Kael walked with elegance out of the wide hole that had been ford through the mountain. His golden fur and dark gold mane scattered from the wind, adding to his dominating presence.
In his mouth was one of the limbs of this supposed earth lion in front of him, dripping with blood and leaving a red trail on the ground.
As Kael got closer to the fallen lion, he thought to himself, 'That was a cool move though, smashing
through the mountain.
I bet it looked cool from soone else's perspective.'
Kael was genuine in his praise, even though he kept silent. His back aches slightly from having been hit repeatedly with hard jagged rocks. Luckily, his body was tough and he only suffered scratches and sore muscles.
Compared to his situation, Baba was not looking too well.
Halfway through the mountain, the whole situation had turned upside down. He realized too late that he was not as strong as Kael, way too late.
He was already in the middle 8f the mountain when Kael had begun ripping his limbs off, causing him excruciating pain.
Vines shot out of hw walls, whipping his body and leaving red marks underneath his fur.
By the ti they burst out of the other side of the mountain, Baba was the one with serious injuries and missing one limb.
Baba struggled to his feet, taking multiple steps back to keep his distance away from Kael.
"You're…golden," Baba muttered. He ignored the pain from his side where his limb used to be.
"Indeed, I am," Kael answered telepathically, his deep voice unsettling to Baba.
"Wait, there seems to be a misunderstanding…" Baba started.
Kael released his jaws, dropping the lion's forearm to the ground with a low thud. He stepped over the fallen limb, continuing his walk toward Baba.
"I can see that, but you didn't bother to check. You attacked without asking questions," Kael said. As he got closer, he seed to beco more tyrannical in Baba's eyes.
The last person he had seen with this disposition was his grandfather who was a lion king, soone he had only t once in his life.
"That's because we were told to do so by that bird, we were afraid you would cower and escape!" Baba tried to explain.
Kael paused his steps, much to the delight of the earth lion, "I'm guessing that bird is Isaiah, your winged friend ntioned him," He said.
Baba nodded his head as his fluffy dark mane shook with every movent, "Yes Yes Yes, I think Isaiah tricked us…"
"What trick?" Kael commanded an answer, one that struck the ego of a lion such as Baba, still he answered.
"Isaiah told us that you were…defective, not like us. That you were weak-willed, easily compromising. And most of all, you did not have any ability to conquer or instill your authority.
Very much not how a lion behaved, it's not our culture. We lions have a tradition of reeducating lions who steer astray from the culture.
We thought we could do the sa for you, and if you were too far from the lion way, we would just kill you."
"But…" Kael continued for him.
"But…you're not what Isaiah claid you are. You are clearly befitting of the lion culture, perhaps above average," Baba was decisive, throwing in a praise at the end.
"The lion culture? Such a term…" Kael muttered with a gentle smile, although his eyes remained cold.
"If that is so, then you should know what lions like
do to lions like you." Kael said as he continued walking forward again.
Baba gulped, feeling the surroundings getting hotter and the pressure getting heavier.
"You challenged a King…" Kael said while shaking his head as if he truly pitied Baba, "Don't resist, if not your death will be painful."
Baba's eyes widened with terror as he felt Kael release his aura. An earthen wall sprung out of the ground in front of him, in hopes of blocking whatever was coming.
Instantly, the top half of the earth wall was shaved off as a massive golden paw swiped over Baba's head.
"Show rcy!" Baba scread as loudly as his telepathic voice could allow. Even as he begged, the ground beneath him moved according to his will.
The earth moved his form away, making so distance between him and the golden lion.
At the sa ti, multiple rocks shot out of the ground, shooting straight for Kael.
Unfortunately, most of the rocks simply bounced off his body. The combined physical might of a War Lion as well as the support of other power augntation made him nigh invulnerable to casual tier 3 attacks.
Baba knew this, Kael's mildly damaged body despite being smashed through a mountain was enough evidence.
However, Baba also hoped to capitalize on this. As a lion, he knew that the most common error among his kind was overconfidence, a feeling that ca very easily to lions.
And it worked.
Kael had not bothered to put up any external defenses, causing a stone pillar to shoot up from under his head, hitting him square in the jaw.
The stone pillar shattered upon making contact with his strong skin as well as his tallic jaw. Yet the force was enough to lift Kael's front paws slightly off the ground.
Kael squinted his eyes, suppressing the pain he felt. He looked around to see that Baba was nowhere to be found.
There was a small tremor from the ground and he knew that Baba had probably escaped using subterranean ans.
Kael scoffed, he was starting to get serious.
His golden claws leaked out of their furry cracks, shimring with ungodly sharpness. His two paws were ignited, being covered in hot orange flas.
At the sa ti, space twisted around him and two magical runes appeared on his shoulders, boosting his strength by a significant margin.
Kael rose to stand on his two hind legs, raising his two front paws up while charging them up with power.
Then he fell, channeling all his weight and energy into his front paws, slamming them heavily on the ground.
The ground was unable to withstand such massive input of power and caved in, forming cracks that continued to spread
and caused a mini earthquake.
Hot flas spread through the cracks like a snake searching for prey. The rocks quickly began to lt and the situation worsened with the spatial storm that had started tearing through the earth.
Baba, who was about to make it away from the mountain area, was flabbergasted. What was this? Was this still sothing a tier 3 could do?
He could feel fire, twisting space, the familiar aura of magic, and many more. This shouldn't be possible at all, not by any lion logic.
'Unless…'
Baba did not have ti to think of his theory as a spatial wave hit him underground, followed by another wave of fire.
Baba had no choice but to surface. And as soon as he reared his head out of the ground Kael appeared above him with his maw wide open.
Those golden fangs descended swiftly, piercing into Baba's neck despite the mane protecting him.
Baba roared, but his roar was cut short as he felt the sharp teeth piercing deeper into his throat. He could feel it, Kael could effortlessly crush his neck.
"Baba!" Chloe shouted from the side. She had been watching all this with Katari keeping a close eye on her.
She wanted to move but every slight movent from her was followed with Katari making slight movents too. If she truly dared to move, Katari would do so too.
"This is a misunderstanding!" Chloe said, pleading. She didn't exactly care about Baba in any close way, just that he was a familiar face in an unfamiliar place.
"We know…," That was all Katari said before her attention was drawn to sothing above.
She looked up to see massive cracks descending from the sky and Isaiah the crane was in the middle of it all.
Katari calculated, she didn't expect Isaiah to possess this level of power. And from his trajectory, Isaiah was aiming for Kael.
The speed Isaiah was coming down with was too much, suicidal even.
"HAHAHA, DIE! FOR DARIUS!" Isaiah's crazed laughter reached their ears, he spoke in that sa foreign language. Isaiah had gone mad.
He was so close to getting what he wanted.
'Darius, this is it,' He spoke to himself as his eyes darted between Katari and Kael.
Kael sensed the approaching danger from above him and blueish-gold magic barriers started forming around him in retaliation. At the sa ti, a separate layer of condensed space ford over the magic barrier.
With all this, his jaws remained clamped around Baba's neck.
Katari looked on, sure that this attack from Isaiah would not be able to do much harm to Kael. Yet, she teleported almost instinctively.
If she didn't see such danger coming toward Kael, it would have been a different thing. But now that she could see it, her body moved on its own to eliminate the threat.
However, sothing went wrong. As soon as Katari teleported, Isaiah also disappeared along with his descending storm.
There was a mont of silence, before both Katari and Isaiah appeared in front of Kael's large golden body.
A look of elation filled Isaiah's eyes as he gazed at the Space Lioness who looked at him in shock.
A thin red line appeared under Katari's neck, a line that caused Kael's heart to beat with fear.
Without warning, blood spewed profusely out of the slit on Katari's neck.
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