"The day I reach the top of the staircase, you will have a new king."
The demon's staircase.
It must be built with blood.
Demons are creatures that advance by devouring their own kind.
In the endless abyss, tens of thousands of young demons are born from the magma every second. Their pale skeletons pile into mountains along its banks.
A tiny black shadow slithered along the ground and burrowed beneath a mountain of bones.
It picked out a small cat skull, then chose a fearsome spine it liked, and finally added a long tailbone to help it balance.
But something still seemed to be missing.
It tilted its cat skull thoughtfully, then burrowed back into the bone pile.
After rummaging around, it emerged carrying a heap of leg bones. It compared them with the length of its spine, then attached six of them.
The strange young demon leaped down from the bone pile and scampered away, light-footed and agile.
Its shadow fell on the ground, resembling a tiny six-hoofed kitten.
The epic tale of a young demon striving to rise, working hard to climb over its superiors and ascend the demon's staircase.
Leveling up + queen's rise.
The famous captain of the holy knights was driven by his own people into the endless abyss.
The captain nonchalantly took off his helmet, reaching back to remove it. When he looked up, he saw the abyss's newly ascended lord:
A huge six-hoofed demon with black wings. It was turning its head to lick the fur on its back, and now its enormous, pupil-less blue eyes fixed on him.
Silence fell over the abyss that night.
The newly ascended lord picked up this surface-dweller and carried him back to its lair.
The next day.
The lesser demons watched in confusion as their lord happily announced, "Look! I raised a human!"
A surface-dweller, no less!
Theme: Be united and kind to one another.
