Reborn as God: The strongest system

Esdras took out ten more mana stones and the four mana stones that remained unused by Celine.

Esdras sat down and summoned the system, to take a look at his current stats.

Name: Esdras Varthos

Race: Human (world wyrm)

Title: Pioneer

Rank: 2

Classes: 1) Apprentice mage Lv.4 (0/1010 EXP)

2) Vigor core Lv.1 (0/720 EXP)

Physique: 5

Agility: 4

Intelligence: 4

Spirituality: 5

Mana: 4

Vigor: 6

Origin points: 14

EXP: 1055

Mystical talent: 3 (0/8 OP)

Martial talent: 1 (0/2 OP)

Stat points: 10

Skill point: 5

Skills:

A) passive skills:

1) Vitality Lv.3

2) Veteran's hunch Lv.2

3) Third eye Lv.3

B) Active skills:

1) Penetrating Vigor Lv.2 (0/120 EXP)

2) Control Lv.3 (0/520 EXP)

3) Manipulation Lv.3 (0/520 EXP)

4) Manifestation Lv.3 (0/520 EXP)

C) Spells:

1) Flare Lv.2 (0/ 15 EXP)

2) Flame thrower Lv.2 (0/ 15 EXP)

3) Stone fist Lv.2 (0/ 15 EXP)

4) Pebble bullet Lv.2 (0/ 15 EXP)

This was his current level, his spells had each advanced by a level because he kept practicing for the last two weeks. He could now do some pretty useful things with these spells.

He felt that he should thank senior Ron sometime.

He had enough EXP to level up so he entered meditation, and with a single thought he began the process by consuming the EXP for the level up.

Certainly a torrent of magical power went through his body and mind at once. Instantly the mana from the mana stones was absorbed, as well as the mana from the atmosphere.

Within his mind, he could see the four sigils absorbing that mana without him having to consciously guide it.

Having seen the process just a moment ago he did not panic as he maintained his relaxed state.

After 15 minutes all four sigils were full and brimming, he thought that it was about time for the transformation to start but unexpectedly the consumption was still going.

Esdras started sweating, his sigils were expanding unnaturally, however, the process had already started, and he could not stop or risk his life and waste all that EXP.

Esdras was drawn by the symbol of the planeswalkers as it started to reverberate and his sea of consciousness started to swirl even faster than before.

Suddenly he noticed something unexpected: the 14 mana stones were depleted and he couldn't take out more, even though it was usually a simple process, but right now if he even lost focus for a moment, he did not know what would happen.

Nonetheless, he still had a solution, with a thought he summoned the system, and consumed stat points to read his mana.

However, after raising it to level five, he was surprised that raising it to level six required 2 stats points, he didn't hesitate, and raised it once again. He paid a total of 5 points to raise it to level seven before it was sufficient.

As if stimulated by this, the fluctuations grew even more turbulent.

Celine who was protecting Esdras was witnessing a shocking scene, the mana in the atmosphere condensed so much that it was visible to the naked eye above Esdras's head.

It formed a vortex of blue incandescent light that went straight into his head.

Within Esdras, the elemental sigils finally couldn't withstand the pressure and exploded, only to be reformed instantly this time with a complete crystalline structure. Each one was glowing and beating rhythmically like a heart.

Esdras felt his body and muscles contorting slightly and he lost consciousness for a brief moment. When he opened his eyes, the process was over.

Esdras stood and stretched his body, he seemed to have grown taller. He couldn't exactly see how he looked but he was sure that he became even better looking.

From the way Celine was looking at him he felt that his looks must have improved significantly.

He could feel that there was something different about the way he viewed the world, it was a hundred times clearer and he was able to feel the four elements slightly existing around him and inside of him. This was nature itself.

Esdras told Celine about what he found out by spying on Ilundar and about his plan for tomorrow. Obviously, she was the only one who he would tell the true story to.

As for the others, he already prepared an explanation for the change of plans.

Now that both of them had broken through they needed to stabilize themselves so there was not going to be any hot action tonight.

The next day, Esdras went out on his own before everyone else woke up and came back looking slightly disheveled.

"What happened? Did someone attack you? What were you doing on your own so early in the morning?" The Prince asked as he was very concerned.

"It's fine, I found out something very important and we must change our plans today. You guys just have to trust me." Esdras looked very serious as he spoke.

"W… what happened to you, you look different, did you do something with your hair?" Calvin asked curiously and he could see that the others were also curious.

"This is because yesterday I became a True mage."

Everyone was shocked, and started asking him questions after questions. He gave them all the same answer, that he suddenly felt enlightened as he was performing his daily meditation.

David was the only one who looked extremely skeptical, but Esdras was going to tell him about it later.

Unfortunately, unlike Celine, David only broke through to a level four apprentice very recently, and he was definitely not ready to advance. It was not that Esdras was being stingy.

The giant ant nest was much deeper in the forest and it was unknown in the village. This was probably not a place that was frequented often.

It was built like a small mountain suddenly popped out of the forest, tens of giant red ants could be seen moving about and there were some goblins riding them.