“… and therefore, I think the best choice is to fortify the border. We cannot know if humans will respect peace, so it is better to leave with caution"
Sobek snorted. He had been listening to Pierce speak for half an hour, who wanted at all costs to establish a further line of defense.
“This would be dangerous. It would give humans the impression that we want to reopen hostilities" Old Li noted. “Humans are fickle creatures. If they perceived a danger they would not hesitate to react"
"I know, but we have to think about the worst" Pierce said. “Currently our borders are uncovered. To the west there are the mountains that provide us with cover and are easily defensible, but the coast is a weak point. A fleet could easily dock there"
"So what do you propose to do?" Sobek asked.
“We build obstacles. We fill the shallow waters with rocks, so that it is impossible to dock where we do not want to. And we fortify the e
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[Evolution completed! Congratulations, you have evolved to Spinosaurus perfectus!]"At long last! Who knows what happened while I was sleeping” was Sobek's first thought as soon as he opened his eyes. As usual, his much better senses than before confused him, since he was now much more powerful seeing, hearing and smelling, but he tried to pay attention to them as little as possible.Fortunately, Old Li was there waiting for him. "Pack leader, you are awake!"The words of the ankylosaurus were received with even more intensity due to Sobek's amplified hearing, which confused the spinosaurus even more. As usual after each evolution, Sobek found himself hoping for a bit of silence. “Let's think about the important things! Did something relevant happen while I was asleep?""No, pack leader, you can rest assured!" Old Li answered. “The humans respected the covenants and there were no conflicts. Everything went exactly as you wanted""
“Old Li, call Apache. I have a job for him" he ordered.The ankylosaurus did not have it repeated twice and ran away, albeit rather awkwardly due to its size. Sobek turned to Buck: “How's the recruiting going? And the training?"In the two weeks in which he had evolved he had not been able, for obvious reasons, to receive the daily report on how the increase in the troops of his army was proceeding, so he wanted to inquire immediately."It's going well" Buck replied. "So far, about three hundred thousand dinosaurs have completed training and are ready for battle. As for recruiting… according to our scouts, only a few herds of dinosaurs have yet to join us. Our herd has now exceeded the figure of one million individuals"'If that's the case, then it's shortly before he rises to the rank of beast lord' Sobek mused. "Very good. When all the dinosaurs on the continent are gathered and trained, we will have an army more than sufficient to op