Hunting the King of Beasts (Job)

s Yuki was busy with her set of Lions, Niyol switched his eyes back to see the souls of the world around him to reveal a group of Lions coming up in the distance. Niyol tapped his foot on the scorpion king he was riding on, the arthropod clicking its mandibles, acknowledging the request for it to move faster and its eight legs began moving at a rapid speed, charging forward towards the fifteen souls that Niyol had picked up. Another tapping on the creature's carapace, a different sequence this time as Niyol's cold, dead, dull, dark purple eyes narrowed in on the set of souls; the scorpion flashing past Yuki as she finished taking down the original target. The scorpion lowered its tail, Niyol grabbing hold of the stinger a bit below the actual sharp end, though he could be stung and it would have no effect on Niyol since the larger a scorpion is, the weaker its venom needs to be due to the scorpion needing little more than to grab its prey to kill it.

The scorpion reeled its tail back, Niyol allowing himself to act like a hook on a fishing line as he dangled from the stinger. It then flicked forward, launching Niyol clear across the distance towards the group of lionesses while grabbing the hilt of his blade. The scorpion vanished into a cloud of blue mist that dissipated very quickly, vanishing into thin air in a little over a second. The first souls coming in range, Niyol drew the sacred weapon from her sheath, slammed down on the ground in front the lioness while running the blade across her snout and causing the head to freeze over.

The other fourteen lionesses all paused in their places, having heard the sound of Niyol landing as well as their 'point man' dying. Niyol stood up from his crouched position, bringing his blade to a resting position and closing his eyes, allowing his mind to reach out to the world around, become one with the grass and feel through their leaves. He allowed himself to become one with the earth and listen through her, become one with the wind and feel the way it flowed gently over and through the grass... Even with the tall grass around him blocking his vision, he was able to see his enemy's souls, and with him placing himself in a more relaxed state, he was more than prepared to take on the fourteen lions who were now circling and closing in on him.

The first one charged, followed by the other thirteen following suit a second later. Niyol brought his blade up, holding the grip with both hands and letting out a slow breath, several flakes of snow flying with the moist air and becoming smokey in appearance. Niyol spun around while ducking and spinning the blade to face upwards, cutting the lioness's stomach and freezing it over instantly. The lioness exploded into ice chunks from the force of her impacting the floor. A spin to the side and Niyol had removed the legs of the second lion, bleeding his attack into a martial arts technique where he pushed off the ground while angling his body and spinning over the third lion, using the top of the blade to cut its back and letting its spine turn to ice.

The fourth had caught Niyol by the shoulders, but phased through when he turned ethereal and then was slashed in the throat. Niyol transitioned to thrusting his blade behind him, slamming into the stomach of the fifth lioness as it tried a sneak attack. The sixth lioness was seen with her mouth wide open, perfect alignment to Niyol's skull, but erupted into dust as Niyol ordered it to die and the beast having no choice but to obey. A pair of claws lashed at Niyol's back, cutting open the skin over his shoulder blades, but not going deep enough to make the soul made unable to spin around and scalp the creature.

Seven more lionesses swirled around Niyol... a purple magic circle appeared over his wounds and spun before disappearing, reversing the time around the lion's claw marks and healing the flesh as well as making it so the attack did nothing at all. All of the lions began charging in on Niyol's location in unison, Niyol waited, listening for when they were closest before jumping up and letting the lions crash into each other. He landed on one's head, spinning on his heel and slamming one of the others in the skull with his other heel. The sword was driven down wards, through the head of the one he was standing on and letting Niyol go to the floor when the lion erupted into ice chunks. The remaining six, including the one Niyol kicked, jumped back and then shot forward to initiate operation extreme redundancy part 2. Niyol ducked spun, slashing each of them across the chest and letting them all turn into ice sculptures, erupting into ice shards when they impacted each other. He then stood up and looked through the tall grass. Niyol then shot a ball of energy up as a flare to let Yuki know his position, as she was standing in an area with no grass at all due to her killing it.