Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

Pushing aside the grass, they moved through the towering trees.

Lake and Poro chased the sounds of the two sprites, their eyes darting among the plants, wary of them blending in.

The clouds overhead grew heavy, casting a dense shadow.

Closer now, Lake and Poro quickly closed the gap on the plant sprites—

But then, an unusual screech suddenly rang out from the swaying bushes ahead!

After that, the sounds of the two plant sprites vanished.

"Hmm? Did they stop?"

Lake and Poro exchanged a look, cautiously slowing their pace. "Are they setting up another ambush?"

The bushes ahead trembled again, and the moving flower-shaped sprite darted out from the undergrowth!

"Catch it first—"

Lake nodded, ready to rush forward.

But then, Poro caught a scent besides the plants; it seemed the flower sprite wasn't hiding from them!

"Wait, there's something behind it!"

The next moment, a gray shadow pierced out from behind the flower sprite, instantly locking onto the flower sprite's root body. The gray shadow was covered in a series of dirty feathers.

"Another monster is fighting these plant sprites?!"

Almost instantly, the flower sprite withered and decayed, turning into dry, crumbling remains.

Lake and Poro stared dumbfounded at the figure behind the flower sprite—a monster covered in messy, gray-black feathers!

A series of feathers were connected by invisible threads, rotating around the center of something. As it spread its feathers, Poro saw the center clearly—a huge eyeball, covered in blood vessels, floating in mid-air!

The surrounding giant plants withered at the touch of the feathers.

Rotten-smelling fluid seeped from the plants.

It flowed between the soil, releasing a pungent odor.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

If the plant sprites had carried a trace of acceptable magical beauty, this feathered eyeball monster filled Lake and Poro with a sense of unease from the bottom of their hearts!

Seeing Lake and Poro, the feathers on the eyeball monster trembled simultaneously.

The bloodshot and filthy eyeball turned.

There was no expression, but the undisguised malice in its eyes was obvious!

"Tzz—Gaa—"

The next moment, the messy feathers around the eyeball monster vibrated, lashing out at Lake like invisible whips, emitting the strange screech Lake and Poro had heard!

"Clang!"

Lake instantly drew her sword, cutting down the incoming feathers. The sword's edge made a sharp metallic sound as it struck the feathers!

Two blue-red vines rapidly grew from beneath the eyeball monster.

Magic light also appeared in Poro's other eye—

The eyeball monster's approaching feathers began to rapidly turn into harmless white chocolate, peeling off piece by piece. But then, a golden light suddenly burst out from the fine blood vessels of the eyeball!

Immediately, Poro's magic was blocked by the golden halo, dissipating into nothing.

"This isn't magic, it's—"

The moment Poro saw the golden light, his pupils shrank. He sensed a familiar feeling within this energy.

"Angelic power?!"

Then, the feathers around the eyeball monster flew up, no longer connected, but rotating like a storm, strangling Lake—

Each feather began to glow with a fluctuating golden light!

But for some reason, Poro sensed something within this golden light...something completely different from Cullen's angelic power.

It was like a mixture of chaotic colored light.

A static.

"Angelic power?"

Lake was also stunned, but her speed increased several times at this moment, dodging the incoming feathers. Her crimson cloak suddenly billowed.

It was as if she had dodged into the invisible air, disappearing without a trace!

The eyeball monster's huge pupils suddenly contracted at this sight, and the feathers' rotation slowed for a few seconds, as if losing their target.

Then it turned its gaze to Poro.

But just as the feathers around it reassembled into a storm, wrapping around Poro, a flash of bright sword light appeared beside its empty side.

The eyeball tightened, and in an instant, a narrow sword mark appeared on the yellowish-white eyeball!

Fresh red blood dripped from the sword mark.

But the color of this blood quickly darkened, turning black, until it became a pitch-black liquid like petroleum!

This liquid dripped onto the soil, making a corrosive sizzling sound.

The black color seemed to contain death and decay itself.

The vitality contained in all things vanished the moment they came into contact with it!

"Don't touch the liquid!"

After unleashing two consecutive strikes, Lake shook off the liquid on her blade, and her body, cloaked in an invisible cloak, disappeared into the air in a dodge, then reappeared beside Poro.

After struggling violently, the eyeball monster slowly stopped moving.

All the feathers fell to the ground like fallen leaves, the golden glow slowly dissipating, and the remaining parts also turned into black pus.

"This monster seems out of place in this forest. It feels different from those plant sprites."

Poro cautiously watched the dead eyeball monster, but what puzzled him most was the angelic power emanating from the monster's body.

Although it was very different from Cullen's, Poro wouldn't easily mistake it.

"Where did it come from? Is it the Giant King's conspiracy?"

Lake and Poro stared at the eyeball monster's corpse.

The black liquid had gathered into a puddle beneath it, and the liquid was even evaporating, condensing into a faint black mist.

Poro could feel the magic within the surrounding plants changing and fading under the influence of the slight mist, but he couldn't sense any magic or orderly energy structure from the black mist.

It was like...

Chaos, he could only sense chaos.

"Poro, look at the sky over there, does something seem off?"

At this moment, Lake beside him also spoke.

Poro looked up. In the distance, probably near the center of the floating island, the clouds had a dirty blackish-yellow tinge, which was no ordinary shadow.

It was more like dirty smoke carrying some kind of pollution.

"Let's see where this monster came from. If the Giant King created this thing, even if only one of them reaches the ground, the humans in the town will face a disaster!"

Poro took a deep breath and continued.