Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

"I don't make promises," Kael said sternly. This was one of the things he honestly didn't like about Priya when it came to her personality.

She was too emotional and could sometimes let her emotions influence her decision-making. And this emotional cloud tended to one at the wrong time.

"Okay," Priya said with a defeated expression, "At least let her be for now, it's no threat to you."

Kael went silent, he was curious about what Priya had read from Vixy's mind. From her behavior, Kael was sure that Priya would be unwilling to tell him and he wasn't willing to let someone like Vixy ruin the relationship he had with his current strongest lioness.

"Why do you do this?" Kael said, sighing and continuing his walk with Priya's arm still wrapped around his.

Vixy did not know that Priya had saved her from a total disaster because of her monetary feelings of pity.

"Do what?" Priya asked, a little excited that Kael had relented. They were already closing in on the next cave.

"Protect them, you tell me about their thoughts, yet you prevent me from doing anything," Kael said while shaking his head. He wasn't too worked about it, everything was still under his control.

If he had even felt a hint that something could affect his overall power and control over the kingdom, even Priya wouldn't stop him from taking action.

Priya smiled, thinking of the words in her head before she let it out, "I'm observing them, I'm learning. I tell these things to you so that you can be prepared, just in case."

"Hmm, so you're experimenting?" Kael asked.

"No, that sounds so insensitive, hehe." Priya laughed, she didn't say more than that.

Kael did not press on as they had now reached the next cave. It wasn't every day Kael was in the mood to stroll around and check everyone one after the other, Priya was enjoying every moment.

The cave they had arrived at was very peculiar. From beyond the entrance, multiple thick vines extended out of the cave and rolled down the mountain.

The vines were long, they dug into the stone and whatever loose soil they could find, extending all the way until they reached the lower parts of the mountain.

Like this, a significant portion of the vines on the mountain came from the cave. Without too much guessing, anyone could tell that this cave belonged to Nalii.

With all these vines all over the mountain, Nalii no longer had a disadvantage. As long as she was on the mountain, she could summon vegetation with half the effort.

But that was just one of the purposes for the vines.

Priya and Kael walked into the cave, immediately becoming aware of the sweet aroma of herbs and plants.

Unlike Zabita's cave which was plain and barely had anything apart from inlaid metal pieces in the walls, Nalii's cave was different.

This cave had vines and moss crawling over the walls and ceiling, the atmosphere inside was cool and damp, and it would make most people feel like sleeping inside it.

Flowers of different colors grew along the vines on the wall, they were the source of all the fragrances. Although there was no source of light, lions had no need for it as their natural night vision allowed them to appreciate such beauty even at night.

Nalii was currently moving about inside the cave in her human form, tending to different groups of strange-looking mushrooms. As Kael and Priya could not prevent their feet from touching the vines, they were inevitably discovered by Nalii.

"Nice of you guys to show up, I was just about to step out," Nalii said without turning around to look at them.

She bent down to attend to some red mushrooms that were growing in the corner. These were the same mushrooms that Kael had taken when he fought Darius.

Kael subconsciously found his gaze on Nalii's butt, he sighed, reminding himself that he wasn't beyond his male instincts. He peeled his eyes away to look at the mushrooms.

There were seven of these red-capped mushrooms in total and Nalii was taking very good care of them. It turned out that these red-capped mushrooms were rarer than she had thought.

After her mission to annex the moles was completed, Nalii took the time to look for these mushrooms, even assembling a force of wolves to help her out.

If the mushrooms could increase Kael's strength by such a margin, even if it was for a limited time, it was worth investing time and resources in. She had imagined the army of wolves eating red-capped mushrooms just before they went for battle, so her son wouldn't have to risk his life again.

But reality was comically cruel and the universe maintained its balance. She found out later on that something so valuable could not possibly be in large amounts.

Kael had just been extremely lucky to have found those red-capped mushrooms for himself.

Not only did the artificial growth of these mushrooms have strict requirements, it was hard to multiply.

It was only after hundreds of trials and errors supposed by boredom did Nalii finally have some intuition about how to go about growing the red-capped mushrooms.

While she was crouching, she gently reached out to touch one of the mushrooms. She pinched the stem slightly as her antlers lit up with green light.

With calculated gentleness, she pulled the mushroom out of the vine it was growing on. She brought up her other hand and began to tear the mushroom into small pieces.

After she was done, she spread the pieces on other vines nearby, carefully placing them in places that she would remember.

There was no need for the level of gentleness she was giving to these mushrooms, she was instinctively being careful with them because of their value because it was a requirement.

"For all these pieces I spread about, we should get at least two new mushrooms…hopefully.

If we are lucky, we could get three…hopefully," She said.

Kael sighed at this, he already knew this. The rate of reproduction for these mushrooms was so frustrating it confused him.

Sure, he could find a couple of them in the forest growing naturally, but that's not what he wanted. He wanted to be able to access them directly from the confines of his kingdom.

For now, they only had a few dozen of these red mushrooms.

Nalii stood up and walked to another corner of the cave where another set of mushrooms was growing.

These mushrooms did not have red caps, but purple caps. They were also emitting a funny fragrance.

In their quest to acquire the red-capped mushrooms, Nalii had decided to acquire anything that was similar in any way.

She had brought back different mushrooms and herbs to test out. Most of these mushrooms were useless or toxic, not really bringing any benefit after being consumed.

Apart from the toxic herbs that could be useful, most of them were completely useless with pointless side effects.

Fortunately, one of the useful mushrooms she ended up finding was these purple-capped mushrooms which had some very interesting side effects.

Nalii picked one of these mushrooms surprisingly fast and brought it to her nose. Kael watched with a wry smile, he didn't bother to stop her though.

Nalii opened her mouth, stuck out her tongue, and licked the purple cap of the mushroom. She swallowed the moisture, savoring its salty and sweet taste.

As she stood up, her eyes dilated, expanding to the point that the whites of her eyes were barely visible. All that could be seen was the verdant green iris and the big black pupils.

This was what it looked like to be intoxicated, Kael knew. He had taken these purple-capped mushrooms before in his spare time.

Even he had to admit that these mushrooms had some very fantastic effects. From experience, he could tell that Nalii was currently at her highest performance mentally, at the same time, she was not.

It scrambled the mind, letting the consumer descend into a false state of enlightenment and allowing them to perceive the world from another colorful angle.

The only known side effects were the constant hallucinations that occurred while the consumer was in that intoxicated state. But they had found a way to work around it.

Nalii and Kael had discovered that if they were strong enough, they could suppress those hallucinations, and even eliminate them while maintaining their pseudo-enlightenment.

"That's the stuff that makes it hard for me to read their minds," Priya said with a frown on her face, clearly discontent with the existence of the purple-capped mushrooms.

She had discovered that it was very difficult for her to understand the mind of anyone under the influence of these mushrooms. It was like it was directly cultivated to counter people like her and she didn't like it one bit.

Nalii turned around to look at her son and her half-sister. Her eyes trailed their hair, going from the grey strands to the golden strands.

"Damn," A silly smile appeared on her face, "You guys are colorful,"

Kael raised an eyebrow, the effects had already begun.

Nalii's big eyes glanced down at her green hair that covered parts of her two big breasts. She coiled the green hair around her finger, observing it with shocking concentration, "Hehehe, I'm also colorful,"

The smile on Kael's face was wiped away, was this how he behaved when he took the mushroom? He shivered at the thought.

He couldn't allow his subjects to see him or his consort like this.

"LET'S GO!" Nalii proclaimed as she hurriedly walked out of the cave before Kael could react. Like a blur, she passed Kael and Priya and was already standing outside the cave entrance with her hands on her waist.