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 all those Skills of

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

I use Magic or change the physical properties

to him, so looking at the slight difference in this one Skill,

from copying the same Skill from a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked,

did you

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

Rey heaved a sigh as he sat on

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

Skills, he figured it was possible to create an

Skills—especially since he could always copy

But…

copy my own Skills from myself. I can't copy the same

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 the same Skill came

about his

though. Based on the terms, I won't ever be able to use the Skill I sacrifice. That probably means

had at least

Skills, then I really fumbled with the Immortality and Resistance Skills. Damnit… what

frustration to get the better

rose to his feet. As he dusted his butt, despite

There's no use sticking around

lose all three of his Beast Summons, with no prospect of ever

belonged to Alicia. It was practically impossible for anyone in this world

only Ater. It's not a bad deal, but… I wanted

binding vow? Don't

eyebrow and stared at Ater's

see that the usually sharp and competent guy didn't take the hint this

do

"Oh? Why?"

do

"Oh? Why?"

the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much