With that single battle, Sobek had resolved all his doubts.Even though he already knew it, it was a great satisfaction to be able to take down a tyrannosaurus. Watching the predator try in vain to bite him was something truly rewarding! Its bite hadn't even tickled him. How many people could say they felt nothing when a thirteen meters long tyrannosaurus bit them?Now he could say with certainty that the title 'apex superpredator' was not fake. He had truly become the absolute pinnacle of the food chain.But what made him most happy was realizing that [Linguistics] hadn't bothered him. Even though he had heard that dying tyrannosaurus begging its brother to escape, he hadn't felt the slightest pity for it. In his head there was nothing but pride in completing the kill.Being a spinosaurus had really turned his heart to stone. He didn't know if this was due to his nature or if all his adventures had tempered him, but he felt absolutely nothing in killing a living being who spoke and pl
At the Jersey family estate, Bethany and Jocelyne sat together on the couch in their living room. Mother and daughter were doing nothing: they were just staring at a large clock on the wall. Or at least, Jocelyne was staring at him without even blinking, while Bethany's eyes went from her watch to her daughter about every ten minutes. Finally, the older woman tried to break the ice: "Jocelyne, honey, do you want to read a book?" "I don't want to" "Do you want to watch tv?" "No, thank you" Bethany sighed. "I know what you're thinking, starlight, and believe me when I tell you that staring at that clock won't change anything. You should try to distract yourself" "Mh" was the only response from her daughter, who didn't move her gaze from her watch an inch. Bethany shook her head: when she made up her mind something about her, her daughter became really stubborn. It had been nearly a year since the events that marked Jocelyne. By now the girl had already turned thirteen. In all that
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 just by hunting mamenchisaurs or other sauropods, but his intent, as already mentioned, was no longer to level up. There was no longer any reason for him to become even bigger than he already was.Although he would have really 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: he 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 was, the more visible and louder it was. Even if he made constant use of [Ambush], sooner or later he would have to sleep or rest and then his ability would have deactivated; at that point basically every living being within a r
"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 constant detours. It had been a very long and boring
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 that then they used. 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 and
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 things. Aaaaah! Too
"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,
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