Starting where we left off from episode 41, Ed encounters Sloth and Wrath in the escape tunnel for the Lior people. Wrath almost gets the upper hand on Ed as Sloth plays with Ed’s mind as a image of his mother, but Rose magically gains her voice back to warn about Wrath, and Rose’s crying baby also distracts Wrath to give Ed enough time to regroup. Ed pulls off some pretty impressive offensive moves during this battle as he almost seemingly toys with the 2 homunculi.
Meanwhile, Kimbley has turned Al into a bomb, causing the metal on Al’s armor to slowly “rot” away from his feet and slowly move upward towards his head. Scar, realizing he cannot reverse the process, sacrifices his right arm and transmutes the symbols on his right arm onto Al’s body, which essentially seeds Al’s body to hold the upcoming Philosopher’s stone. With the military, lead by Archer, sitting outside Lior, Scar baits the soldiers into entering the city, and he finally completes what his brother attempted to achieve by transmuting the entire city of Lior with the incoming solders, and the city disappears in a brilliant red glow.
Ed in the meantime had caught up to Archer before the invasion and manages to be there just in time before the transmutation of Lior. After the red glow had dissipated, he goes in to look for survivors, and he finds AL covered up in sand, but now with a red glowing crystal inside of him, a complete Philosopher’s Stone!
After all their hard work in trying to search for it and giving up, the Philosopher’s Stone still manages to fall in the hands of the Elric brothers.
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This episode reminds me of those awesome videos we had to watch in chemistry class where they throw cesium and other alkali metals into a vat of water and make the vat explode =).
omg, I remember watching that video back when I took good ol’ Chem 211. The guy would start out with the less reactive metals, and then once they got to the REALLY reactive metals, the guy’s hand was moving so fast in attempt to drop the metal into the vat of water to avoid the glass shards from the exploding vat