In the vast nest, dark, damp, and cold, filled with the smell of rot.
Three black dragon eggs, each half a man's height, stood on the ground.
Suddenly, one of the eggs made a cracking sound.
The eggshell burst open.
A black dragonling the size of a Malinois dog struggled out.
The dragonling was sticky all over, with a pair of small wings hanging limp against its back, and a disproportionately large dragon head that looked somewhat silly.
When Li Cunba opened his eyes, what he saw was a scrawny, black-scaled giant beast, with grey dragon horns curving forward, scales tight against its dragon face's bones, a body full of thick bones, and bone spikes protruding from the surface, exuding a dominant yet hideous aura.
In a daze, he looked blankly at his current body, a newborn hatchling covered in transparent mucus...
"Udi Targaryen Diabolos Atoksi Mephisto... Sigmund," Li Cunba instinctively uttered this name.
True Name of the Dragon!
After speaking this long string of names, Li Cunba understood deeply.
He had been reincarnated as a black dragon. A black dragon among the Five-Colored Evil Dragon of a certain world in the multiverse.
So... Li Cunba looked at the black giant beast looming over him.
This must be his black dragon mother.
For a moment, Li Cunba was filled with a myriad of emotions, feeling complex.
But recalling all the suffering from his human life... Li Cunba silently accepted his current identity.
"A giant dragon at the top of the predator hierarchy, with a long lifespan, wielding unparalleled power and magic. Isn't it better than being a common person?" Li Cunba realized.
From now on, he... it would be called Udi. Udi Sigmund.
As for the past name Li Cunba, let it remain locked in the memory.
Leanna looked down at her newly born silly child, the icy gaze in her vertical dark yellow dragon eyes slightly softened upon hearing the dragon's True Name being called.
A huge shark-like carcass emerged from the water pool, floating gradually before landing heavily in front of Udi, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Udi was utterly stunned by the sight, pondering over what power this was? Magic? The newly hatched Udi had yet to truly access the vast treasure of knowledge from the Dragon's Legacy.
Udi lowered its head, noting the shark-like carcass covered in mud and faintly exuding a rotten scent.
It seemed extremely disgusting, but the black dragon's instincts made Udi feel it was a delectable meal. The conflict between previous knowledge and current bodily instincts made Udi hesitate for a moment, unsure whether to approach for a meal.
But the Black Dragon Maiden cared not for Udi's thoughts and turned her massive body towards the depths of the cave to the dragon nest, finally curling up in the nest full of treasures, comfortably closing her dragon eyes to sleep.
Watching his black dragon mother leave, Udi pondered for a while before deciding to first eat his own eggshell, as he felt some resistance to the repulsive food.
And for newly hatched dragonlings, their true first meal is often their own eggshell.
The eggshell of the giant dragon is rich in trace elements, providing the newly hatched dragonling with hardened scales swiftly and preliminary combat capability upon consumption.
Crack, crack~
After only a few bites of the eggshell, Udi froze.
In front of its eyes, a few lines of small text started to appear slowly.
[Udi: Biological Level 1, Professional Level None.] (Body length 2.4m)
[Life Force: 2.5]
[Current Banquet Level: 0]
[Feast First Layer Progress: 5%]
What is this...? After a moment of daze, Udi carefully perceived the purpose of this talent and suddenly felt immense joy.
[Feast: Capable of converting devoured matter into growth energy for the body, thereby enhancing physical strength and size.]
Most importantly, the stack count for the [Feast] talent is... limitless!
Udi grinned, revealing somewhat immature dragon teeth, looking down at the eggshell not yet finished.
I'll just eat, eat, eat!
The cracking sounds of Udi eating echoed, accompanied by the steady rise in the first layer progress of the banquet.
5%...8%...15%
After finishing all the eggshell, the first layer banquet progress reached 23%.
Udi's gaze shifted to the giant rotting shark not far away.
Knowledge gained from the Dragon's Legacy revealed this was a favorite food of black dragons, the Swamp Demon Shark.
Adult Swamp Demon Sharks can reach Level 5 in Biological Level, and grow up to seven meters, qualifying as an Intermediate Demon.
Demons of this level typically mean only black dragons in the juvenile dragon stage possess the ability to hunt them, a challenge far beyond the current hatchling Udi.
The scent of meat coming from the Swamp Demon Shark in front of it made Udi unable to resist the body's hunger anymore, all thoughts of repulsion vanished as it directly opened its dragon mouth, revealing short, sharp teeth, and bit fiercely into the rotting wound of the Swamp Demon Shark.
Splash~
Delicious~! Satisfying.
Decayed flesh and blood mixed with somewhat fresh internal organs to form a unique delicacy.
No wonder black dragons favor this seemingly disgusting food. Such a thought flashed across Udi's mind.
Followed by all thoughts turning into eating and eating.
Once the banquet begins, the insatiable hunger emanating from Udi's body and soul gradually overwhelms its sanity, only when the banquet concludes does rationality return.
In the dark, damp, vast nest, the terrifying sound of Udi tearing and devouring reverberated.
As Udi regained rationality, more than half of the seven-meter-long Swamp Demon Shark's flesh had vanished, and its stark white fish bones revealed Udi's terrifying consumption.
Dragonlings may have large appetites, but it depends on the type of food. The energy contained in the flesh of Intermediate Demon like the Swamp Demon Shark far exceeds that of ordinary animal meat, so Udi consuming more than half of a Swamp Demon Shark's weight is already frightening for a newly hatched dragonling.
But at this moment, Udi's thoughts were not on this.
When the banquet progress reached 100%, Udi's consciousness entered a void-like world.
In this seemingly boundless void world, Udi could clearly perceive its body growing stronger, with reflexes, thinking ability, magic resistance, physical resistance, volume density, speed, power, endurance, vision, organ functions, adaptive resistance, biological magnetism intensity, bone density, muscle fibers, skin thickness, keratin layer, memory, soul, and other attributes slowly yet steadily advancing toward the form of a perfect organism.