Puff, puff, puff!
The instant the white-haired snow descended, the sled lurched backward a short distance. Then, the reins wrapped around the rocky mountain pulled taut!
The sound of snowflakes striking the fur blanket draped over the sled frame was like countless shards of ice battering the sled that sheltered them.
The temperature in the air dropped at a visible rate.
When the glowing charcoal in the stove inside the cabin burned out and went dark, the cabin was immediately plunged into pitch-black darkness.
Before such heavenly might, Jasna and the sled dogs clustered around her could not stop trembling!
Woo!
The blizzard's miserable howling sounded as if a thousand female ghosts outside the cabin were shrieking mournfully at the helpless creatures within.
Under the assault of the raging wind, the cabin swayed violently from side to side. If the reins snapped, they would be smashed to pieces and killed at once!
In the boundless darkness, Jasna tightly embraced the two lead dogs crouching beside her.
Her ragged breaths sounded as though she had just undergone fierce exertion, and her trembling heart suffered in fear. Yet a smile appeared on her pale, bloodless face—a self-mocking smile.
Over the years, Jasna had lost count of how many life-and-death crises she had faced.
She had believed that no matter how desperate the danger, she would never despair.
But that confidence had shattered after she encountered Amosta Breen.
He was a mountain she could never hope to match. Before Amosta Breen, not one of her confident spells had been of any use.
That night on the outskirts of Berlin, when Breen stormed into the base, she could do nothing but watch as Breen burned half a century of their efforts to ashes!
And now, the helplessness and powerlessness lodged in her heart were