Black Dragon-Nidhogg

Several days later.

Amid thunder and lightning that painted a scene like the end of days.

Countless bolts of lightning, like savage divine punishments descending from the very crown of the heavens.

Poured down madly like raindrops!

Accompanied by gales sharp enough to slice through all things, they continuously battered the colossal black egg, which had remained immovable since its appearance, unscathed by every kind of assault.

Not far away.

One Undead Creature after another, moving like walking corpses, continuously tried to approach the colossal black egg.

Even though the frenzied winds and lightning around them would turn them into genuine dead things, nothing could halt their steps.

And after they had been utterly destroyed.

Strands of pitch-black Black Mist automatically seeped from their remaining wreckage.

Like tributaries returning to the main current, they surged into the black fog enveloping the colossal black egg and became part of it.

In just a few short days under such circumstances.

Who knew how many undead had become the colossal egg's power through acts akin to self-sacrifice...

As the spectacle in the sky grew increasingly violent.

"Crack..."

A cracking sound, though incomparably faint beside the thunderous roars and howling winds, yet utterly impossible to ignore, suddenly rang out within the valley.

Several infinitesimal cracks first appeared upon the colossal black egg.

Then.

As though triggering a chain reaction, great swathes of fractures successively emerged across the eggshell that should have been flawless.

At last.

"Crack..."

Amid another, clearer cracking sound.

The head of a black Young Dragon, its tender horns naturally entwined like a jet-black crown upon its head.

Forced its way out from within the colossal egg, smashing through that formerly incomparably hard shell!

Then came even fiercer cracking sounds.

Within the eggshell, powerful dragon wings forcefully spread against their surroundings.

Amid