Reincarnated As A Li Chapter 26: Growing Up

Chapter 26: Chapter 26: Growing Up

Kael opened his eyes one more ti to see the morning sky and feel the morning breeze.

Finally, after two years, he had stumbled upon a mory that explained a bit about the type of lionhearts.

Ti after ti, ever since he started having more and more access to the mories of the primordial lions, he had searched for a way to know more about the powers that lions possessed.

Ever since he saw those exotic appearances those lions and lionesses in Bethel's mories had, he knew that there was more to the lion race.

Added Katari, who was very different from the lionesses in that particular mory. This had confird his belief that the lions were divided into subspecies.

These lion subspecies were not as simple as the subspecies he knew of from his previous earth life.

But the mories of the Primordial Lions were truly complete. It contained almost everything that they ever experienced when they were alive.

Because of this, Kael mostly found short mories that involved the Primordial doing mundane stuff like eating, strolling, lazing around, and many other things that weren't really impactful or contained satisfactory information.

'So there are fourteen different subspecies of lions based on the Lionheart type and Katari is a space lion with the space lionheart,' Kael thought.

When Noel was talking to the fourteen different groups of lions, he had purposely ntioned their traits as a way to motivate them for his cause.

His thoughts over these groups were naturally transferred to Kael. Now that Kael knew what needed to be known, a lot of his other plans could be pushed forward.

His lack of knowledge concerning these matters made it difficult for him to take actions that he needed to take. Going forth blindly without sufficient knowledge could be very detrintal to him.

Now that Kael was three years old, he had changed both in appearance and mindset.

Physically speaking, he was quite large. He was now rubbing shoulders with so lionesses, gone was the little cub.

But he was still so centiters away from being close to the pride leader. In terms of height, he was closer to Uncle.

Now that he was no longer a cub, the mass of golden fur covering his body beca more eye-catching. To hunt had beco a bit difficult for creatures that weren't color blind.

If he didn't use the camouflage ability he got from Katari, this would have been a major issue. The camouflage ability itself wasn't an actual invisibility technique, rather it was an instinctive manipulation of the space around the user to appear invisible or blend into the surroundings.

Kael had initially wondered how the camouflage ability worked even though he used it too many tis. With Noel's mory, this wasn't hard to guess anymore.

His mane hadn't yet grown out but it was almost there. As of now, the mane on his neck was sparse and dark, his muscular shoulders were still exposed. The dark mohawk that extended from his head to the center of his back was enough for him for now.

His claws had already gone full tallic looking, even his teeth. It looked like his whole skeleton was made up of a tallic material that was golden in color.

The change to his bones was not natural but ca about after Zabita joined the pride a year ago.

Kael learned after scouring the mories for a long ti that the primordial lions didn't always have tallic claws all their life.

For example, in the last mory he had access to, Noel didn't have golden claws despite being fully grown.

tallic claws were obtained after a primordial lion got the ability of a certain type of lionheart.

Now, any ti he bared his claws, they would reflect the nearest light source and garner quite the attention. However, the sharpness of each claw was not to be underestimated.

Kael had now gotten used to the feeling of his claws easily tearing through most things.

One ti, he tried to bite the neck of a young zebra to suffocate it. Instead, he ended up tearing the whole throat away from the neck, his teeth were that sharp.

Kael was confident that his bodily weapons were on the sa level if not stronger than the pride leader's.

In terms of mindset, Kael had beco more mature and goal-oriented. Before he was still learning how to peel away his antisocial characteristics, now he had gone beyond that.

One of the things that influenced his mindset the most was the mories of the Primordial Lions, especially Noel.

Noel was an interesting Lion, even among the other Primordials. He was what the humans of Kael's past life would call a fascist.

Anyti Kael scoured his mories, he found Noel always thinking about how to lead the lion race to conquer worlds. Even when Noel was idling about, he was still thinking about it.

In Noel's eyes, every creature was inferior to the Lions. He saw lions as the de facto nobility of the universe and every other thing was ant to bow at their feet.

Noel was so sure and determined of his ideology that he beca a borderline extremist. Genocides and forced slavery were the usual occurrences in his mind at so point.

Unfortunately or fortunately, this mindset had begun to influence Kael's way of thinking.

Although he was not too intent on the genocide and slavery part, the conquering and nobility part was practically part of his existence now.

Whenever Kael looked at anything that wasn't a lion, it was like a nobleman looking at a beggar, though wasn't quite aware of this yet.

"The Conquering? What is that?" Noel had ntioned this right before Kael was pulled out of the mory space.

Shaking his head, Kael pulled himself out of his thoughts. Today was a very special day, there was ti to think later.

What was happening today? The pride leader had finally gotten tired of a certain soone and it wasn't Pavel or Kael, it was Burdo.

Contrary to Kael's original expectations, the pride leader didn't end up expelling Pavel.

Over the series of months, Pavel realized that the only way to enjoy the things he wanted was to beco the pride leader. But challenging the pride leader was no different from suicide.

Alas, when he looked at Uncle and how he enjoyed a percentage of the benefits. He got to eat well, and there seed to be so tis that he frolicked with a lioness and the pride leader turned a blind eye to it.

All the privileges that Uncle enjoyed could be his, as long as he was subordinate to the Pride leader.

The options remained, either leave the pride to establish his own. This ca with a high level of uncertainty.

Or submit to the pride leader and continue living a privileged lifestyle.

Pave chose the second option. This process didn't co about without so ups and downs.

The pride leader had to beat him up a couple of tis to let him know the true difference between both of them.

Kael had watched all this play out with his observant gaze, a trait he still had from being an introvert.

Now Burdo, Kael's brother, was completely different. Burdo could be described as soone who had issues with figures of authority.

If Burdo had kept his reserved nature through the years, it would have been fine and there wouldn't have been as much commotion as there is now.

The food, the females, the status, the authority, he wanted it all. He was never hesitant to throw challenging roars at the pride leader whenever he wasn't doing sothing else.

To Burdo, there was no other option, either he beca the pride leader or no one would be pride leader.