"Why? So many people have just come out of the swamp alive. They are standing right in front of you! Can't you see that?"
Harper pointed at Howard, Diana, and the secret guards. They all looked terrible, yet they had all managed to come out of the
swamp alive. And that in no way was a small achievement.
Hearing that, the woman was left aghast, speechless for a while. She kept staring at Harper with her eyes wide open and her jaw
dropped for a long time. Then she swallowed hard and exclaimed, "Woman, you are incorrigible. And even your husband
allowed you to get into the notorious swamp! He definitely doesn't care for you!" The woman heaved a sigh and shook her head
from side to side.
"I was forced into the swamp by the Holy Maiden and the king of South Kingdom. Matthew had been leading the army at the
Birch Pass. I asked you to come here because I want you to figure out a way to secretly take us out of Phoenix City. We have to
be very careful so that nobody comes to know about us. I want to reach the Birch Pass." Harper came straight to the point.
"Why don't you go inside to have a look? You have already arrived at the gate." Harper's deeds had always been a notch above
the normal people. And this time, she had created another benchmark for herself by traveling through the Labyrinth Swamp
along with fourteen people and without a single casualty. Now, she had entered yet another forbidden territory and even wanted
to sneak out of this place without anyone in the city coming to know about it. The woman was shocked. "Aren't you afraid..."
"No, I'll come back when I'm done with my work." Harper shook her head with the same firm look on her face. "Also, don't tell
anyone that I have crossed the Labyrinth Swamp!"
The woman looked helpless. After a while, she heaved a sigh and said, "Okay, it's up to you. Do you want me to find a place for
you to wash and change your clothes? Your clothes stink."
"Yes, yes, please... I want to get washed since a long time ago," said Diana. This was something she had been wanting to do for
a long time. Her face was completely smeared with mud. Seeing her condition, no one could say that she was a princess of

South Kingdom. And the woman's attention was on Harper. She did not pay much attention to Harper's companions. Hence, she
didn't even notice that Diana was from South Kingdom.
"Well, you all can go to my residence to freshen up. But it will be too dangerous if so many people enter my house at the same
time. Hence, my advice is that you break up into small groups and come in slowly at an interval. Later, we all can meet in the
courtyard."

Diana said,

of spiritual herbs inside it," Harper answered in a solemn tone with an absolute no-nonsense expression on her face. Hearing Harper's reply, the woman was rendered speechless. She stared at Harper with her eyes wide open. Harper made it sound as if the swamp was just another botanical garden to take a stroll and pick the medicinal herbs from it. The woman asked, "Has the swamp become free

The very mention of the Holy Beast made Patrick stand up and expand its chest. It raised its head towards the sky as if trying to
say, 'Yes. I am the one you are talking about. Come to worship me.'
"No, I didn't," Harper said indifferently. Utterly disappointed, the Holy Beast almost fell off her arm. Harper picked it up hurriedly to
avoid its close contact with the ground.
"Really?" asked the woman. She could not believe what Harper said. Although the Holy Beast was only a hearsay, if anybody
ever entered the Labyrinth Swamp, he or she had not come out of it alive. Occasionally roar of some fierce beast could be heard
coming from the swamp. The old people explained that someone must have broken into the swamp and infuriated the Holy
Beast. The Holy Beast was punishing the sinner. But Harper said she didn't see it!
"I also heard there is a surge of ferocious beasts in the swamp. It's quite terrible. Wherever they go, they engulf everything that
comes in their way!"

did you survive the surge of ants?" The more indifferent and cool Harper sounded in replying to the women's questions, the more it was piquing her curiosity. Now the woman was getting increasingly desperate to see Harper naked, so as to check what

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