Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

But those Boron elite soldiers were indeed extraordinary. The dagger in his hand drew an arc, instantly forcing Polo back.

He covered his eyes, his heart filled with uncontrollable rage!

A careless mistake, injured by a common, stupid wolf. This only intensified his already overwhelming anger!

"Bastard! You're finished!"

He trembled, roared, and charged at Polo with his sword!

As before, Polo turned and fled!

This time, for some reason, Polo's speed seemed slightly reduced.

Consumed by rage, the elite soldier didn't notice this subtle change. He only wanted to kill the wolf darting before his eyes, fueled by his fury!

Polo listened to the whistling of the sword wind behind him, his muscles aching from the exertion.

But… none of this affected his thinking.

Almost there!

Anger, reduced vision, pain disrupting his thoughts, underestimation of the enemy, and… plummeting luck!

Everything was turning against the elite soldier's expectations!

Now!

Polo took a deep breath, slowing down slightly.

"Running, huh? Can't run anymore!?"

The elite soldier behind him wore a manic expression. He fueled his strength with rage, his momentum connected to the sword. With a single stride, he was about to strike down on Polo's head!

But as his power-infused foot landed, he realized—something was wrong!

In an instant, the ground gave way, and he stepped into the trap Polo had prepared in advance!

Not only that, but the fallen leaves covering the ground around his other foot suddenly swirled—a crude lasso flew up!

"What!?"

The elite soldier's pupils shrank as he recognized that the lasso was identical to the ropes used for setting traps around his own camp!

Indeed, Polo's wolf claws weren't suited for weaving, so this rope was simply pilfered from the Boron camp!

Of course, under normal circumstances, as a Boron elite soldier, he would have noticed such a simple trap.

But… a mind clouded by anger, and… a little bit of bad luck.

Led him to fall completely into the trap!

Instantly, he lost his balance, and the enormous inertia generated during the charge caused his head to slam hard against a protruding rock next to the trap!

In a daze, he even heard the damned wolf in front of him speaking!

"You stole so much of my prey. Well, now—your luck is gone."

Polo grinned, revealing his neat, sharp teeth gleaming with a snowy light. "I get hungry and annoyed when you keep stealing my prey!"

…

Meanwhile, Lake picked a few berries from a bush and washed them in the stream.

As a child who grew up independently in the forest, Lake was very experienced in identifying wild fruits and vegetables.

Plus, some experience as a witch hunter…

If skills had proficiency levels, Lake's forest survival skill could be said to be at MAX level!

Well, at least she wouldn't starve to death.

A fire was lit, and the wild vegetables simmered in the stream water, emitting a faint fragrance.

As for where the iron pot came from… Lake picked up a dead soldier's helmet from the ground, washed it carefully in the water, and it was ready to use.

Lake's azure eyes under her hood looked around uneasily.

Lately, she always felt… that in the forest, in the shadows, something was watching her!

But when she looked up, she mostly only saw swaying bushes.

Considering the dwarf's behavior last night.

Lake made a judgment—

This dwarf is very cautious.

Perhaps, he also has extraordinary hearing and sense of smell.

But one can be a thief for a thousand days, but one cannot guard against a thief for a thousand days—

She needed bait.

For example… feigning weakness.

"Really… Polo, I'm scared, why haven't you come to find me yet…"

Lake sat on the ground, looking at the water bubbling in the helmet, stretched out her snow-white arms, and hugged her body. Her petite body seemed to be trembling slightly.

She gently lifted the hood covering her head, looking at the reflection of her delicate face on the water in the helmet.

"Grandma, are you still listening… I miss home a little, this forest is very similar to home…"

She said in a soft voice, her beautiful eyes showing a kind of pity-inducing sadness.

Just then, a harsh noise came from the bushes in the distance.

Fragile, dry branches were snapped, making cracking noises!

Lake looked up, her eyes showing fear—

It was a dwarf, the size of a child!

His yellow eyes, with undisguised greed, stared at Lake. Dirty saliva dripped from his ugly, crooked mouth!

"Who are you? What do you want to do?!"

Lake cried out in alarm, her petite body scrambling backward in a panic.

"Sure enough, a lost child. Plulu likes to eat children the most."

Seeing Lake's appearance, the dwarf's depraved desire became even more pronounced. He showed an ugly smile and walked forward step by step.

In his narrow mind, he seemed to have already tasted some extremely delicious flavor.

"Tender meat… Plulu misses that taste…"

Lake got up and ran away in a hurry.

The dwarf swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his short limbs were incredibly agile, and he chased after her without slowing down!

Not far behind Lake, on the mountainside, was a deep stone cave.

The girl ran into it in a few steps, and immediately after, the dwarf also chased in!

It was very dark in the cave, and the dwarf rushed into it, but lost sight of Lake. But he didn't think much about it.

After all… what could such a helpless little girl do?

The passage inside the cave seemed straight, deep, and dark, with several forks, but the dwarf could still smell Lake's scent. In that case—

What was there to hesitate about?

The dwarf's nose twitched slightly, saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, and he chased after her!

Closer!

Even closer!

Finally, the road came to an end!

The dwarf couldn't wait to rush up, but found that, deep in the cave, why—was there an enraged bear!?

The enraged brown bear stood up, three times as tall as the dwarf!

A heavy bear paw slammed down in an instant!

"Plulu?"

The dwarf's agile body wanted to dodge, but it was extremely difficult to exert its agility in the narrow cave!

In an instant, part of its body was smashed hard by the bear's paw!

With a scream, the dwarf smashed against the stone wall like a rag doll!

The enraged bear pounced again—

The next moment, a faint purple light lit up in the dwarf's nut-like eyeballs!

On the surface of his body, purple crack-like light patterns quickly spread all over his body. He raised his skinny arm—actually firmly catching the bear's thick arm!

"Plulu—sizzle…"

Under the strange purple light, the dwarf's eyes began to twitch like in epilepsy, and his throat uttered chaotic, disordered sentences that seemed to carry some meaning!

The next moment, the chaotic purple energy on the surface of the dwarf's skin, like lightning, crawled all over the bear's body through that arm!

The bear's body surface, in an instant, was like burnt plastic, twitching, curling, and proliferating abnormally—

The bear's huge body began to bend against common sense, and its bones snapped and pierced out from under its flesh in this abnormal movement…

Finally—

It completely melted into a pool of bizarre flesh!

Only scattered white bones could prove its original appearance!

After a long time, the purple light on the dwarf's body gradually retracted.

But at this time, its lower body, which had been hit by the bear, had not healed. The wrinkled skin was pierced by a bloody fragment.

An angry expression appeared on his ugly face:

"Plulu… why is there a bear!? Why…

What Plulu wants to eat… is a child?"

Thinking this, it limped and moved towards the entrance of the cave with difficulty.

But just then, it felt a chill in its chest—

A sharp silver blade pierced through the dwarf's heart from behind!