They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 329

Chapter 329: So Close to the Edge

“Now, pull!” Nnenna shouted.

All three of them pulled, muscles straining, feet digging into the forest floor. The quicksand gurgled angrily, refusing to let go.

Then pop!

Karen’s shoulder broke free. They kept pulling.

Another heave, and finally, with one last desperate tug, Karen slid out of the muck and collapsed on solid ground, coughing and gasping for air.

“You saved us again,” John said, his voice rough from exhaustion.

They all stood there, panting, coated in sweat and mud. Even Nnenna could barely speak. Her knees trembled beneath her, but not from fatigue, from what almost happened.

She had nearly lost all of them.

After everything they had endured for almost a month in the Black Forest, after countless trials, it would have ended here? So close to the edge?

She clenched her fists. She wouldn’t let that happen.

Once she caught her breath, she turned to Abuchi, who was still staring at the place Karen had almost sunk.

“We need to move,” she said quietly.

“But… how?” Abuchi asked, his voice strained. “How do we get past that?”

turned to

a patch, it was a sprawling stretch of sludge stretching out before them, almost like it was

above, letting in more sunlight

the border?” Ekene asked, narrowing his eyes. “Is this thing covering the only

the way to the mountain ridge,” Karen said, coughing. “We would have to walk for days just to

not,” John cut in, pointing up toward the slope that angled gently to the left. “If we climb a bit

looked at one another, minds

at the endless spread of deadly sand, then up at the

be a faster

Who knows what’s happened to Ruth and

right,” Nnenna replied, her eyes tense with urgency. “Every second we lose might be the second something happens to

do you plan to do? Magically fly across it? You can’t always have a

harsh and unnecessary. Karen hadn’t always been like this, but the forest, the fear, the hunger, the exhaustion, had been peeling her down layer

willing to self reflect. She wasn’t trying to fix it. She just

had learned not to take

the sarcasm and turned slowly, eyes scanning their surroundings like they had a hundred times in the

she spotted

Long, thick, coiled around sturdy trees stretching high above

can swing past it,” she said quietly, then more firmly. “Look, those trees. The vines are strong. We can make our way across without

were tall, old, and deeply rooted, stable enough. The

lifted.

getting sucked into the earth,” John

snap?” Karen blurted

trees have been here for years. The vines are

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