Meanwhile on the bus….
With the lights out and a nice amount of Team Stone members, including Clyde, gone into the instance, Seth's grin emerged. Fuyoko was asleep on the couch opposite of his own. He licked his lips, enjoying the clear view of her panties. Dressed in a green mini skirt with disappointingly normal-sized breasts, the young woman had very nice legs.
He examined the super-hot girl again, feeling his raging hard-on. Normal breasts? Maybe above-average. Seth was so glad that he took the time to max out his most recent passive ability: Night Eyes. Normally the bus would be virtually pitch-black due to the windows.
If only he could take a picture. No, the young man was beyond that. He forced himself to turn. Then his head started back in that direction on its own. The young man flinched when he realized someone was sitting right beside him.
He glared at Nina, the stupid vampire kid blocking his view.
"Can I help you?" he said, distaste and annoyance mixed heavily in his voice. Of course he controlled the volume. If Fuyoko woke up, or the others returned, the young man's time of amazingness would be over.
"I smell rising iron," Nina said, seemingly drooling. "Well, it's wilting now." She turned to him, licking her lips. "I can help you release. Tear showed me a video of it once. She said it's called a fell—"
"Tear what the hell?" Seth blurted out, interrupting the approaching word from the brat's mouth. The succubus looked at him from the front of the bus, smirking. "Why are you poisoning these innocent children?"
"No idea what you're talking about," Tear said, feigning innocence.
"And this is why Harumi needs to be around," Seth said. "She filters out the—what the hell are you doing?" He covered his pants and moved all the way to the edge of the couch and as far away from the vampire brat as possible.
"We're both adults," Nina said, innocent smile on her face that made Seth want to lecture Tear.
"I hear someone's having girl problems," Tear said to Yuki and Ruri. They gave him "the look." Seth rolled his eyes. Damn did he hate that glare.
"Perverted enemy to children," Ruri said.
"A total lolicon, scum of the earth, and should die," Yuki said ruthlessly. While she was practically emotionless, Seth felt a tinged of playfulness in that voice, not that it made him feel better. He glared at the women feigning gossip. Then he turned his heated stare to an amused Toru.
"If you don't get your assistant away from me, I'm going to set this entire bus on fire," Seth said.
"She needs blood," Toru said. "You owe me a favor for, you know…"
Seth's eyes widened.
"Dude, you can't bring that up. Besides, nothing happened. Tyrone was there. He would know!"
"But he's not here to be your witness," Toru said, grin evil. "And a little money would easily bribe him—"
"If you don't call her, I will speak of an interesting story about," he looked at Tear. "Toru and the goat."
Toru's eyes widened. Ah, the naive boy was just where Seth wanted him. The blond grinned evilly to unleash the killing blow. "Try me."
The brown-haired rich boy sighed.
"Alright Nina, don't bother him anymore."
"Kay," Nina said hopping out of the seat, but before she left, she whispered, "you know where to find me."
"No thanks," Seth snapped. "I wouldn't even if it was legal."
"I'm older than you," Nina said.
"Go away," Seth said. "Kids should learn to just be kids."
Nina pouted. Before she could quip, Toru called her.
"This isn't over, blondie," Nina whispered as she walked away. "You'll regret treating me like a child."
"Pssh, I'm not afraid of some snot-nosed brat who will burn up in sunlight. And holy light." Seth chuckled. "I've got plenty of defenses."
Nina stuck her tongue out at him.
"Dummy blond."
Seth sighed. When he stole a glance at Fuyoko, the young man took the smash of disappointment. She was sitting up, fully guarded and playing some kind of Loli Saga puzzle game on her tablet.
The young man glanced in Yusuke's direction. His couch was in bed mode, black curtains draped around it. His vision enabled him to see the silhouettes going at it. Dammit, once again, the other guys were getting laid. Seth overheard Fumi's voice once or twice during the trip.
Maybe if he rubbed one off, the young man would stop caring. The moment Seth covered himself with a blanket in an attempt to look as if he was about to take a nap, Fuyoko, Ming, Neko, Ako, Matsume, Sazuki, Kiko, Airi, and even Noona glared at him. NOONA, his only hope of peace during Harumi's absences, stared at him skeptically. At least Kanako slept and Tetra drove. The lights turned on as if to promote his "shame" to all viewers.
"What?" Seth said, holding back his urge to explode.
"I have a hunch you're about to do something disgusting," Matsume said. "I can smell hormones in the air."
"He's moving too carefully," Airi said.
"I'm on the tip of an unpleasant vision with him," Ming said.
All of the women of the bus gave Seth "the look." A sudden climatic moan from Undine ripped all the attention off the young man to his relief. Everyone stared dumbly.
Shaking his head, Seth closed his eyes, deciding to nap in truth. At the next stop, he'd fap in his hotel room or go out to pick up a girl, if the stop wasn't at a dead town.
**
Spiritual instance…
[Your party has entered combat!]
Clyde examined Meatbot's menu. He laughed.
"Meatbot, fuck them up. Attack!"
Harumi softly facepalmed.
"You're really getting into this, aren't you?"
Clyde shrugged.
"We may as well have some fun from this."
Meatbot moved slow at first but gained speed. Clyde…winced when the first thing the giant food creature did was shove the carrot up the dinosaur's ass. The dinosaur screamed like a grown man in pain, killing over.
For some reason, Meatbot didn't bother to retrieve his carrot. Harumi shook her head in disgust, maybe bafflement. Clyde chuckled.
"Meatbot, use your special attack! Finish this."
The scorpion wasn't as dumb as its companions, closing on the food monster quickly, lunging its stinger. Meatbot dodged again and again with unnatural speed, then countered with a meaty punch. The force of the blow rocketed the scorpion into its ant companion.
"Nice one," Harumi said, small smile on her face. She yelled, "FINISH HIM MEATBOT!" That surprised the hell out of the young man.
The food creature saluted and then roared. Its green and orange aura burst into life around it. Then it took…a Kamehameha stance? Dark green energy materialized around its fingers.
[Meatbot activated Special tier skill: Ass-Burning Pepper Blast.]
Clyde blinked as the food monster unleashed a blast of magic that matched the colors of its aura. It hit the enemies like a plane accident, burning them to a crisp within seconds.
"Well damn," Clyde said.
"Can you create more than one of him?" Harumi said.
"I wish," Clyde answered truthfully. "Maybe when I'm strong enough."
He figured leveling up within his cooking perimeters should do the trick.
[Battle completed. Victory! Reward: 9 million EXP. Potion of Gloominess. Item class: bizarre.]
Meatbot gave a salute before despawning in a display of snowflake-like sparkles. Someone clapped from behind. Clyde turned to see Natalia sitting in a lawn chair, drinking a glass of…something. The system revealed it to be apple juice.
"You did well," Natalia said, anime-diving into Clyde. He gave her a head pat.
"Okay, go ahead and pull the carpet from beneath our feet," the young man said. "What's the next part of this training. I can't summon a food creature for a while due to the cooldown."
"A rightful cooldown," the loli-witch said. "That thing was strong. Pervy-nii, not even I could do that. Onii-chan, you're so cool. Just like the time when you caught that arrow before it could hurt Harumi nee-sama."
"Please don't ever call me that again," Harumi said tiredly. Clyde gave her a look of understanding.
"Anyway, husbando onii, your speculation is correct. There is a second phase of today's training." Natalia gave him a Gin smile. "I'm going to get you to push back against the wall that blocks your powers. So, fight me pervy-nii! Harumi no healing until this is over."
Clyde stared at her blankly.
"So let me get this straight. Like every goddamn cliché out there, you believe that fighting and whacking each other endlessly for some reason will reduce the—"
[Quest. Fight Natalia. Reward: significant Stone Mode recharge time reduction. This quest is mandatory and cannot be refused. It ends when Natalia concludes the training session. So good luck surviving.]
Clyde gaped. Questioning anime logic led to nothing. Seriously, they were going to whack the powers back to normal like cavemen.
"Never mind, I shall follow your wise ways Natalia-sensei," the young man said as he took his place.
Natalia pouted.
"That's Natalia-waifu to you."
"No," Clyde said simply.
"Yes," Natalia quipped.
"No," Clyde deadpanned.
"Ye—"
"Enough already," Harumi interrupted. "Fight time now, talk over."
"She's got a point," Clyde said, laughing. "Don't hold back, my evil loli-witchling."
"Ooh, pervy husbando I'm going to make this hurt," Natalia said. Softly, she continued while pointing a shaky finger at him. "But it hurts me more than it hurts you! Remember that."
[Your fiancée Natalia has challenged you to Spar.]
Name- Natalia
Level: ??? (Compressed)
Type: Supreme Magi/Witch.
Relationship: Cherished. Your fiancée.
Name: Clyde.
Level: 145
Type: Main character/ Stone. Mystic.
HP: 500% (+110%)
MP: 600% (+80%)
Ki: 300%
Natalia's level…what happened to it? No, he wouldn't question this. The situation would fall under the anime sudden revelations trope.
"Are you ready pervy-nii?" Natalia said, holding her golden staff in a fighting stance.
**
In the skies…
Matsuko was at the lowest point of her life and not even death could be a relief for her. Bonded to He Who Paints the Night, the fallen angel had fell once again. She knew Achilles lied about letting her go free on Satovia. She had nothing to lose.
Instead of silently signaling for one of the most powerful dark gods around to ambush Melody, Matsuko would instead warn her. Then she would shatter her own soul just so the dark god couldn't catch the woman. Non-existence was better than Achilles's hell.
All she ever wanted was just to be free. Mistakenly turned into a fallen angel by taint that came out of nowhere, Celestial wouldn't take her back. They…couldn't cure her. After being thrown from Master to Master to live like a penniless servant, she stumbled into a mysterious shadow with large horns, standing nine feet tall. A dark god…
Desperation led her to believe the honey-coated tongue of such a being. Melody represented a new generation of dark-element gods that could be reasoned with for once. Matsuko would cast aside her existence to save her. She just wished…if only she accepted her friendship.
It was time to make amends.
**
Spiritual instance…
"Muster your willpower, onii-chan," Natalia said as she bashed Clyde through six trees. "Awaken husbando onii."
[Your HP has dropped to 252%]
Clyde cast another skill, refusing to backdown. She'd given him four opportunities to quit, but he declined them all. For some reason, the young man seemed to almost catch a smile from her.
[Clyde activated Angel spirit wave.]
[Angel Spirit Wave [evolution 2]. Type: spiritual. Class: mysterious.: Shoot a wave of concentrated spiritual energy. Chance to cause spiritual blight at 9%. Chance to do triple damage on dark creatures: 35%. Does holy and purity damage. (Mystic counterpart is available.)
[If conditions are met, this attack will become Fallen Angel Spirit Wave instead. Will do demonic and taint damage. Chance to cause agony at 11%. Chance to do triple damage on non-dark creatures at: 37%.]
He regretted doing that immediately, remembering one of Natalia's trademark passive skills. He dove to the side as her reflect activated. Natalia teleported next to him.
Clyde ducked under her staff swing then took aim.
[Natalia activated Modified silver tier skill: Energy field.]
The young man only saw lights. He came to when his back hit the ground.
"You call yourself the leader of Team Stone? More like a rider! Because we'll be carrying you. Team Stone's burden!"
Clyde's eyes glowed red as he snarled. He…would not. Black aura burst around him, instantly filling up the entire spiritual instance.
He blinked upon realizing Natalia hugging his leg, tears pouring from her eyes.
"I didn't mean it," she said. "You don't have to push yourself. If you push too hard against the clog, then you may accidentally convert all of your holy aura to darkness. Then it'd eventually become taint. You…could disappear. Please don't disappear. I don't want you to."
Clyde sighed.
"You mean to tell me if I get angry, like any normal person, I'll lose myself. What kind of—" Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.webnovel.com <a href="https://www.webnovel.com">www.webnovel.com</a> for visiting.
"There is something I hid from you, onii-chan," Natalia said. "Naoko and I wanted you to overcome your roadblocks without knowing it existed."
"What." Clyde said flatly.
"In addition to your own pressure clogging your Stone Mode, there is a small amount of taint in there. I'm not sure if it was from Princess Dire or the elder dragon. This instance was designed to cleanse it. And you're very close…I just didn't know you'd explode with it."
Clyde sat.
"So training is also just to buy time for this place to get rid of the taint?" Clyde asked. Natalia nodded. "Then let's continue. I won't give in."
Harumi smiled.
"You can do it, Clyde."
Needlessly to say, Clyde got his ass handed to him, albeit gently.
After the training, Clyde received the prompt he'd been waiting for.
[The Stone Mode within pulsed and strengthened. Recharge time significantly decreased!]
Meanwhile on the bus….
With the lights out and a nice amount of Team Stone members, including Clyde, gone into the instance, Seth's grin emerged. Fuyoko was asleep on the couch opposite of his own. He licked his lips, enjoying the clear view of her panties. Dressed in a green mini skirt with disappointingly normal-sized breasts, the young woman had very nice legs.
He examined the super-hot girl again, feeling his raging hard-on. Normal breasts? Maybe above-average. Seth was so glad that he took the time to max out his most recent passive ability: Night Eyes. Normally the bus would be virtually pitch-black due to the windows.
If only he could take a picture. No, the young man was beyond that. He forced himself to turn. Then his head started back in that direction on its own. The young man flinched when he realized someone was sitting right beside him.
He glared at Nina, the stupid vampire kid blocking his view.
"Can I help you?" he said, distaste and annoyance mixed heavily in his voice. Of course he controlled the volume. If Fuyoko woke up, or the others returned, the young man's time of amazingness would be over.
"I smell rising iron," Nina said, seemingly drooling. "Well, it's wilting now." She turned to him, licking her lips. "I can help you release. Tear showed me a video of it once. She said it's called a fell—"
"Tear what the hell?" Seth blurted out, interrupting the approaching word from the brat's mouth. The succubus looked at him from the front of the bus, smirking. "Why are you poisoning these innocent children?"
"No idea what you're talking about," Tear said, feigning innocence.
"And this is why Harumi needs to be around," Seth said. "She filters out the—what the hell are you doing?" He covered his pants and moved all the way to the edge of the couch and as far away from the vampire brat as possible.
"We're both adults," Nina said, innocent smile on her face that made Seth want to lecture Tear.
"I hear someone's having girl problems," Tear said to Yuki and Ruri. They gave him "the look." Seth rolled his eyes. Damn did he hate that glare.
"Perverted enemy to children," Ruri said.
"A total lolicon, scum of the earth, and should die," Yuki said ruthlessly. While she was practically emotionless, Seth felt a tinged of playfulness in that voice, not that it made him feel better. He glared at the women feigning gossip. Then he turned his heated stare to an amused Toru.
"If you don't get your assistant away from me, I'm going to set this entire bus on fire," Seth said.
"She needs blood," Toru said. "You owe me a favor for, you know…"
Seth's eyes widened.
"Dude, you can't bring that up. Besides, nothing happened. Tyrone was there. He would know!"
"But he's not here to be your witness," Toru said, grin evil. "And a little money would easily bribe him—"
"If you don't call her, I will speak of an interesting story about," he looked at Tear. "Toru and the goat."
Toru's eyes widened. Ah, the naive boy was just where Seth wanted him. The blond grinned evilly to unleash the killing blow. "Try me."
The brown-haired rich boy sighed.
"Alright Nina, don't bother him anymore."
"Kay," Nina said hopping out of the seat, but before she left, she whispered, "you know where to find me."
"No thanks," Seth snapped. "I wouldn't even if it was legal."
"I'm older than you," Nina said.
"Go away," Seth said. "Kids should learn to just be kids."
Nina pouted. Before she could quip, Toru called her.
"This isn't over, blondie," Nina whispered as she walked away. "You'll regret treating me like a child."
"Pssh, I'm not afraid of some snot-nosed brat who will burn up in sunlight. And holy light." Seth chuckled. "I've got plenty of defenses."
Nina stuck her tongue out at him.
"Dummy blond."
Seth sighed. When he stole a glance at Fuyoko, the young man took the smash of disappointment. She was sitting up, fully guarded and playing some kind of Loli Saga puzzle game on her tablet.
The young man glanced in Yusuke's direction. His couch was in bed mode, black curtains draped around it. His vision enabled him to see the silhouettes going at it. Dammit, once again, the other guys were getting laid. Seth overheard Fumi's voice once or twice during the trip.
Maybe if he rubbed one off, the young man would stop caring. The moment Seth covered himself with a blanket in an attempt to look as if he was about to take a nap, Fuyoko, Ming, Neko, Ako, Matsume, Sazuki, Kiko, Airi, and even Noona glared at him. NOONA, his only hope of peace during Harumi's absences, stared at him skeptically. At least Kanako slept and Tetra drove. The lights turned on as if to promote his "shame" to all viewers.
"What?" Seth said, holding back his urge to explode.
"I have a hunch you're about to do something disgusting," Matsume said. "I can smell hormones in the air."
"He's moving too carefully," Airi said.
"I'm on the tip of an unpleasant vision with him," Ming said.
All of the women of the bus gave Seth "the look." A sudden climatic moan from Undine ripped all the attention off the young man to his relief. Everyone stared dumbly.
Shaking his head, Seth closed his eyes, deciding to nap in truth. At the next stop, he'd fap in his hotel room or go out to pick up a girl, if the stop wasn't at a dead town.
**
Spiritual instance…
[Your party has entered combat!]
Clyde examined Meatbot's menu. He laughed.
"Meatbot, fuck them up. Attack!"
Harumi softly facepalmed.
"You're really getting into this, aren't you?"
Clyde shrugged.
"We may as well have some fun from this."
Meatbot moved slow at first but gained speed. Clyde…winced when the first thing the giant food creature did was shove the carrot up the dinosaur's ass. The dinosaur screamed like a grown man in pain, killing over.
For some reason, Meatbot didn't bother to retrieve his carrot. Harumi shook her head in disgust, maybe bafflement. Clyde chuckled.
"Meatbot, use your special attack! Finish this."
The scorpion wasn't as dumb as its companions, closing on the food monster quickly, lunging its stinger. Meatbot dodged again and again with unnatural speed, then countered with a meaty punch. The force of the blow rocketed the scorpion into its ant companion.
"Nice one," Harumi said, small smile on her face. She yelled, "FINISH HIM MEATBOT!" That surprised the hell out of the young man.
The food creature saluted and then roared. Its green and orange aura burst into life around it. Then it took…a Kamehameha stance? Dark green energy materialized around its fingers.
[Meatbot activated Special tier skill: Ass-Burning Pepper Blast.]
Clyde blinked as the food monster unleashed a blast of magic that matched the colors of its aura. It hit the enemies like a plane accident, burning them to a crisp within seconds.
"Well damn," Clyde said.
"Can you create more than one of him?" Harumi said.
"I wish," Clyde answered truthfully. "Maybe when I'm strong enough."
He figured leveling up within his cooking perimeters should do the trick.
[Battle completed. Victory! Reward: 9 million EXP. Potion of Gloominess. Item class: bizarre.]
Meatbot gave a salute before despawning in a display of snowflake-like sparkles. Someone clapped from behind. Clyde turned to see Natalia sitting in a lawn chair, drinking a glass of…something. The system revealed it to be apple juice.
"You did well," Natalia said, anime-diving into Clyde. He gave her a head pat.
"Okay, go ahead and pull the carpet from beneath our feet," the young man said. "What's the next part of this training. I can't summon a food creature for a while due to the cooldown."
"A rightful cooldown," the loli-witch said. "That thing was strong. Pervy-nii, not even I could do that. Onii-chan, you're so cool. Just like the time when you caught that arrow before it could hurt Harumi nee-sama."
"Please don't ever call me that again," Harumi said tiredly. Clyde gave her a look of understanding.
"Anyway, husbando onii, your speculation is correct. There is a second phase of today's training." Natalia gave him a Gin smile. "I'm going to get you to push back against the wall that blocks your powers. So, fight me pervy-nii! Harumi no healing until this is over."
Clyde stared at her blankly.
"So let me get this straight. Like every goddamn cliché out there, you believe that fighting and whacking each other endlessly for some reason will reduce the—"
[Quest. Fight Natalia. Reward: significant Stone Mode recharge time reduction. This quest is mandatory and cannot be refused. It ends when Natalia concludes the training session. So good luck surviving.]
Clyde gaped. Questioning anime logic led to nothing. Seriously, they were going to whack the powers back to normal like cavemen.
"Never mind, I shall follow your wise ways Natalia-sensei," the young man said as he took his place.
Natalia pouted.
"That's Natalia-waifu to you."
"No," Clyde said simply.
"Yes," Natalia quipped.
"No," Clyde deadpanned.
"Ye—"
"Enough already," Harumi interrupted. "Fight time now, talk over."
"She's got a point," Clyde said, laughing. "Don't hold back, my evil loli-witchling."
"Ooh, pervy husbando I'm going to make this hurt," Natalia said. Softly, she continued while pointing a shaky finger at him. "But it hurts me more than it hurts you! Remember that."
[Your fiancée Natalia has challenged you to Spar.]
Name- Natalia
Level: ??? (Compressed)
Type: Supreme Magi/Witch.
Relationship: Cherished. Your fiancée.
Name: Clyde.
Level: 145
Type: Main character/ Stone. Mystic.
HP: 500% (+110%)
MP: 600% (+80%)
Ki: 300%
Natalia's level…what happened to it? No, he wouldn't question this. The situation would fall under the anime sudden revelations trope.
"Are you ready pervy-nii?" Natalia said, holding her golden staff in a fighting stance.
**
In the skies…
Matsuko was at the lowest point of her life and not even death could be a relief for her. Bonded to He Who Paints the Night, the fallen angel had fell once again. She knew Achilles lied about letting her go free on Satovia. She had nothing to lose.
Instead of silently signaling for one of the most powerful dark gods around to ambush Melody, Matsuko would instead warn her. Then she would shatter her own soul just so the dark god couldn't catch the woman. Non-existence was better than Achilles's hell.
All she ever wanted was just to be free. Mistakenly turned into a fallen angel by taint that came out of nowhere, Celestial wouldn't take her back. They…couldn't cure her. After being thrown from Master to Master to live like a penniless servant, she stumbled into a mysterious shadow with large horns, standing nine feet tall. A dark god…
Desperation led her to believe the honey-coated tongue of such a being. Melody represented a new generation of dark-element gods that could be reasoned with for once. Matsuko would cast aside her existence to save her. She just wished…if only she accepted her friendship.
It was time to make amends.
**
Spiritual instance…
"Muster your willpower, onii-chan," Natalia said as she bashed Clyde through six trees. "Awaken husbando onii."
[Your HP has dropped to 252%]
Clyde cast another skill, refusing to backdown. She'd given him four opportunities to quit, but he declined them all. For some reason, the young man seemed to almost catch a smile from her.
[Clyde activated Angel spirit wave.]
[Angel Spirit Wave [evolution 2]. Type: spiritual. Class: mysterious.: Shoot a wave of concentrated spiritual energy. Chance to cause spiritual blight at 9%. Chance to do triple damage on dark creatures: 35%. Does holy and purity damage. (Mystic counterpart is available.)
[If conditions are met, this attack will become Fallen Angel Spirit Wave instead. Will do demonic and taint damage. Chance to cause agony at 11%. Chance to do triple damage on non-dark creatures at: 37%.]
He regretted doing that immediately, remembering one of Natalia's trademark passive skills. He dove to the side as her reflect activated. Natalia teleported next to him.
Clyde ducked under her staff swing then took aim.
[Natalia activated Modified silver tier skill: Energy field.]
The young man only saw lights. He came to when his back hit the ground.
"You call yourself the leader of Team Stone? More like a rider! Because we'll be carrying you. Team Stone's burden!"
Clyde's eyes glowed red as he snarled. He…would not. Black aura burst around him, instantly filling up the entire spiritual instance.
He blinked upon realizing Natalia hugging his leg, tears pouring from her eyes.
"I didn't mean it," she said. "You don't have to push yourself. If you push too hard against the clog, then you may accidentally convert all of your holy aura to darkness. Then it'd eventually become taint. You…could disappear. Please don't disappear. I don't want you to."
Clyde sighed.
"You mean to tell me if I get angry, like any normal person, I'll lose myself. What kind of—" Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.webnovel.com <a href="https://www.webnovel.com">www.webnovel.com</a> for visiting.
"There is something I hid from you, onii-chan," Natalia said. "Naoko and I wanted you to overcome your roadblocks without knowing it existed."
"What." Clyde said flatly.
"In addition to your own pressure clogging your Stone Mode, there is a small amount of taint in there. I'm not sure if it was from Princess Dire or the elder dragon. This instance was designed to cleanse it. And you're very close…I just didn't know you'd explode with it."
Clyde sat.
"So training is also just to buy time for this place to get rid of the taint?" Clyde asked. Natalia nodded. "Then let's continue. I won't give in."
Harumi smiled.
"You can do it, Clyde."
Needlessly to say, Clyde got his ass handed to him, albeit gently.
After the training, Clyde received the prompt he'd been waiting for.
[The Stone Mode within pulsed and strengthened. Recharge time significantly decreased!]
