Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

Priya had a deep frown on her face, she didn't expect her morning to start this way.

Seeing her pride sister suddenly appear with a slit around her throat sent Priya into a precarious state of mind. What trickery was this?

"That's enough!" She screamed with her telepathic voice while spreading her spirit energy to encompass a quarter of the mountain.

Her sudden spirit outburst sent everyone except Kael into a dazed state for a moment, with the enemies seemingly sinking into a trance-like state.

The rats that remained, fifteen of them, suddenly stopped in their tracks, frozen and trapped in their own minds.

One of the rats, a spirit rat, twitched uncontrollably as it tried to escape its hypnotized state.

The wolves surrounded it, cautious not to get too close. This was an enemy they didn't know how to deal with.

They had the numbers needed to submerge this rat in a torrent of claws and fangs, yet they could only stay back.

They had learned that every rat that died would result in a really devastating explosion, a lesson that cost the lives of their comrades.

Now, watching one of these dangerous rats twitch uncontrollably as it tried to resist mind control, they didn't know what to do.

Then, before their very eyes, the rat started clawing at its belly, opening wounds and rubbing itself in its own blood.

The wolves looked at themselves, confused. They were finding 8t hard to determine whether the rat was running mad or was just trying to kill itself.

Still, they dated not getting close, rather they took multiple steps back.

The rat clawed and clawed until its belly was cut open and its intestines began to spill out. Only then did a sense of clarity finally come back to it.

However, this sense of clarity was different, the desire to be a Martyr for its masters was gone. All it had in its eyes was sorrow, pain, and longing.

It stared at the wolves with a mix of anger and appreciation. It was weird how two opposing emotions could exist at the same time in one mind.

The rat looked down at herself, seeing her guts spilling out of her belly, and sighed. She knew her death was close, very close. But it was a release from this life of slavery she had been born into.

Even now, knowing that she would soon be free, her body tensed up as if fearing that her masters would read her mind wherever they were.

The instinct to serve the lions was one that had been hammered into her until it was her second nature. She would not be able to go against it, no one could go against it, but she could be free.

She pitied these wolves because she knew her death would be followed by the detonation of the rune on her back. At the same time, she felt it was justified.

Any creature that found themselves in the center of lion conflict would meet the same grim fate.

It didn't matter which lion they were fighting for, what mattered was that they were fighting a lion in the name of another lion. Their fates were sealed, just as it has always been for millions of years.

She scoffed at them, they were no better than her, she thought so. If possible, she would want to see the day the true madness of the lion race descended on his world, the day these savages would learn the sheer ridiculousness they had walked into, but that wish could never be granted.

Just in time to relieve her of her pain, darkness overwhelmed her as she fell unconscious.

The sight of the rat falling to the ground caused the wolves to panic and scurry away.

Shortly after, an explosion that covered a wide area occurred, sending out a wave of heat. Luckily, the wolves had learned their lesson, no one was hurt.

This meant that out of the original twenty-five slave rats that had come to the mountain, only fourteen remained.

These fourteen slave rats, scattered around the mountain foot, had all fallen into a dazed state, unaware of their mindlessness.

"Rest," Priya commanded, her voice seeming to echo across dimensions, sounding like an order to the universe itself.

Immediately, the fourteen slave rats collapsed to the ground, much to the surprise of their antagonizers.

They all closed their eyes to sleep, unaware that they would now be sharing the same dream.

While she was doing all this, Priya had her eyes locked on Katari, Isaiah, and Kael. She was unable to make sense of what she was seeing.

How was this possible?

Katari stared wide-eyed at Isaiah as blood began to spill out of the slit on her throat.

"Hehehe! You will know how it feels to lose a friend, Kael. I have made sure of that…"

*BAM!*

Kael burst forth with all his might, releasing Baba in the process, but Isiah had anticipated this and teleported away.

Kael turned around to see that Katari was looking at him with a pleading expression, as though she wanted to apologize for something. Her legs began to quiver, unable to hold her any longer.

Kael rushed to her side, using his shoulder to gently support her body while he began to transform into his humanoid form.

He held her large body with his two arms, putting one hand under her neck, a futile attempt to stop the bleeding.

With as much care as he could provide, he guided her to lay on her side while he kept his hand on the neck gash.

Katari looked at Kael with her dulling eyes. Despite her fading vision, she could see the seriousness on Kael's face, she had never seen anything like it before.

She didn't know if she was hallucinating but she could make out a stream of liquid flowing from his eyes down his cheeks. But his face remained stern.

Kael was in a state where he wanted to cry, he wanted to weep, but his mind did not allow such. An act of weakness that he would punish himself for, he rendered himself incapable of crying.

But his body was not his mind, it still moved on its own, producing tears which he did not ask for.

Kael wanted to call for N'bayé or Nalii but guessed they were not around, if not they would have been present a long time ago.

Seeing Katari close her eyes sent him into a survival state, his eyes sharpened and his expression became colder. Instantly, the tears in his cheeks evaporated.

Two horns grew out of his head, glowing a bright green and gold.

Vines crept forward from the mountain, from the forest, from the ground. They rushed at Kael, encasing both him and Katari in a large cocoon.

Chloe watches this with a complicated expression, she doubted if anyone would be able to survive such an attack. Katari was going to die, she knew it.

"If she dies, imagine what will happen to you," A voice came from her left, shocking Chloe. She had not sensed anyone approaching her at all.

She turned to see a naked woman standing dangerously close to her. Her body was a transparent grey, akin to a ghost.

She had the characteristic tail and ears of a lioness, indicating her identity.

What scared Chloe was that this woman currently had her hand phased through her neck. All she needed to do was solidify before severing the connection between Chloe's head and body.

Priya stared down at the winged lioness with caution, she may be passive but she was ready to end Chloe's life at any moment.

Chloe could only stay still.

At the same time, Isaiah appeared beside Baba not far from the massive vine cocoon.

"Isaiah, what have you done?" Baba asked weakly as he struggled to get up.

Isaiah had a wicked look in his eyes, he placed his feet on Baba's back, forcefully keeping the lion pressed to the ground. It couldn't be helped, Baba was already very weak and he was currently bleeding from his neck where Kael had bitten him.

"What have I done?" Isaiah asked as he looked down at Baba with undisguised disdain, "I took my revenge,"

"You lions think you're high and mighty, you were still played by my hand."

Isaiah spread his wings, exuding an air of triumph.

"No…" Baba was about to speak but Isaiah's feet came down on his head, smashing his jaw into the ground.

"Shut up!"

*PEEP!*

Isaiah's expression froze as the rune on his shoulder lit up, the same rune that had been drawn by Xu Ying.

From his position, Baba could glimpse at the flashing red and blue light coming from Isaiah's shoulder. A bloody smile appeared on his mouth, one gat was full of mockery.

"That rune that Xu Ying gave you, do you know what it is?" Baba asked, knowing full well that Isaiah didn't know.

"It's a coordinate finder, meant to override your space powers. It will only be triggered when one of us suffers a lethal injury,"

Isaiah's expression became grim, he finally understood. He was not just being tracked, he was meant to be the escape path.

"No…" Isaiah shouted but his crummy was cut short as he disappeared from his position unwillingly. Following that, a suction force pulled Baba's battered body into a space tunnel.

The same suction force appeared over Chloe and Wadolius, but a new force appeared and surrounded the space tunnels, causing them to collapse on themselves.

A deep primal growl resounded from the vine cocoon, a growl that could only have come from Kael.