<h4>Chapter 121 121 Earning the top spot</h4>


    [Lucy''s POV: ]


    I was using my [Perseverance] for this fight… which gave me the single-mindedness to focus on the task before me.


    ''It used to be a difficult skill to use at the start since the task I wanted to aplish became the only thing that my mind and body focused on, so it took me a long time to find out the proper way to use this skill.''


    And now that I knew it, this simple skill of mine was nothing less than one of the cheat skills simr to what the other main characters of this game possessed.


    ''A rare skill that kinda allowed me to go on auto-pilot mode. Certainly a cheat I would say.''


    It was a new technique to master but simr to El''s parallel minds, I have learned to split my mind and body so that they could focus on two different tasks, mainly, the task that I want to aplish through [Perseverance] and the thinking process that I might require to counter any outside interferences to the assigned task.


    ''It''s simr to having control of mind and soul at the same time, and operating them individually.''


    It was difficult, very difficult actually, so I had always avoided using it during actual fights in the past. But now I have no problems with it.


    I could now cancel the skill anytime I wanted midway upon the perceiving of outside interference, and go back to the task after taking care of it.


    ''I can even do other observations and make decisions that my ''focused'' self couldn''t.''


    It was in no way a simple technique. Even El couldn''t do it even though she understood itpletely.


    ''Perhaps it was because of the specific effects of my [Perseverance] and [Six Walls] but, I can do that. Still, though, I was unable to perform any task unrted to the task I was ''focused'' on while the skill was in effect. So, my next goal with this technique was to ''do something'' while being focused on ''doing something else''.


    ''I might just create something new if I''m sessful with this thing.''


    This was exciting, but, it was a task forter.


    "You did well. You are certainly a good swordsman."


    "I still lost though…"


    He had a bitter expression, but he was smiling and there was admiration in his eyes as he looked at me.


    "Thank you for the amazing fight. I hope we can meet again in the future."


    "Of course, we will meet. How about having breakfast together after the test is over?"


    He was a nice guy, perhaps we can use him for something. Or at least having normal friends in a school wasn''t a bad idea either, right?


    "It would be my honor."


    He bowed gracefully as the nobles of the eastern continent do. And put his sword with a curved tip in his sheath.


    "I''m called Swarn. I look forward to seeing you again mister Lucifer."


    "Oh…? You know my name already?"


    "Everyone knows the name of first ranked person with the highest points, sir. Hahaha."


    He was humble as well. How nice.


    "We couldn''t do the formal introductions, but I hope we can at least have a better chatter on. Ah, and please don''t use honorifics. It is emberessing, master Swarn."


    "The feeling is mutual, ''master'' Lucifer."


    "Hahaha."


    He was a good guy. Yeah, good one. Having a friend like him wouldn''t be so bad. I might be able to help him in the future.


    "Alright then."


    Walking ahead a few steps, I nced back and nodded at him a little.


    "Until next time."


    "Until next time..."


    He nodded back, with the admiration still present in his eyes. He perhaps gained some kind of inspiration after fighting me so he was grateful to me.


    And I was helpful to someone else, which was a good thing overall.


    ''Interesting person.''


    There was perhaps something about him that I was missing, but, there was no need to think about that right now. We are going to meet again soon, so the chat can wait until then.


    ...


    [ "Oy, Lucy bastard." ]


    I had walked forward and was just about to start running when she spoke up, and her voice contained that little mix of excitement and uncertainty.


    [ "Yes? What''s up? You finishing there?" ]


    [ "Yeah. Gimme your luck. Mine isn''t working anymore." ]


    She wanted my luck… sure. Everything that I had was hers anyway.


    [ "I, Lucifer, pass my luck to my partner, Auriel for her little task temporarily. May her wishes be fulfilled and happiness kisses her pretty feet.


    There, you now have my blessed luck. Apologies in advance if it doesn''t work though." ]


    She could have my luck, my Mana, my heart, my blood if she wanted… but whatever she was taking, she would have to be prepared to give something of equal value in return as well. Thew of equivalent exchange was eternal, or perhaps not in some of our cases, but it was certainly eternal in this world.


    [ "You bastard… why are you acting so cheeky? And why are you so happy? Hmmm… something''s fishy." ]


    This link between us worked in one side''s favor sometimes. We couldn''t hide our emotions even if we wanted to. Tsk.


    [ "You certainly did something… but what? Hmmm…" ]


    Now she will open the status window, click on the ranking lists, see my name and points on the top spot-


    [ "You fucking bastard!!!" ]


    And shout that very thing in her mind as well as out loud. Just as I knew.


    [ "Go fucking die! Burn yourself! Go drown in some well! Or better! Come here! Let me kill you myself!!" ]


    She can kill me, she might actually kill me on some unfortunate day while she''s feeling like it, I had no doubt she could. Or perhaps she can ''almost'' kill me many times while we were doing some personal activity.


    She had done it many times previously in the game, almost in the reality as well. But I managed to crawl back to her every time. So, she just knows, I wille back to her here as well.


    Or perhaps she will bring me back, or if she can''t do that, she wille to fetch me up from that ce.


    I would do the same, but there was no need to. Since there was no way I was going to where she was right now.


    ''It''s better to leave her alone when she is like this. Things haven''t ended anyway.''


    I had time till she reached that ce so I wasn''t going to just sit around the entire time. There were some ces with monsters nearby. I will go hunt them until she reaches there.


    [ "Tsk. Your good luck didn''t work this time, fucking bastard." ]


    ''Then why are you telling me that? Dummy. Just kill whatever you summoned.''


    There shouldn''t be something she can''t handle there anyway-


    [ "Oh wait." ]


    Hmmm?


    She was getting curious about something. The feeling I could feel through our connection was clearly her curiosity.


    ''Which is usually followed by excitement, or anger, or disappointment, or sadness.''


    She must have summoned something unique, not your usual goblins, wolves, or creatures we see every day but something unique-


    [ "Wohhhhh! Lucy! I summoned a slime!!" ]


    Okay, not something unique but seeing her excitement, she must have summoned a slime that we don''t see every day at least, right? Hopefully?


    [ "An Intelligent slime!!!" ]


    [ "What? What the fuck?!" ]


    [ "Yessss! And it''s a newborn!" ]


    [ "Holy shit…" ]


    ''No... fuckin... way...''


    Was it my good luck or was her luck something that bursts out asionally all at once? What was this situation… and, we were inside a ce that used to be an original dragon''s home as well as an elder lich''s base.


    Having a young, intelligent slime in a ce like this... there were countless possibilities of which evolutionary path she could put this one through.


    This was certainly unbelievable.


    Truly unbelievable.


    Fuck.


    ''She hit a jackpot in true meaning this time. Bitch…''