Chapter 1: Oneshot

Do you know what it’s like to never have a choice?

For generations we monsters have lived in fear, hunted, killed for what we are and what we do. An indiscriminate genocide by those that feared us, the humans. For those we could not coexist with, they fought and forced us from our homes. Constantly running, trying to survive.

Then came their arrival, the Tower Lords. Offering us protection as long as we stayed within their lands, giant towers each unique, each floor different from the next. We flocked towards their promise for safety, but all was not as it seems. Caste, each floor it’s own suitable environment, each floor increasing in density of magic. Carefully setup by the same Tower Lords who promised to protect us. It was all a lie.

The survival of the fittest they called it. One where the strong rule and the weak serve. An ecosystem where only one thing mattered, power. Those who had it before they arrived grew stronger as the levels gradually nurtured them. As for the weaker ones, they grew weaker and weaker as the tower drained them of their strength.

It was a free for all, as the various monster races fought against each other for control and power. The promise of the delicate ecosystems of harmony and nourishment, a lie. Yet better than the alternative, to be hunted down, without a place to call home. And so we were forced to stay.

On the first floor, where my people reside, I live in a small village. We’re called by the humans, “Goblins”, but in our tongue we call ourselves Bunji Ito.

Our lands barren, unable to create a stable environment, mana density too little with unsuitable wildlife for the environment.

I spend my days in a store, the same store as my father and his father before him. Serving the people who have spent generations hunting and killing monsters just like me. Never to be able to leave the store.

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