After all the preparations, the referee announced the commencement of the test. After entering the forbidden forest, the six contestants who qualified for the test must find the blue cornflower and return within two hours.
It was the rainy season at this time, so everything on earth was coming back to life. All kinds of insects and beasts came out of their nests one after another.
So not long after we entered the forbidden forest, we encountered two hungry black bears.
They were twice as big as the ordinary ones, and they ran extremely fast. Obviously, they had mutated.
Harry wanted to avoid direct contact with the black bears to save his strength, so he hid in a tree. But he obviously forgot that black bears could climb trees too. Before he reached the top of the tree, the black bears had already caught up with him.
He had no other choice but to deal with them with force.
At this time, Warren took out a wooden sword which was only as long as his forearm, out of nowhere. Before we could come to our senses, he attacked and knocked out one of the black bears quickly.
“Fuck! Where did your sword come from? They forbid us to bring any weapons, right?” Harry exclaimed surprisingly. He stared at Warren with admiration in his eyes.
“It’s not a weapon but an ornament,” Warren said coldly with a solemn expression on his face, brandishing the sword.
The wooden sword didn’t have sharp edges because it hadn’t been sharpened yet. It was indeed not a weapon.
After such an episode, it was much easier for us to deal with the other black bear. The six of us worked together to deal with it. The process was simple and efficient.
After dealing with the black bears, Harry began to feel relaxed. “The forbidden forest isn’t that terrible. I won’t be afraid, even if there are another ten black bears.”
I knocked his head angrily and said in a serious tone, “Don’t take it lightly. We are still at the entrance of the forbidden forest. It’s safer than the other parts of the forest because the troops secretly protecting us have cleaned this up in advance. We have to be more careful later.”
Harry rubbed his nose and replied obediently, “I get it.”
Then we continued to go deep into the forbidden forest. Fortunately, we didn’t encounter any giant beasts anymore. However, there were too many kinds of bugs and insects in the forbidden forest. Our exposed skin was soon densely packed with red bug bites, and none of us was spared.
Harry was the most miserable one. The holes in his ripped jeans were so big that bugs crawled in. He was stung, so his legs were swollen, itchy, and painful.
When we reached a fork in the road, Tom suddenly proposed that we split up. Otherwise, our time would not be enough.
We had a short discussion and eventually agreed with his suggestion.
“I’ll go with you,” Tom said to Warren.
Warren stood aside and replied indifferently, “Whatever. I don’t care.”
In that case, I reasoned that Harry and I should be together. After all, Harry held a grudge against John for a long time, and it simply wasn’t safe to leave them two in the same group alone.
But at this time, Peter said that he wanted to go with me.
“If everything goes well, I believe that you will be our future captain. I want to get acquainted with you in advance. After all, I’m from Class C, and I never had any contact with anyone in Class A before.” As he spoke, Peter scratched his head embarrassedly and smiled. Then he took the initiative to choose a track.
I glanced at Harry hesitantly. Peter seemed sincere. If I refused him, he might feel humiliated and we might have a conflict in the future. So I agreed to go with him.
Harry was obviously unhappy, but he had no choice but to leave with John.
After we separated, the weather began to turn cloudy. Then the rain started to pour out lightly. The road became muddy, but we could still walk forward. Everything seemed to be smooth since we entered the forbidden forest.
I didn’t know why but I still felt a little uneasy.
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.
Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed by in the corner of my eye. I immediately pushed Peter out of the way and jumped onto a huge rock.
“What was that?” Peter’s eyes were wide with shock. If I hadn’t pushed him just now, he would have been killed by whatever that was. He followed suit and also climbed on top of the rock behind me as best as he could with trembling legs.
I put a finger to my mouth, telling him to be quiet, and held my breath to not make any sound. As I waited and observed the surroundings, I finally discovered the culprit. It was a thick root!
The roots of a tree normally stayed quietly under the ground, but these ones seemed to come to life and crawled out of the earth. They slithered like snakes on the ground, prepared to attack at any moment.
I squinted my eyes and saw the huge tree from which the roots stemmed from and muttered under my breath, “I’m afraid we’ve just encountered the most terrifying being in the forbidden forest. This tree… It’s mutated.”
“Mutated? Then… What do we do now?” Peter’s expression shifted.
I couldn’t answer Peter’s question as I was lost in my own thought.
Mutation was a unique phenomenon that occurred in the forbidden forest. Usually, it would only happen in the forest’s innermost parts and affected plants in large numbers. Not only 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 that King Ethan had also forbidden ordinary werewolves from entering this area of the woods.
However, we were only in 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 that had mutated around here.
I observed 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 away from the mountain.
I gave Peter some instructions to follow where I step and jump from boulder to boulder. But Peter just 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 attack.
“Ah, that was so scary! It almost hit me!” Shutting his eyes, Peter screamed as he jumped and clumsily landed on a rock. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. This werewolf might have been weaker than I thought.
I jumped back onto the rock where he was sitting and pulled him up. “Grab on to my clothes. When I say jump, jump with me.”
“Okay.” Peter nodded nervously, obviously without a clue what to do next.
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