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“Good morning, Master!”
“Oh… mornin’.”

Great… Nothin’ happened! I kept tossin’ and turnin’, since I was worried that the magic beasts would respawn, the moment I fell asleep¹.

“Should we finish eating this soup?”
“Yup, let’s do that.”

Rir and I were having soup for breakfast, and afterwards we went to another room to change out of our pajamas.

“Will we go through the dungeon several times and keep using Reincarnation?”
“Right, that’s what I thought. Is your exhaustion gone?”
“Yeah. With no magic beasts nearby, I could sleep safe and sound.”

Finally, we moved to the middle of the clearing.
After managin’ our stat screens and openin’ the box, it’s time to go back in!

“Alright, let’s take care of our stats.”
“Woof, Master, this is how my status screen looks right now!”

Lookin’ at that makes me realize just how important STP is. If I just use ’em willy-nilly, it won’t turn out well.

Let’s allocate my STP first. With those 73’100, I got a lot of leeway. Guess I’ve got enough MP, but… for now, I’ll invest 3100 points there. I’ll split up the 70’000 into… 20’000, 20’000, and 30’000 for A, W, and S… Nah, let’s take 10’000 from the 30’000 and put 20’000 in each stat. And then invest those 10’000 into C… that should do it!

Next is Rir. She has 15’320 STP… Imma not use those 20 at the end for the time bein’.

So, what to do with those 15’300 points…? If you ask me, since Rir learned that weapon summonin’ magic yesterday, I better have her allocate 1300 points to MP³.

Then… 7000 each for A and S? Nah, make that 7000 to A, 6000 to S⁴, and 1000 to C.

When I asked Rir whether she’d be fine with that, she replied with a “You are the one who goes through the trouble to decided how to allocate my points, so I shall follow your suggestions⁵.”
Guess that means she’s fine with it.

“Hah… As I thought, it’s completely different after usin’ Reincarnation.”
“Yes, that’s true.

Our stats had become incomparable to how they’d been two weeks ago.
‘Getting stronger feels good, doesn’t it?’ Ayumu said that to me once.

Next is SKP.

“Hey, Rir.”
“What is it, Master?”
“Could you learn these two skills?”

I handed her the skill cards for “Momentary Imperceptibility” and “Great Clairvoyance”.

“Both of them…? Is that alright?”
“Well, yes… I can synthesize lots of strong skills, but it’s different for you. Even if that Apex title reduces the cost as it says.”
“Certainly. Understood, Master.”

She took them without any complaints. A few days ago, she probably would’ve tried to refrain.

Now… No matter what I do to use my SKP, I have way too much of it… For now, let’s evolve and max out Spear and Bow Arts. I might use ’em for synthesis.
…There’s nothin’ left to put points into. Unless I use synthesis, that’s it…

Can’t be helped, I’ll have Rir allocate hers first.
To begin with, I’ll tell her to max out those two new skills. And then… I’m curious what’ll happen when she synthesizes all those Secret Axe Technique skills.

“Woof…!? You want me to use another SS-Rank magic core for this, Master!?”
“Yep… I don’t need that many of ’em.”
“Alright… Understood. Thank you, Master…”

Indeed, said synthesis apparently required 1 SS-, 3 S-, and 7 A-Rank magic cores. Without “Apex”, that would’ve been even higher…
What she then obtained was “Secret Axe God Technique★★★★★”. It required 1200 SKP.

“A 5-star skill… that’s amashing~!⁶”

Getting a 5-star skill had been Rir’s dearest wish, and though it wasn’t as extreme as when we reached the level cap, she got very excited.

Well, that’s about it for allocatin’ her SKP this time.
All that’s left are around seven S-Rank magic cores.

Next, I’ll get started on synthesizin’ skills for me. To begin with… I better get all those Secret Sword Technique skills.

Possibly thanks to Apex, each of them required only 1 S- and 4 A-Rank magic cores⁷. It made for a total of 5.6 S-Rank magic cores. By going through trial and error with different combinations, I managed to obtain all four Secret Sword Technique skills. I then maxed out all of them.

Once we get our hands on the next SS-Rank magic core, I absolutely wanna synthesize ’em.

There’s one S-Rank magic core left…!

Thinkin’ about it, I only needed five B- and a single A-Rank magic core to make a fire-type S-Rank skill… I better make more of those! Also, though it’s currently probably impossible, I want some SS-Rank skills. Thanks to God of Fire, they shouldn’t eat up too many cores, so I’d like a ton of ’em.

Only, I got no clue how to make those.

“Say, do you know how to create SS-Rank skills?”
“SS-Rank…? I think I’ve read in an old book… that some SSS-Ranker created them by synthesizing many, many S-Rank and 4-star or higher skills. Though that was a really long time ago, and I have no idea whether it’s true or not.”

Synthesizin’ a ton of S-Rank skills, or skills with lots of stars…? I wonder, will 10 be enough to start?

Alright, with that bein’ settled, let’s see how I can make those. First, Fire Magic and God of Fire need to be in there… Or at least one of ’em. Then, mix in 2 or 3 other skills, and that should do it, I guess? I can probably use Shaper Mind…

For the time bein’… I’ll try synthesizin’ those three and Extreme Darkness Magic.

The result of the combination was an S-Rank skill called “Dark Blaze of the Wise Deity”. It required 600 SKP.

Should I continue like this?

Next, I exchanged Darkness for Light Magic, which resulted in another S-Rank skill called “Radiant Blaze of the Wise Deity”.

Furthermore, replacing Light Magic with Nimbler Foot gave me “Flicker of the Sage and the Fire God”. Changing that for Firmer Body produced “Protection of the Sage and the Fire God”. And exchanging Sharper Mind for Nimbler Food led to “Protection of the Hunting Dog and the Fire God”. By reversing the order of those two skills in the synthesis, I arrived at “Flicker of the Protector and the Fire God”.

Merely by doin’ this, I already have six skills. I don’t got that many fire components, so I’ll create the remaining four skills by makin’ A-Rank fire skills and then turn those into S-Rank.

The results of that were “Advance of the Blazing Monarch”, “Magnificent Performance of the Fiery Emperor”, “Explosive Prison of the Blazing Gale”, and “True Yin and Yang Dance of Blazing Thunder”⁸. For now, I used a total of 2400 SKP to bring them to a point where they could be synthesized, which finished my stat screen management.

If we get our hand on tons of SS-Rank magic cores… It might be fun to make as many SS-Rank skills as my SKP lets me.

“Alright, that’s it for now! Let’s allocate points again once we’ve used Reincarnation another two times.”
“Woof, understood, Master!”

Author’s note:
Status screens at the end of the chapter:

TL notes:
As usual, tons of errors in the stats, and most of them wildly inconsistent. At this point, I’m genuinely grateful that there’s only two more proper stat screen chapters until they’re gone for good.

The fact that there’s information about how to create SS-Rank skills is relatively strong evidence that people have used Reincarnation before. You simply need too much SKP to learn and max out all those skills you need for synthesis, so a single round of getting from level 1 to 255 likely wouldn’t be enough. Of course, it would theoretically be possible with a proper synthesis recipe, but without anyone doing all the trial and error in advance (and using up an amount of SKP you couldn’t have without using Reincarnation in the process) you won’t have access to that.

1. Yep, definitely not because a girl was sleeping next to him.
2. With both of them getting this title now, while Alim didn’t get it right after using Reincarnation, my guess would be that both this and the predecessor Superman/woman are level-based. Maybe you get Godlike Being after leveling up a total of 300 times? Though it might also just be the author being inconsistent again.
3. I remember Alim’s Water Dagger (and later Sword) scaling with Spellpower. Unless Rir’s summoning skill works differently, she probably should also invest some points into that stat. Of course, it’s possible that it simply has better scaling with the Attack stat.
4. It’s 攻撃 (A/attack) twice in the original. Clearly a typo.
5. The original is 御主人の思考にそぐ. The verb そぐ at the end might be 削ぐ (“to chip off”, “to whittle down”), which doesn’t seem to make much sense, so I went with what makes sense from context. Maybe it’s a typo?
6. In the original, she uses ふごい instead of すごい. It’s either a typo or her fumbling her words in excitement.
7. This should be less, even without “Apex”. I guess the author forgot that one of Shuu’s cheat titles reduces synthesis costs by 75%.
8. Same as in chapter 293, a ton of skills whose names may or may not contain an abundance of typos.