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2024-10-29 19:42:56The 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: 3
Length: 3 m
Height: 1.5 m
Weight: 1,5 ton
Diet: carnivore, fishivore
Strength: 170
Agility: 130
Defense: 86
Maximum speed: 4 km/h
Experience points: 180/3,000
Skill Points: 3.5
Fame points: 0/1,000,000
Bonus money: 340
Much 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 been able to feed himself with the food his father brought: even if he had kept it all to himself it wouldn't have been enough to satiate him. However, this wasn't a problem: now he knew how to lure his prey out of the forest.
He had decided to continue using the traps until the yolk of the eggs had completely dried up. This was for a very simple reason: sooner or later he would be forced to follow his father into the river to fish. Fishes were the only food source that could sustain him in the long term, since the bigger he got the more he needed large prey, and groups of fishes were the only solution suitable for him for now. However, before entering the water, he wanted to accumulate enough skill points to upgrade [Swim speed].
Currently the maximum speed he could reach was just 4 km/h, which meant that if he had found a big fish or a crocodile he could end very badly. But with [Swim speed] he would have had an escape route. That ability increased his speed for ten times at its maximum, which meant that if it had been maxed out it would have given him a 40 km/h acceleration. However, even just raising it to level 1/5 would have given him advantages: if Sobek was right, then each level of the skill corresponded to a multiplier: level 1/5 to a x2 increase, level 2/5 to x4, and so on up to x10 at level 5/5. Which meant that even a single boosted skill level equated to a remarkable speed.
With that thought in mind he got to his feet and immediately set out for the hunt. He didn't want to wait for his father to arrive with the food: it would have been useless, so he might as well leave it to his siblings. He made a quick tour of the river bank to check if there were any beelzebufo or some large snake, but seeing that there was nothing he gave up and, having obtained some eggshells, went back to the forest.
Unfortunately this time he was not immediately lucky: the first preys he got could actually called miserable.
[Prey detected: Compsognathus longipes, compsognathidae. Experience: 400 points]
Compsognathus was a small dinosaur just the size of a turkey. It was also an insectivore and scavenger, so it didn't provide any skill points.
As if that weren't enough, they were pretty fast. Catching one was far from easy. So even if they moved in groups of about ten individuals or even more, it was impossible to catch them all. Like the fishes they counted on numbers to confuse predators.
Sobek only managed to catch two of them, one at dawn and one around ten in the morning. Their caloric intake would never have been enough to sustain his big body.
However, he had another brilliant idea.
The yolk of the egg attracted only a few animals; but the meat, that attracted many more. With this knowledge in mind, when he killed his third compsognathus he left it in plain sight on the sand.
The results were not long in coming: after less than half an hour an animal similar to a dog emerged from the forest.
[Prey identified: Thylacinus cynocephalus, thylacinidae. Experience: 1,200 points]
Thylacinus, also known as the marsupial wolf, was a canid that reigned in Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea until it was exterminated by humans during the early 1900s. Although in that time it had practically no opponents and was therefore the superpredator of the islands, it reached just sixty centimeters in height and one and a half meters in length.
Before the arrival of the dingoes in Australia it had had no rival; yet in that messy world it was nothing more than a low-ranking predator.
As he had done with the euparkeria, Sobek jumped on it from behind and crushed it with his weight. The thylacinus did not have time to dodge and was hit. There was no need for more: this time Sobek had managed to strike in the right place, and the base of the thylacinus's neck had snapped neatly.
Thanks to thylacinus he was able to satiate himself. Not only that, but he gained 1.8 skill points!
Combined with the 3.5 he already had, he now had 5.3 skill points. He could finally upgrade one of his skills!
The choice was not difficult. Sobek had already thought about upgrading [Swim speed]. After all, [Ambush] needed 10 skill points, which was out of his reach. As far as [Rapid digestion] was concerned, it could wait: although he would have liked to have been able to digest his preys faster, he had to be able to hunt the preys in the first place.
As soon as he upgraded [Swim speed] to level 1/5, he immediately felt something different about him. Physically he hadn't changed, but it was as if he felt more slippery, more hydrodynamic. Not only that: his strength and agility went up exponentially. The first had reached 340 points, while the second 280.
He was eager to put that skill to the test, but he preferred to wait. By that time of day the spinosaurs had already left the river and he didn't want to go into the water alone. So he picked up the compsognathus he had used as bait, devoured it, and then he returned to the nest.
With that hunt, as well as an increase in his skills, he had obtained a total of 2,400 experience points (400 for each of the three compsognathus and 1,200 for the thylacinus). Added to the 180 he already had, he had already gained 2,580 experience points. Which meant that it was enough certain that he would level up the next day.
When he arrived at the nest his brothers and sisters crowded on him again. He let them do it: he didn't want to deprive himself of those moments.
The sad thing was that he knew he couldn't stay with them for long. Once he got big enough he would have had to go his own way. Furthermore, once the first evolution was completed, he probably wouldn't even have been able to stay with the herd anymore: he would have become a different species, so the other spinosaurs would have hardly accepted him in the herd. So he might as well enjoy the time he had left to spend with his family while he still could.
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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.
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Time to go
When the leveling up finished Sobek opened the main interface to check his attributes.[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]Level: 9Length: 9 mHeight: 3.3 mWeight: 4.5 tonDiet: carnivore, fishivoreStrength: 1,120Agility: 1,085Defense: 560Maximum speed: 10 km/hExperience points: 3,600/30,000Skill points: 2Fame points: 0/1,000,000Bonus money: 1,250"30,000 experience points to the next level up..." Sobek grumbled in his head. He had hoped he could reach level 10 more quickly.If he found another baryonyx he could have gained a lot of experience very fast, but it was difficult. Even if in that world all the dinosaurs of all ages existed together, that didn't mean that he could found one of them every twenty meters.Like spinosaurs, each baryonyx established its own territory and stayed there. Tramps who had still not find their own place were rare.It was also unlikely that the baryonyx would have settled too close to the spinosaurs pod. If he wanted to find one he had to go further, but
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
I'm a spinosaurus with a System to raise a dinosaur army Giants amongs giants
THUMP.Sobek was awakened by a vibration.THUMP.Memory reminded him of the t-rex's footsteps, which made him shiver. However, he quickly understood that it couldn't be the case: a tyrannosaurus wasn't that heavy. Those footsteps seemed to have been produced directly by a mountain that had been magically given legs and had begun to walk.THUMP.Sobek stood up, eager to find out what was causing that sound. However, when sleep completely abandoned his eyes and he was able to focus, he almost jumped back!Next to the islet tha he had turned into his home there were a group of real behemoths that were peacefully crossing the swamp. They had huge necks at least nine meters long and just one of their legs was taller than him![Prey identified: Dreadnoughtus schrani, titanosauridae. Experience: 200,000 points]Sobek was stuck. For the first time he met the giants of prehistory: the sauropods!Sauropods were the largest land animals ever to appear on Earth. Elephants and mammoths were just li
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Epilogue
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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Death of a legend
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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The last fight
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
