Ice Storm told Meng Chao that her original plan had been simple: settle down temporarily at the Blood Skull Arena, gathering intelligence on the Leopard Men from merchants traveling between Black Horn City and Crimson Gold City, as well as wandering warriors who had fled from the Golden Clan to the Bloodhoof Clan, and learning more about Leopard Man customs and Lineages.
So that one day, she could flawlessly play the part of a true Leopard Man warrior and infiltrate Crimson Gold City.
At the same time, she could use the arena to temper her Totem Power.
After all, back in the Holy Light Land, although she had possessed the talent to activate totems, she had not dared use it in actual combat.
—Clearly, the force assembled to hunt down a Witch and the force assembled to hunt down "a Witch who could wield Totem Power" were two entirely different things.
If she had dared reveal even a trace of Totem Power back then, she and her mother would likely have been killed by the Night Watchmen ten years earlier.
Ice Storm had simply never expected her talent for Totem Power to be so astonishingly high.
After only a few battles, her inborn gifts awakened from the depths of her bloodline.
Before long, she had risen above the other Gladiators and become the Blood Skull Arena's ace.
Even Kassava Bloodhoof, the master of the Blood Skull Arena, had begun to consider recruiting her.
Unfortunately, Ice Storm had no taste for Kassava's "kindness."
For one thing, with seven or eight witch doctors and priests watching during the Blood Conferral Ritual, there was no way she could conceal the Holy Light Power within her body.
Besides, Ice Storm had not the slightest interest in joining the Bloodhoof Family to seize so-called "glory."