"Damn you, Oz! Mobilize those damn troops! Now! Bring my daughter back here! NOW!"Marcus Jersey had been yelling at his chief officer for half an hour. Like all great families, he also had a private militia. Too bad it wasn't doing its duty.Jackson Oz, the chief officer, couldn't do nothing except remain silent while his master let off steam. Unfortunately, screaming wasn't very useful: the criminals didn't care about the people screaming, so they continue to remain hiding from the cops.Jersey screamed for the next ten minutes, then he finally calmed down. Jackson waited patiently. He had been at his master's service for years and he knew he was a composed, serious, and rational man; his fury of the moment was only due to the frustration of losing his daughter.Unlike many of Odaria's breadwinners, Jersey didn't care that her daughter was a girl. He had loved her just as if she were a son and he never thought about using her as a political tool. Indeed
'Good. Now get down...' 'No, not like that. You have to move slower...' 'I said to move slower, damn it! But do you listen to me when I speak?' Sobek shook his head as he realized how senseless his curse was. 'I'm starting to forget that these words are only in my head. It would be really useful if she could hear them!' The spinosaurus let out a grunt looking at the little girl posted on the branch of a tree, who was trying in vain to get close to a lizard that was sunbathing among the leaves. From his point of view, Jocelyne made far too much noise. He had miraculously managed to teach her how to catch some mice or how to track down a burrow, but catching an animal on a tree branch seemed beyond her reach. Jocelyne tried to get even closer, but her movements didn't go unnoticed. The lizard saw her and opened two small membranes from its with which it launched itself from the branch and glided towards another tree. 'Right, coelurosauravus can fly...' Sobek thought. The coelurosa
Sobek headed for the source of the roar, trying to be as quiet as possible. Even if he didn't recognize the sound, it was obvious that it was the roar of a large predator. As he walked, more roars came from deep in the jungle. Hearing them, Sobek could deduce that there were at least two predators fighting. Eventually he came to the edge of a slope, where he stopped. Below him, in fact, there was a large clearing where at least a dozen large dinosaurs were resting. [Prey identified: Torvosaurus gurneyi, megalosauridae. Experience: 60,000 points] Sobek's heart leapt. Torvosaurs! They were practically the tyrannosaurs of the Jurassic period! They were predators at the top of the food chain. They didn't have the jaw structure as powerful as the one of the t-rex, but they were still almost as big as it was and had a powerful bite. They were the kind of dinosaurs that Sobek preferred stay away from. Their amount of experience proved their danger. Sobek was sure that if he ate one of th
For the next two days Sobek tried to avoid the torvosaurs as much as possible, but that doesn't mean he hadn't spied them.As he already knew, they hunted in pairs; although they were a family group of about a dozen individuals, generally only two left the pack and went hunting. The others remained in the clearing waiting for them. Also, generally the ones that went to hunt were all young adults: the oldest ones or the youngest ones remained in the clearing, and they spent almost all their time lying around, cuddling, licking each other and playing.Even if they were just two, however, Sobek never dared to confront them. After all, two young adult torvosaurs were more than enough to defeat him.Sobek had found that they mostly preyed the columbian mammoths. Their strategy was simple: one of them distracted the herd, while the other attacked from behind while the mammoths were distracted, inflicting a deep wound on one of them; after that they retreated and waite
According to the current knowledge of Earth's paleontologists, the andrewsarchus was the largest carnivorous mammal ever lived on the planet. It reached a length of more than five meters and a height at the withers of almost two meters.By comparison the Bengal tiger was just a adorable kitten and even polar bears were smaller than it.However, its size was still minimal in a messy world where dinosaurs, mammals and any other creatures lived together. Even if the andrewsarchus could be considered the top predator in the mammal kingdom, it still had no chance against large predatory dinosaurs. Ceratosaurs, allosaurs, carnotaurs, giganotosaurs, carcharodontosaurs, mapusaurs, tirannosaurs: they could kill it with a single bite.That was why the andrewsarchus of Eden had learned from a while to avoid the large dinosaurs. They stayed in places were they knew that the dinosaurs didn't come, and if they were forced to live togheter with them they learned their paths an
Jocelyne was surprised by a sudden roar that the spinosaurus launched before it started to scrape the ground. It was a behavior she had never seen. Yet for some reason the dinosaur seemed... happy?After a few seconds, however, she saw the dinosaur's muzzle approach her. As it had already done many times, it grabbed her, being careful to not hurt her; however, unlike the other times, it didn't put her on the ground, but began to run at great speed.Jocelyne's blood froze instantly. Had it found them? Was the mysterious predator coming? Was the spinosaurus trying to escape with her?Even though she was relieved that the spinosaurus didn't want to leave her, she was still anxious: what if the predator would catch up with them? What if the spinosaurus got scared of something, unwittingly closing its jaws on her? Even a little distraction or a jolt would be enough for the animal's teeth to tear her to pieces.And even if they were saved, where would it take h
Sobek concluded that this was absolutly not his day. If he still had the gift of speech he would probably have cursed God and any other deity known and not known to humanity in at least fifty different ways. His greatest fear had come true: two large carnivores were in front of him and he had no way to escape, because behind him were humans armed from feet to teeth.He was literally in the middle of a crossfire. If he had at least maximized [Regeneration] he would have been calmer, because he could have at least healed immediately from bites or gunshots; he would just have to be careful to not get hit in a vital spot. Instead, the skills was still only at level 3/5. Even though his healing speed was already much faster than that of any normal living creature, it was still too slow to be of any use to him in that moment.Sobek cursed in his head. God had said she wasn't going to intervene in his life, but sometimes he had the impression that someone was having fun makin
Everything could be said about Marcus Jersey: who was someone a real shark when it's talking about finance, that didn't look anyone in the face when it came to money, that stopped at nothing to achieve his goal, but not that he wasn't a man of honor. Just like he demanded that everyone pay the debts they had contracted with him, he always paid the debts he contracted with someone else, in one way or another.That's why he couldn't let that dinosaur die. He hadn't understood very much what Jocelyne had said (in reality, he hadn't understood very much the entire situation), but he understood that the dinosaur had saved his daughter's life and that was enough for him. He also had proof that it was protecting her when it got on top of her and had protected her with its claws when the two torvosaurs appeared. Not only that, but despite being at a clear disadvantage it had attacked the two carnivores, so as to draw attention to itself and allow Jocelyne to get away. It was risking