Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 61: To Suffer, To Enjoy
Early morning, the next day.
Inside the highest cave of the mountain, red lightning continuously shot out of the cave as a low tiger roar reverberated everywhere.
Space rippled like a curtain as a magnificent bird blended into existence. It was a crane, white and black in color.
Its long beak was black, like crude oil, and the talons at the end of its long legs looked like they could rip the void itself to shreds.
The crane landed his three-meter-tall body in front of the cave entrance. He didn’t seem to be afraid of the red lightning that occasionally brushed his body.
"DARIUS! COME OUT YOU HERMIT!" The crane shouted at the top of his voice. The sound of his voice grating to the ear would make anyone frown.
The red lightning instantly stopped shooting out of the cave.
"I’m not in the mood Isaiah," Darius sounded tired, like he was frustrated.
"Evolving into a Tier 4 tiger doesn’t happen immediately okay, you should chill." As Isaiah said this, his body began to shrink and he transformed into a thin young man.
A sigh that came from the bottom of his heart echoed past Darius’s cave. Soon, a tall red-haired man walked out leisurely.
"Don’t you have something better to do?" Darius asked, annoyed. His piercing red eyes showed friendliness but his facial muscles feigned anger.
"I actually don’t, that’s why I came. Hehe," Isaiah said as he walked to the edge of the flat ground where the cave rested.
He looked down from the tall mountain, his sharp eyes scanning everything in detail.
"Isaiah," Darius called, his voice taking a more serious tone.
"Yeah?" Isaiah turned away to look at Darius as the latter also stood at the edge of the top ground.
"Don’t you have any desire to evolve?" Darius asked, a bit worried.
"Why would I?" Isaiah asked with a playful chuckle.
"Don’t you desire to become better than what you are currently? The power, the might, don’t you want them?"
Isaiah turned away to look at the mountain floor again, "I do actually, but I’m not ready to put that amount of effort into it yet.
Look at you, hunting once in a while then retreating to your cave for long periods of time so that you can evolve.
I can’t be doing that, I’m a free bird. I like traveling and I have a lot of years ahead of me to take evolving to the next level seriously.
Besides, there is a possibility for failure, by which you could end up crippling yourself."
"Hmm, I also want to travel the world, but I don’t want to be unfortunate enough to stumble upon a foe I can’t defeat.
I don’t want this cave to be taken from me, I don’t want to be chased out of every tiger territory I enter like when I was younger.
So, I must evolve.
You’re willing to travel around the world at your young age when your peers are busy grinding to have a better future.
We may not travel often now, but if we can lay the foundation for our success, our future will be filled with the best of things the world has to offer.
You can either enjoy now before you make a sacrifice later, or you can sacrifice now and enjoy later.
Your choice."
Isaiah shrugged his shoulders, "To each his own.
When you succeed, however, don’t forget me, hehehe. I’ll definitely come to you for protection."
Darius sighed, seeing that his friend was not taking him seriously.
"What are you looking at?" He asked, trailing his sight to where Isaiah was looking at.
Isaiah frowned, "I saw some wolves near the foot of the mountain some time ago, they seemed to be scouting for something."
"You think it’s related to those lions?" Darius asked.
"Nah, ever since the neighbors have been giving them trouble, they’ve been low-key and defensive."
"It’s a shame that the rhino had to die, what happened to his heart? I was afraid that another tier 3 lioness would appear among them but I haven’t seen anything in the past six months."
"What about that male lion among them? The one with golden fur. I haven’t seen him in the last six months too…" Isaiah trailed off, not sure whether his contemplations were true.
"Well, male lions are usually very lazy and don’t like taking action unless necessary." Although Darius said this, his eyes narrowed dangerously as he was questioning his next decisions.
"Let’s just watch first," Isaiah muttered.
All this time, they had been speaking in a language very few in the forest knew of.
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"Aaah!"
"Ahh!"
"Ugh!"
"Argh"
The sound of N’bayé’s moans rushed out of the cave and into the ears of the other lionesses outside, causing their eyes to twitch.
Normally, they liked to act like they didn’t know what was going but as the sounds got louder, they began wondering.
Katari was the only one who acted normal. She sat there with her black eyes staring into the void. None of what was happening was her concern for now.
The sounds would sometimes shift from human-like sensual moans to zesty lion growls. It sounded as if N’bayé was changing from humanoid to lioness and back while having sex.
Very freaky.
Then there were also the slapping sounds and the crazed stench that wafted into their nose.
After close to an hour, the freaky sounds stopped coming out of the cave.
A few magic circles appeared in and at the entrance of the cave as water gathered out of the ground and rushed over the floor and walls.
The self-cleaning mechanism soon wiped out the stench and made the cave look as good as new.
Kael and N’bayé walked out of the cave in their Humanoid forms, N’bayé looked particularly exhausted as she leaned slightly on Kael’s arm.
Where was the cold, logical, and calculating N’bayé? Why was she looking so…flushed?
Kael looked up at the rising sun, ’There’s still time.’
"Kael, I’ll be going to my station to prepare, just in case," N’bayé said with a weak smile.
Kael nodded, allowing N’bayé to go to the clearing.
The sun rose higher and higher as Kael’s face became darker. Just when he was about to give up and think of which other wolf clan to meet, the sound of rustling bushes entered his ears.
He looked to one side of the forest. The forest had mostly started recovering from their fight with the rhino but it would take some time for the trees to fully grow back.
Multiple figures came into view with one of them being a tall humanoid with white hair in his head.
Kael recognized this man as Bibi III.
"Kael, I have come to bargain!" Bibi reached out telepathically before he arrived in front of them.
The lionesses stood up, alert and ready as they saw the multitude of wolves following behind Bibi.
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"I was beginning to lose faith, what is it?" Kael asked as he looked at the large wolves behind Bibi.
Each wolf was almost twice the size of a regular wolf and there were eight of them. However, they were not like Kael’s pride.
More than one of them had fiery fur that gave off the aura of a fire-type heart awakening.
The green wolf from before was among them. There was also one white wolf who stuck especially close to Bibi. The two grey wolves that Kael had attacked spiritually were also there.
Bibi arrived in front of Kael, looking up at the taller man. Even so, his aura did not diminish in the least.
His blue eyes stared intently at Kael as he said, "If we work together, after we succeed, I want you to help me annex the other wolf clans."
Kael raised his eyebrows, acting surprised, "And here I was, thinking you would ask me to fight the spiders."
"I’m just thinking of what’s best for the clan. No benefit can come from going after the spiders now." Bibi said, thinking rationally.
’No benefit to you, but to me.’ Kael thought to himself.
On the outside, Kael looked like he was having trouble agreeing but he was inwardly at peace.
"Fine," Kael finally admitted. He wanted to stretch his hand out to finalize the deal but remembered Bibi probably didn’t know what a handshake was.
Only after hearing Kael agree did he put a smile on his face.
He turned around to address the more than one hundred wolves behind him.
"From now on, we, the Bibi clan, will be allied with the Ol-mytee Pride. The decision has been made."
After that, Bibi raised his head to the sky as he let out a loud howl. His howl resounded all over the mountain and was heard by all its inhabitants.
’I would have preferred a surprise attack…’ Kael thought, annoyed by the sudden howling.
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All the wolves present started howling at the sky, early in the morning.
’Never mind,’ Kael gave up, Kael would have been tempted to think this was a setup if not that he learned of Bibi’s nature beforehand.
The howling was just the culture of the wolves and he would have to get used to it if he wanted them to be his subjects in the future.
Little did Bibi know that Kael’s soul came from a world where worded agreements meant close to nothing.
