Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

[Welcome Successor Mira XXXX to the Abyssal Battle Ladder.

Transferring all information about the Abyssal Battle Ladder over to Successor Mira.]

Suddenly, information about the Abyssal Battle Ladder appeared in Mira's mind. She closed her eyes to sort through all the information. After a few moments, she opened her eyes and revealed an excited expression.

There was that much information about the Abyssal Battle Ladder, but that's not because it isn't valuable. On the contrary, according to the information she received, the Abyssal Battle Ladder might be one of the most useful facilities in the entire F.LD.I.L.

While the Abyssal Torment Steps can help temper her willpower, the Infinity Garden can store and grow all kinds of plants, and the storage room is convenient. None of these directly affect Mira's combat power.

Sure, the Infinity Garden can grow plants that can increase her cultivation, but it doesn't help her control that power to make full use of it.

That's where the Abyssal Battle Ladder comes into play.

The Abyssal Battle Ladder is separated into Stages and rounds. Each Stage will have 10 rounds, and with each subsequent round, an additional enemy will appear.

For example, Round 1 will put Mira against 1 opponent. Round 2 will put her against 2. Round 3 will put her against 3, and so on.

Each additional opponent will also have a different elemental affinity and use a different weapon than the ones she's already fighting. As for the ones she's already fighting, although the weapons will stay the same, their fighting style will differ.

This is to make sure that every round is new.

In fact, she isn't only subject to fighting against humanoid opponents. Various kinds of beasts will also appear.

After she wins all ten Rounds, she's able to either stop there and exit the Abyssal Battle Ladder or move on to the next Stage.

Each Stage is in relation to Mira's cultivation.

For example, right now, Stage 1 will put her against Stage 1 Core Formation Realm opponents. Stage 2 will put her against Stage 2 Core Formation Realm opponents, and so on.

However, if Mira were a Stage 2 Core Formation Realm cultivator, Stage 1 of the Abyssal Battle Ladder would put her against those at the 2nd Stage of the Core Formation Realm.

The amount of points she gets for completing a stage is double what she earned from the previous stage, starting at 2 points for Stage 1.

The point chart looks something like this:

Stage 1 = 2 points.

Stage 2 = 4 points.

Stage 3 = 8 points.

Stage 4 = 16 points.

Stage 5 = 32 points.

Stage 6 = 64 points.

Stage 7 = 128 points.

Stage 8 = 256 points.

Stage 9 = 512 points.

Stage 10 = 1024 points

And so on…

Therefore, if Mira were to complete 10 stages in the Abyssal Battle Ladder, she'd actually earn 2046 points, a hefty sum.

However, completing 10 or more stages in the Abyssal Battle Ladder is anything but easy. The enemies Mira will be put against in the Abyssal Battle Ladder will be nearly perfect beings. Their understanding of their body, teamwork, power output, and techniques will be near-perfect.

Not only that, but Mira won't be fighting the 'trash' she's been put up against lately. All her opponents will be considered talents, even in the eyes of the F.LD.I.L.

Meaning their strength will already be far above their cultivation, but Mira wasn't disturbed by this. There wouldn't be any point if she could just steamroll through everyone in the Core Formation Realm and earn a bunch of points for free.

The F.LD.I.L. understands that Mira's actual strength is far above her Realm. Thus, it would put her against opponents that would challenge her.

Everything in the F.LD.I.L. is supposed to be extremely challenging, and the Abyssal Battle Ladder.

So, with how high the difficulty is, Mira should have a relatively difficult time even passing the first Stage. She has to continuously fight against beings that don't feel pain or emotions, have strength higher than their cultivation, and are able to control their weapons, body, and techniques perfectly.

However, aside from earny points, there is a benefit to utilizing the Abyssal Battle Ladder, and it's the reason why Mira was so excited.

Her ability to improve is increased as she fights in the Abyssal Battle Ladder!

According to the information she received, this isn't a direct increase to her comprehensive abilities, nor does it directly increase her combat prowess.

What happens is when she fights in the Abyssal Battle Ladder, she'll slowly enter a state where she wants nothing else other than to win. It's similar to her Pseudo-enlightened state, but only works when she's in battle.

This ability to improve herself will also increase depending on how many rounds she wins.

Lastly, Mira can only 'fail' 3 times in the Abyssal Battle Ladder. A 'failure' is when Mira forfeits a round. Failing a round means the Stage she was on will be reset and the next time she attempts the Abyssal Battle Ladder, she'll have to start from that Stage.

Failing 3 times means Mira not only can't use the Abyssal Battle Ladder until she breaks through to the next stage, but she loses all of her accumulated points as well.

Mira thought that a failure would also include when she dies, but that's when she remembered the Guardian's warning to "try not to die".

'It seems I can actually die here. I'll need to be extra careful then.' Mira thought to herself.

After she finished sorting through all the information, Mira couldn't help but complain to the Guardian.

"Damn, you should've reminded me of this place sooner! I had no idea the Abyssal Battle Ladder was so amazing!"

"Bah! Why should I remind you of anything? This is your treasure, so you should know its functions! You're just lucky I decided to be nice and let you know you'd be losing out on a lot of points if you were to break through to the 2nd Stage of the Core Formation Realm right now." The Guardian rebuked and Mira was unable to disagree with his logic.

It is her fault that she hadn't utilized all of the F.LD.I.L's functions until, but she's had other things on her mind recently that she forgot about it.

"Whatever. At least I'm here now and didn't miss out on too many points." Mira muttered and entered the Abyssal Battle Ladder.

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Thank you, Nyviria, for the 15,000 coins!