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!

The eternal darkness looms like a massive bell inverted upon the earth. There is no sound of wind, for the air had frozen into ice in the first few years after Dayfall, and in this absolute silence, only some Low Rank Ice Elemental Creatures are actively moving about blindly. But then, the ground suddenly starts to shake, and those ice elements scatter in fear. Following this is a beam of light, coming from a far-off place, accompanied by billowing steam—


The Snow Plain Train roars as it races on.


The ice-breaking plow at the front of the train vibrates when it strikes the frozen clumps in the air, momentarily awakening the snow plain. Amidst the roar of the thousand-ton scissor blades chewing through the ice, the shattered ice and snow unfreeze within the force field around the train's body, turning into the air. Steam spews from the front of the train, but it refreezes into ice before drifting too far, scattering around like snowflakes.


Chapter 7 The 2nd Dwarf Fortress