Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 159: Heaven is Empty
Floating island in the clouds, in the center of the Giant Garden, in front of the Giant Castle.

"Were these strange angels summoned by the Giant King?"

Lake's figure appeared and disappeared, and the Star Killing Sword in his hand pulled out a long silver rainbow, splitting an eyeball monster bound by green and red vines into two.

"Whether or not this vortex in the sky is related to the Giant King, the fact that it's above the castle means there must be some connection."

Poro looked at the distance and saw the cross-shaped corpses of angels slowly descending.

Fortunately, most of the strange corpses were still floating in the air and had not touched the ground, and the number of eyeball monsters was not too large.

The castle in the distance is faintly visible behind the dense clouds.

On the tower in the center of the castle, green vines were wrapped around it. Those vines were extremely long and emitted the same magical light as the vine that extended to the top of the clouds.

"Whatever the Giant King is doing, he has to go into the castle for those vines."

"Be careful, the Giant King is a little different from ordinary giants."

Now that we have come this far, there is absolutely no reason to turn back.

Lake and Poro walked to the castle, but instead of entering the main gate in front of the castle, they chose a window on the side wall.

The giant's castle is much taller than anything built by humans.

But there are still many cracks and plants between the stacked stones on the castle's outer wall.

Lake used her fingers to climb up the cracks in the rocks, while Poro was even faster. With the help of the levitation technique and the physical fitness given by [Circular Return: Red Shoes·Dance of Liberation], she jumped lightly and stepped on it.

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

Inside, there was thick fog, just like what Lake and Poro had seen in their dream before.

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

Poro and Lake watched from behind the clouds, but the heavy shadows in their dreams did not appear.

After their bodies arrived here, Lake and Poro's five senses were far more acute than just the spirit.

"In any case, be careful. When you're going to fight a giant king that big, you'd better find out the truth first."

There are many complex patterns carved on the wall.

The clouds and mist surged, forming wet droplets on the body, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual.

"Lake, I seem to hear something."

At this moment, Poro suddenly spoke.

"What did you find? Poro."

Lake was stunned for a moment, then she pressed her ear to the wall and held her breath. "That sounds like a piano? Is someone playing here?"

The view was obscured by the mist. In such an environment, all sounds should have seemed strange.

But for some reason, the sound of the piano reveals a sense of calmness and lightness.

In the fog, a door opened.

Afterwards, rows of pillars stood in the same spot—this was the place I had seen in my dream, but it was also empty.

Only the sound of the piano became clearer.

At this moment, an unusual sound of wind suddenly came from behind, in the direction of the castle gate.

Lake looked back and saw that the castle door suddenly began to turn black, then quickly rotted and peeled off. The withered corpse of an angel floated in from behind the crack!

The cross-like corpse, standing upright, floated over.

Deep in the eye sockets, two streams of thick black fluid flowed out. Its cracked, blackened lips opened and closed, and its voice was hoarse, more like a dying murmur, an irrational whisper:

"Leave... go, this isn't supposed to 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 directly.

When it reached a certain distance, the chest and abdomen of the mummy bulged and tore abnormally, and thick black juice gushed out from its wounds. They splashed and solidified into pieces of dirty and messy feathers!

Finally, an eyeball covered with thick black juice slowly emerged from the deep wound.

At this time, the angel's mummy had completely become the remains of the eyeball monster.

"Although I had expected it, it was really eye-opening when I actually saw it."

"How disgusting! I don't even want my sword to get stained with that liquid..."

Although Lake said this, he still held the Star Killing Sword diagonally in his hand.

But just as Lake and Poro were ready to kill the new eyeball monster—

Behind the clouds in the sky, a golden light flashed, accompanied by a faint cry.

A golden feather broke through the clouds and pierced through the eyeball like a dart.

"Ok?"

Lake and Poro looked towards the source of the sound. The clouds parted and a pure golden bird, flapping its wings, landed on the head of a human-shaped stone statue beside the hall.

"A golden bird?"

Poro was stunned for a moment.

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

Unexpectedly, the next moment the bird actually spoke in response!

Then, without waiting for Lake and Poro to ask, it shook its wings in a humane manner and flew up again. As it flew, the clouds around it seemed to support its body and rise lightly.

"You've arrived at a really bad time. It's just when those dead angels are coming back to life. Come with me quickly."

The golden bird said this 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 seemed that it had no malicious intentions.

The castle stairs are very high and you have to jump to climb them.

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

On the top floor of the castle, on a wide platform, clouds are swirling. It seems that this place is the source of the clouds in the entire castle.

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

"King of Giants!"

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

But the Giant King sat cross-legged in the center of the castle platform, like a real sculpture, motionless.

And above his head was the abyss formed by the swirling dark clouds!
"Wait, Lake, the Giant King... he doesn't seem to be expanding the hole."

Poro gently pressed down the blade of Lake's sword. He had studied the power of angels. At this time, the cloud of air emanating from the body of the Giant King was completely different from the breath produced by the hole in the sky.

"What's that in front of him?"

The clear sound of a piano came from the vortex of clouds.

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

The sound of the piano seemed to be transmitted through the clouds and mist.

The clouds were gradually covered with a layer of golden light in the sound of the piano. These clouds with golden light swirled into the sky, entwined together, and covered the dark cloud-like hole.

The angelic cross-shaped corpses descended under the influence of gravity.

But these golden clouds were like a transparent curtain, delaying the descent of the angels' corpses. If it weren't for the piano music and the clouds blocking the way, the endless corpses would have fallen to the ground long ago!
In front of the cave leading to the paradise of death, Lake and Poro could more intuitively feel... the trace of the extinction of life.

The dark smoke was squeezing in, trying to break through the obstacles and come into the world.

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

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

"call……"

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

They knew deep down that they were not yet capable of solving such a natural disaster-like problem.

Neither of them knew much about heaven or the void above their heads.

"Ding--"

The harp's last tremolo stopped, the dirty dark clouds gradually dissipated, and the sun once again occupied the clear sky.

Before my eyes, the mountain-like giant king slowly opened his eyes.

"Hmm, are there only two gems left? If I remember correctly, we just met a few hours ago?"

The Giant King's voice became much calmer than in the dream.

It no longer had that thunderous heaviness, and in reality, it seemed much more normal to the fully armed Lake and Poro.

From the semantics, Poro and Lake realized...

This giant king might be different from what they had previously guessed.

"You rejected my contract, yet you still came before me—have you changed your mind?"

The Giant King spoke again, but then he chuckled and added, "Ha, just kidding. I know you might have come to me for other things—

Well, let me think...it's not to kill me, right?"

"If you're not going to go back to the surface and kill or destroy or anything like that, maybe we can talk."

The Poro raised his head and continued, "About this hole in the sky, those angels, and the gem you asked for...

Perhaps you could tell us about these things.”

"Of course, you are recognized by the Star Killing Sword."

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

"yesterday?"

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

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

The Giant King shrugged his shoulders. "He's just a giant chosen one. I gave him some rewards, but he's still greedy. People like him don't have the qualifications to know more."

……

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

Fortunately, the blessing of the giant's chosen people was still there, which allowed him to steady his steps. He held the golden egg tightly in his arms, but looking at the huge castle, there was still 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 and you can rule the world—"

In his mind, he also imagined that the King of Giants would come to the earth and dominate the world with his unrivaled power.

All living beings bowed down in submission.

By then, I will definitely be second only to one person and above ten thousand people!

But now, the Giant King's expulsion without explanation tore his fantasy apart.

"The Borens drove you to the sky and killed so many giants—don't you want revenge? Now that the legendary swordsman who founded the kingdom is dead, who can stop you?"

The strong man thought to himself.

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 the courage to refute or lobby.

"Tsk..."

He held the golden egg tightly in his hand, and in the end, he didn't even dare to complain, and walked back the way he came.

"But fortunately, I'm already a chosen one of the Titans. I wasn't meant to be human. Only a powerful creature like a Titan would be suitable for me..."

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

he whispered.

Although he reached the Giant's Castle and fulfilled the Giant's contract.

But the power of the giant elect did not increase at all, there were only three more golden eggs. The strong man was not a person who liked to think too much, but even so, he had an arrogance that was not commensurate with his status.

As a person who likes to solve problems with violence, he became a wanted criminal in the Kingdom of Boren very early on because of killing someone in the street.

He advocates greater violence.

The first time he saw a giant, he was impressed by its iron-clad body. He watched the giant easily destroy his house and kill his parents.

But the strong man had no hatred or fear, he felt intoxicated!

How great would it be if I was born not as a human but as a giant?
Everyone will tremble because of me!
Everyone will be afraid because of me!
Only the legendary giant king who devoured tens of thousands of lives is qualified to make me surrender!

He holds on to this ideal until today.

"No, my strength is not enough... Seven, he also had the blessing of the Chosen Giants, and there were so many giants, but he still died and failed. I can't reach that level now!"

The strong man walked with his teeth chattering.

The earthly weapons of the Boren Kingdom could still hurt his skin. If he was hit head-on by the Boren Kingdom's "Giant Butcher" heavy crossbow, he would probably die.

"This is not what I expected, Giant King. You possess such unparalleled power, why don't you use it? You have the violence to kill everything, why do you hide it?"

He muttered, looking at the plants around him.

Under the influence of magic, every plant here is an extremely rare species on the earth!

There is a green plant about one meter tall on the side of the road, with heavy golden-red fruits hanging on its bent branches.

The axe-wielding man recognized the plant.

It is an extremely precious potion 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!

"He should be worth..."

The burly man recalled what he had seen at the Biwei Kingdom auction. "At least ten gold coins!"

When he came to this conclusion, his breathing became heavy. Without hesitation, he stepped forward, swung the axe, and chopped off the fruits. There were so many fruits that he even threw some unripe fruits on the ground and crushed them.

"These can be considered as my reward."

But at this moment, a black shadow flew out from the bushes next to it!

ding ding ding-

But the skin blessed by the giants' chosen ones is as hard as iron armor.

The incoming pine needles only left a few marks on the strong man's skin!
"What the hell?!"

He stared and saw that it was a plant spirit that looked like a pine sapling.

(End of this chapter)