Reborn as God: The strongest system

Esdras decided not to hold anything back anymore. Anyway, he was going to recoup his losses soon.

With that being said, he consumed 360 EXP on those three skills to bring them all to level three. That left him with only 89 EXP.

He was poor again.

However, now that he spent that amount of EXP he strangely felt a sense of peace. With another thought, He spent another 50 EXP on [penetrating vigor] bringing it to level 2 as well.

Throughout this whole time, his body and energy were going through multiple changes. it was as if he had been training throughout the years and he had gained all of this legitimately.

Maybe that was the true nature of EXP. It was strangely mysterious as if it brought him the results that he would have achieved anyway only in the future. Experience.

Thinking about the three skills: manipulation, manifestation, and control. The skills were very basic. Evidently, that is why level three apprentices get them.

But there was something weird about them too, even the True mages including senior Ron did not have any of these skills at level 3.

Esdras thought that because these skills were basic, it didn't mean that they were unimportant. In fact, it was the exact opposite of the way he understood it anyway.

Wouldn't the basics help to master advanced skills and spells?

Of course, Esdras didn't think that he was smarter or better than the people who studied and tested magic for much longer than him. So He thought that it might have been a waste of EXP.

However, in the current situation and present danger, he had no other choice.

It was frustrating, knowing that he could not only advance to a level four apprentice but even becoming a True mage wouldn't still increase his combat power that much.

A True mage was like a power plant that has so much power, it could do anything. However, it still relied on electrical appliances for it to be truly useful.

This was his situation without any spells as a True mage he would be like a cripple. Of course his magical output and control over the elements would be several levels higher than what he was capable of currently as a mere apprentice.

With these considerations in mind he decided that as soon as he got enough EXP, he was going to use it and become a True mage.

After all, it was better to be even a little bit stronger, and who knows maybe with the prestige of that level he could weasel his way into the fort without being out here on the front lines.

Even with all the danger, He reckoned that the fortress must be the safest place.

Having felt all the changes that went through his body and mind, he reached into his shirt and took out a black ring that was inscribed with many mysterious runes.

His spiritual power entered into the ring and He felt a reaction. This meant that it was truly a magical item. Next, both his mana and spiritual energy filled the entire ring and inscribed a spiritual imprint on it, making it his Own item.

This may have looked like an easy process because it was. The ring had no owners, so it was very easy, but if someone took the ring from him and tried to take ownership of it, it wouldn't be as easy at all.

Usually, to steal a magic item,it takes a fairly tedious amount of effort to erode the spiritual inscription of the original owner over a long amount of time.

Of course, there was the brute method and that was if the thief possessed an overwhelming advantage over the original owner.

Naturally, the easiest way was to directly kill the owner first and then take their things.

With that being done, he opened the two treasure chests. The first one had a strange silver orb that looked as if it was made of silver and water simultaneously.

[Tenfold steel mailable slime: uncommon grade item, an item that was forged by two brothers, an alchemist and a blacksmith. It has the ability to consume all sorts of metals and incorporate their properties into it. It is a growth-type item created with the purpose to avoid the attention of Higher beings.]

Holding it in his hand, He felt like it was unlike anything he had ever touched before. It was a rare-grade item. Without any ado, he branded it with his spiritual and mind mark as well.

Suddenly it was as if this thing had come to life, the form stabilized into a perfect sphere without any flaws.

To test its ability, he brought his mace closer to it, and following his command, the slime spread all over the mace within two seconds and the entirety of the mace disappeared, completely swallowed by the fist-sized slime.

With another thought, the slime distorted and turned into his mace. This was not the same weapon exactly, it only looked the same but right now it was not much heavier or bulkier, it just didn't need any cleaning anymore.

Responding to another order, the slime distorted for a moment, and then turned into a longsword, a great sword, a spear, a scimitar, and a bow. All were of that same weight, not much heavier than his own mace.

A growth magic item was simply unheard of in this world, as long as he found rare and special magical metals, and fed them to this slime then it had a boundless future, and perhaps it could even follow him throughout his entire journey.

He opened the next chest with slight anticipation and it did not disappoint. It was stuffed with 100 basic mana stones.

Mana stones were graded from basic, low, intermediate, high, superior, and supreme.

Basic mana stones were used as a sort of currency by mages, a single basic mana stone was worth 25 gold.

Naturally, he still had the two intermediate mana stones in his possession. These were much more valuable, and he was going to make sure to use them at the right time.

He collected the treasure chest containing the mana stones directly into his storage ring.