The amount of experience needed to level up was now 560,000 points, but Sobek paid no attention to it. He could have reached that quantity quickly by hunting mamenchisaurs or other sauropods, but his intent, as already mentioned, was no longer to level up.
Although he would have liked to become the largest creature ever, beating even giants like the Argentinosaurus or Supersaurus in size, that goal could be postponed. After all, it was of no use to him at the moment: it was already huge and he literally didn't have to fear any opponents, so getting even bigger didn't do him any good. On the contrary, it could have been counterproductive: after all, the bigger an animal is, the more visible and louder it is. Even if he made constant use of [Ambush], sooner or later he would have to sleep or rest and then his ability would deactivate; at that point practically every living being within a radius of a kilometer or more would have noticed him and would have chosen without any doub
"Ian?"A huge container ship was moving along the river. Anyone with binoculars would have noticed that through a porthole you could see a man in his forties with a particular rock star look who was dozing in an armchair."Ian, wake up. We're almost there"The man opened his eyes with a start, finding himself in front of the face of a young woman with blond hair. "Uh, yeah. Thanks Sarah" he said standing up. "We should wake up the others...""You were the only one absent. The others are already on the deck of the ship" Sarah answered jokingly. "Roland told me, and here I quote his words, 'if he's not dead bring him here'. So come now""Who knows why it doesn't surprise me at all" Ian grumbled standing up. His 'old' bones ached from the sudden movement.The two quickly walked across the huge ship. They had been going up the river for more than three months now: due to the size of the ship they had had to avoid shallow areas and make con
With one last bite, Sobek completely swallowed the last remnants of a sinraptor. The flesh and the organs quickly disappeared down his throat. "I don't understand why we don't split up" Buck grumbled lying nearby. "With the strength you gave me I could hunt alone, and by dividing us we would catch many more preys" Sobek cleaned his muzzle with his claws. After spent a lot of time together, the relationship between him and Buck had intensified to the point that the t-rex no longer merely followed orders but also gave advice. Very often in hunting it was he who suggested the strategies to be implemented. Sobek had been right: a relationship of fidelity between two individuals was much better than the simple one of master/servant. Of course, that didn't mean Buck had become his equal: the hierarchy was well known to both of them. Sobek knew that he was in charge and Buck knew that his duty was to serve: their difference in strength determined these roles, according to the inviolable an
Sobek had observed everything in [Ambush] mode. When the humans finally finished their chores and returned to the ship, he allowed himself to yell a big: "What the fuck!?"Ian Malcolm? Was that name he had heard really what he imagined? And that girl who was next to him, why was she so similar to Sarah Hardy? What was it, a giant mockery? Why on earth had the Jurassic Park characters suddenly appeared in his way?Maybe they are reincarnations, he thought. 'God said that the humans of the Earth, where I lived before, had the gift of seeing with their imagination the events of other worlds, and that all stories are therefore true. This means that somewhere there is a universe where the events of Jurassic Park really happened. Could these Ian Malcolm and Sarah Hardy be the reincarnation of that character? Or maybe these are their original selves, and the Jurassic Park characters are their future reincarnations... after all, time works bizarre when we talk about these thin
"The eyes were slightly wider. They were placed on the sides of the muzzle, like those of a crocodile" "You should have told me first. Now I'll have to do all the work again" "My apologies, my lady" Under Eytucan's careful explanation, Neytiri had been embroidering the image of the Great King of the Forest for more than two months now. Unfortunately, she had only completed part of the work. Embroidering was a long and tiring job, especially with the means at his disposal. The Neanderthal textile industry was more or less on a par with the ancient Greek civilizations, so it took months of patience to get a job well done. There was a reason why in the story of Ulysses his wife Penelope had been able to deceive the suitors for so long. In addition, Neytiri was embroidering a canvas larger than three square meters; finishing by mid-autumn (six months on Eden) was considered difficult by many. Neytiri had barely managed to finish the central body, but that was the easiest part since it
"The Great King of the Forest?" Roland wasn't the type to take an interest in mythology, but he knew that legends were often the result of actual sightings. And the creature embroidered in front of him was too detailed to be fictional, even though the canvas was still incomplete.This, combined with the footprints they had found next to the mamenchisaur's body and the fact that Sisna had said they had recently encountered the creature, raised doubts in Roland that they were facing an entirely new species.“It certainly has a high-sounding name. 'Great king'… I guess it's pretty pumped up" Ian said, making Sarah disapprove of him wholeheartedly."Nick, ask her to describe it to you" the woman told the photographer. He promptly executed.Neytiri shrugged: “I didn't see it, but the guards described it to me eagerly. It is large, much larger than any other creature, and has giant claws and teeth. It moves with majesty, it can swim and walk,
Sobek watched closely as the humans dragged some crates ashore and established a base camp. He had no reason to be afraid: thanks to [Ambush] not even a thermal sensor could detect him.He noticed that humans weren't alone. Among them were some individuals with red hair who were undoubtedly Neanderthals. 'I guess they recruited them to guide them… after all these lands are almost unexplored from their point of view' he thought.His eyes fell on Ian Malcolm and his companions. He still couldn't bring himself to have met people so familiar to him. God had really played a good trick on him.However, what he wanted to know was their offensive potential. He counted one hundred men and at least double the number of weapons. Fortunately, there were no missile launchers or bazookas: they were all weapons designed to not raze a piece of forest to the ground. The maximum available was a few machine guns.After all, it would have been foolish for humans to de
The huge creature was lying on its stomach, its head slightly raised thanks to a rock. The sail soared towards the canopies of the trees and the legs were slightly tucked under the body. Sarah couldn't believe what she was looking at. She took off her sunglasses with shaking hands, making sure she wasn't hallucinating. That dinosaur was too big! A tyrannosaurus measured up to 13 meters. A megalodon could reach 16 meters, or even 18. The basilosaurus even reached 20. But this animal surpassed them all by far! At first glance, it was about the size of a blue whale! "This is beyond any known conception" Eddie whispered beside her. The man had recovered faster. Behind them, Nick were starting to take pictures. Ian, for his part, didn't seem calm at all. "We have to get out of here" he whispered. "If it wakes up we're screwed!" But no one was listening to him. Even the Neanderthals had remained motionless and seemed unable to move. Neytiri was trying to recover, but it was impossible
The huge beast stood up on its hind legs rising to its full height. It was nearly ten meters tall and its skull alone was three times the size of Sarah. If it wanted, it could have crushed her like a bread stick. "Shoot it now!" Ian yelled at Roland. The hunter didn't hesitate and quickly pulled the trigger followed by his men. The darts crossed the clearing in a split second and hit the dinosaur's skin. Normally they would have had to stick deeply and would have had to narcotize the beast instantly. Instead they bounced off its skin as if they had hit a granite wall and fell to the ground useless. The dinosaur didn't even seem to have noticed them. It lowered its head to Sarah and let out a snort. Sarah didn't move a single muscle. Despite her fear, she still managed to think clearly. She knew that if she ran away the predator moved by its instinct would chase her; in that case she would have had no chance of escape. She had to wait until it lost interest in her on its own. The di