Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

Wielding their arms under Seven's command, the giants uprooted the bricks and tiles of houses, hurling them in all directions.

Chains snapped and shattered, as countless Buren soldiers cried out in agony, their bones breaking and limbs twisting.

At the same time, countless armor-piercing crossbow bolts flew towards the giants from every hidden corner!

Seven’s control and command over the giants, tempered by countless slaughters, had reached a level beyond mere proficiency.

All the giants advanced along a wide street, chosen by Seven, where there were fewer chains.

Of course, the giants didn't bunch together to become easy targets.

Except for the central Giant Guard, the other giants were scattered in several directions, forming a protective arc, neither too close nor too far.

They slaughtered soldiers from all directions, destroying one 'Giant Butcher' heavy crossbow after another, hidden in the corners.

Without the 'Giant Butchers,' ordinary arrows posed no threat to Seven, who was hiding under the giants' helmets!

"Boom!"

Another house was toppled by a giant.

The Buren soldiers inside died screaming.

The giant reached out, grabbed a person, and put them in its mouth...

After the chewing sounds subsided, a mix of flesh, blood, and fragmented armor was spat onto the ground.

The giant turned around, raised its foot, and was about to stomp on a few more humans below—

But at that moment, from behind the half-collapsed building, a shadow wrapped in star-like silver light leaped high, stepping on the cascading stone walls and bricks.

The Star Slayer Sword in Leike's hand extended several feet of brilliance as it cut through the air.

It was hard to tell whether it was sword light or starlight, but it precisely swept across the giant's neck—

The sword light accurately passed through the giant's joint.

The skin and flesh that were impervious to ordinary weapons were as fragile as cheese under the Star Slayer Sword. Leike did a nimble flip in the air and stepped on the giant's head.

Instantly, a large amount of blood spurted out, divided into two by the starlight's barrier in front of Leike.

With the heavy step, the giant's head separated from its neck.

That ugly face still wore an expression of surprise that had not yet dissipated!

"The first one, not a bad start?"

[Hunting Giants 1/12]

After the next giant's gaze shifted over, Leike flashed and disappeared into the collapsed ruins on the other side.

On the other side, at the center of a city square, the armored king's statue had been smashed into pieces.

The pool beneath it had been stained with blood.

A young Buren soldier, his face pale, watched as all his comrades were instantly crushed into a bloody pulp by the tall giant, which had far exceeded his psychological endurance!

His sword had long been lost without a trace.

"Ah... don't... don't come over, I surrender, surrender, don't kill me—"

The young soldier sat on the ground, retreating in a disheveled manner.

A foul odor emanated from his crotch.

But the giant still grinned hideously as it stepped forward, its hands, still dripping with blood, pressing down, casting a shadow over the young soldier's head.

"Please, don't..."

He trembled all over, unable to even stand up, helplessly blocking his eyes with his hands, tears of despair overflowing—

Although he was a Buren, this was the first time he had seen a giant.

The fervor to protect Buren and fight to the death against the giants had vanished at this moment.

Under the solid wall of death and fear, very few people could maintain their original intentions...

But after a long time, death still did not come.

Only a sudden sound of shattering, the sound of wind, and... the giant's roar!

"What... happened?"

He reopened his eyes, and the scene before him widened them.

A patch of blue and red vines, starting from the giant's feet, wrapped around the giant's body and spread upwards. While the giant was distracted by the vines, a red-cloaked girl shrouded in starlight had leaped onto the giant's nape like lightning—

The Star Slayer Sword's blade spun with starlight, raising a mist of blood.

The giant's hand hung down powerlessly in mid-air, and its huge body crashed to the ground with a bang, the surrounding ground trembling, like a small earthquake.

"Stand up. If you're injured, run over there. There should be your people there, there should be army doctors."

The soldier stared blankly at the figure shrouded in starlight.

The ethereal voice was like an angel.

The long sword, like flowing stars, reminded the Buren soldier of a legend he had heard since childhood.

"Are you... the hero who came to save us?"

"Hero?"

Leike was stunned for a moment. She looked at the bodies of Buren soldiers strewn all over the ground. "No, you are more like heroes than I am. Those who fearlessly charge to protect are all heroes."

Saying that, Leike's figure once again turned into a streak of starlight and swept away into the distance.

In a trance, the soldier seemed to see a wolf-shaped shadow chasing after the meteor-like figure—

"We... are also heroes?"

The Buren soldier repeated. He remembered that he had thought the same way before the war.

But when he truly faced that flesh-eating, invulnerable, wall-like figure, he understood the weight of the word 'hero'.

He stood up straight, trembling. In the battle just now, although he was covered in blood, he had not suffered any crippling injuries.

He felt his fear seemed to fade.

No—more like... his body had gotten used to them.

He silently bent down and picked up a long sword that could still be used on the ground. Listening to the sound of the giant's footsteps in the distance, he staggered over.

"Just like in the stories when I was a child, there are angels like that standing by our side..."

He gripped the sword in his hand, and his footsteps became faster and faster until he ran, "Humans can win once, and they can win a second time!"

[Hunting Giants 2/12]

"That's the second giant, Leike. Can your body still handle it?"

"It's easy, it's like this sword is providing energy for my body. There's no problem running like this. Only during the time I'm fighting the giant does my body feel the pressure."

As Leike spoke, in the distance, the roar of houses collapsing and the sound of giant footsteps grew louder again.

"The interval between each battle is enough for me to recover my strength."

With the help of the Star Slayer Sword, Leike and Poro killed two giants in a row without suffering any damage.

Of course, the main reason they could achieve this was their grasp of timing.

Just like real hunters, they strike at a certain moment and kill the enemy with one move!

The Star Slayer Sword has a high bonus for attack and physical strength.

But for the defensive aspect, the Star Curtain's help is not so strong.

That is to say...

To completely hunt twelve giants, you must maximize the advantages of being small and stealthy.

Under Seven's command, the giants advanced quickly.

In the blink of an eye, they had crossed the outer city of Buren's capital. Fortunately, most of the residents in this direction of Buren's inner city had already evacuated.

After the order issued by the king earlier, the streets of the inner city were also covered with iron chains.

Finally, another giant was separated to a relatively distant position by the buildings.

After this giant raised its fist and tore apart the 'Giant Butcher' hidden under a building, Leike's meteor-like figure stabbed towards the giant's neck!

"Clang—"

The Star Slayer Sword trembled, drawing a line of blood.

[Hunting Giants 3/12]

Leike turned nimbly and was about to leave.

But at that moment—the building she was about to step on exploded!

"What!?"

Leike's eyes flashed with starlight, and she forcibly moved horizontally in the air, dodging the giant's hand that suddenly protruded!

At the same time, countless blue and red vines grew from the ruins of the building, obscuring the attacking giant's vision!

But just as Leike wanted to step forward with her sword, the figure of the third giant appeared!

At the moment Leike began her attack—

The two closest giants stopped killing Buren soldiers without warning and rushed over at all costs!

A trap!?

Giants have strong vitality, and although Leike has the Star Slayer Sword, her own abilities still limit the combat power she can exert.

This sword can easily pierce the giant's defenses when it stabs at the giant's vitals.

But if it hits the giant's hands and feet, it won't be so obvious.

"Boom!"

The fist swung by the second giant was hit by Poro's magic blast in the dark, deviating and hitting the stone wall on the other side.

Making a deafening noise.

Leike's cloak fluttered in the hurricane caused by the giant's fist, and as she leaped into the air, the giant's neck was exposed—

But Leike couldn't slash this sword.

Because, a large stone wall panel thrown by the Giant Guard from not far away had already flown to her eyes!

The air was compressed and exploded, and the air waves blew up the girl's golden hair.

...

Seven, inside the helmet gap on top of the Giant Guard's head.

"What are those guys? Foreign aid invited by the old king? Well hidden... I haven't heard of this kind of intelligence until today."

A trace of coldness appeared in Seven's eyes.

Three giants died at once, and even he was somewhat worried.

But since that unknown existence didn't directly kill him, it means—it's not strong enough to be unsolvable.

If there really is such a legendary guy like the founder of Buren...

Not to mention twelve giants, even if they are doubled, I'm afraid they won't be able to enter the city gate of Buren's capital!

So he deliberately used the terrain just now to make a giant deliberately fall behind, which is actually a kind of temptation and a clear conspiracy.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you enter the capital, no matter who it is, you can't reverse the destruction of Buren."

A strange magical light lit up in Seven's eyes.

He rubbed the long horn of an unknown creature in his hand, and a subtle stream of light poured out from within the keratin and merged into Seven's body.

The palace is close at hand.

Along the way, the bodies of Buren soldiers had been paved into a sea of blood.

Seven was also a little puzzled.

The intensity of resistance of these Buren soldiers is too great, which is completely different from when they fought against Aimu City and other Buren troops!

After Aimu City fell, most of the hard-fighting soldiers, except for those who slowed down the giants at the cost of their lives, most of the soldiers also began to evacuate.

But this time, I don't know why, all the Buren soldiers rushed up in groups and died.

This kind of strangeness even gave Seven some illusions.

Do these soldiers in the capital really think that they can kill giants with their toothpick-like swords?

"Heh, as expected of the capital, are you going to... fight with your backs to the water?"

As humans died one after another, a blood-colored mark on his forehead became more and more solid.

In the center of the capital, the tightly locked city gate of the palace also collapsed under the power of the giants.

Countless guards and the bodies of Buren soldiers were crushed by the giants and paved into a bloody road.

Soon, too fast!

Seven frowned. He felt that the deployment of Buren soldiers along the way was somewhat unreasonable. At first glance, there was no problem, but it was completely different from his previous battle in Aimu City.

The resistance in front of him on the way to the palace was far less than the resistance to other places in the city.

It's like... the army's deployers deliberately guided him to attack the palace and prevented him from finding civilians.

"It can't be that the old thing in the palace has run away, right?"

Seven said secretly, and then smiled disdainfully, "It doesn't matter, the king can run away, but your palace can't run away!"

The giant's footsteps stepped on the smooth ground of the palace, leaving a line of blood-colored footprints.

At this time, there were a total of seven giants entering the palace, four of whom were outside, slaughtering the Buren soldiers who came from the whole city.

The other three giants smashed open the gate of the main hall of the palace and walked into it.

The golden white hall.

The colored glass on all sides reveals chaotic light and shadow.

Those magical murals of people or gods flickered in the candlelight, flickering on and off.

But what surprised Seven the most was... on the main hall, on the throne, the king with wrinkles all over his face and white hair.

The military uniform all over his body was spotless, neat and new, and the silver-gray armor was inlaid with golden silk threads.

The crown on the top of his head is smooth and delicate.

Seeing the giant, the old king did not have fear or resentment, but in a inexplicable indifference, he revealed a kind of majesty that truly belonged to the king.

"Your Majesty, I am very happy to see you again.

It's a bit beyond my expectation that you didn't run away in advance—I thought I was going to receive an empty palace."

"Well, I did think so a few days ago, but now..."

But the King of Buren was not angered by Seven's provocation. His lips and beard moved slightly and said, "I am the King of Buren, and all my subjects are still fighting—

How can I abandon the city and leave first?"

"Huh? In this way, I misjudged you before?"

Seven's voice came from the head of the leading... helmeted giant, sounding a little surprised, "Your Majesty is sitting here alone, what's the use? If you can pull out that sword, I'm afraid you won't be here long ago, right?

Could it be that you are going to surrender to me?

If Your Majesty can come over and kowtow a few times, offer the crown, admit your previous mistakes, and marry the princess to me—

Perhaps I will consider letting go of your other nationals?"

The King of Born looked at Seven, his eyes still without a ripple.

It was as if... he had made some kind of decision.

He no longer looked at the approaching giant, but raised his head, looking at a mural at the highest point of the palace dome—

It depicted a warrior standing on a mountain of giant corpses.

His whole body was overflowing with silver-white starlight, standing straight, like a cloud-piercing spear, that silver sword, dazzling to the extreme, pointing far ahead, pointing to... a giant kneeling on one knee, wearing a crown.

Under the brilliant light and shadow, the old King of Born saw a line of words written in Born language around the painting.

Words from... the ancestors:

Grip the sword tightly, use your strength to protect this country.

Beneath the old king's white eyebrows, two tears flowed down his wrinkles.

He remembered countless nights in his childhood, looking up at that line of words, every generation, every generation of Born kings—

Dreaming, all dreaming of seeing the moment when that sword regained its brilliance!

But no.

Never again!

No matter how much the swordsmanship was honed, no matter what realm the study of the inscription reached...

But the kings of the past could no longer use this sword.

It was not until the other day that the old king saw the brilliant starlight flowing from the sword passed down through the generations.

Not in the hands of the royal family, but in the hands of a strange girl.

"I'm sorry, ancestors, the descendants are unworthy... We, we all misunderstood, for a long time... we all misunderstood."

The old king lowered his eyes, looking at the increasingly close giant, obscuring the surrounding candlelight, and grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist—

This was certainly not the Star Slayer Sword, but just an inscription replica similar to the Born Prince's sword.

The king drew his sword, the blade exquisite and luxurious.

But he certainly understood that in the face of giants, this was no different from a piece of scrap iron.

"Grip the sword tightly, use your strength to protect this country.

So, what you wanted to tell us was not strength, but... protection!"

The old king suddenly laughed, tears streaming down his face.

"Ha—haha—"

He seemed to be laughing at himself—that at the moment when he was most likely to draw that sword, he chose selfishness.

Is he still worthy of being called a king, a king who does not protect his people?

The leading giant wearing a helmet raised his hand and grabbed down towards the old king!

At this moment, the old king's sword moved.

But it did not slash at the giant, but was held horizontally at his neck, and slashed sideways—

In an instant, blood spurted out.

"You should be hiding... in this giant's helmet, right? I've been waiting for this moment for a long time!"

The king's throat was blocked by the surging blood foam, and in his dying moments, his vision followed his backward-leaning face, looking again at the mural on the dome, half obscured by the giant—

The star-studded sword.

"It's a pity... only three came in."

In the next moment, on the old king's golden crown, layers of inscriptions instantly burst out with blood-colored light!

In the hundred years of Born Kingdom history, every king had engraved countless arrays within the palace.

In order to...

To guard the royal family, and the secrets sealed deep within the palace.

The hub of these inscriptions converged on the crown.

Each generation of kings had the ability to control these arrays to some extent.

But their control could not exceed the carrying limit of the inscriptions.

There was only one situation in which the king could obtain the ability to overdraft the inscriptions in the palace at the cost of all the inscriptions being damaged—

That is, suicide, using his own blood and soul to declare the demise of the entire court!

In the next moment, throughout the wide palace, the dimly lit inscriptions on the walls intertwined, and dazzling red light spread from the king's crown to the surrounding walls.

The glorious Born royal family began to climb with cracks.

Dazzling light burst out from every corner, and white towers and golden spires began to collapse rapidly...

After the riot of magic dissipated, the largest main hall of the palace had been reduced to a scorched ruin!

In the center of the palace ruins, the three giants were lying on the ground.

The surfaces of their bodies had been scorched black and red by the accumulated energy, lying on the ground, twitching, without any vitality.

In front of the king's broken throne, the giant wearing the helmet suffered the strongest impact.

Flesh and blood had melted away, leaving only a huge bone armor still standing in place.

The helmet it was wearing had melted even faster than the giant's flesh.

But... if the king had really seen the giant guards, he would understand—the giant in front of him was not a giant guard where Seven was, just an ordinary giant wearing a broken giant guard helmet.

Among the three giants, one with a relatively intact body, the charred mouth suddenly moved.

From it, Seven's voice came out:

"Heh, I knew it, you old guy... you didn't have any good intentions, fortunately, fortunately—I almost died!"

Seven's voice could actually be transmitted from within the vocal cords of other giants—

This was something that no one could have imagined!

Outside the palace, within the helmet on the head of the real giant guard, Seven watched the palace turn into a ruin, and the shock in his eyes gradually faded.

His body was a little cold.

A long time ago, when he pretended to be a warrior to deceive the king, he had already understood the king's personality—using the basic skills of a deceiver.

This king, when he was young, might have been a good king with ambition and achievement.

But in his old age, he had obviously become...

Difficult to give up the power in his hands.

Or rather—

Compared to the people, he was more concerned about his royal family.

The son-in-law he chose for the princess did not need the wisdom to govern the country, only the strongest warrior...

And why did such a selfish person suddenly make the move to perish together with someone like Seven?

Undoubtedly, this was the first thing that was somewhat beyond Seven's expectations.

But it didn't matter, the king was dead, but within the palace, the giant king's relic, and the legendary treasure sword of the Born royal family—

They were all mine.

There was nothing that could stop me!

Seven commanded the giants and walked towards the palace. After the king's death, those Born soldiers were still rushing towards the giants, and the "giant butchers" deployed in other parts of the city had also been pushed to the palace.

But without the control of iron cables, these steel crossbows were extremely difficult to hit the giants' weak points!

They were slaughtered piece by piece.

Blood seeped into the clean ground of the palace.

Finally, at this moment, the ground began to tremble violently!

"Hmm? Is it some hidden array?"

Seven felt something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it. The king, who knew the most secrets of the Born Kingdom, was dead, so what else could stop him... from searching within the palace?

But just then, his pupils shrank.

He saw that in the ruins under the feet of a giant not far away, a hand made of intertwined bones suddenly stretched out and grabbed the giant's ankle.

Immediately afterwards, that piece of the floor collapsed in an instant!

A giant made of bones stood up from the space under the palace.

That was a moving giant statue composed of the skeletons of giants killed by the Born Kingdom for a hundred years. The surface of the bones all over its body seemed to be painted with blood-colored inscriptions, and deep inside those inscriptions...

It seemed that countless souls were shouting and wailing!

Today, although the number of giants who died was much more than Commander Ward had expected, the number of Born people who died under the trampling of the giants had exceeded a thousand!

"Boom!"

The skeleton giant raised its hand and punched the face of the giant who had been pulled to the ground!

The giant screamed, with blood mixed in its mouth, and several broken teeth flew out!

It struggled desperately, punching and fighting the skeleton giant that was already pressing on its body, but the skeleton giant had no flesh and blood all over its body and would not be affected in any way!

"This is—"

The shock on Seven's face faded, darkened, and the blood-colored rune on his forehead flashed with a faint light.

"So that's how it is."

He seemed to have thought of something, and spat out a few words in the shadows. Since entering the city, his hand clenched for the first time.

In the next moment, the giant guard howled and swung the long sword in his hand to charge towards the skeleton giant!

But then, there was another vibration under the palace crypt.

The hand of the second skeleton giant also stretched out from the ground!

The other two giants also greeted them. These giants had not fought to the death with creatures of their own size for a long time.

And these skeleton giants not only had the power of giants, but also had harder bodies and the characteristic of not knowing pain!

Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, these giants, who had been smooth all the way, were actually at a disadvantage.

Even with two against one, they were defeated by the skeleton giant's wide-open attacks!

Only the giant guard's side formed a stalemate!

In a corner of the palace, in a tower that had not collapsed, at the top of the central tower, although it was not the highest, it was enough to overlook the entire palace, and... the scene of the giant battle.

"Your Majesty, I may have misunderstood you before... You are indeed a warrior, I thought you would surrender the city."

Commander Ward stood on the tower.

The eye patch on his eye had been lifted, and under it, in the eye socket that should have been empty, an orange-red spherical crystal wrapped in an inscription was shining.

"Although the number of soldiers who died was much less than expected, the current situation should be enough with two giant skeleton guards.

Your Majesty, you are dead, don't worry, I will take over this kingdom and let the entire Born be reborn on the ruins!"

But just then, Commander Ward suddenly felt a warning sign—

His body quickly dodged, but a feather arrow had already pierced his shoulder!

"What?!"

Commander Ward looked back and dodged the second arrow.

Seeing the appearance of the person who came, his pupils suddenly widened!

The person who came threw down the bow and arrow stained with blood in his hand, and the blood-colored mark on his forehead carried a strange halo—it was Seven, who should have been inside the giant guard's helmet!

"Seven? How dare you, a cowardly deceiver like you, appear in front of me?!"

Commander Ward reached back and grabbed the arrowhead stuck in his shoulder, pulled it out without even frowning, bringing up a piece of blood. Thanks to the protection of the armor, it did not penetrate deep into the bone marrow.

He drew the rune sword at his waist, held the sword with both hands, the tip of the sword tilted, and aimed at Seven.

"You are facing a warrior who has gone through countless giant battles and emerged from countless soldiers...

How dare you not rely on giants, but attack me alone, your pathetic lies—

Don't even deceive yourself!"

"Nice to meet you for the first time, Commander Ward, I have long admired your name."

Seven also drew a Born long sword that he picked up casually from the ground from his waist.

But his sword-holding posture looked like a clumsy beginner compared to Commander Ward.

"At first, I was just a liar ridiculed by everyone, and you have always been the commander-in-chief above ten thousand people—I understand.

I used to dream of climbing to the position where you are."

Seven struck an extremely ugly posture of exertion.

But Commander Ward no longer had any contempt, and even showed a hint of fear in his eyes—

He saw that under Seven's feet that were stepping on the ground, there was actually an inconspicuous dent in the ground, and Seven himself had no armor, which meant...

This former liar, now seemingly ordinary body, may have a huge mass!

"General Ward, today, I have touched for the first time the threshold that makes my countless lies come true—

This is indeed much more difficult than simple deception!

I saw your skeleton giants... I am very scared, I am really scared!"

Unconcealed madness burst out in Seven's eyes, bloodshot filled his entire eyeballs, the dark eye bags under his eyes trembled, and the sword in his hand trembled.

"I don't allow it, to fall short at the last moment, I don't allow it—to let you destroy it!"

After roaring out this sentence madly, Seven's expression quickly converged.

He asked coldly:

"Now, can I please ask you to die here? Commander Ward."

"Heh."

There was no fluctuation on Commander Ward's face.

He snorted coldly, without any words, just quietly holding the long sword in both hands, his only remaining eye, without emotion, staring intently at Seven who was stepping on the ground and rushing over!

Today, two chapters are combined into one chapter for release QAQ