Tower to Hell

Humanity has long been stuck at the bottom of a well trying to get out. Not a well so much as a tower though. The layers of the tower are almost infinitely large in horizontal size, and vertically range from 3 feet to over 100. Each floor has staircases every 700 feet or so, and magic barriers block monsters from the higher floors from going to the lower ones. Though the walls look like they could collapse at any time, they do not. It is strange how the tower keeps it's self up because the bottom floor is almost entirely empty from walls, only having support beams every so often. On the lowest floor is the human city. There is no other city other than this one, and though attempts to travel up the tower to create additional settlements have been made, none have been successful. Naturally occurring materials are non-existent in the city, and everything they have comes from the monsters in the higher floors. Metals, wood, meat and vegetables, they all come from monsters in the higher floors. Weather is non-existent as well, it is always hot. If not for ice being brought down, the city would surely be too hot to live in. Waste is taken to upper floor were it is disposed of, but nobody knows were it goes. The majority occupation is being a climber, someone who goes up the tower to get materials for use in the city. Groups of at least 3 people go into the tower at a time and come out with as much as they can handle. The first few floors only have rats, but the monsters slowly get larger and more exotic. It is unknown how many floors the tower has or what it at the top of it. Attempts to break through the sides of the tower have been fruitless.

Brutus is born to two lower class climbers. They serve mostly as assistants to other climbers when bringing things down from the top. For the sake of humanity, everyone works. Climbers are not stay at home parents, so when Brutus was born he was given to the community center for raising children. Here he would stay inside the city while his parents were outside it. The children are taught basic things like math and how to read, though how to read was not very important. At 10 years old, children would have to leave the community center for raising children and they would have to join their parents.