The Mapmaker of Mount Saccharin
Aria adjusted the crystal lenses of her goggles and wiped a streak of pink powdered sugar from her forehead.
- 1、The Mapmaker of Mount Saccharin
- 2、The Pink Avalanche
- 3、The Guardian of the Frost
- 4、The Golden Secret
- 5、The Final Warning
She was standing three thousand feet up the slopes of Mount Saccharin, the coldest and most treacherous peak in all of Sugarvale.
Her mission was supposed to be a simple cartography job for the Royal Confectionery Guild.
She had orders to map the newly formed caramel fissures and document the receding marshmallow glaciers.
Instead, she had stumbled straight into an active zone of cataclysmic sugar degradation.
The silence of the crystalline ridge was shattered by a deep, terrifying tectonic rumble.
The Pink Avalanche
Without warning, the entire western wall of the frozen sugar mountain sheared away.
A massive torrent of neon-pink candy boulders and razor-sharp rock candy came crashing down the slope.
Aria spun around, her heart slamming violently against her ribs as the pink avalanche raced directly toward her.
She scrambled across the brittle candy crust, her heavy red winter coat tangling in the rising strawberry-scented mist.
She screamed out into the howling wind, knowing full well that no rescue team could reach her in time.
Death by sugar suffocation was a notoriously slow and agonizing fate in the higher altitudes of Sugarvale.
The Guardian of the Frost
Just as the wall of candy debris threatened to crush her, the ground shook with an unnatural rhythm.
A towering, white, fur-covered silhouette burst through the blowing blizzard right in front of her.
It was an indigenous frost-yeti, a creature of myth that the guild elders always claimed had gone extinct centuries ago.
The massive beast planted both of its enormous hands squarely against the frozen ground.
A blinding flash of crystalline energy erupted from its palms, creating an impenetrable barrier of reinforced peppermint glass.
The pink avalanche slammed into the invisible shield, shattering harmlessly into harmless grains of powdered sugar.
The Golden Secret
Aria fell back into the snow, gasping for air as the deafening roar of the avalanche slowly faded into silence.
The white-furred giant turned its massive head slowly, fixing its deep amber eyes entirely upon her.
