Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 142 The source of the dance epidemic?

Under your feet, there is a smooth round mirror surface.

It seemed to be reflecting the ultramarine night sky, the moonlight from the nebulae all over the sky, with a faint silver glow.

Every time a dance step touches the ground, ripples are created.

The light feeling of your feet is more like being in a beautiful and holy world, or like dancing lightly on the surface of a calm lake.

"Is this... another illusion?"

Lake opened her eyes wide. The world before her was completely different from the style of the Mad Dancer. It would not be inappropriate to say that this was a dreamlike paradise.

"I... can't tell either."

Poro held the girl's waist and looked around at the deep night sky.

The air has an intoxicating freshness, and this ethereal feeling is enough to make the dancers more immersed.

The only thing that was the same here as in the previous chaotic world was that Poro could not sense any trace of magic either.

This is not reality.

The pervasive, dance-inducing atmosphere still spurred the two of them to move. Without an audience, without any constraints, it was an infinitely vast world...

It may even make people want to try more unrestrained dance poses.

[——But this is not true——]

But just as Poro was sensing the surroundings and this unconstrained state of mind, a calm voice interrupted his thoughts.

And the source of this sound...

Poro was stunned for a moment, and in the spiritual world, he sensed the source of the sound.

It came from a circular return page that had not been used for a long time. At this moment, this page, without any operation from Poro, emitted light and flew up on its own.

The next moment, it appeared next to Lake and Poro.

The contents of the pages also appeared in the eyes of the two.

[Circular Return: Snow White and the Mirror of Truth]

[Fairy Tale Power: You cannot use it actively, but at certain moments, this fragment will give you the answer you seek.]

[Description: The narrator's vision should not be blinded. You need to break through the haze to see the true face!]

[At the moment of birth, a will hides within it. Will it give you a complete answer as promised?]

[Are you ready? Face... the curse of true knowledge!]

The pattern above is a broken mirror, and at this moment, two special flashing spots appeared in the center of the broken mirror, like a pair of eyes.

"Magic Mirror?! Are you...alive again?"

Lake and Poro looked at the two eye-like spots of light that lit up in the golden pages at the same time and asked in astonishment.

"Yeah, you didn't expect that, did you? We meet again, at this very moment."

The voice of the magic mirror is still hard to tell whether it is real or fake.

But this time, unlike before, as the magic mirror spoke in the pages, lines of text also flashed rapidly below the pages.

[A special world that can block...that guy's sight]

The two light-like eyes of the magic mirror flickered, as if looking at Lake and Poro who were still dancing slowly.

[You two dance very well—I can see you have a very close relationship, huh?]

As soon as these words were spoken, Lake's face turned red again.

There is still a big difference between having an audience and not having an audience at this moment, not to mention that these audiences are acquaintances.

"No, we were just..."

The girl hurriedly tried to explain, but the magic mirror spoke again:

[It doesn't matter, no need to explain, I know everything]

Although no expression could be seen on the magic mirror's face in the simple drawing on the page, both Lake and Poro felt that the magic mirror seemed to be secretly smiling.

Then, the magic mirror's words became serious:

[But this world has other realities, which are deliberately concealed - but I can show you]

If you are ready to face the truth, you can ask me questions.

After saying that, the magic mirror fell silent, waiting for Lake and Poro's answers.

Lake and Poro looked at each other, and without hesitation, they looked directly into the magic mirror on the ring return and said:
"Magic Mirror, we are ready. Let us see the truth that you mentioned...that has been hidden."

Unexpectedly, after a few seconds of silence, the words on the page began to change:
[Tsk, you forgot I'm the Magic Mirror, right? This time, my questioning isn't standard...]

[Forget it, this won’t happen again]

The next moment, Lake and Poro suddenly felt gravity begin to change. Caught off guard, their bodies, or rather... the world, began to flip vertically!

The silver-white mirror instantly submerged and swallowed the two people from the side!
The field of vision sank sideways, entered the mirror, and then quickly turned right. As it crossed the boundary of the ground, the world suddenly changed!
The ground under my feet was still as smooth as a mirror, but this time, the originally blue sky turned into a glaring blood red.

The ground opposite was a scarlet sea of ​​blood.

The waves were rippling chaotically, crisscrossing the ground like broken tides.

Around them, it was no longer just Lake and Poro, there were many shadows whose faces could not be seen clearly, dancing on the blood-red mirror.

Following the floating pages of the Magic Mirror of Truth, Lake and Poro moved forward cautiously.

They approached one of the bloody dancing figures.

The figure gradually revealed details. It was a man wearing a Stedzi court dress and dancing. His dancing was very professional and had an elegant beauty.

Next to him, there was a shadow of an audience member whose face could not be seen clearly.

He clapped his hands and said, half in praise, half in suggestion:

"Your dance is very good. I can feel the emotions you want to express, but... your control over them is still a little tight, not thorough enough." After the phantom finished speaking, a line of words appeared on the page of the Mirror of True Knowledge in front of Poro and Lake:
This is just an appearance.

The next moment, the blurry illusion of the audience quickly revealed details—

Under the horrified gazes of Poro and Lake, two long goat-like horns protruded from his head, his eyes lit up with two scarlet lights, and most importantly, he had a blood-red beard!
His voice also began to have a strange hoarse, low sound.

“Dancing doesn’t need any restrictions. Dancing is free and you shouldn’t constrain it with anything!
The audience's eyes, the rhythm of the music, the flaws in the arrangement, and even your own body - none of them should restrict you!

Your dance must be free and unrestrained!"

The next moment, the dancing man seemed to accept the red-bearded devil's advice. His dance moves became increasingly exaggerated, gradually deviating from the most basic aesthetic norms and aesthetics.

Eventually, it even begins to violate the structure of the human body!

His tendons and bones were torn, and bone spurs protruded from under his flesh, but his movements did not stop, but became more exaggerated.

Under his feet, the blood-red mirror reflected his distorted and disordered figure.

Blood gushed out from his bones and muscles, but did not dissipate. Instead, it extended and condensed outward with strange dance steps, turning into countless limbs twisted in all directions!

It was exactly the same as the possessed dancer in the city that Rek Poro had seen before!
The chaotic blood-colored phantom began to move away, and in the vision of Lake and Poro, it once again turned into a blurry black shadow.

Following the sound of the Magic Mirror of True Knowledge, a line of eye-catching words appeared on the page:

[Spell 1: Unrestrained]

Poro and Lake, while thinking about the strange scene just now, followed the magic mirror. They had not taken a few steps when the mirror-like ground in front of them suddenly began to vibrate.

Circular ripples spread from the front to all directions.

First Boundary

The blood color began to fade, and the mirror in front of him bulged upward. It was a silver stream of light, like a tree, growing straight up and branching out...

The scene before my eyes was distorted and changing.

Poro held Lake's hand tightly. The girl's hand was soft and boneless. Feeling her delicate skin, Poro opened his eyes again.

The second fantasy world.

This time, it was on a vast and magnificent stage, with the golden chandelier above burning with dazzling golden flames.

Around, besides Lake and Poro, there were many dancing figures.

In the very center was a man and a woman dressed in court dance costumes. Their clothes looked incredibly gorgeous, and their appearance, for an ordinary person, was second to none.

Their identities can be found from some details in their clothes.

They are the prince and princess of the kingdom.

The golden light seemed to gather around them, and all the dancers' eyes were attracted by the extremely graceful and standard dance moves of the prince and princess.

Every step they took was in perfect sync with the rhythm of the music.

And watching their dance steps, people around them, whether they were dancing in pairs or alone, began to imitate them involuntarily.

They changed their dance moves, wanting to be like them.

The dancers further out also began to imitate the steps of those closer to the prince, their rhythm and cadence becoming increasingly unified...

"Polo, I feel... this dance music seems a little weird."

At this moment, Lake, who was standing close to Poro, suddenly spoke.

"Ok?"

Poro listened attentively, but soon felt something strange.

It seemed that under such rhythm, they also began to involuntarily want to change their dance steps and unify with the prince and princess in the center of the stage.

"Indeed, this is not right. We try to maintain our own pace..."

At this moment, the Magic Mirror of True Knowledge, which had not spoken for a long time, spoke again:

[Demons and ghosts hide in the shadows]

The next moment, Lake and Poro's gazes seemed to break through some invisible curtain, and they looked towards the source of the sound. It was a piano made of bones and flesh!
Sitting in front of the piano was the same dark figure with horns and a red beard.

The demonic voice of that figure came again:
“Dance connects the individual and the collective, bridges the soul and the heart, and creates aesthetic tension, spreading among people and communicating through movement and gaze.

See it, understand it, imitate it, place it—in the depths of your soul!"

The devil's voice faded away, and Poro saw that the dancing figures around him had completely formed a unified posture. Only he and Lake seemed out of place.

From all directions, dizzying golden light moved towards the end of the vision.

Poro saw that in the shadows outside his field of vision, there were also countless figures, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people... who also began to imitate the same dance steps.

And as the devil played the dance music, it finally transitioned to a distorted and deformed chapter.

Under the golden light, the princess and prince glowed with blood. Their movements began to collapse, and the smooth golden floor tiles beneath their feet reflected their shapes—

The tearing and distortion process is exactly the same as the male dancer that Poro saw in the first level environment!
And this time, in a plague of imitation.

In all directions, all the dancers imitating the same dance moves were transformed into ugly dancing monsters almost in this instant!

On the page, a line of words appeared:

Spell 2: Spread

Then, Lake and Poro followed the pages of the book, walked through the dance party shrouded in golden light, which was enough to make all the audience lose their minds, and walked to a corner.

The golden floor tiles cracked, and a beam of golden light gushed out like a spring.

They condensed in mid-air and became a golden tree.

Under the dazzling golden light, the illusion before my eyes distorted for the second time—

Second Boundary

(End of this chapter)