Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

A golden portal opened above Kael’s head with a terrifying suction force.

Besides Kael, the group felt a terrifying suction force that did not just affect their bodies but their souls.

A long golden tendril, as if having a mind of its own, came out of the golden portal. It circled around, seemingly looking for something.

Then it shot down in front of Kael, and when it rose back up, its end was wrapped around a stone the size of Kael’s paw.

Kael endured the sickening feeling he felt as he saw the golden tendril shoot back into the golden portal with the stone.

******

Meanwhile, more than a hundred kilometers away.

The young pride leader was casually enjoying the meat of a gazelle. It had been a long time since he ate something like this.

His six lionesses stood not far from him, waiting for the leader to finish eating. With the way the pride leader was munching on this dead gazelle, they doubted if much would be left after he was done.

It had been five weeks since Kael passed this group, leaving a bad taste in their mouth whenever they remembered.

The lionesses have pretty much gotten over it, although it took their lioness motherly instinct a long time to die off. This didn’t mean they saw Kael in a neutral light though.

They and pride leaders had been seeing the words on the Primordial Record which they found they could summon whenever they wanted.

They understood what it meant but not its details. The Primordial Record allowed them to immediately understand what a gazelle and a stone were, but they didn’t understand the essence of the quest.

After all, what were they supposed to do with a stone if that was the reward for killing a Gazelle?

They had even forgotten about it until today when they had chanced upon a gazelle and decided to huntonit down.

Suddenly, a golden portal appeared in front of him, and out of it came a stone bigger than the young pride leader’s paw.

The stone fell into the exposed inside of the gazelle, splashing blood and meat pieces on the pride leader’s face.

The lionesses were stunned, they hurried over to see what happened. The pride leader shook his head to get rid of the splashed blood.

A surge of understanding filled his mind as he looked at the bloody stone.

*****

Kael stood in place, his eyes dazed, almost in a trance.

Katari and the others tensed up when they saw Kael’s unfocused expression, they thought he was about to go crazy again.

Vixy and Igor did not understand what was happening but they also tensed up, ready to run for their lives if they had to.

But Kael was just lost in deep thought. He was simply thinking deeply about the Primordial laws that were supposed to be his powers.

Kael had been trying to understand how the Primordial laws worked. He understood that it couldn’t be used directly like how the other lionhearts used their powers. He had to form things like contracts or Primordial Records for it to be used.

All this time, he had assumed that there was no limit to the power of the Primordial laws and as long as he mastered it, he would become omnipotent.

Maybe all he would have to do is evolve a couple of times, become the biggest lion in the jungle, and reign supreme.

But it wasn’t that simple, he had finally come to realize. Today, he finally found the weakness of the Primordial laws, and it was that it couldn’t be broken.

Just now, when the young pride leader had killed the gazelle, the Primordial laws activated, seeking to complete its operation automatically.

Kael didn’t know that by writing those words, [Kill a gazelle, Reward: 1 stone], he had inadvertently created a minor Primordial law.

The Primordial laws were like a programming language, and Kael was the computer. Computers could not go against their programming even if they were the ones who created it, and Kael couldn’t go against his laws even if he was the one who formed it.

If he had erased those words before any lion killed a gazelle, it wouldn’t have mattered and nothing would happen even if someone eventually killed a gazelle.

But after the requirements for the laws to be activated were met, Kael could do nothing. As the lawmaker, he had to give the reward.

But Kael was not holding any stone at that time so he felt sick, as if he was dying. Kael felt that if that portal had not opened up at that moment to take the stone in front of him, he would have died eventually as compensation for breaking the law.

Kael thought of how every race was supposed to have its own Primordial. There were millions, if not billions of races across the universe. That meant that there were possibly billions of primordials of difficult races existing at the same time.

Each one of them had different experiences and were forming laws based on how they experienced life.

But no matter what, they couldn’t break their own laws unless they would die.

He should have known, there was truly nothing that provided benefits without its hidden disadvantages.

If that young lion didn’t kill the gazelle today, he would never know.

Who knew? He might do something stupid in the future and formulate a law that was different to adhere to, even for him, and then end up dying in the process.

He would only have himself to blame them.

Kael’s gaze refocused as he took steady steps forward. "Lead the way," He said coldly to the two foxes, not bothering to explain anything to anyone.

The lionesses looked at themselves, relief and confusion flashing through their eyes. Deciding not to talk about it, they continued their journey.

Kael still found something to be happy about though after thinking for a while.

The fact that he could use incentives to make lions do things for him through the Primordial Record came to his mind.

If it was merely giving a mission and rewarding after that mission, it would be nothing as he could just do that face to face.

But with the Primordial Record, he could ask for specific things to be done, things that would benefit him and his pride. All he had to do was give out an incentive and there was assurance that what he wanted to happen would happen.

It was like discovering the internet for the first time all over again. This was what it meant to attack your enemies from a thousand miles away.

Thinking of this, Kael began brainstorming ways he could use this feature effectively. Then, it was as if a light bulb went up in his head.

Back on earth, some companies would look for ways to get customers to visit their websites. They would try advertisements and giveaways until they stumbled upon a unique way to get those customers.

All they had to do was make the old-time customers willing to introduce the company brand to new people.

And the best way to make people advertise on your behalf is to give them incentives.

This was called referral programs. All the old customer had to do was make sure that the new guy signed up for the brand and became a new customer, then the old customer would get a reward for referring someone and successfully making them a customer.

This method proved to be very effective, especially for digital-based companies that needed to have a wide reach in the world.

Of course, this method cost resources but most times, the return on investment was worth it.

Kael didn’t think too much as he immediately summoned the Primordial Record in front of him.

He wrote, [Add lions to the Primordial Record. Reward: 1 kg of meat per lion].

He knew that the reward was small but he wanted to start small, he didn’t even know where to get the reward meat from. He smartly chose not to specify what type of meat would be rewarded.

At this moment, all three of the lion prides that were on the Primordial Record felt like they just heard a ding in their head.

They all had different expressions on their face as they understood the meaning of this new mission, ’free food,’ One lion in particular looked at his cubs in a new light.

"What is the biggest animal in this forest?" Kael asked the foxes as they made their way to their destination.

Vixy tilted her head, "That would be the long noses that reside near the outskirts to the far left side, where the sun usually rises from. They go in and out of the forest very often too so it’s not every time we see them." She stated.

’Elephants?’ Kael immediately knew the type of creature Vixy was referring to. "Once we’ve settled down at our den, you’ll show us where we can find them…and the wolves." He said.

Vixy’s ears immediately dropped down in despair. She just knew she wouldn’t be getting away from this group any time soon. ’All because of some stupid fish,’ She lamented in her heart.