A/N: There's going to be a bit of a new style of writing for the novel this chapter. The narrator will explain the characters actions in normal font as usual. However, the narrator will also be explaining other information using italics without quotations like that which are meant to explain concepts to the reader.

Last chapter, Karia found the black and red armored "monster" from her past- and tried to fight him. However- that led to her getting her heart destroyed- and for Seric's soul to vanish into thin air...

Narrator's P.O.V.

"Pal #1- I DID hear you but I can't see you so please just shout out again Denzil lane is huge ya kno- AH!" King Metallica shouts out as he exits from a nearby alleyway- but stops as he turns to see Karia and Seric soaked bodies lying on the rain covered floor.

Meanwhile- the black and red armored spearman stops retreating through a separate alleyway when he hears King Metallica arrive.

"O-ohhhhhhh... I know father said to retreat- but... seeing one such as that "King" who falsely praises father and his true sons in despair would be... so good. Also- being able to see Karia struggle for life due to her cybernetic-things keeping her alive for longer... there's just too much here~" The man thinks to himself as he starts to uncontrollably shake, and he turns his unarmored head back towards the two bodies of his victims.

"That's... blood! PALS!!" King Metallica cries out as he charges towards the two, until he falls to his creaky knees when he reaches the barely gasping Karia's side.

"What's wrong?!?! What happened- speak already!! Pal #2- ...no, your eyes are... you can't even breathe! Wait... what's that...?" King Metallica says uneasily as he glances down towards the pitch red spot on Karia's upper chest- to see that it leads to a tear in her flesh.

"You're wayyyyyyy too fast... jeez I could barely even keep up there. Do these guys being in danger power you up or some- huh?" Amandeath groans as she exits from the same alleyway King Metallica exited from a minute later. However she stops dead her tracks as she looks ahead to see King Metallica quickly wiping his hands off with a tissue he pulled out from his robe.

He then swings his head down to look at Karia's wound, and at the same time easily pries it open with his metal fingers.

"S-Se-ric..." Karia just barely mumbles to herself inaudibly as tears fall down her face.

*SHLICK...*

"Here it comes..... mhmmmm... forgive me father, I'll leave soon enough..." The armored man starts to moan as he digs his armored hand into a open slot in his armor that leads to his bare crotch.

"A-AH O-OH OH GOD!!!" King Metallica wails out as he sees what happened to her heart- and at the same time removes his hand from her. He then digs his arm under her body to carry her with him as he stumbles towards Seric.

"...What happened?" Amandeath asks, being more on guard than usual due to his unusually panicked tone. At the same time, King Metallica analyzes Seric's body to see his open blue eyes have dimmed out entirely- and that he's not breathing whatsoever.

"H-HANG ON PALS!!! AMANDEATH CALL FOR HELP IMMEDIATELY! I-I- CAN'T... I CAN'T HELP-" King Metallica cries out as he spins his head back around to her, then quickly spins it back to the two.

"Hey hey just, calm down, what's going on... ohhhh fuck. But... you should know that no medical people are in this area..." Amandeath says in a serious tone, only being a bit startled by the scene as she hasn't realized how bad it truly is yet.

Meanwhile, in a hidden alleyway next to the group the spearman has started to pleasure himself with his armored hand. Of course, to the thought and scene of the "false believer", King Metallica wailing in pain...

"PAL- SERIC- what can I... ah! S-Sorry for this pal!" King Metallica realizes a way to check if Seric's ok by raising his hand and extending his fingers, then swinging his arm down to stab Seric in the chest.

*SHK!*

"NO- NO- NO NO NO NO NO!!!! PLEASE- MY KINGS, P-PLEASE MY CREATORS- DON'T LET THIS BE TRUE I BEG OF YOU!!" King Metallica screams as he removes his fingers from Seric's chest- however, they are completely intact. Meaning to King, that the boys flames have been extinguished.

"M-MMN... ah... cry- disgracer of father, C-CRY! You fucking- subhuman!" The armored man mumbles as he bites his lip while continuing to stroke himself to the horrible scene.

"A-AMANDEATH HURRY, CALL FOR HELP ALREADY!!!! I DON'T CARE IF WE GET TAKEN AWAY OR NOT- JUST- JUST AN-ANYTHING!" King Metallica wails to her as he tries to perform chest compressions on Seric as he spins his head back towards Amandeath.

"...I'm sure you know as well, there's no doctors like that in the outskirts of the Hopian continent... sorry. Yes this is veeeeery sad, but- we heard Seric screaming a minute ago. The person who did this is probably around- annnnd probably extremely dangerous to be able to take both of them out. We have to be ready to fight and protect ourselves now..." Amandeath says as she raises her sniper armed arm in the air to subtly tell King Metallica that she's vulnerable due to it not being fixed yet.

"NNNNOOOOO!!! STOP LYING- JUST, COME HERE- DO THAT MOUTH TO MOUTH THING!!!" King Metallica cries out as he spins back around to his two pals, with Karia just barely gasping while Seric lies unmoving...

"A-AHhhhhh- Father I love you- NNN MMmmn AH FATHER!!" The armored man moans in bliss as he erupts in pleasure. However, Amandeath with her trained hearing notices the sound from a distance, and spins her head towards a dark alleyway next to them.

"..." Amandeath then quickly glances side to side with her eyes which activates the night vision function on her glasses.

She instantly notices the spearman- and identifies them due to the weapon they're holding and the armor they have on as well.

"Bot the person who did it is in the alleyway down there I can see the spea-"

"WHERE?" King Metallica says in a stern tone as he looks back at Amandeath, then looks down the alleyway she's pointing to. Of course, with him being able to see in the dark as well.

"Oh FUCK- h-he saw me, how?! Night vision?! Shit shit shit shit! No father told me, he would be too fast to escape from- I-I'll have to kill that false believer before he does "that"!" The spearman thinks to himself in panic as he removes his left hand from his crotch and grabs his real spear with it. However he struggles to get ready to attack due to his lingering bliss from the pleasuring session.

"I bought this to keep my pals safe when they were alive- however... however...! A-Amandeath... Immediately take them into this and hide inside as well..." King Metallica says with gritted teeth as he puts Karia back down on the floor, barely managing to maintain his composure as he stands back up and shoves his hand into his robe pocket. He then retrieves a silver cube from it, and swings his arm down to make the object slam onto the floor close to his two "pals".

*POOF- FWOOSH!*

The silver cube now covered in wires expands to a far bigger size on the ground. However at the same time the armored man recovers and blinks towards King Metallica with his spear raised into the air.

*SCREEEECH- TCH!*

King Metallica just barely has the time to think and so he raises both of his arms to block, but still the spear slices through his right arm- and down through his chest as well. However, the spear isn't able to slice him all the way through.

"I SAID IMMEDIATELY!!!" King Metallica shouts at Amandeath as his decapitated arm falls to the floor which makes her hurry over to the two and press the small "open" button on the box. This causes the front side of it to slide up into the air.

At the same time the man struggles to but manages to rip his spear out from King Metallica's chest. Right afterwards King Metallica uses his remaining arm to rip off his now torn robe, revealing his shiny silver torso and legs.

*TCH- CLANG!*

Amandeath finishes cramming Seric and Karia into the cube and crams herself in it which causes it to slam shut. At the same time the spearman thrusts his spear into the slice he made in King Metallica, but it fails to do what he desired so he freezes up.

"RANK TO EXTERMINATE: S! For the fiftieth and final time, I'll use this to a-a-av... to brilliantly S.L.A.U.G.H.T.E.R. THE ONE WHO- WHO ENDED MY GREATEST PALS!" King Metallica screams as he spins a now exposed gear on the front of his chest, causing his sliced body to meld itself together as the wound turns red hot- and for a brand new metallic arm to form where his old one was cut off.

The spearman jumps back, then to the side of the street to retrieve his helmet that he took off beforehand. Less than a second later he jumps back and up through a window of an abandoned building behind him.

*T-TCH

"D-Damn it what should I do?! I can't run... ah! I'll take down father's shield of clouds above us- that way all of those army people will see what's happening and interfere, then I'll escape!" The spearman thinks to himself as he slams his helmet back over his head.

Father's shield of clouds is exactly what it sounds like, however to a far greater extent than one would think. The ability forms a spherical "shield" of clouds around an area- which even go through the ground and back up through the surface and into the sky for miles.

Nothing from the inside of the shield can leave or see the outside world, and from the outside the clouds are completely invisible and nothing can enter them either. Furthermore, from the outside the clouds make it seem like the area they are surrounding is the exact same as it was before the shield was formed. Even if a full blown war was occurring inside of the shielded area, from the outside it would be almost impossible to detect- and of course to enter the scene.

At the same time as the man comes up with a plan, long linear slots start to open up around King Metallica's upper body.

*CHINK CHINK CHINK CHINK!*

Sheets of jagged and sharp metallic metal to pour out from the slots, surrounding and wrapping themselves around King Metallica's bare body. It stops with a loud sound- leaving King Metallica with a new robe made out of what seems to be millions of pieces of shiny metal. His limbs then start to be divided into hundreds of slots- each of which work as individual joints.

"No- DUMBASS IDIOT father has to cancel the shield himself and he said he's busy right now! FUCK ME- no no wait wait- father warned me about this false king. BUT that doesn't mean he's stronger than I, I can still beat him- after all I faked all damage Karia did to me! BUT I must be careful too- I'll be on the defensive since father didn't tell me about his abilities... but that's fine of course, this struggle will be my punishment for disobeying him." The spearman thinks to himself as he lifts his spear up with both hands, stepping back and gripping it while staring down at the bot.

Finally King Metallica opens his eyes. However, his normal minuscule black pupils for eyes have grown in size- and are now surrounded by a light gray iris, making them look just as a humans as thick see through "tears" start to fall out of them.

His crown starts to morph as well until-

"AHHHH!!!" King Metallica screams as the spearman raises his weapon.

*FWO- POW!*

King Metallica barely bends down to launch himself up at the spearman at a speed that gives the man little to no time to react. At the same time he clenches his fist and extends it directly into the mans preemptively raised spear.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!*

The hit slams the man down through the floor and through several massive brick buildings- until he finally stops by digging his spear into the ground, sliding it through the pavement along the streets until he's able to stop.

The man rips his weapon from the ground, noticing one of the white spikes on the edge have been chipped for less than a second until-

*BOOM- CRACK!*

King Metallica slams down onto the floor in front of the spearman as his jagged metal robe rattles, sticking out his fingers and opening his right palm. Hardly a moment after he jams his fingers through the mans bubble like aura to make several holes in it with ease. Then through his black and red armor, and lastly into his actual flesh that his fingers dig into.

"GET AWAY!" The man cries as he tries to rip King Metallica's fingers out from him. But before he can he suddenly gets sucked towards the robots palm with an extraordinary amount of force that starts to crush his chest, with a ear piercing high pitched pulsating sound starting to sound from the bot. This is of course King Metallica's "Metallic System", however... it isn't quite the same as before.

*CRACK... CRACK- BOOM- CRAAASH- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

Suddenly the buildings close to the scene get ripped out from their foundations and start orbiting around the two at a deadly speed. As seconds go by hundreds of more buildings get ripped out from their foundations in an increasing range. At the same time, the spearman inaudibly starts to slam his spear into King Metallica's hands to break free- however as expected, his hits don't leave a scratch on the screaming robot.

Finally with deafening sounds the range of the attack reaches to the very end of "Father's shield of clouds". Every single structure in the miles of city it surrounds is now sliding along or above the ground, with each of them crumbling apart and smashing into each other in the process of the unprecedented scene of destruction.

Luckily, the cube King Metallica put his pals- or pal into has one purpose. While a mock version of the real thing, for a limited amount of time, the cube becomes completely seperated from the physical world around it. Meaning, that anything that hits the object from the outside will simply move through the cube- while leaving the contents of its interior entirely unscathed. Such is the impressive science of the Hopian Territory- and what a few thousand Herin can buy one illegally on the island of Birzion.

"W-Wait- you praise our lords- the Five Kings! So- AH surely you know how wrong this is- there are countless innocent civilians in those tubes above us A-HHHND on the ground that you're killing with thi-"

"YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT THAT NOW?!" King Metallica shouts as he grips the man even harder, causing the buildings' orbits gets close enough to the two that the massive pieces of debris start smashing into them. However- King Metallica doesn't move an inch as his body "digs" into the buildings moving around him, with them taking more damage than he is as they move by him. He keeps hold of the spearman, who's aura is fading away drastically as he attempts to move. He fails due to the vibrating massive chunks of stone and brick starting to compress around him, with the structures around the two now being unable to move any closer in the orbit due to their close proximity.

The spearman screams as the buildings from the outer orbits start to surround the debris already around the two. Thus, the already ginormous clump of material surrounding them both continues to grow and compress itself as every single structure eventually crushes themselves into it. This starts to suffocate the spearman. King Metallica then rips his fingers from his chest, moving his limbs through the compressed material surrounding them like it's nothing.

"AH- What- what can I d-" The utterly stunned spearman thinks to himself as the holes in his drastically thinned out aura fill themselves in, but stops when King Metallica slams his palm on his chest.

*CRRRRRRASH!*

King Metallica launches the man through and out of the massive cocoon of debris around the two using his next sphere that he switched to with ease. He gets launched all the way up into "father's shield of clouds" which lies miles above the ground in a matter of seconds.

*FWOOSH CRASH FWOOSH CRASH!*

"C-CURSE YOU- H-HOW COULD YOU- HOW COULD I- AHHHHHAHAHAAA PALLLS!!!!" King Metallica cries as he starts to spin his torso at breakneck speeds, with him repeatedly sucking the man back into his palm through the pile of thousands of buildings and shooting him back out again into the giant shield surrounding them.

Little did King Metallica know that hitting his enemy into these clouds would regenerate his bubble like aura. However, the damage the man is suffering from flying through and out of the debris towards King Metallica is still lessening the regeneration.

"T-thank you father- I-I can make I- FUCK- MMPH!" The man tries to think as he flies through the air once more. But, he stops as he throws up inside of his armor, obviously due to the ludicrous speed he's being launched towards and away from his opponent in circular motions at.

"Now!" The man thinks to himself as he barely manages to raise his spear as he flies back through the rubble where King Metallica stands inside. The only reason he's able to do this being due to the massive heap of debris being filled with holes and open space now, with them all being caused by the man himself flying through the buildings hundreds of times.

*POW- CRACK!*

The man holds out his spear to block- but King Metallica stops using his sphere and instead slams his clenched metallic fist into the spearmans helmet as he approaches him. This causes the man to be slammed down into the already destroyed ground right in front of the enraged robot as his aura is thinned out once again.

*TICK TICK TICK- CRAAASH!*

King Metallica bends down, then jumps straight up through the cocoon of compact structures. He finally sees the dust filled barren wasteland that is the outside world again, and the amount of destruction he caused as he lands on top of the creaking massive pile of debris he created. The library he loved, the countless amount of people in the area who were in the surrounded by the clouds... all of these are now under his feet.

"..." This saddens the King for a moment as he of course loves the Hopian Continent. But, less than a second later he grits his teeth, bends down and slams his hand on the top of the ginormous pile of debris the spearman is still lying inside of. He uses his sphere again and-

*CRACK- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

The pile of compressed materials slams down into the earth- crushing down into the spearman. But more importantly the massive object slams into the ground below it, with such a force that it causes all of the miles of manmade land inside of the shield of clouds to shatter entirely. This impact even shatters the miles of Hesalo underneath the ground, the supposed strongest material in the world that  supports the artificial land of the Hopian Continent.

The two enemies start to fall through the earth, along with the millions of tonnes of chunks of ground that King Metallica shattered. Thus, everything in the area falls down towards the true ground that lies far beneath the surface of the Hopian Continent...

The world was not always the way it is at the moment. In fact, the time period you're seeing right now has already occured in this universe. Well- in the past at least. However, when this specific time period occured in the past- there were a few major differences to how it is in the present. The Hopian Continent was ruled with an iron fist- with the Hopian Army still being lead by Prósopsi though having far less dangerous threats to encounter. Commander Erucid was never slaughtered- and the notorious gang named the "Red Fists" never rose to it's full potential.

However, some of the events that you have seen still occured in this prior timeline- such as the "spearman" attacking Vegahold Prison which caused Karia to kill Sariel. These major changes in events are entirely due to the fact that two very important people were not involved in this time period when it occured in the past- but who are now in this "edited" and current version of the times.

Firstly, Seric did not exist in the prior timeline for a simple- yet complex reason. Secondly, King Metallica did not exist in it either. Or more so, his true self was long dead when this time period had occured in the past. Furthermore, King Metallica was actually the sole reason for why this break in the universe's timeline occured in the first place...

As stated above, the Hopian Continent was indeed ruled with an iron fist by the Hopian Army. However- the Continent was still in an economic crisis, corruption and "minor" crimes were still extremely common, and much of the Continent was still left for dead. Lastly, many of the Continent's people as in the current timeline were extremely obese, and rarely ever thought for themselves. Many "better off" people were angered by this- including young Professor Koltek Milraek.

He worked his way up to become the head of the Hopian Army's science department, and was praised greatly for what people thought would be his greatest creation of all time. This "creation" was an upgraded version of his also genius father's, Daiza Milraek's, own original work which he called Ufisator. The boys upgraded version of the robot was able to become a fill in Commander for the Hopian Army.

However... even with the entire government loving him dearly, Koltek felt terrible about himself. He was supporting a Army- and therefore a government that he knew was going to keep on ridding people of their freedom- eventually, even their own thoughts he discovered. Even worse, no Hopian citizens were ever strong enough to pose a fight against this either...

With long periods of contemplation- Koltek made a drastic decision. Since leaving the Hopian Army at his ranking would prove very dangerous- with a small group of people with similar ideals, he followed his heart by "leaving" the Hopian Army. He did so by using his Blessing which he was prohibited from using by the law due to it's dangerous capabilities. The Blessing had the ability to travel back in time.

However, he didn't just travel back in time to quit his job. He travelled back in time so that he would be able to build the greatest piece of technology that the world would ever see. The reason being, is so that the Hopian Army would not be able to monitor the massive project in the present, and put an end to it.

Why would they put an end to the project, you ask? Well, because it's sole purpose was to overthrow the Hopian Army- and afterwards the Hopian Government...

Anyways, the group of time travellers worked day in and day out in hiding on the project. The few people of the less advanced times they met treated them like Gods, and helped the scientists to obtain their necessities. Finally, after 83 years of work- and after many of the workers died... the project was nearing its completion.

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257 years ago

Professor Koltek Milraek's P.O.V.

"Haha- finally... it's been a long ride, everyone." I say as I shakily raise up my favourite mug of coffee to my dry lips. At the same time, I look up at my naked- but precious metallic robot who I led the development of that's lying down on a table next to me.

"Y-y- *COUGH COUGH* yes. But, don't forget- we still have to find the soul of a true leader to put inside of the robot... King Metallica we decided is the name of it?" One of my worrywart workers add.

"Yeah yeah- don't burst my bubble Jona. And yep... but finding the proper soul to put inside of him shouldn't take THAT long. Then after that, w-we'll take him back to the terrible present world we left behind. The portal I made to bring us here has always been open after all..." I say as I clench my wrinkly fist. Thank God the portal only brings people from this time to the "future" now.

"...And well, his name IS King Metallica- for the most part. But, he also has his second form that's hundreds of times stronger... immunity to heat, immunity to physical damage, immunity to cold- bombs- everything! And his attack's in that form will defy gravity itself- he'll be able to send anything flying with his spheres, even planets with a single touch! Metallica will without a doubt be the one to obliterate Prósopsi! No- I hate how the world is, with it being s-separated by each Territory- the all powerful Emperor will without a doubt be able to take over and rule the entire planet!" I shout to myself with a laugh like a mad scientist.

"True, he easily could... but he can only use the Emperor form about twenty times, right?" Another one of my elderly workers asks.

"Well yes- but if we put a true tactition into his body, they'll know how to utilize that power to its fullest and when to. Of course though, he could use the power more than twenty times if necessary... but maybe only once or twice more, since each time after twenty uses his body will start to heavily deteriorate." I explain, but there would be no way that would ever occur.

"Y-"

"Keep still!" A strange voice commands from behind us by the entry door to our hidden base, and looking back two men wearing red cloth and fur hats are pointing olden wooden rifles at us. Shit, these are the soldiers of this island!

I take a step back shouting, "How'd they get in her-"

*BANG!*

One of the men shoot me in the chest, causing me to fall down next to where my precious Metallica lies.

"...I-I... pray to the Five Kings, that... the one chosen to inhabit you will be worthy..." I mumble as I reach my arm up to a lever lying next to King Metallica, and use all of my strength to pull it down before I begin to pass out...

"AHHHHHHH PLEASE STOP THI- ...hm? Who... am I?" King Metallica says as he swings himself up, starting to look at his metallic hands. Be well... our savior.

Narrator's P.O.V.

At the same time, Koltek died. Since he was using his Blessing to keep the link between the past and present open, his death meant that this link was destroyed. This meant that the present world he left behind was obliterated at that very moment- with the entire universe now being set back 257 years... however, the new future would be a bit different from the old future due to his creation.

A/N: More of King Metallica's past is revealed along with his insanely powerful "Emperor Metallica" form which he uses to go on a rampage to avenge his pals- with his original purpose being to conquer the Earth?!

Phew! Well there's some world building- or universe building eh? Yep I did it- I whipped out time travel, which I'm guessing led to some confusion as to wtf was going on at some parts lol. So, I decided to draw out a crappy diagram of what happened just in case-

Oh and one last thing, it says (with Seric) in the altered timeline, but that does not mean that he was in the world right after Koltek died as well like Metallica was.

Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and see you next week!