Sylvia's POV:

After passing through the dense reed marsh, Peter and I arrived at an open mountainous field.

The view was filled with boulders of various shapes and forms. Beautiful flowers of all sorts bloomed everywhere. The deep and tranquil sound of the mountain spring filled the air. It was peaceful.

But even then, I began to feel more and more restless. Being in crisis mode, where nothing was predictable, made me absent-minded to the beauty around me.

"Well, this place looks nice." Poking his head out, Peter naively looked around with no hint of alert on his face whatsoever.

I chose not to say anything, but I stayed on high alert and made sure to pay close attention to the surroundings.

"You know, you're quite different from what I imagine you'd be like. I always thought powerful individuals acted arrogant, but you seem like an easy-going and kind-hearted person. I actually thought you were going to refuse teaming up with me," Peter commented.

Ever since we had been paired up, Peter had been in the mood to be talkative. Even when we were in a supposedly dangerous situation, he would just stand aside and watch me solve the problem, with his hands in his pockets. It was as if he was just on a relaxing hike in the forbidden forest and I was his bodyguard.

of the way and jumped onto a huge rock. Sᴇaʀch

killed by whatever that was. He followed

to be quiet, and held my breath to not make any sound. As I waited and observed

come to life and crawled out of the earth. They

huge tree from which the roots stemmed from and muttered under my breath, "I'm afraid we've just encountered the most terrifying being

Then... What do we

Peter's question as I was

did the mutants develop the intelligence and ability to move, but it also grew to have a strong instinct to attack werewolves. Once a werewolf would enter its territory, these plants would attack him as a group, tearing their prey into pieces. It was for this reason

the outermost area of the forest, where there should have been no mutated plants. Fortunately, when I checked, there seemed to be only one tree

the slithering roots and was relieved to find that they were not actually moving that fast, which meant that we still had a chance of getting out of here alive. As long as we made use of the rocks behind us, we could be able to get far enough out of their range of attack and

couldn't keep up. He was so frightened by everything going on that he fell off a rock and almost dragged me into the tree's range of

onto the rock where he was sitting and pulled him up. "Grab on to my clothes. When I

nodded nervously, obviously without a clue

to focus, or

"Okay."

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