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, flying reptiles with strange crests on their heads, and even a tropeognathus with a wingspan of eight meters that fish thanks to two crests present at the end of the beak that caught small fishes like a net.
Sobek swam where the water was highest. The reason was simple: he knew that this area, even if it was full of preys, was also full of predators. The reeds and muddy water were the perfect place for carnivores such as crocodiles or snakes to hide.
However, it was also the best place for him: he could see that there were different varieties of fishes underwater, so surely the place was full of fish-eating dinosaurs that he could hunt like he did with the baryonyx.
Eventually he found a place to settle: a large islet in the middle of the swamp on which three mangroves grew. The trees would have helped him to hide himself and the water would have prevented large predatory dinosaurs from reaching him. There was always the danger of crocodiles, but it was unlikely that they would have abandoned the safety of the water to hunt him: generally they were animals that captured preys in the river.
Once on the islet he began to sweep away the excess branches and remove the sharp stones. Then he flattened the sand well and covered it all with some dry leaves. In a short time, an excellent bed (at least for the merciless nature's standard) was completed. He had made it slightly bigger than him, since he would have soon grown up again and he didn't want to have to do everything again every time he would have leveled up.
Once the work was done, he lay down in his new bed. Although he was proud of his work, he felt that it was in no way comparable to the familiar warmth of the nest.
He shook his head to dismiss those thoughts. He had other things to think about. "System, open the interface!".
[Spinosaurus aegyptiacus]
Level: 10
Length: 10 m
Height: 3.6 m
Weight: 5 ton
Diet: carnivore, fishivore
Strength: 1,350
Agility: 1,170
Defense: 860
Maximum speed: 11 km/h
Experience points: 9,600/40,000
Skill points:
Fame points: 0/1,000,000
Bonus Money: 1,580
Apparently his attributes looked good, but Sobek knew they weren't good enough. His current goal was only one: to impose his hegemony on the swamp.
The water in the area was too shallow for too large crocodiles or snakes to hunt us; consequently he would not have encountered fifteen-meter long giants such as the sarcosuchus or the titanoboa. Removed these two superpredators, therefore, he could set himself the goal of overcoming in strength all the other predators that were there.
Crocodiles, anacondas, fishes, fish-eating dinosaurs and so on: he had to become able to beat them all. He was already well under way: with [Ambush] on level 2/5 and [Swim Speed] on max, he could easily defeat a baryonyx. However, the baryonyx wasn't his only opponent: there were other large creatures like the suchomimus.
Once his abilities and size made him the undisputed king of the swamp, Sobek was confident he would have risen to the rank of superpredator. In a sense, he could therefore see the swamp as his training ground.
He had already decided how to improve skills: he wanted to improve at least once [Rapid digestion], then he would have focused on maximizing [Ambush]. This was for a very specific reason: parasites and diseases thrived in the swamp, and [Rapid digestion] ensured their destruction. Consequently improving it at least to level 1/5 was a good investiment.
Sobek sniffed the air. He had memorized the smell of baryonyx, so even in the midst of the swamp's immensity of smells he could spot it. As he expected, there was one not far from him.
He dived back into the water and activated [Ambush], then he headed for the source of the scent. While he went he was able to observe better the animal life in the swamp: as he expected, that territory was full of fishes and amphibians. There were also reptiles that swam in the putrid water and in the air there were dragonflies big as eagles called meganeuras.
Finding his prey was easy: the baryonyx wasn't exactly hiding. It was fishing in an area where the water was rather shallow, so much so that it didn't even reach its withers.
As soon as he saw it, Sobek activated [Swim speed]. Now his top speed was 11 km/h, as a result with that skill at its maximum potential he turned his body into a bullet traveling at 110 km/h!
The baryonyx just had time to turn its head towards him before a ten-meter spinosaurus jumped on its body and bit its neck. The impact wasn't enough to kill the baryonyx, but Sobek was prepared: grabbing its head with both forelegs, he rotated it of one hundred and eighty degrees. With a 'crack', the baryonyx's neck snapped neatly.
Once he had killed it, Sobek dragged the corpse to his new islet: he had no intention of eating it in the middle of the putrid water, where he risked becoming infected with some disease. It was one thing to eat in the clear, clean water of the river; another was the dirty, muddy water of the swamp.
Once reaching the islet, Sobek lay down on his bed and began to eat baryonyx. That was going to be his meal of the day.
When he finally finished it was already late in the evening. The first stars had begun to appear in the sky.
The baryonyx had given him 25,000 experience points and 5 skill points. With those 5 skill points he upgraded [Rapid digestion] to level 1/5.
He felt a tingling sensation in his stomach, but nevertheless he felt better: it was as if he felt safer. Perhaps it was due to the fact that he now had to worry less about potential parasites.
Unfortunately, even with the 25,000 experience points he had obtained, he still couldn't level up: his current booty amounted to 34,600 points, but to level up he needed 40,000. He would have had to wait until the next day before hunting again and thus gain enough experience points.
Sobek made himself comfortable and fell asleep. When a gust of wind hit him and made him shiver, he remembered with nostalgia the heat produced by his brothers and sisters who thronged on him.

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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 into a giant hundreds of feet
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
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
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
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
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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