The Last Step: Original Draft
[Next Version will be releasing soon; this won't be updated... but feel free to read the original story!]
They will call him a fool.
Maybe sometimes a god.
However, most, will forget his name.
In this world, magic alone cannot win a war. Neither can intelligence. Neither can science.
The Demons, Elves, Dragons, Beastkin, Dwarfs, and Fairies have spent 7,000 years proving it, and humanity, the weakest race alive, has paid for every lesson.
Its end was close.
It wasn't a story where a hero is born.
They created an artificial weapon.
Kaiser Everhart has no morality. No ethics. No greed. No fear. No heart.
He cannot feel what other people feel, so he copies it, and he imitates it so well that his friends think he is kind, his enemies think he is a coward, and no one has ever caught him fooling.
He does not care about humanity.
He never has.
He cares about one promise.
A childhood friend once taught him that a life is worth saving, even a broken one, even when logic says no. He never understood why she was right.
He promised her he would find out.
And promised himself to cherish that smile of hers.
So he ascends.
He is building a staircase to heaven out of the one thing heaven rejects: competence.
He is using what no god has ever combined, magic, science, and brutal intelligence that has no end.
And he is not climbing to stay.
He is climbing to bring someone back down.
Every step takes something from him. He knows it. He keeps climbing anyway.
He loses himself one piece at a time, and the world never notices, because it is too busy praying to him.
Heroes get rescued by the people they save.
Nobody is coming for him.
"Was it worth it, Kaiser?"
"Yes."
He always smiles when he says it.
This is a dark fantasy where anything goes.
Every victim has a story nobody wrote down.
Long before Kaiser, another man climbed the same stairs. He gave everything to humanity, then stopped believing in it. Now they are walking toward each other, and only one can be right.
A slow-burn dark fantasy of war, politics, science, magic, romance and the price of becoming a god.
Long chapters, big payoffs.
No heroes exist.
Two ways to begin:
- Chapter 1: The full adventure, and the biggest payoff.
- Chapter 144 (The Void's Tale): A standalone origin with no magic and no lore. Meet him early, then come back!
