Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 182 Joining the Devil
Bluebeard's castle, on the bottom floor, in front of the strange bronze door.

"This key...why can't it open?"

The gray-clad spy inserted the key in his hand into the door hole and twisted it. The mechanism in the keyhole twisted half a circle, but it was still stuck in the middle.

"Kaka——"

The lines on the bronze door turned slightly scarlet, and then the illusion of a faint human scream could be heard.

"Why would this happen? Is there some kind of magic on this lock?"

The gray-clad spy speculated, and the increasingly twisting and changing patterns on the bronze door made him more and more irritated.

"Ka-ka-pa-pa"

Finally, with a crisp sound of being unable to bear the weight, the key broke in the lock of the door.

"Tsk, it seems that this time, I may have to wait for a while before finding a way to open this door..."

The gray-clad spy frowned and was thinking when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back.

The next moment, a sharp spear cut through the air and stabbed towards him!

"Clang!"

Fortunately, the gray-clad spy dodged to the side at the critical moment, and the tip of the gun pierced the bronze door, making a dull sound.

"It seems that you are the one who is having an affair with my wife? And you even want to come into my room?!"

Giles Bluebeard looked at the Gray Spy, confirming he had never seen the man before him. "Thinking of going through that door? Well, today, I'll let you go in as a sacrifice!"

As he spoke, Marshal Giles raised his spear and stabbed it several times swiftly and neatly!

The gray-clad spy hurriedly dodged backwards, but he was not good at fighting, and the spear was getting closer and closer to his body.

Giles' initial vigilance gradually eased:

"You don't look like a Bru. Were you sent from the Sri Kingdom? Or... somewhere else?"

However, despite asking the question, Giles swung his lance faster and faster, and every move was aimed at the gray-clad spy. He didn't want the spy to survive!
In other words, Giles had already decided to obtain the power that his blood would eventually bring.

In such a situation, he would not leave any instability.

"die!"

Giles glared and shouted, riding his lance, forcing the spy into a corner and about to pierce him!

But the next moment, the sharp spearhead suddenly stopped—

One of the spy's hands grasped the lance in mid-air, and a layer of golden light appeared on his arm.

"So, why did you sacrifice so many people?"

The spy spoke, his pupils turned a bright golden color, and tiny feathers grew out of his body one after another.

"If it's not this key, then it should be the key in your hand, right?"

The spy's eyes were focused on the blood-red key in Giles' hand.

"You are—an angel?! Are you really those guys from the Sri Kingdom? No wonder you want to stop me—"

Giles' pupils shrank, and his previous confident look disappeared.

He wanted to draw his lance, but his strength was no match for the spy who had obtained the power of an angel!
"Give me the key and stop this inhumane blood sacrifice."

As the spy spoke, he exerted force on the gun barrel and broke it. Then he turned the gun head and stabbed Giles in the opposite direction.

"when!"

When the spy exerted force, Bluebeard had already dropped his spear, and with his other hand he drew his sword from his waist and blocked the first thrust.

His strength, although among mortals, can be said to be one against ten.

But at this moment, facing the spy with the power of an angel, he was defeated step by step. The second time he blocked, the sword flew out of his hand. The third time, he hurriedly ducked and rolled to avoid it.

But the fourth blow was difficult to avoid, and the tip of the spy's gun touched Bluebeard's neck.

"Give me the key. Your wife has told me everything about your murder and sacrifice. You should pay for what you did!
Oh, and make your soldiers stop too. If you have the ability, you should make amends for the mistakes you made!"

Bluebeard tried to dodge sideways, but the tip of the spear was still pressed against his neck.

He shuddered, feeling the pressure on his neck, and feebly threw the blood-red key in his hand towards the spy:

"Okay, here's the key... You can open the door..."

Blue Beard murmured, staring intently at the key in the spy's hand, which was so red that it seemed to be dripping with blood. Even now, it was slowly becoming redder.

"What's behind the door? What are the countless killings you've caused, and what are these blood sacrifices for?"

The spy did not open the door hastily

He felt the key in his hand, and it was cold to the touch.

As if echoing with the bronze door behind him, the bloody smell emanating from it became stronger, making him feel a little dizzy.

"Yeah, why? I'm already the strongest ruler of the Blue Kingdom, but why am I still just an ordinary person? And a little-known guy like you, are you an angel? Or something else?"

Bluebeard whispered, his voice growing deeper as he looked at the bloody key in the spy's hand.

“What’s wrong with me getting what the king can’t give me?
Even if I didn't kill those ordinary people, they would still suffer more living in such a world. What fault would I have if I ended their misfortune in advance?

I just want to...get the stronger power that I should have. If the angel won't give it to me, I'll go to the devil to ask for it—"

"But you have failed now. Give up your inhuman desires!"

The spy heard this and snorted coldly.

But the next moment, Bluebeard, whose throat was pressed by the tip of the gun, suddenly laughed. It was not a miserable laugh after failure, but a cold smile!

"why are you laughing?!"

"Who said I failed? If it was a few seconds ago, it would have been true, but now—you're the one who lost!"

After hearing what Bluebeard said, the spy finally realized that something was wrong.

He wanted to swing his spear, but his body suddenly became stiff! He could only watch Bluebeard and turn his head slightly to avoid the hanging spear tip.

It's cold!
He sensed the source of the coldness and wanted to drop the key in his hand, but the key was already stuck to his hand. The cold and deathly aura spread from the key and penetrated into the palm of the spy's hand!

He looked at his hand holding the key in astonishment.

Dense threads of blood spread from the crimson key, penetrating into the spy's skin. Those blood threads actually eroded the golden angel's power.

"what happened?!"

The spy gritted his teeth and concentrated his mind, trying to drive out the cold and evil aura that had invaded his body.

But just as his spirit touched the key, the scene before him suddenly changed and turned blood red!
In the bloody illusion, he felt the pain of countless people before death—

A woman was running forward desperately, the sound of horse hooves behind her was getting closer and closer, a lance pierced through her back, and her body was lifted high by the momentum!
A man watched his children being slaughtered by cavalrymen. He wanted to step forward, but was pinned to the ground by the cavalrymen!

A child was tricked into the castle late at night. The Bluebeard devil laughed and drove sharp steel nails into the child's body!

Countless pains, wailings, struggles, screams...

In an instant, it broke through the spy's mental defenses, making it impossible for him to mobilize even a trace of angelic power, and even more so, unable to control his body freely!

"Do you feel it? My blood sacrifice, my sweat and hard work—I smell your fear. It seems that you are not an angel, but just an ordinary person with some power."

Bluebeard walked around behind the spy and his voice became cold and teasing.

As he spoke, he uttered twisted and malicious words. As he chanted, the patterned bronze door began to glow with blood.

The spy felt that his body was beginning to be controlled by the key.

Amidst the wails and screams that filled his skull, he raised his hand uncontrollably and slowly inserted the key into the lock of the heavy bronze door in front of him.

The fake key that had been broken in it had already melted, and only a little blood-colored liquid flowed out of it.

"Don't you want to know what I did inside this door? Now, I'll give you this opportunity—to open it with your own hands."

At Bluebeard's voice, the spy's hand holding the key twisted gently.

"Click--" the machine lever twists smoothly.

In an instant, thick blood-colored mist escaped from the gap in the open bronze door!

In the room shrouded in blood-red mist, scattered were corpses, debris, and blood-stained torture instruments. The walls, engraved with blood-red runes, were stained with brown blood, and underneath, there were many irregular scratches.

Like a prisoner in pain, scratching with his fingernails.

Hundreds of corpses with traces of torture were disassembled and assembled into a special altar.

And this blood, which has been left there for who knows how long, still emits a strong stench due to some kind of magic or special treatment!
At the deepest part of the underground space, there is a door painted entirely in blood.

"Did you hear that? The screams, the killing, the pain I caused, the sacrifices I made to the devil—I want to claim great power, and of course, I will prove that I am worthy of such power.

Making the weak weep, this is my ritual."

The unusual blood mist dissipated, and countless phantoms emerged in the underground space.

Countless humans, adults, children, men, women, and Bluebeard’s previous missing wives.

They were bound by those torture instruments, sharp blades and spikes, leaving shocking wounds amid their wailing and pleas for mercy!
On the surrounding walls, all the doors drawn with blood began to overlap and extend.

The smell of blood became stronger, and real blood began to flow out of those illusory doors, gradually covering the ground and filling the entire room.

The stone walls of the castle began to disappear, and the entire room fell into an alien world.

Dark shadows emerged around those suffering souls, and within the shadows, countless blood-red pupils opened, each of them possessing the same cruel and bloodthirsty expression.

“Hahaha—Hell, this is the final destination for people like me.

All demons will respect me!

When I killed the first person with my own hands, I knew that I could not go to heaven——

The pleasure I felt was far greater than any treasure or power! I was born a devil, I was born, destined to fall into the abyss!

Bluebeard laughed crazily and took the initiative to face the endless sea of ​​blood.

Amidst countless resentments, wails and pains, he instead revealed a comfortable and satisfied smile, as blood climbed up his body and seeped into his body.

His skin began to turn a dark red.

The forehead even began to bulge slowly——

"You, don't even think about it - I should have killed you decisively from the beginning! So many people's suffering, you..."

The spy finally regained control of his body from the resentful spirits of thousands of dead people, but the bloody key in his hand had turned into a piece of debris.

The spy rushed towards Bluebeard, this time using all the strength his body could bear -

But it was too late.

Bluebeard simply waved his hand lightly, and countless twisted limbs swarmed out from the sea of ​​blood on the ground, instantly submerging the spy's body!
"Oh, what a shame, that's what everyone who wants to kill me says."

Bluebeard's eyes revealed an increasingly extreme madness.

The vengeful spirits that bound the spies' bodies revealed their figures, their faces distorted, as if they were in extreme pain. Each of them was pierced by various torture instruments, covered with bruises and bleeding.

Among them, the spy even saw Bluebeard's last wife, whom he had just met not long ago!
All of them were innocent people who died at the hands of Bluebeard and were used as sacrifices.

Even in death, their souls are being controlled and pleading painfully...

"You see, this is what you weaklings are like. You curse in your pain, but after death, you will be driven by my torment!"

The spy tried desperately to struggle.

But the endless wronged souls tore at his body, making it impossible for him to utter a complete sentence.

Are you dying? I'm sorry, Your Majesty...

The spy's vision gradually blurred, but at the last moment, he saw a ray of starlight suddenly appear from the side of Bluebeard, piercing into his body and cutting the twisted body into two halves!
The power of the wronged souls around the body weakened in that instant.

Invisible magic dispersed the wronged souls beside the spy, and a golden light fell on the top of the spy. The spy felt that the dried-up angel power in his body was replenished in an instant, allowing his dying soul to come back to consciousness.

"Your Highness Xipa Luo, how could you—"

"We sensed something unusual in the castle, so we came to rescue you.

Leave this room first, there is something wrong here... it's like opening a temporary door to hell!"

The golden bird spoke anxiously, and the spy said no more. He used his remaining strength to desperately escape towards the door.

In the corner of his eye, Bluebeard, who was lying in a sea of ​​blood, got up again.

His severed head was connected to his body by a bloody thread, pulling them closer.

Those twisted souls mixed with the blood and combined with Bluebeard's body, and began to turn into a complete monster!

"Puro, just as you said, the Star Killing Sword is here, and it seems that some of its power has been suppressed... Is this hell?"

Lake said this through gritted teeth, and seeing that Poro had already retreated with the gray-clothed spy, she also retreated at the same time.

At this time, Bluebeard had turned into a complete monster composed of wronged souls, stepping on the surface of the sea of ​​blood and rushing forward madly!

"From what I've learned about demonology...

This should just be a space connected by a blood sacrifice ritual, but as time goes by, if it is not closed, I am afraid that hell will truly connect with the world."

He rushed out of the bronze door of the basement, but the blood and water were not blocked.

The entire floor outside the door was covered with sticky blood.

Lake had just closed the bronze door when a huge collision pushed it open again. In the splashing blood, a deformed monster composed of Bluebeard, wronged souls, and sentences poked its body out!

"Hurry up, take Miss Sipallo and leave here. He's too big to catch up in the narrow underground staircase—"

You can't defeat it, leave me alone, I'm injured and can't survive!"

The spy looked at the surging sea of ​​blood, and realized that the will of ordinary people had been stretched to the limit.

His body was covered with wounds so deep that the bones were visible. The tearing of those wronged souls was far beyond his endurance. His vision became extremely blurry, and fear made his broken body tremble uncontrollably.

The Bluebeard who had lost his human form made him lose all hope of winning.

"It's impossible to stop this thing with just the underground corridor - if he gets out, I'm afraid no one in the city will be able to escape!"

"And once he leaves that space, he won't be so... difficult to kill!"

But Lake and Poro, who had just been running away with their backs turned, had stopped, turned around, and looked at the deformed monster as it moved the last part of its body out of the narrow blood gate.

"In the real world, the Star-Slaying Sword and magic will no longer be suppressed by Hell..."

The Poro pondered.

When the last part of Bluebeard's body left through the bronze door.

Under the bronze door, covered in blood, a seed that had been left in the crack of the ground suddenly burst into growth, forming a thick green and red vine!
Not only that!

A page of a book emerged from the side of the Poro!
[Return of the Loop: Jack and the Beanstalk: Vines into the Clouds]

The thick vines instantly wrapped around Bluebeard and pierced through him!

His body was lifted up and nailed to the stone ceiling of the basement. The huge force even created spider-web-like cracks!

When the vines appeared, Lake's figure had disappeared.

Instead, there was a star-shaped slash that was far larger than the size in the hell space—

"boom!"

The deformed monster was submerged in an instant, and all the bound souls were shattered under the starlight.

The huge body exploded into a foul-smelling bloody pool.

"Who are you? I'm a demon now, why am I still..."

Bluebeard's head flew in the air, and he spoke in disbelief. The next moment, his head, with two horns growing out, twisted with hideous veins, "Don't even think about killing me like this!"

The next moment, the underground of the entire castle began to shake violently again!
Behind the bronze door, a red tide burst out like an explosion - in just a moment, it filled the entire narrow underground space!
(End of this chapter)