Winter Snow Thousand Cat Lanterns

The vast Dream Sea, atop layers of miracles and magnificence, where Transcendents walk the ascendant path guided by their ultimate longings as if by beacons.
The supreme beings wielded power, their greatness shining in all directions, ascending to divinity.
But even deities were not the ultimate. They too struggled for greater perfection and ideals, endlessly, within the Void Origin, above the Dream Sea.
"So... Your Majesty Ybur, as the most powerful Slime in history, what exactly drives you to become stronger?"
Many years later, when faced with the question from a Heavenly envoy, Ybur, who by then stood at the zenith of the Dream Realm as the "World Devourer," recalled the afternoon just after his birth when the Creator had stuffed him down a golden toilet and flushed him into the sewers in one go...
After a long silence, he spoke with a heavy tone:
"It's the toilet. The golden toilet."
The envoy: "???"

I, a Slime, have also dreamed of becoming a great Demon King!

Ybur left markers along the way and didn't know exactly how long had crawled, even taking the opportunity to complete meditation exercises, finally nearing the sewage outlet.


The walls were covered in moldy moss, and the dim light, filtered through the mist formed by the water flow, made the whole environment seem gloomy and damp. Streams of water fell onto the ground, splashing dirty water everywhere, washing the surrounding trash and debris all around as if it reflected the city's underbelly.


All the sewage of the entire city converged here, the water dark grey, filled with various impurities and froth, pouring out through dark pipes. Ybur braced herself mentally, rolled into the stream, and Sherry inside her exclaimed in horror, "Wow! Ybur, protect me! Don't let all this dirty stuff get in!"


"It's coming in, it's coming in!" Ybur bantered with practiced ease, "Gonna get you all dirty!"


Chapter 34: Swarm of Corroding Beasts