[The Smartest Choice!]

Lion King Valley, outskirts.

Golden-Body Flame Lion led the lioness and two cubs as they successfully fled through the cave passage. It was quite pleased with its own "foresight."

Every human City Lord's manor had an underground secret passage. Golden-Body Flame Lion had learned the importance of tunnels from an experience of being captured, and now it proved that digging one had absolutely been a life-saving measure. Without this secret passage, it would probably have died in Lion King Valley just like the old Lion King. Golden-Body Flame Lion did not need to look back to sense the auras in Lion King Valley vanishing one by one... This disappearance of auras was no good sign. It indicated one outcome: the old Lion King and his two companions had already been slain by those few unremarkable humans!

What a pity about those lionesses. They would not have died otherwise.

Of course, Golden-Body Flame Lion was also content to have a loyal lioness following it with her cubs.

When the old Lion King had launched his counterattack and catastrophe had loomed overhead, all the lionesses had refused to flee—yet she had been willing to follow it. That was truly rare!

"Oho!"

Golden-Body Flame Lion set down the little cub in its mouth and urged the lioness, who kept looking back toward Lion King Valley, signaling for her to leave quickly and stop clinging to this land of death. If they did not leave at once, not only the old Lion King and the others, but even it itself would be doomed!

The lioness could not bear to leave the homeland where she had lived since birth, looking back every three steps.

Moreover, the disappearance of her relatives' auras made her uneasy.

If Golden-Body Flame Lion had not repeatedly urged her on, the