The World’s King Slayer

Inside the power plant Smiling leads them to a shut gate with machine guards. They were fired upon by guns outside the facility. Smiling spread out and a field retracted any metal. "GO FOR THE DOORS WHEN I GIVE YOU THE SIGNAL!" Smiling shouted over the sound of gunfire as they hid behind debris from a collapsed building. The body of Smiling then turns to metal coating his face elongating into a demon smile with an elongated spiked head. Complete with two curved horns from the forehead. He then stood up and quickly jumped off the debris taking bullets head on. They bounced off and he then focused on the bullets flying at him. He could smell the metal and gunpowder in the air. He chi expanded further and further coating the block. His Mind Palace strained as he did this. But he couldn't stop because all the bullets that came at him stopped mid air. The guns that were shooting them began to groan and scrap against the control. "GO!" Smiling screamed under his metal armor. 

Sun Demon and Scarab ran towards the gate and killed the two guards. Scarab then using a spell from his grimoire he created hands from chi that then gripped the doors throwing them open. They rushed in and were met by automaton warrior models. They were equipped with swords and axes. Their very legs were long and were sharp points. Sun Demon wasted no time as she cut them down with her spear. Scarab teleported around keeping the machines guessing as he fought them. The two were up against formidable machines this time around. One cut down by Sun Demon then began to automatically fix itself as its wires came out like tentacles for its body parts. Scarab was anticipated as he was hit out of the air and narrowly missed the blade meant for his head. One automaton's hand rose up with its sword and froze. And then was bulldozed by a metal demon. 

"KEEP GOING!" Smiling screamed as he began to fight the automatons alone. He was now standing between the hall leading further in as she and Scarab passed the big man. "Don't die!" She shouted back at him. "Don't intend too" he said with a chuckle as he produced Devil Horn that he slung the heavy blade upon his shoulder. 

"Well now that we're alone" he then threw shurikens in the air as they swarmed around him like bees. He sent a barrage of them outward cutting down automatons that were flop to the ground but would immediately get back up. "Hmmm" he thought, cutting the nearest one down with the Devil Horn. He controlled one with his mind crushing it down. He cut down another with ease. 

But they attacked him too, cutting at his steel skin. He was thankfully impervious to this, but this was also a limit. Keeping this form required a lot of chi to maintain. He needed to kill these things fast. But the issue lies in their self regeneration. He batted away a sword attack and a spike kick meant for his head. He grabbed the leg and then slammed the automaton into the ground shattering it into pieces. Then picking up the pieces with his mind balling it up into a jumbled mess. He then shrank it, throwing it away. Smiling then dodged another axe attack. He slashed through the automaton cutting it in half. Before he could finish it off another came at him. Then another as they tried to rush him. He pushed his chi out driving them back with an invisible force. They slammed into walls and across the hall. He then set upon the closed down one and began angrily hacking it to pieces before driving a hand down on it, shrinking it all its parts to the size of an ant before stomping it. He jumped and brought the sword down on another doing the same. He repeated this two more times before he was overwhelmed again and the automatons regained composure. 

Created needles from midair and enlarged them. He threw at the automatons hoping to pin them down. He was successful as some were slammed and impaled into walls. He ran at the pinned one and merely touched their heads as he ran past. That shrank like the others. He drove his shoulder into one automaton and then another. Creating a bottleneck in the hallway. He then flexed his chinas it pushed them back violently on themselves. They became entangled and intertwined together as the struggled to regain composure. Smiling pushing Mind Palace and Soul Core further producing a stronger output on the automatons. 

He then slashed forward with his sword over and over. His scythe and axe floated off his back and began to spin around him. They then began to cut down automatons still entangled. He attacked those free and moving about. He took two on at the same time and began to fight them earnestly with his big sword. He flipped the sword around to use the flat side swatting the automaton across the back. It slammed into a wall as its chest exploded. 

He even impaled the second and then gripped its head with tremendous force and it began to crumble under his fingers. It then shrank after its head exploded. The one on the wall limped over raising its sword. Smiling turned and drove a fist through its open chest. It then shrank out of sight. More automatons came at him. An endless army that seems to come from a far off room down the hall. 

He spotted some coming through it. He then recalled his axe and scythe. They floated and latched onto his back. He then used the flat end of the sword and used it like a shield bull rushing the automatons pushing them back. With all he might he pushed through the cluster of machine warriors as he made his way to the source. 

He then outstretched a hand parting the flood of machines to part giving him a path. He walked through unphased as all stood still against the walls of the hall. With a big amount of chi and mental power. He then crushed them all into piles at the same time. 

He then walked through the door and there in the middle of the room was a giant machine that had tentacles. It was manufacturing automatons and combining them with souls. It had a big tank of souls floating in glowing green liquid. The tentacled machine produced warriors internally as it wrapped one bandage on a automaton coming out of a tube under it. The automaton fell to the floor with metal and ooze. A sword fell next to it and the eyes of the mechanized warrior began to glow. It gripped the hilt of the sword and stood erect. More were produced and the action was repeated. "Son of a bitch" Smiling said astounded at what he was seeing. "By the gods what is this thing?" He whispered, staring at the components trying to find a weak point. The only thing he saw was the tank. 

It was made of glass and was protected by a hollow metal shell. He looked around for the power source paying no mind to the automatons walking towards him. He saw power cells underneath it and were big and bulky. He then made a mad dash towards it. He was intercepted by automatons. He quickly dispatched them, throwing their remains to the side. He kept running towards the power cells. From his back the two spare weapons spun mid and then flew towards the cells embedding into them. The cells erupted in sparks and flames before exploding. 

The explosion rocked the room and sent Smiling back. He smashed through a wall and came out the other side. Flames engulfed the room with the big machine. He rose up as his body became normal as the steel skin wore off. He spit blood onto the ground and wiped his face. He heaved up Demon Horn and walked into the destroyed factory. Everything was smoldering. From the wreckage an automaton with his axe embedded into its chest stumbled out from the darkness. 

The axe retracted out of its chest and flew towards Smiling. He strapped the axe to his back and kept walking. He could feel the scythe a foot from him as the weapon retracted back to him. He turned to leave as automatons rose up in jagged forms and missing limbs. But all the same they rose. But they were also decaying slowly. They may be alive, but the regenerative abilities no longer exist. Smiling sighed, "If the rumors are true a soul resides in that husk of metal. I bid you all a long rest. I know why you rise. The fight for life is stronger in the remaining ones standing before me. And I welcome the honor of sending you off to the next life" he bowed his head at them. He then disappeared in a flash and appeared in front of the nearest automaton and cut in half. 

He then cut them all down, sending them off to the afterlife as fulfilled warriors.