Last chapter, the story went back 253 years to King Metallica's first memories. After he came alive, the confused robot slaughtered both those who opposed him and the King of the island he woke up on. As the leader of Demosri is determined by strength, Metallica immediately inherited the throne to the islands willing citizens. And the first thing he did was... throw a massive party!

King Metallica's P.O.V.

"Wow, it seems like everyone truly did drink until they fainted! I do wonder why I'm not sleeping as well however... I sure am different aren't I, hahaha!" I say to myself with a laugh as I stand up from one of the many long but currently T.R.A.S.H.E.D. wooden clothed tables in front of us. I glance- ah never mind I spin my head to the side, which allows me to look out one of the massive windows... never mind that's a brick well, there aren't any windows here, this place is heavily secured!

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Knowing that my citizens are secured inside of the scary looking castle, I walk through the massive wood and metal barred gates to the palace that I just pushed open with a tad bit of difficulty. The early morning sky is above me along with the cresent moon. For the most part the sky is mainly a calming dark blue, however there is also a sheet of light pink clouds being in the far distance next to it.

"Beautiful! Hmmmm... but now that I'm out here by myself what should I do..." I ponder to myself as I swing my arm up to my chin and start tapping it with my index finger. Solemnly though, what am I supposed to d-

"AHA! That's right, yesterday the fine lass... Melissan was her name! Anyways yes she said I should go back to where I woke up to get some hints about myself! I'll do just that, maybe I've got some more cool bodily functions I haven't discovered yet... although hopefully I don't discover anything disheartening also." I say to myself in contemplation, but end up shrugging my shoulders and walking anyways, to my birthplace here I go!

An hour later...

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"Oh come on there has to be something besides nonsense here..." I complain as I flip over another dead fly covered body on the floor to try and find something, but there's still squat!

I've been looking around the secretive wooden attic room for a while now, with the blood from the white coated people and their killers having dried up on the dark brown floor.

"Perhaps around where I was lying beforehand...?" I say as I stomp over and crush a persons head as I walk to the side of the long metal rectangle thing... I suppose that's a bed? A terrible one at that, but more importantly there's S.T.I.L.L. NOTHING!

*SLAM- CREAK...*

I kick my foot into the rectangular thing in front of me, "I've got people to rule over ya kno- ohhhh?" I say after I can hear a lower part of the lackluster bed adjust itself. And looking down, another miniscule rectangle- AKA a drawer with a dusty book inside of it has creeped out of the side of the thing!

So of course I enthusiastically retrieve the hopefully beautiful but thick book from below, and after dusting it off a little I can see the words "The Anatomy of King Metallica" written on it's gray cover! Although admittedly this more looks like a notebook than a true story book, but it should help me regardless!

"Let's see here..." I mumble as I lick my finger and turn the books page- but- that only managed to stain the books page with wine! So I don't have any saliva either it seems... so then how do I eat... T.H.I.S. is why I must study my anatomy no matter how grotesque it may be!

The book states in pencil, "To the future generations reading this, hey, I'm Koltek Milraek- the creator of your leader King Metallica. Or maybe you're reading this yourself, my King."

"HA- you've got me there! So Koltek Milraek was my creators name? Strange... I thought children... actually, never mind, I don't know where they're meant to come from so perhaps that is normal! Now back to reading!" I say to myself as I slap my face a little which actually spins it around a bit, but anyways-

"And yes, unlike the people of Demosri, even though spirits were recently discovered in the future I could care less about the Five Kings. Living in the present is more important, and advancing the human race too and all during our lifetimes, and who knows if the story about them is even true? Either way, I just wanted to write this diary if you will just in case information about King Metallica is lost or something. And to make me seem like a legend too- I'm kidding, no I'm not."

"Or actually... I suppose I could consider the fact that someone from this old time period is stumbling across this information. Well- awkward if so, I'm not taking my comment back on the Five Kings though... anyways. I'll explain this all to you since by now I've probably already taken King Metallica to the future. "King Metallica" is a VERY advanced version of the machines those outsiders you hate are making. I used my knowledge to design his body from scratch, piece by piece- which me and my time travelling buddies are predicting should take around 80 years total to complete. He's a "robot"- which quite frankly is electricity and metal that mimics human life. HOWEVER..."

I slam the book shut.

"...So that's what those people meant by "machine"? I-I'm... just metal? Am I not the same as a simple sword then? He mentioned electricity, however... that doesn't make me any more closer to human, I'm a fake! This... why was I created?. I... I have no purpose then. Should I even read any further? ...No... this is already far too much for me, perhaps this is just nonsense that would hurt me even more. Although I wouldn't want to have returned here for no reason..." I mumble to myself as I hang my head low to the ground...

"I suppose... I suppose I could at least check the index of this book to see if I can find anything interesting." I confirm with a nod as I slowly flip the book back open as I squint my eyes shut, more specifically to the very first page this time- and after slowly opening again, there actually is an index.

"Alright so, mechanics, materials uses- FIGHTING CAPABILITIES?" I say- or scream with a bit of enthusiasm as I pull the potentially brilliant piece of knowledge up to my face, page 23 here I come...

I flip through the book at an extreme pace so I won't be hurt by the other horrid words in this double edged "sword", and after I rip through a few more pages the first thing I can see is "Weight Canceller Spheres".

There's a few excellent doodles in the work from my creator, and under that I can read,

"My King Metallica's body is insanely resilient to- well everything, but besides his speed and strength and probable intellect, he has more. Three different spheres are lodged inside of his body, I call them "Weight Cancellers". ...To be fair to the religion of the Five Kings, I actually did heavily study PARTS of scripture in order to create these brilliant things. OK now that that's out of the way, the spheres."

I gulp in anticipation as I- never mind, I can't do that anymore... I suppose I really do mimic humans.

"Catapult: This sphere is simple but crazy cool. He puts his palm on a living being, activates it- and FWOOSH, any creature no matter it's mass will be sent FLYING up into the air, always in a curvular motion too. The amount of distance they travel is also in relation to the creatures mass, so an ant would barely go anywhere."

"Wait, Don't Go: Have you ever heard of VR paddleball? It's basically that- for those of you unfortunately haven't heard of the game, this sphere lets our King launch someone away and suck them back to his palm over and over. (PS: If the lesser brained people reading this haven't realized yet, he has to use his palms to use his spheres)."

I hold the book with one hand to look at my left palm, and loe and behold, I really do have a circular hole in the center of it! That must be for those spheres!! Perhaps I judged this book too harshly... anyways,

"Lastly, my personal favorite. "Metallic System". This one works by King Metallica digging his fingers into any part of a living beings flesh, and that same being will become the center of an orbit, just like how our planet circles the sun. Only difference is, our planet doesn't hurtle into the sun (yet) unlike the "Metallic System", where the ability drags anything in the area into it's center!"

"I'd like to say Metallic's body was made entirely through the genius of science, BUT... yes as I mentioned before, his sphere's gravity defying abilities do rely entirely on the spiritual. I won't get into that though since it's really complicated, but some people do understand and utilize those powers though."

"Spiritual...? So I'm N.O.T. just metal?! But alas, my creater has wrote that that only applies to my sphere's not my entire self... but that's still something! There's more to me than I thought after all! Let's keep going!" I encourage myself with me feeling far more postive now as I continue to read,

"The sphere's will drastically change however when he activates the "Emperor Metallica" form, which he does by turning the gear on his chest. Oh my I still can't get over how brilliant I am for coming up with it. Anyways, long story short- when in his Emperor form, the range of ALL of his attacks are increased by like a trillion-fold, and he can use them on ANYTHING. A piece of wood, a dead person alive person- anything. Hm... right so now for my self interview."

"Wow... maybe being like this isn't so bad after all. I suppose I'll see what else he has to say in THIS section of the book at least. Yes, that should be safe." I say with a smile, though admittedly I'm still a tadbit uneasy. However I flip to the next page anyways...

A few minutes later...

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"So that's h- oh, who's there?!" I call out as I'm interuppted by the sound of light knocking on a probable hard surface, and spinning my head around I can see two citizens standing by the open door to this place- one man and one woman. Ah come on I know their names...

"Jansi and Ewan sir-"

"Right Jansi and Ewan! Anywho, so what did you come here for? Also I commend you for finding me here, it must have been difficult." I say to them with glee, some of it being artificial admittedly but overall I'm feeling quite swell so I'm not concerned. More importantly, I stand up from my lying position on the floor and close my book shut, and spring myself up to be face to face with my people!

"What were you reading there sir?" Jansi asks as she points to the book of ME that's on the ground.

"Some information about my anatomy, it turns out I'm...... a human after all, yes! Though admittedly I'm a bit different than you all, humbly I might add I'm more advanced than all of you!" I reply with some honesty, although of course I'm not foolish enough to admit I'm a "machine" to them.

"Oh, that's fantastic! Please do tell us about your findings then soon King Metallica. Before that though, our morning mass celebrating our Lords and their creators is about to begin. Please allow us to escort you to the Quaras, we're already a bit late... sir?-"

"Wait Lords?! Is someone else trying to steal my throne?! I will NOT accept this, yes, please do bring me to them immediately!" I shout in a deeper tone than usual as I glare at them while stomping towards the door.

"N-no, well not quite, you'll have to see." Ewan says in a meek tone... ah, it seems as though I've scared him... I'll have to cheer him up AFTER I take a look at these "kings"!

A little while later...

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As I'm standing outside of a big wooden building with massive rainbow colored windows, an old man with many golden bracelets explains to my hands-on-hips self, "Please, King Metallica you must understand. Truly you are our King of the physical, however... the Five Kings are our spiritual Kings. The ones who guide us from right and wrong, the ones who's powers are unrival-"

*SMACK!*

I lightly swing my hand into the mans face which makes him fall over to the ground, "E.X.C.U.S.E. me?! Unrivaled? It is MY powers who are unrivaled, not theirs! Now where can I find these Kings- I'll deal with them swiftly!" I command as I walk over to panicked blasphemer and bend down to grip his shirt.

The people around us are murmuring, some even squealing in fear...

"King Metallica, please... as they say, "Take Up and Read". Read some of the kings- and their creators words... they are responsible for everything in this universe. For granting us life, for granting us life even after death. P-please, I beg of you... I don't want you to go to hell!" The man with a now bloody nose says as he digs a book out from the back of his robe, and he then pushes it against my chest.

"Wait... the Five Kings... ah! I suppose a good read can never hurt anyone..." I admit with hesitation as I swing my back back up and yank the book up with me, mainly due to me just remembering something- those sphere's of mine were created with the help of these Kings scriptures supposedly!

"You won't regret it, sir!" The voice of a young girl says from right next to me, at least she isn't scared!

So yes I flip the small brown leather book open to a random page, if these Lords are truly great then I should be able to find wisdom anywhere!

"Ah- why are these pages so thin?!" I complain as I accidentally rip about half of them out before I find a decent looking clump of words somewhere.

It's title reads, "An excerpt from a recorded dialogue between the two creators of the universe, during the time they walked on our land."

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"Dear husband... don't you love this world we walk on? The space above us that we created, the plants and animals- all of it... it's beautiful, isn't it?"

The female creator of the universe asks as she walks up a steep mountain, alongside her husband who's hand she's gently holding.

"Of course I do. It's our combined love put into fruition after all. However... I have been thinking, something does bother me about it besides it's apparent beauty. Nothing here is divine like us. The stone is stone, the animals are animals- everything is just as it is. Everything is not just simply below us, it can hardly even be compared to us at all. So we truly are alone......"

The man replies as he stops his walking up the cliff face, and in turn the mother of all stops to wipe a tear off of his face.

"You're right, t-that is sad! Well, why don't we fix that then? Surely we can if we created the rest of this universe."

She responds as rivers of water start to pour from her very own eyes.

"That sounds like a splendid idea, however firstly..."

The father of the universe declares as he raises his hand. At the same time, he looks into the dark night rainbow tinted sky above them that is filled with stars, each being countless distances away.

Without a sound he smoothly points out his mighty index finger to the stars and then retracts it. At the same time a group of stars in the far distance explode in a blinding but stunning show of lights and sounds.

"Dear! ...Why?"

The more empathetic Goddess calls out sadly in anger over the destruction.

"Have you not been watching the creatures who resided among those stars? They were evil and needed to be eradictated regardless. Perhaps someday we could grant our creations set rules on how to live, ones made specifically in our image that could live on THIS very planet we walk on... anyways. Here, let us fix this place."

The God replies to his pouting wife, and at the same time his jaw opens ajar as he breathes out an infinite amount of divine glowing air into the night sky.

His wife on the other bends down towards the mountains surface, and allows her flowing, loving tears to enter into the earth.

"Now, this entire place has been made divine. Whether it be living or inanimate, everything here, in the present or future, shall be filled with our spiritual love. All they must do to obtain our eternal love and avoid hell, is fulfill their god given purposes- whether we are with them physically or not. That is the way the world shall live to be happy."

The father of the universe says with a satisfied smile being on his face, and at the same time the mother of the universe grabs his arm as she smiles and nods as well.

Let these words be written in Hesalo.

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"...Wow... that was... that was..." I try to form a sentence after reading those seemingly alien words, meanwhile everyone around me isn't making a sound.

"F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.- I didn't even have the time to stop reading there!!! You were right, forgive me for unnecessarily disciplining you before. Here... sorry what is your name again?" I say as I lower my free hand down to the one who gave me the book... he's not grabbing my hand though so I grab his shoulder and yank him upright instead as he gasps, haha, I suppose he's still stunned...

"A-ahem, it's Opasa. And I am very glad that you have acknowledged the greatness of our lords... may I ask what passage you read? I am assuming you have not read the passage where forgiveness not being easy to obtain was written..." The man replies with a cough- and I hope not a scoff as he shakily dusts off his entirely pretty gold robe.

"Why I read the one about the creators making everything divine, and how they love us all no matter what we are... which is human! Oh oh but- what about those "Five Kings", I didn't see anything about them there!" I shout excitedly, of course I love this new religion- I may have to lie to my people... however these creators will take me however I am!

"Ah I see, that is quite the popular one. And the Five Kings are discussed much later in that book you are holding, they are the children of those two Gods... I will admit it is quite odd how you have never heard of our faith before now. But enough of that, come now King Metallica, we will go into the Quaras to celebrate our Lords. I'll be sure to add in a few stories about them in todays discussion, as I am the one who leads our faith here after all. Come now, everyone!" Opasa calls out as he raises his hands up into the air and starts to wave them, and a second later everyone starts walking to the "Quaras" in front of us.

I can't help but charge towards the tall slanted roof buildings doors, I just noticed- they've got crowns on them too!

A while later...

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"To think I would accept any Kings above myself, Hopian, Dalkan, Trinian, Rosian, Cobran- they're so amazing, our "spiritual guides" indeed. And the best part, being kind to one another is a pretty big part of the faith- and in return our Gods up above will love us!" I reminisce on our discussion as all of us leave the Quaras, this time with me walking as I'm trying to digest all the stuff I just experienced there.

"Haha, yes you're not the first person to convert in a way such as this sir. The words of our Lords are meant to be that way, however did you understand the rules as well? Premaritial sex is only allowed once before marriage, chickens must not be consumed except for on wednesdays, and most importantly you must take the time to pray 25 times a day. ...I hope they understand why you have not been following them until now." Opasa says with a laugh as he looks up into the now cloudy sky.

It really is a great way to bond, Opasa tought us all some great lessons from scripture, and then after we got to talk with each other... about the Five Kings and their creators of course. Admittedly I got a bit off topic at times, however I still enjoyed talking about them for the most part!

"...Whoa whoa whoa, now where are you all going exactly?!" I call out as my people start to disperse, sure we spent a lot of time praising our Kings but that doesn't mean the day ends there!

"...Hm? Our daily gathering is over, normally now is when we return to our jobs, my King." My old pal Ursad the medic states as he steps up from the crowd.

"Jobs? I appreciate your work ethic people, but I just got here a day ago ya know- there's still plenty of bonding left for us to do. So I'll be announcing... another party for tonight, from dusk till dawn once more!" I say with enthusiasm as I close my eyes, expecting to hear everyone cheer as they enjoyed the celebration last time. I can hear one lass cheering but, besides that no one is!

"A-aha, how thoughtful sir but... I know I am in no place to challenge your authority however- I believe many of us are still a bit... exhausted from last nights party. Would... tommorow work, perhaps-"

"Tommorow it is then! I'll be touring this place and seeing what the stuff here is all about, so in the meantime yes go as you will my driven citizens, haha." I interrupt the man, that was a close one- I almost made the people who are now scurrying away not be super happy again!

A/N: More of Metallic's, as well as Habram and his wife's lore is explored as the robot King continues to rule over his people!

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