Location: Island Realm
Scene in front of him was an open vast landscape of floating islands in front of a nebula in the sky. Speckled over the universal painting was millions of stars. Slayer stood still scanning the horizon of the islands. "So this is the Island Realm?" He mumbled. The Island Realm was a place of gravitational imbalance. The islands once belonged to a large continent that long ago broke apart. From what Slayer knew of this realm it was home to a peculiar species called the Storks. Mask wearing fanatics who worshiped their king like a god fusing stork masks to their faces bearing his mark upon their foreheads. He looked over at a small island with these same species climbing trees with glowing fruit. 'That must be the Chi Apples they grow for cultivation and potion making. I think I'll start there and…' he looked up scanning the other islands for any other Storks.
Instead he saw giant steel giants walking slowly on a nearby island. They were big and bulky as they stomped about. Above all the islands was a small high floating big island above them all. Slayer could sense the powerful chi on that island. 'The King is there' he thought. He looked down at the grieves he pushed chi into them, activating its ability. The bottom of the boots lit up making him levitate off the ground. He then soared into the sky. He hovered for a moment looking down over the island he was on. He then shot down towards the fruit island. He came down hard onto the island making it shake. The Stork workers dropped baskets of fruit staring at him with a confused expression. Their masks only fused over half their face; a Lance brand was between their eye sockets that were black with small glowing yellow orbs. They then produced cleavers from behind their backs. They began to grin with rotten teeth and licking their lips.
"Fun fun! Slice! Slice!" One said running at Slayer. He dodged the cleaver and then punched him across the face breaking his neck. He began to beat down all the Storks easily. Taking one's cleaver he drove it into their heads. Finally none were left alive on the island. He then picked fruits, putting them in his belt before sitting with a pile and eating them while meditating. The fruit elevated chi absorption, pushing the core to double in size. After ten fruits he felt full in his stomach and chi.
He then activated the greaves flying higher hovering over a few islands seeing the giants walking about. The steel golems were picking up rocks as they spotted him. Slayer then manifested a giant broadsword that required two hands. After that he engaged a few giants using his flame element the sword ignited into a hot crimson color. As he flew a large swarm of boulders came at him. He dodged, jumping from boulder to boulder till he ascended higher up in the air. Then he dropped down on one of the giants impaling him with the hot blade.
The steel split like butter once the hot blade made contact. He flipped over the head of another giant cutting down its back and then maiming it, cutting one of the legs off. He then controlled the shadows all around making chains. They shot out wrapping about giants all over the island pinning them down. Slayer flew over jumping onto the chest of a giant pinned. He drove the broadsword into the chest killing the giant. Molten steel flowed out of the bodies with each attack. He then attacked the rest of the giants clearing the island. He held a hand up and controlled the chi to absorb into his palm taking the souls of the golems. He could see crates of fruit stacked upon platforms. Crates were also filled with elixirs. He found an alchemy table with potion making tools. A book on alchemy to refine chi portions. He swiped that and put it in his belt. Along with a crate full of potions. He studied the giants and found a Stork inside dead. 'Mech suits? Wonder who gave them these? Storks aren't known for their technological uses?' He thought of pulling a power core out of the giant and putting it in his belt. 'I'll ask around, could come in handy some time.' He thought
He activated the flight grieves and shot into the air towards another island. More giants were walking about throwing boulders at him. He kept flying till a boulder came close to his body. He slashed it to pieces and jumped on a large piece pushing himself farther into the air gaining momentum. He then got closer to the smaller island and flew past over it hovering above the island.
He could see a being with a plague doctor mask. It was white like bone and the sockets devoid of any eyes. He was very tall and lean. Long neck and hunched back. He was by no means feeble looking as his looks suggested. He was dawned in a tan burlap like outfit. Over it was a leather chest plate with a spear sigil upon it. He was barefoot and other than the chest plate he wore no other adornment. Yet the nicest things he had was an obsidian throne and a long lance leaning against it. He looked up seeing Slayer hover above him.
Slayer took this time to land and the two were now face to face. King chuckled like his Storks, "I am the Gravity King" he stated. "As you know and I'm sure the World knows this too. The current regime will not bend easily to this test. You have shown tremendous skill, but it ends here. I'll be generous and put your soul in one of my giants" he chuckled at this. He then rose up. His hunched back stretched upwards as he stood over Slayer. 'So the core of the suits ran on souls? Good to know' Slayer thought. King spun the spear around then without hesitation slammed the spear head into the island they stood on. It cracked from the impact which then sent a wave of strong pressure. Slayer then fell to one knee unable to stand. The gravity around him was becoming dense and hard to even stand.
'This force is making all things heavy around me. Since he's a Rank 5 God status. Time to improvise!' He pushed all chi throughout his body to compensate for the power level of the gravity. He was able to move slightly and his boots lit up making him hover. He shot forward only six feet from the ground. He used his forge power to great a big hammer that he swung at the king.
King dodged and propped himself up on the long shaft of the spear like an ape. He then pulled it free from the ground and made quick stabs at Slayer. He deflected the attack with the hammer obtaining an opening. He then swiped at the king's head. This attack pattern went on for a while before Slayer changed tactics. The king could move with ease in his gravitational field. In turn Slayer slow.
He then focused and used his forge ability to create blades reaching to the hundreds. They scatter all around like a sword graveyard. This made the king pause as a blade came whizzing past his shoulder. Then his legs and then from all directions. Slayer unsheathed two blades near him and attacked while the king was distracted. This tactic seemed to slow this king's power significantly. Gravity around him was going back to normal slightly, making Slayer faster as the King's concentration waned. But each blade that made contact with the spear shattered. But he didn't let up, pulling blades from the ground and attacking, shattering them, and repeating. While simultaneously making some fly at the king throwing him off balance.
King spun around as two blades near him lifted up and shot at the king. He spun the spear like a windmill destroying the blades when they made impact on the spear. Slayer was above him coming down with two swords. The king lifted his spear up making contact with the shaft and doing a flip kick at Slayer sending flying backwards. He dug the blades in the ground stopping his trajectory. Now tactics had to change.
His mask changed to the Stag Mask. He manifested the bow and focused chi into the bow creating two ice arrows. He shot them at the king who used his spear to deflect. Only for ice to form all around his blade making it weigh more and slippery. He seemed to be thrown off balance by this and went on the defense as more arrows came at him. This time they were fire arrows. They exploded, sending the king flying backwards into his throne.
He staggered from the impact for a light arrow to explode in front of him causing him blindness. He fell forward unable to see for the moment. Then a black arrow pierced his mask flowing through it and out the back of his head leaving no wound. The king stood up right for a moment before falling flat on his face lifeless.
The king was dead almost instantly ending the fight. Slayer heaved a sigh of relief approaching the body.