Abe hadn't slept for even a second that night. He was used to sleeping in the worst places and on the hardest surfaces, but he couldn't relax with all the anxiety he had. His survival instinct, hardened to the max by his soldier training, kept his senses alert to detect even the slightest threat. Despite having spent a sleepless night, however, he didn't feel the slightest tiredness; probably all the adrenaline he had in his body was charging him as if it were a battery. He wondered how Jackson would react knowing what had happened. He hoped he didn't go crazy and do something extremely stupid. In his mind, his friend and brother bravely (and very foolishly) rushed to Cartago to save him, challenging hundreds of dinosaurs alone. Abe tried to convince himself that this would never happen, but in his heart he knew that was something Jackson would do. Abe unfortunately had no way to contact him and tell him to not do anything that could kill him. He couldn't even let him know that he wa
Sobek had made the central square his headquarters. He hadn't moved from there since the city was taken. Even after two days, he had not returned to the forest.He wasn't the only one, of course. Many dinosaurs had built a bed inside the city. Although they disliked the hard, asphalted terrain, very different from the soft, comfortable forest ground, they understood that they would not go away anytime soon. Most of the dinosaurs had chosen to settle near Sobek, remaining in the central square.Sobek was placidly sunbathing when a throaty sound called him back. The spinosaurus opened its eyes to see Apache land in front of him. "What news do you bring me from the front?" he asked him.After taking control of the colony, Sobek had ordered all small pterosaurs to head into the mountains on the border and report any movement from humans. Some large pterosaurs such as Apache acted as spokespersons, using [Ambush] to avoid being noticed by humans. In fact, Sobek did n
The dinosaurs slowly advanced to the top of the dune and grouped into rows. What presumably was their leader, a giant dinosaur with a sail, stood on top of the dune watching the enemy army, while a t-rex was coordinating the disposition of the troops.Davies was surprised at how organized they were. "A legion?" he thought he amazed. The ranks of the dinosaurs were perfectly ordered and exhibited impeccable military discipline. It was surprising. If they were already that skilled, how long would it take to become a real threat?For a while the two armies did not move. Both sides had no intention of advancing first. The big dinosaur with the sail carefully observed the battlefield, while Davies tried to understand what his intent was.Davies eventually chose to take the initiative. "To all air units, attack them from above and force them to advance!" he ordered.The helicopters didn't have very powerful weapons, but they were still equipped with machine gun
As soon as he heard the dinosaur with the sail roar again, Davies knew that something new was on the way. He was not alone: many of the officers on the ground shivered and trembled at the thought of a new threat. Threat that appeared on their flanks shortly after.Five legions of dinosaurs appeared out of nowhere surrounding them on all sides. While the main legion dominated the eastern side, the other five smaller ones lined up on the northern, southern and western side, cutting off any escape routes."What... what's going on?" Davies yelled. “They can't possibly have done the rounds! Even hiding behind the dunes we should have seen them… and in any case they wouldn't have had time to move so quickly!"Davies was not wrong: the dinosaurs would never have been able to circle the entire army in such a short time. The truth was that Sobek had premeditated everything from the start!Sobek had handed over command of the five secondary legions t
Davies and his guards were dropped badly in the midst of the herd of dinosaurs. Davies fell on his face, but since the pterosaur carrying him had left him less than half a meter above the ground, he did not suffer serious fractures; however, part of his face was covered by abrasion on contact with the hot, grainy ground. He didn't even have time to look up as countless furious roars rose around him. He opened his eyes and saw thousands of dinosaurs standing on him and staring at him with eyes of fire. However, as soon as an immense paw landed in the ground in front of him, everyone fell silent. Davies looked up to see the giant sailboat dinosaur that was supposedly the boss. "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!?" he roared, narrowing his eyes in anger. Davies realized that the dinosaur wasn't alone in front of him: behind him there were also his guards. Evidently the dinosaurs did not know who was in charge of the humans and therefore asked them to reveal it. "TALK!" he roared the dinosaur
Eden, like Earth, was an extremely connected planet. All human beings who lived there, or at least those who lived in rich countries, had dozens of means of communication that connected them to the rest of the world.Televisions, radios, telephones, cell phones, computers and, of course, the Internet. The advent of that digital network spelled the end of people's individualism. Now, what was happening on the other side of the world was immediately known within a few seconds, the time required for a radio wave signal to reach an orbiting satellite and be transmitted to all electronic devices on the planet.And humans, of course, hadn't hesitated to use this amazing power to connect with one another. Social networks had become the new way to get information: now, through them, you could know what a single person was doing that big media such as television would never have noticed. Thanks to social networks many artists, poets, dancers and many other categories of people
The dinosaurs returned to Cartago as triumphant; Old Li and the few remaining soldiers warmly welcomed the return of the legions. Everyone knew how valuable such a victory was: it was the tangible proof of the power of the dinosaurs in front of the whole world, the confirmation that dinosaurs were strong enough to take on the armies and the weapons of the humans and win. Now humans would think twice before challenging them a second time! As soon as they crossed the gap between the collapsed walls, Sobek and his army were greeted by a series of deep roars that indicated the joy of the dinosaurs. All the members of the pack who remained in Cartago hurried to meet them and celebrate. The victory was theirs! However, Sobek didn't share their happiness. He knew that he had achieved a total victory and that he had achieved exactly the objective he had set out to achieve, and that in the following days his herd would reap enormous benefits, and that therefore he had proven himself to be bot
The few soldiers who survived the battle with the dinosaurs were taken to the same enclousure where Abe, Ellie and Alexander were locked up. Apparently nothing seemed to have changed, but in reality the tension was much higher. Up until that moment, people had been holding on because they were sure that someone would come to help them, that would take them away from that captivity. But now in front of their eyes were the last remnants of Odaria's army, which had been completely annihilated by the dinosaurs. This had destroyed people's souls. Although the more optimistic (or more simply, those who wanted to remain calm) continued to place their trust in other nations and in the NMWA, most humans had fallen into a state of depression. Abe had noticed this very clearly, especially among young people: people withdrew, avoided talking to others, ate less and were less reactive; furthermore, the discussions had become more frequent and violent, a clear manifestation of the anxiety that was
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