Kiring King

A man is crouching down under the overgrown bushes. Laying still on his postion, watching something over the horizon full of caution.

The man is wearing animal hide as underpants, a skull of what seemed to be a big beast on his head, necklace made of bones and a make shift rib bone as daggers. A picture of a hunter in the wilds, the man exudes an aura of a beast waiting for a prey.. With trees reaching the sky and crickets sounds in the background, a picture of man and nature created a balance. If a painter is here he would surely be mesmerized and surely be able to create a masterpiece.

"Gr.... meowwee!"

An exasperated look surfaced from the mans face. Looking behind, he found a cute black furball twelve inches the size cuddling underneath a few dried up leaves. The creature is no different than a neighborhood cat playing with its cat nip. If there was any difference, a glint of intelligence and arrogance can be seen on its purple eyes, making the furball more adorable than normal cats. Some snake like black lines circled the cat, making the creature magical.

"Ai..should I just call you black Pikachu?" Bolemo murmured, face of defeat evident on him.

The man was Bolemo. He was stalking an injured White Skinny Ape that he had been following for three days now. It is currently drinking water from a small pond fifteen meters away from his location.

White Skinny Ape are variations of Snow Ape Giants that lived in the deepest area of Dark Woods. They like areas with waters and cold temperature. White Skinny Apes are a kind of Grade 3 savage beast. Unlike Snow Giant Apes that has big built and sizes, adult skinny apes grows up to only six meters in height. Their furrs are not grown, but instead their skin is similar to humans. Only the chest area has furrs, with reddish colored hue of skin, arms and legs the size of a grown mans arms, they can be considered mutated monkeys or perhaps malnourished type Urangutans.

Laying some traps in the jungle these past days, the Skinny Ape had been injured in some parts of its body. It's thighs are bleeding from open wounds cause by wooden stakes. Its head had been smashed by stones projectiles from Bolemo. However the most eye catching wound on the White Skinny Ape is located on its right shoulder.

There was a black spot the size of a fist on its right shoulder, the wound is pestering and black blood would come out once in a while. The White skinny Ape that was drinking water in the bank would have its face twisted whenever the wound sizzles.

Bolemo threw another look on the Ape and gave a nodding smile to the black furr ball that gave him an arrogant sneer.

The furball is of course Kiring King. It is the tiger king beast that came out of his shoulder some time ago. He name it Kiring(lust) King because of its lasciviousness. He call himself a king but its demeanor changes whenever it sees a female furr creature, especially lioness or tigresses. There was even a time that it mated with a Giant Snow Ape, who later died due to severe injuries. It claimed the beast resisted when it should've been proud that Divine Beast king like himself chose to f*** her.

Truthfully Bolemo do not understand why it would claim itself a Divine Beast King wherein there were only Grade 1 to 9 Beasts and Beast Ancestor is the highedt in the beast cultivation system. There isn't anything about Divine Beast or Beast King and he did not read any information about it at the General Carsh mansion. Or perhaps he just did not see the records about them.

"Grr.. meoewwee"

"Stop your whining or you will alert it" He rebuke it after checking the skinny ape. It is fortunate that due to severe injuries, it had its guard down and was trying to clean its own wounds.

"When are you going to feed this King?" Kiring King sneak a peek at the ape, showing a disdainful expresssion it arrogantly bared its fangs and growled at Bolemo.

Watching its antics, Bolemo don't know if he should fear or laugh at his familiar beast. Yes, he is calling it a familiar since their life are connected to each other.

Kiring King is a Divine Beast. He is a Demonic Lightning Black Tiger, a variant of Demonic Lighting Tiger race. According to Kiring, he is a Divine Beast King Stage in the immortal realm. He died while adventuring thousands years ago and found his soul trapped inside the tattoo on his back for some reason. He had been slumbering when spiritual power called out to him and voila, he appeared or perhaps summoned.

The arrogance it shows is because he was one of the Divine Kings in Immortal Realm. According to him, the realm is millions bigger than this tiny planet. There are demons, human cultivators, beast kings and some other creatures that roam the plane. Beast stages after Grade 9 are Embryonic Stage, Infant Stage,

Spirit Stage,

Soul Stage,

Beast Ancestor,

Grand Beast Ancestor,

Divine Beast,

Divine Beast King, and

Celestial Beast God. Not that he believe him.

Kiring King was a normal tiger beast. He was born in the Immortal Realm and became stronger bit by bit. The demonic lightning tiger race are mostly compose of golden furred tigers. Some are white furred or combinations of colors. They were called demonic lightning beast because of their lightning attribute powers. The colors of lightning varies in power. White, yellow, orange, purple, purple silver and golden lightning, in order of weakest to strongest. When Kiring King was born, he did not have any lightning attribute. However he had wind attribute powers causing his race to disdain him.

Having black colored furrs from head to toe that was different to the norms, he was ostracized. Especially his looks that are identical to Devil Panthers. Devil Panthers are their Demonic Lightning Tigers enemy. They are in constant war for resources and supremacy.

Kiring King was ousted from their race. A group of individuals with arrogance reaching the sky cannot accept an abomination in their race. Hence he was thrown out. Kiring started his journey. Journeying he managed to master his attributes and became a lone cultivator until he reach Grade 9 Humanoid Beast Stage and created his human form. From then, he adventured some ruins and secret realms and grew stronger.

It was this adventures that made him who he is today. In one of the most dangerous secret realms that he visited, he was trapped inside a cave for a few years. Fighting and llocatibg the exit, he came to the deepest part of the cave where he found the black lightning. Spending another hundreds of years, he refine the lighting and gain its attributes.Due to this he became a two attributes cumtivator. It is not because no one is a two attribute cultivator. Every level in the human stage needs an understanding of different elements to further their cultivation. However, cultivators will always have their own and most suited attributes. Just like one can have more than one career or one job, but focusing on one will increase the chance of mastering your craft and be successful, in the cultivators case, the element.

Wind and lightning both provides great speed. With wind like speed and destruction power that lightning possess, Kiring became invincible. He cultivated until he became a Divine Beast.

However looking at the small black furrball meeowing and playing with dried leaves, he cannot imagine Kiring being a powerful and respected being.

Kiring was more than twelve meters in size and four meters in height when he first met him. But looking at the beast not longer than a ruler, he cannot imagine how they survived inside Dark Woods for so long. Given that its cultivation that is of Grade 3 vicious beast and him being a 1-Leaf Warrior, they resorted in trickery, traps to lure in beasts and killed them. The only saving grace is that Kiring Kings black lightning remains potent and destructive. Its corrosive powers were strong especially if it manage to wound and get inside the opponents body.

The wound on the right shoulder of the White Skinny Ape was exactly because of Kirings lightning. It sizzles once in a while causing pain to the beast.

It had been more than a month since he made it into the Dark Woods. This past weeks, Bolemo tried to slowly unravel the mystery of his powers. Watching the big sized Kiring turning to small beast, he knew something was wrong. They are connected to each other. His spiritual power made his tattoo alive. However he doesn't know how they can be strengthen or how to unsummoned it. Kiring said he didn't know as well.

~~Rustle.. rustle~

Watching the skinny ape getting up. Bolemo recollected his thoughts and knocked Kiring at the head.

"We should strike now that he is still not on guard" He whispered. Readying the sharpen stones at his pocket, he slowly crawled to the ground and approach the ape.

Kiring followed its master lazily. Yawning while checking out the injured beast, it felt reluctant to bully it. Being one of the highest beings in the Immortal Realm, the disdain it feels can surely fill the entire world. But it cannot disobey its master.

"Now!"

With the shout of its master, Kiring heard some woshing sounds from the projectiles Bolemo threw and the angry roar of the ape.

As a variant ape, White Skinny Ape did not have the sturdy furrs of Giant Snow Apes. With its almost bared body, the stones with almost four hundred kilograms of force dented its enforced skin. Blood bloom and the ape started running to their direction.

Truthfully, the ape should be pitied. His master was only a 1-Leaf Warrior while the beast was a early Grade 4 savage beast. But due to his masters cunningness and cowardice as what he called it, they managed to injure this beast until its fighting capabilities barely reach early Grade 3 vicious beast. Same grade he is in.

"Roarrrrrrrr..... ahhhhhhh!"

The ape dashed madly at them. Picking some stones on the way, the ape smashed it to Bolemo who dodge it late.

"Ahhhh.... fuck!" The stone hit Bolemo at the chest causing heavyness in his breathing. But his master still throw his projectiles and hit one of the eyes of the ape. Blood blinded the beast. It continued thrashing the ground with rock pieces hitting everywhere.

Looking at its dumb thrashing and his master bleeding because of stone pieces that lucked out and hit, he facepalmed seeing two idiots fighting.

"Ah.. an idiot beast and an imbecile master. How awesome I am to be watching idiots fight?" He cannot help but comment. His master was a low level mortal but his guts is way bigger than his ability. While the beasts idiocy is over the top. Knowing that the attacker was them that has projectiles, it did not run but confronted them.

"Now!" Bolemo shouted but he just sneered. He circled the beast while lightning started to crackle in his body.

Seeing the beast turning away from his location, Kiring jump at it and release his lightning. With a sneer he electrecuted the beast right on its injuries.

Howl!

Kiring dodge the arm that went to his direction. He maybe small but with the wind laws he mastered, he can feel vibrations where the attack will come from. Nimbless to perfection was executed. With a side stepped, Kiring vanish and appeared right on the shoulders of the White Skinny Ape.

"Pity, but I hope you get a better next life" Whispering to it, Kiring felt conflicted. He eyed his bloodied master, giving another glance to the beast he is standibg at, he release a concentrated lighting bolt and hit its heart.

The White Skinny Ape shuddred, its wide open bloodied eyes released a tear. Looking at the sky it roared, but no voice came out. It stood for three seconds and fell down with a thud.

Kiring knew the things variants experience. It is not as good as what others think. Beasts are extremely territorial. They view things other than them as outsiders. Once a beast reach Grade 3 Vicious beast, intelligence sprouts and things like race becomes your roots and pride. That is why magical beasts are considered the beings that are always in war with all other species.

It is not easy to live a variant life. He had been playing around these past days with the hopes that the beast is vigilant and will hide, but all his efforts were futile. It still ended up dead.

"Check it's carcass and get me the energy core.." Bolemo wiped the bloodstains on his face. Finding that his familiar killed the ape he urge it to get the energy stone. He can feel his spritual energy in his body is almost saturated. It should not be long before he become a 2-Leaf Warrior.

"Imbecile master should get it yourself!" Sneered Kiring King and vanished.

With veins almost popping in his head, Bolemo cursed at his familiar when he felt hot on his back. Checking it with his conciousness, he realized that the print of the tiger came back. He realize that the tige must have known hiw to go back but just lied to him. Reslizing this, Bolemo cursed and check the prin. It was still the same tattoo, but their was emotion he can on Kiring Kings face.

"Why would he feel remorse?" This question stuck on his mind while watching the wretched and blood tears on the White Skinny Ape. "Is it because of the ape?"