Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 72 Witch Talent
"Is this witch...dead?

Will she suddenly turn into a vine and run away like before?"

Lake looked at the old man's body lying on the ground. Judging from what she had said before and from her encounter with him at the Duke's Mansion, she was probably not a good person.

"Should be dead."

The Poro opened his mouth. Without drugs, his bite was often less lethal than a weapon. Furthermore, after seeing the Scarlet Witch's broken shoulder...

So, he disguised himself as the dead Prince Boren, and wanted to kill the Red Witch with a sword when she was not paying attention.

Judging from the results, there were indeed no accidents.

The Scarlet Witch is dead.

Poro opened his palm, and a golden page of book appeared in the air:
The picture above shows a figure wearing a pointed round hat, a wizard's robe, and his hands outstretched upwards. Below it is a blade of grass expressed in a vortex shape, which is flashing with misty green light under the movements of the "wizard".

Spiral Beacon: Witch

【Sublimation Level: 1】

[Fairy Tale Power: Treated as possessing some of the slain witch's magical experience]

[Description: Magic, miracles, and an extraordinary aura. Only the luckiest and most gifted have the opportunity to witness its true appearance - and now, you have a glimpse of it.]

"magic?"

Lake's eyes widened. "So if a Poro gets this... he can use magic!?"

"It's just... a small part of the experience, it's still far from enough."

The Poro waved his claws, put away the golden pages, and looked into the distance at the crystal coffin surrounded by four motionless vine monsters.

"Should we let the princess out?"

Lake and Poro walked to the crystal coffin and lifted the transparent coffin lid. Snow White stood up with messy hair, breathing softly, and her forehead looked a little red and swollen.

The Poro blinked.

He thought about the moment when the Red Witch unexpectedly cast a spell...

The four vine monsters simultaneously moved their shoulders aside and dropped the crystal coffin to the ground. I vaguely remember... the crystal coffin seemed to make a "bang" sound at that time?
Hiss, it hurts to look at it.

"Ah, now everything should be fine for a while. Before the queen reacts, we will probably be the only ones left alive in the forest."

Poro looked around at the lush green jungle. In this dense forest, there were the elite soldiers of Boren, the soldiers of Sinuo, the dwarves, the Prince of Boren, and the Red Witch...

So many humans died here silently.

Swallowed by dense forest.

In Poro's mind, he once again thought of the rotten corpses he saw when he first entered the forest.

After the beasts have eaten most of the flesh and blood, perhaps the plants... will grow more luxuriantly on these corpses?
"They, so many people, died...and it was because of...me?"

Snow White looked at the body of the Red Witch not far away. The Poro was sniffing and searching the witch's body, taking out some messy things and placing them on the ground.

"You? It's okay. Your appearance is determined by nature, not by your own choice. You don't need to...feel guilty about something you can't decide later in life."

Snow White's eyes lit up when she heard this, but she still couldn't suppress the sadness in her heart.

As a girl who had lived a life of luxury since childhood and had never experienced the outside world, she experienced such a drastic change when she was eighteen years old.

This brought her spirit to the brink of collapse again and again.

When Snow White first met the seven dwarfs, she thought she had finally met kind beings who were not affected by her appearance, and she thought... she could continue to spend the rest of her life in the forest.

But it was not until now that she faced this abyss-like darkness!
When she saw Poro take the half-green and half-red apple out of the Red Witch's arms, a tear slowly rolled down from the corner of her eye.

"Um... can you give me that apple?"

Snow White muttered.

"apple?"

Poro was stunned for a moment, looking at the apple in his hand, and said, "You don't have to eat it, the witch is dead..."

"No, I just... don't want this body anymore, just like... that witch said..."

Snow White couldn't hold back any longer, tears streaming down her face. "I can't help but hurt others because of this body. I don't want to...see those who used to live in harmony fighting in front of me..."

I feel like I'm not worthy of this body. If eating the apple allows me to give this beautiful body to someone else, I'd really—very willingly do so! Even if I have to live inside an animal's body from now on!"

After Snow White said these words, she burst into tears.

She covered her chest, her frail body looking as if she was about to faint.

At this moment, Lake stepped forward, supported Snow White's body, and said softly:
"I'm sorry, Bai Xue, I've always felt that...giving up your body might not be a good idea, but we don't really understand what you've been through."

Lake took off her hood and patted Snow White on the shoulder, "Can you tell us?"

During the past few days of getting along, Snow White's appearance and mind were distorted, and Lake was able to resist most of it with the help of cloak and dagger.

Looking into Lake's pure eyes, Snow White lowered her eyelids and spoke slowly:

"Before I turned eighteen, everything... was normal. Even though my mother died and my father married a new queen, I had little interaction with her.

Until… the morning I came of age.

I opened my eyes and saw the maid who grew up with me. She was holding a knife and stabbing at me!
I dodged, and the guard heard the sound, came in, and killed the maid, but after seeing me... there was a change of expression in the guard's eyes, and he walked towards me step by step, trying to catch me.

But then another guard came and saw me, and they started fighting each other.

Everyone seems to want to...claim me for themselves!"

Snow White recalled, fear becoming more and more evident in her eyes. "I took advantage of the chaos to escape, but everyone who saw me along the way changed their expressions and fell into an endless fight..."

When women see me, they feel uncontrollable jealousy, and every one of them wants to kill me!

Men, on the other hand, will want to take me for themselves, and they will do whatever it takes to kill... anyone who stands in their way!
It was the first time I saw such a scene: a clean palace, but blood was flowing like a river!
I fled the palace and covered my face with a cloth, but... it was no use.

Everyone who sees me will be extremely interested in my appearance...!

They tried every possible way to remove the cloth covering my face.

A man succeeded.

So... the fighting spread to the civilians in the capital!
I fled to the forest, a deserted place, but the army chasing me intercepted me in the forest.

They saw my appearance.

They all died, killed each other, and no one survived.

Then... I met the seven dwarves. They had no effect on my appearance at all, and their attitude towards me was like... gentle elders...

I really didn’t know then, I didn’t know those dwarves were…”

Snow White paused and looked at the apple in Poro's hand, "There have been many times before when I wanted to scratch my face with a knife...

But I found that when I picked up the knife and thought about my appearance, for some reason, I...

I can’t do it!”

Snow White's tears gradually dried up, and she regained her composure. After saying these words, her expression became much calmer.

She raised her perfect face and looked at Poro:

"So... can you give me that apple? If... it really has this function, then even if it's poisonous, it doesn't matter!"

Poro looked at Snow White and opened his mouth, but he found that he could not give the girl in front of him any more assurances.

After using the [Spiral Beacon: Witch], he gained some of the magical experience of the Blue and Red Witches.

He understood...the witch had not lied about the green red apple.

It can indeed...interchange human bodies!

"Have you really...thought it through?"

Poro asked.

"Yes, I'm sure."

Snow White said calmly.

Looking at those beautiful eyes that seemed a little empty, Poro could only sigh and put the green and red apple into Snow White's hands.

(End of this chapter)