Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

Although Mira's Yin Lightning was able to keep the Heavenly Punishment Lightning from completely destroying her body, that's all it could do.

However, that was more than enough for Mira. As long as she lived, nothing else mattered.

As Mira struggled to contain the rampant lightning inside her body, the clouds above her suddenly rumbled again!

*RUMBLE*

Mira panicked a bit, seeing the black clouds above her charging up another shot. Her mind started working in overdrive as she tried to come up with a way that could save her life!

While subconsciously knowing she didn't have much time left before the next strike fell, Mira's body began moving on its own.

She created another suit of ice armor, except this time she layered it with more Yin Lightning than before. Although the ice armor wasn't too effective, it still prevented the lightning from reaching her body for a fraction of a second. Now, with more Yin Lightning covering her, it might take the Heavenly Punishment Lightning a quarter of a second to reach her instead. Hopefully, the effects will also be diminished once the lightning reaches her.

However, that wasn't all Mira did. She also spread out a layer of ice on the ground and covered it with some of her Yin Magma.

Mira knew that although magma isn't exactly a great counter to lightning, her Yin Magma isn't ordinary.

It might not be able to counter such powerful lightning, but it should be able to distract it or cause some of the damage to spread out instead of focusing solely on her.

Lastly, Mira began twirling her scythe, trying to build up some momentum. She had no intention of actually taking the Heavenly Punishment Lightning head-on with her scythe. Instead, she would toss it up in the air, hoping it would take the brunt of the damage.

All of this barely took a few seconds until the next charge of the Heavenly Punishment Lightning was ready to be sent down.

Feeling like death itself was about to claim her life, Mira didn't hesitate to throw her scythe up in the air.

*RUMBLE**BOOM*

As soon as Mira threw her scythe up in the air, blood-red lightning fell from the sky, immediately striking her scythe…

*BOOM!*

…causing her scythe to reverse its momentum as it shot towards the ground with intense power!

*BOOOOM!!*

When Mira's scythe hit the ground, it caused the surrounding earth to shake and a small crater to form nearby Mira.

However, her scythe wasn't nearly enough to stop the lightning as it came crashing down on Mira!

When it eventually reached her, just like she speculated, the Heavenly Punishment Lightning took slightly longer than a fraction of a second to break past her defenses and reach her, but a lot happened during that time.

As the Heavenly Punishment Lightning hit her Yin Lightning, it immediately spread to the rest of her body, slightly lessening the effects, before her Yin Lightning shield burst like a bubble.

Then, as the lightning passed through and touched her ice armor, the effects of the Heavenly Punishment Lightning actually scattered to the layer of ice she created on the ground.

As the lightning passed through and destroyed that layer of ice and reached Mira's Yin Magma, the Heavenly Punishment Lightning actually became attracted to it and started funneling into the Yin Magma.

Unfortunately, this didn't last long as the lightning was too strong and quickly vaporized the Yin Magma, but that still caused enough of the Lightning to disperse into the earth below Mira that she could take the rest of the damage head-on without immediately turning to ash!

Luckily, Mira's preparations worked as she actually faced less damage from the second bolt than the first bolt!

Though that certainly doesn't mean Mira came out unscathed. Just from that second bolt alone, many of her internal organs were damaged, her skin was peeling off, her muscles were torn, and her bones cracked.

Needless to say, she was in horrible condition. Yet, despite that, she didn't let out a grunt of pain or complain. This kind of pain is nothing to her!

"Seven more strikes…"

Mira heard a familiar voice appear in her mind, causing her calm expression to break.

"Fuck!"

Mira immediately started making preparations for the next strike, and seeing how successful she was last time, she decided to stick with that except for making a few minor changes.

Although her ice powers weren't working too well in this situation, that doesn't mean they can't be useful.

If she were to combine her ice, Yin Lightning, and Yin Magma into a bunch of little balls instead of just creating one giant layer for each of them, then lay out those balls a meter away from each other, she might be able to reduce the Heavenly Punishment Lightning's effects even more by the time it reaches her!

Of course, this was all just theory based on the effects of the last two strikes. She could be completely wrong and end up dying instantly!

After Mira was done creating these balls, she quickly retrieved her scythe and turned it into one giant ball of ice, Yin Lightning and Yin Magma.

She felt her scythe was the perfect lightning rod to attract the Heavenly Punishment Lightning, and due to the effects of the various elements surrounding it, it should definitely be able to diminish some of the lightning's power.

*RUMBLE!**RUMBLE!**RUMBLE!*

Mira heard the dark clouds above her rumbling and knew that more blood-red lightning was about to rain down on her!

So, without hesitation, she threw her scythe and the balls up in the air just before the lightning fell!

"BOOM!!*

The Heavenly Punishment Lightning fell from the sky and was immediately attracted to the giant ball of powers containing Mira's scythe.

Almost instantly, the ball was destroyed, and the scythe was thrown to the ground, but Mira could tell that the power contained within the lightning had diminished slightly, although not as much as she would've liked.

Then, the lightning ping-ponged between the balls of power floating in the sky, disintegrating them almost immediately before making its way toward her.

However, this time, Mira felt like she could finally fight back against the tribulation. So, instead of just taking the lightning and letting it rampage throughout her body, she concentrated a dense ball of ice, Yin lightning, and Yin Magma in her fist and punched out with all her might!

*BOOOOOOOOM!!!*

The surrounding earth and space quaked as Mira's fist met the blood-red lightning!

Neither side came out unscathed, as Mira's right arm was essentially destroyed. It was still attached to her body, but all of the muscles, bones, tendons, and skin were basically just mush at this point.

However, with that punch, the damage that the rest of Mira's body faced was almost nonexistent, causing Mira to release a faint smile.

After surviving that last strike, she knows what she must do to survive this Tribulation.

*RUMBLE!*

Mira didn't need to look up to know that the next strike was about to come, so she quickly repeated what she did last time with the balls, but she switched it up a bit to make it more efficient.

Instead of just tossing them up into the air like an idiot, she lined them up with the ball her scythe was in high up in the sky, and the rest of the balls sat still in a vertical line until the last one touched the ground, where she made a small pool of Yin Magma and Yin Lightning that rooted itself inside the earth below her.

This way, more of the Lightning's energy would diffuse before it even touched her!

*BOOOOOMMM!*

The lightning fell from the sky, struck the balls, and destroyed them one by one until the lightning reached the small pool of Mira's powers, diffused into the ground, and then struck Mira!

However, this time, Mira didn't attack and only defended herself!

Luckily, the power of the Lightning wasn't nearly enough to incinerate Mira after diminishing so much beforehand. Mira was also able to find a way to somewhat evenly spread the damage over her entire body, so it wasn't just her internal organs getting fried.

This made it seem like Mira was taking less damage than she actually was because the damage was spread throughout her entire body rather than just a singular area or a few areas.

Mira did the same thing with the next lightning strike seeing how well this one turned out, but even after doing so much to prevent the Heavenly Punishment Lightning from instantly killing her, she still ended up on death's door by the end of the fifth lightning strike!

There are only four strikes left, and from the look of things, Mira would be lucky to survive the next lightning strike, but she would for sure die on the seventh strike!

However, now, it was time to put Mira's plan into action! A plan that will determine whether she survives this Tribulation or not!