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2024-10-29 19:42:56The next day Sobek went hunting as soon as he woke up, without even waiting for his siblings to wake up. He headed for the forest and, as usual, placed the eggshell in plain sight.
As on the previous day, the first to show up were the compsognathus. After all, such small animals couldn't go too far, so the little pack was still near and they could smell the egg's yolk. Sobek promptly killed one and left its carcass on the sand as he had done the day before.
His hopes were not disappointed: after an hour, another thylacinus came out from the bush to eat. Sobek killed it exactly as he did with its predecessor and devoured it.
With the thylacinus and the compsognathus he had gained another 1,600 experience, enough to level up again. He didn't hesitate and immediately agreed.
After the usual ten seconds of pain he opened the main interface.
[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]
Level: 4
Length: 4 m
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 2 tons
Diet: carnivore, fishivore
Strength: 510
Agility: 470
Defense: 142
Maximum speed: 5 km/h
Experience points: 1,180/4,000
Skill points: 2.1
Fame points: 0/1,000,000
Bonus money: 660
He could be pleased with himself. In less than a week since he was born he had already reached a considerable size. He was bigger than any carnivore on modern Earth, except for the aquatic ones.
Armed with this new power, he decided to take a risk: enter the forest.
It was crazy, but he wanted to know what the trees were hiding. He took a path full of tall ferns for hide himself; his sail actually made him look like a bunch of plants.
His intent was to get an idea of what actually was hiding in the forest, so that he could better understand how to move in the future. As he went deeper and deeper into it, an infinity of new smells hit him; he couldn't recognize most of them, but one thing was certain: the forest was teeming with life.
Sobek chose to follow one of those smells at random, a very strong one; this is because generally strong smells were typical of herbivores. Animals such as cows or bisons emitted very noticeable flatulence; herbivorous dinosaurs probably did the same.
As proof of his theory, when he finally found the source of the smell, he found himself next to a herd of huge quadrupedal dinosaurs with giant plaques on their backs.
[Prey identified: Stegosaurus stenops, stegosauridae. Experience: 50,000 points]
Sobek remained hidden in the vegetation. He knew a lot about stegosaurs and he was aware they were herbivores, but they were also extremely dangerous. With a single flick of their tail they could take down any carnivore. Such tail was in fact covered with four bone thorns sufficient to break through the trunk of a tree as if it was paper.
Sobek had noticed some cubs among the pack: apparently also the other animals besides the spinosaurs were breeding, another sign that this season was probably summer. However, he had no intention of trying to catch one: he was certainly not a suicidal. He had a long way to go before he felt confident facing such giants.
Sobek decided it was best to go back. The presence of large herbivores was always accompanied by large carnivores: where there were preys, there were always predators. It was better for him to go away.
But while he was walking away he found other dinosaurs. This time they were small bipedal theropods covered with colorful feathers.
[Prey identified: Ornitholestes hermanni, ornitholestidae. Experience: 6,000 points]
Ornitholestes was a small dinosaur of the Jurassic period. On Earth, it had shared its habitat with the stegosaurus and with other herbivores such as diplodocus and brachiosaurus, but also with dangerous carnivores such as allosaurus. For its size it couldn't be considered a high-rank predator: it was more a scavengers and it preyed just small dinosaurs or cubs.
Even if they weren't so dangerous, Sobek didn't dare to attack the ornitholestes. They were almost a dozen of them; they were too much for him to handle.
After that he decided that the forest was still too dangerous for him. Even a small dinosaur could be dangerous and many of this animals moved in packs. For now it was far better for him to return to the protection of the herd.
However, when he was about to leave the forest, something caught his attention. A pile of fallen leaves seemed to have moved. Sobek stepped forward to check, but when he was about to touch the leaves, they moved and a giant millipede emerged from them!
[Prey identified: Arthropleura armata, arthropleuridae. Experience: 4,000 points]
Sobek felt his blood boil. He couldn't miss such an opportunity! 4,000 experience points all at once? When would have he find such a gold mine again?
He certainly wasn't afraid of arthropleura. Despite its menacing appearance it was just a vegetarian animal. Its pincers, which looked imposing, were actually harmless.
From what Sobek remembered from the knowledge of his past life, the arthropleura was a giant millipede that lived during the Carboniferous period and could reach up to 3 meters in length. It had no predators at the time, so it hadn't developed any defense mechanisms. While modern millipedes and centipedes could rely on weapons such as poison, the arthropleura only had its thick armor to protect itself.
Sobek showed no sign of fear and ran at his prey; the arthropleura flattened to the ground to protect the vulnerable belly. Sobek would never be able to penetrate the armor on its back, but he didn't need to do that: with his big spinosaurus arms he simply grabbed the millipede and turned it over. The arthropleura squirmed trying to return on its feet, but Sobek killed it by ripping open its soft belly.
Before eating the millipede, however, he took it out of the forest: he didn't want to run the risk of staying there too long. Also, when he ate it was his most vulnerable time: he was much more distracted and more exposed, and that means he was much more in danger.
With the points provided by the arthropleura, Sobek leveled up once again! He was now 5 meters long and 2.1 meters tall, more than a human being!
He was already celebrating, but a message interrupted his joy.
[Congratulations! You have reached the level of medium-ranking predator. Small creatures can no longer do anything against you; you are officially entered among the medium-size predators! As a result, your Inventory slots have increased to 2 and the amount of extra experience needed to level up with each advancement will go from 1,000 to 2,000]
"Uh? Medium-ranking predator? What does that mean? Wait, I have an [Inventory]!?" Sobek exclaimed in his mind. "Why isn't it listed in the basic applications or in the [Guide]? The System assumed I should have known I had it? Ah, fuck it! System, open the [Inventory]!"
A new window appeared before his eyes. It consisted of only two boxes, both empty. Next to it was the title of 'medium-ranking predator'.
Sobek started fiddling with it a bit and eventually figured out how it worked.
Apparently, the [Inventory] was exactly what the name said: a place to keep things. It wasn't included in the basic applications of the System because it was practically useless at the beginning, and Sobek himself could only agree: he didn't know how to use it. He used no weapons and he didn't need to store anything. However, he knew that if there was an [Inventory] it meant it would have served some purpose in the future, so he didn't complain.
The [Inventory] could contain anything in an infinite quantity, provided that this quantity belonged all to the same kind of things. For example, now the [Inventory] could contain infinite lizard tails and frog legs, but it couldn't add fish tails to it because it only had two slots; also, he couldn't store both red frog legs and green frog legs, because they didn't belong to the same kind of things. The things stored in the [Inventory] never deteriorated, but they lost the ability to provide experience points, so Sobek couldn't even use it to store preys.
Slots in [Inventory] increased as Sobek's title increased. There were eight titles in total: 'low-ranking predator', 'medium-ranking predator', 'high-ranking predator', 'superpredator', 'apex superpredator', 'beast lord', 'beast king', 'beast emperor'. Each title corresponded to one more slot. For the first five, to reach a new title he had to become so strong that other animals with the same title could no longer threaten him: Sobek had in fact become too big for creatures like bambiraptor or thylacinus to do anything against him in a one-on-one fight, consequently he had advanced to 'medium-ranking predator'. However, this didn't mean that he could fight against other medium-ranking predators: for example, a tiger was also a medium-ranking predator, but it could have killed him easily. The only title that would guarantee him absolute security was 'apex superpredator': the description stated that there could only be one, so if he became that one he could be considered invincible. In fact, all the other apex predators (tyrannosaurus, giganotosaurus, sarchosuchus, titanoboa, megalodon, etc.) were considered just in the 'superpredator' rank; that means that if Sobek was able to reach the rank of 'apex superpredator, he could considered himself invulnerable against every natural enemy. This was the meaning of top of food chain, his prime goal!
The next three titles, instead, they were based on how many animals were in his army. 'Beast lord' means that he controls all the dinosaurs of a continent, 'beast king' that he controls half of the world animal biosfere, and 'beast emperor' means that he has fully controll on every animals on the planet.
Once he understood everything, Sobek shut down the System. In a way, the new title had given him more disadvantages than advantages: currently the [Inventory] was useless and now the experience points needed to level up would be increased by 2,000 points each time. In fact, checking the main interface he noticed that the amount of experience points needed to reach level 6 was not 5,000, but 6,000.
He returned to the nest a little disappointed. For a moment he remembers that he had increased in size again and feared that his parents would not have recognized him, but they did not flinch. By now they understood that his sudden growth was normal and they weren't surprised to see him come back almost twice as big as when he left.
After all, to animals it mattered little how quickly their child grows: as long as they can make sure they were their cub, they were not surprised at all even if they grew too much. For example, the cuckoo was a bird that laid its eggs in the nests of other birds: although the chick was much bigger than its 'siblings', the mother still continued to care for it, since the fact that it was in the nest meant that it was its child. The same was true of the spinosaurs: they had established that Sobek was their son, he simply grew faster, so they had no reason to worry.
Sobek lay down beside them. He was now about a third of his parents' length, but they still seemed far more bigger and powerful than him.
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When the sun rose Sobek was already awake. He would had lied if he had said he wasn't very excited: this would have been his first time in the river!Even if the yolk in the eggs had not yet completely dried, that type of hunting could no longer support him. He needed more preys, and since he had proved that the forest was still off-limits, his best way was to follow his father into the river.He was confident enough now to dive into the water. Even if there were very large prehistoric crocodiles, most of them would have lost interest in front of a five-meter predator. The only ones who would have seen him as a prey would have been titans like the deinosuchus, but common crocodiles would have aimed for smaller, more viable preys like fishes.Of course, there were other dangers as well. For example there were snakes: gigantic animals such as the titanoboa and the gigantophis hunted in the water. Or there could be freshwater sharks or other huge fishes...But he had no choice this time.
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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
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For the next two days Sobek always went fishing in the inlet. At that time he had managed to capture four stethacanthus.Freshwater sharks were particularly abundant in the inlet: the absence of larger predators due to the shallow water had favored their spread. Unfortunately, it couldn't be said that there were thousands of them: Sobek had only managed to take a couple each day.That number was insufficient to satiate him. To make up for it, Sobek had fed on one of the onchopristis captured by his parents. It didn't provide any experience points, as it had been killed by another spinosaur, but at least his stomach was full.However, the effort was not in vain: he had gained other 4 skill points from the sharks. In total, he now had 4.1 skill points. Just one more stethacanthus and he might have upgraded [Swim speed] one more time.In addition, his experience points had also risen, even if much slower than before: he now had 6,180 points. Just a little longer and he would have reached
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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.
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Time to go
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I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army New home
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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History museum
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
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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
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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
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Giant of the skies
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
