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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Geryon's plan to transmute the world in to gold was flawed, hence why Houtarou was able to move at all, instead of becoming a Houtarou-shaped piece of gold. It was merely a layer of gold plating that Houtarou used as the material to create the Chemy World, which seems like a reference to Kamen Rider using the power of evil to do good.

No. The only thing flawed in this episode was Hiroki Uchida's reasoning. Glion had absorbed 99% of the Philosopher's Stone, and he had also created the remaining 1% to substitute Nijigon's portion, so his portion was now 100%. He was now a God, in the most literal sense. Like Germain said in episode 40 @ 09:38, the Unholy Trinity was the creator of alchemy, and that's why Glion had the ambition to open the Door of Darkness. Glion wanted to use the power of God (the Unholy Trinity) to perform infinite amount of chrysopoeia, aka transmuting objects into pure gold, to realize his El Dorado obsession. Yet, in the most typical Yuuya Takahashi's way of doing an asspull, Hiroki Uchida casually violated that internal logic, the most fundamental internal logic in this story, simply because he wanted Houtarou to win against Glion.

Glion was 100% God now, so he now possessed the complete power of the creator of alchemy. ...And the best thing he could do was merely gilding objects? That's hilarious. You don't even need an alchemist to gild objects with 0,01 micrometer of gold coating. Even Muggles could easily gild objects via basic level of chemistry and physics. If the God of your alchemy story could only gild objects at his best, not perform infinite amount of chrysopoeia, then your alchemy story was very likely already FUBAR since episode 1. That's a sure sign of a crappy writing.

This is why I've stated several times that making a God-level villain is a very very very dangerous trope that's often abused by hack writers. I elaborated how a God-level villain is one of the main symptoms of a crappy writing in the episode 43 thread here and episode 48 thread here. Making a God-level villain will only create a very very very shallow, superficial excitement, but when it comes the time for the human hero to defeat him, you'll inevitably create a gazillion of logical anomalies that are virtually impossible to resolve because you'll be forced to drag your God-level villain to the level of your human hero. You'll be forced to make your God-level villain do stupid mistakes, and or make stupid and irrational decisions, and or violate the most fundamental internal logic regarding God-level villain's power. If I'm forced to violate the most fundamental aspect of the internal logic of my story simply for the sake of making the hero win, then I should congratulate myself for being such a bad writer that has successfully written himself into a corner.

TLDR:
Making a God-level villain is the worst possible way to write yourself into a corner.

Oh, and there were several other unresolved logical anomalies that I forgot to mention in my last post:
- What the heck happened in Houtarou's past where he had already befriended Hopper1 and Steamliner? What's the point of the revelation in episode 14 @ 19:11? Don't know!
- What the heck did Kid Houtarou in the Ouroboros world in episode 18? What's the point of him being there and playing with Hopper1 and Steamliner? Don't know!
- How the heck did the Alchemist of Dawn (very likely a human) defeat the uber-demon (the singular entity of the Unholy Trinity/God) 120 years ago? Don't know!

Well, my questions aren't relevant anymore. They don't matter anymore. The series had ended, so what's the point of asking those questions? The writers had 50 episodes to answer them, and they squandered every single opportunity they had. Very unfortunate!