Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

*BOOM!*

An explosion went off beside her, sweeping her black hair forward as she stood against the searing heat.

She turned her head slightly to see the mangled corpses of wolves amidst the cloud of dust.

She leaned her body to the side, dodging pieces of stones that were about to hit her.

*SCREEEEECH!*

The crazed sound 9f a rat screaming reached her twitching ears from the right.

One of the rats was running toward her with saliva dripping from its mouth. It ran on all fours, looking like a slightly smaller ordinary wolf.

It was fast, Katari admitted in her mind, but it was nowhere near what she was used to.

She raised her hand to the rat, just as the rat leaped off the ground and lunged at her.

With a grabbing motion from Katari, the rat froze in the air, its limbs spread apart, still ready to attack her.

Katari glared at the suspended rat, eyeing every part of its body, wondering what gave this creature such guts.

Did it not know the meaning of fear? This was a genuine question she asked herself in her mind.

Then she clenched her hand into a fist.

The rat's body was instantly crushed into a ball of flesh and bones. Blood vessels burst and bones were shattered beyond recognition.

The former rat, now a ball of flesh and bones hung in the air, even the blood that should have dropped to the floor could only stick to the ball.

The rat itself died instantly as its head was flattened to a fine red sheet, and with that, its brain was also mushed and distributed all over the ball.

Katari performed this brutal act with ease, curving her finger to rotate the ball.

However, the instant the rat died, another reaction took place. A rune that has surprisingly remained intact glowed brightly before causing the whole body of the rat to detonate.

*BOOF!*

Katari frowned as she put her other hand forward to hold her ball in place.

She pressed on as the explosive force threatened to escape her hold. The ball of flesh and bones was completely disintegrated and all that was left was a swirling mass of fiery unstable energy.

The spatial barrier holding it in place struggled to hold on tight, the air vibrated fiercely.

The sound of glass cracking reached the ears of the onlookers.

Eventually, the violent mass of fiery unstable energy began to fade away, Katari had successfully contained an explosion.

As soon as she put her hands down, the searing heat hit her but there was no damage, the threat was gone.

Suddenly, Katari disappeared, teleporting a few meters away. Where she had previously been standing, a small fissure had appeared.

"I thought I heard a familiar name. Isaiah, it's you isn't it," Katari said lightly, her telepathic voice was calm.

Space cracked as a large crane appeared in front of her and landed on the ground.

Isaiah.

Previously, she had heard someone scream Isaiah's name, she didn't expect it to be the same Isaiah that had been on her mind for some time.

"Katari, I was half expecting you to be decapitated by now. Oh well, I'll do it myself." Isaiah said nonchalantly, his green eyes scanned Katari from head to toe.

"Hmm, what a coincidence, I was thinking the same thing," Katari responded.

As soon as her sentence ended, both of them disappeared from their positions.

Dozens of clanking sounds resounded everywhere, yet the sources of the sounds could not be seen.

Every clash seems to send them into an artificial pocket space, momentarily making them invisible to the common eye.

The more Isaiah fought her, the more frustrated he became, "You've become stronger, more skilled, impressive!" He spat.

With a wave of his wings, a wide spatial blade shot straight for Katari's neck. Instead of dodging, Katari extended her hand to catch the invisible blade.

Isaiah watched with wide eyes as Katari spun around, redirecting the blade and sending it back to him.

The blade clashed with the spatial barrier surrounding him, leaving some cracks before disappearing.

"I should have killed you the moment I had the chance!" Isaiah screamed, his senses being clouded by rage. He flapped his wings, shooting himself at Katari.

Katari smiled at his words, "Another coincidence, I was also thinking about that too."

What was most infuriating for Isaiah was that Katari was clearly at a disadvantage, yet she refused to fight in her lioness form. It was as if she was confident in taking care of him with only one-third of her power.

Isaiah released a furious cry, spreading his wings and sending spatial blades in every direction.

Katari constantly teleported out of the way, every time she disappeared, she reappeared with a harder frown on her face.

Just then, a furious roar came from the sky. Katari looked up to see a furious winged lioness speeding toward them from afar.

Although she was far away, the lionesses quickly arrived above them.

Chloe, who had been looking for Isaiah had heard his cry and instantly chased after it.

Isaiah, seeing Chloe, already knew what happened. After all, she had a brief exchange with Kael just now, everything that transpired was different from what he had told them.

"Chloe, that's the most dangerous one of them all. If we take care of her, Kael would be weakened. Let's join forces to put her down," Isaiah said decisively, making sure that his telepathic voice was heard by Katari.

Katari's face remained calm but her eyes grew colder at the mention of Kael. She tilted her head to the side as she gazed at Chloe strangely.

Chloe glanced at Katari, noticing the sudden spatial twists that were starting to appear around her.

Then she glanced at Isaiah, anger evident on her face.

Isaiah ignored her, glad that everything was going according to plan. Kael was far stronger than he expected, but that didn't mean he couldn't achieve anything.

*BAM!*

A paw smacked Chloe's face out of nowhere, sending her to the ground. The attack was too sudden and too powerful.

Chloe crashed to the ground, forming a small crater. She was disoriented, but her instincts screamed at her to escape quickly.

She flapped her wings, forming a powerful gust of wind that pushed her away from the ground and back into the sky.

The small crater she formed exploded just as she left, leaving nothing but a large lioness with lustrous fur, staring at her menacingly.

Chloe blinked once, and the lioness was gone, vanished.

The Air Lioness looked up instinctively to see Katari appear above her with one of her paws in a swiping motion.

Chloe tucked her wings in and performed a spin in the air, dodging two of the three claw strikes.

Unfortunately, the third spatial claw hit her left wing, shaving off a few large feathers and drawing blood.

"Isaiah, help me!" Chloe commanded. But Isaiah was nowhere to be seen, he had vanished from the battle scene.

Katari also noticed that Isaiah was absent which disturbed her a lot. Such a threat shouldn't be left alive, especially not now.

Katari teleported to the ground, her claws still bared and ready to tear all in her path.

As if by calculation, Chloe fell to the ground in front of her, bringing up a cloud of dust that didn't bother Katari at all.

Chloe stood up to look at this Space Lioness, the way Katari looked at her was very disturbing and made her feel way too close to death than usual.

She could feel that one of her wings was damaged. She could still fly but would have to suffer excruciating pain.

"You wish to kill Kael?" Katari asked Chloe. Katari was smart enough to notice that something was wrong.

To her, it seemed like Chloe was angry with Isaiah, which shouldn't be so, weren't they on the same side?

Katari had simply wanted to prevent her from escaping to be sure. If not, that claw would have struck Chloe's neck.

As for whether that attack would have been effective was yet to be known.

"No, not anymore," Chloe said truthfully while trying to catch her breath. "Everything was orchestrated by Isaiah, we were tricked."

"Hmm," Katari listened but didn't believe anything she heard.

It was at this time that the booming sounds coming from within the mountain grew louder. The earth trembled as something smashed its way through the insides of the mountain.

*BOOM!*

With a thunderous boom, rocks and vines were blasted away from one side of the mountain.

A massive lion burst out of the mountain, roaring in pain as he curved through the air. The lion fell to the ground and rolled, leaving small cracks on the floor.

Low thumping sounds echoed from the huge dusty hole that had just been formed inside the mountain.

Baba, the lion who had been blasted out of the mountain, looked up with a look of terror.

"W-what…" He tried to talk but ended up coughing up blood, his internal injuries were serious.

As he stood up, he felt the emptiness coming from his shoulder. To his horror, one of his front limbs had been cleanly ripped off.

Baba, who was supposed to have four front limbs now had three only. It was only now that he was registering his situation, the pain flooded his mind like a storm.

Yet, amidst his loud roar, a massive golden lion calmly walked out of the swirling dust.

Majestic.

Blood dripped from the lion limb that was clamped in between his jaws. Baba could only watch as Kael walked towards him with his front limb in the golden lion's mouth.

"Wait!"