The magician of the fairy tale world

"Fortunately, fortunately, he didn't find that I, an old woman with a pierced chest, was still alive!"

Grandma Rosa turned sideways, and a scarecrow fell out of the witch's robe.

The scarecrow's chest was pierced, just like a pocket sword had pierced the scarecrow.

"Fortunately, there is a substitute who took most of the damage on my behalf. So that the injury is not fatal."

Grandma Rosa struggled to support the ground with her elbows and tried to stand up sideways, but unexpectedly failed.

"Cough, cough, cough."

The old man coughed up a large ball of blood.

The old man tried to support his body and stand up again and again, or concentrate on summoning the wild wolf to drag himself away, or summoning the raven to bring healing herbs.

But all attempts failed because of his poor physical condition.

Twilight fell, and the moon and stars rose.

Under the moonlight, Grandma Rosa, lying in the middle of the road, shivered in the bleak cold wind.

Every time the biting evening wind blew, the old man would shiver a few times.

"I clearly survived, am I going to freeze to death here?"

Thinking of such an ironic ending, Grandma Rosa suddenly felt a little sad.

"If I had known earlier, I would have called the Violet Fairy or Lord Rhine. I really shouldn't have come out alone..."

"Wait, Lord Rhine, that's right!"

Suddenly, hope rekindled in Grandma Rosa's turbid eyes.

The old man turned his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, opened his lips, and recited the name circulated in countless legends:

"The sage outside the world, the prophet who knows the future, the wizard of miracles and wishes..."

After a while.

The young Rhine, dressed in pure white classical magician costume, and the dashing girl with gilded hair, quickly emerged.

"Granny Rosa!"

Aurora saw that Granny Rosa was seriously injured and rushed over:

"Teacher, please heal Granny Rosa quickly!

"Damn, who hurt Granny like this!"

Rhine also hurriedly performed the healing technique, letting the pure white light cover Granny Rosa.

After recovering some strength, Granny Rosa briefly described what she had just experienced.

"That was a rude, barbaric and greedy soldier! No, he is not worthy of being a soldier, he is a complete robber!" Aurora was furious.

In her clear eyes, a trace of invisible anger ignited:

"It's a pity that I don't know where that soldier went. If I meet him, I must personally avenge Granny Rosa. ”

……

After “killing” the old witch, the soldier took all his money and tinderbox and walked into the city.

This city is the capital of the country, solemn and beautiful.

The soldier stayed in a luxurious hotel, rented the most comfortable room, ordered his favorite food, changed his old leather boots that were ridiculed, bought new boots and new clothes

The soldier who was originally in tatters no longer existed, and there was only a brand new gentleman!

People in the hotel often gathered in the bar on the first floor to discuss the big and small things in the city, some of which were true and some were rumors, and many of them were related to the king or the royal family.

Today, the topic of everyone's chat is the king's daughter, Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Kingdom of Rose.

-It is said that she is a particularly beautiful beauty who has been given many good blessings by the witches!

"Have you heard about it? The legend about Her Royal Highness the Princess!" said a man in the tavern.

"It is said that the princess of our Kingdom of Rose is a little beauty who has gathered all the good wishes! ”

So the topic was brought up. The guests in the inn talked about the legends they had heard about the beautiful princess.

The soldier was very interested in this topic. He put down the beer in his hand and listened attentively.

Legend has it that 10 years ago, when the princess was born, not only foreign guests came, but all the witches and magicians in the kingdom came to bless the newborn princess.

The first blessing gave the princess an unparalleled beauty that could overwhelm the whole country, and the second blessing gave the princess a heavenly voice that could make people fall in love with her.

As for the other blessings, no one knows.

Some people say that the princess was given a wonderful dance.

Some people say that the princess was given the kindest, most gentle, and golden heart.

In any case, everyone knows that Her Royal Highness must have gathered all the good qualities in the world.

"Where can I see the princess? "The soldier's curiosity was aroused, and he asked everyone who was chatting.

He knew that with his past identity, he was definitely not worthy of contact with the princess.

But now he is no longer a soldier, but a noble and wealthy gentleman!

"Oh my God? You actually want to see the princess? What are you talking about?" The bartender was surprised.

Hasn't this gentleman known about the princess of the kingdom before?

Everyone in the upper society should know!

A series of boos sounded.

"No one can see the princess!" Everyone in the tavern said in unison.

"The princess lives in the deepest part of the palace, in a copper palace. Only the king and the queen can enter and exit that secret place. "

"I also heard that many foreign princes learned that there was a princess in the Kingdom of Rose who gathered all the good qualities in the world, but was imprisoned in the depths of the palace. So, those princes took advantage of the late night to climb into the palace, just to get a glimpse of the legendary princess's beauty! "

"It's a pity that all the princes who came to take risks failed!"

"No one can see the princess, no one!"

The more the soldiers listened, the more confused they became, and the more they listened, the more curious they became: "Why does the king lock the princess deep in the palace?"

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"I don't know, it's said to be to avoid a terrible prophecy."

"There is a popular saying that on the day the princess was born, a witch predicted that the princess would die suddenly and tragically when she grew up, so the king had to protect her."

"No, no, no, in the version I heard, the prophecy is like this: the princess will marry an ordinary person without noble blood. This makes the king intolerable."

"Who did you hear? Why is it different from what I know?"

Everyone answered one by one.

"Haha, it's such a waste that a princess with unparalleled beauty and all the good qualities in the world is locked up in the depths of the palace. I really want to see her!" the soldier thought.

…

The soldiers now live happily.

Now he is rich, indulges in food and drinking, and has made many friends. These friends praised him as a generous man. Soldiers like to hear such praise. He enjoys the feeling of being respected and admired. Anyone who praises him will be rewarded with a small bag of gold coins.

Simply living the life of a rich man does not satisfy a soldier. Less than a week after staying in the hotel, the soldier got tired of it and felt that he should find something new and exciting to change his boring life.

This night, it was extremely dark.

The soldier took out the tinderbox—the same tinderbox that the witch had guided him to get under the tree hole. He rubbed it on the flint, hoping to light the candle and make a fire.

Bang!

As the sparks flickered, the door opened automatically.

A copper-colored dog with eyes as big as teacups appeared out of thin air in front of him.

It was the dog he saw in the tree!

The soldier was so frightened that he was not wearing the witch's blue apron!

"No, don't, don't eat me!"

Unexpectedly, the dog lowered his head and said respectfully:

"My lord, what are your instructions?"

The soldier was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood something.

"Get me some money!"

The soldier said with a try mentality.

With just a "swish" sound, the dog disappeared.

After a while, there was another "swish" sound, and the dog came back in front of him, holding a large bag of money in his mouth.

"It's amazing!"

After several tests, the soldier understood that this was a magical tinderbox that could summon the three big dogs in the tree hole to serve him.

Rub it once, twice, or three times to summon three different dogs. The dogs obeyed the command of the master of the tinder box.

"God bless you. I am no longer an ordinary person. I have a magical tinder box and three magical dogs that serve me." The soldier couldn't help but feel excited.

At this time, in the dead of night, the soldier once again had the idea of ​​​​wanting to see the princess.

"Others can't see the beautiful Princess, can't I?"

Note: In the story "The Tinderbox", the description of the dog's size is very strange.

The smallest dog's eyes are as big as a teacup, the middle-sized dog's eyes are as big as a mill wheel, and the largest dog's eyes are comparable to the Round Tower in Copenhagen - the latter's size would even be on the Ultraman set. It can be called huge.

However, in the actual story, the size of the dog does not feel that big, more like the size of ordinary beasts such as lions and elephants.

For example, a soldier could move his dog onto his apron.

For another example, if the dog was really the big monster on the set of Ultraman, and he could summon such a big creature in the city, he would have been discovered long ago without waiting for the soldiers to kidnap the princess.

This article assumes that "eyes as big as round towers" is an exaggeration, and that the largest dogs are about the size of a house. Of course, for ancient armies, this was still a terrifying enough beast.