Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

A blood-colored carriage. The curtain was lifted, and from within, the demon-possessed prince slowly emerged.

He appeared to have no distorted features, looking like a completely normal, even handsome, prince of a great nation.

He wore a black and crimson court dress with delicate decorations and embroidery.

His face had an unhealthy pallor.

Only in his deep-set eye sockets did a wriggling, flickering, eerie red light emanate.

"How could it be you... Inve?"

The demon-possessed prince walked towards the old soldier not far away with a measured pace.

Each of his steps had the same interval, no more, no less, as if precisely measured.

"The aura of a God-chosen should not be you—where has your outer garment, which conceals the divine grace and avoids pursuit, gone?"

The demon-possessed prince's voice did not sound manic.

Instead, it carried an eerie calmness, but this kind of voice had a strange influence, making all listeners feel inexplicably irritable.

"Your Highness, thank you for chasing such a long distance. You must be tired."

Old soldier Inve's eyes also burst out with purple-red light. He slowly bowed and then drew the sword from his waist, "I'm here... to ask you to rest in peace here!"

But the demon-possessed prince remained unhurried.

Perhaps long ago, he had lost human emotions and did not take these threatening words to heart.

"Inve, that's your last bullet. I know, and you know, you can't kill me. Having betrayed the divine grace, you are still just a mortal—

But why did you change your mind today?"

The demon-possessed prince's distance from the old soldier Inve grew closer and closer. In his eyes, there was a flash of inquiry, "Let me think... have you finally figured it out and begun to yearn for the frenzied banquet at the end of bliss?"

The frenzied prince looked at the old soldier holding the sword in front of him, noticed the patterns on the Bo Ren sword, but did not show any fear, and continued to say to himself—

The meaning of contempt was exposed without a doubt:

"What is stolen must always be returned. Believers who have drunk the supreme nectar will eventually accept the invitation to the dance..."

As the demon-possessed prince spoke, he inserted his hand into his collar, and countless wriggling worm-like blood threads surged out from within his chest—

The blood threads intertwined and combined to form a blood-colored invitation.

The patterns on it were twisted, changing, and frantically dancing, causing all viewers to feel dizzy and disoriented.

"Inve, throw down your useless sword and take it. You and your dance partner still have a chance to be forgiven, enter the dance, and fill the twelfth empty seat..."

The demon-possessed prince said confidently.

In his opinion, an ordinary person, no matter what means they used.

It was impossible to hurt himself!

But what he didn't see was that beside the blood-colored carriage behind him, although it was empty, the carriage's black and crimson curtain was suddenly lifted by an invisible hand!

Sunlight shone into the dark carriage compartment.

Inside was a gorgeously dressed princess in a velvet, snow-white dancing dress. This princess was also pale all over, without a trace of blood.

Only in her eyes was there a bloody and hollow eerie light.

Seeing the carriage curtain being lifted, the princess's pupils shrank slightly. She was about to do something, but the next moment, invisible hands pressed her onto the carriage seat!

"Princess, excuse me."

Old soldier Inve's voice sounded from the air, and the next moment, the sound of a sword being drawn abruptly rang out!

A cold light flashed from the air. It was also a Bo Ren long sword, appearing out of thin air and piercing into the princess's chest!

In an instant, blood stained the princess's dancing dress!

And the next second, the princess's whole body began to twitch rapidly and unnaturally. Underneath her pale skin, it was as if countless insects were crawling. Then, her skin ruptured, and countless muscle-like abnormal limbs began to proliferate rapidly—

She opened her mouth wide, and her human-like appearance began to collapse.

From within her throat came a sharp howl unlike that of a human!

"Princess, please don't call out like that anymore—it's bad manners."

The old soldier's voice said meticulously, as if he really thought so.

Under the cover of the invisibility cloak, his eyes began to glow red, triggered by the mad princess's cry.

But he bit the tip of his tongue, spat out a mouthful of blood, and suppressed the agitation of his body.

The movements in his hands became faster and faster.

The sword inserted into the princess's chest drew a circle. The sword with inscriptions cut open a wound. The old soldier reached in, grabbed hard, tore, and took out a deep red piece of flesh that was still struggling and beating—

It was a heart.

The old soldier took out a golden goblet from under his invisibility cloak. The goblet's body was engraved with mysterious runes, carrying a trace of ancient charm.

He put the princess's heart into it.

Then, he took out a piece of paper covered with runes from his body and sealed the mouth of the cup.

"It's time to rest, Your Highness, just consider it... Old King's request to you."

A trace of sadness flashed in the old soldier's eyes.

The long sword in his hand, as well as his aura, quickly disappeared into the air again, carrying the golden goblet that sealed the princess's heart.

And at the same time he began to assassinate the princess, the prince standing in front ofPolo's disguised old soldier suddenly changed his expression.

"What did you do—"

His face instantly and uncontrollably collapsed, and a patch of writhing limbs appeared.

He turned around and saw the old soldier stabbing the sword into his dance partner's chest from the air!

"Wait, you are—bastard!"

The old soldier's assassination of the princess seemed to affect the demon-possessed prince at the same time. His lighthearted expression instantly failed, along with his gorgeous court dress!

His flesh, along with his dress, collapsed, turning into countless blood-colored dancing limbs!

Just like...

The princePolo had seen in the dwarf's magic cave.

He was about to rush towards the invisible old soldier in front of the carriage, when countless cyan and red vines burst out of the ground and wrapped around the prince's frantically dancing body.

At the same time, the magic explosion fromPolo hit the prince's torso!

After possessing [Spiral Beacon: Sage], Polo's(魄罗: Polo) mastery of magic speed and precision has been greatly improved.

The most ordinary magic explosion can now be cast simultaneously with the Blue-Red Witch's spells.

And the range of the magic explosion is compressed under Polo's(魄罗: Polo) gradually improving control, like an invisible knife, piercing into the demon-possessed prince's torso!

In an instant, a gap appeared out of thin air in the prince's chaotic body.

But then, it gathered and healed like water!

However, with Polo's(魄罗: Polo) delay, the old soldier Inve's figure had completely disappeared into the air, along with the princess's heart!

"You dare... to do such a thing. Then today, I will take back the divine grace you stole. All of you must die!"

The prince's voice, filled with rage, came from the monster's body, layer upon layer, as if countless throats were speaking together!

His half-face, which still retained its human form, had red eyes that quickly turned.

Then he stared intently atPolo, the only one on the field who still had a body.

BecausePolo had to cast spells, he had transformed back into wolf form. The moment the Bo Ren prince spoke, he felt that he could hardly suppress the energy of the "Dancer" in his body.

And the moment the prince's blood-red pupils looked over.

Polo's(魄罗: Polo) whole body stiffened, and the spell he was casting was instantly interrupted!

He felt that within his body, his soul could no longer suppress that blood-colored energy!

Before, although this scarlet energy belonged to the Dancer, it would be controlled byPolo in his body.

But now, this energy that did not belong toPolo began to be stripped and drawn away by the prince!

Like a... sharp knife that probed into the bone marrow!

Intense pain poured out from every nerve in his body!

If Polo's(魄罗: Polo) soul had not been special, his consciousness would have been stripped away by this inhuman pain!

"Resister, die like this, dance to death, with your ignorant soul!"

The demon-possessed prince roared, and countless chaotic limbs froze at the same time, pointing atPolo!

For the first time—

Polo felt that his control over his body was being eroded by the power from the "Dancer"!

But the next moment, a huge vibration on the ground interrupted the prince's control!

The prince's blood-colored eyeballs looked in horror at the source of the sound—

A huge shadow that had been hiding well stood up from the forest on the side of the road and then strode forward!

The trees along the way were smashed into pieces.

The ground shattered under the city wall-like body!

It was a giant pieced together from white bones!

"Boom—Boom—"

The giant crossed tens of meters in one step, rushed to the demon-possessed prince, and then raised its huge bone fist and, with a flash of blood-colored lines all over its body—smashed down!

"Boom!"

The air made a piercing bang!

The next moment, the white bone fist slammed heavily on the demon-possessed prince at an unimaginable speed!

The prince's blood-colored twisted figure instantly deformed and was smashed to the side—

But then, in the smoke, the giant's arm gradually stopped.

Polo was surprised to see that the prince's collapsed and distorted arm spurted out a piece of blood from the outside, resisting the giant's fist, and countless twitching feet plowed deep grooves in the ground.

The demon-possessed prince's throat made a hoarse, overlapping voice:

"What is this... thing? No flesh, no veins, how ugly!"

"Yeah, but there's something even uglier than it now, and I won't say who it is."

Polo curled his lips and said.

As early as when the demon-possessed prince's attention was diverted, he had left the prince's sight, and the orange-red sphere crystal in his mouth flashed again rapidly under Polo's(魄罗: Polo) control.

The ground trembled, and the second Giant Bone Guard also came out of the forest.

"Boom!"

The giant's foot stepped down towards the prince with astonishing power!

In just an instant, the twisted prince emitting a chaotic red light was squeezed into the depths of the ground!

But just asPolo breathed a slight sigh of relief, the prince's voice rang out again.

"This kind of strength still can't kill me. Without muscles, how can you dance?"

Then, the prince's body twisted strangely like a liquid, and he actually cut off part of his body and drilled out from between the two giants!

After that, the prince's severed flesh began to spread towards the legs of the Bone Giant that were still standing in place!

Scarlet flesh covered the bone surface.

Extending to the joints...

Polo discovered that the legs of the Bone Guard covered in flesh began to lose control—

"Crack!"

The legs of the Giant Bone Guard began to twist and break abnormally, and countless broken bones pierced out from the muscles.

And those flesh that had broken away from the prince twitched madly, like a liquid, unaffected by the power of the giant.

Polo controlled the giant's arm, wanting to pull off the tarsal maggots, but the demon-possessed prince's flesh instead spread towards the hand bones of the Giant Bone Guard.

"How can the power of mortals compare to divine grace?"

The remaining flesh of the demon-possessed prince began to reorganize, once again forming a half-human, half-deformed monster. His half-face, which was still human-shaped, looked at the giant in front of him that was gradually being destroyed by him.

The scarlet light on the surface of his body slightly retracted—

But at this moment, a long sword flashing with brilliant starlight flashed out from behind the giant's fallen corpse!

Lake's(蕾克: Lake) scarlet cloak separated the bright and dark light under the starlight.

The sharp sword instantly pierced through a certain part of the demon-possessed prince's body!

"Again—"

The demon-possessed prince had just opened his mouth in disdain, but found that this time, something was wrong, "You, what did you do, mortal, how is it possible..."

He wanted to say something more, but the brilliance of Lake's(蕾克: Lake) Star Killer Sword burst out again.

The twisted flesh began to wither and wither rapidly.

The prince's voice became a gradually weakening grunt.

Countless scarlet rays poured out from the prince's pierced wound, and were swept away by the starlight in the sky.

Finally, those chaotic limbs finally stopped dancing.

They dried up and withered rapidly, and finally turned into a pool of foul-smelling slurry.

...

"Polo, are you okay?"

After confirming that the demon-possessed prince was dead,Lake ran to Polo's(魄罗: Polo) side. The old soldier also appeared beside him. In everyone's eyes, there was a hint of concern.

"Huff... I'm fine, but the energy of that dancer seems to have changed a bit again."

Polo coughed. After the demon-possessed prince died, he felt out of thin air that the aura belonging to the "Dancer" in his body had undergone another qualitative change.

It became stickier, more powerful, and more restless.

The only good news was that after the demon-possessed prince died, the ownership of these energies temporarily returned toPolo.

This allowed his soul to suppress them again.

"That's about it. It's just that I feel—"

Polo stood up, and the red light in the depths of his pupils appeared and disappeared, as if indicating a certain direction, "I have a vague sense of direction. It should be... that direction?"

Polo raised his forearm and pointed into the distance.

The old soldier next to him suddenly shrank his pupils when he saw this scene.

"That's where the 'Dancer' is."

Old soldier Inve said, "It's also where my and Dansi's(丹丝: Dansi) homeland is."

The old soldier said here, opened his mouth, but still fell silent.

As if he hadn't figured out how to say it.

Seeing this scene,Lake andPolo did not ask further.

The slime on the Star-Slaying Sword of Lacus slid off as the sword was withdrawn. Even without the blessing of starlight, it was still a sharp and precious sword.

Its smoothness was such that even dust found it difficult to cling to.

After the Demonic Prince died, the starlight on the surface of the Star-Slaying Sword disappeared again, leaving only a mirror-like appearance.

Lacus gently stroked the smooth blade of the Star-Slaying Sword, then sheathed it.

"In any case, for now, at least in the short term, we won't have any more guys like that tailing us!"

"Yes, that's good news."

Polo looked at the two giant sentinel corpses still standing on the flat ground. One of them had lost half a leg in the Demonic Prince's attack and had fallen to the ground, losing its balance.

Polo felt a pang of regret.

"Forget it, this time we'll just take one big guy with us, and leave the other one to Porem Royal Capital."

He thought for a moment, and with a thought.

The relatively intact giant sentinel stood up and walked into the forest by the roadside, disappearing from sight. Only the distant ground tremors still showed its presence.

After the Demonic Prince died, those who were controlled by the Dance Plague fainted due to exhaustion.

Polo and the others dragged the fainted passersby to the shade of a nearby tree. Some of them, who were not seriously injured, should wake up soon.

Polo searched the carriage that the Demonic Prince had arrived in.

The red mixed patterns on it had already begun to crack, as if some kind of overflowing energy inside had suddenly disappeared, and it was beginning to become more fragile and decayed than ordinary wood.

There was nothing of value.

This prince, who had fallen into demonic ways, probably no longer needed the supplies of human existence.

And the princess's corpse, with her heart cut out by the old soldier, was still leaning against the back of the chair, without any vitality, only with a terrifying and strange posture.

"This princess looks a little different from the Demonic Prince?"

Polo looked at the princess. Unlike the prince, only part of her body was distorted. After her death, the largely preserved human-like fleshy parts did not wither like the Demonic Prince.

"Yes, these princesses themselves are not as threatening as the Demonic Princes. Once, they were just ordinary people cursed."

The old soldier Inve shook his head, staring at a special kingdom emblem on the princess's corpse, "But now, under the gaze of the 'Dancers,' they have become the 'dance partners' of these Dance Plague Princes."

The old soldier was silent for a moment, and continued, "Dans used to be a 'dance partner' of a Demonic Prince—the one who died in the forest."

"So, these princesses can actually be saved?"

Polo was stunned.

"No, they can't be saved."

The old soldier Inve explained, "Dans's 'heart' has always been with me, so I can save her, but the other princesses' 'hearts' are all with the Demonic Princes—

If they don't die, these princes will be resurrected from death forever!"

Polo opened his mouth, and Lacus on the side was also a little confused.

But at least now, this prince with many blood debts has died here.

"Let's go, or Dans will be impatient."

Polo said, and the group walked towards the location where the carriage was hidden.

When passing by the Demonic Prince's viscous and turbid remains, Polo seemed to suddenly sense something. He hesitated, walked forward, and dug something out of the remains—

Wiping off the slime and residue.

It was the Demonic Prince's invitation letter.

The patterns on it had not lost their energy, but instead, in Polo's hands, they once again glowed with a lifelike and sinister brilliance.

Polo thought for a moment and still put the envelope away.

It was noon, the day was still long, and the road ahead stretched to the end of the field of vision—

There were many rest stops, but the destination was still looming, shrouded in clouds and mist.

...

After Polo and the others disappeared into the forest.

A little further away, at the top of an old tree in the forest.

A telescope with cracks trembled slightly.

The owner of the telescope was a young hunter—the sharpshooter who had once been highly expected in Aem City.

His face was covered with several narrow scars, one eye was blind, and his left arm was empty, with only an empty sleeve.

Behind him, he still carried that special air rifle.

"That is...the savior saint who killed twelve giants and saved the Kingdom of Porem...? Sure enough, exactly like the statue."

The young hunter's voice trembled, and his eyes were filled with unparalleled reverence and envy, "The beautiful Star-Slaying Sword...and such tall giants."

He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"I will definitely...be like her in the future, only then...will I be a true hero!"