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CHAPTER 88 part 1: Blood on the Frozen Pass

Author: X.lemma
last update publish date: 2026-09-01 16:53:45

The eastern mountain corridor was a jagged, treacherous fissure carved through sheer granite walls that rose hundreds of feet into the howling white sky. Here, where the thermal winds of the hidden valley were utterly cut off, the arctic blizzard raged with unbridled brutality. Thick sheets of dry ice swept across the narrow road, reducing visibility to less than ten yards and turning the sheer cliff edges into invisible death traps.

Inside the climate-controlled cabin of the heavy transport, t
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