Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

Below the city of Shadi, the Swiss army stood in neat rows, flags fluttering, swords and spears glinting.

A Swiss officer walked to the front of the formation, pointed at the city tower, raised a finger, and sneered:

"Our Swiss Kingdom has conquered one country after another. Many countries, like you, think that occupying a city can resist our swords and spears?

I really don't know if you are brave or foolish!"

As the Swiss officer spoke, he paced back and forth, squinting at the city wall. "We gave you a chance before, to surrender early—

But you refused.

Now? You can only shrink back like weak quails, it's utterly ridiculous!"

As the officer spoke, the Swiss soldiers behind him beat their shields and clamored.

"Weaklings! Weaklings!"

"Surrender! Surrender!"

The Swiss roared, trying to provoke the Shadi people to leave the city and fight.

……

On the city tower, the Shadi soldiers listened to the insults below, their faces filled with anger.

In the corner, Lake and Princess Marlene scanned the Swiss ranks, searching for the possible commander.

"They're using provocation, trying to make us abandon the defensive advantage of the city walls and go down to fight them."

Polo explained to Lake, "Even if it doesn't affect our decisions, it will interfere with the soldiers' combat morale to some extent."

Princess Marlene also nodded:

"Yes, their combat experience should not be underestimated. They must have done this many times, just like they said, they have defeated many people this way."

"They have the holy water that heals injuries and countless supplies, but they are still choosing such tactics—they are very difficult to deal with."

"Yes."

Princess Marlene listened, narrowing her eyes. In the shadows behind her, strange ripples began to spread. "Last time, our Shadi Kingdom was defeated by the Weathers Kingdom's army."

Princess Marlene spoke slowly, looking at the shadows behind her, as if she could see something hidden within, or rather, as if an entire world was hidden there.

An entire city belonging to her.

"But this time, even the Swiss shouldn't think they can defeat us so easily!"

Princess Marlene clenched her fist, her gaze firmly locked on several locations within the Swiss army. At each of those locations, there was a Swiss officer surrounded by heavy protection.

These officers were like nodes, commanding the war machine to operate mechanically.

"I've found them."

Princess Marlene said.

Polo turned to look at Princess Marlene, feeling somewhat surprised.

This princess seemed to have changed since she came out, as if she had truly gained some kind of trait that could make her a queen!

Below, the Swiss army's provocation had not stopped.

Princess Marlene beckoned, and shadows emerged from beneath her, forming a dark armor on her body.

Then, she found a Shadi general, looked at him, and lowered her slender eyebrows:

"We can start the attack now."

"Now?"

The old general had already known some of the tactics, but he was not too surprised at this time. "But it's just as well, the young men are already bursting with fighting spirit."

He gave Princess Marlene a military salute and turned to run down the city wall.

Soon, the Shadi soldiers in the city had all gripped their spears and swords tightly, and the warhorses neighed impatiently.

"They want us to leave the city, then—let's grant their wish!"

Princess Marlene said in a low voice, her figure merging into the shadows beneath her feet.

……

In the Swiss army, in the center of the formation, the commander of the entire army was somewhat surprised to see the Shadi city not far away opening its gates.

Watching the Shadi army rush out with horses, swords, and spears.

The Shadi military flag unfurled in the long wind—

"The Shadi people are coming out?"

He was a little stunned because in the Swiss Kingdom's wars of conquest, after the initial stage, no country dared to actively fight the same number of Swiss soldiers in the field.

Because the Swiss Kingdom's holy water would completely heal every wounded Swiss soldier.

As long as they were not killed on the spot, they could quickly become unharmed again—most kingdoms could only guard their cities in despair and perish in attrition.

But now, these Shadi people… are coming out on their own?!

It doesn't look like they're surrendering either?!

"Haha, it seems I overestimated them!"

The Swiss commander laughed, and the staff around him also showed mocking expressions. "Yes, how long has it been since we encountered such ignorant enemies?"

"I heard that these Shadi people haven't fought a single battle since their capital was destroyed by the Weathers Kingdom?"

"They are really stupid, haven't they even heard of our reputation?"

The commander licked his lips, drew the long sword from his waist, and revealed a cruel and bloodthirsty look. "It seems it's time to let these backward guys see our swords!"

"The order from above was to surround the city as much as possible and slowly strangle them with time. Now it seems—it will only take a few days to completely destroy them."

"Kill—"

The Swiss commander shouted, and all the Swiss soldiers rushed towards the Shadi army like a torrent of landslides.

Their attacks were like madness, as if they didn't care if they would die.

Every Swiss soldier had a small bottle the size of a finger hanging in front of his neck.

Inside was the Swiss Kingdom's holy water that could regenerate severed limbs!

"Shadi people, Shadi people, you want to die yourself—then it will be much faster."

"We have the favor of the gods, and you have nothing. You can't kill us. It's just a waste of effort. You never have a chance to win!"

The Swiss commander sneered, watching the approaching edge of the blade.

"Can you kill all of us? Oh no, you only need to kill our officers—but can you do it? Can you break through our indestructible defense?"

The Swiss commander commanded the army, thinking disdainfully. In previous wars, he also commanded the army in this way, slaughtering the people who dared to resist in one country after another.

"Unless you can jump out of the shadows—but how is that possible?"

……

In the shadows, Princess Marlene's voice trembled slightly.

"We lost our homeland in the royal city. When those gods of death hanging in the sky dropped deadly flames, everyone held their weapons but didn't know how to stop them."

The shadows condensed a phantom of the Shadi capital in the air. A city turned into scorched earth and burning ruins under the Weathers' Sky Fleet's bombardment.

Although Princess Marlene was not there when the city was destroyed.

In the shadows of countless Shadi people, she saw the heart-wrenching destruction over and over again, firmly imprinted in the depths of her heart!

"We lost our homeland and exiled ourselves in the shadows, but now, we are returning from oblivion, and the enemy is besieging the city again—this time, we have a stronger ability to protect our homeland and loved ones!"

Princess Marlene raised her white arm and clenched her fist in the air.

Below, the shadow soldiers of the shadow capital of Shadi also waved their weapons together:

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Princess Marlene listened to the soldiers' shouts and reopened her slender fingers.

In the sky, the shadows became transparent, revealing the scene of the two armies fighting on the ground. The shadows of swords and swords crossed clear trajectories.

"Our swords pierce from the shadows—"

"This time, we will be invincible."

……

In the Swiss army formation, the Swiss officer looked at the front line of blood and blades not far away, revealing a bloodthirsty smile:

"Yes, that's right, your resistance is meaningless, you can only fall down and die in despair…"

As he was talking, he suddenly heard a sharp whistle.

"Huh?"

He was stunned for a moment. This was a warning that a commander in the Swiss army had been assassinated. "Who was so careless that they rushed to the front and got killed?"

He was thinking this way, after all, most of the time, the attrition rate of officers in the Swiss army was not high.

But then, several more whistles came in succession—

"How is that possible?!"

He widened his eyes in surprise. He finally noticed that several military flags of the Swiss Kingdom suddenly fell not far away—

When those Swiss soldiers had not been broken through.

"Why is this?!"

He felt a chill in his heart, but before he could think, he saw that the shadows under the warhorse he was riding suddenly grew upward like tentacles, trapping the galloping hooves!

"Huh?"

His pupils shrank, and he didn't have time to resist.

In the shadows, several Shadi armored soldiers jumped out of the shadows, and a long sword cut off the commander's arm, and the long sword fell.

The Swiss commander wanted to struggle, but the Shadi soldiers who pounced on him turned into a shadow again, engulfing the commander and pulling him down—

The shadows under his feet instantly turned into a bottomless quagmire.

The shadows began to fill the entire world.

……

"The Swiss soldiers are starting to surrender. No matter how strong they are, all the commanders have been assassinated by us, and they can't resist at all."

A Shadi shadow general said with a smile.

"Well, this is our first victory."

Princess Marlene also smiled, "But fortunately, there are no mages or devil-like guys in this Swiss army."

"These Swiss people seem to have known our defenses in advance before launching the war. Why is this?"

In the palace of the Shadow Capital of Shadi, Polo looked at Princess Marlene, took his hand out of the shadow of a captured commander, and finally asked.

"These commanders knew this before crossing the border."

Princess Marlene said, and the shadows under another Swiss man were pulled out and spread out in the air, forming a shadow curtain.

On it, a general in exquisite armor took out a roll of maps from his hand and threw it over.

His voice sounded a little hoarse:

"Seeker, Lord has marked the locations of those rebel armies. All you have to do is lead troops to attack the Shadi Kingdom…"

Princess Marlene saw this, froze the shadow, zoomed in, and showed the details of the map.

Then, she took the map searched from the camp from the soldiers next to her:

"Seeker? And this map, their means of marking the map don't look like reconnaissance by scouts."

Princess Marlene frowned.

And Polo also felt this:

"So, this is also done by some kind of magic or special ability?"

On the map, the locations of many Goth and Shadi armies were marked with punctuation marks, and some of them were not marked in the city, but in the wild.

The marching troops were also marked?

Why?

"Here, they marked it wrong."

Carefully observing the map, Princess Marlene suddenly thought of something, pointing to an area in the heart of the Shadi Kingdom on the map, where dense dots marked the location of possible troops.

"Wrong? Isn't that the army?"

Polo asked.

"No, there are no troops there, or rather, there are not so many troops there. That is where the armory and several blacksmith shops are located."

Princess Marlene said hesitantly.

"Then what did they use to judge the location of the army?"

Polo also began to carefully observe the map, and then he really found some clues.

"The scale of the cavalry team marked on this map seems to be higher than that of the infantry. What does this mean?"

Several people thought, looking at the words spoken by the unknown Swiss general in the sky.

"Seeker, Lord…"

"Seeker…"

"Is it relying on sound? Can he hear the sound of weapons or horseshoes from thousands of meters away!? In this case, he can…

Guess the location of our army!?"

"What a terrible ability…"

Lake and others all looked serious.

The layout will be revealed from such a distance because of the sound. Is this magic?

What if it's closer?

Will all the agreed tactics be known in advance?

"But fortunately, we know this now, but he shouldn't have collected too much knowledge through listening."

Polo calmed down and said, "Otherwise, we would not have been able to win this battle at all!"

"Moreover, they definitely didn't expect that our Shadi Kingdom would win so quickly."

Princess Marlene also took a deep breath and drew the offensive arrows belonging to the Shadi Kingdom on the map in her hand, surrounding the Swiss army that had invaded the Bel Kingdom area from the rear,

"Moreover, our battle is still very complete."

"As for the possible 'Seeker'."

Princess Marlene thought for a while and said softly, "Wrap the horseshoes and weapons with cloth, and then speed up the march—from the rear, raid the main army of the Swiss Kingdom, and support the army of the Goth Kingdom!

Then, drive these damn invaders back to their hometown!"

……(End of this chapter)