Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 177 Initial Embryo Formation

Argreed crossed the ice layer and arrived at the roots of the World Tree. He then used magic to melt the innermost layer of ice, creating a small space for himself to stand in. Fortunately, Argreed was an undead; otherwise, any other non-god-level life form would have been frozen to death by the near-absolute zero temperature in the ice layer. Even demigods and abominations could not possibly survive for more than five days in such a temperature.

However, the undead don't need to worry about these things. Agreed slowly took out Nidhogg's dragon egg from his own space. As soon as the dragon egg hatched, it sensed the surging power of the World Tree. So the dragon egg immediately stuck to the roots of the World Tree without Agreed's control and greedily absorbed the power of the World Tree.

It absorbed the nutrients smoothly, but Agreed was feeling like every day was an eternity, like sitting on pins and needles.

All we could hear was Agreed urging to himself, "This is the lair of the gods, little ancestor, can you hurry up and absorb it? Every second we stay here brings us one step closer to death."

As if understanding Agreed's words, the dragon egg absorbed the energy at an increasingly rapid pace, almost exponentially. Fifteen minutes later, the dragon egg stopped absorbing the energy, and the embryo inside had fully developed. If Nidhogg wanted to grow further, it had to hatch.

However, this body had no soul, and without anyone to control it, it was impossible for it to complete the simple act of 'birth' on its own. Agreed was overjoyed to see that the body had been formed, so he put away the dragon egg and left a coordinate here. With this coordinate, no matter how the World Tree moved, Agreed could use it to teleport to the location of the World Tree's roots. After arranging everything, Agreed withdrew and returned to his own universe with Nidhogg.

Argreed returned to his castle, still shaken. After regaining his composure, he hugged the dragon egg in his arms and kissed it hard in a very comical manner.

Then, Agreed put away the dragon egg and rushed into Heya's room with great interest. Heya was startled and quickly asked, "What's wrong? Why did you rush over so suddenly?" Agreed climbed onto Heya's bed and put his finger to her mouth to silence her. This action instantly made Heya's face turn red.

Then… (Two thousand words are omitted here; please fill in the blanks yourself. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.)

After a night, Heya, her face flushed, hugged Agreed and said coquettishly, "You won't be going into seclusion this time, right? Can you spend two days with me?"

Agreed agreed, "Of course, but... Heya, after a while, you may not see me for a long time."

Heya instantly felt a little scared and hugged him tightly, asking, "Are you... going to leave me again?"

Agreed reassured Heya, saying, "Don't worry, it's not that I'm leaving, but rather that I'm going into hiding. You know I'm about to wage war against all the gods, and to be honest, I'm sure I'll lose. So I have to find a way to survive, and I have. But... I can't take you with me; it's too dangerous. So I've created a small refuge world modeled after the World Tree. You and this entire planet will be sent into that world to live for a while."

"Don't worry, the flow of time in the small world is completely different from that in the material world. Ten years in your world will be almost a hundred years in mine. So don't worry, I'll bring you back from there soon."

Heya knew this wasn't the time to be a burden to him, so she said reluctantly, "Then you must bring me back as soon as possible! I'll wait for you here."

Agreed assured her, "I swear on my soul that I will bring you back to me as soon as possible, I swear."

In the days that followed, Hea wanted to stick to Agreed every day, and Agreed cherished their time together. But time always flies when you're having a good time.

A year later, according to Agreed's calculations, the gods were about to launch a full-scale attack on this place. So Agreed sent Hea and the others into a small world and then sent the small world out of this universe. Agreed knew that his battle with the gods would definitely destroy this fragile universe, and he had to send them away from here to prevent them from being affected by the war.

After that, Agreed traveled to the universe where Io was born and placed Nidhogg's dragon egg on a planet named 'Musurida' by the gods. That planet was all-encompassing, containing almost every race in the universe, and was also the largest habitable planet in that universe. The reason Agreed chose this place was because it was the most suitable place for him to start from scratch again!

Argreed delivered the dragon egg to the home of an extremely old red dragon in Musurida, also known as the 'Flame Dragon Mother'. Due to the volatile nature of red dragons, this female red dragon had suffered many hidden injuries from her battles in her youth, preventing her from further becoming an ancient dragon. Thus, on her deathbed, this extremely old dragon became enthusiastic about the task of raising the next generation. Of course, at her age, she could no longer reproduce. She mainly collected the scattered dragon eggs and placed them in her nest to raise.

After all, the red dragon race is so 'free-spirited' that many young red dragon mothers have no sense of responsibility and leave their dragon eggs lying around unattended. Therefore, more than half of the red dragons on this planet are actually children adopted by this Flame Dragon Mother.

Of course, if the dragon eggs that the Flame Dragon Mother retrieves don't hatch into red dragons, she will eat them directly. Because she is a red dragon, she has her own selfish desires and will not allow other dragon races to flourish, nor will she raise dragons from other races. Otherwise, she wouldn't just be called the 'Flame Dragon Mother'. If she truly had that kind of benevolent heart, the word 'Flame' would have been removed long ago. However, having selfish desires is a natural part of life and can be understood, as it is a matter of course.

After carefully adorning Nidhogg's dragon eggs, Agreed openly placed them into the lair of the Flame Dragon Mother 'Alex Preskin' (a hundred words of her real name are omitted here, as dragons' names are indeed too long)'. The Flame Dragon Mother did not notice anything amiss and simply took good care of the dragon eggs without hesitation.

After doing all this, Agreed returned to his own universe. He stood on a planet, gazing at the vast and boundless starry sky. It had once seemed so vast and unfathomable to him, but now it appeared somewhat insignificant. Everything had changed so quickly that when one stopped to observe, he was suddenly at a loss.