Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

Poro and Leake silently watched as the red ballet shoes, enveloped by wriggling limbs, slowly lost their red glow.

The fleshy limbs connected to the shoes also seemed to gradually cease their movements.

The dance music in their ears gradually faded.

The illusions and agitation that Poro experienced from the dancer's energy also subsided.

"Poro, your body, what's suddenly happening… it's like it's melting away!"

Leake stared at Poro's humanoid body, her eyes wide.

"Yes, what makes up my current body should originally be from the dancer's power. Now that it has lost the dancer's support, it should disappear."

As Poro spoke, he sensed that the crimson energy-composed flesh on the outer layer of his wolf form had begun to collapse.

It was as if some essence had already dissipated, unable to support the materialization of the flesh.

His facial features blurred, and red light and mist dissipated.

Along with that energy, which had been with him for a long time, rapidly fading away.

"Oh, I see…"

Leake nodded, her bright blue eyes flashing slightly, as if contemplating something.

"How did you feel about the dance just now?"

Poro turned to look at Leake, smiling.

"Feel? Although the environment was a bit strange, and you stepped on my foot…"

The girl blinked, looked down at her hand still holding Poro's, and finally, the corners of her eyebrows curved into a sweet smile, "But it was not bad!"

Just as the two were talking, Poro suddenly sensed something again.

A gust of wind seemed to be sweeping in from the distant darkness—

At the same time, those fleshy limbs that seemed to have lost their energy support suddenly flipped up, but instead of grabbing at Poro, they intercepted the unknown shadow rushing from the darkness!

"Hmm? How could this be—"

The shadow emitted a frustrated voice. The next moment, those scarlet limbs extending towards it instantly melted!

Leake and Poro also saw the newcomer clearly at this moment.

He had horns on his head, crimson eyes, and most importantly—a blood-red beard on his chin!

After being blocked by the remnants summoned by the red ballet shoes, the demon's lightning-fast speed slightly slowed down, and an unbelievable rage appeared in his eyes:

"The power I gave you was meant for destruction itself. Even without the curse, you're still thinking of…resisting me?!"

As if influenced by the demon, or as the red ballet shoes began to dissipate power after losing the curse.

The flesh in the entire hall began to melt and collapse.

"The guy I saw in the illusion before… the culprit of the dance plague!"

The moment Poro saw the approaching figure, the humanoid flesh on his body instantly collapsed. His wolf body leaped out from the blood mist, his pupils overflowing with demonic light—

In an instant, the demon's arm in front of him began to rapidly transform into cream.

"Hmph, mortal magic—"

Who knew, the demon coldly snorted and actually severed the arm that had begun to turn into cream.

Immediately afterward, a black and red light surged from the severed surface, re-condensing into two arms. Then, a layer of black light began to surface on his body.

Behind him, a shadow opened up, a pair of huge bat wings!

"Heaven is no more, the sun and moon hide their light. Everything you see will return to destruction—this is inevitable. You weaklings have no possibility of changing it!"

Subsequently, Poro was surprised to find that the Gourmet Curse could no longer take effect on the red-bearded demon!

He wanted to retreat backward, but this time, he found his speed was much slower.

Without the energy of the crazed dancer, Poro's own physical body was not strong.

Not to mention… being compared to a "mythical creature" like the one before him!

"Ha—"

Realizing this, Poro stopped trying to dodge. He used two kinds of magic with both eyes at the same time. Green and red vines shot towards the demon from the ground. Head-on, an invisible magic blast also struck like a cannonball—

But the demon's speed was even faster. He swayed slightly in the air, and the vines landed in empty space.

After that, Poro's magic blast hit him.

"Your magic is still very weak. It doesn't have the power to end anything—you have potential, but for now, just die!"

The black aura around the demon dissipated, buffering the impact of Poro's magic blast.

The claws in the darkness were about to touch Poro's body the next moment!

At this moment, Leake's Star Killer Sword was already blocking in mid-air. Under the effect of [Spiral Beacon: Hunter], Leake's physical qualities, enhanced by the Star Killer Sword, were already enough to keep up with the demon's speed.

"Foolish, a mortal magic sword is like scrap iron—"

Although the demon said mockingly, he still slightly turned his body. But at this moment, in another direction beside him, in a position where there was nothing.

"Bang—"

A gunshot rang out from nowhere!

Invi's muzzle spat out a golden bullet almost next to the demon. On the surface of the bullet, the runes from Cullen's angelic power flickered with a faint light!

In an instant, a faint light flashed. The golden angelic power, although seemingly weak compared to the power on the demon's body, was enough to stop the demon's dodge.

It forced the demon to only extend its claws to meet Leake's Star Killer Sword.

"Clang—"

A crisp sword sound rang out, but the subsequent scene did not show any stalemate.

It was not as the demon thought, that the "mortal magic sword" would be difficult to support and shatter.

The fragile side was himself!

The demon's arms and body were like cheese cut by a knife, easily separated by the Star Killer Sword!

In the demon's astonished eyes.

The Star Killer Sword swept across the demon's body. Leake's swordsmanship allowed her to accurately see through the demon's weaknesses, and the black and red light dissipated.

The demon's astonished head spun up and fell to the ground.

Only at this moment did the demon realize that his head had been cut off!

"This sword… how is this possible?!"

His head, flying and falling on the ground, dodged backward, staring at the Star Killer Sword's ghostly blue sword light, his mouth opening and closing in astonishment, "This, this is not magic, but—God's…"

However, at this moment, another golden light attacked from behind, dispersing the black light that the demon wanted to escape with.

"Quick, he is now… interfered by me and cannot escape by possessing—"

Cullen struggled to get up from the ground, the halo above her head bursting out with a flickering, seemingly about to be extinguished, last ray of light.

It wrapped around the black light of the demon's escape—

And Leake's second sword followed closely.

A silver light flashed across the darkness, and the demon's head was also divided into two…

They turned into a kind of black flame stream, rapidly burning and annihilating.

The last part of the demon's head.

A blood-red eye stared intently at Leake and the Star Killer Sword in her hand, filled with undisguised resentment and hatred.

"Good, very good—"

Amidst the vibration of the black flames, the demon's voice filled with resentment and coldness came, "Heaven has already fallen, but the end is already the final game, everything… will inevitably be annihilated in the final light of hell!

Heaven has collapsed, but hell is becoming more profound in destruction—

As long as demonic thoughts still exist in the world, I will not disappear…

When we meet again, you can only kneel on the ground and wail helplessly. God is dead, even if you hold the afterglow of the past, you will never be able to save the inevitable overthrow!"

Speaking of this, Leake's third sword flashed past.

The last piece of shadow dissipated, and the demon's voice also stopped abruptly.

…

"Is the demon really… dead?"

Looking at the disappearance of the demon in front of her, Leake still did not withdraw the Star Killer Sword in her hand, and her blue eyes glowed with the shimmer of stars.

She scanned the surrounding darkness, preventing the cunning demon from attacking again.

At the beginning, the scene of the demon resurrecting from the skeleton was still vivid in her mind.

"What is he talking about not disappearing? Also, why does he seem to recognize the sword in my hand?"

"That demon should be dead, but in hell, there will be other demons existing."

Cullen thought for a while and explained, "It's just that those demons may have the same source of power as the one we faced, but they are no longer the same."

"Demons… hell?"

This was different from magic. After listening to Cullen's words, Leake and Poro breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But in their hearts, they still felt a little dazed about this so-called "demon" statement.

In fact, the two of them had not been walking from the forest for a long time, but in addition to magic, they had also come into contact with demons, angels, the fallen heaven, and…

The destruction of the world.

This was completely different from what the two had initially expected.

"So in the future, will we encounter other demons? Also, what exactly is he talking about, that the world will inevitably be destroyed…?"

Poro then looked at Cullen and asked hesitantly.

"These… I actually don't know much about them either."

A trace of guilt flashed in Cullen's eyes, and then she said, "When I was in heaven, I didn't know much. I'm not an angel with much ability.

So, I'm sorry…"

"It's okay."

Leake shook her head, not minding.

After experiencing this series of events, Poro also had a great ability to accept things that used to exist in myths and legends, such as angels and demons.

"However, your sword may indeed have some relationship with heaven."

But at this time, Cullen stared at the Star Killer Sword around Leake's waist and then said, "Your sword does carry some of God's aura, uh… not saying smell.

It's more like an implication, and it should have some related authority."

Cullen then explained, "I can't see the specific essence… but this should also be the reason why you were able to cause so much damage to that demon, right?"

"I see…"

Leake touched the body of the Star Killer Sword. On the silver-white sword body, the Star Sea Illusion had gradually shrunk back after the battle, once again showing the silver-white mirror surface.

"Next, things should be resolved, right?"

Leake looked around. The dancing limbs on the surface of the hall had also gradually begun to recede. They sublimated into a crimson mist like melting wax figures.

"No… it shouldn't be that easy yet."

But at this time, Poro spoke, looking not far away at the red ballet shoes wrapped in fleshy limbs, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

"I feel that although I used [Curtain Call Note] to end the curse on the ballet shoes, the energy on the ballet shoes has not completely dissipated with it."

"Hmm? Why?"

Leake was stunned and asked in surprise.

"The power accumulated over the years is still on the ballet shoes, and the crazed dance abyss that swallowed us earlier has not disappeared either. Those dancing souls should also be in it…"

Poro thought for a while and then said, "The fact that the red ballet shoes were able to control the flesh to block the demon after the curse was lifted also illustrates this point."

"Then we have to…"

Leake bit her lip, and her plain hand rested on the hilt of the Star Killer Sword again, "Completely destroy it?"

"No need, let me take care of the rest…"

At this time, the angel Cullen began to limp forward, her wings broken, and golden angelic power gushed out of the wound to repair it…

But in the battle, the angelic power, which was already on the verge of exhaustion, seemed inadequate for such a serious injury.

"Ms. Cullen, let me help you…"

Seeing this scene, Leake and the veteran Invi quickly stepped forward to support Cullen's arms.

At this time, Cullen was still in the appearance of a short girl, with a trace of broken beauty on her blood-stained face.

"Thank you, although I am an angel, but… I didn't help much in this battle. Fortunately, you were here…"

"It's okay, Ms. Cullen. I also became stronger and stronger when I traveled with Poro. At the beginning, I was also a helpless girl."

Leake blinked and said softly.

Cullen's golden pupils looked at Leake, who was supporting her next to her, and Poro, who was squatting not far away, lost in thought, smiled, but a trace of envy flashed in her eyes.

Standing in front of the red ballet shoes, the pair of red ballet shoes seemed to sense something.

Those spider web-like fleshy substances had all been broken.

The pair of shoes walked over, jumping. The broken feet were still hidden inside, and blood left a string of footprints on the ground.

"This sin was born because of me in the beginning… Now, I understand that these sins, although not from my original intention, can never be eliminated by simply cutting them off with a knife."

As Cullen spoke, she gritted her teeth and slowly released Invi and Leake's support.

The wings on her back moved stiffly, scattering a series of bloodstains.

Her figure gradually flew up.

Under her feet, a pair of wooden prosthetic feet actually detached directly from Cullen's feet. The pair of prosthetic feet stood on the ground.

Roots grew from its soles and drilled into the stone crevices, even drawing out tender green branches!

And Cullen gradually flew into the air above the red ballet shoes, slowly aligning the broken ends of her legs with the inner cross-section of the red ballet shoes—seamlessly!

"Sorry, I abandoned you before. Now, I have the confidence to restrain myself and bear the sin on my own—

Come back."

As soon as the voice fell, endless black and red blood mist burst out from the red ballet shoes, wrapping Cullen up!

And in all directions, the walls that had already melted into blood-colored mud.

As if sensing it simultaneously, it flickered!

"Ms. Karen—"

Lake's pupils constricted, and she was about to draw her sword and charge forward, but Poro stopped her.

Poro's special vision allowed him to perceive something from within, something... a feeling different from the grotesque transformations.

"Wait, Lake, let's observe a little longer... trust Ms. Karen."

The instant Karen came into contact with the red dancing shoes, her body sensed an extremely distorted and intensely invasive energy trying to surge into her.

With a mere thought, she could have used the power of an angel to expel this anomaly from her body.

But she restrained herself; instead, she allowed the angelic power to intertwine with this abnormal energy, gradually merging...

The two seemingly opposite energies, in their entanglement, gradually became less distinct, instead transforming into each other—

Just like what the devil had said earlier.

The red dancing shoes and Karen were originally of the same origin!

As the crimson light and golden light slowly merged, Karen's vision gradually blurred, and she seemed to see... extremely distant memories, from the depths of her memory.

A shoemaker raised his hand and carefully took down the topmost pair of red dancing shoes from the shoe rack beside him, placing them in front of himself.

"Little girl, these shoes were originally custom-made for the princess, but they didn't quite fit. If you want them... I'll sell them to you cheaply?"

"Really?"

Karen's crisp voice rang out.

She put on the red dancing shoes, and they were very comfortable.

Whether it was the size or the shape, they matched her feet perfectly, as if... they were custom-made just for her.

"Of course, it's true. Do you like them?"

"Thank you, sir! I like them very much!"

"..."

The illusion faded, and the blood-colored mist rapidly dissipated. The flesh within the underground palace no longer stirred, and one after another, the possessed dancers throughout the Stetz capital fell to the ground simultaneously.

That abnormal flesh melted and disappeared rapidly, like snow meeting sunlight.

Only some dried-up remnants and deformed skeletons remained.

"Ms. Karen, are you alright?"

Lake looked at Karen. At this moment, Karen, in the form of a little girl, had already put on those dancing shoes.

The light in her eyes switched rapidly between gold and red, and her whole body seemed to be twitching uncontrollably, but gradually, the golden light gradually gained the upper hand.

Although the gold still faintly carried some orange-red at this time.

But the anomalies in Karen's body gradually subsided.

"Thank you."

The wounds all over Karen's body began to heal rapidly. She looked gratefully at the tense Lake and Poro, and said with a smile, "This dance plague has been... resolved.

Compared to me, a sinner, you are the true angels!"