Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 79 The All-Seeing Magic Mirror
"Where is the Queen's magic mirror?"

Poro and Lake looked at Snow White who was using the Queen's body and asked carefully.

There was no way. The queen's death also took away a large number of people under her control, including servants, guards, knights, etc. in the palace.

Now, the palace complex here is basically completely vacant!
There were probably only three of us still standing.

Poro looked at the queen's face. For some reason, after Snow White's soul took over, the weird feeling on the queen's appearance disappeared.

There was even a kind of... inexplicable feeling of weakness and gloom.

"Well, I don't really know. My... stepmother has rarely revealed her secrets. Everything about her is mysterious."

Snow White whispered as she looked at the palace where she had lived since she was a child and the corpse of the white-armored guard, which made her heart tremble again.

This familiar scene, however, brought her an extreme sense of strangeness!

"But she sometimes behaves strangely. Let me think about it..."

Snow White followed Lake and Poro and wandered around the palace.
She suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she raised her hand and pointed to a more remote direction.

There, a tall tower stood silently.

"I remember now. The queen likes to stay alone in that tall tower! And it's heavily guarded. I've never been in there!"

"Tower?"

Poro looked at the tall tower and nodded. "Let's go there and take a look?"

One soldier after another fell to the ground, their necks also tied with the queen's magic ribbon.

The number of soldiers who fell in front of this tower was surprisingly almost the same... as the number of guards at the palace gate when the queen performed the soul replacement magic!
All of this...

All of this indicates that there is something in the tower that the queen cares about very much!

Lake used the "Spellbreaker" to break the magic lock on the tower door, and followed the long spiral staircase to the room inside the tower.

The dark purple crystals on the wall shone with magical light.

The room is surrounded by bookshelves, on which many books are neatly arranged.

Lake took out a book out of curiosity and opened it——

Then his pupils shrank.

It contains a lot of magic-related knowledge, about a witch whose name has never been heard of!

Is it...

"These books seem to contain many secrets... Were they written by the queen?"

Poro also put a few books back on the bookshelf.

He and Lake looked at each other, and saw extreme horror in each other's eyes!

This means... the value and knowledge contained in the books in this entire room is absolutely beyond imagination!
Fortunately, the queen may not have mastered all the knowledge recorded in these books.

The soul replacement also interfered with her spellcasting ability far beyond her expectations!
Thinking of this, both of them couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Otherwise, if someone possessed so much magical knowledge and absorbed it all...how powerful would they become!?
"This knowledge can only come from one place..."

At the far end of the room, on the wall, a piece of gold and purple cloth was covering something on the wall.

Poro and Lake took a deep breath, walked forward, reached out and grabbed a corner of the purple cloth - and pulled it gently!
A smooth and simple mirror appeared in front of the three!

But it looked like it had no magical light, nor anything special about it, it was just like... an ordinary mirror.

Poro was silent for a while, then said tentatively:

"Excuse me, are you...the magic mirror?"

Silence continued in the room. Just when Poro frowned and had some other guesses, something strange happened!
The surface of the mirror was covered with flowing light and shadow.

Two faint spots of light lit up from the mirror, like a...simple human face.

A voice that was difficult to distinguish between male and female sounded from inside.

"You know me too? Why? Did the Queen tell you?"

The two points of light in the mirror moved and landed on Snow White, who appeared in the form of the queen. "Well, the queen should be dead, right?

This person, should I call you... Her Majesty the Snow Queen?"

Snow White widened her eyes when she heard this, looking a little unbelievable:
"Are you really a talking mirror? And you can even recognize... that I'm not the queen?!"

Compared to her, Lake and Poro had already made such preparations, so this was not surprising at all.

Poro raised his head, looked at the mirror, and continued to ask:
"I know you can probably tell, but you should also have the answers to the first two questions, right? Aren't you... omniscient?"

"Omniscient? Yes, of course I can know everything."

The voice in the mirror replied, "But I am only a mirror. Although I am omniscient, I cannot do anything. All I can do is answer other people's questions.

I could certainly know more, but I myself—I’m not that interested in exploring.”

"Can you answer our questions?"

Lake spoke up.

"Yes, as long as you know the password."

The magic mirror laughed strangely twice.

After hearing this, Lake's expression became serious. He took a deep breath and asked the question he had prepared for a long time:

"Mirror, mirror, please tell me - how can I save my grandmother and make her healthy again?"

"Hmm... How interesting! Besides the Queen, someone else knows this password..."

The sound of the magic mirror revealed a hint of surprise, and its surface began to surge and change like a vortex, revealing a ground viewed from a high altitude.

Just like... the satellite map that Poro saw in his previous life!
It’s just that the clouds are too thick and I can’t see clearly.

"First, you need a spiritual plant that is born with special magic."

The map on the mirror, partially covered by clouds, gradually became transparent, extending out a road...leading to the distance.

At the starting point, a few flashing words appeared - Kingdom of Sinuo.

Along the road, one area after another also lights up the place names until the end of the road.

The magic mirror's voice reads out each place name at the same time as it appears.

At the end, the view began to expand. There was a vine reaching straight into the clouds. Among the countless green leaves on the vine that were bigger than people, the only bunch of bean pods had a small crack.

Through the small gap, you can see a few of them... seeds that are the same size as ordinary beans.

"The seeds of Yunding Green Ivy are a good choice for you."

The image in the magic mirror continued to change, and the perspective rose again. The route beneath the clouds began to zigzag and extend into the distance...

Eventually, it settled in another spot and dove down.

A garden, but... all the plants here have withered and died.

Black and yellow grass leaves and roots were scattered all over the ground, without a trace of life.

In the center of the cemetery formed by flowers and plants, a girl with her face covered in dust was kneeling on the ground.

She used a shovel to dig a small hole in the ground and held a dead flower beside her in her palm, as if this flower was some kind of treasure to her.

She lowered her head and gently kissed the surface of the flower, then stuffed the dead flower into the square hole and slowly filled it with soil.

After filling it in, her slightly sad eyes flashed and moved to the side, to another dead flower.

The fair hands held the shovel and turned the soil.

The second pothole is also gradually taking shape...

"Secondly... you need a spellcaster who is equally, or even... more proficient in forest magic."

Lake stared closely at the images flowing on the surface of the magic mirror. As soon as she saw the magic mirror, she took out the notebook she had prepared long ago.

She also recorded everything on the map that was just shown.

Even...if the magic mirror hadn't spoken too fast, Lake would have drawn both scenes on the screen in her notebook!
"Magic Mirror, is this the only way? Could you... give more details?"

Lake looked at the gradually disappearing image and the newly re-emerged face on the magic mirror and asked with some confusion.

"Of course there's more than one solution. In this world, there are always more solutions than problems!

More details...means more time. I don't like to explain too much. The answer you need is too long."

The voice in the magic mirror said, chuckling lazily.
"But I just need to answer your question. Of course, the answer I give will not contain any messy misleading information.

It's just... a bit one-sided.

There are probably many answers, but I'll just give you one. As for why... I'm lazy and I don't want to do extra work."

"Can I ask you another question? About... other possible methods?"

Lake demanded.

"Of course, I can answer all your questions." The Magic Mirror's voice was sly, "But... you may have to wait until tomorrow."

"tomorrow?"

“It’s pretty easy to understand – I’ll only answer one question a day.”

After hearing this, Lake and Poro were stunned for a moment, but they also felt that it was natural. If they could answer all questions in detail without any restrictions, there would be no difference between owning a magic mirror and gaining omniscience.

If it reaches that level, the boundary between omniscience and omnipotence will no longer be so clear.

"Then...if it's someone else, can I ask the second question today?"

Poro still thought about it and tried.

"Do you think I'd let you take advantage of this? If it were possible, and the Queen could control thousands of people to ask questions one by one, what difference would that make from asking them herself?"

The magic mirror said.

That's it...

Poro was not in a hurry. After all, the magic mirror was in his hands now. Even if he could only ask one question a day, he could still ask three hundred and sixty-five questions a year.

That's not a problem.

However, Poro had never seen such a powerful magic prop with such a personal style, which was like a living person.

Perhaps a human-like guy like this would have a more flexible bottom line?
Poro inexplicably thought of some NPCs in his previous life's games, where his income would increase if he gained enough favorability with them. And the charm related to favorability?
Poro blinked, suddenly looked at the magic mirror, and said:
“What if I’m pretty?”

"what?"

As soon as Poro said this, the magic mirror and the two women next to it all looked at Poro with incomprehensible surprise.

"Polo, you mean..."

Lake reacted the next second, but Snow White and the magic mirror obviously didn't know about the golden pages.

"Looks good? Putting aside the fact that you're a wolf, even if you looked like my dad, I can't possibly answer two questions in one day."

The magic mirror chuckled and said in a deliberately sarcastic voice, "Although... I don't have a father."

But after he said this, he suddenly realized that the feeling that the wolf in front of him gave to others suddenly changed!
Although his appearance seems to have not changed at all, the feeling I get when I see him is different.

But it gradually changed from "a wolf" to "how come he has a pretty face" and then to...how can there be such a beautiful creature in the world?
A kind of insane mental distortion, a beauty that transcends species!
"Wait a minute, how did you—"

The voice of the magic mirror suddenly became stunned, and it lost its previous calmness!

Next to Poro, Snow White, who had transformed into a queen, could not control her emotions for a moment. She raised her hand uncontrollably and pounced on Poro like a hungry tiger that had lost its mind!
But in mid-air, Lake used a standard grappling move to pin the weak girl under her body, preventing her from moving!

"The Poro is mine. Do you dare to touch him?"

Lake turned back to look at Poro, her face visibly flushed red, and her eyes were filled with a certain... lust that she had never felt before...?

"Polo, I can't stand it anymore. Don't use that..."

Lake said with a trembling voice.

"Well, this is indeed a bit..."

Poro quickly alerted himself and turned off the [Circular Return: Snow White's Peerless Beauty] that was bestowed upon him.

Then, Snow White gradually calmed down, and the dangerous look in Lake's eyes also disappeared.

She let go of Snow White and touched her fair face, which was a little hot.

"Polo, next time you need to use it, tell me in advance."

Lake's tone was a little resentful.

"Sorry, it really is this effect. I thought it would be somewhat weakened."

Poro said this somewhat embarrassedly. Lake's expression just now made her almost say something like "Polo, you smell so good!"
He turned his head again, looked at the mirror on the wall, and said:
"Then we'll ask you again tomorrow..."

Poro said that in this room, there was also a lot of precious knowledge in the queen's collection of books, most of which were the answers to a question the queen asked in the magic mirror every day.

It would be nice to take a look at this secret knowledge in the remaining time.

After all... now that the queen is dead, there is no threat in this palace for the time being.

But at this moment, the magic mirror spoke:

"go ahead."

"Hmm?" Poro was stunned. "What did you say?"

"Now, you can ask the second question."

The magic mirror repeated, "I haven't been this curious for centuries. The information I see... is changing in you in ways that defy common sense—you are very special.

For this reason, I agree to make an exception and answer one of your questions."

The two points of light in the magic mirror glanced at Lake and said, "The answer I just gave this girl... just consider it as a gift to you as if we were meeting for the first time.

I really want to know what kind of question you will ask.”

"Thank you."

Poro nodded, organized his words a little, and then asked a question that he had pondered for a long time, "Why has the world become like this?

This is supposed to be a fairytale world, but why do I feel... such a dark and confused feeling when I delve into it?"

After hearing this question, the magic mirror was silent for a moment and said:

"I'm a little... confused. Are you trying to discuss the formation of the world with me, like those philosophers and sages? Or are you trying to criticize the injustices of the world?

If you ask me about the long history of this world, I will give you a very brief answer."

Poro thought for a moment and explained:
"I heard a fairy tale like this a long time ago, and you were also in it—"

Poro pointed at the magic mirror, then at Snow White, "She's there too, but the story unfolds very differently!"

Poro spoke and slowly repeated the story of Snow White to the Magic Mirror and Snow White, who had not heard it yet.

Finally, he looked at the magic mirror, his eyes becoming somewhat deep.

"Why is there this strange similarity? What is the connection between this world and the stories I'm telling?"

Poro's words fell, followed by a long silence.

Inside the magic mirror, two spots of light were flashing rapidly, as if they were thinking about something. For dozens of seconds, the image on it did not change at all, as if it contained a sticky dark cloud.

"This is the first time I've heard of such a thing."

The magic mirror's voice sounded, without the usual frivolous feeling from before, and seemed a little serious.

"It shouldn't be like this. I should know... the answers to everything in the world. As long as there's an effect, I can find its cause. But where did this story come from? A prophecy without a trace?"

The magic mirror's voice became a little hurried, and there was a strong sense of doubt in its muttering to itself.

Doubt, as the Magic Mirror - he didn't always understand such emotions!

"Click——"

But at this moment, Poro and Lake's pupils shrank. They looked in the direction of the faint voice, but saw that a tiny crack suddenly appeared in the corner of the magic mirror!

The magic mirror's rapid mumbling still did not stop.

"Someone... is hiding some truths."

The magic mirror suddenly spoke, a hint of anger inexplicably in his calm words, "But I am the magic mirror of true knowledge. I should give a correct answer to everyone who asks a question!

If the truth before my eyes is obscured... then many of the answers I gave before will be wrong?

Is it... a lie?

I want to see who dares to do this!?"

The image inside the magic mirror finally began to move, with a jumble of lights and shadows spinning rapidly. No... these lights and shadows were more like every corner of the world flying by at a rapid speed!
Mountains and rivers flowed backwards toward the sky, castles sprouted limbs and raced across the wilderness, birds danced across rainbow bridges, and countless wonders and exotic beasts flashed by in the mirage-like fantasy landscape.

But then, these scenes fell, and the perspective shown by the magic mirror jumped.

The stars are shining, the sun and the moon are dancing, and colorful light leaps up from the boundless sea of ​​clouds, stirring up brilliant stardust. Amidst the colorful flowers and plants, angels wave their golden wings, their voices echoing...

At the top of the Golden and White Palace, amidst the endless holy light and praises, a figure appeared!
It was an old man in a pure white robe. His hair and beard were all white, and his face was gentle and solemn, giving people a sense of incomparable peace and comfort...

"God, what on earth are you—covering up?!"

The magic mirror's emotionless voice caused the harmonious scene in the entire picture to stagnate instantly as if there was insufficient signal, and then it began to shake and distort as if the illusion was shattered!

This time, the entire world began to shake along with the picture.

In the capital of the Kingdom of Sinuo, starting from where the tower was located, the earth's crust began to tremble violently!

"God, I need the truth, a real answer. This time, you won't be able to - twist me again!"

The sound of the magic mirror became a little... distorted.

It's like there's a mask covering it.

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