Devil of The Abyss

Ravan seemed to feel himself in a warm liquid in a cramped up space.
He started to remember that he was in his room preparing for his exam, as it would decide his future.
"What the... "
Ravan thought someone has put him in a bag and threw him in a river to dispose his body as it was common practice for criminal in his locality.
As he tried to push that membrane open, it broke as he got a look around him, it was a hideous site to look at.
Eggs, densely packed eggs lay upon on what appeared to be an island formed by the cooled lava of an enormous volcano.
He felt something wierd as tried to stand. In place of his hands there were claws.
"What the hell"he said as he tried to touch his face carefully. On the side of his head were two curved horns. He started to freak out.
"I...I...became a mo...mon.ster"
"Aagh..!! "
Ravan cried as pain assaulted his senses.
His head felt as it was going to explode. He staggered as he fell onto an nearby egg. He started banging his head on it.
He wanted it to stop, for it to go away.
This pain was inhumane, it was something no human could endure.
That was when somehow the pain started to fade as he got to know what it was.
After a few heavy breaths,
"Bacronsha Meryer Lacdiren Stanlis Lundisha…Mondis Asura"
He spoke in an language that if heard by a normal human will corrupt his mind.
Everything started to be clear to him.
He understood what had happened to him. He died, his body could not handle the pressure he had put on it. All his dreams and hopes dashed away. He regret that he cannot give his parents the happiness they deserved and sorry over how much pain would they feel over his death.
But all that feelings started to fade away.
He know why it had happened. His soul had transmigrated into this body. The body of the most feared race in the entirety of existence
the Devils.
His soul had assimilated with the soul of this devil. It would have been an impossible endeavour as the soul of a weak human and an abyssal devil can never be combined but somehow it happened by the virtue of this devil's ability to evolve at an alarming pace.
Demons were not the most feared for no reason. Even the lowliest of demons had immensely powerful physique, high regenerative ability and their most feared ability to evolve to any environment.Devils,the most nobel of all demon species possessed more than that.
Abyss, the mother and homeland of all demons take special care of them. Be it physical powers, regeneration, their ability to evolve and many more.
But this devil whose body he has taken, his ability to evolve was special.Maybe it was the result of a humans and a devil soul merging or something else entirely. Both souls may be merged but a normal human's soul is much weaker than a demon's soul, let alone a devil's.
So it was the demonic side that has taken advantage.And what he spoke before was his name.
His devil name. This name if fully known by someone with sufficient strength can be a way to control him or even kill him.They can even know his past, his ancestry and if powerful enough, his future. So demons generally choose a syllabus of their name.
Asura. This is what he choose, in abyss language it means 'power seeking'.
"kill..... "
"aaaggghh"
Various types of noises erupted as many demons and devils started to emerge from their eggs.
It marks the start of the never ending test of survival that the Abyss put it's resident through. In the Abyss the only thing that ensure survival is power. Wether you empower your self through other or become a resource through which they empower themselves.
From the banks of the Ocean of Abyss or commonly known as the Bloody Ocean in the uppermost layer of Abyss, only those who survive will be transferred to the layers below by the Will of the Abyss, the consciousness of the Abyss itself, The Mother of all Demons.
The name "Bloody Ocean" is not for just it's blood red color, it is literally a ocean made of blood.After mating all creatures with devil blood will produce an egg which will be put in the Abyssal River which runs throughout the Abyss.This river will bring the eggs here where they will erupt from the ground with a gyeaser.Some eggs will shatter and gets mixed with the ocean. It is said that the uppermost layer was a barren and dry land with countless volcanos but over countless years it has become what it is now. The Will of Abyss even has to make the volcanos even taller as the original volcanos were submerged. Now it has basically became impossible to know the depth of this ocean. Only those with incredible power can try, but those beings will no bother with it as they are given the previlege to not send their offspring here as with their bloodline those offspring will be immensely powerful.It is also a by the Will of the Abyss to ensure the safety of this layer as from this place most of population comes from, so any thing other than eggs are not allowed here not even the most powerful devils can interfere.
Asura lunged at the demon who came out the egg at which he was banging his head on, before the hatchling could register any thing his claw ripped his throat apart, ending the life before it come out of its shell.Asura did not feel anything but an exhilarating urge to kill more, to destroy more. And so he did.
But firstly he bend down at hatchling he killed and took out a ball of white fire.
A soul.
The very thing that make a beings existence,
the very thing for which demons wage wars in all of existence. The very thing that makes them stronger and alive.
It sustains the working of the Abyss as a whole.
Manipulating souls are among the many abilities the Abyss grant the demons.With it demons extract,devour and absorb a soul. Asura took the soul in his hand on devoured it. As soon as it entered his mouth it melted and got absorbed by his body to make it stronger. That was when he noticed something strange. Generally hatchlings could only absorb less than 1 percent of the soul because soul itself is a type of a higher form of energy,so the newborn demons with their 'weak' body the ability to absorb this energy is in itself a miracle which just show how powerful the creator of the demons and devils is.They can absorb more energy when the grew more powerful and practice soul manipulation more. But he could absorb more than 1 precent and it is growing as he could feel his ability to digest and absorb grew with his physical body and his abnormal evolution.
He grinned as this favor him greatly. He moved onto his next target as he decided to make most of this densely populated weaklings.
As he killed more his opponents got stronger too as they had too devoured souls. After a while he met a devil whose body was covered in an armor of some sort. He tried to pierce through his throat but that was armored too.
They fought for sometime but no one got any advantage.Their combat instincts were similar as both got the same gift from the Abyss.And his superior digestion did not help much as he had not devoured many souls to give him an absolute advantage.
This occurance was common in the upper layers of Abyss as Abyss was fair in its gift.The Abyss may be fair but it's environment was not neither was it's residents.As the many basic knowledge was engraved in the demon bloodline, those with much purer concentration were classified as devils as they were pure demons, darlings of the Abyss and those that had other bloodline mixed in their blood cannot acces the knowledge within their blood were called normal demons, as any being tainted with demon blood was a demon. Devils because of this were much better then normal demons. But in the early stages they more or less had the same ability the only difference will be physical abilities as the devil in front of him has the high blood line concentration of an armored devil which were known for their defence. Asura on the other hand have many devil bloodline mixed because he does not show any special physical changes. He will have many options to choose from in the future but it does not help him now.
"If I have sharper claw I can pierce through his armour" he thought.
He tried to peirce the armoured devil's throat again and this time he made a little scratch.
"Hmmm"
He was surprised.
"How did this happened"He thought
" Maybe... "
He said as he tried to imagine his claw becoming sharp enough to peirce through his opponents neck. As he imagine more, his claw really became sharper.
After fighting for a long time he was finally able to peirce through his opponent's neck, killing him. He was able to kill this devil because of his own ability to evolve and that his armour was not hardened properly because of just hatching.
Asura thought about how his claws became sharper but decided not to think about it now as now with his improved claws he will be able to harvest more souls.
He fought and hunt and devoured more and more and repeated it again and again as this is what the Abyss is all about and has nurtured its children to do so.
As he fought his demonic nature was taking over as this is the only way for survival.
He was interrupted by a loud sound.As he looked over he saw the massive volcano in the middle of the island was erupting in full force. From the knowledge gained from his bloodline he knew it marked merely a short break as the Will of the Abyss transport those who survive deeper into the abyss and reward them for killing, looting and devouring each other as it is a glorious achievement to the Will of the Abyss.
He quickly killed the demon he was battling devoured his soul as he vanished from his place towards the Bottomless Abyss.
As that will mark the true start of his journey.