---Skip this bit if you want, thought it would be funny to do a stupid recap---
Previously on REAPH, bird hatches, bird gains system, bird learns to swear and fly, bird gets punished for swearing, bird starts hunting, bird get’s captured, bird witnesses dragons vs city, bird watches peace treaty, bird gets bullied, bird learns magic and sword, bird gets cursed, bird drinks booze, bird starts party, bird completes dungeon, bird hates sharing, bird gets drunk, bird completes dungeon, bird kills dragon, bird ets potential love interest, bird kills bandit camp, bird drinks potions, bird goes ho, bird completes dungeon, bird realizes bird is stupid, bird hates empire, bird completes dungeon…
---I’ve definitely missed out so parts but you get the gist of it---
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“Petra, you… are you a phoenix as well?”
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The second I ask that; system has to get involved.
‘Damn it, I know exactly what you’re doing right now’
She couldn’t have picked a worse ti; I know very well she’s purposely announced that right as I’m about to get an answer.
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‘But… yeah, you’re right’
“Sorry Ikarus, I’m unsure what you ant”
Petra quickly responds to my question; she definitely heard but is playing dumb to the answer. Thankfully, my other party mbers didn’t hear question her, they are still looking around this cave but it still looks like there’s nothing to loot other than the gold ore that would need mining in this place.
It probably is a good thing they didn’t hear ; it’s clear Petra wouldn’t want this type of thing known by the empire if it’s true since she seems to hold a lot of dislike towards them. Thinking about it, I now share a large part of her dislike also. The other party mbers still haven’t heard us just yet so I start speaking quieter.
“I know you heard Petra, I need answers”
“Ikarus… this might not be the ti”
She responds with a smile as well and she’s not even denying it, it’s clear this is sothing confidential so I’m taking this a different direction now. She’s already told about everything else, I’m not resting till I know the truth on this though.
“Then once we get back to the town, we’ll find a private place to talk”
“It still might not be the best idea for you to know just yet”
“No, you don’t get to decide what’s best for , you’re telling the second we get the chance”
She seed a little down from my response but I’m more than justified, I’m purposely being stubborn on this. If she’s held the fact that she’s also a phoenix, I want to know the second we’re alone. I don’t care if it’s for my betternt, I’m knowing.
(Charlotte) “Are you two alright?”
(Nathan) “Yeah”
Both the other two-party mbers join us, I was clearly right about there not being any loot around here. We both just ignore them though; our conversation is more important right now.
“If you really need to know, then it would be better to show you rather than speak about it”
Wait, I thought this is confidential, is she going to show her phoenix form right now? I doubt it, I don’t think that’s what she ant though.
“Can’t you just tell when we’re alone?”
“Sorry Ikarus, I can’t. There are so people you should et if you feel like you can handle so more secrets, we’ll have to head close to the brown forest though”
(Nathan) “What are you two talking about?”
(Charlotte) “Secrets?”
Why do these two have to listen to our conversation, it’s clear we we’re trying to ignore them. I now need to involve them if sothing she’s hiding is confidential and if we need to head back to that bandit forest though.
“*Sigh*… I’m sorry Charlotte and Nathan but we’re splitting up the party for a while, I’ll fly you both to so place safe and we’ll call it quits”
“Why Ikarus-sama?”
“Yeah, have we disappointed you?”
Both look extrely concerned from my announcent, this is happening though.
“Sothing important has co up, this isn’t one of those tis were I’m accepting your opinions or protection. I’ll make sure to co get you when we search for the dungeons again though”
“Actually, we could probably pay a visit to the desert continent dungeon as well while we’re over there Ikarus”
Pay a visit to the desert continent dungeon? Considering how dangerous that dungeon was with us four, isn’t that a bit risky? With Petra, she’ll definitely know what she’s doing though so it should be okay but then again, she’s hiding this phoenix thing from and still hasn’t confird or denied it yet though.
Both my other two-party mbers don’t look any better about the split up and haven’t responded, they both know this isn’t sothing I’m going to change my mind on.
“Look, on the brightside, you two can spend so ti togeth- sorry, I wasn’t trying to be a tease there, let’s just get on with it, there’s nothing to loot here so we’ll head back now”
All of us leave the cave with those two still looking disappointed, the magical barrier blocking the exit is long gone as well now. If they don’t cheer up soon, I might just leave them here and see if they can find their own way back. Who am I kidding, I’m not that nasty a person.
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While flying back to the hot spring settlent and having a party of mute people on my back, it seems like a reasonable ti to check sothing out.
‘Aesa, what was that ability you said I unlocked?’
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‘What’s it do then? You sound slightly exited over this’
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“THAT’S SO FUCKING OP!”
“Ikarus-sama, you okay?”
(Nathan) “Ikarus?”
(Petra) “…”
It makes sense why they would be concerned; I did just shout for no reason while flying. Need to calm back down slightly.
“Yeah sorry, just speaking with Aesa, one second”
I’ve gotten myself too exited right now; this attack sounds absurdly good so I already know there’s going to be a massive problem with it, this system wouldn’t give such a good thing.
‘Give the normal disappointing news, I bet this ability is secretly crap like everything else’
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‘So… let guess, most enemies have strong resistances to everything? That’s gonna be the problem’
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Wait a second, she’s actually serious? Have I basically just gotten a one hit ability like that? It makes sense what it would be from, that giant would’ve easily squashed us if a single hit had landed. I guess abilities gained from dungeons reflect on the enemy faced, at least in combat dungeons.
No Ikarus, calm yourself down, I can only use this once a day and even then, every creature is probably going to have so type of resistance. I’ll need to speak with Aesa another ti and go into all different types of resistances, stuff like fire and frost resistance are easy to understand, armour is a completely different type of thing though.
Imagine if armour gave a person ninety percent resistance, then this ability would only deal five thousand damage in theory, I’m not getting too exited just yet. Still would be a hell of a lot stronger than anything else I currently have.
“Oi Petra, did you get that ability as well?”
It takes her a second to respond, think she was thinking heavily on sothing and didn’t recognize I was talking to her.
“Huh? Oh, from the dungeon, let check one second”
She takes more than a second, it’s closer to a minute than a second.
“Erm… It does that much? That ability is… sothing else. Wasn’t gigantomachy the battle between the Gods and giants as well? It makes sense why it would be so powerful then”
I guess she has gotten it as well so that’s good, she even rembers a little about Greek myths, that’s brilliant! I doubt the other two have a clue what we’re talking about.
“Sothing like that, even I can’t rember everything about Greek myth, ironic seeing that my na is basically from one”
“Ah, that’s where Ikarus is from, knew it sounded familiar”
Damn it, now we’re just getting into casual conversation when all I want to do is know if she’s a phoenix or not. My impatience has gotten better but it’s still not perfect yet.
Screw it, I’m going to double ti it back to the settlent now, hopefully the other two decide quickly where they want to go. It shouldn’t be that long away.
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“Okay, so where do you two want to go then? Like I said, I’ve got to go with Petra sowhere and you can’t co along”
Back on the outskirts of the little settlent on one of those islands, I’m currently discussing what we should do going forward, I’m still in bird form since I can drop these two off as fast as possible if they want to go back to the capital for example, I hope they decide to stay here though.
There’s also no one out here right now so it’s safe for to be seen still in bird from.
“Well… wouldn’t it make sense to just leave us here? You’ve got to kinda co back this way anyway when heading to the elven continent and shouldn’t be that much of a detour”
Okay, sotis I really like the knight, good he suggested that so it doesn’t make have to waste ti.
“I guess that would be fine, there’s more than enough for us to do here, just don’t be making us wait too long please Ikarus-sama”
Both of those two still look unhappy about the situation, I couldn’t care less though. I think priestess might also be annoyed with her God as well, she had quick words with him as we were leaving but she seed really irritated with him, I can completely understand why though. Whether it was down to the dungeon interfering or just sothing like he was sleeping, that makes no difference to us.
“Good good then, I’ll see you two”
(Nathan) “See you two then as well”
“Bye Ikarus-sama and Petra-sama”
(Petra) “Bye”
Both the other two-party mbers head off into the settlent just leaving and Petra alone now, it’s ti for so more sweet info that I’m going to force it out of her… that’s sounds a little weird.
“Now that we’re alone, want to strip off and show your bird form?”
“You want to see naked?”
Wait, damn it, why did I say it that way? She’ll get my point in a second though.
“I’m not flying you over there especially when I know you can fly as well, you’re still keeping things from so let’s get a move on then”
It’s ti to head back over to the brown forest in the south of this continent, it’ll be a long journey but since she’d rather show what’s going on rather than just say, the quicker we leave, the better.
“Why do you assu I’m a phoenix anyway Ikarus?”
She has that coy smile, why is she so adamantly trying to deny this?
“Don’t play dumb with Petra, one or two coincidences I can accept but you are way too similar, I can basically confirm it as well”
“How are you able to do that?”
I was hoping she’d ask sothing like that. Thankfully, my voice makes numbers up and presents to them as facts. I think that’s what Aesa does at the very least.
‘Aesa, what do you reckon the percentage of her being a phoenix is?’
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She thinks it’s that high a chance? Yeah, I was right then.
“Aesa literally says there’s a ninety-six percent chance of you being a phoenix, don’t play dumb and just show already”
“There’s still a four percent chance though”
She’s getting on my nerves now, it’s not exactly going to kill her to change form, is it?
“Stop it Petra, just change already, please?”
She responds with a slight sigh and now looks disappointed.
“*Sigh*… fine then, really don’t want to do this Ikarus but if you insist, just try and calm yourself once you see”
Without getting naked, she activates her changing ability and like with my choker enchantnt form change, a large amount of smoke shows when it happens. Once the smoke has faded, I get to witness Petra the phoenix, I knew I was right but I’m shocked from how she looks though.
“Jesus Christ! What the hell happened to you?”
Her phoenix body shares roughly the sa size as but there are so major differences. First, her feathers are charcoal black in colour but there are a lot of grey in parts and large scars, her phoenix body almost looks like it’s survived a beating or loads of close encounters. As for her wings, they look the most damaged out of everything. Was this why she didn’t want to show ?
“This is my own curse Ikarus. Unlike with your curse, this is down to my own stupidity, making a deal with a devil has that type of consequence”
I can’t help but feel terrible now, that form looks like it’s extrely painful to stay in. As for it also being a curse, I’ll ask about that later.
“Damn it, I’m sorry for making you change then. Does it hurt being like that?”
“A little, flying causes the most issues though. Did do it before we t back up in the capital and on occasion for short distances, still need to use my wings every now and then but it can be troubleso. Shall we set off to the forest then?”
She’s pissed off now, she wants to fly when it physically hurts her? What does she take for?
“You should have fucking said, you idiot! I can’t make you fly when it hurts, change back and get on my back already, I’ll fly and we can talk since I bet there’s things you can still tell before we get where we need to”
“Heh, fair enough”
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I’m now back in the skies with the secret phoenix Petra on my back heading towards the brown forest, it’ll probably be a two-week journey but this will probably go quickly with just us two, I’m kinda looking forward it being just us alone for a while.
Might as well start asking more questions now, I’m quite a curious person after all… and dumb.
“How did you keep your clothing as well?”
No idea why I started with that but I’m still interested though.
“These robes are enchanted; they can’t be destroyed while having to change so it’s a similar thing with your ring”
Do her disciple robes shrink and go elsewhere when she turns into bird form then? Once again, I’m fixating on stupid things but I’ll stop in a second.
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Aesa is bringing up that accursed bikini once again, is that the sa type of thing though? I guess it is enchanted as well.
‘Hang on Aesa, how would that have worked?’
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She knew I wouldn’t have listened to her, I guess she knows too well then.
As stupid as it sounds, wearing that would’ve stopped seeing myself naked every ti I change form, I’m still not wearing it despite it might actually have so use now, it had use previously but still. Damn it, I need to move on.
“Why did you keep all this from though? Knowing that you’re also a phoenix is brilliant, I can’t understand why you’ve been hiding it”
Despite her phoenix body being really hurt looking, I can’t help but think it’s slightly… cute. Look, it’s not like I’ve got a thing for scars or anything like that, I think it’s just more the fact that most of her bird body looks quite similar to how I look, just black in colour, I think that’s the reason. The scars play no part in it.
Wait, don’t birds of the sa species have an automatic attraction to each to other, that got to be it, right? I’m just second guessing myself now so I’ll leave that thought about Petra being cute for another ti, I guess her human form looks alright too… Damn it, shut up Ikarus!
“Heh, it’s complicated Ikarus, it’ll make more sense once you et the others, everything should make more sense then”
Once again, I’m getting more and more curious on things, there’s another question I can ask though.
“What about your curse? How did it co about?”
“It was an exchange, it’s another reason why I was using the empire’s knowledge. Unfortunately, it still looks like deals like this can never be broken, probably shouldn’t call it a curse either seeing that I agreed to this”
She seems down as hell now, I’m going to stop asking about her curse, it’s too depressing a subject for her to discuss. If I’m speculating about it, it could also be related to her blindness. Maybe in exchange for extre power, this was the price? I wonder if I can help her in the future but for now, it’s best to change for subject.
“Well anyway… I’ve just realized sothing… I’m such a fucking idiot”
“What’s wrong Ikarus?”
“It’s my birthday today, I’ve only just rembered it now”
Everything with the fight against the giant, the realization that the empire are scumbags and now with Petra, I nearly forgot that I’ve literally just turned two today. I guess I can use everything else as an excuse.
“Happy birthday then Ikarus, would’ve gotten you sothing if you’d have said”
She would’ve gotten sothing? I don’t really need anything though.
“Thanks but really don’t need anything, already got more money than I could ever possibly need so gifts are pointless”
At the end of the day, when you have enough money to buy anything you want, is there really any need for gifts? I know it’s supposed to be the thought that counts but still, such a thing would be wasted on , I’d rather soone just spend the money they would’ve used to towards sothing for themselves, I was always like that even back on Earth. Then again, I'm happy to take free generosity other tis so I'm just contradicting myself.
“You should still make sure to celebrate stuff like birthdays even if it’s just a gift. Once you hit a certain age, you’ll forget what your birthdate even is and things start to lose its aning”
Well, isn’t that great? I’ve already forgotten my birthday and I’m two, I’ll need to keep check of how old I am otherwise I’ll end up forgetting my age as well, she’s made worry a little. I’ve been alive for twenty-four months right now, rember that Ikarus! Actually, I can use status right here to check.
‘Status’
[Na: Ikarus | Species: Phoenix | Level: 54]
[Health 14,840/15,000]
[Stamina 2,319/5,000]
[Magicka 7,000/7,000]
‘Damn, my stamina is lower than I thought, that fight took a lot outta ’
It wasn’t till just after I opened my status that I realized checking my health to see how old I am is dumb. Once I’m cured from this curse, I won’t be able to check how much HP has been lost and seeing that we’ve already conquered four dungeons in one-hundred and sixty days, we hopefully should have it done in under a year.
That’s not a red flag! I said hopefully so it doesn’t count, back to our conversation anyway.
“I was a twenty-three-year-old man before I got reincarnated you know, I never really celebrated birthdays even back then. Well, except with a drink or two, maybe a bottle as well”
I just revealed I got reincarnated, it should be the sa for her since she’s a phoenix as well, right? I’ll ask more about that another ti; she seems more focused on sothing else.
“You were a man beforehand? That… actually, makes no difference”
What does she an it makes no difference? Forget it, I’m just going to buckle down and fly as fast as possible now, I’m going to be flying nonstop from now on.
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