As the night grew deeper, what was happening in the land of Antroseda was no longer a hunt but a genocide.
Zhaldrekh divided his forces into dozens of small squads, each consisting of only three n who progressively raided the tyrannosaurus habitats.
Upon arrival, by coating their weapons with enhancent magic and using several offensive elental spells, the tyrannosaurs were slaughtered.
Their eyes were pierced with arrows, their skin was burned, and their short arms were hacked off.
This power gap erged due to one factor: the overly rapid developnt of magic.
Before the First Extinction, the alhara could barely bring a mother T-rex to the brink of death using massive fireballs.
However, those were raw techniques. The curriculum taught by Lucas, the system, and the artificial intelligence from the floating ho allowed the alhara to use perfectly concentrated magic.
As a result, the amplified effects were not just two or three tis stronger but tenfold more devastating.
This also applied to intangible magic like enhancent spells.
Where once a hundred n would struggle against the tyrannosaurs, now even in one-on-one combat, the alhara were superior.
At so point, one of Zhaldrekh's squad mbers sensed a magical surge from the tyrannosaurs.
It was a signal to regroup. Nothing could block their signal yet, but Zhaldrekh was now facing the remaining horde of tyrannosaurs alone.
At least ten giant reptiles faced the alhara's chief. Yet before the T-rexes could pounce, they fell into a steep pit trap that had been prepared earlier.
The T-rexes fell into the sa trap, but this ti the pit felt even more cramped as they were no longer alone.
When his troops were ready to deliver the final blow, Zhaldrekh stopped them.
Zhaldren never ant to try taming them — Zhaldrekh wanted the T-rexes left there to starve or resort to cannibalism.
A death sentence far more barbaric than anything their ancestors had ever done.
Lucas felt that if Zhaldrekh lived much longer, he would beco a terrifying tyrant, ruling with an iron fist.
Zhaldrekh's thods might even serve as the basis for future torture techniques.
Lucas hesitated about whether to intervene.
In general, the alhara, as his creations, could be manipulated at will, even without using the Divine Intervention token.
However, even this cruelty could lead to knowledge reforms, especially regarding anatomy and organ dissection.
If the alhara began seriously studying their bodies, the likelihood of developing modern biology would grow.
And once empirical sciences like that had standardized certainty, it would...
Trigger a revolution of thought and ignite more abstract disciplines like mathematics, physics, and even philosophy.
So, Lucas held back his intervention, choosing instead to observe further.
Especially since sothing strange was happening within Zhaldrekh's group.
At least four squads nearby had decided to gather at the sa point.
Yet, even after completing their task, Zhaldrekh had to wait until near dawn, with no one arriving except his own squad.
Lucas tried verifying the situation using his observational interface.
He had upgraded his interface with artificial intelligence assistance to detect lifeforms using colored dots on the map.
The alhara were marked red, potentially dangerous animals with orange, and the tyrannosaurs as yellow.
At the start of the assault, Lucas noted that the alhara's numbers were far greater.
The map was nearly filled with them, scattered among the forests and shrubs, while a larger group clustered in a giant circle at their main settlent.
Now, however, those scattered across the map had drastically reduced. They could be counted on one hand.
What had happened?
To confirm this wasn't just an assumption, Lucas summoned the system.
"Give a comparison of the Alhara population before and after the assault."
[Calculating and analyzing data...]
[Accumulated Data:
Population before the assault: 1800.
Population after the assault: 1100.]
"Wait, what? Isn't that a nearly 40% reduction?" Lucas stroked his chin.
What happened? Could the tyrannosaurs have found a way to fight back?
But the yellow dots were steadily disappearing, leaving only those near Zhaldrekh's recent position.
So, was this a wild beast attack?
But to cause such significant losses? What kind of beast—
[They were more coordinated than wild beasts]
"Huh?"
[While the alhara focused on the tyrannosaurs, they failed to watch their surroundings or guard against other threats]
[Do you rember Khaovren the Butcher?]
Of course, Lucas rembered. Ever since being appointed Overseer, he had sohow gained infinite mory, even for the smallest details.
Khaovren had left the colony and was never seen again.
Lucas assud that, having been separated from the group, Khaovren would not survive long.
[Over hundreds of thousands of years, life has continued to evolve]
[Of course, you don't have control over that, yet]
[However, nature sotis has a will of its own]
[The na Hope you planted in the first microbes granted them a power even more mystical than magic itself.]
[Millions of years passed, and Hope evolved from a single-celled organism to complex primates and, eventually...]
[... into another species standing on two legs.]
[And now, after one of them interbred with Khaovren...]
[The Hope race has erged as a rival equal to the Alhara.]
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