Candoria greeted the sun with the same delicious smile it gave every day since Eis-Crom created it via The Forge. The creatures that got made by nature were supposed to be pure fantasy.
"CHOCOLATE HERE I COME!" Crium shouted out before dive bombing into a lake of hot chocolate. It was part of his daily routine to do so, other than eating candy and causing chaos.
His magical powers got active when he killed the 9000 Pound Cake in the war between candy and chocolate.
"I LOVE ME SOME SWEETS!" He swallowed a big chunk of candy that was hidden underground by the lake.
After playing for what it seemed like a couple of hours, he got out, licking off the remaining chocolate that was on his chin.
"Waffles?" He said after he spotted another candy shaped structure that was owned by The Shadow.
The Shadow had begun to spread out through biomes more often, which was overdone to the extent that death counts of tourist that visited earth were significantly higher.
The Barbarian entered the structure, hoping for waffles to munch on.
His dual-wielding giant ice creams served him as a weapon... And to suck off sweet tastes now and then.
His first test to become the ultimate candy badass had presumably started, he followed the path that led to the maze that he had to solve.
"I hate mazes..." He lightly kicked the ground, making a sad face as he entered a random path.
"The candy follows the path, ends up at another track, ends up at another, ends up at another, ends up at..." His "riddle" came to an end as he saw two shadow servants converting the candy to their color.
"This place is abnormally weird, let's get this done quick before any of the remaining candies that are not under his command attack.
"THE CANDY DEVOURS ALL!" Crium hurled at them, smashing the ground with sheer force as the offenders crashed into the wall.
"Damn it, right as I said it... Let's get this over with." One of the humanoid servants pulled out a shadow sword, showing off how cool he was before teleporting away.
The Candy Barbarian picked up a piece of gum that boosted his speed when swinging his ice creams. It brought life back to his arms after that hot chocolate trip.
Crium vaulted over to the servant that had not disappeared yet, grabbing him and cutting down his air.
"REVERT THEM BACK!" He shouted right in his face.
"What are you talking about? You're insane!"
"REVERT. BACK!" Crium strengthened his grip, making the receiver gurgle.
"gurg... Enough of this shi- GURG!"
The servant's eyes flashed dark blue, punching his big opponent in the face, enough to leave a scar.
Crium was now lying on the floor, tides turned. The servant pointed his sword towards his forehead, the sharp object gleaming with lunar power.
He punched him again, knocking Crium out cold.
"Oops."
2 MINUTES LATER
The candy warrior opened his eyes to very blurry vision, sounds of Shadow Giant portals being flashed open, and cries of various humans.
When Crium's vision became apparent, he could see some regular adventurers from other biomes, mourning their newly dead allies.
He stood up, shaking his head lightly to stop a headache. He could see that people were running away from something. But what?
"Didn't I knock you out 2 minutes ago? You shouldn't be standing." A voice from behind immediately turned Crium on, he cast a vanilla swirlwind, dislodging his legs from the ground.
A shadow reaper charged at him, getting a couple of little ice cream parts all over his body.
He ran to the exit, feeling he would need the cone soon.
"No! Jesse, stay with me... Hey you, do you have any healing sweets? I'm all out." A woman in her mid-twenties called out to the barbarian, he became a little hesitated at first but decided to help.
As he was on his way, one of the candy creatures was under attack by a shadow giant. He was now hesitant again.
"Help lady, or yummy?" He glanced between both, choosing one would be hard.
"Stay away from me! Stay awa-" Her cries were cut out by a gaping hole in her chest.
The sound of candies breaking was deafness-inducing, after that, the victim candy being crushed by the shadow giant.
"NO!" He received a blow to the chest from the said giant. Bleeding on his insides now, he tried to stand up, but his body was failing him.
The enemy was about to deliver the finishing blow, the finishing touch... The finishing wind of death.
Wind... WIND! Crium remembered the servant that was being harassed by his swirlwind, The Candy Barbarian threw the servant to his opponent, stunning it, and the corpse spurting out a healing candy.
"BETTER!" Crium finally stood up, shoving both of his ice creams in the groin area, then drawing a candy drawing on the torso with his weapons.
"Tentacle of Q'Bt'hulhu?" His brain automatically went into a flash back mode when he saw the familiar green tentacles.
He could see people running away, being removed from existence, then, a bright light ends the weird flashback
He noticed the entrance to the entry of here was not far, he made a run for it, shoving away any living being that comes into contact with him.
What was that flashback? What the fuck?
The entire candy land was now turned dark blue, it was still edible, as Crium just tested it, but corrupted with evil.
A fox suddenly appeared in front of him, making a few facial expressions before facepalming.
"Is this what I have been sent to do? An actual fat human?" Crium's brain tickled, not having much healthy food probably affected his brain.
The barbarian charged ahead, stumbling around horribly. He probably wanted it to dodge himself at this point.
The Fox rolled away, stabbing Crium hard in the chest, he fell to the ground, the excruciating pain that could not be tolerated had begun.
He cast his swirlwind, catching his opponent off guard, The candy warrior threw him against a rock, probably with enough force to break an average human's spine.
The spear wielder stood up immediately; its opponent was hitting him hard with his good weapons. Crium smashed the fox's head against the rock several times, moon shapes appearing around it every time he crashed.
After a few seconds, Crium was greeted by a spear to the face, the other end of it.
He didn't get knocked back the slightest but kept smashing it against the rock.
"ENOUGH! The moon shall give me my true form, an invincibility cloak, to be more precise." The fox suddenly transformed its armor. Toughening up.
It teleported, which caused a jerk reaction.
"Ow..." He rubbed his hand. Grabbing his weapon, he made a dash for the visible Highlands biome.
A spear suddenly rose up from the ground, fuming with lunar power. Crium jumped over, barely missing it.
He had been running for a while now, hiding behind the trees in the new biome, digging downwards. The fox was still chasing him, telling him about how he needs to surrender and eliminate the threat that was himself, annoying non-candy stuff. His eyes spotted a broken down castle, looking abandoned.
"The candy needs to rest, rest rest rest..."
He tried to fit through a relatively large hole that was in the wall, but his body was failing him.
He pushed forward again, breaking down the wall this time. Amazed at his strength, he tried to find the source of the weak voice that sounded like a baby getting adjusted by The Moon.