Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

At the 20-hour mark, Mira finally stood up when she sensed someone approaching. Maria also felt it, but she continued sitting down with a smile on her face. She knew Mira would want to beat this person up herself, and she wasn't wrong. Mira didn't want nor did she need any assistance.

A few minutes later, a young woman with fair skin and auburn hair came running up, panting and sweating, but before she could even notice that two other people were in front of her, Mira attacked!

When Mira appeared in front of the girl, she turned to the side and swung her tails onto the girl's back.

*Crack!*

Mira could tell that she definitely broke a few ribs as the girl faceplanted into the ground and immediately lost consciousness.

She then collected the token, dragged the girl's body to where she and Maria were sitting, and waited for more people to show up.

When Elder Sandra saw the girl lose her token and lose consciousness, she wasn't quite sure what to do, but since there were still four hours left and the girl wasn't in any danger of dying right now, she let it be.

"Wow! Your tails are a lot stronger than they look! You injured the poor girl so badly with just a little smack." Maria exclaimed, wondering how such soft and fluffy tails could be so dangerous.

"Yeah, I was a bit surprised by their power, too though it does make sense. Each tail is equivalent to another arm or leg, and I just smacked that girl with nine of them. I would hope she'd get injured by something like that." Mira said while staring at her tails. She barely used any power to hit the girl, yet it broke a few of her ribs and even knocked her unconscious.

'It seems I've underestimated the power of my tails.' Mira thought to herself as she wished she could test the limits of her newfound power.

"What are you going to do with this girl, Mira? Isn't she disqualified since she lost her token?" Maria asked.

"Well, it'd be a shame if such a talented girl couldn't enter the Sect because she faced someone she had no hopes of winning against. She even made it here before Asami, who is just about as talented as you and Celaine. Also, that Elder said that only if we don't make it to the Outer Court before 24 hours or are about to die will we be disqualified. She didn't say that losing our tokens means immediate disqualification." Mira explained as she glanced at the unconscious girl.

Maria nodded in agreement. She also felt like it'd be a shame if the girl couldn't enter the Sect.

"Speaking of Asami, where's Celaine? She should've been here by now." Maria asked, causing Mira to look up into the sky.

"While I'm not exactly sure, I felt Celaine's eyes on me from somewhere up there along another dangerous gaze, which I assume is Elder Sandra's," Mira explained, and Maria nodded her head in understanding.

She didn't question how Mira knew such a thing as she's always known that Mira's senses are abnormal, and now that she seems to be part beast, those senses have most likely been amplified.

"I see. Well, I doubt she almost died, so that can only mean that the Elder wanted something from her." Maria concluded, and Mira agreed.

Not long after, another person walked up the mountain, but neither Maria nor Mira got up as they knew who this person was: Asami!

Maria got up and greeted her, but Mira didn't bother doing or saying anything. She wasn't close with Asami, nor did she know anything about her.

Asami also wasn't too comfortable interacting with Mira yet, though Maria is a different story. It's hard not to like such a nice and bubbly person.

Not long after Asami showed up, the unconscious girl beside Mira woke up and was immediately startled.

"Wha-?!"

ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ

"Oh? You're awake?" Mira turned toward her and said indifferently.

The girl gulped nervously when she felt Mira's gaze, but soon after, her expression hardened, and she resolved herself for battle.

Mira chuckled, but instead of saying anything, she just moved one of her tails and smacked the back of the girl's head 'lightly', causing her to faceplant into the ground again. Fortunately, Mira didn't hit her hard enough to knock her unconscious again.

"If you really want to fight, I can keep beating you up until you disqualify, or you can be a good girl and listen to what I have to say," Mira said without any emotion. Although she thought it would be a pity if such a talented person couldn't enter the Sect, she didn't care much. If the girl was going to be a pain in the ass, she'd just get her disqualified and save herself the trouble.

The girl gritted her teeth and looked at Mira with murderous eyes but didn't say anything. She clearly understood the situation she was in after that hit and knew she wouldn't be able to do anything to the woman in front of her.

"Good. Now, if you want to pass the Entrance Exam and enter the Sect, you have to fight. You have to go beat someone up and take their token! Or, I suppose you could walk over to the Outer Court and hope that you will be able to pass the Entrance Exam without a token, though I doubt that's the case. Otherwise, why would we need these tokens and fight each other over them to increase our ranking?" The girl sighed in relief when she heard that Mira wasn't going to hold her hostage here or try and kill her, but unfortunately, Mira wasn't done yet.

"Of course, it won't be that easy. You'll have to compete with me and those two over there for the other participant's tokens." Mira said with a smirk.

'This'll make things a bit more interesting, hehe~." Mira inwardly chuckled, thinking about the upcoming chaos.

However, this was only the beginning of what Mira had in mind.

Maria shook her head at Mira's antics, but she didn't hate it. In fact, Maria's thoughts were similar to Mira's. This Entrance Exam was a bit too boring, and if they really wanted to, the two of them alone could completely dominate this entire thing, but where's the fun in that?

The girl gritted her teeth as anger burned in her eyes as she stared at Mira. She wanted nothing more than to give Mira a good beating, but she knew she wasn't a match for her even when their strength should be similar.

The keyword here is "should".

She could clearly feel from that tail smack that their strengths were on two different levels even though their strength should be sealed! She wasn't sure how that was possible but seeing how Mira wasn't disqualified yet, that just means that Mira's strength can't be completely sealed.

She just gave Mira a deep look before taking out a healing pill to heal some of her injuries so she could prepare for the upcoming battles.

Mira smirked and got up as she sensed a whole group of people approaching. Maria and Asami noticed Mira staring in a certain direction and knew that people were approaching. They didn't want Mira hogging all the tokens, so they too prepared for battle.

In a few minutes, a group of over twenty people appeared in the line of sight, and Mira immediately shot out and began attacking them.

The women who showed up were already exhausted from charging all the way up the mountain in a weakened state and weren't expecting an attack. When they noticed someone charging toward them, it was already too late!

Mira was already next to them and began swinging her tails, knocking them out in a single blow. They couldn't even try and gang up on her as she was just too quick.

Maria and Asami didn't have unrealistically strong bodies like Mira, which is part of the reason why Mira is still so strong despite most of her power being sealed. They were unable to keep up with Mira's pace and were unable to get any tokens from this batch of people.

Well, Maria did try and steal-*ahem*-scavenge any tokens Mira might've missed, but unfortunately for her, Mira used her tails to pick up the tokens so she could focus on taking out the participants.

They could only watch as Mira collected the tokens with ease. Of course, they didn't plan on falling behind!

Just like before, when Mira attacked the girl with auburn hair, she didn't attack to kill this time either. Hell, she didn't even attack them hard enough to leave them unconscious for too long.

However, this time she didn't bother picking them up and moving them. Instead, she left them right where they were.

'Soon, things will finally become a bit interesting. I can't wait to see how these kids will react. Hehehe~' Mira thought to herself as a sadistic smile crept up on her face.