Chapter 505
by fanqienovelChapter 505: The Misuse of Saber Teeth
"Such an amateurish brawl…"
"Are all Triassic creatures like this…?"
Trilobite had worried he might be too slow, that the fight would end before he arrived, sending everyone home.
Yet when he peeked from behind…
"Hah…"
He chuckled immediately.
These two groups of prehistoric creatures were still locked in their clumsy struggle.
"Hmm, but overall, the Lufengosaurus holds the advantage."
"If they dared risk injury and sacrifice their legs, they could trample those early to mid-Triassic air sac crocodiles into mincemeat."
"Clearly though, none want to get hurt."
"But now… it’s not your choice anymore."
Trilobite crouched low, advancing slowly.
His feet lifted and settled without a sound.
Though occasional thuds echoed from the ground, he didn’t worry about alerting the Lufengosaurus.
"Hiss——!"
"Ha——!"
"Roar!"
The Giant Shanxi Crocodile might lack fighting prowess, but it excelled at noise-making.
They crawled through the mud, making hoarse hisses and rasps while snapping their jaws. The constant clattering drowned out Trilobite’s footsteps.
Their whack-a-mole tactics—attacking and retreating from all sides—wholly captured the giants’ attention.
This gave Trilobite a perfect opening!
"Huff——!"
Trilobite snorted through his nostrils.
"Almost there!"
In truth, stealth no longer mattered. The Saber-toothed Beautiful Nodosaurus stood fully exposed behind the Lufengosaurus.
His strides quickened.
The charge began!
Just then…
"Roar——!"
The largest Lufengosaurus finally snapped.
Compared to smaller herdmates, he possessed greater strength, tougher hide, and more magic fat stored within.
He felt that even if he was bitten, he wouldn’t be hurt badly enough to fall to the ground and become easy prey; the flesh wounds would heal completely in a short time due to his formidable self-healing capability.
On the other hand, those howling things were just too annoying!
The back-and-forth game raised his blood pressure, and now this hot-tempered creature had reached its limit!
"Roar——!"
The colossal being moved its thick legs, and its divine body surged forward like a mountain.
"Rawr!"
"Ah——!"
But just before it launched its attack, those short legs and large heads actually turned and spread out!
Then…
"Boom—Boom—Boom—!"
The heavy footsteps thundered closer!
"Rawr!?"
The Vast Dragon God of the Mountain Type tilted its head.
It wanted to see who was so bold as to provoke it at the peak of its anger.
However, what reflected in its eyes was the ever-enlarging huge mouth and those saber teeth glinting with a chilling light!
—-
"Whoosh——!"
Trilobite remained silent and rushed to the side of this creature without a word.
"Ah——Woo——!"
His saber teeth suddenly shot down, sinking into the side of the creature’s neck!
"Pshhh——!"
Blood sprayed everywhere!
The hot blood of the Lufengosaurus splashed onto the swamp, rising in steamy clouds.
The sharp, enamel-covered saber teeth pierced through the skin and muscles, cutting the nerves and blood vessels, all the way to the upper cervical vertebrae!
"Crack——!"
The advance of the saber teeth was stopped by the thick cervical vertebrae, unable to go any further.
But the powerful impact caused…
"Crack——!"
The cervical vertebrae shifted out of place!
Almost breaking!
"Hiss——!"
With a clean and swift withdrawal of his saber teeth, a spray of blood splattered into the void.
"Roar——!"
"Roar! Roar!"
The Lufengosaurus roared in pain, shaking its head and retreating steadily.
It roared, showing defiance to the sneaky attacker in front.
But for some reason, its body grew weaker, and the view through its eyes turned blurry.
At last, it only saw the scary saber teeth covered in blood and those cold, emotionless "gem-like eyes."
"Boom——!"
The colossal divine body crashed down!
—-
"Hah…"
"Got one!"
"Ah, but everyone should know, this was a wrong way to use the saber teeth."
Saber teeth were meant to cut a prey’s throat fast.
This hunting style let predators avoid choking prey like modern big cats do, or using cruel "ripping apart" or eating prey alive like hyenas, African wild dogs, or wolves, which cause death by blood loss.
But using saber teeth like a chisel to hit bone…
Even though saber teeth aren’t as breakable as some shows say, it still proves the predator doing this had something wrong in its head.
Trilobite paid for his hasty "dumb move."
The saber teeth smashed into the neck bones; they broke the Lufengosaurus’s spine but got damaged too—a small piece chipped off the front of the left tooth.
The once shiny, sharp saber tooth now looked a bit dull.
If it were saber-toothed cats or Lystrasaurus, a chipped tooth might become a lifelong flaw or a personal mark.
For plesiosaurs with big fangs or crocodiles with specialized teeth, Trilobite’s broken tooth could take years, maybe two or three, to grow back.
Luckily, Trilobite’s saber teeth weren’t like theirs.
"Hmm…"
"Good thing my saber teeth are actually ‘blade teeth’ from Duncker’s fish, part of the upper jaw."
Duncker’s fish’s sharp "cutter teeth" weren’t real teeth, but bone.
When Trilobite evolved from Duncker’s fish, he thought ahead about the saber tooth issue, spent a lot to save this pair of "blade teeth," and shaped them like saber teeth.
Archosaurs’ teeth don’t grow back if lost, and large lizard-like creatures replace teeth slowly, but bone usually grows faster.
"Sizzle…"
Trilobite could already feel his saber teeth slowly regrowing.
He just had to wait for the left tooth to lengthen, then sharpen it.
"Now for the next one…"
"Okay, seems I don’t need to step in."
Nearby, the small Lufengosaurus ran, letting out a pitiful cry.
Its big buddy’s death shocked and scared it badly.
It forgot to fight back and just bolted in terror.
The "Giant Shanxi Crocodiles" chased right after, biting its legs and rear.
Now, the Lufengosaurus seemed to slow from too much blood loss.
Soon, it might collapse weakly.
"Then I’ll just…"
As Trilobite lowered his head, ready to enjoy the meal…
【You have a new custom evolution request. Do you accept?】
"Oh?"
"Before it was ‘urgent,’ now it’s ‘custom’?"
"Pretty neat."
"Let me see what it says…"
When the request popped up, Trilobite gasped.
"Ah this…"
"You actually want to…"