Chapter 144 - Decluttering (2/2)

With those words lingering for a bit inside Aurus' mind, Aurus could not help but say in a soft tone as he did not want to startle both Fenrir and Charisa, ”Ah…so that's what it is. I've already used up one chance of the Transcending Comprehension Leaf to max out my SP storage skill. Then again, from what the system is telling me, I still have nine more chances to do the same thing.”

With nine chances to max out whatever skills he wanted, Aurus pondered for a bit as to what skills he would max out with the chances given to him. Eventually, after around a couple of minutes, he said to himself as he went over the decision a couple of times in his head, ”Yeah, I'll use up two chances for now. I'll save the 7 chances for later since I have a feeling it's going to come in handy.”

Not long after that, he then commanded to the system in his mind, ”System, use up two of my chances to max out [Spellblades of Nonagon Domination] and [Ninth Purity Heavenbinding Essence Transformation].”

Ding!

'Two chances have been used, leaving the user with seven chances remaining.'

'[Spellblades of Nonagon Domination] and [Ninth Purity Heavenbinding Essence Transformation] have both reached the MAX level.'

'[Spellblades of Nonagon Domination] and [Ninth Purity Heavenbinding Essence Transformation] have met the necessary requirements and are ready to evolve.'

Looking at the notifications he received from the system, as well as the feeling he felt after maxing out both skills to the max level, which was akin to obtaining super strength in an instant, Aurus could not help but reinforce the idea that the decision he made was worth it.

As to why Aurus decided to max out the two of these skills to the max level for now was because of their importance to his combat power. Although Aurus had a Spell Core, he was more reliant on this spellblade skill of his, which originated from a simple [Nut Shot]. A great contrast to its origin, it gave Aurus access to a few ultimate skills that could deal devastating power.

As for the essence transformation skill, by upgrading it to the max level and evolving it, it would increase Aurus' stats by a large amount, which in turn, increases the power behind his attacks. The downside to it was the fact that his soul power would grow stronger by a few notches, which was thankfully alleviated by the fact that he had a strengthened soul sealing skill already.

”Evolve both skills to the next grade,” Aurus commanded the system without hesitation, as unlike a lot of Mortal skills that had a lot of choices to choose from in terms of skill evolution paths, Transcendent skills had a linear path of evolution, which gave them more power in what they did best.

Ding! Ding!

'[Spellblades of Nonagon Domination (Rare)] has evolved to [Nine Damnation Spellswords of Ruination (Rare)].'

'[Ninth Purity Heavenbinding Essence Transformation (Special)] has evolved to [Heaven's Zenith Essence Ascension (Rare)].'

Whoosh! Whoosh!

After evolving the two skills to their next grades, the feeling that Aurus felt a while ago coursed throughout his body once more, this time with more force behind it, giving him the feeling that he could kill thousands of foes with a single attack. Of course, as he was still an S-grade Inanimate, this feeling becoming a reality was quite distant, but at the same time, was not far off thanks to the grades of the skills he currently had.

He then tested out the newly evolved spellsword skill he obtained, using the nine spellswords that came with the skill one by one, before doing a few experiments of small scale, making sure to not disturb Fenrir and Charisa as they were still grinding their skills. Getting to the conclusion that he could still recreate the ultimate skill he formed with the previous version of the skill, as well as enhance its power even further, Aurus was satisfied with his experimentation.

After doing so, he could not help but think of what to do next as he was saving the 7 chances to max out skills for later. Although Herellia told him to create trump cards, he did not know what skills he should use to create trump cards that would tip the scales to their favor in their war.

”Speaking of skills…” Aurus said to himself as he became fixed to the word 'skills', opening up his skill list not long after. ”I seriously have to do some decluttering. Although most of them are still passive skills, there are still a lot of active skills I don't use that often.”

As to why Aurus was doing this right now instead of back then, the reason behind it was because the method to removing skills from his skill list was locked behind the memories that were recently unsealed. If Aurus had those memories unsealed even earlier, he would definitely have his skill list organized by now.

”Anyways, if I could remember correctly, back in the game, there were a few specific places in the game's world where I could remove skills, exchanging them for a permanent boost to my stats. I wonder if the system could do that?”

”I guess it's worth a shot,” Aurus said to himself as a stray thought screamed out at the back of his head, telling him that it isn't possible as the system wasn't upgraded. Unfortunately for the stray thought, most of his mind was telling him to try it out at the very least.

”System, can I remove skills from my skill list?” Aurus asked the system inside his mind. At first, there was only silence coming from the system, but thankfully, the system replied to his question not long after as a screen appeared in front of his field of vision.

Ding!

'The system does have this option, yes. Unfortunately, due to the user having a low existence level, to remove skills, the user must sacrifice their levels in proportion to the grade of the skill they want to remove,' the system replied.

”Well then,” Aurus said to himself after a few seconds of mild shock. ”I wasn't expecting that kind of compromise. I do have a few million points of unused XP so…”

”Let's get to decluttering then.”