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2024-10-29 19:42:56The hunt that day was more fruitful than Sobek expected: the river bank looked bare, but it was actually teeming with small creatures. Sobek had managed to catch two more frogs, a large millipede and a strange chameleon-like lizard with long colorful spikes on its back called longisquama.
Of course, the credit wasn't his alone. Without the help of the other spinosaurus pups he probably would have been able to catch only the millipede, another demonstration of the benefits of having a herd. To thank them Sobek had helped them catch another lizard.
He certainly hadn't done it for charity: simply he felt that his stomach was already full, so he couldn't continue eating. So he could spend some time playing with his siblings, and while he did this he would also have improved his skills as a hunter.
With all those preys he had already obtained 210 experience points (30 for each of the three frogs, 50 for the fish brought by his father, another 50 for the longisquama and 20 for the millipede). He had hoped that at least one of them would have given him some skill points, but unfortunately all his prey were classified as 'insectivores', so they didn't give him any points.
Sobek was disappointed, but he wasn't too bad. After all, his first thought at the moment was to level up at least four or five times so that he could become a decent sized predator; at that point he would have dedicated himself to hunting real carnivores.
His goal at the moment was to reach the 1,000 experience points required for the first advancement. As he digested the meal, Sobek calculated based on the position of the sun that he could have hunted once more before evening came. At this rate he could have advanced a level within a few days.
While he waited he continued to play with his siblings. At one point he opened the System and noticed a pleasant surprise: his strength and agility were increasing by a few points.
Apparently, his attributes increased as he 'trained'!
After all, the little spinosaurs improved their hunting skills and their fine motor skills just playing. In fact with physical exertion the muscles swelled, which improved their abilities. All the cubs in animal kingdom, especially the carnivores, learned while they played; with simple games of chase and fight they improved their physical abilities and their predatory skills. One day, their playful chase of small animals would have become the basis of their hunt and the fighting skills learned by playing with their siblings would have guaranteed their survival.
In just one day his strength had gone from 10 to 12 and his agility from 10 to 11. Sobek suspected that to improve his defense he would have had to get hit by something to make his skin more hard and resistant to pain, but he certainly didn't want to try: he didn't want risk to remain injured.
While he played with his siblings he discovered another interesting thing: the System was activated only at a certain distance from the prey. Sobek calculated that this distance must have been about ten meters. Even if he could see the prey first, the System notification didn't arrive.
When the sun began to set he resumed the hunt, but the preys on the river bank had begun to run out. However, fate reserved for him one last dessert: while he was walking on the river's beach searching other frogs or lizards he found a small snake about twenty centimeters long. Initially he was frightened, fearing it was a viper, but then he noticed that it had an oval head and not the triangular one typical of the vipers. The System notification confirmed his assumptions.
[Prey identified: Natrix helvetica, natricidae. Experience: 120 points]
'Natrix helvetica' was the scientific name of the water snake, or collared snake; it was a harmless snake with no venom, but it was still a dangerous predator: it could wrap itself around its preys and crush them. This combined with its size meant that it could provide more experience points than all the other preys!
Not only that, but it was also a carnivorous animal: it could provide skill points!
Sobek would not have risked approaching the snake if he had been alone: he was bigger than it, but if the reptile had tightened around his neck it would have easily suffocated him. However, he wasn't alone at all!
During the day he had learned to coordinate with his brothers and sisters; at a sign from him, all of them distributed themselves around the snake and enclosed it in an impassable wall. The snake panicked and began to flail from side to side, but it couldn't look in all directions at the same time. Also, so many spinosaurs beating the ground with their paws disoriented it even further, because it felt the vibrations of the ground as if they were an earthquake. Sobek waited for the snake to show him its blind spot, then he attacked lightly: he blocked its body with his claws and bit it in the neck with all the strength he had. The snake moved its tail which tightened around its paws, but it was all in vain: very quickly it was choke to death.
Sobek breathed a sigh of relief. Even if it had only used its tail, the snake still had a vigorous strength: it was no coincidence that it was a constrictor, even if a small one. If he hadn't pinned its body and wrapped itself around his neck, Sobek would probably have been the one to suffocate.
However, there was no point in made negative thoughts. He happily feasted on his new trophy which quickly vanished in his stomach.
Thanks to the snake, his experience points rose to 330!
However, this time Sobek was more interested in something else. Opening the System's interface, he found out that he had indeed received 0.3 skill points!
He wasn't surprised by the low number: if apex predators like tyrannosaurus or megalodon only provided 10 skill points, then it was impossible for a tiny water snake to give him more. It was still a great milestone for him: it was his first skill points!
Even if they weren't many, if he had been able to find other small carnivorous animals like that water snake he could have easily reached the goal of 5 skill points that he needed to improve at least one of his skills. Even if he was able to hunt only predators capable of giving him 0.3 skill points each time, if he was able to catch at least one of them for day he would have been able to upgrade a skill in a little more than two weeks.
When he returned to the nest he feel more satisfied. Under the protection of his huge parents he could sleep quietly, so he lay down in the center of the nest and fell asleep. Before closing his eyes, however, he felt several warm bodies pile up beside him: his brothers and sisters were all positioning themselves close together, creating something similar to a living blanket. Sobek couldn't hold back himself to smile: he was sure that from the outside that scene was extremely tender.
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When he woke up the next day, Sobek initially thought he had a dream, but soon he realized that this couldn't be the case since he remembered nothing of his previous life as a human except his knowledge. When he opened his eyes in fact he found himself in front of a scaly wall which turned out to be the tail of his sleeping mother there.The sun was just starting to rise, but Sobek could already fell its warmth: its rays crossed the clear sky and warmed his body like a radiator. Sobek had no idea how the changing of seasons worked in that world, but since animals generally calved during the warm seasons, there was a great possibility that it was summer.Although with a little regret, he lifted himself from his comfortable position and stretched. Alerted by his movement his brothers and sisters also woke up and began to get up as well. Sobek noticed that many of them were imitating him, stretching as he did and yawning like him.He had definitely become some kind of a big brother.A thu
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Sobek woke up sore and with a heavy weight on his face. When he opened his eyes he found that one of his siblings had rolled over in the sleep and landed on his head.He was annoyed, but he couldn't blame the little spinosaur. After all, Sobek alone occupied nearly a third of the nest.Most of his brothers and sisters didn't even reach half a meter in length, while he was a two-meter colossus. They didn't even seem to belong to the same brood! If any scientist had passed by and had seen the nest, he probably would have thought he was a retarded cub from the previous brood.When he got up his movement awake all his brothers and sisters who blew in protest. Sobek felt sorry for them, but there was nothing he could do about it.As usual, he calmly waited for his father to bring him the breakfast. However, he knew it wouldn't have been enough to satisfy him this time. A larger body needed more energy to live, so from now on hunting would have been vital to his survival.His father didn't d
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Improve the trap
The next morning Sobek was awakened by strange movements. When he opened his eyes he found that some of his brothers and sisters had come out of the nest and were playing on his back. For cubs as small as half a meter, a three-meter older brother was basically like a huge slide for them.Sobek let them do it: they didn't bother him, so he could let them have fun. Until they started nibbling at him, he wouldn't need to chase them away. Besides, he had more important things to think about. "System, open the main interface!"[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]Level: 3Length: 3 mHeight: 1.5 mWeight: 1,5 tonDiet: carnivore, fishivoreStrength: 170Agility: 130Defense: 86Maximum speed: 4 km/hExperience points: 180/3,000Skill Points: 3.5Fame points: 0/1,000,000Bonus money: 340Much to his relief, the amount of experience points for each level up only increased by 1,000 points at a time, not doubled. Even so, however, it was a fairly high expense.With his current size he would no longer have
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Entering in the forest
The 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: 4Length: 4 mHeight: 1.8 mWeight: 2 tonsDiet: carnivore, fishivoreStrength: 510Agility: 470Defense: 142Maximum
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army First time fishing
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.
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Stethacanthus
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
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army A new territory
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
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Baryonyx
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.
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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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The first true hunt
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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Passing to the next generation
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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Path of the giant
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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Science is eternal
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
