Now his experience points had dropped back to 180 and the threshold for leveling up had risen to 8,000 points. However, for once Sobek wasn't focused on them. His focus was on other skill points.Sobek had gotten to know how skill points worked during his previous hunts. They could only be supplied by animals that could feed on terrestrial vertebrates: for example, if they ate only insects, they were classified as 'insectivores', while if they ate only fishes they were 'fishivore'.However, it wasn't necessary for an animal to be exclusively carnivorous to be worth skill points; if its size or its abilities were enough to allow it to eat terrestrial creatures with bones, than it was consider a carnivore. For example spinosaurs almost always ate fishes, but their size allowed them to feed on even smaller land animals.As a result, Sobek had at his disposal a wide range of animals that lived in the river that could provide him with skill points. An example were crocodiles and snakes. But

Sobek had seen it right. Over the next five days he relentlessly hunted the amphibians that inhabited his new fishing area. He spent the whole day there and only returned to the nest in the evening.There were amphibians of all kinds: acanthostega, ichthyostega, crassigyrinus, eriops... each of them was just one and a half meters or at most two meters long, but they had a high nutritional value and there were plenty of them, consequently they were enough to satisfy Sobek.He currently had 7 skill points. Each amphibian had provided him with 0.5 skill points at most, but with so many of them he had accumulated several. He also found a torpedo fish hidden in the mud which gave him 1 more skill point.Thanks to [Swim speed] it was enough for him to sneak up on his prey and charge once he got close enough. Sobek was counting that once [Ambush] was improved, the hunt would have become even easier.Unfortunately, on the contrary the experience points provided by the amphibians weren't much.

The first thing Sobek had to do was find a suitable place for him. Not exactly a territory where he could fish, but more a place full of preys and with not many predators, possibly with some kind of refuge that he could use as his outpost.Unfortunately, for several kilometers the river continued normally, without offering any safe point. No covered area, no hiding place, not even a denser zone where it would have been easy to camouflage. After several wanderings, however, he finally arrived in a place where the river bed widened and the water became lower.He had arrived in a swamp; the water of the river poured into some kind of marsh, slowing the current and allowing the birth of small islets. Large mangroves grew everywhere and in the areas where the water was lower there were huge reeds. Sobek could see several fishbirds perched in trees or intent on fishing. Not only them: there were also numerous pterosaurs, some of them very large; Sobek was able to see a flock of tapejara, fly

The following day Sobek immediately resumed the hunt. This time, nothing would have stopped him from moving to a new area. The day before he had gained some skill points, but this time he was desperate to find another large predatory dinosaur to defeat and devour.He swam for kilometers, keeping clear of any spot where crocodiles or snakes might hide. He noticed several freshwater sharks on the way, but he completely ignored them: he had no intention of stopping and risking being attacked again. He had learned from what had happened to him with the alligator, and while he had been lucky that time, he was not going to risk it again; after all, if the alligator had hit him even a little, it could have damaged his delicate sail irreparably, which meant causing severe blood loss. Sobek would not have risked that much: some small sharks weren't worth it.Eventually he came to an area where the mangroves were slightly denser, forming a real forest above the swamp. He was far enough away from

The following days were the easiest of all for Sobek. Each day he caught at least one oxalaia, which, in addition to satisfying his hunger, earned him 33,000 experience points.After a day he had already been able to climb to level 13, reaching 13 meters in length and 4.5 meters in height. In three days he was able to reach the level 14, obtaining a length of 14 meters and a height of 4.8 meters. In a week he finally reached level 15, reaching 15 meters in length and 5.1 meters in height.By now he was bigger than many adult spinosaurs, but he was planning to become even more: the herd of oxalaia in fact had been reduced by very few in number. Despite his soaring level up, Sobek hadn't killed more than six oxalaia in total.Even so, he had gained an immense amount of skill points!Since an adult oxalaia granted 5 skill points, he had earned the titanic amount of 30 skill points. Sobek estimated that under normal circumstances he wouldn't have reached such quantity in less than a couple