Jocelyne was surprised by a sudden roar that the spinosaurus launched before it started to scrape the ground. It was a behavior she had never seen. This worried her quite a bit: even though she was not an expert, she knew that if an animal suddenly assumed an unexpected and confusing behavior it was a bad sign. Yet for some reason the dinosaur seemed... happy?After a few seconds, however, she saw the dinosaur's muzzle approach her. As it had already done many times, it grabbed her, being careful to not hurt her; however, unlike the other times, it didn't put her on the ground, but began to run at great speed in an unknown direction.Jocelyne's blood froze instantly. In her pespective, the spinosaurus was clearly trying to run away. This could only mean that they were in danger. Had it found them? Was the mysterious predator coming? Was the spinosaurus trying to escape with her?Even though she was relieved that her protector didn't want to leave her, she was still anxious: what if the
Sobek concluded that this was absolutly not his day. If he still had the gift of speech he would probably have cursed God and any other deity known and not known to humanity in at least fifty different ways. His greatest fear had come true: two large carnivores were in front of him ready to fight, and he had no way to escape because behind him were humans armed from feet to teeth.He was literally in the middle of a crossfire. If he had at least maximized [Regeneration] he would have been calmer, because he could have at least healed immediately from bites or gunshots; he would just have had to be careful to not get hit in a vital spot. Instead, the skills was still only at level 3/5. Even though his healing speed was already much faster than that of any normal living creature, it was still too slow to be of any use to him in that moment.Sobek screamed of anger in his head. God had said she wasn't going to intervene in his life, but sometimes he had the impression that someone was hav
Everything could be said about Marcus Jersey: that he was someone a real shark when it's talking about finance, that he didn't look anyone in the face when it came to money, that he stopped at nothing to achieve his goal, but not that he wasn't a man of honor. Just like he demanded that everyone pay the debts they had contracted with him, he always paid the debts he contracted with someone else, in one way or another.That's why he couldn't let that dinosaur die. He hadn't understood very much what Jocelyne had said (in reality, he hadn't understood very much the entire situation), but he understood that the dinosaur had saved his daughter's life and that was enough for him. He also had proof that it was protecting her when it got on top of her and had protected her with its claws when the two torvosaurs appeared. Not only that, but despite being at a clear disadvantage it had attacked the two carnivores, so as to draw attention to itself and allow Jocelyne to get away. It was risking
"Damn, that's really hurt!"Sobek didn't remember ever experiencing such pain since reincarnating and perhaps not even in his previous lives. The torvosaur's bites burned his skin as if there was hot iron on it. The wounds that the carcharodontosaurus had inflicted on him days ago were nothing in comparison.As soon as he was far enough away from the humans he threw himself on the bodies and began to consume them as fast as he can. Each of them gave him 7 skill points, which added to the ones he already had gave him a total of 19."Update [Regeneration]! Now!" he screamed in his head as he watched the skill level rise to 4/5. Unfortunately, he now only had 9 skill points. "What a drag! Why am I missing one!? Are you kidding me?!?"The pain in the wounds had subsided, but they still burned. Sobek wasn't going to hold onto that pain for too long. "A prey... anything..."He ran to the river and began frantically searching the shore. Fortunately, he almost immediately found a group of smal
Over the next few days, Sobek devoted himself to exploring his new hunting area. He quickly concluded that it was a very favorable place, full of prey that was quite easy to catch; nothing too big and armored, but at the same time not too small either. A very good place consequently, where he could easily get a lot of new experience points. After making sure there weren't other predators too big, he started to rampage.It was now a carnivorous dinosaur 22 meters long and 7.2 meters high, weighing 11 tons, and he could also run up to 23 km/h. He could already almost be considered a mythological monster, a real devastator of lands. There was no way the preys escaped him.The amount of experience to level up again was 210,000, but in a short time Sobek had already accumulated over 100,000 points. This is because the preys in that area were particularly slow and easy to catch.He had found that mostly Permian creatures dominated the area. That was an era when animals were not as gigantic a
Mitch Morgan was an award-winning biologist who taught at Harkonsis University in the Confederate States of Vinland, one of the world's greatest economic powers. He was responsible for numerous scientific successes, that went from the discovery of new species to the study of the behavior of predatory dinosaurs that had made the lives of those who had to face them much easier. His name was known throughout the scientific community, and although he was not one of the most renowned scientists ever, he was still one of the most famous.For all his life he had traveled from one part of the world to another, exploring territories still untouched by human presence, discovering creatures with such bizarre shapes that it would have been difficult to believe that they really belonged to that world and were not aliens from outer space. He had cataloged, classified, studied and described every single new creature he had discovered, whether it was a dinosaur, a mammal-like reptile, an ancient synap
Mitch was speechless and he couldn't take his eyes off the footage. He had become completely unable to think. His mind had literally exploded, so much so that he wouldn't have been surprised if the bang had been heard outside his skull. This was beyond any of his expectations!A new species of dinosaur It was already an extraordinary thing, especially since it was such a strange creature with almost no connection to other known animal families; but a dinosaur that even possesses a similar empathy? It sounded like a bedtime story!Yet the evidence was in front of him. The experts who had been invited hadn't reviewed the video yet, but Mitch knew it could only be true: Jersey would not have risked his face like this in front of the whole world. That video could not have been retouched, nor could it have been a set-up: and if it was all true, then the scientific world was faced with something completely unexpected and at times even absurd!This completely subverted any previous knowledge
[Caution! You have reached the necessary amount of fame points to evolve!]"Uh? Already? Well, I should have expected that" Sobek thought as soon as he heard the notification of the System. After all, even though not too much time had passed, it had still been a while since he had finally gotten rid of the little girl. By now, a lot of people had surely been informed of what had happened, so it was no surprise that his fame points had risen enough to warrant his second evolution.Unbeknownst to him, the news was still circulating around the world. However, just as Sobek had predicted, ordinary people would have forgotten that event in a matter of months. The only ones who would have remembered it would have been biologists, zoologists and enthusiasts. since they were the ones who were really interested in it; but outside this limited circle of people, very few would have retained the memory.Even so, however, Sobek discovered that his fame points had reached 27 million!He could now st
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