Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

A few moments later, the people Mira beat up awoke and were immediately furious when they recalled what just happened.

"Dammit! To think We'd be ambushed as soon as we neared the Outer Court! Give me back my token, you bastard!"

"That's right! How can you be so underhanded?! At least allow us to catch our breath!"

"Fucking hell, why am I so unlucky?!"

Mira stared at these women with a sadistic smile on her face, a smile which, although nobody could see since she was wearing a mask, still sent shivers down their spine.

"Hmm? Was I too gentle with your beatings? Anyways, since you have the energy to bitch and complain, you should have enough energy to fight! If you want your tokens back, you'll have to take them from me by force! Or, you could do what I did and go attack others for their tokens." Mira said while fiddling around with the numerous tokens she's collected.

The women's eyes reddened as they stared at Mira with eyes full of anger, and without thinking, they charged at Mira in hopes of reclaiming their tokens.

"Bastard! So it was you who ambushed us! Now that you have nowhere to hide, I'll-"

The girl couldn't even finish her sentence before a long fluffy tail smacked her across the face and sent her tumbling.

Mira didn't even spare the girl a glance and muttered, "Fool." She then eyed the rest of the women and announced, "Anyone else want to try?"

The other women stared at Mira as if trying to see through her, but how could it be so easy? Mira hasn't even started using her mastery in close-quarters combat yet. She's just beating people up with her tails.

However, these women also aren't normal and wouldn't be so easily frightened just because they met a tough opponent.

Seeing the looks in their eyes, Mira sighed, but then she revealed a slight smile under her mask.

"I see you all have misunderstood something," Mira immediately charged at the nearest person, catching the woman by surprise. She tried backing away to dodge, but Mira was too quick. A tail swept out, crashing into the girl's face, sending her tumbling.

"Don't worry. I'll help you all understand."

Mira charged at the nearest person, who was only a few meters away, and despite having been prepared, all it took was two smacks from Mira's tails before the girl was sent tumbling.

She even suffered worse than the girl before her since she tried to use her hands to block Mira's attack. So, not only did her face get smacked but her arms as well.

"You lot are too weak to force me to hand over MY tokens. Hehe~" Mira chucked, which only enraged the other participants.

"Fuck you, bitch! I'll kill you!"

"Give me back my damn token, you arrogant bastard!"

"Dammit! If I don't beat you up, then I'll-ACK!"

The remaining women all charged at Mira, but how could these newbies have the ability to even touch her, much less injure her?

Not even 30 seconds later, those women once again had their faces in the dirt, unconscious.

However, Mira wasn't through with them just yet…

***

"ACK! Okay, I get it! Just please sto-"

"What did we do to deserve this—---!"

"Okay! Okay! We'll stop attacking you!"

***

For the next few minutes, Mira continued beating up the participants until their faces were black and blue, and they had bruises all over their bodies.

Of course, around halfway through, they surrendered and stopped trying to attack her, but Mira wasn't so forgiving. She had to teach these newbies a lesson for trying to fight her. Honestly, if they weren't in this Entrance Exam, Mira wouldn't be leaving them with such 'light' injuries. There'd definitely be broken bones, and if they pissed her off enough, some of them might be dead by now.

"Do you guys finally understand now?" Mira asked while looking down at the injured women. They all repeatedly nodded their heads, but when they heard Mira's next words, they froze.

"Good! Now, you can begin attacking other disciples for their tokens when they finally show up, but of course, you'll have to compete with me for them. Hehehe~"

They all stared at Mira with aggrieved eyes, but that only made Mira's smile widen.

"What… What would happen if we did manage to steal another's token? Would you still try to take it from us?" One of the girls spoke up.

Mira inwardly praised this girl for catching onto things so quickly, but on the outside, she slightly nodded her head and said in a domineering voice, "Naturally. Only I can pass this year's Entrance Exam! Weaklings like you have no place being here!"

The women went pale hearing Mira's words, and they began inwardly cursing their bad luck for having to take the Entrance Exam with such a psycho!

However, that's when one person spoke up.

"Guys, don't lose hope yet! Although we can't beat her with just us, there's no way she can take on everyone! As long as we gather more people and band together, we'll be able to take this psycho down!"

Her words seemed to reignite their morale, but this didn't make cause Mira's smile to fade. On the contrary, this is exactly what she hoped would happen.

Now that the seed has been sowed, it's time to reap what she sowed.

She turned her head when she sensed a rather large group of people charging up the mountain. In fact, she even sensed a few battles going on.

She then glanced in Maria and Asami's direction and noticed Maria was standing there smiling in her direction. She gave Maria and nod, causing the blonde's expression to brighten, before she focused on the upcoming battle.

Mira, Maria, Asami, the auburn-haired girl, and the other women all waited until the people coming up the mountain got a bit closer. When they finally entered their sight, they didn't hesitate to attack them!

Maria and Mira were the first to reach the incoming participants. However, although the two of them were technically on the same side and were going to split their tokens, they also wanted to have a friendly competition with each other.

Fortunately for the women that Mira subdued just a few minutes prior, Mira and Maria weren't fast enough to take out everyone before they could reach them, but little did they know that Mira did this on purpose.

She wanted to leave a few people for those women to beat up, but she didn't want the entire group to regain a taken. So, whenever she saw that too many of them managed to retrieve a token, Mira would run over, smack them across the head with her tail, take the token, and go back to hunting.

After a few minutes, most of the incoming participants were taken down, and the women that Mira beat up before were only able to collect five tokens among them.

Mira turned to them and smiled, "You know, now that you have a token, you could just run to the Outer Court and immediately pass the Entrance Exam. You won't have to risk losing your tokens to me. Sure, you might lose the reward Elder Sandra proposed, but if I'm the only other person to enter the Sect, wouldn't that mean you still made it into the Top 10?"

They were stunned when they heard what Mira said. They couldn't believe they had forgotten about this! They don't need to collect tons of tokens. They only need one!

Although they didn't believe that Mira would be the only other person to enter the Sect, it isn't entirely impossible. They were smart enough to know that the other participants wouldn't all show up at the same time. They would come up in waves, which is to Mira's advantage.

They firmly believed that Mira was pretty much invincible against a small group, so if Mira kept taking out small groups of people like she just did, she'd eventually be able to collect a vast majority of the tokens.

Once that happened, Mira could just enter the Outer Court, disqualifying all the other participants.

Of course, they were also suspicious of Maria and Asami as well. Mira hasn't once tried to intimidate them. No, in fact, she seemed to be acquainted with them! However, that didn't matter much right now. What difference did two other people make?

They'd still be able to enter the Top 10 as long as they entered the Sect!

Once they came to this conclusion, the looks in their eyes changed as they eyed their comrades wearily. Compared to fighting against Mira, they had a much higher chance of taking each other's tokens!

Suddenly, one of the girls who was able to possess a token after this wave of people began running towards the Outer Court.

The others that weren't able to collect a token were stunned, but then a few of them immediately chased after her!

"Oh no, you don't! That token is mine!"

Seeing things taking a turn for the worse, the other four that possessed tokens also made a beeline for the Outer Court, causing the rest of the group who didn't possess tokens to chase after them.

Mira smiled sadistically and formed a few ice crystals in her hand.