Carlos was doing an ok job so far the Cephalaspis were filtering the sand looking for vegetation scraps and micro shrimp the trilobites had procreated through virgin birth recently letting their eggs drift among the sands and anomalocaris was particularly active today as it was constantly blowing water out of its mouth moving sand and using its frontal grasper like appendages to search for hidden treats under the sand sadly earth's first super Predator who's having no luck once so ever as it continued sifting its stalk eyes locked onto a corpse the corpse of an adult cuddle fish their body whited out.
Clear must have laided her last batch of eggs and was now drifting across the sand flats anomalocaris seen it and because of its starvation ignored the possibility danger and picked up the corpse with its grabber's and started biting and shredding the meat causing swallow sized chunks to float through the water as a few pieces drifted onto the edge of the reef suddenly a Cephalaspis sifting for micro shrimp or vegetation matter as it inhaled plankton and micro shrimp one of the pieces of cuddle fish meat was sucked up the Cephalaspis stopped and started to slowly swallow the meat and suddenly Carlos got a system notification.
A.R.S:'
Cephalaspis-1 has tasted mollusk flesh and is 5.5% towards a carnivorous diet
Anomalocaris-1 has tasted cuddle fish flesh and has expanded its diet to mollusks
Trilobites-1&2 have spawned through virgin birth estimated hatch time 3 weeks'
Carlos the entire time has been getting passive primordial energy points he has gotten 12.5 primordial energy and thanks to the recent events it has gone up to 26.2 primordial energy which he decided to use on getting 2 more anomalocaris who Immediately came into the world and started claiming their territories around the Sand Flats their was in a small scuffle between the first one and another male but the female staked her claim in the reef its self Aside from that.
It was almost mating season for Cephalaspis which if Carlos's memory serves him correct they would then either seek out a small pocket of water a secure place in the salt water or a straight up secluded place of freshwater to spawn their children and then return to the ocean to live out the rest of their lives Carlos watched over the growing ecosystem a little more until he noticed some thing a Cephalaspis was chasing a low floating jellyfish about a Few centimeters smaller than it has a proceeded to open it mouth and swallow the tiny jellyfish whole adding progress to the carnivorous diet bar.
Suddenly the female anomalocaris found the mother load sand eels entire colony sitting right next to the reef as The eels proceeded to retreat after seeing an that's so familiar creature but they couldn't hide as anomalocaris using its front graspers plus shooting water adults mouth caused you to blow open one of the tunnel before the sand eel dive any deeper it was caught by the claw graspers and immediately anomalocaris Started eating and shredding apart it's a victim while going back to its territory causing pieces of meat to scatter across the sand which were quickly inhaled by a Cephalaspis was following the trail of scraps after eating it's fill.
The anomalocaris dropped the sand eel corpse its head did the sand first which was promptly and inhaled by Cephalaspis and as jawless fish tried to inhale the entire body and quickly spread it out as it was suffocating better solution as another Cephalaspis rolled up Both of them started a tug-of-war over the carcass before effectively spitting it out at the same time before we continuing the struggle tearing off tiny pieces at a time.
suddenly they scattered as a anomalocaris Picked up what remained of the corpse and ate the rest of it has tiny pieces started hitting the bottom of the sand Cephalaspis swarmed and starting inhaling the falling pieces causing both of them to i'll only be completely full but also halfway there to fulfilling the bar and becoming completely carnivorous.
But Carlos had a hypothesis was dunkleosteus just an More Evoled version of Cephalaspis because when you think about it both of them had armored heads not only that there skin tones we're basically the same and if their cartilage eventually turned into bones then they would become teeth or is how armored fish as a whole came into existence it was truly puzzling but as he looked over the progress there was nothing more he could do for now and this would have to be happy with the job he has done currently a pained him but until he ranked up from the Cambrian . There was nothing else he could do.
He could do Bronto Scorpio The problem was this area was too deep there was no immediate land and people would notice massive exoskeleton shells washed up on the beach so maybe he could hold off just for a little bit that would be the more safe and productive thing to do for his current mission and objectives after all he doesn't want to rush evolution terrible things happen when you weren't patient after all this was the given fact and nature of said world that all species live in could almost be considered a universal law.
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