Chapter 445

Chapter 445: Not Only Dragons and Beasts Have Long Dorsal Fins, But Also Crocodiles

"Tsk…"

"This is troublesome now."

Lady Xidi’s massive Divine Body slowly retreated, constantly threatening the encircling Giant Spirit Gods with her gaping maw; chaos reigned beneath the Primal Mud.

The scattered "Nightmare Tree Domains" lay either toppled or shredded.

Crushed beneath the etheric storm-soaked Primal Mud, they became indistinguishable ruins.

Such devastation could only stem from a world-shattering magical battle!

Had this been a contest of points, Lady Xidi would clearly have won.

The Pan-Spirit Deities’ magic was completely exhausted. Their "magic energy suppressors" glowed red from overload, and each bore expressions of utter exhaustion.

Two wounded companions lay nearby,

clearly suffering severe internal injuries from magical assaults.

In contrast, Lady Xidi remained largely unscathed.

Her Divine Body stood intact, nearly unmarked. Though her magic reserves dwindled, she could still unleash "common-level" forbidden spells. Despite facing eight foes, she’d repelled and wounded two Giant Spirit Gods.

Yet…

"Haha, Lady Xidi! Divine warfare isn’t some sporting match!"

"No one cares about honor here!"

"Your magic’s strong—so what?!"

"We have numbers!"

"Hahaha…"

"ROAR—!"

"GRAAAH—!"

Amid triumphant shouts and bellows, the Giant Spirit Gods pressed closer.

Beyond them scampered smaller figures—long-necked and slender, their draconic forms utterly unlike the Giant Spirit Gods.

Who could’ve guessed?

These were the undisputed kin of the Giant Spirit Gods.

Yet they only craned their necks from afar, observing. Perhaps due to high metabolic rates, they twittered incessantly in nonsensical tongues.

These skittish creatures were ordinary Pan-Spirit Deities, exploiting their high mobility to relay messages for their larger kin.

Lady Xidi’s entrapment in this sodden basin? All thanks to these little scouts.

"Barbatos played this well."

Surveying the dire scene where only physical escape remained, Lady Xidi sighed.

The First Demon God had deployed her to the Primal Wilderness border—an order she hadn’t questioned.

It had keenly sensed that the times were changing, and the entire environment was transforming.

The Endless Ether grew increasingly formidable, while the Primal Wilderness seemed less "wild," even gradually turning humid.

This stirred its desire to personally enter the Primal Wilderness for exploration.

As a chess player who once matched wits with the Giant God and deemed herself the Giant God’s most knowledgeable former rival, Xidi refused to believe the Giant God would remain passive amid such sweeping shifts.

"He isn’t like Barbatos—some schemer fixated solely on immediate gains and power plays. He’s a sage carrying a ‘Great Plan’!"

"So what might he undertake within the ‘Primal Wilderness’?"

Driven by this curiosity, Xidi entered the Primal Wilderness under Barbatos’s directive.

Only to find herself besieged…

"Still, wielding the powerful Divine Body bestowed by the Giant God, I’m far from defenseless!"

"Huff…"

"Rooooar—!"

It bared crimson jaws, roaring at the encircling creatures.

A great clash loomed!

—-

"Hm!?"

"Analyzing confusing paleo-creature footage."

Trilobite lay on the depression’s elevated edge, setting the "scalebark tree" from his mouth aside.

"First, the larger one is Baryonyx, alias Megalodon—among the earliest discovered dinosaurs."

"Quite familiar, so I’ll skip details."

"Focus on those confronting her. Let’s count… One, two, three… five, plus two sprawled yonder."

"Seven total."

"Note: aside from its quadrupedal stance, this creature strongly resembles spinosaurus’s initial reconstruction."

The "first spinosaurus reconstruction" emerged when limited fossils—lacking a skull—forced researchers to attach a generic theropod dinosaur head onto a sail-backed dinosaur torso.

Later, this model even adopted the "kangaroo posture" trend of "classic dinosaurs."

"Of course, these aren’t spinosaurus."

"No elongated spinosaurus skull."

"Nor Deinosuchus."

"Legs aren’t splayed sideways; bellies don’t scrape the ground."

"They’re Arizona dinosaurs from the mid-Triassic."

"Lizard-like false crocodiles of the Bopolong superfamily, spinosauridae."

"At minimum, they share the same genus."

Although called a dinosaur, it was actually a crocodilian, and it was a distant relative of Trilobite, part of the Bopolong superfamily.

"However, it might be a new species of the Arizona dinosaur because it was much larger than the ones discovered in fossils."

According to existing fossils, the length of the Arizona dinosaur was about 3 meters, roughly the size of a Catamount; but the creatures in front were each over 4 meters long, almost as big as a large brown bear!

Therefore, their dorsal fins were also much larger.

"In fact, dorsal fins aren’t uncommon."

Archosaurs and lizard-like false crocodiles and dinosaurs have had them before, more than once.

This shows they served a big purpose.

"I first thought these were used by the Arizona dinosaur to control body heat; but now…"

"Maybe it’s like a signal generator?"

"For showing off, finding mates, and scaring others."

"This spot was likely the territory of these Arizona dinosaurs, and the Baryonyx stumbled in by accident, bothering them."

"She probably thought she was tough and strong, biting… no, wait, no clear open wounds, so she likely just hurt two of their group and got surrounded by the rest!"

"Who knew the Arizona dinosaur lived in packs like wolves."

"The little ones crouching nearby were probably watching and waiting for someone to die so they could eat the meat."

"They’re all pretty sneaky."

"But sadly, they were too small and too far off."

"Now it was pouring rain, and the view was bad, so it was hard to tell what species they were."

"Right then, the two sides were staring each other down."

"The Baryonyx was seven meters long and weighed over a ton; she must be my customer."

"Her edge was being fierce and mighty, the first ruler of the Second Dinosaur Dynasty!"

"The unknown Arizona dinosaur species, my distant kin, measured four meters and weighed about four hundred kilograms, lighter than me, but still powerful beasts."

"Their edge was numbers: five against one."

"This was like five hyenas ganging up on a lone lion."

"So I should…"

"Just watch them fight! Hahaha!"

Baryonyx fighting False Crocodiles was a show Trilobite totally loved!

"Go on, fight!"

"Move it!"