Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army 258 Shall We Do It Again?

Other than that he got time to train his newest pet to fight and cast spells, and eventually had to force a name on her either Ignis or she could live forever as Birdie, unfortunately for the Phoenix she choose very late, because even though she liked the name Ignis, she has become known as Birdie for everyone who frequented the portable home, after all, they called her Birdie for nigh on six months before she finally took a name.

Ignis was playing the proud card mistakenly thinking it would grant her status in the private dimension, however that only led to the disappointed faces of Yunan and family, according to a very blunt statement from Dustan, "birdie is not even established as a pet and think she is so lofty and above the rest of us, I would have left her to rot in some corner of this house to teach her manners, look at Drogon, a freaking dragon, he is so chill and relaxed one might think he is just a pet lizard, but this red birdie thinks she is hot s.h.i.+t when she can't even speak her mother tongue, know no phoenix exclusive spells and still playing lofty, tsk tsk, i feel for poor Yunan"

Birdie was very sensitive to the fact that her tribe left no legacy, unlike the Dragon tribe who left behind things even before world contamination began, dragons were as proud as the phoenix, but the phoenix were treated as myths while dragons were legends, one was as unattainable as a mirage and the other grounded in some truths, still Drogon taught Birdie mana control and basic fire magic because it was her element as well, and it irritated her that Yunan was much closer to Drogon no matter how she tried to give herself importance and value.

Those feelings of hers had been on her mind so much that they were shared with Yunan and Drogon, Yunan gave her a rather stupid answer, "why not try to be nice and act with sincerity, I know we share a bond and can feel each other, but why do you have to mask your heart when you chose to bond with me, if you hate being with us feel free to break the bond and leave". Those words made Birdie feel like an idiot, she has been here for six whole months and she failed to understand how sincerity and honesty drove this band of misfits. She was just trying to get a place for herself worthy of the mythical tribe of the phoenix but she chose the wrong methods to operate with.

Yunan had left Ignis with Sapphira and Drogon to let her experience how the big family worked, especially when Debauchery and the girls were having their days off, that experience should be invaluable to the ones that can appreciate it, but the phoenix thought it was to show her where her place in the pack was, and then furthermore misunderstand what Yunan expected from her. Eventually, Yunan made Sapphira and Drogon take her to the first floor to hunt and learn to fight, and maybe get her hands on something that Tartarus thought would help her grow.

While Sapphira and Drogon were playing dungeon guides, They did not need to take her to each floor, the needed to only have her fight in every tenth floor while she fed on the leftover corpses Yunan had to help her get up to enough strength to reach the 50th floor where she could sit still and do nothing while benefiting from Yunan's hard work just like her two predecessors. After killing a few bosses and many more monsters Tartarus was only able to provide mana syphon and mana manipulation for Ignis, the rest of her exploits were simply flight and shapes.h.i.+ft skills, fire control and intangibility, the only skill that might be related to her ancestor's.

Intangibility worked by making Ignis take her true phoenix form, a ma.s.s of flames that was shaped like a bird, it then made the body as intangible as real flames effectively make her almost invulnerable to physical damage, meanwhile the girls reach the 50th floor, and have been struggling to keep their courage when facing ghosts, thus they returned home and waited to go out with their manly man who could even kill ghosts and make them flee facing him, after meeting the ghosts on the 50th floor, the girls now thought of Yunan more G.o.d than man, to them Yunan has been slowly checking each box on the list of the manliest man, dream of all women.

"How are we gonna teach torture with no evildoers? We need someone we can reliably inflict pain on while justifying it as justice or whatever" said Bai while Yunan was using his tentacles to give Leader a ma.s.sage, around the two Debauchery and the Valyrians, were all talking about the lack of training dolls and according to Balin "I feel bad to use the big brute but me might have no other choice". "Listen here, I like being tortured as much as any of you, I could deal with dislocation but torture is a no, no, Bai, on the other hand, has done a bit more evil than the rest of us, maybe we can help him repent?".

"Dream on fatty, I will be sure to flay you if you even think about it"... Such back and forth lasted until Leader had enough of her tentacle ma.s.sage and sat up effectively bringing the idle chat to an end, it was then that Reina said in a thinking out loud voice "why not make a ritual and see what happens".