Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 134: Eliminating the Dancing Epidemic
Those infected by the dancing plague stood up staggeringly, dancing and gathering together towards the bloody carriage.

The blood-colored carriage slowed down slightly, moving along the stone ground towards Sweet.

"This damn demon-possessed prince... is going to Sweet?!"

Inside the invisibility cloak, Invi looked at the gorgeous blood-red carriage, her eyes glowing red.

He could sense the strange and incomprehensible energy fluctuations in the blood-red carriage—

He has considerable power compared to the demon-possessed prince who had previously hunted him and others in the Kingdom of Boren.

I can't stop him by myself!

"The angel of the Fertile Plains...didn't sense it?"

Invi gritted her teeth and started running.

The prince's carriage began to slow down after entering the town.

This also made the veteran Invi confident that he could inform the more populous Miracle City of the news before the Demon Prince arrived in Sweet.

Outside the town, there was a carriage parked in a wheat field by the roadside. It was the carriage driven by the old soldier when he arrived.

After the veterans entered the village, Dans stayed in the car.

But when Invi stepped into the open space in the wheat field, his steps suddenly stopped and his face turned pale in an instant.

He saw that at the edge of the wheat field, a second blood-red carriage, carrying the demonic prince, was parked in front of his own carriage, blocking the way out.

This time, there is not just one demon-possessed prince coming!
But... two!
"Long time no see, Invi."

A hoarse voice came from the mouth of the demon-possessed prince who was dressed in gorgeous clothes.

His face was expressionless and his skin was pale, like a vampire who had never seen the sun. His eyes were fixed on Invi, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"What you took away should now be returned to the Wild Dancer, right? Along with your meaningless life—"

Invi's gaze passed over the demon-possessed prince and looked in the direction of her carriage.

It looked like nothing had happened to his beloved Danse yet, as the former princess was hiding in the corner of the carriage, shaking all over, holding a knife for self-protection.

"You, you damned things."

The veteran gritted his teeth. He knew that this time, turning around and running away would not solve any problems.

He gripped the saber at his waist tightly and disappeared in an instant.

But the next moment, the demon-possessed prince in front of him quickly raised one hand, and the human skin on that hand instantly collapsed and disappeared, revealing red and white flesh fibers.

Those exposed muscles suddenly flexed.

The next moment, the old soldier's figure suddenly stopped and he jumped out of invisibility!
"what happened?"

The old soldier's pupils shrank, and he felt a sudden twitch in his leg, interrupting his concentration.

"Yinwei, you lowly thief, this time... you can't escape."

The human skin on half of the demon-possessed prince's face instantly fell off, revealing blood-red muscles. Those muscles extended and grew rapidly, giving rise to countless twisted and dancing limbs!
Following the actions of the demon-possessed prince, veteran Invi looked down at his feet.

A piece of bloody muscle fiber emerged from under the grass and straw, wrapped around his ankles, and pierced deeply into his flesh.

This demon-possessed prince had already hidden his bloody muscles beside Invi's carriage!

"Bastard!"

Invi used the invisibility cloak to isolate the Mad Dancer and other Mad Dancer believers from controlling the Mad Dancer energy in his body, but now, the flesh and blood of the demonized prince directly crossed the invisibility cloak and pierced into the flesh!
Under such circumstances, Invi began to lose control of the energy in her body.

Invi himself does not have the special physique like Poro.

I don't know any magic, and although my will is strong, there are times when some things are impossible to achieve with willpower alone!

No, we must... kill or interfere with it before it is completely controlled!
The old soldier roared, and with all his might, he temporarily regained control of his body. He leaped up, striding forward, and the saber in his hand arced, slashing towards the demon prince's head.

However, the muscles on the demon-possessed prince's inhuman face twitched as he formed a strange smile.

His muscle-wrapped fingers pointed slightly upwards.

The next moment, a red light could not be suppressed in the old soldier's eyes!
All control over his body was instantly taken away, and the saber in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.

"If you don't dedicate yourself to the wild dance, you will remain a mere mortal... You only want to control your desires, but now, your body seems to disagree!"

The restlessness that no ordinary person could bear instantly overwhelmed Invi like a tide.

He felt his rationality, in an instant, begin to be overwhelmed by demonic desire. Before his eyes, countless chaotic blocks of color appeared, and they gradually became clear...

Like countless dancing figures.

But just when Invi's will was about to break—

With a loud bang and a gust of wind, Invi's body was suddenly pushed out!

His mind suddenly became clear, the blood-colored fibers under his feet broke, and control over his body was immediately restored.

“Hu…Hu…Ha…”

He was breathing heavily, and the scene before him began to materialize.

Before his eyes, the demon-possessed prince who had just stood there disappeared—

The huge shadow in front of him was like a white pillar, the foot of the Giant Skeleton Guard!

The demon-possessed prince was caught off guard and was crushed by the sudden and heavy force, turning into a bloody mess.

But the bloody flesh and mud were still wriggling. A head spontaneously emerged from it, emitting a hoarse voice:

"What...is...this thing..."

Seeing that the prince was about to gather again.

A silver light suddenly appeared like a meteor from the edge of the wheat field!

The Star-Killing Sword in Lake's hand glowed with a faint starlight, and her dark blue pupils were fixed on the pool of flesh formed by the demon prince.

A faint flow of energy gathered before her eyes.

A flaw... was exposed.

It was a heart that was originally wrapped in countless muscles. The muscles on top of it were extremely tough, and countless wildly dancing energies poured out from that devilish heart.

Let this corpse, which should have turned into blood, be reunited!
The moment the flaw appeared——

Lake's Star Killing Sword has already pierced into it!
The Star-Killing Sword pierced into the flesh and blood, and the starlight flickered. Then, the twitching flesh and blood drooped weakly. Before the Demon Prince could utter a word, he collapsed into a pile of debris again.

"Mr. Invi, are you okay? We're... a little late."

Lake shook off the juice on the sword, put it back into the scabbard, and helped the old soldier who had fallen to the ground.

"Thank you, I'm fine."

The old soldier didn't have time to reply to Lake. He raised his hand, pointed at the blood-red carriage of the demon prince, and said, "Wait a minute, he still has a heart, dancing with the princess—"

"Oh, Mr. Invi, I still remember."

Lake was stunned for a moment and added.

When the old soldier stepped forward and lifted the curtain of the blood-red carriage, he saw that the princess dancing with the demon-possessed prince had fallen inside.

"How do you..."

Invi was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the wounds of the possessed princess.

There was a hole behind the blood-red carriage. A feathered arrow pierced through the carriage and pierced through the heart of the possessed princess from behind. The sharp tip of the arrow also pierced through the princess's chest, leaving a trail of blood.

Death happened so quickly that the princess didn't even have time to show her deformed posture!
"Well, I can actually shoot arrows."

Lake pointed to the longbow on her back and a bag of feather arrows and said, "You must have seen it before, right?"

"But how could an ordinary arrow possibly penetrate a demonized heart?"

Invi stared at the arrow tip and said in a daze.

"Oh, you ask that... This arrow is not ordinary."

Lake said, pulling out an unused feather arrow from behind her back and showing the golden rune on it to the veteran Invi, "These are blessed by Ms. Karen!"

“This blessing…”

Veteran Invi looked at the runes on the arrow, his eyes gradually widening.

He recalled something, an angel who had survived the dance epidemic and collapsed, and who had given him a chance to win back his love.

"Have you seen...that angel!?"

"Yes, the process is a bit complicated, but I'll explain it later."

Lake looked towards the town and said, "Polo and Ms. Karen, go stop that wild dancer. If you want to see Ms. Karen, you can go there."

The veteran and Lake didn't twitch for long.

After dealing with the demon-possessed prince, they headed straight for the village they had been to before.

"By the way, in the small town, I originally wanted to evacuate the townspeople, but there are still many people."

As the veteran approached the town, he said solemnly, "They've been infected by the Dancing Plague. If they're manipulated by the Dancing Plague Prince, it will be very dangerous—"

Very aggressive!"

But, after approaching the battlefield, Invi's eyes gradually widened again -

On the street, a villager was twisting and dancing, completely deformed by the energy. His skin had fallen off and he had long lost his consciousness.

His muscles grew abnormally as he twitched, and countless arms emerged from under his body like a gusher.

But that's not the point.

This terrifying-looking, completely controlled, possessed townsman died the next moment.

"Pfft-"

The tip of the gun was pulled out from the chest of the demon-possessed town dweller, leaving a pool of blood.

The three gingerbread men pulled out the spears that were stuck in the chests of the possessed villagers, and their cracked bodies slowly recovered.

Then the gingerbread man rushed into the town again at a rapid speed.

Stopped the second deformed townsman.

"What is this... the power of the Angel of Plenty?"

Invy asked blankly.

"No, this is Poro's magic."

Lake smiled, stepped over the twisted corpses on the ground, and walked along the cobblestone road to the center of the village.

The two of them passed by one gourmet soldier after another and ran towards the center.

"Click——"

The wall on the side was pushed down, and a town resident with seven or eight dancing arms and deeply infected with granulation cells all over his body rushed out.

Just as Lake drew her sword, she saw the townsman suddenly sway and slowly fall to his knees.

"Ok?"

Invi, holding her saber, also glanced at it in confusion.

Around them, other people who were deeply infected with the dancing plague also gradually stopped dying. The townspeople whose bodies had been deformed due to the active influence of the demon-possessed prince had lost their chance of survival.

But further away, the townspeople whose bodies had not been deformed...

When they wake up, maybe they can survive.

"What happened? The second demon-possessed prince is also dead?"

Invi followed Lake, walked around the houses, and saw a second blood-red carriage in the center of the village. The blood-red carriage was already entangled by green and red vines.

Seven or eight gourmet soldiers tore it into pieces.

In front of the carriage, the blood-red figure of the demon-possessed prince knelt on the ground.

The flesh and blood that had grown all over his body was so quiet and motionless.

In front of him, a girl with golden pupils, a ring on her head, and wings on her back stood quietly, one of her hands placed on the head of the demonized prince.

The next moment, golden flames ignited all over the demon prince's body.

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared.

"Why do I suddenly feel that killing these guys is a lot easier?"

Next to him, a Poro came out from the top of a chocolate sculpture, looked at the dead demon prince, and yawned. The other gingerbread men around him stopped in their tracks.

Now, the length of Poro's blue bar is not enough to support him to control a large number of gourmet soldiers for a long time.

"Thanks, Ms. Cullen."

The Poro said as he looked at the angel with golden pupils.

"No, I want to thank you."

After Karen killed the demon prince, the ring on his head and the wings behind him slowly disappeared. "All this death, madness, and sin... originally came from me.

In fact, I am not worthy of being an angel."

Karen sighed and shook her head, but soon the disappointment on her face faded, returning to a peaceful and calm expression. She looked over at Lake and the veteran Invi who were approaching. "Mr. Invi, we meet again."

"you--"

Veteran Invi was stunned. His weathered, dim eyes were momentarily distracted at that moment. "Angel, I finally...see you again!"

……

"So, you wanted to get rid of the Wild Dancer a long time ago?"

"Yes."

Karen looked at the village not far away, and saw people who had recovered from the dance epidemic starting to pick up things on the ground.

The sound of crying could be heard faintly.

"A long time ago, I came from heaven, that is... when Invi and I first met."

Karen continued, "I wanted to end it all, but I failed."

"Failed?!"

Lake and Poro looked at Karen's golden pupils with a hint of horror.

They saw with their own eyes that the power of this angel could easily wipe out the demonic prince who had taken the combined efforts of several people to kill.

"How could that be? That wild dancer is so strong that even you..."

"Because, in a sense, it comes from me. It's a part of me, and this part, more accurately, is my 'shadow'."

Karen shook her head, “I thought, I’m an angel now, I can handle this—but I was wrong.

It has also become stronger, even stronger than me."

Veteran Invi, after listening to Karen's previous story, his expression became somewhat complicated. After a long while, he suddenly looked at Karen and said:
"Your feathers helped me save my own life and gave me a last glimmer of hope in the dark apocalypse."

The old soldier reached out his hand and gently soothed Dansi's back, his eyes softening. "Compared to more important things, death is not so scary anymore, isn't it?

Now, we are no longer alone, whatever the so-called wild dancers are—

Compared to the initial ignorance, now, when such a god hidden in the shadows reveals his true face.

It’s no different from us.”

"Invi..."

Karen's golden pupils rested on the veteran, and he suddenly smiled, "I think that compared to me, you are more suitable to be an angel now.

Compared to you, I have always been just an ordinary girl except for this God-given power."

Karen stopped smiling, nodded, and continued with what he had said before, "After the first failure, I was at a loss.

I watched millions of people dancing to death in the dance epidemic. I could save some of them, but I couldn't save everyone.

I watched as hell enveloped a city, yet I...

There is nothing I can do! "

……

Countless years ago, the Fertile Plains had not yet appeared.

A girl wearing tattered white clothes, with a golden ring on her head and wings on her back, walked on the wasteland.

The blood stained her snow-white dress, which was shocking.

The illusion of heaven falling is still replaying before my eyes, and those hymns are twisted from the depths of my memory into noisy and incomprehensible demonic sounds.

The green garden withered into black residue.

The glory is gone, the ruins are falling into the abyss...

The radiant light of heaven suppressed the evil spirits and demonic thoughts hiding in the shadows on earth. But now, heaven is gone, and I am the only one left on earth...

What else can I do?
I couldn't even defeat my own shadow. I could only watch helplessly as those praying people died in pain and distortion.

Me, why me?
What qualifications do I have to be an angel?

What reason do I have to think that I have returned to purity just because I cut that part off from my body?

What right do I have to live in peace and happiness in heaven for so many years?!
Tears overflowed from beneath the golden pupils.

Angel Karen trembled, looking at the dead fields around her and sobbing silently.

Now that God is gone, who should I ask for my questions?
"My Lord Angel, I can help you to shroud this world in endless light once again, and let those who are in deep pain smile carefree smiles once again!"

At this moment, a slightly shrill voice sounded from the side.

Angel Karen looked in the direction of the voice and saw a slightly plump woman wearing a long robe. She looked kind and was carrying a basket in her hand.

Karen didn't know who was in front of her, but now she was like a drowning person seeing a reed in the water!
"Ma'am, please... teach me, what should I do?"

Karen asked, eyes wide open.

"Since heaven has fallen, we only need to build another one."

The slightly overweight woman smiled and said, "God can create heaven, and you are an angel, so you can do the same!"

"Ma'am, could you please...explain it a little more clearly? I'm still confused."

Seeing Karen's bewildered expression, the fat woman smiled again and pointed to the side of the road.

There, there were two farmers leaning against the edge of the field, looking pale and thin due to hunger.

Their wheat harvest had been destroyed by locust plagues and frost in the previous period.

“Hunger brings suffering to mankind, but delicious food is the best medicine to cure famine.”

The fat woman said, "And where there is no famine, for them it is heaven!"

Then, the fat woman opened her basket, took out a bottle of potion, unscrewed the lid, and finally muttered a spell while dripping the potion onto a red rock on the ground.

The next moment, the rock began to rapidly deform and became...

A huge cake served on a plate!

The fat woman picked up the cake that had appeared on the ground and handed it to two hungry farmers on the side of the road.

There was ecstasy in the eyes of the two farmers.

They kowtowed with joy, saying, "Thank you, Angel! Thank you, Angel!"

The fat woman looked calm and didn't respond to the two farmers who were feasting. Instead, she turned her head, looked at Karen, and continued:

"Do you understand? A true angel."

"So, what should I do?"

Karen's eyes sparkled. "What can we do... to create a paradise without hunger?"

"It's okay, Angel. I'll help you."

The fat woman put the potion back into the basket beside her and looked at Karen with a barely perceptible glint in her eyes. "All you have to do is use the angel's power..."

Just lend it to me!"

……

The carriage of Poro and his companions passed the signpost of the Fertile Plains and headed towards the forest not far away.

"At that time, the Gluttonous Witch asked me to lend her all my power, and I didn't refuse."

Karen sighed and continued, "By then, pity had already taken away most of my sanity. Without you, my mistake would have led to even more irreparable consequences!"

As Karen spoke, he held one of the veteran's bullets in his hand.

A feather from the white wings behind it floated over and landed on the bullet, slowly merging into it and forming a golden rune.

“I’m sorry, even though I’m an angel, the help I can provide is…limited.

I'm not good at fighting. Before I became an angel, I was just an ordinary girl who lost both legs."

Karen took a breath as he spoke, then handed a box of angel-infused bullets to the veteran, "Also, over the past few decades, the gluttonous witch has drained a lot of my power.

Now, I can only cut off the connection between the Wild Dancer's followers and the Wild Dancer when they are outside the Kingdom of Stedzi."

Having said that, Karen paused, raised his head, and looked into the golden pupils of several people, with a hint of determination flashing in his eyes, "But I promise that this time, as long as we reach the front of the Wild Dancer—

I can completely destroy it!"

The carriage entered the forest.

Invisible ripples appeared in the maze barrier on the outer layer of the Fertile Plain.

The Poro raised his claws, and a crystal stone engraved with runes flew out from the backpack behind him, emitting a layer of magical light and resonating with the surrounding barrier.

The next moment, the trees on both sides changed rapidly, and the sound of rustling continued...

By controlling this barrier, Poro can directly pass through the maze and reach every boundary of the Fertile Plains.

And now, where they arrived was the Fertile Plain, the border with the veteran's hometown, the Kingdom of Steds.

Ahead, a broken road sign appeared before our eyes.

Under the road sign, there was a white armored skeleton lying.

The carriage gradually stopped, and a complicated look flashed across the eyes of the veteran Invi. He dismounted, walked forward, and picked up the old road sign that had fallen to the side.

After wiping off the mud and dust, a few rusty metal characters were revealed.

【Traveler, welcome to Studs】

The carriage rolled over the overgrown ground. The path here had been deserted for a long time and no special traces could be seen.

After crossing a hill, Poro stretched his neck and saw... the dark city.

The broken city walls, the twisted bones lying on the ground, had been buried in the soil for a long time.

A little further in.

In the center of those matchbox-like houses, there is a magnificent palace that should be magnificent.

The roofs and balconies seemed to be covered with a layer of light red substance with unclear details. They seemed to be wriggling, accompanied by a kind of... red light shooting straight into the sky!

Red light...

The next moment, a red light flashed uncontrollably in Poro's eyes!

After the death of the two demon-possessed princes in the Fertile Plains, it seemed as if some of their essence was also bestowed upon the Poro, and the abnormal attraction of that demonic nature became increasingly stronger.

At this moment, when Poro saw the red light in the city, this attraction finally reached its peak!
The Poro felt his muscles begin to twitch uncontrollably.

Another will was fighting with him for control of the body!

The illusion before my eyes spread in the red light. It was a huge and gloomy palace. The blood-red candlelight swayed on the walls on all four sides, and the blood-colored light and shadows danced wildly together.

At the deepest part, the root from which the wriggling muscular arms extend.

A huge shadow is getting closer and closer.

Its sound did not seem dull, but more like... countless chaotic footsteps!

That outline is getting closer and closer.

Faintly, Poro seemed to see countless dancing limbs in the darkness...

"wake up!"

At this moment, a voice sounded and the illusion disappeared.

Poro opened his eyes. Angel Karen took back his hand from Poro's head, smiled apologetically, and explained:
"We are approaching the Mad Dancer's Demonic Realm. Here, all energy originating from it will be controlled by it again."

As he spoke, Karen handed a feather to Poro.

"If you hold it, you won't be affected by this abnormal influence anymore—my aura can also suppress this abnormality."

"Thank you."

The Poro took the feather, and it turned into a golden glow, merging into the heart of the Poro's claws, forming an exquisite mark.

Look up again.

In the distance, the outline of the capital of Steds has been hidden in the gray mist.

The inexplicable red light from before also disappeared, as if it was just an illusion.

"Fortunately, this kind of energy is definitely not a good thing. Although it has strengthened my physical strength to some extent, it is a time bomb."

Poro rubbed his still throbbing temple.

He remembered something and waved to the bag beside him, and a blood-red invitation letter flew out.

At this moment, the patterns on the invitation letter lit up with a faint red light.

The faint blood line, like a guiding arrow, extends towards the distant city.

"Let's go to Studs."

"End... this twisted dance that shouldn't have happened in the first place."

(End of this chapter)