Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

What a coincidence it was that the sky shattered on the same day that Kael and Darius fought, it was like fate had intentionally been playing chess with the savage lands as the chess board.

Whatever was to come in the future, only now will they find out.

Thick and strong vines wrapped around Kael’s limbs and lifted his large lion form into the air.

Dozens and dozens of floating magic stones sped over and placed themselves under Kael, subtly lifting him up and giving the appearance that he was floating.

His limbs fell loosely to the ground, dragged against the dirt as he was taken away.

Eidel and Nalii stood by his side while the remaining tier 2 lionesses walked in front. They headed back to the mountain in that order, their expressions a mix of excitement and worry.

"Kael, we won," N’bayé’s voice was transmitted from one of the floating stones to Kael’s mind, "The mountain is ours…"

Kael opened his eyes slightly, revealing his golden pupils which now had a faint glow to them. "It would be a shame if we didn’t win," Kael said, his mouth twisting into a tired but fierce grin.

"Quick, adjust, and take me to safety. The wolves cannot see me like this, they cannot see their king in this state…" Kael’s words were interrupted by a cough. Kael didn’t know lions could cough until now as he had never done so, learning new things every day.

The lionesses looked at each other with different expressions on their faces. How were they supposed to do that?

"Won’t it be better for them to see you like this, let them know how much effort you put into this fight.

And you could even use it to fish out those who had bad intentions for us." Eidel said with the fire still blazing in her humanoid eyes.

Kael glanced at Eidel, he didn’t say anything, he just observed her. Kael had seen Eidel’s lionesses form so he was intrigued to see her humanoid form for the first time.

Indeed, lionesses all had different humanoid looks. Eidel’s humanoid form was very different from N’bayé’s.

N’bayé was tall but not too tall, she had smooth dark brown skin and her figure was curvy, in terms of beauty, she would be appealing to most human men. From Kael’s observation, if N’bayé was placed on Earth in her humanoid form, it would be assumed that she was of African lineage based on appearance alone.

Kael himself looked different from N’bayé in his own humanoid form. Besides his golden blonde hair and tan skin, he had also been very tall, taller than most human men. Based on appearance alone, he looked like someone from one of the Middle Eastern Arabian countries who had dyed his hair blonde. His blonde beard simply solidified this Middle Eastern look for him.

Perhaps, because Eidel and Kael shared the same mother, Eidel’s humanoid appearance was also very similar to Kael’s.

She had a very nice body, the right proportions at the right places. Her hips were wide and her waist was small, every step she took made it look like she was intentionally swaying her hips when she wasn’t.

Her skin tone was light tan and her hair was bright reddish-orange, mostly red. Her hair was wavy and curly in different places, falling down to her shoulders.

Her face was oval-shaped and her nose was pointed, similar to Kael’s. She was very beautiful and had the appearance of a Middle Eastern lady. She looked to be slightly younger than Kael which was weird since they were of the same age.

Kael looked like a human in his thirties, giving him a regal and mature look. Eidel on the other hand looked to be in her mid-twenties.

N’bayé, who was supposedly very much older than Kael, looked like she was also in her thirties, making them look like age mates.

It was weird when one realized that Kael was just slightly more than four years old as a lion.

Eidel’s body shook as she felt Kael’s gaze roaming all over her naked body. Kael had never looked at her like that before.

Before she went into slumber, she remembered that Kael had a weird preference for N’bayé because of her humanoid form. Now that she also had her humanoid form, did it mean that Kael would do that thing?

Just the thought of it made her excited and her stride subconsciously became wider. For now, she knew nothing of what had happened between Kael and the remaining tier 2 lionesses while she was asleep.

Kael didn’t agree it disagree to what Eidel suggested, "Tell Commander Bibi to clear our paths, no wolves should be in sight."

Eidel nodded and they all continued on their way, with Eidel meeting up with Bibi ahead and giving him Kael’s orders.

"Is the King alright?" Bibi asked, worriedly. He wouldn’t want anything to happen to his benefactor now, would he?

"Yes, he just needs to rest and heal his injuries, that’s all," Eidel said nonchalantly before turning away.

Commander Bibi sighed before looking for the new spirit wolf and giving him orders on what to do. Ever since this new spirit wolf joined, Duller’s presence had become less needed.

’Where is that wolf?...’ Bibi wondered.

As Kael and the lionesses approached the mountain, there were no wolves in sight. Kael looked up to see the damage he made Darius had done.

The mountain looked a little shorter in his vision. The whole mountaintop of before was gone and a new mountaintop, much lower, was there now.

Many broken rocks and strewn boulders could be seen lying around. The trees around the mountain were mostly gone and even the few pieces of vegetation on the mountain were destroyed

At the end of the day, the very thing they had been fighting for had almost been destroyed, vanities at its finest.

"Where is Katari?" Kael suddenly asked, noticing that Katari was not with them.

"She chose to follow the big bird, but I sent some help," N’bayé answered.

"Oh," Kael said, then his face relaxed and he had a satisfactory expression on his furry face.

"She had a tough fight, shouldn’t she be resting?" Kael asked but he didn’t expect anyone to answer. He just wondered how lucky he was to have someone like Katari in his life.

’I should appreciate her more,’ He thought.

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Isaiah flapped his wings, putting all his strength into each flap. His eyes were filled with denial as he refused to look down at what he was carrying.

Grasped firmly by his talons was Darius’s body. Two of his limbs were held by Isaiah and the body hung in such a way that blood continuously dropped to the ground.

Even after flying so far and so long, Darius had not twitched, he just hung there lifelessly.

Isiah was still pretty exhausted from the fight he had, carrying Darius’s heavy body was not easy at all.

Feeling his wings giving out, Isiah had no choice but to land roughly. Darius’s body was dragged to the ground as Isaiah landed beside him.

Isiah looked down, his beak quivering and his eyes shaking. The image he saw was overlapping with the memories he had of Darius when he was alive.

"Is this it?" Isiah asked no one in particular.

This wasn’t how things were supposed to turn out for them. It wasn’t.

They were supposed to have each other’s backs. Isiah would frolic around with the ladybirds and Darius would do whatever he wanted, but they would still have each other’s backs.

They had fought through a lot and destroyed a lot of enemies along the way. Isiah never thought he would have to continue his journey alone.

Darius was supposed to successfully evolve and continue with his life, securing the mountain and being Isiah’s strongest backer. Life was to be good.

But those lions showed up.

"It’s not fair…" Isaiah’s voice croaked. Tears fell from his eyes as he wept at the loss of a best friend.

"It’s just not fair!" He said.

If an outsider looked at everything that went on, they would see that from Isaiah’s perspective, Kael and the lionesses were technically the antagonists in this story.

Everyone liked to believe in ’survival of the fittest’ until it wasn’t in their favor. The wilderness was never fair, Isiah didn’t understand how true those words were until now.

He stood there, looking at the dead carcasses and weeping for minutes. His large white and black body cast a shadow over the tiger’s corpse.

*SWOOSH!*

The sound of something flying through the air at incredible speed reached Isiah’s ears. He looked up in alarm to see that dreaded magic stone heading straight for him with a trail of blue electricity behind it.

"DAMN YOU!" Isaiah shouted as he hurriedly put up a spatial barrier around him while raising his wing to his face for added protection.

The magic stone hit the spatial barrier with so much force that visible cracks spread through the air. Although the barrier didn’t crack, Isiah was still sent flying.

As soon as he landed, he looked up to see an elegant lioness calmly sitting beside Darius’s corpse.

She looked like she had been sitting there for a long time now and her eyes were indifferent. There were some dried injuries on her body but compared to her aura, they were negligible.

As he looked at this, whatever feeling Isiah had inside him at this moment turned into raw uncut hatred. Hatred so heavy that it almost made him run mad on the spot.

Alas, he took a step back…