Chapter 70

"Sorry?" Stone tried a new angle hoping to end Luci's endless rambling.

"Yeah, yeah, sorry," the female said. "Sorry, he says…" The male continued. "Fuck!" he swore, getting annoyed at the weird talking.

"Luci, what now? Goblins went away… I… I feel good now. I want more but before I had to have more. What happened?" He asked a barrage of questions.

"..." Two pairs of eyes looked at Stone, carried by the three goblins. He sighed with both bodies. "Now," "We," "Hide!" Lucifer said, knowing that the hunting parties had to have heard the commotion.

"Let's go back to the tent!" Stone ordered and his small procession left the smoking crater. He wasn't completely stupid anymore.

In the middle of the crater, slowly the weakest parts of the floor crumbled, revealing a small crevice that was slowly but surely increasing its size.

In the tent, the three goblins carefully laid their master on the ground and prostrated.

"Hey, not-so-small master! Let's go burn something else!" The pyromaniac who was, by no accident, a fire elemental, suddenly voiced his request. This was more fun than he had had in the last hundred years or so.

"Later, now I have to regrow," Stone communicated in his mind and activated the [Healing Bath for minerals]. He was still bleeding mana by a large amount, but the amount had vastly diminished as he levelled up so many times. Of course, he needed more levels to be rid of it entirely.

"Firey, can you make your spell even stronger?" Stone asked as he slowly regenerated his lifeforce. The talc gravel around slowly merged with him, making him whole again.

"Yes, small master, but your body won't be able to take it," the elemental truthfully answered. "And I need to regain the lost mana too. I am only taking what is necessary from Your Stoneniness," he explained.

"Oh, that is too bad…" The pebble was disappointed. "How long do you need?"

"Quite a while with this speed… Day or two," Firey was feeling inadequate now. If he would be a larger elemental… Nah, It was all of his master's mistake.

The fire elemental also decided he worked enough for today and went to sleep.

Dafur was still sleeping, more like being unconscious, on the floor, deeply and regularly breathing.

"Stone?" Lucifer resounds in Stone's head, completely surprising him. He thought his partner was gone and they could not talk again like that.

"Yea. Luci?" Stone replied. Then he noticed a small patch of mana flowing to him, some kind of connection.

"Excellent! It works!" Lucifer celebrated the success. He had enough of talking like two broken dolls, so he created a new spell, now that he had an actual brain. Two of them, he thought... This will take quite a lot of time to get used to.

Now that he knew they had a little bit of time, he wanted to try to talk Stone into changing his tablets into something much more manageable. He did not look forward to it. What a hassle, but it needed to be done. Lucifer sighed with both bodies and took the challenge.

[You know what? I want to see this. Here we go: Challenge accepted! Persuade the stupid rock to change his tablets. Reward: Multitask technique.]

Lucifer blinked at the cheeky Universum admin but he took it.

"Stone, I want you to do something very important," Lucifer went around it slowly.

"What is it, Luci?" Stone asked innocently, not knowing the calamity coming for him.

"I want you to…" Lucifer could not find the proper words. How to ask something like this to this ever-and-forever tabletophile?

[Coward!]

"Shut the fuck up, universum. Try it yourself!" Lucifer snapped at the cheeky voice.

[I don't have to. You do! Look at that tasty Multitask technique. Don't you want it?]

Lucifer decided to bite the bullet. He didn't live for who knows how long, being a laughing stock for beings who enslaved him and then spending months in this stupid rock teaching him basics and delving deeper and deeper into the Abyss just to be stopped by a stubborn peice of shitstone.

"I want you to change your tablets! Just change them to talking or just a plain text, I plead you on knees, please!" Lucifer just spluttered it with a single breath. He sent a flood of emotions into the link so the Stone would understand how desperate he truly was.

"Okay," Stone flatly replied. It went well with his natural deadpan expression.

"Stone, please, I beg you! Do it!" Stone's answer clearly did not reach his mind, as he continued to beg and plead.

"I said okay," Stone repeated.

"What?" Lucifer was stumped. He was preparing for a battle of the ages, a battle of wits and words, of promises and backstabbings.

[Hoooly shit~. You know, there were quite a few bets… Mallum won! Holy crap! That was for the first time he ever won something! Oh, look he is dancing… Oh, no! DON'T LOOK! HE IS GETTING NAKED! HELP!]

Lucifer decided to ignore the Universum for now as he processed the pebble's sudden ability to hear reason, or even to listen to him…

[Ehm… Sorry about that. Here is that Multitask technique… Architect was not happy, but the reward is the reward…]

The former Partner gazed at the new screen before him.

[Multitask technique T1L1

Allows you to do multiple things at once. Good for puppeteers, summoners and stock exchange brokers. Actions at once: 2 (+1 per tier). Limited to normal actions. That means no multiple spells at once spells or skills. Able to evolve.]

And Luci put it to use almost immediately. His bodies moved as he wished. Even though it felt bizarre, he could get used to it.

Lucifer felt good for the first time after a very, very, long time. Not only had he persuaded Stone to change his tablets, he even acquired the technique he needed so much due to Universum's own cheekiness…

When he thought about it… Wasn't that strange? Why did Universum and even Prime gods bet on a single mortal? Even though an anomaly, Stone could not be the only one there…

Then he frowned… Something was wrong… And something was going to happen soon. Things were moving too smoothly for him. For them. He could feel it in his bones... Both sets of them.