"Darius!"
Liam's scream of surprise was well motivated, and Darius couldn't blame the boy when he ran to hold him in a bone-breaking hug. Even though it had already been a month since he, Harris, Grace and Pauline had returned from the Great Republic of Beleriard, the tycoon hadn't had time to physically return to the Tanz industries. Up until now, he'd just made phone calls and let his subordinates and Harris's do the work. After all, as prime minister, he could not fail to attend the drafting of the new constitution, and consequently he hardly ever left the royal palace.
Obviously he had contacted Liam, at least to assure him that he was okay, but hearing someone's voice over a phone was different than talking to him in person. Therefore Darius could only return the embrace of his protégé as soon as he saw him. “Sorry it took me so long” he simply said.
"Do not worry. I guess you've had your work cut out” Liam replied letting hi
Alan Grant could barely move. There was nothing around him, only rubble and dust. The corpses of humans and animals were scattered everywhere, completely burned by something, of some of them only the shadow squashed on the wall remained.Alan felt he was in danger, he felt he had to leave, but he couldn't. It was as if something was anchored there. Then suddenly he heard a roar and snapped his head; but he could not see anything, because a great light hit him, and words emerged from it..."Alan?"Professor Grant gasped and sat up. Ellie appeared in his field of vision, visibly shaking him: “Alan, wake up. We're almost there" the boy said, only to notice the man's face. "Have you had another nightmare?"Alan put his hat back on and turned to the window. "Forget it, I'm fine""Are you sure…?""I'm fine!"Ellie fell silent. He knew that in some cases it was better not to provoke professor Grant.Alan had visibly aged
The day Pauline Mackenzie appeared before the NMWA, the whole world was in turmoil. Everyone, from the northernmost shores of Saramir to the southern shores of Laurentia, wanted to finally know what was boiling in the pot.Nobody was stupid enough to think that the Queen of Prettania was going to challenge the whole NMWA on her own. It would have been crazy. No, there must be something under it, it was obvious. And everyone was pawing with curiosity.When Pauline's car appeared in front of the NMWA building, the queen was literally besieged by journalists. However, there was no answer to their questions from her. The security guards had wasted no time and had removed the curious as kindly as possible (so to speak...), forming a passage in the crowd through which the queen was able to reach the building.As soon as she reached the common room the eyes of all present turned on her. Pauline noted that many of them did not belong to the representatives of the variou
"This is inconceivable!"The leaders of the four superpowers were gathered together and their faces did not bode well at all. Indeed, it could be said that they were furious. Only the president of the Meilong Republic remained stoic.Over the course of two days, news of Eden Union's birth had spread like a hurricane. The people, initially shocked, had very gladly accepted the new organization: after all, the people were by now desperate, so they were easily bought by the promise of being able to solve the problem of famine; even if they were still afraid of the repercussions from the NMWA, they much preferred to go with those who guaranteed them food. Consequently, there were not many protests or opposition. Rather, it went in the opposite direction.In just two days, another twenty nations had joined the Eden Union and at least forty others were pondering whether to do so or not."I don't understand. Why is everyone so eager to join the new organization?
Sobek groaned in annoyance as he read his stats.[Spinosaurus perfectus]Level: 52Length: 52 mHeight: 16.2 mWeight: 26 tonDiet: carnivore, piscivoreStrength: 52,480Agility: 50,880Defense: 46,320Maximum speed: 53 km/hExperience points: 12,000/9,310,000Skill points: 306Fame points: 9.985.580.302/10.000.000.000.000Bonus Money: 15,890,465“I have so few fame points to evolve… at that point I will reach my full potential. I hope to be able to reach the necessary quantity after having personally gone to the human continent” he thought. He had been waiting to evolve for so long, but sadly, reaching 10 billion fame points wasn't easy at all. Even though the population of Eden was higher than that of Earth and Sobek had started a war with practically all of humanity, the memory of him was not yet fully impressed on the souls of enough people.In
Harris had a large truck prepared and an entire highway cleared in order to transport Sobek to the royal palace in the capital of the Prettania Kingdom. Although the distance was not short, it took just half a day to arrive.By the time they reached the capital the streets had already been cleared, so this time Sobek was not attacked by reporters as soon as he got out of the vehicle, although with his higher senses he could sense that many reporters were hiding on the rooftops and in the surrounding houses and were taking photos of burst. Pauline led him into the large garden surrounding the royal palace, in the center of which a huge gazebo had been built enough to cover the 52 meter long body of Sobek.This would be the place where they would manage the talks with the various nations of the newly formed Eden Union.Sobek thought for a moment that he should also sleep there, but luckily Pauline assured him that they had cleared a department store just for him.
Sobek's proposal shocked those present. "Bring the dinosaurs... here?" someone asked.Sobek had expected such a reaction, but he couldn't help but feel bothered by the man's question. "Exactly""Can we know why?" someone else asked, but in a decidedly more respectful tone."Of course. As I have already explained, we cannot simply build a boundary line and scowl across it. If we do this, we will always find ourselves on the razor's edge, and the risk of a second conflict would be a concrete reality” Sobek explained. “If we really want to keep the peace we have to go back to living together, on the same territory, as our ancestors did. At the moment my people and I are enjoying greater public appreciation due to the fact that we have achieved peace and solved the problem of famine. When you announce the economic plan, the appreciation index towards us will rise even more. However, it won't last forever, and sadly people forget pretty quickly. This is t
Trey Thompson was the president of the Republic of Alsace, a small state on the east coast of the continent of Laurentia. He had been elected two years earlier, after three consecutive presidents had resigned one after the other due to the international crisis that seemed impossible to manage. Under normal circumstances, a mere congressman like Trey Thompson would never have been considered for the role of president, but in the end he found himself in that role even though he hadn't done anything to get it.Incredibly, Trey had discovered that he was a good head of state. Despite the disastrous circumstances in which his country (as indeed the entire human world) found itself, he had managed to revive the economy, albeit slightly. Unlike his predecessors, Trey didn't have a smile, didn't have the gab and didn't have the ability to engage the masses, but people still admired him because of his honesty: if he promised something, he kept it.Regardless of what people beli
Jocelyne wasn't the only one to work hard to convince world leaders that evening: Pauline also put in her own. So did Darius and Grace, who were present in the palace as prime minister and advisor to the queen. The gist of it was always the same: procrastinating didn't do any good, except to widen the gap between humans and dinosaurs, so it was best to get busy now to clear that gap.It was a sleepless night for almost everyone. Nobody could sleep knowing they had to make that fateful decision. When the sun rose the next day its light illuminated the still awake world leaders, lying in their beds for sheer appearance.Absolute silence reigns in the palace all morning. Nobody showed up, not even in the corridors. Only around eleven did the politicians begin to come out of their rooms and meet. But none of them seemed to have any intention of saying a word. In religious silence they gathered and walked towards the garden, their heads full of thoughts. Once they got to the gazebo, they s
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