Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 111: Soul Flame

Author’s Note: There was an error as this chapter is the combination of two chapters (the previous and the Soul Flame chapter). Unfortunately, I can’t delete the excess so you guys will have to bear with me. Please scroll down until you find the Soul Flame chapter.

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Pain filled Kael’s senses as he saw his hand being squeezed to mush. Darius effortlessly crushed his hand as if Kael wasn’t trying to put up any resistance.

Despite the pain, Kael didn’t say a word or shout.

Before he could react, Darius, who was still holding on to his crushed hand pulled back. He flung Kael to the side as if he was dealing with a piece of trash.

Kael crashed to the side, almost falling off the edge of not that he used his metallic gold claws to stop himself. He could only achieve this by using his one remaining good arm and his two legs.

He still had to be careful not to damage the two red-capped mushrooms.

He looked up in alarm to see Darius jump forward and land at the edge of the mountaintop. Kael breathed a sigh of relief as Darius was not coming for him.

He looked down at his crushed hand, or what remained of it. He tried to summon some vegetation out of the ground but he was finding it hard. High up on the mountaintop, it was hard to find strong vegetation as most of the area was filled with rocks.

He managed to draw out a few thin vines though. The vines wrapped around his crushed hand and began pumping vitality into him. He could feel his hand recovering and his shattered bones rearranging themselves.

Meanwhile, Darius was looking down the mountaintop. He saw Isaiah, his friend, perched halfway down the mountain with a spatial barrier around him.

On one side were dozens of floating stones shooting electric arcs at the spatial barrier. On the other side was a fierce lioness rapidly throwing sharp spatial claw slashes at the big bird.

The spatial barrier was cracking and it would soon collapse if something didn’t happen fast.

From the looks of it, Isaiah would be able to handle either of the enemies if he was at his peak or if he was fighting one of them at the same time, but he had just had a battle with Katari.

Darius’s red ring eyes stared intensely at those floating stones. He could feel the power of electricity within them and he could tell that the electric energy was not coming from the stones themselves. The stones were just an output device, the electric energy was coming from another source.

"Hmm…" Darius stretched out his hand. Red lightning began to flow on top of his body and in his eyes. The red lightning was bright and aggressive in its movement, seemingly designed to obliterate anything in its path.

He waved his outstretched hand slightly, sending an electric arc down the mountain. The electric arc moved fast, instantaneously arriving above Isiah and hitting the magic stones.

The magic stones seemed to go into overload as the red lightning drilled into them and followed the path to their source of power. One by one, the stones exploded into fine dust that rained down on Isaiah’s spatial barrier.

Everything happened so fast, Katari looked up to see another arc of electricity coming at her. She instinctively teleported out of the way, but she wasn’t fast enough.

When she appeared again tens of meters down the mountain, her body was smoking and there was a burnt smell coming from her.

On her back was a deep burn wound, no blood flowed out of it as the wound had been sealed by the heat just as it had been made.

Katari fell to the floor, her limbs overcome with weakness but her mind was still active. Faint red sparks still flickered over her body as the residual power of annihilation threatened to consume her.

One had to know that Katari was a tier 3 lioness, in this world, she was a powerhouse. Even though she wasn’t a war-type lioness, her body was still strong enough for her to easily break most things. Her fur and skin were tough and it would be hard for anything to just cause her any injuries.

Kael guessed that the only thing that would be able to effortlessly pierce through the skin of a tier 3 lioness was a creature of similar power level or bullets shot by certain guns.

But there were no guns in this world and the number of creatures with similar power levels was scarce.

But here was Katari, easily taken out by a casual strike from Darius.

"Forgive me, friend, I was too late," Darius said, his voice somehow reaching Isaiah’s ears.

Isiah looked up with an elated expression, the spatial barrier around him dispersed as he made an effort to preserve and recover his energy. "You are okay, that’s all that matters. Did you succeed?" Isiah asked.

A smirk appeared on Darius’s face as he nodded his head slowly.

Isiah spread his wings and was about to fly up to meet his friend when his eyes widened, "WATCH OUT!" He shouted.

Darius turned around only for his face to get smashed with a large fist.

A resounding boom echoed out as the ground on which Darius stood shattered. He took a heavy step back before regaining his balance and preventing himself from falling over.

His cheeks were pressed to the side by Kael’s fist. Kael, who had launched himself from the opposite side of the mountaintop’s platform, looked into Darius’s red eyes.

His expression was fierce and his mind was determined. He had only managed to move Darius by a single step and that was only because he was using the power of War.

Kael kicked out, his feet landing with superior might on Darius’s muscular abdomen.

Darius’s body shot back, his legs digging two fissures into the stony ground. His expression remained calm though. He observed this humanoid who had suddenly grown to eight feet and had gotten extra muscular.

"You have more than one power in you, like the spiders," Darius concluded.

Red lightning crackled around him as he disappeared from his position, leaving behind a red spark trail.

*BAM! BAM!*

Like drum beats, Kael felt two fists collide with his chest within that second. He found himself flying away from the mountaintop with a deep cavity in his chest.

Darius had discarded him and ignored his physical defense to do such a level of damage. Kael knew he had no chance if he wanted to fight fair.

He had to use it.

Without hesitation, ignoring the searing pain coming from his chest, his left hand rose to his mouth and he stuffed one of the red-capped mushrooms into his mouth.

Darius’s eyes widened when he caught a glimpse of the red-capped mushroom, "That thing…"

Kael felt all the cells in his body go into overdrive, he felt like he had been soaked in the purest form of energy and all this energy was building up too fast inside of him, he had to release it quickly if not he would explode.

His golden eyes took on a red tint and red veins appeared on his muscular body.

"Aaarrgh!" He couldn’t help but let out a deep roar.

Like jet engines, Kael’s two feet burst out reddish-blue flames as he shot back to the mountaintop like a human-shaped missile.

Seeing the incoming attack, Darius frowned but he did not try to move out of the way, he was filled with confidence that nothing would happen.

*BOOM!*

Stone debris flew into the air as the mountaintop was decimated. Darius found himself looking at the sky with his back touching the ground.

A raging flaming fist came down hard and hit his face, causing the ground beneath his head to break away.

Lightning surged out of his body as he caught Kael’s next punch, albeit using way more effort than before.

The red lightning concentrated on Darius’s left fist as he threw out his own punch. His blow hit Kael square on the jaw and a faint crack could be heard as Kael stumbled away.

Darius shot up from the ground, lightning coiling around his arms like red glowing snakes.

Kael dropped the last red-capped mushroom in his hand. He had no idea if he would need it later but for this fight, he couldn’t afford for both his hands to be occupied.

Darius had not yet transformed into his true tiger form and Kael would not be stupid to do the same. Although there was no pride in this fight since this was a matter of life and death, there was still some dignity at play.

Darius clearly didn’t want to use his full might on Kael and spend his energy on him and Kael would act the same.

Kael reached up with his now free left hand and rearranged his jaw, snapping it back into place. There was a metallic cling as the jaw was set back.

Almost at the same time, both Kael and Darius burst out with extreme speed, clashing their fists with each other in an instant.

Within seconds, they had exchanged tens of blows with Darius throwing more.

Kael did not use the power of electricity he got from Ruda as that was just the lesser version of what Darius was using. Using it would be like giving Darius a stick to beat him with.

Instead, he used the power of War to strengthen his body, then combined it with the power of fire and space as his primary weapons. Every other power he used to fight Darius was just what he remembered to use at that moment.

The battle between these two big humanoid cats became so intense that the whole mountaintop started crumbling.

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As the battle happened above, rubbles fell down the mountain and some of them hit the wolves.

A few wolves were immediately killed upon being hit with these falling rocks. Luckily, the foxes who were crazily searching for loot were unscathed.

Despite the rain of stones happening around them and the heavy-hitting battles happening above, the foxes refrained from running away.

That would just give Madam Vixy a reason to gloat and tell them that she was right. To them, the falling rocks did not pose much of a danger as Vixy’s scorn.

The white fox who had received Vixy’s killing intent earlier was currently dragging the body of a large green lizard down the mountain with two other foxes.

He used his sharp teeth to latch on to the tail of the dead lizard while the two other foxes dragged with the hind limbs.

He had to make sure that this lizard carcass made it back to the cave, for the sake of his future and the sake of his peace of mind.

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Eidel ran the sides of the mountain in her humanoid form at incredible speed, taking on two different creatures on her own at the same time.

One was a weasel-like creature with fire attributes the same as hers. The other was a snake that had silver-colored metallic scales and a very long body. Its two long fangs would expose themselves anytime it tried to bite at the flaming lioness.

In this fight, the weasel acted with caution and it fought like it was being forced to. Not only was it smaller than Eidel, but it was also weaker.

Both the weasel and the snake were fighting Eidel in their true forms, using their full powers, but Eidel was still fighting in her human form, looking like she was about to explode with way more power.

The metal snake coiled its body tightly, metal clangs resounding from its action. Then it lunged straight at Eidel lightning fast with its open maw going straight for her neck.

Eidel saw this coming and had already thrown her fist out the moment the snake coiled itself.

An explosion occurred as the flaming fist met the metal scales. The metal snake felt a vibration spread from its head to its tail and its scales began to feel numb, like they weren’t there.

There was a weird tingling taste in its mouth, blood. Only then did it see how far Eidels punch had sent him.

Eidel didn’t need to use any superior physical prowess to achieve this. Just the shockwave of the explosion was enough to cause this type of knockback effect.

The weasel was affected by this explosion but wasn’t thrown away by the shock wave. Even Eidel was sent flying back as she wasn’t immune to the side effects of her own attack.

Seeing the opportunity, the weasel immediately turned around and ran down the mountain, intending to escape from Eidel. He had nothing to do with what was going on in the mountain, he could always find a new home, he didn’t see why he should risk his life for this one.

Eidel glanced at the running weasel and frowned. She didn’t want any of these animals to run away, after all, their hearts would help her pride sister evolve. It would be a waste to let them run away like this.

With that thought, the two tails behind her swerved from left to right and the ghostly white flame on the second tail grew brighter.

The flames on Eidel’s body turned from reddish-orange to ghostly white in that instant, and one of her tails retained its orange flames.

Her hair was still a bright red but the white flames that covered them gave her a mysterious look.

’Since ordinary fire wouldn’t work…’

She aimed her open hand at the running weasel and shot a head-sized white ball of fire. The white ball of fire zoomed toward the running weasel, hitting it before it could get close to the mountain foot.

"*SCREEEEEEEECH!*"

The weasel screamed like a maniac as its limbs gave out and it stumbled to the floor, tussling around.

He couldn’t remember when last he felt the sensation of something burning him, it had been so long, back when he was an ordinary weasel.

But now, he felt a burning pain and couldn’t understand where it was coming from.

In Eidel’s eyes, the flames of the weasel were still on and it didn’t look like it was suffering from any damage whatsoever.

However, Eidel knew that that flame didn’t target the physical matter of anything. Rather, that ghostly white flame was the soul flame and did just as it was intended to do… burn the soul.

The weasel rolled on the ground then got up and started bashing his head on the stony ground, hoping for the pain to distract him from the soul burn. But it was futile.

He felt the pain of his face being smashed against the rocks but that pain was nothing compared to the feeling of his soul being burnt away.

The worst part was that this was Eidel’s first time using this flame and she didn’t know how to use it well. If she could, she would have had the soul flame burn his soul fast.

But because she didn’t, she could only watch with a cold gaze as the soul of the weasel burned away at a slow pace.

Clanking sounds were heard as the rocks from the mountaintop fell on the metal scales of the snake. The falling rocks didn’t disturb the snake though as it was looking with its eyes filled with shock of the suffering weasel.

He turned his head just in time to see Eidel’s White-ish-red eyes staring straight at him.

"No," He lamented as he coiled back. He sprang away, dodging a white fireball by a hair’s breadth. His scales clanged against the ground as he slithered away from the mountain.

Eidel scoffed at the pitiful attempt of the snake to run away. Hadn’t he been so enthusiastic about fighting her a few seconds ago? Now that it saw something that its metal scales couldn’t defend against, it decided to run away.

She scoffed at the snake as it slithered in a zig-zag manner, hoping to dodge whatever projectile Eidel would shoot at him.

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He seemed to have forgotten how fire truly operates.

Eidel waves her hand out and a wave of fire spreads out from her body, washing down the mountain like white water. Except it wasn’t water, but fire.

Luckily, the part of the mountain where this fight was happening was absent of the wolves and other allies, if not Eidel would not be able to perform this act.

The white fire wave brushed past the metal-scaled snake before dispersing. What followed was a loud hiss that conveyed the agony expressed within.

The pain, there was none like it. It was like having an itch but not knowing where to scratch, except this itch was a million times more painful.

The snake could feel that a part of him was being corroded, eaten up into oblivion. As he felt his consciousness fading away, the feeling of pain didn’t stop, it just got more concentrated.

If only he could know what exactly was burning on his body, maybe would be able to cut it off.

That was the last thought of the metal-scaled snake as its sorrowful hiss died down and its body went limp. There was no sign of fire damage on its body, yet it had been burnt to death.

Eidel’s two tails swished as the white flames died down and were replaced with the regular orange flame of the mortals.

Even though she was in her humanoid form, this fight had cost a lot of energy and injuries. But looking at the two dead bodies, she felt it was worth it.

Small rocks fell on her at this time and she looked up to see what was happening.

Up above, on the mountaintop, the amount of booms she could hear per second was frightening. It was like five different explosions were happening within a second.

Joining this kind of fight was simply suicidal so she decided to stay back and watch the two corpses for now. She remembered seeing some foxes going around and picking the bodies while she was fighting, so she decided to wait for them.

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Kael’s body trembled as red veins bulged from his skin. Every movement he made caused the veins to glow with a faint light.

He threw his fist with the power of war and flames intertwined within.

*BOOM!*

It landed on Darius’s muscled chest and sent the humanoid tiger flying. However, Darius, with a body shrouded in red lightning, rushed back instantly and delivered a kick to Kael’s jaws.

This was how they exchanged blows, each blow being so powerful that it knocked the opponent away. And the fight was happening extremely fast with both of them throwing attacks multiple times per second.

As the fight drew on, its scale and intensity grew. There was now more lightning appearing and the booms had gotten louder.

Their current battleground could no longer contain them. For them to find an advantage over the other, they would have to leave the mountaintop.