Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

Cloud floating island, in the center of the Giant's Garden, before the Giant's Castle.

"Did the Giant King summon these bizarre angels?"

Lake's figure flickered in and out of sight, the Star Killer Sword in her hand drew a silver rainbow, splitting an eyeball monster bound by cyan and red vines in two.

"Regardless of whether this vortex in the sky is related to the Giant King, its presence above the castle inevitably implies some connection."

Poro gazed into the distance, at the cruciform angel corpses slowly descending.

Fortunately, most of the grotesque corpses remained floating in mid-air, not touching the ground, and the number of eyeball monsters was not too large.

The distant castle loomed indistinctly behind dense clouds.

Green vines were wrapped around the tower in the center of the castle, those vines were extremely long, and they had the same magical light as the vine extending to the top of the cloud.

"No matter what this Giant King is doing, I have to go into the castle for those vines."

"Be careful, that Giant King is somewhat different from ordinary giants."

Now that they had come this far, there was no reason to turn back.

Lake and Poro walked to the side of the castle, not directly entering through the front gate, but choosing a window on a side wall.

The giant's castle is much taller than anything humans could build.

But the outer walls of the castle, between the stacked stones, were interspersed with many cracks and plants.

Lake used her fingers to climb the cracks in the stone, while Poro was even faster, with the help of levitation and the physical qualities given by [Ring Return: Red Shoes - Dance of Freedom], he lightly leaped and stepped on it.

Inside the castle, the wide hall seemed empty and deserted.

It was filled with dense clouds, just like what Lake and Poro had seen in their dreams.

"The Giant King doesn't seem to be here."

Poro and Lake observed from behind the clouds, but the heavy shadows of the dream did not appear.

Now that their bodies had arrived here, Lake and Poro's five senses were far more acute than mere mental perception.

"In any case, be careful, it's best to scout out the situation before making an enemy of such a large Giant King."

On the walls were carved many complex patterns.

Those clouds surged, condensing wet droplets on their bodies, but they didn't seem to have any unusual properties.

"Lake, I think I hear something."

Just then, Poro suddenly spoke.

"What did you find? Poro."

Lake was stunned for a moment, and also put her ear to the wall, holding her breath, "It sounds like琴 music? Is someone playing here?"

The field of vision was obscured by ignorant clouds, and in such an environment, all sounds should have seemed eerie.

But for some reason, this琴 sound revealed a sense of peace and lightness.

Pushing open a door in the mist.

Beyond, rows of pillars stood in place - this was the place seen in the dream, but it was equally empty.

Only the琴 sound became clearer.

And just then, from behind, in the direction of the castle gate, an abnormal sound of wind suddenly came.

Lake looked back, the castle gate suddenly began to turn black, then quickly decayed and peeled away, and the withered corpse of an angel floated in from behind the crack!

That cruciform corpse, upright, floated towards them.

From the depths of its eye sockets flowed two wisps of black thick fluid, its cracked and blackened lips opened and closed, its voice hoarse, more like a dying murmur, an irrational whisper:

"Leave... go, it shouldn't be like this, this, this isn't me, who am I? God, what... happened?"

It seemed to sense Lake and Poro in the clouds, and approached them directly.

Upon reaching a certain distance, the corpse's chest and abdomen swelled abnormally, tearing open, and black thick fluid poured out from its wounds, splashing and solidifying, forming patches of dirty and messy feathers!

Finally, from within that deep wound, an eyeball wrapped in black thick fluid slowly emerged.

At this point, the angel's corpse had completely become the remains of an eyeball monster.

"Although it was expected, it's still quite an eye-opener when you actually see it."

"How disgusting, I don't even want to get those liquids on my sword..."

Lake said this, but still held the Star Killer Sword diagonally in her hand.

But just as Lake and Poro were preparing to kill this newborn eyeball monster—

A golden light flashed through the clouds above, accompanied by a faint chirp.

A golden feather pierced through the clouds like a dart, penetrating the eyeball.

"Hmm?"

Lake and Poro looked towards the sound, the clouds parted, and a pure golden bird, flapping its wings, landed on top of a human-shaped stone statue next to the hall.

"A golden bird?"

Poro was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, the golden bird, that's me."

Who knew that the bird would actually respond the next moment!

Then, without waiting for Lake and Poro to ask, it shook its wings humanistically, and then flew up again, as it flew, the surrounding clouds seemed to be lifting its body, gently rising.

"You guys came at a bad time, just in time for those dead angels to revive, hurry up, come with me."

The golden bird said, and flew into the depths of the castle.

Lake and Poro were stunned for a moment, then followed, the bird did not attack, and from its words, it did not seem to have any malice.

The castle steps were very high, and they had to jump to climb them.

The clouds grew thicker and thicker, until a door was pushed open by the golden bird, and dim sunlight shone through from behind the clouds.

At the top of the castle, in a wide platform, clouds swirled, this seemed to be the source of all the clouds in the castle.

A huge shadow stood silently in the clouds, its blue-gray appearance like a marble statue.

"Giant King!"

Poro's pupils shrank, and Lake beside him had already drawn her sword.

But the Giant King was like a real statue, sitting cross-legged in the center of the castle platform, motionless.

And above his head was the abyss hole formed by the swirling dark clouds!

"Wait, Lake, the Giant King... he doesn't seem to be expanding that hole."

Poro gently pressed down Lake's sword, he had some knowledge of angelic power, at this time, the clouds emanating from the Giant King's body were completely different from the aura produced by the hole in the sky.

"What's that in front of him?"

A crisp琴 music came from the cloud vortex.

It was a golden harp, floating in front of the Giant King, clouds condensed into milky white lines, passing through the empty strings, plucking those few golden strings.

The琴 music seemed to be transmitted with the clouds.

The clouds gradually became covered with a golden light in the琴 sound, these clouds with golden hidden light swirled and rose into the sky, entwined together, covering the dark clouds-like hole in front.

Those cruciform corpses of angels were descending under the force of gravity.

But these golden clouds seemed like a transparent curtain, slowing down the descent of those angel corpses, if not for the block of the琴 music and clouds, those endless corpses would have fallen to the ground long ago!

In front of the hole leading to the paradise of death, Lake and Poro could more directly feel...

That trace of life's extinction.

The pitch-black smoke was compressing, trying to come to the world through obstacles.

Fortunately, the clouds blessed by the琴 music gradually began to gain the upper hand, the vortex in the sky gradually closed, and the black cross exposed outside was sucked back.

Finally, the vortex gradually closed, covering the last trace of dirty ink color.

"Phew..."

Looking at the gradually closing sky crack, Lake and Poro also breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

They knew in their hearts that they did not yet have the ability... to solve such a disaster-like problem.

Whether it was Heaven, or the hole above their heads, the two knew very little.

"Ding——"

The last vibrating string of the harp stopped, those dirty and messy dark clouds gradually dispersed, and the sunlight once again occupied the clear sky.

Before their eyes, the mountain-like Giant King slowly opened his eyes.

"Hmm, are you the remaining two gems? If I remember correctly, we just met a few hours ago?"

The Giant King's voice had become much calmer compared to the dream.

No longer possessing that kind of thunder-like heavy, in reality, it seemed much more normal to the fully armed Lake and Poro.

And from the semantics, Poro and Lake realized...

This Giant King might be different from what they had previously guessed.

"You rejected my contract, but still came to me - have you changed your mind?"

The Giant King said again, but then, he seemed to chuckle, and then added, "Ha, just kidding, I know you may have found me here because of other things——

Hmm, let me think... it shouldn't be to kill me, right?"

"If you don't intend to return to the ground and engage in slaughter or destruction, we might be able to talk."

Poro looked up and then said, "About the hole in the sky, those angels, and the gems you want..."

"You might be able to tell us about these things."

"Of course, you are the recognized people of the Star Killer Sword."

The Giant King nodded, "Compared to that greedy and boring human from yesterday, I am happy to talk to you."

"Yesterday?"

Lake and Poro understood the meaning in the Giant King's words, and inexplicably thought of the traces left by that unknown person in the forest of the previous floating island.

"Yes, the person who brought me the first gem."

The Giant King shrugged his shoulders, "Just a Giant Chosen One, gave him some rewards, but still insatiable- such people do not have the qualification to know more."

……

The day before, the axe-wielding strongman was forced out of the castle by the clouds, and staggered a few steps.

Fortunately, the blessing of the Giant Chosen One was still there, which allowed him to stabilize his steps, his arms were tightly holding the golden egg in his arms, but looking at the huge castle, he still felt a trace of unwillingness in his heart.

"My King... why? The vines connect the ground and the sky, with my help, you only need to leave here to reign over the world——"

In his mind, he was still fantasizing about the Giant King coming to the ground, using irresistible power to overwhelm the world.

All living beings will be bow down and become subjects.

At that time, he would inevitably become the existence above all others!

But now, the Giant King's unexplained expulsion shattered his fantasy.

" Bo Ren people drove you to the sky and killed so many giants - don't you want revenge? The legendary swordsman who founded the country is dead, who else can stop you?"

The strongman thought in his heart.

But looking at the tall city gate, he did not have the courage to return, under the shadow of the Giant King, he did not have any courage to refute and persuade.

"Tsk..."

He hugged the golden egg tightly, and ultimately did not dare to say a word of complaint, and walked towards the way he came.

"But fortunately, I am already a Giant Chosen One, I should not have been a human, only powerful creatures like giants will be suitable for me..."

He said to himself, waving his axe to chop down flowers and plants, "With these golden eggs, I can live for a long time, find a small country, I can also be a king."

He said in a low voice.

Although he arrived at the Giant's Castle and completed the giant's contract.

But the power of the Giant Chosen One was not strengthened in the slightest, only three more golden eggs, the strongman was not a person who liked to think too much, but even so, he carried a kind of arrogance that was not commensurate with his identity.

As a person who liked to solve problems with violence, early on, he became a wanted criminal of the Bo Ren Kingdom for killing people in the street.

He advocated stronger violence.

And when he first saw the giant, he was conquered by the copper wall and iron wall-like body, watching the giant easily destroy his house and kill his parents——

But the strongman had no hatred, no fear, he felt intoxicated!

If I was not born a human, but a giant, how good would it be?

Everyone will tremble because of me!

Everyone will be fear because of me!

Only the legendary Giant King who devoured tens of thousands of living beings is qualified to make me submit!

He cherished this ideal until - today.

"No, my power is not enough... Saiwen, he also has the blessing of the Giant Chosen One, and so many giants, but he still died, failed, I can't reach that state yet!"

The strongman walked, his teeth chattering.

The mortal weapons of the Bo Ren Kingdom will still hurt his skin, if he is hit head-on by the "Giant Butcher" heavy crossbow of the Bo Ren Kingdom, I am afraid he will also die.

"This is not what I thought, Giant King, you have such unparalleled power, why don't you use it? You have the violence to slaughter everything, why hide it?"

He murmured, looking at the plants around him.

Every plant here, under the influence of magic, is an extremely rare variant on the surface!

A jade green plant as tall as a person by the roadside, its bent branches hanging with heavy golden red fruits.

The axe-wielding strongman recognized this plant.

It is an extremely precious magic medicinal material, on the surface, it can only grow to the height of a human ankle, but here, each of its fruits is the size of an apple!

"It should be worth..."

The strongman recalled the scene he saw at the Biwei Kingdom auction, "At least ten gold coins!"

Having reached this conclusion, his breathing grew heavy. Without hesitation, he stepped forward, raised his axe, and began hacking at the fruits above. There were so many that he even tossed some unripe ones to the ground and crushed them.

“Consider these as my reward as well.”

But just then, a dark shadow shot out from the nearby bushes!

Ding ding ding—

But the skin, blessed by the giant's chosen, was as hard as iron armor.

The attacking pine needles only left a few marks on the strong man's skin!

“What the hell?!”

He glared, only to see a pine tree seedling-like plant spirit.