Phoenix

**Phoenix** was one of the Four Legendary Beasts that reside on the 11th floor of the Tower and ruled the Floor's Southern Territory.

## Physical Appearance

As a Phoenix, she appears to be large eagle like bird with flame colored feathers, easily dwarfing regular humans by height alone.

## Personality

The Phoenix has shown to be very intelligent and even friendly to those she considers her allies, this is seen where after she had befriended Cha Yeon-woo, she was shown to assist him to the best of her abilities and provide him with advice when he requires assistance.

Due to her age, Phoenix has shown to be very wise due to the large amount of experience she accumulated over time. This is seen where she has been shown to be pragmatic and calculative when dealing with her enemies and has been shown to be intelligent and experienced enough to be able to immediately calculate the pitfalls and merits of her plans. As seen where she accepted Yeon-woo's proposal to have him locate and return her stolen egg in exchange for a quest. As seen when confronting the Saber God, the Phoenix is also smart enough to tell the strength of her opponent and would try to dissuade him from fighting her first if it could be helped.

Due to her bad experience with humans, the Phoenix was shown to regard them with a level of contempt and sees them as untrustworthy when first meeting a human. However, once they prove to be trustworthy, she has shown to treat them more fairly after.

Another aspect of the Phoenix is her strong maternal side. This is seen where she was frantic when one of her three eggs was stolen and she immediately prioritized protecting her remaining two eggs but at the same time agonized over her now being unable to go look for her stolen egg. After Yeon-woo retrieved and returned her egg to her, she was shown to be overjoyed at its return and tearfully stated her fear of never being able see her child again.

 Background

Prior to her eggs hatching, she left her nest to gather food for her soon-to-hatch chicks. However, during her absence, her youngest egg was kidnapped by a few humans. It was saved by Ch Yeon-woo who tracked the thieves and returned it to her.

## History

### **Volume 3**

After Yeon-woo rescued her egg, she began to feel quite favorable towards him. As a result, when he asked for the **Flame of Life** quest for his egg, she gave him the highest grade quest so that he may obtain the highest grade **Flame of Life**.

As Yeon-woo returned with the ingredients for the **Flame of Life**, her eggs had also hatched. Her youngest, who was rescued by Yeon-woo, seemed to remember him and became quite attached to him. Thus, she asked him to give it a name but was quite disappointed when he gave it the name "Chirpy" because it chirps...

Still, she didn't mind and created a **Flame of Life** for him. However, something unexpected happened: the egg didn't catch. Even she was shocked since most eggs would normally hatch from a **Flame of Life** of that grade.

### **Volume 4**

At her suggestion, Yeon-woo brought a lot more ingredients and she created over a dozen **Flames of Life**, however, the egg refused to hatch. At this point, she was simply astounded and guessed that maybe the egg didn't have any motivation because its owner i.e. Yeon-woo didn't have a dream since eggs are normally nourished through their owner's dreams.

### **Volume 5**

When Saber God invaded her territory, she realized that she was not a match for him and hid away her youngest child, Chirpy. Before she could also hide the rest of her children, Saber God appeared at her nest. She realized that she couldn't hide them now otherwise Saber God would learn Chirpy's location. Thus, she decided to fight to the best of her ability and hope that her children escape. Alas, as she expected, she was not a match for Saber God who killed her and then killed her children.

She left behind her **Holy Fire** and legacy for Yeon-woo who might visit her nest later. She made it so that it would only activate if he found Chirpy and decided to help him. As she expected, he did help Chirpy and her remnant soul passed on her legacy to Yeon-woo before asking him to take care of Chirpy.

Even though she was immortal as the Phoenix, the her from her rebirth would be an entirely different entity from her current self. So, she was quite sad at leaving her child behind.

## Abilities

As a Legendary Beasts, Phoenix possess immense power that is superior to most of the Players that enter into the 11th Floor of the Tower, her overall power was gauged to be the equivalent of a Mid-high Ranker.

### Skills

* **Flames of Life:** Phoenix has shown to possess the ability of "Flames of Life" one of the oldest types of flames that possess immense holy properties and healing abilities. The Flames themselves were created using the positive memories of "life" and are stated to be one of the best materials one can use to imbued their Mythical Beasts Egg's with within the 11th Floor.
* **Sensory Skills:** Phoenix was also shown to possess a powerful long range sensory skill that allows her to detect anyone when they approach her territory in the Southern part of the 11th Floor.

### Reincarnation

The Phoenix was stated to be immortal in the sense that if she is killed, she could resurrect herself after a period of time. Although its been unstated on how this ability functions, its been stated by her that after her reincarnation, her sense of "self" would be completely altered and her personality would shift completely. And although she will still retain her memories of her previous life, its been stated that her reborn self would likely not be the same person as her, as stated when she requested to Yeon to take in and care for her surviving son after her death due to knowing that her next reincarnation would not likely see him as her child.