Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 702: Source Of Luck

"Idiot," the black-haired boy cursed with a disgusted look on his face.

His utterance caused Ralph to flinch.

Ralph hurriedly checked but breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed that he wasn’t addressing Kael.

Oh, that would have been a disaster.

Rather, the Primordial Crow in the body of a humanoid child was talking to his accomplice.

The golden-haired girl turned her attention away from Kael’s face to look at her friend. She frowned, her glowing eyes brightened with confusion.

"Hey, what did I do?" She asked in a very childish tone that was also sinister. Just by hearing her, Kael could confirm that this was a creature that had relished in the activity of playing with the lives of others.

"Stop looking at his eyes," The black-haired boy said, almost whispering. He narrowed his beady red eyes at the golden-haired girl.

"Why? They’re so beautiful and mysterious!" The golden-haired girl exclaimed with a smile as she immediately turned back to look directly into Kael’s eyes.

The black-haired boy frowned. He then started using telepathy to talk to his friend, probably explaining something to her.

Whatever this black-haired boy had said to her it must have been horrendous as the golden-haired girl immediately wore a serious expression and looked away.

Kael looked down at them with an amused smile.

It was quite nice to see what was happening.

He differentiated them. The black-haired one was the Primordial Crow and the golden-haired girl was the Primordial Goldfish.

In his past life, Crows were usually linked to bad luck and tragedy in some cultures while goldfish were sometimes sent as a symbol of prosperity.

It was nice to see that those outlooks on the creatures were not just localised to Earth but were a reflection of how they actually were in the Known Universe.

As for why the black-haired boy was insulting his friend for looking at Kael’s eyes. It was perfectly understandable.

The Primordial Goldfish was affiliated with the law of good luck, meaning her powers would operate under that logic and influence.

She would be able to sense good luck and probably influence it to a certain degree. But that was it, she couldn’t tell when tragedy was coming, nor could she see the misfortunes coming her way.

The opposite was true for the Primordial Crow. He was perfectly attuned to calamities and misfortune. He was a major cause of bad events wherever he went.

But he also couldn’t tell when good things were coming his way.

The crow and the goldfish needed each other for them to exist comfortably, if not, they would probably end up doing something that would put them in serious trouble.

As demonstrated by the Primordial Crow here, he had instantly sensed that something very bad was going to happen if his friend continued looking at Kael like that.

In fact, his premonition had been so strong that moment that he had seen visions, something that hardly happened.

He had seen his friend, the golden-haired girl, being stomped into the land with a massive golden paw nearly crushing her flat.

The golden-haired girl he saw in that vision was absolutely pitiful, as if she had been beaten to stupor without mercy.

Hence, he spoke out and called her an idiot because she couldn’t see the misfortune coming her way.

What made it worse for him was that the longer the golden-haired girl continued staring at Kael’s eyes, the stronger his sense of bad luck became.

This was weird as it meant that Kael was a greater source of misfortune than he himself who was the Primordial of Bad Luck.

"What are your names?" Kael asked. His voice was deep and commanding, enough to make any female creature drenched instantly.

"Shawn," The black-haired boy said. Although, he did not stop trying to get his hands out of those chains.

Was he reasonable or not? Or was he that he was being so reckless because he could not sense any bad occurrence from his actions?

That was probably it.

And the golden-haired girl, she was perfectly calm because she knew that something good was going to come out of this meeting with the All-King.

"You?" Kael turned to the Primordial Goldfish.

"Claudia," She responded.

Shawn and Claudia.

Unlikely names.

The names were very ordinary, like Marcus’s name.

"Do you know why you are here?" Kael asked.

Shawn was the one to speak up, "Because your wolf caught us," He said bluntly.

"...and that one," He added, referring to Diane with a dejected expression.

They had been so close to escaping from Ralph until she showed up.

"Oh, that’s not why," Kael shook his head and took a step back, widening the view of the two Primordials.

"Look around you, Shawn and Claudia, what do you see?" He asked, his voice rising as a little bit of his aura poured out.

Shawn and Claudia, under the subtle influence of the aura, found themselves looking around just as Kael had asked them to do.

"Primordials... Like us." Claudia said.

Indeed, they were under the watchful gaze of more than fifty Primordial entities at the moment.

They could sense it.

Yet both of them had the strange sensation that all these Primordials were not that important compared to the All-King.

"Yes," Kael nodded, "It is your fate to be here, as it is theirs. Greatness can be achieved by one, but it is always better to have more than one.

We are establishing the League of Primordials. An exclusive organisation designed to help all of us reach full embodiment of our respective laws.

In this League of Primordials, your contribution is my contribution, my contribution is your contribution.

We are all going to benefit if you all get stronger and gain nothing if you don’t. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The Known Universe is wild, it is harsh, it is brutal, and there is no meaning to the lives and deaths of even us Primordials..."

Claudia and Shawn listened silently, not being the type to interrupt. Plus, they were very intrigued by what Kael was saying.

Not just them, the other Primordials were also paying attention to Kael’s words as he no longer hid them from their ears.

"We can only rely on ourselves. The reason why you are here today is that your predecessors failed.

They tried harder than you did, they fought harder than you did, and they survived longer than you did.

Yet, they are nowhere to be found, gone along with the past eons.

It’s almas if the universe lets us exist as a form of mockery.

Do you all think you can achieve what they didn’t? Do you think you can succeed where they failed?

No, you can’t.

Not unless you have the help that they couldn’t get.

In the history of the universe, this is the second time that the gathering of all Primordials would be intentionally initiated.

The first time was the era of the birth of the first Primordials.

Now, we have a chance to work together, if you all work with me.

No beating around the bush. Membership in this League will cost you all something, most of you have already paid that price."

Kael then returned his gaze to Shawn and Claudia.

Shawn, being skeptical from the start, asked, "What cost?"

The fate of every Primordial was for them to be born, usher their race into a period of prosperity, and then die away.

Oh to be replaced by someone else in the future.

They didn’t want to die.

They didn’t want to be replaced.

And as sketchy as the League of Primordials sounds, with all the benefits Kael spoke of, it was still better than anything else the universe had to offer.

To have the backing of so many Primordials, assisting them to reach the pinnacle of their power, was not something to be taken for granted.

"Your alignment," Kael declared, "By joining the League of Primordials, you are agreeing that from henceforth, all your actions and intent shall be aligned with my will.

You shall be my subordinate, and I shall be your master.

Your autonomy shall belong to me. But you won’t have to fret, I merely want to conquer this godforsaken universe.

Align with that and I’ll look away from every other thing."

Kael had changed his wording. He no longer asked for loyalty because he knew loyalty, just like love, could not be trusted to last forever.

He could enforce it perpetually with his contracts but technically, it wasn’t loyalty, more like an alignment of interest.

Speaking of loyalty, Kael had studied the encyclopedia of the monkeys and knew that there was supposed to be a Law of Loyalty with its own Primordial. But that was for another time.

"And what happens if we don’t want to join you?" Shawn asked.

Kael’s smile faded. This was a question that almost all Primordials whom he had a conversation with had asked.

The Primordials that had been beaten black and blue did not have the mind to ask such questions.

"You shall forfeit your life for making me and my subordinates waste our time on you," Kael said, his voice edging with the coldness of the sharp void.

Shawn and Claudia looked at each other. At this very moment, they could both sense something.

Claudia could sense a rising probability of good luck coming their way.

And Shawn could sense a terrifying amount of misfortune brewing in the coming future.

This shouldn’t be possible.