to even look at her face.

"Nice to meet you, Lt. Colonel... well actually, farewell." She closed the door behind her.

*SLASH*

She attacked him and injured his shoulder. However, Hughes was good at throwing knives and threw one at her forehead.

He injuredly walked out and reached the phone booth in the streets. Suddenly, he felt a gun touching his back.

The person was trying to impersonate Lt. Maria but he immediately noticed she was a fake. In return, Hughes found out that these people were able to take other people's forms.

"WHAT ARE YOU?" he questioned.

"Oh, don't you recognize me?" a familiar voice came.

Hughes looked at the face and it was his wife. He couldn't bring himself to attack her.

"Hah, foolish humans."

*BANG*

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