Bloodthirsty Age: Counterrealm

Hundreds of billions of worlds are just pastures for higher-order beings to raise. Practice? It's just a choice of fatter lambs. When everyone was immersed in vying to be the sharpest butcher knife, he chose to burn himself and be reborn from the ashes, just to smash the man-eating law of captivity, even if the ending was - to be shattered together with this decadent "order".