Reincarnated as a Phoenix

Chapter 33 - Homecoming

"Muhahaha!"

"No-"

"Da-"

During our quest for clearing the brown forest full of criminals, we've come across quite a few small camps since clearing the major one, all these have only contained several people each, all weak and not all that worth discussing really.

We came across another small bandit camp and I called dibs on this one, there's only seven or so low levelled bandits here so I've basically been playing with my pray.

(Ikarus) "Should be finished now"

Those two that just died were the last of this place, they tried fleeing but couldn't achieve such success. Trying to outrun a stream of fire isn't really a good strategy for retreating.

Now that everyone is dead, all three of my party members walk to where I've just destroyed the bandits and start searching about, Petra says something to me beforehand though.

"Now that you done with these, shall we continue searching for more?"

I was right about not saying anything, nothing has changed between us and she hasn't said anything so I might have been mistaken. If not, she clearly doesn't want to say anything so there's no issue here.

"Sure sure, let me just do something else first"

'Status'

[Name: Ikarus | Species: Phoenix | Level: 54]

[Health 14,899/15,000]

[Stamina 4,418/5,000]

[Magicka 3,652/5,000]

[You currently have 2000 unused points]

'Oh, I gained four more levels from that battle, those seven must have been really low then'

I probably should mention the elephant in the room as well, I lied a little bit. See, my health is so high right now, so high in fact I could live just over forty years with my curse still in effect. So, I decided it might be better to start investing elsewhere, forty years is more than enough time, right? I don't have any regrets though, even just adding that much magicka has already helped my sanity so much already, more flame equals more fun. More energy helps with the occasional drinking session as well.

[<Where does -user- wish to distribute points?>]

'Hmmm... where should I put them?... You know what, I'm going to save them for now, use them when needed'

[<Affirmative>]

It's definitely not because I'm undecided where to put them just yet, it's also not like they're going anywhere as well.

Let's go back to speaking to my party, they are currently looting the bandits I just roasted. I don't have to help looting since lack of arms and I'm the pack mule of the group, blame the storage ring.

In all honesty now, I'm getting a little bored of this. Hunting bandits is fun and all but I kinda want to go back to the curse search, I reckon my sanity can handle another bullshit non-fighting dungeon now.

"You know what, this camp took us close to a week to find, right? I think we've cleared out most the bandits in this forest now"

"There are still heathens about Ikarus-sama"

"Lotte has got a point, there still are bandits about"

Do these two really want to continue this then? Maybe they're enjoying the loot from all this, they are literally searching through corpses right now.