We ended up spending a good five more days in the elven city of Aurora seeing all the sights there are to see. There actually wasn't that much to do despite these elves loving to live in comfort, at least compared to the dwarven kingdom. This place isn't really suited for tourism it seems.
We did eat a lot though, unfortunately nearly everything is salad related so food sucked. Elves aren't actually vegetarians, you can find at sellers around the place but most prefer rabbit food, that's what vegetables basically are anyway. You'd think fish would be quite common since this city is literally next to that huge river but once again, it's not all that common.
Always need to make sure I've got at stored away in storage in case of a bad situation like that undead dungeon, we can't risk the chance of starving sowhere if another dungeon like that cos up hence the reason for the lacklustre food.
Despite my complaints at the lack of actual food, it still wasn't that bad, mostly because of the gorgeous buildings and libraries in this place, made sure to purchase a load of books since elves like to value history on certain things even if so of its fake.
Oh, also found out the elves' perspective on the whole dwarfs' vs elves thing that went down, it's a little more complicated than first thought.
They actually believe the dwarfs purposely set the volcano to erupt themselves just to spite the elves and get revenge for previous wars they had against each other. I very much doubt that's the case seeing that father and mother both said the reason was down to a God but if true, there's always two sides to a story. I'm going with the dwarfs here though; it seems a little mad to set off a volcano in your own back yard but they are a little mad so it's not completely impossible. They'd probably make gunpowder bombs and set it off that way.
Also the dislike of humans isn't as strong as you'd think, it's more a dislike for the empire than anything else. Petra probably helped with that since her history did bring her to this place more than once. A lot of the older elves know about her and greet her as hero in the streets, it's the younger ones who seem to have the racist tendencies, young in elven standards is still quite old though.
Elven age is a little complicated since there are different species of elves that I'm unable to tell the difference between. I'm pretty sure dark and high elves live the longest but for the actual age, maybe up to a thousand years? It's not written about since elves don't actually track their own lifespan very well but the oldest I'm aware of is a very old looking elf who is close to a thousand, Petra pointed soone out to when we walked past her. She looked at deaths door and had darker skin so that's what I'm basing it off.
Then again, so of the other species of elf only live a little while longer than humans so it's extrely varied. Let's just go a hundred years to a thousand and call it a day. That's elven lifespan for ya.
Other than stop the two rulers in this city waging war, Petra seems to have done a lot throughout the years helping a lot of folks in quite a few tribes. This is to be expected though, can't go into everything she rembers since there's a lot she's done but her mory is holding six-hundred years' worth of mories after all.
Seeing that I'm thinking about her, that was a very intimate mont with Petra at the bath house, I pushed myself a little too far with that. Like I said last ti, it was only cleaning but that was way too... stimulating? I think that's the correct word for it, still not ready for that much. One day, I should be hopefully...
We've left the city now anyways, back into the skies as an immortal fire bird watching all the little mortals from the heavens. There's only trees below right now and I'm stuck with three people on my back but my description of myself still kinda works. I will be immortal if my levelling keeps up at this rate and I gain so more abilities.
Let's get the status thing rolling along then, left it purposely till now so I'd have sothing to do while flying back. There's only so much enjoynt you can get from flying in a straight line for hours to days after all.
'Status'
[Na: Ikarus | Species: Phoenix | Level: 97]
[Health 29,540*/30,000*]
[Stamina 9,718*/10,000*]
[Magicka 20,000*/20,000*]
[You currently have 18500 unassigned points]
It's been difficult to do not invest anything since last seeing my status but the main reason is because I don't know what to do with it. If I invest this all, all those assigned points will double down to the enchanted clothing I have on but... I could gamble three tis for new abilities as well. Urgh, I can't decide, maybe soone else can help.
"Petra... I'm stuck. I don't know whether to invest my points into stats or gamble them for sothing potentially amazing"
"You should never gamble Ikarus-sama, alcohol and gambling are not good for you"
So priestess and her God are both against gambling as well? I bet he's a reford alcoholic and has a betting addiction, so of his policies are really weird seeing how laid back he is on other things.
Apparently priestess doesn't even need to pray or worship him as well, she only does it since she wants to. I've asked a fair amount about it during our travels now so I've got a rough idea on what goes on inside her head but even then, she's still not that open.
The knight just doesn't have much of a personality so there's nothing to say on him, he honestly reminds of a bland ani protagonist who builds a harem around him just by being really dense. Nah, I'm just being an, he isn't that bad since he can have a backbone sotis but most of the ti he just flows with it.
I'm not even responding to Charlotte though, sotis the best response to soone being annoying is to just pretend they don't exist. It's rude but that was not the answer she knows I was looking for.
(Petra) "Need a little more to go off than just that Ikarus"
"Basically... there's twenty abilities I can win from investing stat points but Aesa says so of them can be basically God tier in strength but of course, it's a gamble. The alternative is just increasing my normal stats"
She already knows the ins and outs of my system, no point telling her about on how the stats per level thing works. Worrying about potential curse death is really no longer a concern, I've got way too much health for all that being an issue. Even if the loss is doubled because of my enchanted gear currently being on, I've still got way too much ti left to worry needlessly like normal.
"It's... difficult to give an answer, how many tis could you use it instead of improving your points?"
"Just the three"
"Then maybe give it a go once? It shouldn't prove that much of a risk and besides, you've always got to protect the cute and adorable Ikarus if you do buy it a few tis"
Damn it, every ti she calls cute it always catches off guard, it wouldn't be as bad if it was sothing like beautiful or handso but cute always gets right in the chest. Fuck it, you only live once and I'll bla her if I get sothing shitty. It's only wasting ten levels if it ends up a shit one.
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---Just want to point out, I'm literally randomizing this from my list. The fate of Ikarus's draw literally relies on pure luck, not story telling!
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'Aesa, let's give the gambling ability a single buy then'
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'Yes'
I'm kinda expecting a cool animation or music to start playing when the lucky draw comnces. Unfortunately, my system has no such capabilities and will just give it to straight.
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'Damn it, that shitty error ssage hasn't co up in so long'
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An update? I guess the gambling abilities need a compatibility patch or sothing like that. Aesa takes not even half a minute, then swiftly returns.
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'Star blaze?'
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'Hold up, the hell does that an?'
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