An Extra’s POV

A Skill was essentially something one earned, or it came as a privilege from the world.

In both cases, they represented a special ability that a person possessed. Usually, Skills were meant to evolve, not disappear from a person. Since Skills were an intrinsic part of a person—especially those earned—they were a permanent addition to the individual.

Skills, in a sense, could not be created nor destroyed.

… But Rey was an exception.

By using [Merger], he essentially bent the rules a little. He broke down Skills and used them to mold new ones, or more advanced versions of one.

This, in a way, was still following the rules… but teetering on the edge.

However, the complete breaker was [Sacrifice], which caused the permanent loss of Skills, changing them to Stat Points.

In this case, the nature of the Skill was changed into another kind of power—Stats.

It was possible that Skill essence could be lost in the process, but ultimately, Skills would be converted to something else—never fully destroyed in a sense.

Still, according to the rules of the world… Rey could no longer use any of the Skills he had fed to sacrifice. He also couldn't use the Skills that were combined using [Divine Merger] to make his current Skill-set.

"Tch. This sucks…"

Once again, Rey found himself listening to Ater's lectures as they discussed the current problem.

All of this started when Rey asked Ater about what happened to his Inventory, going further to explain the whole [Divine Merger] and [Sacrifice] bit.

The short version of Ater's answer was:

"Your inventory and everything inside it is gone forever."

In essence… all of Rey's money, resources, and everything that he had kept within that space were completely lost to him.

It was beyond devastating to hear.

realize just what I've lost by giving up

had taken so many things for granted, as they were just a part of his life, but

Magic or change the physical properties of my

in this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of others, showed just how

Skill from a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked, staring at Rey's anguished

did

could tell. If you could indeed copy Skills from anyone an

sigh as he

could combine two [Divine Beast Summon] or multiple [Divine Sword Summon]

Skills, he

only that, but he could easily sacrifice multiple Skills to create powerful variants of Skills—especially since he could always copy them from his classmates

But…

way I can't copy my own Skills from myself.

copy the Skill only once per person. Hence, he would have two [Fire] Skills. However, he couldn't ever repeat the process on either of them. If a third person with

about his power; hence, its

than that, though. Based on the terms, I won't ever be able to use the Skill I sacrifice. That probably means I might never be able to

find a new target who had at least one of the exact Skills he sacrificed

no longer use those Skills, then I really fumbled with the

his frustration to get the better of him, he

little, he gave a big sigh and rose to his

There's no

if he said he wasn't disappointed. He managed to lose all

was also incredibly rare—an Exclusive Skill that belonged to Alicia. It was practically impossible for

I'm stuck with only Ater. It's not a

about the binding

Rey raised an eyebrow and

to see that the usually sharp and competent guy

can't do

"Oh? Why?"

can't do that

"Oh? Why?"

the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much lost to me forever." Rey felt a little annoyed that he had to explain all of