Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

Kael crawled under the bushes, his back touching the dry branches. He saw the bloody scene Katari had left behind.

The corpses of five cubs were strewn across the place in the most violent way. One even looked like it had been bitten in half.

Among the dead cubs, were five live cubs. These cubs were huddled together in one corner, shaking from fear.

These cubs looked like they were only a few weeks old and all of them were females. Katari had made sure that every male was among the dead ones.

Seeing these cubs, Kael was reminded that he too was once like this. There had even been a time when he heard the roars of a foreign lion as a cub.

Thankfully, he had a very powerful father who deterred the opposition. If not, he would probably have experienced the same thing these cubs were experiencing.

"Unfortunately for you guys, your father is too weak to protect you," Kael spoke as he picked one of the cubs with his mouth gently, careful not to injure the cub with his teeth.

An outsider would think he hadn’t just ordered the assassination of their siblings a few moments ago just so he could feel what it’s like to have such power.

The lionesses outside watched as Kael went in and out of the den to bring the five cubs out.

He placed them all in a position that made them visible to all the members of the young pride.

Then finally, he went in one more time and came back out with the dead body of one of the cubs, a male one.

He dropped the corpse next to the five live cubs, painting a disturbing scene. Kael didn’t know about the rest but he was actually disturbed by it.

Yet he was the one who thought of it in the first place. Kael didn’t fail to pay close attention to the changes his mind was slowly undergoing, making him different from the human he was.

"Let me make it clear," Kael said as he used his paws to draw one of the cubs closer to him while he sat down.

"I do not want to hurt you more than I already have." He stated.

The young pride members were bewildered by the voice in their heads. They knew the voice was coming from the young golden lion in the center so they paid attention to him. They had to, after all, this golden guy was dangerously close to their cubs.

Kael looked at the pride leader who was struggling under Diane’s paw to get up. He bared his teeth at Kael, not willing to calm down at all.

"What I want from you all is simple, give it to me and I’ll leave you alone," He was bland. He actually was thinking of coming up soft with them but he remembered he was dealing with lions.

He closed his eyes for some moment to think of the rough plan he had just come up with. The next time he opened his eyes, they glowed a bright gold.

The Primordial laws were summoned, forming golden strings that sipped out of the void and into Kael.

Rectangular golden screens appeared in front of the members of the young pride. These were not contracts but something else, something more simple.

"Pardon me, I’m still learning this thing, I just came up with this…" Kael paused, letting a light chuckle escape into their minds.

The young pride members couldn’t understand his humor though.

"What you are all seeing in front of you is the Primordial Record, I just came up with the name. Adding your identity to the record automatically makes you part of my kingdom.

Of course, nothing comes for free, joining means you are under my Primordial laws and would have your energy synchronized with me, your king."

As Kael said this, he looked closely at the pride leader, waiting for his reaction. As expected, he was not taking this well.

Not only had these foreign lions invaded his territory, but they had killed his cubs without any reason at all. Now, their leader was offering what looked like a way to join his kingdom, basically asking him to be subservient.

The pride leader was so mad he forgot that Diane’s paw was still over his head. He disregarded the golden screen in front of him, thrashing around and sending claw attacks at Diane.

Diane frowned, this stupid pride leader was annoying her. She applied slightly more pressure, causing a loud and clear cracking sound to resound out.

Her long claws began digging into his forehead, drawing blood and making the red liquid flow down the corner of his eyes.

The young pride leader felt like his skull was being crushed by the heaviest thing ever. The pressure was so bad that he could no longer open his mouth without injuring himself in the process.

The young lionesses watching their pride leader suffer like this gave them mixed feelings. They felt disappointed that their pride leader, the father of their cubs, was so weak that he couldn’t protect them from these threats, yet at the same time, they were vexed that anyone would dare to touch their pride leader like this in front of them.

Katari slowly glanced at them, she didn’t even hide the disdain in her eyes.

Kael shook his head at the pride leader, "You could fight all you want, you’d just end up killing yourself and everyone else here.

There is no way for you to win. We outmatch you both in quality and quantity. Instead, you should lead by example.

Once you add yourself to the Primordial Record, the rest will follow." Kael said plainly.

The eyes of the pride leader lingered on the golden screen before moving to Kael. He was scared, but his ego made it hard for him to make a decision.

Kael frowned at this, he didn’t want to spend time here. Without any warning, his paw rose and fell swiftly, like a golden blur.

Everybody apart from Katari had their eyes wide open. Beneath Kael’s fallen paw was the cub who he had kept beside him.

A sickening crunch entered the ears of everyone nearby. The cub didn’t even know how it died, it happened too fast. One moment, it was shaking from fear in the presence of this golden lion, the next thing its body was being crushed under the immense power of his paw.

A sorrowful roar filled the area. The lioness Katari was holding down struggled frantically with craze in her eyes, the cub that had just been crushed to death was hers.

Even the members of the Ol-mytee Pride were shocked, they never knew up till now that Kael had ordered Katari to kill five of these cubs already, so this action surprised them.

"The more you waste my time, the more death I will dish out. It’s your choice, I…" Kael hesitated to say the last part.

"I…honestly don’t mind killing you all one by one," He said.

"Really?" Nalii thought to herself, confusion running through her mind.

"What’s wrong with Kael?" Olivia asked Priya privately while maintaining her position on top of the miserable lionesses beneath her.

From the sound of her telepathic voice, Priya could tell that Olivia was genuinely worried. "I don’t know." She answered, short and simple because it was the truth. She really didn’t know why Kael was acting like this.

The young pride leader, seeing the dead body of his cub, was flabbergasted. And to prove he wasn’t in the mood for jokes, Kael placed his large paw on the next cub beside him.

The cubs couldn’t even run away when there was a long golden tail that circled around them and kept them close.

"Sign the record." He commanded.

The sight of his dead cub added to the increasing pressure on his head, made the young pride leader not take an extra second.

"I…I accept," His first telepathic words were rusty.

With a flash of black light, the golden screen in front of him had strange black characters added to it. These characters didn’t spell the name of the young pride leader as he didn’t have a name.

Kael didn’t know what that was either but he was glad the Primordial laws worked automatically in such situations like this. He didn’t want to have to be giving names everywhere he went.

’I’ll check more on this in the future,’ He decided to himself.

"Well that’s very good of you," He said before turning to the young lionesses.

After seeing the pride leader sign the record and accept his fate, another lioness immediately signed it as well. Kael currently had his paws on her cub and she didn’t want to find out what would happen if she didn’t.

One by one, they signed it, even the lioness that just had her cub killed, although begrudgingly.

"Let him go," Kael said calmly to Diane who lifted her paws from the pitiable lion’s head.

As soon as he could, he ran away but didn’t go far before stopping. He looked at the group warily, he was scared but he was still worried about his lionesses and the cubs.

"Let them all go," Kael spoke to his pride members while he walked away. As soon as they were free, the mothers grabbed their cubs and ran towards their pride leader. Only then did the pride leader breathe with relief.

’Will this happen to me if I don’t get stronger?’ Kael wondered as he looked at their distant figures with a melancholic gaze. That gaze was soon replaced with indifference.

"Let’s go,"