Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf Mentor

Chapter 88 Dead Village
"Didn't you say earlier that most giants act alone?"

Lake opened her eyes wide, looking at the devastated battlefield, and couldn't help asking, "Why are there so many giants now!?"

"I...what I said before was also heard a long time ago. After all, I am not a Boren."

The veteran looked a little solemn.

As they walked into the village, they saw more shocking scenes - the corpses of soldiers.

It is called a corpse, but it looks more like the remaining shells left after people eat shrimp or crabs!

But... now, these shrimps and crabs are soldiers.

And the diners are giants!

What was left underground were countless armors covered with bloody remains of flesh and blood!

These hard Polish armors were scattered twistedly on the ground. They were twisted and dented, and some people could even see extremely clear teeth marks on the surface of some armors!
Seeing this, Poro could even imagine that the giants were eating shrimps and crabs...

He held the desperately struggling Boren soldier in his hands, peeled off his armor, devoured his flesh and blood, and finally, threw the tasteless gold and iron with some flesh and blood still attached to it on the ground.

Judging from the traces of the battlefield before us, ordinary metal is far less hard than the bones or even muscles of giants!
"Remember what I told you earlier?"

The veteran suddenly said.

"The part about the giants in the Boren Kingdom?"

"Yes, now I may have other guesses as to why those elite soldiers of Boren went to the Kingdom of Sinuo."

The veteran picked up an ordinary long sword that was bent and stained with blood from the ground and looked at it carefully.

An ordinary long sword without any carvings like this will not be able to fight back at all when facing a giant!

"The Kingdom of Boren sent that prince and his elite soldiers to the Kingdom of Sinuo. Perhaps they were taking a desperate risk, hoping to survive!

Although the Kingdom of Sinuo lost an army at that time, the Kingdom of Boren should not have been so reckless...

unless--

They felt that compared to the remaining military forces of the Sino Kingdom, there were even more terrifying existences!

For example...if some giants united together!"

Several people shuddered as they looked at the tragic scene around them.

At this moment, they were extremely grateful that they did not come here before the giants attacked the city. With such destructive power, even if they now possessed... combat power close to the limit of ordinary people.

It is also difficult to escape unscathed from a battle with a giant!

"What kind of monster is a giant?"

Lake looked at the houses around her.

The houses that were originally neatly distributed were now all damaged, and there was no intact house left.

Their roofs were blown off by some huge force.

Every level—the same thing!

Behind the disheveled corpses of soldiers, the houses that should have been inhabited by residents have become silent graves one after another!

Poro smelled the bloody smell in the air.

Looking around, I couldn't find any intact corpse!

"They... also check houses? Like... catching wild game hiding in corners?"

Lake looked at the houses. As she walked along, she had seen dark red bloodstains on the walls of many houses.

In the corner, broken arms, hands and feet... were everywhere.

There's even one...who's headless!
Many houses, after being destroyed by the giants, were set on fire. Large areas of buildings were burning in the flames, and thick columns of smoke shot straight into the sky.

This is the "smoke" that Poro and others saw earlier.

The few of them became increasingly silent, and Lake no longer had the anticipation she had shown when she first saw the village.

Although they had walked a long way, they were still hungry.

But at this moment, the hunger in my stomach seemed to have disappeared.

In the town, there was a not-so-big market. Bread, vegetable leaves and other foods were scattered on the ground, mixed with human blood.

Even if there were some clean ones, several people would not think of picking them up at this time!

Finally, following the bloody armor of the Bo Ren soldiers, they arrived at the center of the village. The bloody smell here was so strong that it reached the sky!

The entire ground was basically dyed red with blood!

More importantly... several people saw several huge crossbow carts made of metal and wood!

The surface of these crossbow carts, like the crossbow arrows, is also engraved with fine lines.

It’s also a formation.

Some glittering minerals were scattered on the ground. "These... should be used to provide magical energy for the formation."

Lake picked up a crystal and looked at it in the sunset.

Inside the crystal, there were still faint traces of orange light.

"I've seen an introduction to this crystal in my notes. It's... a magical crystal unique to the Kingdom of Boren. Even ordinary people without magical talent can use it to use this crossbow."

Lake continued to explain.

"What? Ordinary people can... do this!?"

When Poro heard this, his eyes widened and he instantly remembered... the fantasy product called "magic technology" that he had seen in some novels in his previous life!

"So if they speed up the production of these ballistae and arm the army with them en masse... as long as they have enough materials, wouldn't they be invincible?!"

“How can it be so simple!”

Lake shrugged after hearing this and said, "Although ordinary people can use it, the craftsmen who can build crossbow carts and carve crossbows are extremely rare!
To be precise, that kind of craftsman is also a special kind of spellcaster, even rarer than a witch!"

Lake put the fallen orange magic crystal into the backpack behind her and continued to explain to Poro, "Polo, your magic notebook should also explain it, right?
The birth of every magic user like this can be said to be a one-in-a-million miracle!"

"That's it..."

Poro's eyes dimmed slightly. After hearing these words, he had roughly figured it out, "This is different from the extremely universal physics of my previous life.

Magic, an extremely idealistic power.

The "talent" it requires is not just the physical talent that can be achieved through acquired efforts, but also includes... the mysterious "soul talent"!
In this world...

The physics of the previous life can no longer explain everything!

"Are these 'Giant Slayers' still usable?"

"No, they're all broken."

After picking up the crystal, Lake went to the crossbow carts that were tilted aside to check them. These crossbow carts had obviously suffered extremely violent damage from the giants!

Their wooden frames and metal parts were scattered on the ground.

Torn apart!

To describe it in some words... it's like one car after another colliding with a train!
"I can't repair them either. The damage they're suffering is even greater than the prince's armor. Perhaps... if I give myself a few more years, if I can master the magic required for this kind of manufacturing process...

I could build a Giant Slayer like this from scratch."

Lake then added, "Even if we start from scratch, it will be much faster than repairing these ones!"

The setting sun has sunk towards the horizon.

The dim afterglow began to be gradually swallowed by the darkness, and night was approaching.

"Today... we can only stay here until nightfall."

In the dim light, the town seemed even quieter and more silent.

Poro looked ahead, at the center of the town, at a small castle-like building where the lord of this small town should have lived.

But whoever this lord is, he is most likely in danger now.

The castle had collapsed in half, revealing a hole...so big that even a giant could reach his hand in!

Several people walked into the castle and saw more strange scenes.

In the castle, the door of the vault where the money was stored was torn open by a huge force. There were some empty wooden boxes and bags in it, and only a few gold coins were scattered in the corners.

More like...it fell out during shipping!

“There must have been a lot of valuables stored here before.”

The Poro speculated, "Would a giant want...human property?"

"No, even though giants have the word 'human' in their name, can speak, and have an appearance very similar to humans, their habits are completely different from humans!"

At this time, the old soldier next to him said affirmatively, "They don't have human civilization, they don't know how to trade, and they can't make sophisticated weapons, although there may be some giants who like to collect some random things.

But they—

Compared to taking people alive, I would never choose to rob a city lord's treasury!"

When Poro saw this, he also thought about the houses outside, the opened walls, every corner that was searched, and... the cellars that he had seen before, which were opened one after another.

If giants were truly stupid creatures, how could they be so meticulous...

A complete bloodbath in the entire village! ?
The fact that the giants who had lived alone for decades suddenly came together gave Poro an ominous premonition.

The sky above the Kingdom of Boren was like a layer of invisible smoke, gradually gathering...

Darkness is coming.

(End of this chapter)