The monarch of stars had given it all, had become crazed from his efforts, had raged at the world—but everything he did seemed to magnify the difference between the ant that he was and the mountain he couldn't become.

And thus, the monarch of stars took a step along a forbidden path.

The monarch of stars gazed at the scarlet sun in the air and found it rapturing to behold.

If he couldn't become a mountain by himself, then he would become a force that could destroy that mountain.

Humans couldn't grow as large as mountains, of course, but they could destroy those mountains with dynamite. He found it ironic that he had gotten this inspiration from a lifeform he had considered beneath him—he had learned from a human...