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!

Several minutes later, a steel bridge descended from the Iron Throne.


This was the greeting party sent by the Dwarves.


Nine Mechanical Power Armors marched in unison, emerging at the end of the long bridge. The leading Dwarf Envoy had a mechanical raven perched upon his shoulder armor, with blue and white electrical sparks flaring from its beak. The envoys in the second row unfolded their brass ceremonial flags, the flag with a hammer pattern fluttering in the wind. A few seconds later, the gears on the leading flag began to rotate, and, surprisingly, the pressure valve on top of the flagpole rhythmically ejected steam, emitting a rough and majestic sound - the ceremonial flag was actually a kind of musical instrument!


Chapter 8 Awake World Alliance