Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 52: Expenditure

The Humanoid Form provided a couple of benefits to the high-level animals, and one of them was endurance.

The human body serves as a form of limiter, ensuring that energy expenditure are kept lower than usual.

This makes it so that if a creature could do a certain activity for one hour straight in its true form before getting tired, then in its humanoid form, it would be able to do that same activity for three hours straight.

However, this trait of the human body came with a trade-off. That was the reduced strength.

A creature would only be able to keep at most one-third of his or her original strength while being in their human form.

No one knew why creatures could take on this form after reaching a certain power level, and no one understood why there was such a disadvantage and advantage that came with it.

In a drawn-out fight, the human form would be very good for a battle of attrition.

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With this obvious knowledge, the rhino had taken on his human form as he could see he was expending too much energy trying to fight these lionesses

If he was fighting just N’bayé, there would be no need to take on this human form of his. But with the eight other lionesses interfering, it had become troublesome.

On a normal day, none of these lionesses could hold a candle to him. They would all die by his horn with little chance to escape.

But N’bayé was here, hitting him left and right with magical tricks that he could not understand or defend against.

She took all his attention away from the smaller lionesses and focused it on herself.

The best way to fight them would be in a humanoid form, he would eliminate the small lionesses one by one, then transform into his original form to fight N’bayé. That was what he thought even though he was sure he couldn’t actually beat N’bayé.

What he failed or was too dumb to think about was that N’bayé would remain in her lioness form through this fight. Therefore, she would be coming at him with her full might while still having the assistance of the eight other lionesses, while he can only defend himself with one-third of his power

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The three-meter-tall rhino man breathed heavily, his grey shoulders rising and falling along with his broad chest.

Smoke rose from his body and claw marks littered his back, creating a sorry sight.

His head turned to the right, his eyes locked on a large lioness that prowled with murderous intent.

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand to catch a purple blur. His hand gripped Ruda’s neck with an iron grip and he squeezed.

His arms felt numb from all the electricity that was rampaging through his veins but he refused to let go.

He didn’t have the chance to end Ruda as he caught a metal glint from the corner of his eyes.

He quickly turned around, allowing the metal claws to land on his shoulders.

The claws dug in and exited his muscles quickly, ripping some veins in the process. Very little blood flowed out but it was still painful.

His left hand still gripped Ruda’s neck and he waved his right hand to swat Zabita away.

Amidst this distraction, he had taken his eyes off N’bayé once again.

Two blue magic circles appeared in the air beside N’bayé, then…

*BOOM!*

Two blue cannon balls were launched from the magic circles and made their way to the rhino man.

Before he could even understand what was happening, the blue cannon balls hit his back with unholy force.

He was forced to release Ruda as he was sent flying. He covered a few meters before rolling on the floor, his eyes brimming with anger.

"DAMN YOU ALL!"

He waved his hand fiercely, causing the earth to break apart and an arc of spikes to form around him.

All these spikes were bent and pointed straight at N’bayé. With another wave of his hand, the spike shot off to their target.

At this time, the rhino man arched his back and roared in pain, a look of fear in his eyes.

Claw marks kept appearing all over his body, but he couldn’t see or hear the attacker. This was what annoyed him and caused him to fear for the first time.

All the spikes sent out hitvN’bayé’s invisible barrier rapidly, causing a visible crack to appear in front of her. She didn’t dwell on it though, instead, the look of confidence in her eyes became more apparent.

She looked at the rhino man waving his arms around, looking for his invisible assailant.

If that was the only thing, he wouldn’t be feeling too overwhelmed, but there was a splitting headache he was having that made him want to scream in pain. He was seeing things that were not there, and finding it hard to concentrate.

His eyes were dazed, confused about what direction he was swinging his arms in when a large lioness with bulging muscles jumped on him.

Diane’s long claws dug into his back as she bit his thick shoulder. Her sabertooth fangs pierced into his flesh and only stopped going in after encountering his shoulder bones.

The rhino man screamed in a hoarse voice, his thick skin could not contend against the strength of this lioness at all.

Reaching back, he grabbed Diane’s neck and heaved, tearing her away from him and slamming her down in front of him. The ground cracked and Diane felt her strong bones almost give up on her.

She rolled away, avoiding the incoming fist that ended up slamming the ground and creating a small crater.

The rhino man stopped, clarity resuming its role in his eyes. This was a battle he wouldn’t win, he could tell. His energy was low and he was tired.

The battle he had expected to be drawn out ended up making him waste his energy for nothing.

They had been fighting for so long yet he hadn’t killed a single lioness. It wasn’t like he was fighting against N’bayé alone, he was fighting nine lionesses, eight since the chubby one was just watching from afar…

"YOU!" He roared. Following that, his body began to twist and turn as his bones snapped and reassembled themselves.

In an instant, he had transformed back to his original rhinoceros form. Without saying anything else, he charged straight for Olivia.

"NOW!" N’bayé shouted into their minds.

Immediately, all eight lionesses chased after the rhino.

In the rhino’s eyes, Olivia the chubby lioness panicked, seeing a four-meter-tall beast coming at her with full speed.

Then, she disappeared.

The rhino’s eyes widened as he didn’t stop running. He had originally planned to crush Olivia to a meat pulp before escaping so that he could come back to fight another day.

Even though he was confused about what happened, he didn’t stop running.

Meanwhile, Olivia appeared like a ghost beside Kael who was calmly watching all this. "You’re lucky," That was all he said as the power of space calmed down around him.

Only he knew how much energy he spent just now to save Olivia.

The eight lionesses pursued the rhino until they left the duo’s sight. They left behind a battlefield where almost all the trees had been destroyed.

Kael could not help but adjust his evaluation of N’bayé’s intelligence. From the moment the fight started, it was as if the rhino had played into her hands.

It was like she had already prepared for everything and was only expecting the rhino to show up.

"Let’s follow them," He said before walking with Olivia who was still confused about what just happened.

Two red foxes followed from behind, they had realized just how dangerous this mountain area was and felt it better to just stick close to the lions for now.

At the same time, the rhino created earthen walls and pillars behind him as he ran at full speed.

This indeed hindered the movement of the lionesses but they were cats, their agility made it easy for them to scale the walls and dodge the pillars.

All this time, the rhino expended energy just to get away from the lionesses. He had already wasted a lot of energy when he was fighting them, now that he was in his rhino form, he was even expending more energy in a shorter amount of time.

After a few minutes, he began to slow down, feeling exhausted. His ears twitched, and he could hear the footsteps of the lionesses getting closer.

How could they still be chasing him? Weren’t they also tired? Only N’bayé should be able to chase after him at such speeds and still keep up.

When the lionesses showed themselves, apart from N’bayé, the rest all had glowing runes on their backs. They looked tired but not as much as the rhino.

They were getting closer and closer, causing the rhino to begin to feel dread. The world wasn’t fair to him, he believed. He had only come for revenge after seeing an opportunity, why was he suddenly in this situation?

Diane jumped onto his hind side and crawled up his back, followed by Ruda and Katari. They began clawing and biting his hard flesh relentlessly, soon making him roar in pain.

His loud agonizing cry scared away all the animals nearby.

A small magic circle appeared ahead and multiple red tongues stretched out from it to wrap around the rhino’s leg.

At the speed he was going, they couldn’t stop him, but they managed to trip him.

With a resounding boom, the rhino fell to the ground and slid across the forest floor. This gave the other lionesses time to catch up and jump on the rhino.

By the time the rhino stood up, six lionesses were clinging to his back and N’bayé used her claws to hold onto the shoulders while she bit fiercely at his neck.

Nalii followed from behind, using vines to whip at the rhino’s legs.

The rhino had barely traveled one hundred meters before he collapsed to the ground again, no longer able to feel his body.

The lionesses in his back had burnt, electrified, and clawed through all the layers of his skin to get to his spine before ruthlessly destroying it.

Blood gushed out of his back and drenched the lionesses in red. They still didn’t, they continued to dig into the rhino’s back as though they were digging for treasure.

For the rhino, this absence of feeling was even more agonizing than the pain he experienced before. And he was also running out of breath…

Just like that, the rhino closed its eyes for the last time as his heart stopped beating.

Just then, Kael, Olivia, and the two foxes showed themselves. Kael had a greedy look in his eyes as he stared at the body of the rhino.

’With this, I should be able to enter tier 3,’