Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

"Remember to cover your eyes, Qinghong. Complete this ritual smoothly, and don't keep me waiting too long—remember our contract, Qinghong; this will be the luckiest decision of your life."

The Queen said, sniffing the bi-colored red and green apple in her hand.

The black coffin lid, under the manipulation of magic, slowly closed onto the coffin, obscuring the Queen's appearance.

"As you wish, Your Majesty."

Polo replied.

He wasn't the Qinghong Witch herself. The so-called "partial magical experience" from [Spiral Beacon: Witch] certainly didn't include all of the Qinghong Witch's messy personal memories.

Therefore, Polo didn't know what kind of contract they had made.

He could only guess that it mostly involved not attacking each other, and perhaps even that the Qinghong Witch couldn't even harbor any thoughts of harming the Queen!

Only an extremely strict contract could allow the Queen to confidently accept the Qinghong Witch's soul replacement!

However, Polo did learn some knowledge about magical contracts.

These so-called contracts originated from demon contracts, using essence blood and souls as symbols and seals of identity.

And they were mostly soul contracts.

But no matter which type, they had nothing to do with Polo!

So he didn't need to worry about the consequences of breaking the contract.

After all... one party to the contract was already dead.

Standing here was a wolf possessing the Qinghong Witch's appearance, aura, voice, and even some of her magical abilities.

Polo lowered his eyes, looking at the floor of the palace.

He could see that both the Qinghong Witch and the Queen had made extremely detailed preparations to ensure the smooth progress of this ritual.

The positions of the black coffin and the crystal coffin were arranged at an extremely precise angle.

The ground beneath the two coffins was patterned with complex and profound紋刻.

Through the magical experience from the Qinghong Witch, Polo could recognize some of the meanings symbolized by those patterns—

Balance, soul, transaction, life...

"It can begin, Your Majesty."

Polo took a deep breath and said.

Immediately afterward, a trace of green light lit up in his eyes. He sensed that the Queen had already eaten the green side of the bi-colored apple.

Subsequently, Polo's face began to fluctuate and change somewhat erratically.

The aura on his body also began to jump between that of the Qinghong Witch and his own, as if he were rapidly switching between disguise and his true form!

In reality, that was indeed the case.

In a disguised state, Polo couldn't perform too many actions that exceeded his limits. Large-scale spellcasting would also break through this limit!

Only now, when there was no one around, could he maintain the Qinghong Witch's aura for spellcasting by rapidly switching between disguise and his normal state.

He scattered apple seeds one by one on the guiding patterns he had drawn on the ground.

Under the influence of magic, those apple seeds rapidly sprouted buds and grew. Instead of taking root and growing into saplings like ordinary apples, they transformed into vines that were green on the inside and red on the outside.

The apple vines meandered, connecting and enveloping the two coffins.

Around the apple vines, more tender green buds sprouted, and under the spellcasting, they curled into complex shapes one after another.

The incantation in Polo's mouth became faster and faster.

Those vines gradually radiated a tender green luster—

At the same time, the vines wrapped around the exteriors of the two coffins sprouted buds, which grew rapidly, forming flower buds one after another!

Immediately afterward, the flower buds on both sides bloomed simultaneously with apple tree flowers!

But the colors of these flowers were different.

The flowers on the crystal coffin were all blood-red, while the flowers on the black coffin were a strange pinkish-green.

The flowers on both sides began to extend towards the middle.

It was as if something... was being transferred through these vibrant vines!

Polo placed one hand on the central vine.

His heart was also tense.

He had only been in contact with magic for two days, and magic was not a gentle thing, even this kind of plant magic.

He felt an extreme pain deep within his body.

His bloodline radiated an unusual luster, as if... it was about to spontaneously transform into green branches!

And his skin even turned bluish, as if some tender buds were about to grow out of thin air!

The pain of such a distortion was far beyond what ordinary people could endure!

If Polo didn't possess a soul independent of physical pain, he would have lost all consciousness from the pain caused by the overload of casting spells at the very beginning!

And if such a ritual failed,

regardless of whether the Queen and Snow White would die, according to the magical knowledge Polo had obtained, he himself would die one hundred percent!

His gaze was fixed on the blooming flowers on the vines, one after another.

When they were about to converge in the center, Polo's expression froze—

The opportunity had arrived!

From this moment on, the Queen's soul and magic had completely detached from her body. No matter what kind of magic she possessed, at this moment, she was like a prisoner deprived of her senses!

"Begin, Leike!"

Polo didn't stop casting the spell but shouted loudly.

He understood that such a window of opportunity would only last for a few tens of seconds!

At the same time, in the corner of the palace, a Sno soldier wearing white armor moved instantly!

Leike, wearing armor, took out a silver dagger from under his body with one hand, and with the other, pulled out Prince Boren's magic-breaking longsword, charging towards the head of the palace—the King's location!

At this moment, several other controlled guards in the palace also moved!

With a potential-overdrawing action that completely exceeded the body's capacity, they charged towards Leike, who was rushing towards the King, at an extremely fast speed!

But... Leike's position bought a lot of time.

She had already rushed to the King's presence first!

The special ribbon at the King's throat lit up for a moment, and then, the puppet-like King also moved. He pulled out the gorgeous longsword from his waist and slashed at Leike who was rushing over—

But the King's fragile body made him, even if his muscles were overdrawn to the limit, far less agile than those soldiers!

Leike used the dagger in her hand to block the King's sword, and the other hand swung the longsword—

Blood splattered.

The King's two severed hands fell to the ground.

Leike didn't stop moving, using the momentum of the longsword to spin back, once again cutting off the King's legs as he tried to escape!

Immediately afterward, she discarded the magic-breaking longsword, and with a movement that seemed to have been repeated for a long time, flipped her hand, and Prince Boren's "Spell-Breaking Cone" appeared between her fingers!

Leike swiftly stabbed the "Spell-Breaking Cone" between the ribbons on the King's neck.

At the same time, a series of memorized incantations flowed quickly from her mouth—

Inside the Spell-Breaking Cone, a sharp magical light suddenly bloomed and then rapidly extinguished. What also extinguished was the magical light on the surface of the ribbon on the King's neck!

Behind Leike, the swords and spears that were already close at hand fell to the ground, clanging.

The ribbons on the necks of those Sno soldiers also lost their luster.

Starting from the palace, covering the entire palace building complex, maids, guards, soldiers, servants... one corpse after another collapsed heavily to the ground, silent and lifeless.

"Now, the small monsters have all been cleared."

Polo looked at the surrounding scene and nodded slightly, but the solemnity in his eyes still didn't disappear.

In front of him, on the apple vines connecting the two coffins, the distinctly bright flowers had already missed each other and leaped towards the other coffin.

"After this, is the most difficult step—

Killing this... newly born Queen!"