As soon as Sobek gave him the green light, Buck had teleported with the entire assault legion to the center of the fleet. The ships were literally overrun in a second by hundreds of heavily armed dinosaurs.
Since it was the first infantry, Sobek had provided each member of the assault legion with armor and a weapon; that had drained his reserve of bonus money, but he didn't care as he was sure to receive more once the war was won.
When the dinosaurs teleported to the deck, the large animals forcefully launched themselves at the humans using their bodies as weapons, while on their backs the smaller dinosaurs used machine guns, rifles, bazookas and other heavy weapons to take out the humans from a distance.
The humans were completely unprepared for that lightning attack; before they actually realized what was happening, thousands of soldiers were already dead. And even when they realized the event, their recovery was slow: the chaos in which the fleet was pouring
The explosions and roars were so loud they could be heard even from the center of the forest.To prevent the weaker ones from getting involved, Sobek had ordered Old Li to bring elders, puppies and all those not fit to fight in the thick of the forest, in the fortification erected by Eema. Together the triceratops and the ankylosaurus had brought everyone to safety and were now waiting for the noises to stop."This mess gives me chills" Eema murmured as she listened to the distant explosions."You don't have to worry" Old Li replied."How can you be so calm?"“I am not at all. But I know that by worrying I would get nothing but make things worse. So it's better to get distracted and wait for news"Eema sighed, then agreed that the ankylosaurus was right. "Yes, okay" she said, nibbling again on a blade of grass.Shortly thereafter, however, the explosions ceased. Eema and Old Li raised their heads in the direction of battle, foll
If anyone had decided to pass near the South Sea that day, they would have witnessed an unprecedented sight. The sea water had turned red, so dark that you couldn't look under it. Thousands of corpses of huge ships lay in the water; most of them were submerged, but some protruded from the ocean since the seabed was so covered with wrecks that it was impossible to descend further. Fish and other sea creatures moved frantically through that graveyard of ships, devouring the remains of all the humans who had been aboard. And out of the water some aquatic dinosaurs wandered among the remains of the ships not yet submerged, looking for any survivors.That place would in the future be remembered as the Naval Cemetery and would become a historical place. A monument would have been erected on the nearby cliff, consisting of dozens of tombstones bearing the names of all the soldiers who died that day, or at least those whose identity was known. Treasure hunters would often venture amo
Sobek's announcement was broadcast around the world within minutes. The whole of humanity was waiting to know the results of the war campaign, and as soon as the video was put online it went viral. The media did not hesitate to broadcast it on all their platforms and within half a day there was not a single human being on the planet who had not seen it.The first reaction was panic. When people saw the first few minutes of the video showing the destroyed fleet, they were terrified. Many had not even finished watching the video and had fled to the shelters expecting an attack by the dinosaurs at any moment.But the moment of panic did not last long, and was immediately followed by the most total despair. There were many families who had lost at least one family member in the war. Inside the fleet there were parents, uncles, grandparents, brothers and children, and now they were all dead and did not even have a grave. The families did not even have the opportunity to ret
Of course, Al wasn't really resting. He had simply taken leave to use [Teleportation] to bring himself in front of Sobek. The meeting place was the seashore just in front of the ship cemetery.When he arrived the others were already there.There was Buck, the commander of the assault legion. Al had heard that he had been badly wounded during the battle, but he had fully recovered.There was Carnopo, the army commander. Proud and annoyed as ever, not a single movement could be glimpsed on his face.There was Mazu, the commander of the navy. The huge marine reptile had come close to them thanks to a deep crack carved into the rock and protruded its head from the water to be able to listen.There was Old Li, Sobek's councilor and second-in-command. The ankylosaurus had not participated in the battle, but his advice had been invaluable.There was Rambo, the intelligence commander. The tiny pterosaur was barely visible among those giants and perc
Nero watched placidly the scene that was proposed in front of his screen. “… From now on, we are in a new era. An era where we will all live in the same world, together. Humans and dinosaurs...""Great job, girl… great job" Nero whispered as he sipped a beer. Those videos were obviously not known in the West, as governments blocked communications; but there was no block that could stop Nero.Although he already had an overview of how skilled the girl was, Nero found that he was surprised. Jocelyne had done a lot more than he had imagined. It was clear as the sun that had been plotting with dinosaurs for a long time."Now I understand why you asked me to divulge everything that happens in Beleriard to the rest of the world..." Nero laughed. "A nation where humans and dinosaurs coexist... if humanity were faced with such a spectacle, what face could say it's wrong?"Nero typed some numbers on the keyboard. His computer chirped as the vid
Okasawa High School was one of the most famous and reputable schools in the nation. Even before the unification of the five nations in the Great Republic of Beleriard it had been a very important institution, so much so that students from all cities came to study there.For a long time it had been an elite school: students who paid more, in fact, received better treatment. Those whose parents donated more funds to the institute enjoyed nicer bedrooms, had better meals, could use the bathrooms first, and the teachers were very forgiving in terms of both school progress and behavior towards their peers.In fact, for a long time Okasawa High School had been dominated by gangs of rich students who did what they wanted with the poorest students. The number of suicides was not low due to bullying and there had even been cases of students being sent to hospital for beatings. But this, unfortunately, was normal in the old Odaria, and not only had no one done anything to change
Pauline Mackenzie, Queen of the Prettania Kingdom, was sitting calmly on a seat in her private plane; she normally would work at that time, but she was neither signing papers nor reading a report nor doing anything else she did on a daily basis. She was simply leaning against the window and looking at the horizon.The queen wasn't very old; she was already sixty, but she wore them very well. Today, however, she seemed aged at least twenty years. Her body seemed to have been completely drained of all energy.A few seats beyond her sat a blonde woman, who had been observing her for a while. Unlike the queen, she was quite young, but she too seemed to have been deprived of vital energy. After a long moment of silence, she got up and walked over to Pauline. "Your Majesty" she said as soon as she was beside him. “You have nothing to blame. You have done everything possible""Don't try to console me, Grace"“I'm not doing this, I'm speaking honestly
"That idiot Croft made it too big this time" Darius grumbled.Liam said nothing. He just leaned against the wall and looked at the floor. Darius couldn't blame him.Liam had admired Croft for a good part of his life and only recently had he realized how traitorous and greedy for fame he could be. Despite his betrayal a year ago, he had long hoped that he would stop before it was too late. Instead, he now he realized how wrong he was.Darius sighed. “If it consoles you, your teacher was right. If it hadn't been him it would have been someone else. If there is one thing that we humans are good at doing is self-destruct""We should have done something first" Grace murmured. “The fault lies with all of us. We all had the responsibility to stop this disaster"“Now you're talking nonsense, Grace. We had no chance of stopping all this""No, it isn't true. We could have done it. Even a small gesture could have had enormous conseque
It took Sobek a few moments before he realized he was back in the room where it all began. That room where time and space ceased to exist, and where everything and nothing seemed to have changed at the same time. He already knew where he had to go; walking through the infinitely large (or perhaps infinitely small) room, in a few minutes (or perhaps a few centuries, who knows) he reached the familiar armchair on which was seated a woman with white skin and light hair.God didn't even seem to move since she sent him to Eden. Even her expression didn't seem to have changed at all. She was still the same, beautiful and terrible at the same time, whose gaze was both magnetic and loving on him. “Welcome back, son,” she greeted him in her crystal clear voice.Sobek advanced on her. This time there wasn't an armchair waiting for him, but a large mattress wide enough to allow him to lie down. She lay back on it and gazed intently at God. Even now, after he'd grown i
On the continent of Maakanar, near a river that was once a typical spinosaurus nesting place, something immense could be seen. A huge creature was lying on its belly, but nevertheless it was so tall that its dorsal sail towered over the surrounding masts.Sobek was now thirty-three years old. To say he had grown into a behemoth was an understatement: he now measured 150 meters from head to tail and reached 45.6 meters in height. Even without activating the mutation he was now larger than Godzilla: the gigantic atomic reptile was a tiny lizard compared to him. All kaiju would be small compared to him. Even King Ghidorah would have been forced to acknowledge its superiority.In the last five years he had hardly moved. After the death of his last loyalist he returned to his birthplace and settled there. He ate what was provided to him from the [Personal Manger] and drank the water from the river. Otherwise, he remained calm, warming himself in the sun or admiring the star
After a few days Nefertiti settled at the lake together with her father and her last remaining uncle. With the help and indications of Sobek she built a comfortable nest and there she laid her egg.Thus began the brood. The female spinosaurus never moved from above her little egg, keeping it constantly warm. Sobek and Buck brought her food and water. When Nefertiti was hot, Sobek used her huge wing as a parasol and Buck fanned her with his tail. In the rare moments when it was cold, the two of her huddled to help her warm up.That routine went on for three months. Finally, at the end of the third month, a familiar clicking sound came from under Nefertiti's paws.The female spinosaurus reared up and looked down. A small crack was opening on the egg. With a smile she moved from above it. The crack widened more and more and finally a large piece of egg broke off, showing a lively green eye that stared intently at Nefertiti.“Hello, baby. I'm your mothe
Time had passed again. Sobek couldn't even figure out how much time had actually passed now. One year? Two? Maybe three? He didn't know.After his retirement, Sobek had gone deep into the forest of Maakanar. It was hard for him to move his huge body through the trees and very often ended up destroying them: his passage was evident as a trail of uprooted trunks was always behind him. He had moved permanently to the lake where he had met Buck and where he had established his first army. And he hadn't gone there alone.Carnopo and Buck had joined him just a month after his departure. They, too, had decided they'd had enough and abandoned their roles entirely. After all, in the new world there was no longer a need for either an army commander or one of the shock legion. Now there was peace, and the old war veterans had no reason to try to find their place in their world. So they had decided to do what they had always done: follow their pack leader.The trio spent th
Another year had passed. In Sobek's eyes, time seemed to have begun to flow more rapidly. The months and weeks all passed almost the same and in a flash the morning turned into evening.Humanity had continued its advance. By now, Aphrodites had been fully colonized. Whole cities had sprung up on it and millions of settlers had begun to live there. Davis had now reached more than a billion inhabitants and Hermes now owned thousands of mining establishments.Thanks to teleportation technology it was so advanced that traveling between planets was even easier than going from one city to another. Since energy and material consumption were now no longer a concern thanks to solar panels on Hermes and mining plants on asteroids, everyone had a portable teleportation device. By now, being hired to work a mine on an asteroid was no different than being hired to work at the local convenience store.Colonies on the moons of Leviathan and Behemoth had multiplied, providing e
More time, more changes. In just one year, many things had changed.Nefertiti had assumed control of the entire astrophysics division of the dinosaur pack, effectively acting as acting pack leader for them. After the first shared mission, she had begun to promote more policies of integration and union between humans and animals. She had facilitated interspecies interspace operations, sending animals and humans to work together in the new worlds to be colonized. Furthermore, there was still much to colonize, as human attention was slowly shifting beyond the outer Solar System to the dwarf planets and comets of the Oort Cloud.The work was not cheap and with it the possibilities of working together. With the Dyson Sphere nearing completion, energy was no longer an issue. After determining which moons to colonize, the Eden Union had begun an intensive mining program in the asteroids of the main belt in order to be able to build huge lenses to capture the sunlight and also
One more year, more innovations. The more time passed, the more progress seemed to accelerate. It was like a speeding train that multiplied its speed every second: first slow, then faster and faster, until it turned into a giant projectile.Sobek knew that progress was bound to accelerate more and more, after all it was his nature. For each new discovery, countless doors open. And every door leads to other doors. This was the nature of progress. It was no coincidence that it took humanity less than two hundred years to go from horses to aircraft capable of leaving the orbit of their home planet.He recalled that on Earth, where he came from, progress had become so fast in the 21st century that it was enough to be born even a generation later or further back to find oneself in a completely different world. While in 1990 the main communication system was the satellite phone, in 2020 people used social networks for the most disparate things. While in 1990 movies were watc
More time had passed. This time it was a year… or maybe a year and a half? I don't know. Not that it mattered much, actually.The world's attention to the inner solar system was gradually waning. Now that three planets had been terraformed, even if one of them still wasn't enough, and Hermes had become a stable colony that was continuously producing large panels of glass that joined in the orbit of the Sun to form the Dyson Sphere, the humanity was beginning to anticipate new challenges. From the inner solar system it was time to move to the outer solar system.Although some colony outposts were already present on some moons of Behemoth, they could not be defined as true colonies. However, now that energy consumption was no longer a problem thanks to the Dyson Sphere, which although not completed already released enormous amounts of energy, the Eden Union decided to start an exploration program of the entire outer solar system, or at least of the space between B
Two more years had passed. The advance of humanity towards the stars continued inexorably.The hypotheses of the scientists had proved to be correct: using a combination of gravity control technology and energy obtained from the Dyson sphere, although still incomplete, they had managed to accelerate the rotation of Aphrodites. The planet was slowly accelerating, though not too fast. There was generally talk of an hour each week. At this speed there was no risk of destroying the infrastructure already present on the planet. Yes two years, the rotation period had gone from 2082 hours to 1978 hours. Continuing at this rate, it was expected to reach 24 hours in 'just' another 38 years.Once this process was completed, the huge orbiting mirrors could finally be taken off. The day/night cycle would no longer be artificially determined and there would no longer be the risk that something would go wrong due to the impact of a micrometeorite. In addition, the accelerated rotati