Chapter 149: The Big Cat and the Kitten
The oncoming flames scattered the lasso, and the scorching breath came like a great wave, and the beast's instinct caused Rengar to hide his face and stop the flames.
Rengar lowered his thick arm, and the flames only burned for a moment, but the figure of the purple monster was long gone.
The tip of his nose quivered, his beard curled in flames fluttering in the air, and it could not smell any of the stench of the void, only the pungent smell of kerosene swirling in its sensitive nostrils.
"Reingar, are you alright?" A wind of magic blew behind Rengar, and the lioness turned into a woman.
She was wrapped in a thin strip of animal skin, and her boots and skirt were all coarse of animal skins.
The wheat-colored skin, formed by the sun and rain, is painted with a lot of sharp tooth-like white paint, and the canine teeth are intertwined, full of wildness.
According to human aesthetics, this black-haired female savage with a spear and a ponytail can be described as convex and backward, with a strong figure.
The woman, who can freely switch between human and cougar forms, is called Nedri, a creature that annoys Rengar.
Nedri leaned over to herself, spit out some of the herbs she had chewed, stretched out her arms on tiptoe, grabbed his thick mane to stabilize her body, and smeared it on both sides of Rengar's nose, a green glow of magic flashed, and Rengar's burnt long beard grew back in full condition.
"The treatment is complete." As a fellow feline, Nedri knows how important a beard is to a predator.
Rengar didn't even bat Nedri, staring at the flames, hoping to find any trace of the purple monster inside, even a corpse.
But it knew it couldn't be, that little flame couldn't do it any harm, or it wouldn't be worthy of being a match for Rengar.
He sneezed and squirted the foul-smelling herb away, then pushed Nedriy out of the way and walked back.
"Get out of the way." A muffled warning voice came out of his mouth.
Nedri, falling into the mud, stood up without saying a word, grabbed the falling spear and followed behind Reingar, his eyes swaying from side to side with his hoop-laced tail.
A swift flash of slashing light suddenly slashed from the stab, and Nedri turned into a cougar in an instant, dodging the fatal slash, and scurried to a bush nearby, standing on the branch and bowing his head, arching himself to look down at Rengar, who suddenly moved, and kept letting out a low growl.
She wasn't angry, she was just asking questions. Because she knew that felines were temperamental by nature, and so did he and her.
"Go back and take care of your kittens, don't follow me anymore, your clumsy footsteps have ruined my hunt!" Rengar pulled his claws out of the trunk, and he couldn't take it anymore for Nedri.
The cougar in the tree barked its teeth and barked, which made Rengar furious, and directly pushed down the bush in front of him.
He grabbed the back of the cougar's neck with one hand, and rested his scimitar on her throat with the other, roaring with all his might: "Give up? Just because it ran to the realm of humanity? Do you know that this eye of mine is what it blinded! ”
Reingar's heavy snort hit the cougar's eyelashes, making it afraid to open its eyes.
"It's evolving faster and faster...... Not so much time left for me. ”
The roar close to his ears was like thunder, and the one-eyed burning flame of vengeance made the cougar dazzled for a while.
The cougar was thrown away at random and fell to the ground and turned into a human, and Nedri said coldly, "You're about to deafen me!" Proud big cat. ”
If it weren't for the coarguar who saved her by chance, why would she follow him on his quest for prey all the way north to the edge of the rainforest.
It confirms the human saying: "A good heart is bitten by a dog." ”
Perhaps, it was bitten by a cat?
The name of the big cat caused Rengar to let out a low growl, and she knew that he was unhappy with it, and the noble flesh-toothed beast despised them weak cougars in her heart.
However, most of Rengar's anger has disappeared, and he did not hurt people again, but found a direction alone, ready to fill his stomach.
He is an outlier, powerful flesh-toothed beast that hunts the weak and allows him to live; Hunting the strong can make him enjoy life.
However, a few months ago, he had not left the tribe, and Nedri did not know him.
These Vastaya hunters go on safaris in the forests every season, looking for targets that will bring glory and show their strength with loot.
This is the custom of the carnivodon tribe.
And Nedri's jaguar tribe is one of the good targets for prey.
These lion-headed creatures are muscular and outwhelmed by the cougar's common beasts, and Nedri flees every hunting season to protect her fellow humans.
Her shapeshifting abilities were activated during a close-up encounter with these apex predators.
At that time, the carnivorous beast wanted to kill the adoptive mother who had raised Nedri, an elderly cougar, and then make a necklace from her teeth as a trophy to show off.
In danger, Nedri awakens the spirit of the forest cat, transforms into a sturdy cougar, knocks down the murderer, and then transforms into human form and grabs the murder weapon, a spear, into the murderer's body.
She saved her adoptive mother and gained the recognition and belonging of the group, but the cougar group she led also became the focus of the carnivorous tribe, and was hunted all year round.
During a summer rainstorm, her people were once again threatened, and in order to save them she was trapped in a trap and dragged in a rope net to the tribe of the Flesh-Toothed Beasts, where she first met Reyngar.
At that time, Rengar was not recognized by the tribe, because he was abandoned in the rainforest by his father Pongaf because of his thin stature since he was a child, and he left himself to fend for himself.
This is normal in a tribe of Vastaya, where the strongest hunter can hold the position of chieftain, and Poengaf is the current chief.
He said that Rengar was not worth cultivating, and no one dared to adopt him.
Rengar accepts this fact and fights to survive in the hope of one day returning to the Horde.
The outcast Rengar left the camp and survived on plants and bugs for a few weeks before being nearly killed by the legendary hunter Malcon.
Malcon saw that Rengar had taken pity on him and let him live, and he did not think that any Vastaya was worthy of being his prey.
For months, Rengar followed Malcon, feeding on the carcasses of the prey he had killed.
He still had in mind that he would one day return to the tribe, so he was also watching how Malcon hunted.
After a while, Malcon grew tired of the poor flesh-toothed beast following him.
He pulls out a knife and puts it around Rengar's neck, telling him that the only way to become a hunter is to hunt!
He threw a knife at Rengar and kicked him down the ravine, forcing him to complete his first kill in order to protect himself.
No one knows what kind of devastation Rengar experienced, only that he returned to camp with fewer and fewer scars, and more and more loot, and more and rarer.
So......
At that time, Nedri's sight of Reyngar was a self-taught man who had gone through various trials and tribulations, and was desperate to return to the tribe to be recognized.
However, Pongaf scoffed at Rengar and his booty.
He declares that the tribe will welcome him back again only when Rengar brings back the head of the elusive Void Monster.