Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

"Hmm, not bad."

Poro hesitated for a moment, but still tore off a piece of soft, white cotton candy from the wall of the nearby tower and put it in his mouth.

Although he and Leake had confirmed that this "Angel of Abundance" might have some problems,

he had already eaten the food in this castle, and nothing unusual had happened.

But even if there were some unknown effects,

it was already too late.

"At least, the Circular Regression is still necessary, maybe it can be useful for something?"

In this candy castle, all the towers are made of cotton candy, white and towering, with jam dotted on the surface, giving it a dreamlike beauty.

After tearing off the cotton candy, the originally tough cotton candy began to soften and melt in the mouth.

But with that sweet fragrance.

[Unsealing Ceremony Completion Progress 8/10]

[Completed: Apple Candy Wall, Candy Cane Railing, Mixed Juice Moat, Gummy Pectin Carpet, Caramel Tiles, White Chocolate Floor Tiles, Cake Dome, Cotton Candy Tower]

[The softness of cotton candy, with the fragrance of jam, the soft texture, supports a height of one hundred meters]

Poro walked towards an open-air garden in the castle.

He reached out and tore off a protrusion from a transparent girl statue in front of him, and the watery statue bounced gently.

It was a jelly.

Poro thought, and stuffed the jelly into his mouth.

[Unsealing Ceremony Completion Progress 9/10]

[Completed: Apple Candy Wall, Candy Cane Railing, Mixed Juice Moat, Gummy Pectin Carpet, Caramel Tiles, White Chocolate Floor Tiles, Cake Dome, Cotton Candy Tower, Jelly Saintess Statue]

[The smooth taste of jelly is like a girl's skin, with a cool fragrance]

"Well, almost there."

Just then, a special saint in a white robe with numbers on it walked straight towards Poro from the other side.

In the previous inquiries, Poro also learned about these saints with numbered badges.

They are the thirty-six saints with the strongest cooking skills among all the saints.

They are called Awakened Saints.

In their words, they are the saints whose cultivation is closest to "entering heaven", and they are also the very few saints in the candy castle who can truly communicate with the "Angel of Abundance".

"It's time to prepare the sacrament."

"Sacrament?"

"The Angel of Abundance eliminates hunger in the world, and at the same time, as the only angel who personally walks on the ground, she also loves every kind of human cuisine."

The saint said, leading Poro towards a certain place in the corridor, with a hint of fanaticism in his words, "We saints will offer the feast to Abundance, and then, this plain will never have hunger!"

Sculptures and portraits on both sides of the corridor flashed past...

Suddenly, Poro's pupils shrank, and he sensed a fleeting change—

A maze? Magic that obscures a certain path?

Poro realized that he had entered a path he had previously ignored.

Immediately afterwards, the saint led Poro to a room inside the candy castle that looked no different from other places, and the aroma of food emanated from it.

"We're here, this is the kitchen, with fire from heaven."

Poro saw that Leake was already waiting in the room, with all kinds of cooking utensils available, and a layer of golden flames flickering in the stove.

Some saints were already cooking in it.

"This is your place, and... the ingredients."

The saint said, leading Leake and Poro to a stove, which was already filled with a lot of ingredients, and these ingredients—were exactly the same as the ingredients Leake and Poro needed to make dumplings at the "Saint Election Festival"!

A secret room, ingredients, and... preparing a sacrament for the Angel of Abundance?

Could there be a problem with this?

Poro thought, but he checked the ingredients and found no problem at all.

At least, he didn't find any negative problems related to magic in these ingredients.

Of course, the factor of magic does exist.

Or rather... within this candy castle, the concentration of magic has reached a level close to overflowing.

In order to analyze the special effects in the food in such an environment in the castle.

Poro also took the time to learn a simple magic to detect possible curses in objects.

But it had no effect on the ingredients in front of him.

Could it be that... there's really nothing wrong with these things?

Poro could only think like this and made the ingredients into dumplings.

In other parts of the room, there were also other newly promoted saints using the provided ingredients to make their own special dishes.

They all had a fanatical focus on their faces.

For ordinary people, after seeing these miracles and the true face of the "Angel of Abundance", they were already convinced of this god who eliminates hunger.

Especially in the corner of the room.

Three saints were cooking, they cooperated skillfully, but what made them stand out the most was their figures—

Unlike most slightly fat or even obese saints, these three people were almost skin and bones!

Because they were the three ascetics who came to pilgrimage this time.

Their eye sockets were sunken, but surrounded by the aroma of various delicacies, they did not make any eating movements!

"Why don't you eat something first?"

An awakened saint stepped forward, he looked at the ascetics, holding a plate of dishes in his hand.

"No need, the torment of hunger will bring me closer to the realm of the angel."

The leader of the ascetics shook his head and said.

"But you shouldn't refuse divine grace!"

But the awakened saint shook his head and said firmly, "If you don't eat, the Angel of Abundance will be very disappointed——

She is the only angel who walks on the earth in this world!"

Hearing these words, a trace of surprise appeared on the faces of the ascetics, and they didn't say anything more.

Watching them eat the food, the awakened saint smiled again and walked away.

Only Poro saw it clearly.

One of the ascetics spat out the food in his mouth after the awakened saint left.

And his two companions seemed a little puzzled:

"Now, the angel of the present world is already close at hand, why do you still stick to the old ways?"

"I have already put the food in my mouth, and the Angel of Abundance will understand my piety, I spit out the delicacy, but it is to——

Let my pure piety not be troubled by any distractions."

Poro and Leake followed the previous steps and finished making the dumplings.

The managing saint nodded approvingly, one of them left the room with the freshly捞ed dumplings, and another awakened saint took Leake and Poro back outside the kitchen corridor.

Outside this hidden room, there were no other rooms.

But Poro knew that there must be more than one place hidden by magic like this in such a large castle.

Back to the bedroom.

"Is that page completed?"

Leake asked, looking at Poro.

Ten kinds of food components that make up the candy castle, this is not a difficult task.

"I just didn't have time to look at it just now."

Poro said, taking out a cookie board from his pocket and putting it in his mouth.

The golden page lit up.

[Circular Regression: Candy House · Dessert Feast]

[The unsealing ceremony has been completed, obtain the fairy tale authority!]

[Completed: Apple Candy Wall, Candy Cane Railing, Mixed Juice Moat, Gummy Pectin Carpet, Caramel Tiles, White Chocolate Floor Tiles, Cake Dome, Cotton Candy Tower, Jelly Saintess Statue, Flavored Cookie Tabletop]

[The cookie is very fragrant, the taste of the jam has a crispy taste, it is hard to imagine how such an item can support so many heavy ornaments?]

[Fairy Tale Authority: You can materialize the food you have eaten]

[Description: Hunger in the abdomen is unbearable, cramping and throbbing, in a trance, you pass through a forest again, and finally, you see——that sweet paradise!]

"Materialize... food?!"

Leake was stunned for a moment, with a happy expression on her face, "Doesn't that mean you can eat as much as you want?"

"What do you want to eat?"

Poro looked at the girl and raised his eyebrows.

"Uh... it seems that the most delicious things are eaten here?"

Leake thought for a while before reacting, "It seems that the things here can always be eaten?"

"I'm just trying."

Poro opened his hand and pointed to the wooden table in the center of the room on one side, and the next moment the golden page flashed slightly, and a plate of roast chicken appeared out of thin air on the wooden table!

Leake was also stunned when she saw the chicken.

Because... that distinct cooking style was obviously the girl's own style.

"This is..."

"This is the first chicken I ate at your house, you made it yourself."

Poro stepped forward, tore off a piece and put it in his mouth, "Well, it's still the same taste."

"What I made at that time was not very good."

Leake also tore off a piece and tasted it, "It's much worse than what those saints made..."

"It doesn't matter, we are also saints now."

Poro waved his hand, but he narrowed his eyes and found that the food did not recover like the food that entered this fertile plain, it was still torn in half.

"Didn't recover? Is it because... the food made by the page also has certain characteristics?"

Poro used magic, and also could not find many abnormalities from the food he made through the fairy tale authority——this plate of roast chicken was indeed exactly the same as what he had eaten before.

"However, this should not be the most special usage, the point is..."

Poro thought, and turned his hand over.

A light flew out of the page and condensed.

Turned into a... test tube.

It was the kind of wildness-inducing potion that Poro had eaten from the bishop!

"Oh, this is really a bit unexpected?"

Poro thought for a while, stretched out his hand, and wanted to summon something else, but this time, nothing appeared.

"There are still some restrictions, at least it should be food?"

"Uh, Poro, what else do you want to materialize?"

Leake looked at Poro's hand that had not changed anything and asked curiously.

"Nothing."

Poro shook his head and dispelled the memories of the battle with the bishop in his mind.

At that time, his and Leake's strength was not enough, he could only use his natural fangs to gnaw at the bishop's neck, so... he inevitably swallowed some arterial blood?

At least, living creatures can definitely not be materialized, right?

Thinking of this, Poro put away the magic potion, took out a scroll of paper, and began to mark it with dense lines.

This was Poro and Leake's marking of the internal map of the candy castle in the past few days.

The saints did not restrict Leake and Poro's range of movement, nor did they restrict anyone, but in this magical castle, it seemed that there was nothing special except for the endless food.

And the owner of the castle, the Angel of Abundance, was even more invisible.

Until... today.

"Leake, you should remember the kitchen where we made the 'sacrament' today, right?"

Poro asked.

"Remember? It's very big, and the flames inside seem to have no burning sensation, it's a kind of sacred gold?"

"Yes, that's it."

Poro nodded, "Do you still remember where it is? We didn't find such a place when we walked around the castle a few days ago."

"Of course I remember..."

Speaking of this, Leake's eyes suddenly froze, "I seem to... not remember?"

"Huh?"

Poro was outlining a path with a dashed line on the paper in front of him, and asked casually, but he didn't expect Leake to answer like this, his brows furrowed, revealing a hint of solemnity.

"Don't remember... at all?"

Leake lowered her head and looked at the dashed line drawn by Poro on the paper, and the word "kitchen" marked on it.

A trace of struggle flashed in her light blue eyes.

"I have some impression when I see what you drew, but those memories seem to be blurred a lot..."

"Your cloak and dagger can't break this image either?!"

Poro widened his eyes.

"I had already held the dagger in my hand just now."

Leake stretched out her hand from her arms, and Poro also saw the silver dagger at the same time.

"Maybe it's the effect of the dagger, so I can... think of something when I see the map you drew, if it were an ordinary person, it is very likely that they would not remember anything!"

"This... is a bit troublesome."

Poro's pen outlined several blank locations on the blank castle map in front of him.

Previously, when walking along all the roads in the castle, Poro did not realize that there were hidden places, only some locked doors.

But now it seems that not only those doors may hide unknown areas.

What is more likely is that more places may be hidden behind magical mazes that far exceed the limit of his exploration ability!

……

At night, next to Leake and Poro's bedroom, Hansel and Gretel's bedroom.

The two children were very excited, even though it was late, they were a little sleepless.

"Brother, I ate the candy flowers in the garden yesterday, they were more delicious than I imagined!"

Gretel said, waving her hand.

"Haha, I also ate the egg roll candlestick, it was in the hall!"

Brother Hansel was also a little excited, "Those uncles said that eating here will not cause tooth decay!"

"Egg roll?"

Gretel blinked her eyes, "What is that?"

"It's especially delicious, I've never seen anything like it before!"

Hansel said proudly, looking at his sister's expectant eyes. He suddenly jumped out of bed, "I'll go get you one!"

"Now?"

Gretel glanced at the night outside the window and said softly, "But those uncles said we should sleep well in our rooms at night."

"It's okay, don't you know about my wayfinding skills? And the front hall is so close—don't worry, I'll get one back for you in a few minutes!"

Hansel's eyes flashed mischievously as he pushed open the door and quietly walked out. "You wait here obediently, I'll be right back!"

In the corridor, the magical glow from the sugar cubes emitted a faint neon light even in the night.

But some places further away were still shrouded in the shadows of the night.

Hansel followed his memory and walked towards the front hall.

But just then, he heard a series of rapid footsteps and gasps in the darkness, as if someone was running in the corridor.

"Hmm?"

The boy was a little puzzled.

Because he seemed to hear this sound coming from the empty wall beside him.

"Is anyone there?"

The boy asked in a clear voice.

The next moment, he heard the rapid footsteps stop!

The heavy breathing also seemed to be suppressed by the person making it.

"Sir?"

In the silence, Hansel hesitated for a moment and spoke again.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of footsteps rang out again, rushing towards the boy at a great speed!

The next moment, Hansel was surprised to see the shadows on the wall twisting rapidly, and a thin, dark figure stepped out from within!