Ominous felt an itch on both sides of his back close to his shoulders and above his ass while starting to feel dizzy and sleepy
A great deal of time later he opened his eyes and started to crawl out of his hole, slowly, but surely he got out feeling that his limbs and muscles got thicker
In this evolution his body healed of any scars he had before, his horns grew larger and more majestic he liked the feeling of stroking them
As he did, a whip like sound from his side made him aware of his new-found tail thick and strong with a pointy and sharp blade at the tip of it
Remembering the itchy feeling he had, he tried touching his back wish made him aware of the small folded wings on his back
He couldn't see them, but he felt them with his fingers, he felt soft flesh between the bones of the wings just like bat wings
Ominous felt very satisfied with his new limbs, as he had a way to surprise attack his foes with his tail and the means to escape the flood in floor 0 by flying above in the flaming red sky.
But his wings were too small and too weak to enable his body to fly, no worries he thought nothing a good healthy and bloody meal wouldn't fix
He made his way back to the beach where a new round of bloody battle started, with a roar like a beast, he came out charging from the middle of the island drawing too much attention to himself
While the white imps were too dumb to care, the closest red and gray imps to him stopped their battle and joined forces in an attempt to stop his rampage
Going as far as to attack his wings that looked small and weak which made him infuriated even more
Ominous pulled the spine of a big red imp with its skull attached which he used as a long elastic mace, the horns attached to that skull were strong and sharp
With a weapon at hand, he disposed of this new wave of imps and started feasting on their bodies and eggshells
Eating and gathering a good amount of life energy as he calls it, he started redirecting it to his new limbs
Slowly he felt his wings heal and start to elongate, his tail on the other hand became scaly and sharp like a great sword that bends and twists to his will
His energy was not enough for his wings to fully grow, only the bone part enlarged without the flesh in between
He decided to go back to the deeper parts of the island and wait for mother Abyss to send new family members to join his belly
He knew that some evolved lesser imps would still be inside the island lurking, but most of them chose to go to the first floor to avoid the flood and not take risks as their intelligence is limited
Walking slowly back to the place where he had evolved, he kept thinking back to the information he gained, and he made plans for the future
Somehow the abyss was a plane of existence with its own consciousness it wanted to grow and expand, so it made its own creatures and sent them to other planes to assimilate them and grow
In a way the Abyss made demons and invested time and effort in them so that she could get feed back from them once they destroyed a plane and gave it to her to feed on it
Creatures outside the abyss could be demonized and become part of it once their plane or world is assimilated by the abyss, or they could be demonized by the blood of a demon.
Demon lords were god like beings, something very far away from him right now and yes gods did exist in their own planes and domains
Mother Abyss took special care of strong and promising children, he only had to show her more potential and she would favor him more
Why you ask, well as she is the plane, her favor could save his life or guide his evolution into the best possible version of it.
While walking, he heard some grunts coming from behind a small rock, walking in a sneaky manner as not to alert the creature behind he could see a female like imp slowly evolving with closed eyes and a face full of pain
Normally, evolutions are painful as the body and sometimes the mind change, but having the favor of the abyss can make it painless.
Focusing back on this gray female like imp, he could see that she had goat like legs full of scales, her chest was what gave her away as a female imp
Her face was a mix between a human and a snake only uglier than you can imagine, small horns on her head and a tail like a cat but fleshy
Towering over her and thinking if he should kill and consume her, Ominous had the idea of taming her or killing her, depending on her brains.
6 hours later with an evolution full of pain she grew taller, more slender her face more detailed she had black hair split from the middle into each side of her head
So he decided to call her Lydia like his follower in his favorite game Skyrim, the goat part of her legs grew smaller under the inverted knees, she looked more inline with his human taste
Not that he was the most handsome lad with his wolf face and bull feet, but he was planing to change that once he had the chance.
As soon as Lesser gray imp Lydia woke up, she found Ominous looking at her.