Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

Mira, Asami, Maria, and the auburn-haired girl watched on as thousands of people appeared a few hundred meters in front of them.

With Mira's superior eye-sight, she could easily make out the people who previously ran down the mountain and released a slightly bitter smile. This wasn't exactly what she had in mind, but at least it was better than nothing. Still, she could play this out in her favor without having to deal with all of them personally.

Seeing how they were mixed in with the crowd, she could deduce that they probably wanted to use this large group of people to distract her as they sneaked through and made their way into the Outer Court.

"It's the fox girl! Hey! Give us back our tokens!!!"

"How dare you sneak attack us like that?!"

Hearing what the women in the large group were saying confirmed Mira's thoughts.

The large mob of people looked like they wanted to charge at her but were also unwilling to be the first to attack her.

However, Mira wasn't one to stand around wasting time, so before they could do anything, Mira dropped all of her tokens on the ground.

"SILENCE!" Mira yelled, "It seems you all have been misled and forced to believe that I was the one who took your tokens. However, as you can see, I only have a little over a hundred tokens in my possession! There's absolutely no way for me to have all of them."

The large mob of people was a bit puzzled by what they saw. Although they didn't know exactly how many tokens were on the ground in front of Mira, it definitely wasn't in the thousands.

"You're lying! You could be hiding the other tokens just to fool us!"

One of the women Mira beat up immediately shouted, causing the others to realize the same thing.

"Hmph! You guys should know just as well as me that I'm not lying. Here, I'll even have my companions show you their tokens to prove that we didn't touch you guys." Mira said, which shut them up.

She then glanced at Maria, Asami, and the auburn-haired girl, signaling them to show their tokens.

After they revealed their token, Mira said, "As you can see, the number of tokens we have simply don't match up to the number of people in your group. We could be hiding the tokens somewhere on the mountain, but what would be the point in that? I think it's safer to say that there's a traitor amongst you who is trying to pin the blame on us rather than the four of us being capable enough of taking you all out. Just think about it. Did you see someone like me attack you? I mean, I'm pretty hard to miss with my fox tails and all."

The mob of people began eyeing each other suspiciously as what Mira said made sense. The probability of four people handling all of them without anyone knowing is relatively low, much less a single person.

"Don't listen to her! I saw her attacking others lower on the mountain! How else would she already have so many tokens!?"

The women Mira beat up in the crowd began yelling, trying to get the mob to believe that Mira was the culprit, but unfortunately, the women who have made it this far aren't idiots. They know how messed up and two-faced people in this world can be.

They may have believed it before because there wasn't another argument, but after hearing Mira's side of the story, they began to feel like something was amiss here. Besides that, the stronger and more sensitive people could feel the danger radiating off of Mira.

The feeling Mira gave off when she looked at them was like how an apex predator looks at its prey.

Sure enough, the people who could feel how dangerous Mira was, began murmuring.

"Guys, I don't think she did it."

Whoever said this caused the mob to go silent as they all shifted their eyes to the woman.

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

"Just call it intuition or whatever, but based on her posture and how she's looking at us, it feels like she doesn't need to ambush us. You guys can believe whatever you want, but I'm not attacking her if I can help it. In fact, I'm more inclined to believe her words."

,m "You mean, you think there's someone among us who was trying to force us against this girl with fox tails?"

"Exactly. Also, if she really did have our tokens, why doesn't she just enter the Outer Court? She'll no doubt be placed in the top ten if she has all of them. No, most likely, she'll be number one. What's the point in waiting here for us if she can already be number one?"

"Now that you mention it, that does make sense. There are thousands of us here right now. If she really did have all of our tokens, she'd only be wasting her time by not going into the Outer Court."

Discussions like that began taking place within the mob, making the ones who planned all of this out furious.

"Don't listen to her! She said she wanted to be the only one to pass the Entrance Exam! That's why she's h-" The woman who was yelling immediately stopped after realizing she had said too much.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ

"Eh? And how would you know such a thing?"

Everyone went quiet after that and then, without warning, the people surrounding the woman attacked her!

It only took a second to knock her out. They then began searching her body and surprisingly found something that they didn't have.

"Look! She was hiding 32 tokens within her robe! It seems we really were fooled!"

After that, everyone stared at each other wearily before quickly putting distance between one another.

They weren't sure who to trust at this point as anyone of them could have been lying.

They stayed like this for a while, waiting to see if anyone else would make the same mistake as the girl before, but nothing of the sort happened.

Seeing how things were going nowhere, Mira decided to give them a little bit of… encouragement.

Her crimson eyes glowed slightly, and a bloody pressure came pressing down on the mob in front of her!

"Urgh!"

"W-What… What the hell is happening?!"

"What's this pressure!"

Mira chuckled, seeing the girls in front of her struggling to breathe, and said, "Now now… What's the point of staring at each other while doing nothing? Only action will produce results! If you don't want to die, then start attacking each other! So what if you attack the wrong person?! All these people are your competition!! They are your enemies!! So stop standing around like children and get to fighting!!"

Even after saying that, nobody moved, or more like they couldn't move, as Mira's killing intent was still pressing down on them.

"Hmph! I guess I'll have to give you a bit of motivation!"

Mira extended her nails and leaped at the nearest person. Her hand was going straight for their neck, but the girl disappeared before she could reach her.

Mira turned her head and glanced up in the air for a second as she knew that the one responsible for teleporting her prey away was Elder Sandra, but she couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed.

Fortunately, seeing this happen allowed the others to regain their wits as they realized they actually felt the threat of death coming after them!

Mira also stopped releasing so much killing intent when she noticed that this wasn't going to go anywhere if she kept that up. After all, these children's minds haven't been properly tempered to face her killing intent head-on.

Mira backed away from the mob and said, "As you can see, I'm not going to just sit here and wait for you guys to resolve this. Either you start attacking each other, or I start disqualifying you!"

Her words seemed to wake everyone up as they no longer hesitated.

"Ugh! Fuck it! Attack!!"

"I'll teach you bitches a lesson for trying to deceive me!"

From then on, something akin to a dog fight began, causing Mira to reveal a satisfied smirk.

'This is more like it. Hehe~'

***

"Your friend really is a little crazy. To think she would actually try to kill that girl just now! She would've died if I hadn't protected her and teleported her off the mountain." Elder Sandra commented in disbelief.

Celaine could only chuckle awkwardly, "Ahahaha… Yeah… I told you she's always been a bit heavy-handed… Although she knew that you'd save the girl, I think she'd still go for the kill even if you weren't here. I guess you could say she wanted to make an example out of the girl to prove that she's not here to fuck around."

"Sigh… It seems like the Outer Court will be in chaos once she enters the Sect. I'll have to let the Elders in charge of the Outer Court Disciples know about her." Elder Sandra mumbled but didn't try and stop what was going on.

Although she felt like Mira was a bit too much, she also believed that the Outer Court wasn't any less dangerous. Maybe it wasn't so dangerous while inside the Outer Court, but the missions, training, competitions, and just the mountain itself are all incredibly dangerous. Many Outer Court Disciples lose their lives every year for these reasons, either because they aren't strong enough or they are just simply unlucky.

So, in a way, Mira was introducing these somewhat naive little girls to what the world of cultivation really is.

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