Sylvia's POV:

Almost immediately, the sticky swamp mud engulfed my body, weighing and sucking me down into the pit. My instincts told me to struggle, but soon I realized that it only made me sink faster.

After panicking for a moment, I stopped and stabilized myself, refusing to move an inch.

I carefully turned to Peter, who was standing on the shore. "What happened?"

Peter smiled sheepishly and held up his hand. "Sorry. I stumbled a little bit and accidentally pulled the vine."

He then pulled on the vine again, causing me to sink deeper into the swamp. I felt that something was off, but I still pretended to be calm and asked him for help anyway. "That's fine. Can you just pull me out now?"

Just then, Peter tossed the vine away from him. The innocent look on his face was replaced with mockery. "Pull you out? In your dreams."

hardened. "What do you mean by that? Are you saying

What

Who was it?"

have known that Peter was not just some student. Participating in a stunt like this was detrimental to his future, but he did it anyway. There had to be a powerful mastermind

walked closer to the edge of the swamp. Pretending to be guilty, he sighed. "Fine. Since you're about to die anyway, I'll tell you the truth.

He really will not give

Prince Richard's actually arranged everything so that you would definitely die today." Peter crossed his arms and chuckled

was better to spend my energy in trying to think of a way out of here. But my body slowly sunk deeper and deeper. The mud was almost up to my

army patrolling around the forbidden forest would come and save me. I was overjoyed at the realization. But when I was about

help with that device!" Peter reminded

he wouldn't go through all this trouble just for me to be saved by this small device. I began

you waiting for? Won't the troops around the forest come and save you once you

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