Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

Alas, Isiah took a step back. His eyes were focused on Katari, he completely ignored the magic stone that was hovering close to her.

This lioness was too scary for him to be distracted by that stone. The stone carried a lot of power, but it couldn’t leave his sight. Katari could literally disappear, she was the most dangerous out of all the lionesses.

"You…" Isaiah said, his voice croaking. He looked at Darius’s corpse and hesitated. If he left, the corpse would fall into the hands of the lions and that would just help them increase their overall power.

The thought of the lions or wolves feasting on his friend’s body made his spine tingle and his mind go numb with hatred.

But the hatred came with a surprising level of clarity, this was the type of clarity needed to plan revenge.

Without saying a word, Isaiah spread his wings and flapped them, flying into the air before opening a portal in front of him and disappearing into it.

The portal closed after he entered it, leaving behind a calm Katari and the floating magic stone.

"Phew, I was hoping he would run away. My energy had gone low and I don’t think it would have been enough to put him down." N’bayé said telepathically through the stone.

"Hmm, he got lucky," Katari said simply. N’bayé didn’t want to think too much over the words of this lioness so she just shifted her attention to the body of the tiger.

"This should make up for all the losses…"

"This should increase Kael’s strength…"

They both said at the same time. There was a deafening silence as Katari turned her head like a twitchy ghost to stare intensely at the magic stone.

Even though N’bayé was sure that Katari couldn’t harm her from where she was, she still controlled the stone to move back.

"What do you mean? Don’t you want Kael to be stronger?" Katari asked while tilting her head to the side. Her face was expressionless and her eyes were calm.

"Yes, of course. I was just thinking about the army." As N’bayé spoke, her voice got lower as she anticipated how Katari would react.

Surprisingly or not, Katari merely nodded her head before saying, "Oh, that’s true. We’ll let Kael decide then."

N’bayé for some reason didn’t know how to react at first. Truly, Katari was unpredictable, one never knew whether she was in a good mood or not.

Katari then turned her attention back to the tiger’s corpse, "The body of a tier 4 tiger is quite big. To think he and Kael caused all that destruction not long ago. So much power, and now he’s dead."

"Yep," N’bayé replied, "I’m sending more magic stones over to assist with carrying it back."

"Okay. You know, we need something to carry this type of stuff around in the future. I mean, we can’t just be going around killing them stressing to carry our loot back to base.

It’s not efficient." Katari said.

"Why are you so reasonable today?" N’bayé couldn’t help but ask. She had also thought of the same thing Katari had spoken of.

Katari wasn’t always thinking in terms of efficiency, but accessibility and anything that had to do with Kael’s desires. What changed?

Katari shrugged her head at N’bayé’s words, "I don’t know, maybe I’m just in a good state of mind, or maybe it’s because I’m now tier 3."

This calmness was very unsettling for N’bayé. Yes, evolution usually comes with increased intelligence but not like this. This was a change in demeanor or…

’My goodness, she’s learned from Kael how to mask her true characteristics,’ The smart N’bayé was immediately able to pinpoint what had gone wrong with Katari.

Sure, she had gotten a bit smarter after the evolution. This meant that she could learn things more quickly and even find ways to apply what she learned.

And Katari was usually close to Kael so if she was to learn anything from anyone, it would be the king.

She was like a killing machine that had an incredible ability to learn, analyze, and adapt.

Indeed, Isaiah was lucky, he would not win a second round with Katari, that was a fact of fatality.

Looking at Katari, N’bayé did not for a second believe that the way Katari was acting now was the way she actually felt inside, her guards would forever be high when close to his lioness.

But not everyone was as smart as N’bayé, fortunately or unfortunately.

Katari didn’t seem to care about whatever N’bayé was thinking, at least she didn’t act like she cared.

She just waited calmly. She could begin to drag the nearly six-meter-long corpse back to her king but as she had said before, it wouldn’t be ’efficient’. She would tire out, spending double the effort for half the result.

Soon, thirty-plus magic stones flew over from the distance and stopped in front of Katari.

"Take a step back," N’bayé advised, Katari obliged.

The magic stones surrounded the body of the tiger, emitting red and blue light from the runes.

The earth beneath the tiger’s corpse began to shine as a magic circle was drawn with red and blue magic engravings.

The section of the earth broke off into a round platform with the large tiger body on it. "He’s heavy," N’bayé commented as she expended energy to lift the earth platform and the tiger into the air.

While the earth platform levitated away with the magic stones hovering around it, Katari looked up with interest, her eyes observing the white cracks in the sky.

The portal at the center of these cracks was still far away but she could see it. If whatever was on the other side of this portal was to pass through, it would still land far away from them.

There was nothing to worry about, for now.

Katari was about to turn away and follow after the tiger corpse when the shattered portal finally expanded wide enough for her to catch a glimpse of what was coming.

Sleek, silver-black body, shiny, gothic, brutal, violent. Those words came to her head as she saw the object slowly fly out of the portal. The object was big, very big.

If Kael could look in the same direction, he would recognize this object as a spaceship or a magic shuttle. Not just any magic shuttle, but the design of this particular magic shuttle was similar to the ones he had seen in that memory of the war against dragons.

This was a lion’s magic shuttle. Katari didn’t know this, after observing for some time, she lost interest and decided to just report it to Kael.

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The magic shuttle slowly descended from the portal, its sleek metallic exterior shone under the sun of the new world it was entering.

[Connection between Leonine Heavenly Realm and unregistered Leonine Heavenly Realm Beacon is unstable.]

A robotic voice sounded out from the shuttle’s interior, alerting the anxious and prowling entities within.

The shuttle was big, very big. Its length was over a kilometer long and half a kilometer in width. It was shaped like a rectangular box with the front being slightly pointed.

Multi-colored lights danced within the gaps of the shiny exterior, flowing from one side to the other. The magic shuttles fully descended from the shattered portal which soon began to close up.

The array of magic cannons pointed in different directions, clearly not there for decorations.

The white cracks in the sky began to fade away slowly and the portal’s fragmented edges started mending themselves back together, as if reality was repairing itself.

The massive magic shuttle cast a dark shadow over the land and trees, all the big animals had run away and the small animals could only hide wherever their little legs had taken them.

The ground shook terribly as the magic shuttle tried to land. The trees were crushed to the ground by an unseen force and the little critters burst into blood and meat paste.

Slowly, pillars extended from hatches beneath the magic shuttle. With that, the massive vessel landed on the ground as gently as it could.

There was silence as the ground cracked badly under the weight of this magic shuttle. The area where the magic shuttle had landed was filled with small hills in different places.

It happened to land in a wide and somewhat flat area between two small hills.

The cannons that had been still all this while began to let out a humming sound as their mouths lit up with power. The metal barrels were aimed at the two small hills and…

*BOOM!*

The sound that was emitted was loud but also short. There was a flash of light as the animals watching this object from a distance temporarily went blind.

When they recovered their vision, the two hills beside the magic shuttle were gone. All that was left were two new wide pieces of land.

*CHICK!*

At the left and right sides of the magic shuttle, the supposed entrances to this magic shuttle made a strange sound before opening up vertically.

On the right side of the ship, two entities walked out. One had the stance of a slave subordinate while the other had the aura of a regal king.